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	'''Katha Sagar''' ([[Indian English\|translation]]:''"A Sea of Stories"'') is an [[India\|Indian]] television series that aired on [[DD National]] in 1986. The series featured a collection of stories by writers from around the world, including [[Katherine Mansfield]], [[Guy De Maupassant]], [[Leo Tolstoy]], [[O. Henry]], [[Anton Chekov]] etc.<ref name=iex>{{cite news \|title=There is lot of confusion. \|url=http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=60132 \|publisher=[[Indian Express]] \|date=11 August 2003 ~~}} {{dead link\|date=July 2020~~}}</ref> Each episode was directed by one of eight well known Indian directors, including [[Shyam Benegal]], [[Kundan Shah]], [[Ved Rahi]] and [[Satyen Bose]]. Most of the stories in the series were one-episode long.<ref>Awaasthi, Kavita (16 May 2016) [https://www.hindustantimes.com/tv/a-touch-of-class-shyam-benegal-remembers-the-stories-of-katha-sagar/story-uMeczv9uvQd7oZSgcioHLP.html A touch of class: Shyam Benegal remembers the stories of Katha Sagar ] in [[Hindustan Times]]. Retrieved 26 July 2020</ref>		'''Katha Sagar''' ([[Indian English\|translation]]:''"A Sea of Stories"'') is an [[India\|Indian]] television series that aired on [[DD National]] in 1986. The series featured a collection of stories by writers from around the world, including [[Katherine Mansfield]], [[Guy De Maupassant]], [[Leo Tolstoy]], [[O. Henry]], [[Anton Chekov]] etc.<ref name=iex>{{cite news \|title=There is lot of confusion. \|url=http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=60132 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030909112905/http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=60132 \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=9 September 2003 \|publisher=[[Indian Express]] \|date=11 August 2003 }} </ref> Each episode was directed by one of eight well known Indian directors, including [[Shyam Benegal]], [[Kundan Shah]], [[Ved Rahi]] and [[Satyen Bose]]. Most of the stories in the series were one-episode long.<ref>Awaasthi, Kavita (16 May 2016) [https://www.hindustantimes.com/tv/a-touch-of-class-shyam-benegal-remembers-the-stories-of-katha-sagar/story-uMeczv9uvQd7oZSgcioHLP.html A touch of class: Shyam Benegal remembers the stories of Katha Sagar ] in [[Hindustan Times]]. Retrieved 26 July 2020</ref>

	Many years after its original run,{{when\|date=July 2020}} the series was again produced by [[Prem Krishen\| Prem Krishen Malhotra]] and Sunil Mehta, founders of "[[Cinevistaas Limited\|Cinevista Communications Limited]]".<ref name=iex/>		Many years after its original run,{{when\|date=July 2020}} the series was again produced by [[Prem Krishen\| Prem Krishen Malhotra]] and Sunil Mehta, founders of "[[Cinevistaas Limited\|Cinevista Communications Limited]]".<ref name=iex/>

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{{Infobox television
| name = Katha Sagar
| image =
| caption =
| picture_format = [[480i]]
| runtime = 22 minutes
| director = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| producer = [[Cinevistaas Limited|Cinevistaas]]
| language = [[Hindi]]
| genre = [[Drama]]/[[Literature]]
| country = [[India]]
| network = [[DD National]]
| first_aired = {{start date|1986}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1986}}
| num_seasons = 1
| num_episodes = 44<ref>{{cite web |title=Cinevistaas - Library of Programmes |url=http://www.cinevistaas.com/ourlibrary.html |date= |publisher= [[Cinevistaas Limited|Cinevistaas]]}}</ref>
| website =
}}

'''Katha Sagar''' ([[Indian English|translation]]:''"A Sea of Stories"'') is an [[India|Indian]] television series that aired on [[DD National]] in 1986. The series featured a collection of stories by writers from around the world, including [[Katherine Mansfield]], [[Guy De Maupassant]], [[Leo Tolstoy]], [[O. Henry]], [[Anton Chekov]] etc.<ref name=iex>{{cite news |title=There is lot of confusion. |url=http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=60132 |publisher=[[Indian Express]] |date=11 August 2003 }} {{dead link|date=July 2020}}</ref> Each episode was directed by one of eight well known Indian directors, including [[Shyam Benegal]], [[Kundan Shah]], [[Ved Rahi]] and [[Satyen Bose]]. Most of the stories in the series were one-episode long.<ref>Awaasthi, Kavita (16 May 2016) [https://www.hindustantimes.com/tv/a-touch-of-class-shyam-benegal-remembers-the-stories-of-katha-sagar/story-uMeczv9uvQd7oZSgcioHLP.html A touch of class: Shyam Benegal remembers the stories of Katha Sagar ] in [[Hindustan Times]]. Retrieved 26 July 2020</ref>

Many years after its original run,{{when|date=July 2020}} the series was again produced by [[Prem Krishen| Prem Krishen Malhotra]] and Sunil Mehta, founders of "[[Cinevistaas Limited|Cinevista Communications Limited]]".<ref name=iex/>

==Plot==
The series included about 37 stories based on different subjects like [[La Peur (short story)|"Fear"]] by [[Guy De Maupassant]], "[[The Overcoat]]" by [[Nikolai Gogol]], "[[A Cup of Tea]]" by [[Katherine Mansfield]], and [[Leo Tolstoy|Tolstoy]]'s "[[Where Love Is, God Is]]" (Pratiksha) and many others. Some of the stories were adapted to fit an Indian context but the adaptation embodied the essence of the original story very well.

==Episodes==
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|Title = Pratiksha
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 = {{based on|"[[Where Love Is, God Is]]"|[[Leo Tolstoy]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Saeed Jaffrey]], Jayant Bhatt, [[Beena Banerjee|Beena]], [[Sulabha Deshpande]], [[Abhi Bhattacharya]]
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{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 2
|Title = Karz
|DirectedBy = [[Kundan Shah]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Clarion Call"|[[O. Henry]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Deepak Kejriwal, [[Rajendra Gupta]], [[Rama Vij]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 3
|Title = Teen Sadhu
|DirectedBy = [[Satyen Bose]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|[[The Three Hermits|"Three Holy Men"]]|[[Leo Tolstoy]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Satyen Kappu]], [[Anup Kumar (actor)|Anup Kumar]], Brahmachari
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 4
|Title = Ek Bhool
|DirectedBy = [[Kundan Shah]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Lion's Share"|[[Arnold Bennett]]}}
|ShortSummary =
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}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 5
|Title = Sannata
|DirectedBy = Ved Rahi
| Aux2 = {{based on|[[wikisource:The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant/The Father|"The Father"]]|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 6
|Title = Roti Aur Pyar
|DirectedBy = [[Anil Ganguly]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"Love And Bread"|[[August Strindberg]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Ashok Kumar]], [[Kitu Gidwani]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 7
|Title = Kalakriti
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"[[The Last Leaf]]"|[[O. Henry]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Neena Gupta]], [[Supriya Pathak]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 8
|Title = Bahut Der Kar Di
|DirectedBy = [[Kundan Shah]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|[[The Grasshopper (short story)|"The Grasshopper"]]|[[Anton Chekhov]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 9
|Title = Dard
|DirectedBy = [[Anil Ganguly]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Father"|[[Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 10
|Title = Musafir
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 = {{based on|"On The Journey"|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Ajit Vachani]], [[Shashi Puri]], [[Sanjana Kapoor]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 11
|Title = Qaidi
|DirectedBy = [[Anil Ganguly]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Long Exile"|[[Leo Tolstoy]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 12
|Title = Nandu Ki Chitthi
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|[[Vanka (short story)|"'Vanka"]]|[[Anton Chekhov]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 13
|Title = Ward No. 6
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"[[Ward No. 6]]"|[[Anton Chekhov]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 14
|Title = Sahara
|DirectedBy = [[Narendra Nath]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"Simon's Papa"|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 15
|Title = Sunheri Yaadein
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Cripple"|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 16
|Title = Sauda
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Little Cask"|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Waheeda Rehman]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 17
|Title = Bhulava
|DirectedBy = [[Kundan Shah]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"Hearts and Crosses"|[[O. Henry]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 18
|Title = Ek Khula Hua Darwaza
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Open Window"|[[H. H. Munro]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 19
|Title = Saboon Ki Tikiya
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"Dusk"|[[H. H. Munro]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 20
|Title = Chai Ka Ek Cup
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"[[A Cup of Tea]]"|[[Katherine Mansfield]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} [[Sharmila Tagore]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 21
|Title = Nayi Fasal
|DirectedBy = A. Salam
| Aux2 = {{based on|[[wikisource:The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant/The Story of a Farm-Girl|"The Story of a Farm Girl"]]|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 22
|Title = Do Raaste
|DirectedBy = N/A
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Trimmed Lamp"|[[O. Henry]]}}
|ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Radha Seth, [[Pallavi Joshi]], [[Ajit Vachani]], [[Lalit Tiwari]], [[Mangal Dhillon]], [[Sanjana Kapoor]]
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 23
|Title = Girgit
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|[[The Chameleon (short story)|"The Chameleon"]]|[[Anton Chekhov]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 24
|Title = Gehra Zakhm
|DirectedBy = [[Kundan Shah]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Invisible Wound"|[[Károly Kisfaludy]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 25
|Title = Pachtava
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Adopted Son"|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 26
|Title = Tarannum
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 = {{based on|"Lulu's Triumph"|[[Matilde Serao]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 27
|Title = Zameen
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 = {{based on|"[[How Much Land Does a Man Need?]]"|[[Leo Tolstoy]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 28
|Title = Dushman
|DirectedBy = [[Kundan Shah]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"Squaring the Circle"|[[O. Henry]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 29
|Title = Woh Ek Ladki
|DirectedBy = [[Anil Ganguly]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Girl Who Changed Her Mind"|Baldere}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 30
|Title = Chahat
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"A Service Of Love"|[[O. Henry]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 31
|Title = Nayi Sherwani
|DirectedBy = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|"[[The Overcoat]]"|[[Nikolai Gogol]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 32
|Title = Anjam
|DirectedBy = Ramesh Gupta
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Inn"|[[Ivan Turgenev]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 33
|Title = Do Tasveerein
|DirectedBy = A. Salam
| Aux2 = {{based on|[[wikisource:The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant/The Debt|"The Debt"]]|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 34
|Title = Maria
|DirectedBy = [[Kundan Shah]]
| Aux2 = {{based on|''The Fury''|[[Paul Heyse]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 35
|Title = Parvarish
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 = {{based on|[[wikisource:The Godson|"The Godson"]]|[[Leo Tolstoy]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 36
|Title = Zamana
|DirectedBy = A. Salam
| Aux2 = {{based on|"The Marquis de Fumerol"|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 37
|Title = Sabse Bada Darr
|DirectedBy = N/A
| Aux2 = {{based on|[[La Peur (short story)|"Fear"]]|[[Guy de Maupassant]]}}
|ShortSummary =
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}}

==Cast and crew==
The series featured some of the best actors of Indian TV & cinema at that time like:
{{Colbegin}}
* [[Sharmila Tagore]]
* [[Shammi Kapoor]]
* [[Om Puri]]
* [[Saeed Jaffrey]]
* [[Tiku Talsania]]
* [[Ashok Kumar]]
* [[Utpal Dutt]]
* [[Waheeda Rehman]]
* [[Moushumi Chatterjee]]
* [[Marc Zuber]]
* [[Kulbhushan Kharbanda]]
* [[Anjan Srivastav]]
* [[Kiran Kumar]]
* [[Kitu Gidwani]]
* [[Archana Puran Singh]]
* [[Mangal Dhillon]]
* [[Shashi Puri]]
* [[Vijayendra Ghatge]]
* [[Vikram Gokhale]]
* [[Raza Murad]]
* [[Parikshit Sahni]]
* [[Beena Banerjee|Beena]]
* [[Neena Gupta]]
* [[Suresh Oberoi]]
* [[Pallavi Joshi]]
* [[Supriya Pathak]]
* [[Bindu (actress)|Bindu]]
* [[Rohini Hattangadi]]
* Vishnu Sharma
* Radha Seth
* [[Satish Kaushik]]
* [[Bharat Bhushan]]
* [[Satyen Kappu]]
* [[Benjamin Gilani]]
* [[Lucky Ali]]
* [[Ajit Vachani]]
* [[Harish Patel]]
* [[K. K. Raina]]
* [[Iftekhar]]
* [[A. K. Hangal]]
* [[Anjana Mumtaz]]
* [[Irrfan Khan]]
* [[Ravi Jhankal]]
* [[Pankaj Berry]]
* [[Rajendra Gupta]]
* [[Lalit Tiwari]]
* [[Sulbha Deshpande]]
* [[Dina Pathak]]
* [[Sulabha Arya]]
* [[Rama Vij]]
* Naresh Suri
* [[Urmila Matondkar]]
* [[Shreeram Lagoo]]
* Meera Madhuri
* [[Suresh Oberoi]]
{{Colend}}

Directors
*[[Shyam Benegal]]
*[[Kundan Shah]]
*Ramesh Gupta
*Ved Rahi
*[[Satyen Bose]]
*Krishan Sethi
*[[Anil Ganguly]]
*A. Salam

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0155433}}

[[Category:Indian drama television series]]
[[Category:1986 Indian television series debuts]]
[[Category:Television shows based on short fiction]]
[[Category:1980s Indian television series]]
[[Category:1986 Indian television series endings]]
[[Category:Indian anthology television series]]
[[Category:DD National original programming]]
[[Category:Adaptations of works by Leo Tolstoy]]
[[Category:Adaptations of works by O. Henry]]
[[Category:Adaptations of works by Arnold Bennett]]
[[Category:Guy de Maupassant]]
[[Category:Adaptations of works by August Strindberg]]
[[Category:Adaptations of works by Anton Chekhov]]
[[Category:Works by Saki]]
[[Category:Short stories by Katherine Mansfield]]
[[Category:Adaptations of works by Nikolai Gogol]]
[[Category:Adaptations of works by Ivan Turgenev]]

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