You should definitely check out different versions. The story they usually use in tv-series and 'parents' tell is the same version which is as you said boring,

You should definitely check out different versions. The story they usually use in tv-series and 'parents' tell is the same version which is as you said boring, and plain good guy vs bad guy plot. But many ancient versions excellent[1][2] and they not dragged like the original!, even better if you are into prosody(kavya)[3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urubhanga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urubhanga [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikramarjuna_Vijaya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikramarjuna_Vijaya [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit_prosody https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit_prosody