Shyam Benegal Back on TV After 25 Years with a
Mini-Series Produced by Rajya Sabha Television
~ ’SAMVIDHAAN – The Making of the Constitution of India’ is a 10 part mini- series ~
~ Starts
March 2, 2014, Every Sunday at 10AM and Repeat Telecast at 10PM ~
Mumbai, March
2014: One of the India’s most prolific and awarded filmmakers Shyam Benegal
is back on Television, 25 years after his landmark TV Series ‘Bharat Ek Khoj’. Samvidhaan
– The Making of the Constitution of India is a 10 part mini-series
produced by Rajya Sabha Television and directed by Shyam Benegal. The
series goes on air beginning March 2 at 10AM with a repeat telecast at 10PM
every Sunday on RajyaSabha TV.
Written by
Shama Zaidi and Atul Tiwari from a concept by Rajya Sabha Television, the series
stars Sachin Khedekar as Dr B R Ambedkar, Neeraj Kabi as
Mahatma Gandhi, Dalip Tahil as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Utkarsh Majumdar
as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Rajendra Gupta as Dr Rajendra
Prasad, Tom Alter as Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Rajeshwari Sachdev as
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Narendra Jha as Qaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
Divya Dutta as Shrimati Purnima Benerji and Ila Arun as Hansa
Mehta among 150 others in the series.
Shyam Benegal says, “The
making of India’s Constitution is an incredible story of almost impossible
dimensions. It is a story of perennial relevance. I am fortunate to have got
the chance to narrate this story for television.”
“The story that is India and the story ‘of’
India and its birth has rarely been told. And the story of the birth of this
rich and diverse country begins with the framing of our Constitution. At Rajya
Sabha Television our endeavour is to create programs that document contemporary
history of Independent India. ‘Samvidhaan’ (the making of the Constitution of
India) was a natural progress in this journey,” says Gurdeep Singh Sappal,
CEO Rajya Sabha Television, who has produced the series.
