Bharat Ek Khoj
Bharat Ek Khoj is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book The Discovery of India (1946) by Jawaharlal Nehru[3] that covers a 5,000-year history of India from its beginnings to independence from the British in 1947. The drama was directed, written and produced by Shyam Benegal with cinematographer V. K. Murthy in 1988 for state-owned Doordarshan. Shama Zaidi co-wrote the script.[4] Its cast included Om Puri, Roshan Seth, Tom Alter and Sadashiv Amrapurkar. Jawaharlal Nehru was portrayed by Roshan Seth, the same role he portrayed in the Oscar-winning film Gandhi.[5]
| Bharat Ek Khoj | |
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 Bharat Ek Khoj DVD cover | |
| Genre | Historical fiction |
| Created by | Shyam Benegal |
| Based on | The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Written by | Shyam Benegal Shama Zaidi Sunil Shanbag Vasant Dev (dialogues) |
| Starring | Roshan Seth Om Puri Tom Alter Sadashiv Amrapurkar Naseeruddin Shah Lucky Ali Seema Kelkar Mita Vashisht Pallavi Joshi Anjan Srivastav Sohaila Kapur Ila Arun Irrfan Khan Ravi Jhankal Piyush Mishra Kulbhushan Kharbanda Subrat Bose, Pankaj Berry |
| Narrated by | Om Puri[1] |
| Opening theme | Vanraj Bhatia |
| Country of origin | India |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 53 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Raj Pius |
| Cinematography | V. K. Murthy |
| Editor(s) |
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| Production company(s) | Doordarshan Sahyadri Films |
| Release | |
| Original network | DD National |
| Original release | 13 November 1988[1] |
Production designer Nitish Roy with assistants Samir Chanda and Nitin Desai built 144 sets.[6]
Cast and episode list
| Episode | Title | Cast | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bharat Mata Ki Jai[7] | Roshan Seth | Jawaharlal Nehru[1] | |
| 2 | The Beginnings (Indus Valley Civilization) | Harish Patel, Lalit Mohan Tiwari, Pallavi Joshi | Draha, Shulgi, Atri | |
| 3 | The Arrival of the Vedic People (the Rigveda) | Anang Desai, K K Raina, Ravi Jhankal | Sardar, Suteja, Bajbandha | |
| 4 | Caste Formation | Anang Desai, Salim Ghouse, K K Raina, Lalit Mohan Tiwari, Inayatullah Kantroo, Anuradha Tarafdar, Ila Arun | Chandraprabha, Rama, Narada, Arjuna, Dhanpal,Dhanvati, Sheelvati | Story of Shambuka from Ramayana and Ekalavya from Mahabharata were also part of this episode. |
| 5 | Mahabharata Part 1 | Teejan Bai, Salim Ghouse, Om Puri, Sujata Mehta | Herself, Krishna, Duryodhana, Draupadi | |
| 6 | Mahabharata Part 2 | Om Puri, Pankaj Berry, Ila Arun, Salim Ghouse | Duryodhan, Aswatthama, Gandhari, Krishna | |
| 7 | Ramayana Part 1[1] | Pallavi Joshi, Salim Ghouse, Pankaj Berry, Ravi Jhankal | Sita, Rama, Bharata, Lakshmana | |
| 8 | Ramayana Part 2 | Om Puri, Pallavi Joshi, Salim Ghouse[1] | Ravana, Sita, Rama | |
| 9 | Republics and Kingdoms | Virendra Saxena, K K Raina | Mahaanaman, Virudhaka | |
| 10 | Negation and Acceptance of Life | Dhruv Ghanekar, Aanjjan Srivastav, Om Puri | Nachiketa, Yamaraja, Angulimaal | |
| 11 | Chanakya and Chandragupta Part 1 | Satyadev Dubey, Ravi Jhankal, Mita Vashisht | Chanakya, Chanragupta, Suhasini | |
| 12 | Chanakya and Chandragupta Part 2 | Satyadev Dubey, Ravi Jhankal, Aanjjan Srivastav | Chanakya, Chanragupta, Dhana Nanda | |
| 13 | Ashoka Part 1 | Om Puri, K.K Raina, Ila Arun | Ashoka, Radhagupta, Asandhimitra | |
| 14 | Ashoka Part 2 | Om Puri, K.K Raina, Ila Arun, Lucky Ali (credites as Maqsoom Ali) | Ashoka, Radhagupta, Asandhimitra, Prince Tissa | |
| 15 | The Sangam Period: Silapaddirakam Part 1 | Pallavi Joshi, Rakesh Dhar | Kannaki, Kovalan | |
| 16 | The Sangam Period: Silapaddirakam Part 2 | Pallavi Joshi, Rakesh Dhar, Sulabha Deshpande, Virendra Saxena | Kannaki, Kovalan, Kavundi, Pandit | |
| 17 | The Classical Age | Anjan Srivastav, Harish Patel, Aparjita Krishna | Sansthanaka, Nai, Vasantsena | |
| 18 | Kalidas and Shakuntala Part 1 | Ravi Jhankal, Pallavi Joshi, Virendra Saxena | Kalidas, Mallika, Matul | Excerpts from plays Ashadh Ka Ek Din by Mohan Rakesh and Shakuntala (play) by Kalidasa were used in this episode. |
| 19 | Kālidāsa and Shakuntala Part 2 | Ravi Jhankal, Pallavi Joshi, Virendra Saxena | Kalidas, Mallika, Matul | |
| 20 | Harshavardhana | Pankaj Berry, K Makhija, Aparajita | Harshavardhana, Prabhakar Vardhana, Queen | |
| 21 | Bhakti | Vijay Kashyap, Rajesh Vivek, Mita Vashisht, Harish Patel | Mahendravarman I, Kapalin, Devasoma, Buddhist Monk | |
| 22 | The Chola Empire Part 1 | Om Puri, Devendre Malhotra, Sunila Pradhan, Shantanu Chaparia | Raja Raja Chola, Ishanashiva, Mahadevi, Tirumala | |
| 23 | The Chola Empire Part 2 | Om Puri, Devendre Malhotra, Sunila Pradhan, Shantanu Chaparia | Raja Raja Chola, Ishanashiva, Mahadevi, Tirumala | |
| 24 | The Delhi Sultanate Part 1:The Arrival of Turk-Afghans and Prithviraj Raso | K.K. Raina,Vijay Kashyap, Ravi Jhankal, Ahmed Khan | Muhammad Ghori, Chand Bardai, Prithviraj Chauhan, Mahmud Ghazni | |
| 25 | The Delhi Sultanate Part 2: Prithviraj Raso and Alauddin Khilji | K.K. Raina,Vijay Kashyap, Ravi Jhankal, Achyut Potdar, Om Puri, Rajendra Gupta, Seema Kelkar | Muhammad Ghori, Chand Bardai, Makwana, Alauddin Khilji, Ratan Singh, Padmavati | |
| 26 | The Delhi Sultanate Part 3: Padmavat and Tughlaq dynasty[8] | Om Puri, Rajendra Gupta, Seema Kelkar, | Alauddin Khalji,Ratan Singh, Padmavati | |
| 27 | Synthesis | Pankaj Berry | Lorik | |
| 28 | The Vijayanagar Empire | Om Puri, Salim Ghouse, Anjan Srivastava, Fr. Tasso | Krishna Deva Raya, Aliya Rama Raya, Appaji, Domingo Paes | |
| 29 | Feudalism[9] | Salim Ghouse, Ila Arun, Pallivi Joshi, Siraj Khan, Ajay Kumar | Aliya Rama Raya, Heggaditi, Mallige, Saguna, Achyuta Deva Raya | |
| 30 | The Fall of the Vijayanagar Empire | Salim Ghouse, Anang Desai, Pankaj Berry, Ahmed Khan, Arjun Raina | Aliya Rama Raya, Effendi Aslam Bain, Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah Wali, Hussain Nizam Shah I, Ali Adil Shah I | |
| 31 | Rana Sanga, Ibrahim Lodi and Babur | Ravi Jhankal, Anang Desai, Lalit Tiwari | Rana Sanga, Ibrahim Lodi, Babur | |
| 32 | Akbar Part 1 (Din-e Ilahi) | Kulbhushan Kharbanda | Akbar | |
| 33 | Akbar Part 2 | Kulbhushan Kharbanda | Akbar | |
| 34 | Golden Hind | Ajit Vachhani | ||
| 35 | Aurangzeb Part 1 | Om Puri | Aurangzeb | |
| 36 | Aurangzeb Part 2 | Om Puri | Aurangzeb | |
| 37 | Shivaji Part 1 | Naseeruddin Shah[10] | Shivaji | |
| 38 | Shivaji Part 2 | Naseeruddin Shah | Shivaji | |
| 39 | Company Bahadur (East India Company) | Amrish Puri, Rajendra, Jalal Agha, Tom Alter, Vishal Singh | ||
| 40 | Tipu Sultan | Salim Ghouse | Tipu Sultan | |
| 41 | The Bengal Renaissance and Raja Ram Mohan Roy | Anang Desai | Raja Ram Mohan Roy | |
| 42 | 1857 Part 1 | Tom Alter, Om Puri, Ravi Jhankal | ||
| 43 | 1857 Part 2 | Tom Alter | British Officer | |
| 44 | Indigo Revolt | Virendra Saxena | Madhav | |
| 45 | Mahatma Phule | Sadashiv Amrapurkar | Mahatma Phule | |
| 46 | Sir Syed Ahmed Khan | |||
| 47 | Vivekananda | Alok Nath | Swami Vivekananda | |
| 48 | Extremists and Moderates | Mohan Gokhale | Gopal Krishna Gokhale | |
| 49 | And Gandhi Came Part 1 | |||
| 50 | And Gandhi Came Part 2 | |||
| 51 | Separatism | |||
| 52 | Do or Die | |||
| 53 | Epilogue |
Broadcast
The 53 episodes series was launched in November 1988 which coincide with the birth centenary of Nehru.[1] The series was re-telecast on DD Bharati from 27 May 2013 on the occasion of 49th death anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru.[11]
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See also
References
- Jain, Madhu (20 November 2013). "Bharat Ek Khoj: The making of most extravagant serial ever". India Today.
- "Shyam Benegal on watching Padmaavat: I want to see what all the fuss is about". Mumbai Mirror.
- "What makes Shyam special..." The Hindu. 17 January 2003. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
- "Music in her lines Makeup artist Vivek Nayak". The Hindu. 1 October 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
- "Roshan Seth waits for right role". The Hindu. 19 November 2001. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
- "Samir Chanda's death was devastating: Shyam Benegal". The Times of India. 20 August 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
- Staff, Scroll. "In this first episode of 'Bharat Ek Khoj', Nehru's character quizzes those chanting 'Bharat Mata ki jai' on what the phrase means". Scroll.in.
- "Om Puri had played Alauddin Khilji much before Ranveer Singh". in.com.
- "How India Became a Republic - Indian Express". archive.indianexpress.com.
- Chari, Mridula. "The DD Files: When Shyam Benegal brought India's entire history to TV screens in 'Bharat Ek Khoj'". Scroll.in.
- "DD to commence repeat telecast of 'Bharat Ek Khoj' to mark Nehru's death anniversary". Indian Television Dot Com. 25 May 2013.
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