Bharat Ek Khoj

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Bharat Ek Khoj (Template:Lit) is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book The Discovery of India (1946) by Jawaharlal Nehru^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3]

Production designer Nitish Roy with assistants Samir Chanda and Nitin Desai built 144 sets.^[4]

Cast and episode list

Episode	Title	Cast	Role	Notes
1	"Bharat Mata Ki Jai"^[5]	Roshan Seth	Jawaharlal Nehru^[6]
2	"The Beginnings"	Harish Patel, Lalit Mohan Tiwari, Pallavi Joshi	Draha, Shulgi, Atri	A street play based on the Epic of Gilgamesh is also depicted in the episode.^[7]
3	"The Arrival of the Vedic People"	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.
5,6	"Mahabharata" Part 1	Teejan Bai, Salim Ghouse, Om Puri, Sujata Mehta, Pankaj Berry, Ila Arun, Salim Ghouse	Krishna, Duryodhana, Draupadi, Shakuni, Aswatthama, Gandhari
5,6	"Mahabharata" Part 2
7,8	"Ramayana" Part 1^[6]	Om Puri, Pallavi Joshi, Salim Ghouse^[6] , Pankaj Berry, Ravi Jhankal	Sita, Rama, Bharata , Lakshmana
7,8	"Ramayana" Part 2		Sita, Rama, Bharata , Lakshmana
9	"Republics and Kingdoms"	Virendra Saxena, K K Raina	Mahaanaman, Virudhaka
10	"Negation and Acceptance of Life"	Dhruv Ghanekar, Aanjjan Srivastav, Om Puri, Ashutosh Gowariker	Nachiketa, Yamaraja, Angulimaal, Gautam Buddha
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 (credited as Maqsoom Ali)	Ashoka, Radhagupta, Asandhimitra, Prince Tissa
15	"The Sangam Period: Silapaddikaram" Part 1	Pallavi Joshi, Rakesh Dhar	Kannaki, Kovalan
16	"The Sangam Period: Silapaddikaram" 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, Irrfan Khan, Achyut Potdar, Vijay Kashyap	Muhammad Ghori, Chand Bardai, Prithviraj Chauhan, Mahmud Ghazni, Ferdowsi, Al-Biruni
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 [Lubna salim] chanda [Maina] Aparajita
28	"The Vijayanagar Empire"	Om Puri, Salim Ghouse, Aanjjan Srivastav, Fr. Tasso	Krishna Deva Raya, Aliya Rama Raya, Appaji, Domingo Paes
29	"Feudalism"^[9]	Salim Ghouse, Ila Arun, Pallavi 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 Mohan Tiwari	Rana Sanga, Ibrahim Lodi, Babur
32, 33	"Akbar" Part 1 (Din-e Ilahi)	Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Ila Arun, Aparajita Bhushan, Puneet Issar, Surendra Pal, Harish Patel, Irrfan Khan, Rajesh Vivek, Pankaj Berry, Vijay Arora	Akbar, Jahangir, Jodhabai, Maharana Pratap
32, 33	"Akbar" Part 2		Akbar, Jahangir, Jodhabai, Maharana Pratap
34	"Golden Hind"	Sudhir Kulkarni, Vijay Arora, Ajit Vachhani	Jahangir
35 ,36	"Aurangzeb" Part 1	Om Puri, Sudhir Dalvi, Surendra Pal	Aurangzeb, Dara Shikoh, Murad Bakhsh, Shah Shuja, Jahanara Begum, Shah Jahan
35 ,36	"Aurangzeb Part" 2	Om Puri, Sudhir Dalvi, Surendra Pal
37 ,38	"Shivaji" Part 1	Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Anang Desai, Achyut Potdar,^[10] Ahmed Khan	Shivaji, Jijabai, Dadoji Kondadev, Chandrarao More, Afzal Khan, Aurangzeb,
37 ,38	"Shivaji" Part 2
39	"Company Bahadur" (East India Company)	Amrish Puri, Rajendra, Jalal Agha, Tom Alter, Vishal Singh, John Holyer	Robert Clive, Najimuddin Ali Khan, Shuja-ud-Daula, Maharaja Nandakumar, Shah Alam II, Diwani Rights
40	"Tipu Sultan"	Salim Ghouse, Vijay Kashyap, Ravi Jhankal, Shreechand Makhija, Tom Alter, John Holyer	Tipu Sultan, Purnaiah, Mir Sadiq, Mahadji Scindia, Nana Phadnavis
41	"The Bengal Renaissance and Raja Ram Mohan Roy"	Anang Desai, Urmila Bhatt, Ravi Jhankal, Tom Alter, John Holyer	Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Lord William Bentinck,Bann on Sati (practice)
42, 43	"1857" Part 1	Om Puri, Ravi Jhankal, Piyush Mishra, Mohan Gokhale, Anang Desai, Ratna Pathak Shah, Aanjjan Srivastav, Pankaj Berry, Virendra Razdan, Tom Alter, John Holyer, Bob Christo	Bahadur Shah Zafar, Nana Saheb Peshwa II Wajid Ali Shah, Begum Hazrat Mahal, Tantia Tope, Rani Lakshmibai, Azimullah Khan, Bakht Khan, Mangal Pandey, Lord Dalhousie
42, 43	"1857" Part 2
44	"Indigo Revolt"	Virendra Saxena, Tom Alter, Vijay Kashyap	Madhav
45	"Mahatma Phule"	Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Mohan Gokhale, Shubhangi Gokhale, Achyut Potdar	Mahatma Phule
46	"Sir Syed Ahmed Khan"	Mohan Maharishi, Irrfan Khan
47	"Vivekananda"	Alok Nath	Swami Vivekananda
48	"Extremists and Moderates"	Sudhir Kulkarni, Mohan Gokhale, Tom Alter, Achyut Potdar, Kishor Kadam	Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Chapekar brothers, Murder of Walter Charles Rand
49	"And Gandhi Came" Part 1	Om Puri, Ila Arun, Shabana Azmi, Pallavi Joshi, Akhilendra Mishra
50	"And Gandhi Came" Part 2
51	"Separatism"	S M Zaheer, K K Raina, Harish Patel, Irrfan Khan
52	"Do or Die"	Pankaj Berry, Om Puri, Lucky Ali	Quit India Movement
53	Epilogue

Broadcast

The 53 episodes series was launched in November 1988 which coincide with the birth centenary of Nehru.^[6] The series was re-telecasted on DD Bharati from 27 May 2013 on the occasion of 49th death anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru.^[11]

References

↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 Bharat Ek Khoj: The making of most extravagant serial ever, Jain, Madhu. India Today(20 November 2013).
↑ Bharat Ek Khoj, Episode 02(1988).
↑ Om Puri had played Alauddin Khilji much before Ranveer Singh. in.com.
↑ How India Became a Republic - Indian Express. archive.indianexpress.com.
↑ The DD Files: When Shyam Benegal brought India’s entire history to TV screens in ‘Bharat Ek Khoj’, Chari, Mridula. 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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[1] What makes Shyam special.... The Hindu(17 January 2003). Retrieved 6 June 2013.

[2] Music in her lines Makeup artist Vivek Nayak. The Hindu(1 October 2011). Retrieved 6 June 2013.

[3] Roshan Seth waits for right role. The Hindu(19 November 2001). Retrieved 6 June 2013.

[4] Samir Chanda's death was devastating: Shyam Benegal. The Times of India(20 August 2011). Retrieved 6 June 2013.

[5] 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.

[Ram-6] 6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 ^6.3 Bharat Ek Khoj: The making of most extravagant serial ever, Jain, Madhu. India Today(20 November 2013).

[7] Bharat Ek Khoj, Episode 02(1988).

[8] Om Puri had played Alauddin Khilji much before Ranveer Singh. in.com.

[9] How India Became a Republic - Indian Express. archive.indianexpress.com.

[10] The DD Files: When Shyam Benegal brought India’s entire history to TV screens in ‘Bharat Ek Khoj’, Chari, Mridula. Scroll.in.

[11] 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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Contents

Cast and episode list

Broadcast

See also

References

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