![]() ![]() So, Krishna asked for Barbarika's head as charity and avoided his participation in the war. That would mean he would be oscillating between the two sides, leading to everyone's death, except his own. But Krishna realized it was a faulty principle since the side Barbarika would not chose would become the weaker side by default. But the invincible Barbarika was bound by a principle - that he could only fight for the weaker side. He was trained to be a warrior by his mother and was gifted the three infallible arrows by Valmiki, which had the capacity to destroy and save everything on its path. ![]() Barbarika was the son of Ghatotkach and Ahilawati. He was considered to be one of the fiercest warriors on the field. Here is a list of such crucial characters from the Mahabharat, easily overlooked and quite underrated, in no particular order. And then there were the other minor characters, crucial to the plot but easily overlooked. Like in any other works of fantasy the central characters got lauded and gathered a large fan following by default. The television series opened up the brilliance of the Mahabharat to people - a lot of whom were kids - who had not read the epic. It was - and I speak for a lot of us - our first brush with fantasy. And all those flying chariots and sparkly arrows did not help. It was also known as the glorious time when B R Chopra tried to warn us that Samay is not all that fair but we thought he was a very cool invisible entity with a superbly modulated voice anyway. It originally aired from 16 September 2013 to 16 August 2014 on Star Plus, and in April 2020, it was re-run on Star Plus amid the nationwide lockdown due to Corona pandemic.If you are a 90s kid, you would probably understand the importance Sunday morning television had. Mahabharat is an Indian television serial based on the ancient Indian epic Mahabharat. ![]()
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