Vikram Aur Betaal
| Vikram Aur Betaal | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Mythology, Fantasy |
| Created by | Sagar Arts Limited |
| Starring | see below |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language(s) | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Ramanand Sagar |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | approximately 52 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | DD National |
| Picture format | SDTV: 480i |
| Original release | 1985 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Betaal Pachisi |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Vikram Aur Betaal was a television programme that aired on DD National. The series contained stories from Indian mythology that aim at teaching kids life lessons while entertaining them. The concept of the program was based on Baital Pachisi, a collection of tales about the legendary King Vikram (identified as Vikramāditya) and the Vaitaala, a ghost analogous to a vampire in Western literature.
Vikram Aur Betaal is based on Betaal Pacchisi, written nearly 2,500 years ago by Mahakavi Somdev Bhatt. These are spellbinding stories told to the wise King Vikramaditya by the wily ghost Betaal.
At the beginning of the frame story, Vikramaditya king of Ujjain receives, among other visitors, a mendicant who presents the king a fruit on every visit. In the fruits are later discovered orbs of ruby. Upon this discovery, the king resolves to visit the mendicant, who arranges a meeting under a banyan tree in a cremation ground beyond the city, at night, on the 14th day of the dark half of the month. At the meeting, the mendicant requests that Vikramaditya bring him a corpse suspended from another tree, with which the mendicant might achieve occult power.
Upon Vikramaditya's doing so, the corpse is identified as Betaal, the ghost, who narrates a story to the king, concluding that Vikramaditya must answer a moral question pertaining to the story's characters, on pain of his own death; and upon his answering the question, Betaal returns to his tree.
The name Betaal Pachisi suggests the Betaal told the king 25 stories (pacchisi - पच्चीसी is derived from pacchis - पच्चीस in Hindi, which means 25), each narrated while Vikramaditya is carrying Betaal to the mendicant, where of each ended with a moral
Question: Whose sacrifice is bigger and greater the king's or the commander's?
Answer:The commander's sacrifice is bigger and greater as he sacrificed his love and fiancee for sake of loyalty and kingdom whereas the king sacrifices only a girl he wished to marry by simply catching her glimpse.
Question:Who should Somprabha marry? The warrior, the poet or the engineer?
Answer:As a husband should be able to protect his wife from all forms of danger, the warrior is most worthy among the 3 as he alone was able to defeat and save Somprabha from the demon.
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