Daljit Singh, an entrepreneur, reminisces, “Those were the days when such top-class serials were made and shown on Doordarshan. Many from that generation even complain about how quality of Indian television has nosedived into melodramatic daily soaps with no substance. The show was very well written, documented and wonderfully depicted.” I learnt a lot about history and fell in love with it.
So it was no surprise that when the government decided to rerun old Doordarshan shows like Ramayan and Byomkesh Bakshi during the coronavirus-induced nationwide lockdown, Bharat Ek Khoj was also in high demand.ĭeepa Srivastav, who runs her own boutique, tells ThePrint, “My childhood was enriched with these episodes. It took more than 500 actors (including Naseerudin Shah, Shabana Azmi, the late Om Puri and Irrfan, Roshan Seth, Ila Arun and many more), 25 writers headed by Shama Zaidi, 144 sets whose designs spanned several centuries, three-and-a-half years of meticulous research by 22 historians with the help of many government institutions, including the Archeological Society of India, and roughly 20 months of shooting.Īlso read: Trishna, the popular 1985 Doordarshan adaptation of Pride & Prejudice, is now on YouTubeįor many children of the ’80s, the show was a great source of history and perhaps a more interesting way to learn and understand a subject that is typically considered boring. It has several episodes dedicated to southern India such as the history of the Chola empire, and it also shines a spotlight on some of India’s major literary mythological epics, such as the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Cilappatikaram and Shakuntala. “I developed two viewpoints - one is that of Nehru (narrated by Roshan Seth) and the other is a counter viewpoint (narrated by Om Puri), which is a contemporary voice that fills blanks or brings in different perspectives,” Benegal said in an interview with Prasar Bharti.Īlso read: Fauji: The show that launched a broody, chain-smoking SRK on the path to Bollywood gloryīeginning from the Harappan Civilisation, the show is an epic sweep that covers aspects of Indian history such as the formation of caste, the reign of Chanakya and Chandragupta Maurya and then Ashoka, the rise of the Mughal empire and its descent at the hands of Maratha ruler, Shivaji, the arrival of the British East India Company and the freedom struggle. The ambitious project wasn’t simply a deconstruction of history, but a confluence of its many cultures.īased on Nehru’s book, The Discovery of India, which he wrote while in prison at the Ahmednagar fort for participating in the Quit India movement, the show was an attempt to bring to life what Nehru wrote while also bridging the gaps in between. This was just one of the heavy-duty, vital topics addressed every Sunday at 11 am on Doordarshan in Shyam Benegal’s monumental series, Bharat Ek Khoj.Īired between 1988-89, the 53-episode long series, with each episode spanning anywhere from 30 minutes to 90 minutes depending on the topic being covered, brought to life the 5,000 year-old history of India and the subcontinent in perhaps the most consolidated manner possible. Stationing himself in front of the mic, he asks, “What do you mean by that cry, who was this ‘Bharat Mata’, whose victory do you want?” (he was born out of the depths.Crowds of people walk across a village with cries of ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ reverberating as Jawaharlal Nehru takes the stage. Weh tha hiranyagarbh srishti se pehle vidyamaan
The ending track is first shloka from Hiranyagarbha sooktam which is also a part of Rigveda. (He truly must know everything, and maybe not!) Wahin sachmuch mein jaantaa.Yaa nahin bhi jaanataa (Before creation there was no truth, or untruth)Īntariksh bhi nahin, akash bhin nahin thaaĬhhipaa thaa kyaa kahaan, kisne dhakaa thaa
Srishtee se pehle sat nahin thaa, asat bhi nahin Kimāvarīvaḥ kuha kasya śarmannambhaḥ kimāsīd ghahanaṃ ghabhīram Nāsadāsīn no sadāsīt tadānīṃ nāsīd rajo no vyomāparo yat |
The starting song consists of sanskrit shloka from Nasadeeya Sukta which is part of Rigveda.
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I came across this the other day and I remember as a child many years back being mesmerized by this, the title song of the tv show Bharat Ek Khoj - The discovery of India.
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