{"id":6940,"date":"2008-07-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/07\/13\/hi-tech-remakes-of-hindu-epics-coming-to-tv\/"},"modified":"2008-07-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T12:00:00","slug":"hi-tech-remakes-of-hindu-epics-coming-to-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/07\/13\/hi-tech-remakes-of-hindu-epics-coming-to-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Hi-Tech Remakes of Hindu Epics Coming to TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\">MUMBAI, INDIA, July 11, 2008: Two of India&#8217;s best loved epics about gods, demons and cataclysmic wars are making a comeback on Indian television, hoping to recreate with snazzy visual effects the magic they wove on TV two decades ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">Such was the appeal of the epics that when they were adapted for the small screen in the 1980s they managed to empty city streets, forced changes in train timings and got their actors elected as members of parliament. Some people even prayed in front of their television screens while the shows were on. Now, the makers of the new Ramayana and Mahabharata series say they could top the success of the cult series with high-tech techniques such as those used in The Lord of the Rings films.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The special effects, the costumes and the whole treatment of the story is such that younger audiences will be attracted to the shows,&#8221; Bobby Bedi, producer of one of the new versions of Mahabharata, told Reuters. &#8220;There is a huge market for mythological serials in India.&#8221; While the two epics air on three channels, a fourth will screen the mythological exploits of the Hindu god Krishna. India has a surfeit of profitable religious channels &#8212; they could double their share of 15 percent of TV advertising spending of US$2.6 billion &#8212; as people turn to spirituality to deal with the stress of modern life.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI, INDIA, July 11, 2008: Two of India&#8217;s best loved epics about gods, demons and cataclysmic wars are making a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}