Star Plus popular series Mahabharat is re-running during the Quarantine period and the show never fails to excite the audience despite the time period. In the current track of Mahabharat, the audience gets to witness the marriage of Dridrurashtra and Gandhari.
Gandhari, who learns about Dridrurashtra being blind takes a big step much to the despise of Dridrurashtra. Gandhari comes to her wedding dias with a blindfold. Everyone gets shocked seeing it. Dridrurashtra gets angry seeing Gandhari and thinks that she’s mocking him. He refuses to do marriage with her.
However, Gandhari clears the air that she doesn’t want to have anything that her husband doesn’t have and she’s ready to stay blind her whole life. Though people oppose her decision, she compares her situation with Bhishm and says that some decisions are taken by her heart. The reference to this scene with Bhishm sacrificing his rights of a king is a clear picture that portrays the parallel in the right form.
When everyone felt that Bhishm’s sacrifice is not highlighted, Gandhari’s reference took it to the limelight. One side there’s Gandhari who wants to stay blind all her life for her husband while on the other side there’s Bhishm who’s ready to sacrifice his soul right for the happiness of his father.
Thus this minute references lifts the beauty of the scene making it stand out in a unique way.