Katha Sagar
| Katha Sagar | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama/Literature |
| Directed by | Shyam Benegal |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 44[1] |
| Production | |
| Producer | Cinevistaas |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | DD National Sony TV |
| Release | 1986 – 1986 |
Katha Sagar (translation:"A Sea of Stories") was a popular Indian television series that aired on DD National in 1986. The series was directed by Shyam Benegal along with many renowned directors. The series featured a collection of stories by world famous short story writers such as Guy De Maupassant, Rabindranath Tagore, Leo Tolstoy, O. Henry, Anton Chekov etc.[2]
The series had different stories in each episode and most of the stories in the series were one-episode long. At that time, many other shows like "Darpan" and "Ek Kahaani", based on similar concept were aired around the same time as this series on DD National.
After many years of it original run, the series was again produced by Prem Krishen Malhotra & Sunil Mehta, founders of "Cinevista Communications Limited".[2]
Plot
The series included about 37 stories based on different subjects like The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant, The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol, A Cup of Tea by Katherine Mansfield, and Tolstoy's God Sees the Truth, But Waits and Where Love Is, God Is (Patiksha) and many others. Some of the stories were adapted to fit an Indian context but the adaptation embodied the essence of the original story very well.
Cast and Crew
The series featured some of the best actors of Indian TV & cinema at that time like :-
- Sharmila Tagore
- Shammi Kapoor
- Om Puri
- Saeed Jaffrey
- Tiku Talsania
- Ashok Kumar
- Utpal Dutt
- Waheeda Rehman
- Moushumi Chatterjee
- Marc Zuber
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda
- Anjan Srivastav
- Kiran Kumar
- Kitu Gidwani
- Archana Puran Singh
- Mangal Dhillon
- Shashi Puri
- Vijayendra Ghatge
- Vikram Gokhale
- raza Murad
- Parikshit Sahni
- Beena, Neena Gupta*
- Suresh Oberoi
- Pallavi Joshi
- Supriya Pathak
- Bindu
- Rohini Hattangadi
- Urmila Matondkar and many others.
Directors
References
- ^ "Cinevistaas - Library of Programmes". Cinevistaas.
- ^ a b "There is lot of confsuion." Indian Express. 11 August 2003.
External links
- That Eighties Show: Trisha Gupta's long article on Katha Sagar in The Caravan: http://caravanmagazine.in/arts/’80s-show?page=0,2 Katha Sagar at IMDb
- Classic DD Entertainment
- Videos
- Katha Sagar episodes at Cinevistaas YouTube channel