Mukesh Khanna Slams Ekta Kapoor For Casting Daily Soap Actors in Mahabharat

Actor Mukesh Khanna, who is best remembered as India’s first superhero Shaktimaan has been vocal about his beliefs and opinions. The actor speaks bitter truth on his YouTube channel Bhishma International and also shares many unknown facts about his shows and personal life. Recently, the veteran actor shared his views on Ekta Kapoor’s Mahabharat where he slammed the TV czarina for ruining it by casting daily soaps actor. Talking to a news portal the actor said, “Ekta Kapoor took Ronit Roy to play Bhishma Pitamah and they were flaunting six-pack abs, she took popular heroines to play Draupadi and other female characters. I did 15 films before bagging the role of Bhishma Pitamah. I had given a proper look test wearing a beard and a moustache. We were selected on the basis of our audition and they were elected and that’s why they did not look like the characters. She completely ruined it, satyanash kar diya tha…,” He further claimed that Ekta even tried to hire him in her version of Mahabharat but he rejected as she offered him to play Bhishma’s father Shantanu.