While the script was well-researched, casting for the episodes focusing on the Mahabharata, Ramayana, Chanakya, Ashoka, The Chola Empire, the Delhi Sultanate, Akbar, Aurangzeb, Tipu Sultan, the 1857 revolution, Vivekananda and Gandhi, among others, was tough. Read: Karamchand was first of its kind, says Pankaj Kapur Alok Nath played the role of Swami Vivekanand in the show. I worried about what would happen to the show then, and if it would remain incomplete,” he says, laughing. The show, and shooting for it for one and a half year, was an experience of a lifetime for all those involved.”īenegal, an experienced director, wasn’t worried about the scale of the show or the challenges that came with it.
BHARAT EK KHOJ TITLE SONG YOUTUBE SERIES
No one has remade it, and the series is still referred to at various platforms. Even after 25 years, people still talk about the show.
Multiple sets were also put up across India. Two floors were booked at Film City, Goregaon, for the shoot of the show for a year. The unit shot at numerous places in the country, from the Taj Mahal and Western Ghats to other historical attractions. Read: Once upon a time, Ramayan attracted more viewers than Game of Thrones Pallavi Joshi and Shabana Azmi were part of the show, which also featured many other popular actors like Om Puri and Naseerudin Shah. After all, we were reliving history through the show,” says Benegal. We took everything extremely seriously, and it was worth it. It was a great adventure, and I am glad we could manage it well. We worried about the authenticity of the costumes, jewellery and architecture shown. I was aware that the concept was unlikely to be repeated in the near future, so we wanted to be as accurate as possible while talking about the history of the country. “The one-hour show became hugely successful, and had multiple reruns. Shooting commenced in early 1988, and the show went on air on Nehru’s 99th birth anniversary (November 14, 1988). The 53-episode series, titled Bharat Ek Khoj, was penned by Shama Zaidi and her team, which included 25 writers. My team and I also got 15 historians on board to flesh out the story,” recalls Benegal. It became the basis for what was shown in the series. It was his attempt to understand and discover his country. He agreed, and chose to base it on Pt Jawaharlal Nehru’s book, Discovery Of India. Celebrated film-maker Shyam Benegal was approached for it.
BHARAT EK KHOJ TITLE SONG YOUTUBE TV
The success of the shows prompted the government to think of starting a TV series that documented the history of the country. I was so proud to know that I know one of the persons in the credits of the track.Ramayan and Mahabharat began gaining popularity on the small screen in the mid-1980s. He also told us that he is one of the singers of the title track of Bharat Ek Khoj, that made me watch the serial. Mr Gauri Shankar had attended the Chinmaya Balavihar Camp at the Sandeepany Sadhnalaya Ashram at Powai and taught us some shlokas. Gauri Shankar, I was an active Chinamayite then. The track was a mixture of Sanskrit Slokas from Rigveda, and their translations in Hindi.
The music for the the title track was done by the famous composer Vanraj Bhatia. The opposites that are yet complementary entities whose interaction produced and maintained everything.ĭoes this not sound like the saying " The Lord said 'let there be light ' and there was light"?
From 'ASAT' -( Non-being) arose 'SAT'- (being). Thus desire- Kama ( desire or lust ) is found to be the cause of creation. How was it formed or was it not formed at all? God only knows Maybe he knows Maybe he knows not"2 There was, however, only one thing: 'Breath which breathed breathlessly.' This breath desired to create and there was creation. There was neither mortality nor immortality, neither any form nor name, neither day nor night. The NASADIYA SUKTA also of Rig Veda gives another account which says " In the beginning there was neither existence nor non- existence, no realm, no sky, no air, no earth. In the Rig Veda, there is a sukta or a great hymn called Nasadiya Sukta. I discovered later that it was an extract from the Rigveda. Then who can tell from whence it came to be? Whence was it born? Whence issued this creation? Who really knows? Who can presume to tell it?