The Discovery of India
1988
Bharat Ek Khoj is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru, that dramatically unfolds the 5000 year history of India from its beginnings to the coming of independence in 1947. The drama was directed, written and produced by Shyam Benegal with cinematographer V. K. Murthy in 1988 for state-owned Doordarshan. Benegal's regular script collaborator Shama Zaidi also co-wrote the script.
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Bharat Ek Khoj is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru, that dramatically unfolds the 5000 year history of India from its beginnings to the coming of independence in 1947. The drama was directed, written and produced by Shyam Benegal with cinematographer V. K. Murthy in 1988 for state-owned Doordarshan. Benegal's regular script collaborator Shama Zaidi also co-wrote the script.
Released
1988-01-03
Episode Runtime
Unknown
Language
English
Status
Ended
Genre
Production
Doordarshan
Directors
CASTS
Roshan Seth
Jawaharlal Nehru
Om Puri
Ashoka
Ravi Jhankal
Soldier-2
Ila Arun
Gangamma
K.K. Raina
Radhagupta
Anang Desai
Sumantra
Vijay Kashyap
Chand Bardai
Lalit Tiwari
Arjun
Salim Ghouse
Ramaraya
Pankaj Berry
Ab'ul Fazal
John Holyer
Wellesly
Aanjjan Srivastav
Yama
Pallavi Joshi
Seeta
Devendra Malhotra
Ashwalayan
Irrfan Khan
Badayuni
Veerendra Saxena
Birbal
Achyut Potdar
Sukhvihara
Sudhir Kulkarni
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Tom Alter
Dubuc
Surendra Sharma
Yuvak
Aparajita Krishna
Khursheed
Ravi Khemu
Street Singer (Saint Poet Basavanna)
Ved Thappar
Shahbaz Khan
Mansi Upadhyay
Lingamma
Harish Patel
Todarmal
Ahmed Khan
Yudhishthir
Sohaila Kapur
Roshan Ara
Vishnu Sharma
Dronacharya
Mushtaq Khan
Asaf Khan
Rakesh Srivastava
Chandal
Mahendra Raghuvanshi
Makkali Gosala
Surendra Pal
Man Singh
Akhilendra Mishra
Soothsayer
Ahmed Khan
Mahmud Ghazni
Murlidhar
Soldier-3
Ashok Banthia
Prithviraj
Mohan Gokhale
Vishnu Pant
Akhil Mishra
Jain Muni
Mita Vashisht
Suvasini
Virendra Razdan
Bindusara
Aparajita
Khanzadi
Adil Rana
Miyan Kakkar
Siraz Ahmed Khan
Saguna
Aashish Duggal
Mahendravarman's Commander
Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Akbar
Rakesh Bidua
Old Man
Khemendra Ganjoo
Pracharak
Subrata Bose
Keshubchandra Sen
Naseeruddin Shah
Shivaji
Salim Shah
Rajendralal Mitra
Satish Kaushik
Pandit
Rana Jung Bahadur
Babu Saheb
Anand Mishra
Devendranath Tagore
Ranjana Gaur
Nanjamma
Brian Canavan
Cornwallis
Piyush Mishra
Soldier-4
Shabana Azmi
Rangamma
Dhruv Ghanekar
Nachiketa
Deepraj Rana
Dwarpala
Poonam Jha
Brihaspati
Rakesh Dhar
Tirumala
Masood Akhtar
Kirtidhwaj
K.K. Raghuvanshi
Anuswara
Ashish Kotwal
Physician
Nisha Singh
Sanyukta
Virendra Razdan
Bhishma
S.C. Makhija
Sariputta
Rajesh Vivek
Sheikh Mubarak
Ashutosh Pathak
Vaman
Vaishali Dandekar
Dancer
Sunila Pradhan
Mahadevi
Rajendra Gupta
Ratansen
Vijay Arora
Jehangir
Dharmesh Tiwari
Uday Martand Varman
Narayan Pati
Radhakant
Vijayan Nair
Srinivas Rao
Rajshri Pingle
Woman-I
Narayan Bhandari
Shaista Khan
Sudhir Dalvi
Shahjahan
Surekha Sikri
Jahan Ara
Alopi Verma
Roopchand
S M Zaheer
Hamid Ali
Arjun Raina
Ali Adil Shah
Lubna Salim
Chanda
Ratna Pathak Shah
Rani of Jhansi
Prabhakar Patankar
Govande
Alok Nath
Vivekananda
Kishore Kadam
Wagle
Savita Bajaj
Venkamma
Vipin Sharma
Seenu
Irshad Hashmi
Agyat Baba
Amrish Puri
Raza Khan
Pallavi Joshi
Atri
Pankaj Berry
Barbarian
Anuradha Tarafdar
Dhanvati
Shreechand Makhija
Vasudatt
Teeja Bai
Self
Sujata Mehta
Draupadi
Virendra Razdan
Bhishma
Raja Bundela
Sanjay
Master Javed
Durjay
Nafisa Sharma
Kausalya
Sulakshana Khatri
Shurpanakha
Utkarsh Mazumdar
Sudakka
Narendra Gupta
Digha
Champak Banerjee
Kinjalka
Ashutosh Gowariker
Prince Siddhartha / Buddha
Padmanabhan
Seleucus
Zarvan Patel
Alexander
Satyadev Dubey
Chanakya
Inayatullah Kantroo
Virochaka
S.P. Dubey
Mahendrabhatta
Jaspal Sandhu
Sushima
Anandi
Madhavi
Rekha Jayakar
Devandi
Rekha Parmar
Mother
Sunita Rao
Vasantmala
Sulabha Deshpande
Kavundi
Idries Malik
Charudatta
Arun Verma
Sthavaraka
Kanchan Gharpure
Priyangumanjari
Mala Kumar
Anusuya
Prabha Mathur
Priyamvada
Ritesh Pandey
Valkhanasa
Pramod Razdan
Sarathi
Meenakshi Thakur
Ambika
Aparajita
Queen Yashovati
Chandra Mohan
Rajyavardhan
Vasant Soman
Bana Bhatta
Deven Bhojani
Villager
Anang Desai
Appar
Pramod Moutho
Brahmin
Salim Arif
Firdausi
Navtej Hundal
Sarja
Seema Kelkar
Padmavati
Amrik Gill
Mehar
Ajay Kumar
Achyutdevaraya
Vijay Rani Nair
Varadamba
Bhupendra Sandhu
Javara
Raj Sinha
Chinna Tirumala
Puneet Issar
Rana Pratap
Arun Bakshi
Atga Khan
Surendra Pal
Man Singh
Yusuf Khurram
Khurram
Jean Maneckjee
Admiral Saldana
Charan Saluja
Tapidas
Kanwaldeep Singh
Interpreter
Adarsh Tandon
Mirza Mahmood
Ajit Vachani
Tarachand
O.N. Aima
Mir Jumla
Mohammed Ishaq
Malik Jeevan
Rajendra Mehra
Ali Naqi
Shiv Sharma
Murad
Mahendra Raghuvanshi
Bajirao
Jalal Agha
Robert Clive
Vishal Singh
Najm-ud-daulah
Harjeet
Hyder Ali
Declan Hill
Stuart
Sami Usman
Ghulam Ali
Sunil Advani
David Hare
Urmila Bhatt
Mother
Pankaj Berry
Mangal Pande
Devendra Malhotra
Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar
Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Mahatma Phule
Shubhangi Gokhale
Savitri
Madhu Achwal
Govind Ranade
Parvez Merchant
Youth-II
Satish Tungare
Keshavrao
Sagar Zakhmi
Mahar
Imran Khan
Samiullah
Mohan Maharishi
Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
Mohini Sharma
Begum Syed Ahmed Khan
Narain Pati
Mahendra Gupta
Madhav Achwal
Govind Ranade
Kapil Kumar Kochar
Chitnavis
P. Dasgupta
Surendranath Banerjee
Bhavna Mukatiwala
Radhamma
Charan Saluja
Vasudev
Rajendra Mehra
Radha Mohan Singh
Shankar Sachdev
Farmer
Chandrakant Thakkar
ADM Mr Kakkar
Ravi Kemmu
Sant Kabir
Seasons
Specials
1988
.5 Episodes
Extras from the DD serial, Bharat Ek Khoj.
The Discovery Of India
1988
.53 Episodes
The 5000-year history of India from its beginnings to independence in 1947.
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