Katha Sagar

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{{Infobox television
| image =
| caption =
| runtime = 22 minutes
| director = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| producer = [[Cinevistaas Limited|Cinevistaas]]
| language = Hindi
| genre = [[Drama]]
| country = India
| network = [[DD National]]
| first_aired = {{start date|1986}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1986}}
| num_seasons = 1
| num_episodes = 44<ref>{{cite web |title=Cinevistaas - Library of Programmes |url=http://www.cinevistaas.com/ourlibrary.html |date= |publisher=[[Cinevistaas Limited|Cinevistaas]] |access-date=1 November 2011 |archive-date=31 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111031042434/http://www.cinevistaas.com/ourlibrary.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
}}

'''''Katha Sagar''''' ([[Indian English|translation]]:''"A Sea of Stories"'') is an Indian television series that aired on [[DD National]] in 1986. The series featured a collection of stories by writers from around the world, including [[Katherine Mansfield]], [[Guy de Maupassant]], [[Leo Tolstoy]], [[O. Henry]], and [[Anton Chekhov]].<ref name=iex>{{cite news |title=There is lot of confusion. |url=http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=60132 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030909112905/http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=60132 |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 September 2003 |publisher=[[Indian Express]] |date=11 August 2003 }}</ref> Each episode was directed by one of eight well known Indian directors, including [[Shyam Benegal]], [[Kundan Shah]], [[Ved Rahi]] and [[Satyen Bose]]. Most of the stories in the series were one episode long.<ref>Awaasthi, Kavita (16 May 2016) [https://www.hindustantimes.com/tv/a-touch-of-class-shyam-benegal-remembers-the-stories-of-katha-sagar/story-uMeczv9uvQd7oZSgcioHLP.html A touch of class: Shyam Benegal remembers the stories of Katha Sagar ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724212258/https://www.hindustantimes.com/tv/a-touch-of-class-shyam-benegal-remembers-the-stories-of-katha-sagar/story-uMeczv9uvQd7oZSgcioHLP.html |date=24 July 2022 }} in [[Hindustan Times]]. Retrieved 26 July 2020</ref>

Many years after its original run,{{when|date=July 2020}} the series was again produced by [[Prem Krishen|Prem Krishen Malhotra]] and Sunil Mehta, founders of [[Cinevistaas Limited|Cinevista Communications Limited]].<ref name=iex/>

==Plot==
The series included 37 episodes based on stories including "[[La Peur (short story)|Fear]]" by [[Guy de Maupassant]], "[[The Overcoat]]" by [[Nikolai Gogol]], "[[A Cup of Tea]]" by [[Katherine Mansfield]], and "[[Where Love Is, God Is]]" by [[Leo Tolstoy]]. Some of the stories were adapted to fit an Indian context, but the adaptation embodied the essence of the original story.

==Episodes==
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|EpisodeNumber = 1
|Title = Pratiksha
|DirectedBy = Ved Rahi
| Aux2 = {{based on|"[[Where Love Is, God Is]]"|[[Leo Tolstoy]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Saeed Jaffrey]], Jayant Bhatt, [[Beena Banerjee|Beena]], [[Sulabha Deshpande]], [[Abhi Bhattacharya]]
|LineColor = 989797
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 2
|Title = Karz
|DirectedBy = [[Kundan Shah]]
| Aux2 = {{Based on|"[[The Clarion Call]]"|[[O. Henry]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Deepak Kejriwal, [[Rajendra Gupta]], [[Rama Vij]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 3
|Title = Teen Sadhu
|DirectedBy = [[Satyen Bose]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"[[The Three Hermits]]"|[[Leo Tolstoy]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Satyen Kappu]], [[Anup Kumar (actor)|Anup Kumar]], Brahmachari
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 4
|Title = Ek Bhool
|DirectedBy = [[Kundan Shah]]
| Aux2 = {{Based on|"[[The Lion's Share (novel)|The Lion's Share]]"|[[Arnold Bennett]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 5
|Title = Sannata
|DirectedBy = Ved Rahi
| Aux2 = {{based on|[[wikisource:The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant/The Father|"The Father"]]|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary =
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}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 6
|Title = Roti Aur Pyar
|DirectedBy = [[Anil Ganguly]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"Love And Bread"|[[August Strindberg]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Ashok Kumar]], [[Kitu Gidwani]], [[Asha Sharma]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 7
|Title = Kalakriti
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"[[The Last Leaf]]"|[[O. Henry]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Neena Gupta]], [[Supriya Pathak]], [[Irshad Hashmi]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 8
|Title = Bahut Der Kar Di
|DirectedBy = [[Kundan Shah]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|[[The Grasshopper (short story)|"The Grasshopper"]]|[[Anton Chekhov]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 9
|Title = Dard
|DirectedBy = [[Anil Ganguly]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Father"|[[Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Shammi Kapoor]], [[Bharat Bhushan]], [[Dinesh Hingoo]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 10
|Title = Musafir
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 = {{based on|"On The Journey"|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Kiran Juneja]], [[Ajit Vachani]], [[Shashi Puri]], [[Prem Krishen]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 11
|Title = Qaidi
|DirectedBy = [[Anil Ganguly]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Long Exile"|[[Leo Tolstoy]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 12
|Title = Nandu Ki Chitthi
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|[[Vanka (short story)|"'Vanka"]]|[[Anton Chekhov]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[A K Hangal]], [[Joy Ghanekar]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 13
|Title = Ward No. 6
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"[[Ward No. 6]]"|[[Anton Chekhov]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Irrfan Khan]], [[Lalit Tiwari]], [[Pankaj Berry]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 14
|Title = Sahara
|DirectedBy = [[Narendra Nath]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"Simon's Papa"|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 15
|Title = Sunheri Yaadein
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Cripple"|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 16
|Title = Sauda
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Little Cask"|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Waheeda Rehman]], [[Satish Kaushik]], [[Deepak Kejriwal]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 17
|Title = Bhulava
|DirectedBy = [[Kundan Shah]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"Hearts and Crosses"|[[O. Henry]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Benjamin Gilani]], [[Deepika Chikhalia]], [[Suresh Chatwal]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 18
|Title = Ek Khula Hua Darwaza
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Open Window"|[[H. H. Munro]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Pallavi Joshi]], [[Harish Patel]], [[Sunila Pradhan]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 19
|Title = Saboon Ki Tikiya
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"Dusk"|[[H. H. Munro]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Kulbhushan Kharbanda]], [[K K Raina]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 20
|Title = Chai Ka Ek Cup
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"[[A Cup of Tea]]"|[[Katherine Mansfield]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Iftekhar]], [[Suresh Oberoi]], [[Sharmila Tagore]], [[Pallavi Joshi]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 21
|Title = Nayi Fasal
|DirectedBy = A. Salam
| Aux2 = {{based on|[[wikisource:The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant/The Story of a Farm-Girl|"The Story of a Farm Girl"]]|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Archana Puran Singh]], [[Vikram Gokhale]], [[Shashi Puri]], [[Asha Sharma]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 22
|Title = Do Raaste
|DirectedBy = N/A
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Trimmed Lamp"|[[O. Henry]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Radha Seth]], [[Pallavi Joshi]], [[Ajit Vachani]], [[Lalit Tiwari]], [[Mangal Dhillon]], [[Sanjana Kapoor]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 23
|Title = Girgit
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|[[The Chameleon (short story)|"The Chameleon"]]|[[Anton Chekhov]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Harish Patel]], [[Ravi Jhankal]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 24
|Title = Gehra Zakhm
|DirectedBy = [[Kundan Shah]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Invisible Wound"|[[Károly Kisfaludy]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Ajit Vachani]], [[Anjan Shrivastav]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 25
|Title = Pachtava
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Adopted Son"|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Ajit Vachani]], [[Sulbha Deshpande]], [[Shashi Puri]], [[Beena Banerjee]], [[Pankaj Berry]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 26
|Title = Tarannum
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 = {{based on|"Lulu's Triumph"|[[Matilde Serao]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Vijayendra Ghatge]], [[Beena Banerjee|Beena]], [[Supriya Pathak]], [[Anuradha Patel]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 27
|Title = Zameen
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 = {{based on|"[[How Much Land Does a Man Need?]]"|[[Leo Tolstoy]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Parikshit Sahni]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 28
|Title = Dushman
|DirectedBy = [[Kundan Shah]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"Squaring the Circle"|[[O. Henry]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 29
|Title = Woh Ek Ladki
|DirectedBy = [[Anil Ganguly]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Girl Who Changed Her Mind"|Honoré de Balzac}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Iftekhar]], [[Vijayendra Ghatge]], [[Tiku Talsania]], [[Rupini]], [[Ramesh Rai]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 30
|Title = Chahat
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"A Service Of Love"|[[O. Henry]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Neena Gupta]], [[Lucky Ali]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 31
|Title = Nayi Sherwani
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"[[The Overcoat]]"|[[Nikolai Gogol]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Om Puri]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 32
|Title = Anjam
|DirectedBy = Ramesh Gupta
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Inn"|[[Ivan Turgenev]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 33
|Title = Do Tasveerein
|DirectedBy = A. Salam
| Aux2 = {{based on|[[wikisource:The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant/The Debt|"The Debt"]]|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Shashi Puri]], [[Anjana Mumtaz]], [[Deepak Kejriwal]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 34
|Title = Maria
|DirectedBy = [[Kundan Shah]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|''The Fury''|[[Paul Heyse]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Kitu Gidwani]], [[Mushtaq Khan]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 35
|Title = Parvarish
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 = {{based on|[[wikisource:The Godson|"The Godson"]]|[[Leo Tolstoy]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 36
|Title = Zamana
|DirectedBy = A. Salam
| Aux2 = {{Based on|"[[The Marquis de Fumerol]]"|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 37
|Title = Sabse Bada Darr
|DirectedBy = N/A
| Aux2 = {{based on|[[La Peur (short story)|"Fear"]]|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
}}

==Cast==

* [[Sharmila Tagore]] as Uma
* [[Shammi Kapoor]] as Kartar
* [[Om Puri]] as Joe
* [[Saeed Jaffrey]] as Yashpal
* [[Tiku Talsania]] as Narayan
* [[Ashok Kumar]] as Sachin
* [[Utpal Dutt]] as Sanjay Saxena
* [[Waheeda Rehman]] as Anjali
* [[Moushumi Chatterjee]] as Laxmi
* [[Marc Zuber]] as Gautam
* [[Kulbhushan Kharbanda]] as Kedarnath Acharya
* [[Anjan Srivastav]] as Nekchand
* [[Kiran Kumar]] as Gorakh Sharma
* [[Kitu Gidwani]] as Ritu
* [[Archana Puran Singh]] as Aruna
* [[Mangal Dhillon]] as Maj Alok
* [[Shashi Puri]] as Dr Sudhir
* [[Vijayendra Ghatge]] as Mr Prakash Kumar
* [[Vikram Gokhale]] as Verma
* [[Raza Murad]] as Capt Prithvi
* [[Parikshit Sahni]] as Ajay
* [[Beena Banerjee|Beena]] as Asha
* [[Neena Gupta]] as Chitra
* [[Suresh Oberoi]] as Arun
* [[Pallavi Joshi]] as Shanta
* [[Supriya Pathak]] as Reshma
* [[Bindu (actress)|Bindu]] as Mona
* [[Rohini Hattangadi]] as Shanti
* Vishnu Sharma as Jaganath
* Radha Seth as Pooja
* [[Satish Kaushik]] as Mohan
* [[Bharat Bhushan]] as Ramnath
* [[Satyen Kappu]] as Ramcharan
* [[Benjamin Gilani]] as Rakesh
* [[Lucky Ali]] as Ramesh
* [[Ajit Vachani]] as Bhagwat
* [[Harish Patel]] as Roopchand
* [[K. K. Raina]] as Dharmesh
* [[Iftekhar]] as Shyamlal
* [[A. K. Hangal]] as Vipin
* [[Anjana Mumtaz]] as Parvati
* [[Irrfan Khan]] as Manohar
* [[Ravi Jhankal]] as Ganpat Jadhav
* [[Pankaj Berry]] as Bhushan
* [[Rajendra Gupta]] as Swaraj
* [[Lalit Tiwari]] as Bharat
* [[Sulbha Deshpande]] as Sarita
* [[Dina Pathak]] as Sarla
* [[Sulabha Arya]] as Arpita
* [[Rama Vij]] as Sushma
* Naresh Suri as Vinod
* [[Urmila Matondkar]] as Dhwani
* [[Shreeram Lagoo]] as SK
* Meera Madhuri as Sunita

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0155433}}

[[Category:Indian drama television series]]
[[Category:1986 Indian television series debuts]]
[[Category:Television shows based on short fiction]]
[[Category:1980s Indian television series]]
[[Category:1986 Indian television series endings]]
[[Category:Indian anthology television series]]
[[Category:DD National original programming]]
[[Category:Television shows based on works by Leo Tolstoy]]
[[Category:Adaptations of works by O. Henry]]
[[Category:Adaptations of works by Arnold Bennett]]
[[Category:Television shows based on works by Guy de Maupassant]]
[[Category:Adaptations of works by August Strindberg]]
[[Category:Adaptations of works by Anton Chekhov]]
[[Category:Works by Saki]]
[[Category:Short stories by Katherine Mansfield]]
[[Category:Television shows based on works by Nikolai Gogol]]
[[Category:Adaptations of works by Ivan Turgenev]]

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