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BharatEkKhoj
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BharatEkKhoj(English:TheDiscoveryofIndia)isa53
episodeIndianhistoricaldramabasedonthebookThe
DiscoveryofIndia(1946)byJawaharlalNehru[1]thatcoversa
5000yearhistoryofIndiafromitsbeginningstothecomingof
independencein1947.Thedramawasdirected,writtenand
producedbyShyamBenegalwithcinematographerV.K.
Murthyin1988forstateownedDoordarshan.ShamaZaidico
wrotethescript.[2]ItscastincludedOmPuri,RoshanSeth,Tom
AlterandSadashivAmrapurkar.JawaharlalNehruwas
portrayedbyRoshanSeth.[3]

BharatEkKhoj

ProductiondesignerNitishRoywithassistantsSamirChanda
andNitinDesaibuilt144sets.[4]

Contents
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Castandepisodelist
Seealso
References
Externallinks

Castandepisodelist

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Genre

Historicaldrama

Createdby

ShyamBenegal

Basedon

TheDiscoveryofIndiaby
JawaharlalNehru

Writtenby

ShyamBenegal
ShamaZaidi
VasantDev (dialogues)

Starring

RoshanSeth
OmPuri
TomAlter
SadashivAmrapurkar
NaseeruddinShah
LuckyAli
SeemaKelkar
MitaVashisht
PallaviJoshi
AnjanSrivastav
SohailaKapur
IlaArun
IrrfanKhan

Narratedby

OmPuri

Openingtheme

VanrajBhatia
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Episode

Title

Cast

Role

BharatMataKiJai

RoshanSeth

Jawaharlal
Nehru

TheBeginnings
(IndusValley
Civilization)

PallaviJoshi

Atri

TheArrivalofthe
VedicPeople(the
Rigveda)

HarishPatel

Draha,a
Merchant

CasteFormation

PiyushMishra Seepahi

MahabharataPart1 TeejanBai

Herself

MahabharataPart2 OmPuri

Duryodhan

RamayanaPart1

PallaviJoshi

Sita

RamayanaPart2

OmPuri

Ravana

Republicsand
Kingdoms

Virendra
Saxena

Vashithak

10

Negationand
AcceptanceofLife

OmPuri

Angulimaal

11

Satyadev
Chanakyaand
Dubey,Mita
ChandraguptaPart1
Vashisht

12

Chanakyaand
ChandraguptaPart2

13

AshokaPart1

OmPuri

Ashoka

14

AshokaPart2

OmPuri

Ashoka

15

TheSangamPeriod:
SilapaddirakamPart
1

16

TheSangamPeriod:
SilapaddirakamPart
2

17

TheClassicalAge

18

Kalidasand
ShakuntalaPart1

19

Kalidasand
ShakuntalaPart2

20

Harshavardhana

PankajBerry

Harshavardhana

21

Bhakti

22

TheCholaEmpire
Part1

23

TheCholaEmpire
Part2

24

TheDelhiSultanate
andPrithvirajRaso RaviJhankal

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Countryof

India

origin
No.ofseasons

No.ofepisodes

53
Production

Executive
producer(s)

RajPius

Cinematography V.K.Murthy
Production
company(s)

Doordarshan
SahyadriFilms
Release

Originalnetwork Doordarshan(DDNational)
Originalrelease

1988

Chankya,
Suhasini

Prithviraj
Chauhan
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Part1
25

TheDelhiSultanate
andPrithvirajRaso RaviJhankal
Part2

Prithviraj
Chauhan

26

TheDelhiSultanate
OmPuri
andPadmavat

AlauddinKhilji

27

Synthesis

PankajBerry

Lorik

28

TheVijayanagar
Empire

OmPuri

KrishnaDeva
Raya

29

Feudalism

30

TheFallofthe
VijayanagarEmpire

31

RanaSanga,
IbrahimLodiand
Babur

32

AkbarPart1(Dine Kulbhushan
Ilahi)
Kharbanda

Akbar

33

AkbarPart2

Kulbhushan
Kharbanda

Akbar

34

GoldenHind

35

AurangzebPart1

OmPuri

Aurangzeb

36

AurangzebPart2

OmPuri

Aurangzeb

37

ShivajiPart1

Naseeruddin
Shah

Shivaji

38

ShivajiPart2

Naseeruddin
Shah

Shivaji

39

CompanyBahadur
(EastIndia
Company)

40

TipuSultan

SalimGhouse TipuSultan

41

TheBengal
Renaissanceand
RajaRamMohan
Roy

AnangDesai

42

1857Part1

TomAlter,
OmPuri,Ravi
Jhankal

43

1857Part2

TomAlter

BritishOfficer

44

IndigoRevolt

Virendra
Saxena

Madhav

45

MahatmaPhule

Sadashiv
Amrapurkar

MahatmaPhule

46

SirSyedAhmed
Khan

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RajaRam
MohanRoy

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Vivekananda

AlokNath

Swami
Vivekananda

48

Extremistsand
Moderates

Mohan
Gokhale

GopalKrishna
Gokhale

49

AndGandhiCame
Part1

50

AndGandhiCame
Part2

51

Separatism

52

DoorDie

53

Epilogue

Seealso
TelevisionshowsbasedonIndianhistory

References
1."WhatmakesShyamspecial...".TheHindu.17January2003.Retrieved6June2013.
2."Musicinherlines".TheHindu.1October2011.Retrieved6June2013.
3."RoshanSethwaitsforrightrole".TheHindu.19November2001.Retrieved6June2013.
4."SamirChanda'sdeathwasdevasting:ShyamBenegal".TheTimesofIndia.20August2011.Retrieved6June2013.

Externallinks
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