![]() ![]() In Kalakriti, his adaptation of O Henry’s The Last Leaf, he played on the charming camaraderie between two brilliant actors, Neena Gupta and Supriya Pathak. Anil Ganguly’s was a homegrown take on August Strindberg’s Love and Bread in Roti aur Pyaar, starring Ashok Kumar and Kitu Gidwani.īenegal took up a lion’s share of the stories. Each episode was helmed by different directors and bore their distinctive style. The master writers became household names alongside Chutki and Karamchand. The stories included O Henry’s The Last Leaf, Squaring the Circle and Service of Love and Guy de Maupassant’s The Inn and The Adopted Son. Katha Sagar took us around the world in 37 stories over 44 episodes. Doordarshan’s favourite storytellers of the time, including Shyam Benegal (who had already won us over with Yatra) and Basu Chatterjee (a celebrated storyteller of middle-class lives who would give us the decade-defining Rajani), mined a rich treasure trove of short stories from India and around the world in Katha Sagar, Ek Kahaani and Darpan in the mid-1980s. Not only did Doordarshan mirror the real India with all its warts and wounds, it also opened up a fantastic window to the world of literature.īetween the narratives of ordinary Indians in Hum Log and Buniyaad and the slick Western imports Knight Rider and Street Hawk, someone in Mandi House came up with the idea of adapting literary works into crisp episodic shows for Doordarshan. The state broadcasting network lived up to its inspired name in the 1980s. ‘Salaam Venky’ trailer: Revathi directs film about a mother-son relationship. ![]()
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