Lions on the sets of Buniyaad
Alok Nath who was known as Master Haveli Ram through Ramesh Sippy’s Buniyaad shares some moments from the sets of Buniyaad. Ramesh Sippy had to show a Lahore backdrop for a few scenes for which they had scheduled the shoot at Filmcity. And one the areas in Filmcity was designed as Lahore. Most of the parts of Filmcity were covered by jungles and often wild animals would visit the sets. Alok Nath recalls an incident, “I remember once we had a lion on our sets with a dead dog in his mouth and we were all panicked and started running to save our live. But then when we think of it now we burst out laughing.”
This classic TV serial is aired again these days on Doordarhsan every Thursdays and Fridays at 8.30 pm.
