| Katha Sagar | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Directed by | Shyam Benegal |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 44[1] |
| Production | |
| Producer | Cinevistaas |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | DD National |
| Original release | 1986 – 1986 |
| External links | |
| [{{#property:P856}} Website] | |
Katha Sagar (translation:"A Sea of Stories") is an 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, and Anton Chekhov.[2] 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.[3]
Many years after its original run,[when?] the series was again produced by Prem Krishen Malhotra and Sunil Mehta, founders of Cinevista Communications Limited.[2]
Plot[edit | edit source]
The series included 37 episodes based on stories including "Fear" by Guy de Maupassant, "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol, "A Cup of Tea" by Katherine Mansfield, and "Where Love Is, God Is" by Leo Tolstoy. Some of the stories were adapted to fit an Indian context, but the adaptation embodied the essence of the original story.
Episodes[edit | edit source]
Cast[edit | edit source]
- Sharmila Tagore as Uma
- Shammi Kapoor as Kartar
- Om Puri as Joe
- Saeed Jaffrey as Yashpal
- Tiku Talsania as Narayan
- Ashok Kumar as Sachin
- Utpal Dutt as Sanjay Saxena
- Waheeda Rehman as Anjali
- Moushumi Chatterjee as Laxmi
- Marc Zuber as Gautam
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Kedarnath Acharya
- Anjan Srivastav as Nekchand
- Kiran Kumar as Gorakh Sharma
- Kitu Gidwani as Ritu
- Archana Puran Singh as Aruna
- Mangal Dhillon as Maj Alok
- Shashi Puri as Dr Sudhir
- Vijayendra Ghatge as Mr Prakash Kumar
- Vikram Gokhale as Verma
- Raza Murad as Capt Prithvi
- Parikshit Sahni as Ajay
- Beena as Asha
- Neena Gupta as Chitra
- Suresh Oberoi as Arun
- Pallavi Joshi as Shanta
- Supriya Pathak as Reshma
- Bindu as Mona
- Rohini Hattangadi as Shanti
- Vishnu Sharma as Jaganath
- Radha Seth as Pooja
- Satish Kaushik as Mohan
- Bharat Bhushan as Ramnath
- Satyen Kappu as Ramcharan
- Benjamin Gilani as Rakesh
- Lucky Ali as Ramesh
- Ajit Vachani as Bhagwat
- Harish Patel as Roopchand
- K. K. Raina as Dharmesh
- Iftekhar as Shyamlal
- A. K. Hangal as Vipin
- Anjana Mumtaz as Parvati
- Irrfan Khan as Manohar
- Ravi Jhankal as Ganpat Jadhav
- Pankaj Berry as Bhushan
- Rajendra Gupta as Swaraj
- Lalit Tiwari as Bharat
- Sulbha Deshpande as Sarita
- Dina Pathak as Sarla
- Sulabha Arya as Arpita
- Rama Vij as Sushma
- Naresh Suri as Vinod
- Urmila Matondkar as Dhwani
- Shreeram Lagoo as SK
- Meera Madhuri as Sunita
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "Cinevistaas - Library of Programmes". Cinevistaas. Archived from the original on 31 October 2011. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "There is lot of confusion". Indian Express. 11 August 2003. Archived from the original on 9 September 2003.
- ↑ Awaasthi, Kavita (16 May 2016) A touch of class: Shyam Benegal remembers the stories of Katha Sagar Archived 24 July 2022 at the Wayback Machine in Hindustan Times. Retrieved 26 July 2020
External links[edit | edit source]
- Katha Sagar on IMDb