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{{Infobox television<br />
| image = <br />
| caption = <br />
| runtime = approx. 25 minutes<br />
| creator = <br />
| director = [[Jalal Agha]]<br />
| producer = [[Ali Sardar Jafri]]<br />
| starring = [[Kahkashan#Cast|see below]]<br />
| opentheme = "Kahkashan" by [[Jagjit Singh (singer)|Jagjit Singh]]<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Hindi<br />
| network = [[DD National]]<br />
| first_aired = {{start date|1991}}<br />
| last_aired = {{end date|1992}}<br />
| num_episodes = Total 18<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Kahkashan''''' is an Indian television series about six great masters of modern [[Urdu]] and [[Islam]]ic poetry: [[Hasrat Mohani]], [[Jigar Moradabadi]], [[Josh Malihabadi]], [[Majaz Lucknawi]], [[Firaq Gorakhpuri]], and [[Makhdoom Mohiuddin]]. The serial was produced, researched and scripted by [[Ali Sardar Jafri]] and directed by [[Jalal Agha]] and telecast in 1991–1992. Music was scored by [[Jagjit Singh (singer)|Jagjit Singh]], the famous [[ghazal]] singer of [[India]]. The series was also shown on [[TV Asia]] channel USA in 2006.<br />
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==Overview==<br />
It was Sardar Jafri's dream to make such a serial on Urdu writers as a tribute and also with the intent to popularize and expose the general Indian audience to the modern masters of Urdu poetry. The series was telecast in eighteen episodes in 1991–1992.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Parikshit Sahni]] as [[Josh Malihabadi]] <br />
* [[Farooq Sheikh]] as [[Hasrat Mohani]] <br />
* [[Deepti Naval]] <br />
* [[Irrfan Khan|Irfan Khan]] as [[Makhdoom Mohiuddin]]<br />
* [[Raj Zutshi]] as [[Jigar Moradabadi]]<br />
* [[Tanvi Azmi]]<br />
* [[Rakesh Pandey (actor)|Rakesh Pandey]] as [[Majaz]]<br />
* [[Manohar Singh]] as [[Firaq Gorakhpuri]] <br />
* [[Fawad Sherani]]<br />
* [[Tom Alter]]<br />
* [[Amar Ghaffar]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080622150032/http://mohib.net/blog/2007/03/jagjit-singh-kahkashan-part-one/ Kahkashan News Article]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110715155701/http://www.rateitall.com/i-1315877-kahkashan.aspx Kahkashan DVD Rating]<br />
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[[Category:DD National original programming]]<br />
[[Category:Indian drama television series]]<br />
[[Category:Urdu-language television shows]]<br />
[[Category:1991 Indian television series debuts]]<br />
[[Category:1992 Indian television series endings]]</div>WikiDwarf