Mukesh Khanna criticizes Ekta Kapoor's Mahabharat, says she literally murdered it by putting a tattoo on Draupadi arm

Mukesh Khanna, better known as Shaktiman, opened up about the rerun of classic shows on television. As the shooting of the latest television shows has come to a standstill, many channels are showing the old classic television shows to their viewers. One of them includes Mahabharat (1988) in which the actor played the role of Bhishma. While opening up to a leading daily about the difference between the old Mahabharat and Ekta Kapoor's Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki, he slammed Ekta for distorting the epic tale.

“ The new version of Shaktimaan cannot be the way Ekta Kapoor made Mahabharata (in 2008) by putting a tattoo on Draupadi’s shoulder. She had said that she was making Mahabharata for modern people. ‘ Sanskriti Kabhi modern Nahi ho Sakti, Putri. Jis din Sanskriti ko modern Karoge, khatam ho Jayegi’ (Culture can never be modern, The day you try to make culture modern, the culture will be over).” He further said, “ If the serial name would be ‘ Kyunki Greek Bhi Kabhi Hindustani, then I would accept Ekta’s Mahabharat. Who has given them the right to slaughter an epic? They have changed the actual version of Devarath’s ‘ Bhishma Pratigya’ to something else. It also created a vamp-like image for Satyavati, among other things in the show. They tried to be smarter than Vyas muni (Ved Vyasa, who wrote Mahabharata) to which I have any objection. I want to point out that Ramayana and Mahabharata are not mythologies, they are our histories.” Also Read: Shaktimaan to get a sequel soon announces show's lead hero and co-creator Mukesh Khanna