Video-sharing site YouTube has partnered with entertainment firm Graphic India and renowned comic book writer Grant Morrison to launch an animated web series on the epic Mahabharata titled 18 days.

Mahabharata is an epic story and we are very excited to bring the animated version of this great Indian epic to YouTube users worldwide,YouTube APAC Director (Content Partnerships) Gautam Anand said. Partnering with Grant Morrison and Graphic India for this YouTube exclusive will set the bar for more such high quality web original series, he added. The shows creator Grant Morrison said a genre mash of superhero action and mythology grounded in the all too human passions of its warriors, villains and monsters, 18 Days will rewrite the rules of epic fantasy. The series will feature weekly episodes through the year and will be distributed exclusively on the Graphic India YT Channel and will be in English, Hindi and Tamil, it added.

Asian investment arm of The Chernin Group, LLC (TCG). An exclusive trailer for the series was posted last week on YouTube to coincide with a over-packed panel at the San Diego Comic Con, global pop-culture event and exceeded over 150,000 views within a few days of release, YouTube said. Grant Morrison said a genre mash of superhero action and mythology grounded in the all too human passions of its warriors, villains and monsters, 18 Days will rewrite the rules of epic fantasy. Mahabharata is an epic story and we are very excited to bring the animated version of this great Indian epic to YouTube users worldwide,YouTube APAC Director (Content Partnerships) Gautam Anand said. Partnering with Grant Morrison and Graphic India for this YouTube exclusive will set the bar for more such high quality web original series, he added.