A man who cannot overcome his insecurities and who cannot make his peace with his own place in the world will fall. All his virtues will fail him, as wood touched by flame. Karna is a prime example. By the end of the war, he is found right in the center of so much infamy /1

NTR's histrionics and screen presence could not salvage his reputation here. He broke all rules of engagement to attack and disarm Abhimanyu /2

His famed valour deserted him and he became a coward. Here NTR just excises his role in Panchali Vastraharanam, since that was irredeemable. In AP Nagarajan's Tamil movie, the Vastraharanam is completely removed.

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There are others which popular 20th CE media chose to remove - his pathetic fold up in the Virata raid for one.

His acts of charity are excessive and serve as a foil to the extreme meanness he displays at times. Ati sarvatra varjayet! /END