My respects!
Come, Kunti!
My five sons and Krishna are with me, sister.
My respects!
May you be happy!
Happiness is not in my control.
None of us brothers can ever forget that..
..Bhim drank Dushasan's blood and..
..broke Duryodhan's thigh.
But he was bound by an oath, my son!
Both of them deserved..
..at least that punishment for..
..insulting Draupadi, India and man.
My dear Bhim did not kill them.
He only punished them!
And meting out punishment is not a crime.
I am the criminal, Gandhari.
Curse me!
After that, when your heart is lighter..
..prepare to go to the forest.
Why the forest?
Because, my son..
..until the past does not leave..
..the present cannot take over!
Do you mean to say, you will also go?
She will have to go!
Aunt is also the past!
So, think well before cutting down a tree.
For, mother Gandhari, elder father or aunt..
..may have rested under it!
Why did you forget to take my name?
Even you, uncle?
I, too, am the past, my son.
But you will all have to wait till the coronation.
The present cannot prosper with the past.
You all know this truth!
I should not be preset on this auspicious occasion.
I am a king who preferred his son to the kingdom..
..who promoted his son at the cost of the people.
I am inauspicious, Krishna!
What are you saying?
No coronation will take place because..
..Hastinapur's throne is not empty.
You grace it!
- And God.. - No, my son.
You are generous.
You are the symbol of truth.
Don't ask God for this!
I am a representative of your father Pandu.
Now that you are here, the throne is yours!
Besides, I am very old and tired.
The Age of justice begins in Hastinapur with you.
The Sun of truth will dawn.
Blind Dhritrashtra does not know the sun!
Let him gather his darkness and leave!
My son.
I cannot see but..
..I can definitely make out that..
..you'll look very good on the throne.
Victory to Emperor Yuddhishthir!
[Sanskrit shlok]
Victory to Emperor Yuddhishthir!
First, I pay respects to Hastinapur..
..which has accepted me as the king.
Then, I salute my ancestors..
..and take an oath to protect the throne.
I also salute Krishna.
I give him my word that I shall differentiate..
..between justice and injustice.
Like a social worker I shall work for the common good.
I also give the people the authority..
..to tell me I am an unworthy king..
..if they see me stray from the common good.
Then I salute these empty seats.
One of the places belonged to grandsire.
Another to sage Drona and the third to Karna.
These seats will remain vacant to remind us..
..what we have lost in this war.
We have lost our values, knowledge and loyalty.
Who knows how long it will take..
..to acquire these again!
This war has broken our relationship with the past.
It is a loss of the present.
Hence, I request uncle Vidur..
..to represent the past in this court.
I invite to leave the past and come to the present.
I appoint him the Prime Minister.
Bhim will be the crown prince.
Arjun will protect our borders.
Nakul and Sahadev will be my chief bodyguards.
I pay my respects to the Kuru elder Dhritrashtra..
..and publicly announce that..
..he is not only my elder father but also my teacher.
I have learned ethics from him.
I have no bitterness in my heart.
Today I announce that all bitterness is at an end!
It is a king' s duty to look to the future because..
..he has to take his people into the future.
If a king spends his time in past bitterness..
..then he cannot provide leadership to the people.
Our people have suffered great hardships.
Now they deserve some peace and prosperity.
Let us establish a new era.
This will be only possible if every citizen..
..thinks of what he should do for the country..
..and not what the country should do for him.
A king and the citizens are for the country.
The country is not for the king or its citizens.
"The coronation of truth.."
"..is the new happy blessing."
"Now this country will see.."
"..the dawn of a new era."
"The dawn of a new era."
Come, my sons!
Our respects!
May you live long!
Where's Draupadi?
She's outside waiting for your permission to enter.
Does the Queen of Hastinapur need permission?
O my son!
Hastinapur's fortune has changed for the better.
It now has an Emperor who can see and..
..a queen whose eyes are not blindfolded.
My Son!
I have understood only now..
..why Vidur opposed my becoming the king.
Then he was right.
When blind Dhritrashtra raised his hands..
..he could only reach out to Duryodhan.
He thought dear Duryodhan was Hastinapur, the world.
Any king who is a prey to filial love..
..will be cut off from his people.
Gandhari.
Bring Draupadi inside.
I'll bring her!
No, Kunti
The present queen should be welcomed by the ex-queen.
Please don't go! You are the soul of this palace.
The soul, too, has to leave the body some day.
This is not the palace I stayed in.
This is a new Hastinapur.
We are the shadows of a past night..
..which will scare us all our life.
Forget what has happened, my dear.
Begin a new era based on justice!
Come! Your elder father is waiting for you!
Forgive me, elder father.
I must ask for your forgiveness.
You were insulted because of me!
You lost you sons because of me!
Innumerable children were orphaned because of me!
I stand caught in the marsh of my faults.
Pray that Hastinapur will forgive me.
I cannot interfere between you and Hastinapur.
If you forgive me, do not leave your sons!
She won't let us leave, Kunti.
You have successfully stopped us from going away.
But why do you want to stop us from going?
As the daughter-in-law I don't wish..
..to see the family divided.
Besides, it was not my insult alone.
It was the insult of the dynasty.
I wish to wipe out that insult..
..by serving you and family.
May your husband live long!
I am indebted to you, my dear.
To do one's duty is not to acquire merit.
My lord!
Now let's go to Grandsire and tell him that..
..after Yudhishthir's coronation..
..Hastinapur will once again be secure.
No! I do not have the courage to face him.
I don' want him to see my inauspicious face..
..in his last moments.
Both he and I know that it was because of me..
..that he is on this bed of arrows.
I know that Hastinapur is once again secure.
Now I can leave my body..
..but I am waiting for Lord Krishna.
I want to see him before I leave this body.
That is the only gift that I want from this Earth.
That is he only gift I'll take with me!
My respects, Grandsire!
My respect.
I knew you would come, O Krishna!
Your coming is like a balm to me
It has alleviated all my pain.
My vision has cleared like the post-monsoon sky.
All the problems have been solved.
It seems as if they had never existed.
At last I have attained salvation.
That's what I wanted!
Now give your grandson Yudhishthir one last lesson.
Who am I to teach him when you are there.
No, Grandsire!
I have knowledge but no experience.
Bless him with your experience.
Wipe my tears, Krishna so that..
..I may gaze upon the new Emperor of Hastinapur.
Grandsire!
Victory to the Emperor!
Now allow me to leave for heaven, my king.
I saw what I should not have seen.
I also saw what I wanted to see.
No, Grandsire. No.
I won't let you go, Grandsire!
I won't let you go!
I won't let you go, Grandsire!
These wounds will never heal, dear child.
These wounds are life's gift to me.
Now let me go! Don't be stubborn.
Do me one last favour.
Place some of my motherland's dust on my forehead.
No, I won't let you go!
Don't cry, my child!
This is a moment of joy.
Your grandsire is free of his motherland's debt.
O King! O child!
I am a defeated warrior and a defeated citizen.
Learn from me..
..what a good warrior and citizen should not do.
Vidur pleaded with me again and again.
Don't look up to the throne of Hastinapur.
Look up to Hastinapur itself.
The throne is nothing without the country.
But I bound by my oath..
..saw my father's image in King Dhritrashtra..
..who sat on the throne.
There is non greater than the country.
Neither father nor son nor an oath.
My oath took me away from my country's good.
And yet, I clung on to it!
I saw my country move toward destruction.
My loyalty to my oath..
..made me a traitor, my son.
My loyalty to my oath..
A traitor lies on this bed of arrows.
I am responsible for the partition of Hastinapur.
I am responsible for the wax House fire.
My hands disrobed Draupadi.
Those hands which are now pinned to the Earth.
No.
These arrows, these wounds say to me!
Recognise this land! Devavrata!
You sacrificed it for your father's image.
I am a warrior who was a slave to his oath.
This chapter of humiliation will end with me.
O son! My white clothes are stained by my ego.
Even the tears of repentance cannot wipe the stain.
So, my son, never swear an oath which will..
..cut you off from your country.
If you do such a thing..
..you will also end up on a bed of arrows.
Every time an elder stands in the way of the state..
..a younger will surely challenge him.
That is the basic philosophy of politics!
The king's good lies in the good of the country.
If you perceive any other good then it only means..
..you are straying from your duty as a king.
A country is not for the king!
A king is meant for the country!
The king who blames the past..
..for the economic and social ills of the state..
..is not a good king!
If the past has given you a weak..
..economic and social infrastructure then..
..improve and change it!
The past can never compete with the present.
The present can take the country..
..on the path of progress and change.
Listen to one more thing!
The true test of an efficient society..
..is the respect is gives to women.
Women ought to be protected, my son.
Tell him about truth and political duty!
Truth is not a ritual or a formality.
Truth implies your duty and the rights of others.
Therefore, respect truth.
Political duty is the same thing.
A king's responsibility is more than the citizen's.
If circumstances demand a partition..
..fight against it but don't divide the country.
Can you brothers divide your mother amongst yourselves?
If not, how can you divide the country?
I've done this and so, I am telling you.
I accepted partition to avoid war.
Don't you ever do this!
Now, I am tired, Krishna!
There is nothing more to say
Put some of my motherland's dust on my forehead, Arjun.
Allow me to do it, Grandsire!
Even I want you to do it but..
..how could I order you?
Now allow me to leave!
O Motherland!
Allow me to go to my mother!
O sky! Let my motherland have..
..plenty of sun, shade and rain.
Let there be fruits on its trees.
Let its lotuses bloom!
Let its flowers spread scent all over.
Let its river be healthy and plentiful.
May my land shine like the Sun without eclipse!
Om!
No, grandsire.
Blessed are we who see the mortal become immortal!
"Let there be no war like the Mahabharat war."
"Let there be no injustice."
"Let there be no war like the Mahabharat war."
"Let there be no injustice."
"Let us side with the one..
"..who believes in what Krishna says."
"The moral of the Bhagwad Geeta is action."
"Mahabharat preaches a message of peace."
"The moral of the Bhagwad Geeta is action."
"Mahabharat preaches a message of peace."
"The moral of the Bhagwad Geeta is action."
"Mahabharat preaches a message of peace."
'Sage Vyas's epic poem ends today.'
'O Man! This is my last meeting with you.'
'Now use this epic tale as an inspiration..'
'..to solve your problems.'
'This story is your armour and also your weapons.'
'Use this epic tale to recognise..'
'..the evil ones in contemporary society.'
'The light shed by this tale will show..'
'..evil flourishes even today..'
'..as it did in ancient Hastinapur.'
'You'll see untruth disguised as truth.'
'Today's Dronas sit in the camp of injustice..'
'..and make unreasonable demands.'
'Their silence implies that they are partner in evil.'
'O man! Strike out on a new path or else..'
'..you'll also be dragged into darkness like Karna.'
'Be the heir to light, to justice and truth!'
'Turn the Kurukshetra of your heart..'
'..into a holy ground.'
'That is salvation!'
"Whatever is there in this world!"
"Whatever this world is!"
"Sage Ved Vyas's epic tale narrates..
..all that the world is!"
"All of you remember.
"Life is the result of your actions."
"We now take your leave."