which are damaged seriously within young and adult generation all over the world these days. what I love from this movie is their objectives to spread moral values, such as respect the elders, obey your parents, respect for women, teenage bravery to protect their parents,equal rights for low-class people, etc. as I and several of our people read both Indian/original version and Javanese/Indonesian version of Mahabharat, so we don't mind and regret any improved or updated version of Mahabharat, as long as we can catch the moral message lies within the movie (and the book) itself. we have our own version of Mahabharat which been rewritten and recreated by our ancestors thousands years BCE.
but one who never read the book before, esp when you lived abroad far from India like me, will love the movie and perhaps wants to read the book after they watch this movie. Anyone who read the Mahabharat book perhaps will feel disappointed with the story, indeed.