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MUMBAI:
Reliance Home Video & Games has released Katha Sagar, a popular
TV serial originally telecast on National Doordarshan in 1886 on
DVD and VCD.
The
series has 37 stand alone short stories of totally nineteen hours
of content. The duration of each story being of 30 to 60 minutes,
is a complete family entertainer in itself.
This
series of short stories brought to the homes of millions wholesome
entertainment via Indian adaptations of short stories written by
world renowned authors such as Anton Chekhov, O'Henry, Guy De Maupassant,
H.H.Munro, Leo Tolstoy, etc. Some stories were adapted to fit an
Indian context, but the adaptation captured the essence of the original
story very well. This series marked the Television debut of India's
most renowned director Mr.Shyam Benegal, under whose skillful direction
this series reached a viewership rating of 85.1 percent.
Featuring
the works of some of the best directors in the Indian Film &
TV industry like Shyam Benegal, Kundan Shah, Anil Ganguly, Kishen
Sethi, A. Salaam, Ved Rahi, Ramesh Gupta, Satyen Bose and Narendranath.
Staring
Ashok Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Shammi Kapoor, Utpal Dutt, Waheeda
Rehman, Moushumi Chatterjee, Om Puri, Saeed Jaffery, Urmila Matondkar,
Bindu, Suresh Oberoi, Pallavi Joshi, Supriya Pathak, Rohini Hattangadi,
Neena Gupta, Kulbushan Kharbanda, Tiku Talsania, Anjan Srivastav,
Kittu Gidwani, Archana Puransingh, Vikram Gokhale, Raza Murad, Parikshat
Sahni and many more.
While
the DVD comprising of eight discs costs Rs 2499, the VCD consisting
of seven discs costs Rs 699.
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