"The Delhi Sultanate" Part 3: Padmavat and Tughlaq dynasty Muhammad Ghori, Chand Bardai, Makwana, Alauddin Khilji, Ratan Singh, Padmavati Raina, Vijay Kashyap, Ravi Jhankal, Achyut Potdar, Om Puri, Rajendra Gupta, Seema Kelkar "The Delhi Sultanate" Part 2: Prithviraj Raso and Alauddin Khilji Muhammad Ghori, Chand Bardai, Prithviraj Chauhan, Mahmud Ghazni, Ferdowsi, Al-Biruni Raina, Vijay Kashyap, Ravi Jhankal, Ahmed Khan, Irrfan Khan, Achyut Potdar, Vijay Kashyap "The Delhi Sultanate" Part 1:The Arrival of Turk-Afghans and Prithviraj Raso Raja Raja Chola, Ishanashiva, Mahadevi, Tirumala Om Puri, Devendre Malhotra, Sunila Pradhan, Shantanu Chaparia Mahendravarman I, Kapalin, Devasoma, Buddhist Monk Vijay Kashyap, Rajesh Vivek, Mita Vashisht, Harish Patel Harshavardhana, Prabhakar Vardhana, Queen Ravi Jhankal, Pallavi Joshi, Virendra SaxenaĮxcerpts from plays Ashadh Ka Ek Din by Mohan Rakesh and Shakuntala (play) by Kalidasa were used in this episode.
Pallavi Joshi, Rakesh Dhar, Sulabha Deshpande, Virendra SaxenaĪnjan Srivastav, Harish Patel, Aparjita Krishna "The Sangam Period: Silapaddikaram" Part 2 "The Sangam Period: Silapaddikaram" Part 1 Om Puri, K.K.Raina, Ila Arun, Lucky Ali (credited as Maqsoom Ali)Īshoka, Radhagupta, Asandhimitra, Prince Tissa Satyadev Dubey, Ravi Jhankal, Aanjjan Srivastav Satyadev Dubey, Ravi Jhankal, Mita Vashisht Nachiketa, Yamaraja, Angulimaal, Gautam Buddha Om Puri, Pallavi Joshi, Salim Ghouse, Pankaj Berry, Ravi Jhankalĭhruv Ghanekar, Aanjjan Srivastav, Om Puri, Ashutosh Gowariker Krishna, Duryodhana, Draupadi, Shakuni, Aswatthama, Gandhari Teejan Bai, Salim Ghouse, Om Puri, Sujata Mehta, Pankaj Berry, Ila Arun, Salim Ghouse Story of Shambuka from Ramayana and Ekalavya from Mahabharata were also part of this episode. Īnang Desai, Salim Ghouse, K K Raina, Lalit Mohan Tiwari, Inayatullah Kantroo, Anuradha Tarafdar, Ila ArunĬhandraprabha, Rama, Narada, Arjuna, Dhanpal,Dhanvati, Sheelvati Harish Patel, Lalit Mohan Tiwari, Pallavi JoshiĪ street play based on the Epic of Gilgamesh is also depicted in the episode. Production designer Nitish Roy with assistants Samir Chanda and Nitin Desai built 144 sets. Jawaharlal Nehru was portrayed by Roshan Seth, the same role he portrayed in the Oscar-winning film Gandhi. Its cast included Om Puri, Roshan Seth, Tom Alter and Sadashiv Amrapurkar. Murthy in 1988 for state-owned Doordarshan. The drama was directed, written and produced by Shyam Benegal with cinematographer V. 'India: An Exploration') is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book The Discovery of India (1946) by Jawaharlal Nehru that covers a 5,000-year history of India from its beginnings to independence from the British in 1947.