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GoedenDag, still, I ask you: it's not worth belittling/downplaying the "Mahabharata," regardless of one's personal attitude towards it: it is a great epic, and it is an integral part of the world's historical and cultural heritage. But arguments at the level of

"Black Balaam" is at least funny. Sometimes.

are best not used at all. Jokes about Vovochka are even funnier, for example - so what? Comparing the original and its free retelling is completely incorrect; it's like Caruso performed by a neighbor.:D