 He added that he had noted in the letter that Sagar's "real challenge would lie in seeing the epic "with the eyes of a modern man and relating its message to the spiritual and emotional needs of our age".Gill added that he also wrote a similar letter to B. R. Chopra over the production of the series "Mahabharat" based on another epic of the same name, and mentioned that both he and Sagar accepted to his suggestions and constituted panels of experts and scholars to conceptualize the production.The series was initially conceptualized to run for 52 episodes of 45 minutes each.