India, Oct. 11 -- The Mahabharata returns every few years in one form or another. The world's longest epic has been reimagined in almost every conceivable way: through '80s devotional TV marathons, 2000s' cartoons, and more recently, big-budget visual multiverses that look more Dune than Doordarshan. And now comes Kurukshetra, a groundbreaking series that will bring the battlefield of the Mahabharata into the present with modern storytelling style. Meanwhile, watch these movies and TV shows based on the Mahabharata.

As we have seen with Kantara (2022) and its recently released prequel, Kantara: Chapter 1, there is demand for these stories based on myths and scriptures. The Mahabharata lends itself nicely to cinema and small-screen entert...