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@ Betelgeuse
2025-04-28 03:52:58Starting point
I saw a reddit post today in one of the movie subreddits. It was to pitch a storyline thatakes no sense but is a hit! So I went ahead and posted my entry:
Pandavas don't have right over the throne yet they claim as if it were theirs. Pandavas were not sons of Pandu. They claim the throne from Dhritharashtra's sons. And their uncle Kriahna, who is not actually their uncle- he was born in a prison and switched place with a child in Gokulam. Pandavas at last get the better part of the country. They gamble pawning the country and their polyamorus wife and lose both. Then they go over a war and then kill the actual rightful heirs by cheating. And their uncle who promised to be neutral helped this cheating. And at the end, Five brothers and the uncle are declared the righteous. Shubham.
Aftereffects
Then I fed chatgpt with that pitchline. And see what it gave me back!!
Title: The Righteous Five
Logline: History is written by the victors — even when they were never supposed to win. The Righteous Five retells the grand epic of Mahabharata through an unsparing, darkly comedic lens, questioning whether the so-called heroes ever had the right to the throne they so righteously claimed.
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Pitch:
In a kingdom where bloodlines dictate destiny, five brothers — technically fatherless, allegedly sons of gods — return from exile to claim a throne they were never born to inherit. Their father Pandu was cursed to die if he ever touched a woman. Conveniently, his wives bore sons anyway — through “divine intervention.”
The actual king, Dhritarashtra, blind but legitimate, has sons of his own: ambitious, flawed, but — inconveniently for history — born from his own loins.
Enter Krishna, a not-uncle with a god complex, who was born behind bars and swapped at birth. He plays “impartial counselor” but spends more time whispering war strategies and bending rules of morality like a street magician.
The Five Righteous Ones somehow carve out half the kingdom — only to promptly gamble it away, alongside their shared wife, in a dice game stupider than any war they could have fought. Stripped of everything by their own hands, they rage not at themselves but at the cousins who legally won the game.
Thus begins the most catastrophic war in history, where noble-sounding speeches are cover for ambushes, sneak attacks, fake deaths, and a systematic extermination of everyone with a legitimate claim to the throne.
At the end of the slaughter, the Pandavas, bloodstained and burdened with guilt, are declared the rightful rulers — not because they were right, but because there’s no one left to argue otherwise.
Their journey is blessed and narrated by Krishna, who somehow remains a “neutral” god through every cheat, lie, and slaughter, and then leaves them all to their karma like a corporate CEO taking early retirement.
Tagline: “Victory is easy when you rewrite the rules — and the history books.”
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