''Katha Sagar'' (

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:''"A Sea of Stories"'') is an Indian television series that aired on

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in 1986. The series featured a collection of stories by writers from around the world, including

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, Guy de Maupassant,

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; ,Throughout Tolstoy's whole life, his name was written as using Reforms of Russian orthography#The post-revolution re ...

, O. Henry, and

Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; ; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his b ...

. Each episode was directed by one of eight well known Indian directors, including Shyam Benegal, Kundan Shah, Ved Rahi and Satyen Bose. Most of the stories in the series were one episode long.Awaasthi, Kavita (16 May 2016
A touch of class: Shyam Benegal remembers the stories of Katha Sagar
in

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. Retrieved 26 July 2020 Many years after its original run, the series was again produced by Prem Krishen Malhotra and Sunil Mehta, founders of Cinevista Communications Limited.

Plot

The series included 37 episodes based on stories including "

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" by Guy de Maupassant, "

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" by

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, " A Cup of Tea" by

, and " Where Love Is, God Is" by

. Some of the stories were adapted to fit an Indian context, but the adaptation embodied the essence of the original story.

Episodes

Cast

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Shammi Kapoor Shammi Kapoor (born Shamsher Raj Kapoor; (pronounced Help:IPA/Hindi and Urdu, �ʌmːi kʌpuːɾ 21 October 1931 – 14 August 2011) was an Indian actor known for his work in Hindi cinema. Kapoor is considered one of the greatest and most s ...

Om Puri Om Prakash Puri, (18 October 1950 – 6 January 2017) was an Indian actor who appeared in mainstream commercial Hindi films as well as Urdu, Malayalam, Bengali, Kannada, English, Punjabi, Gujarati, Telugu, and Marathi films, as well as ind ...

* Saeed Jaffrey *

Tiku Talsania Tiku Talsania (born 7 June 1954 ) is an Indian actor, known for his work in Hindi films. He is primarily known for his comic roles in popular comedy films. Apart from acting in films and television serials, Talsania also performed as a freelan ...

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Utpal Dutt Utpal Dutt (; 29 March 1929 – 19 August 1993) was an Indian actor, director, and writer-playwright. He was primarily an actor in Bengali theatre, where he became a pioneering figure in Modern Indian theatre, when he founded the "Little The ...

Waheeda Rehman Waheeda Rehman (born 3 February 1938) is an Indian actress. Regarded among the most accomplished actresses of Hindi cinema, she has worked in more than Waheeda Rehman filmography, 90 feature films, in a career spanning over five decades. Her ac ...

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* Marc Zuber *

Kulbhushan Kharbanda Kulbhushan Kharbanda (born 21 October 1944) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi and Punjabi films. He is best known for his role as the antagonist Shakaal in '' Shaan'' (1980), Starting off with the Delhi-based theatre group ' Yatrik' in the ...

* Anjan Srivastav * Kiran Kumar * Kitu Gidwani * Archana Puran Singh * Mangal Dhillon * Shashi Puri * Vijayendra Ghatge * Vikram Gokhale *

Raza Murad Raza Murad (born 23 November 1950) is an Indian actor who primarily appears in Hindi films. He has acted in over 250 Hindi films and has also appeared in Bhojpuri, Punjabi and other languages and on Hindi television. Early life He is the so ...

* Parikshit Sahni * Beena * Neena Gupta *

Suresh Oberoi Suresh Oberoi (born 17 December 1946) is an Indian actor and politician who appeared in Hindi films. He is a recipient of the 1987 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor. He started his career in radio shows, modelling and later moving ...

* Pallavi Joshi * Supriya Pathak * Bindu * Rohini Hattangadi * Vishnu Sharma * Radha Seth * Satish Kaushik *

Bharat Bhushan Bharatbhushan Gupta, better known as Bharat Bhushan (14 June 1920 – 27 January 1992) was an Indian actor in Hindi language films, scriptwriter and producer. He was born in Meerut, and brought up in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. Career 1941– ...

* Satyen Kappu * Benjamin Gilani * Lucky Ali * Ajit Vachani * Harish Patel * K. K. Raina * Iftekhar * A. K. Hangal *

Anjana Mumtaz Anjana Mumtaz (born 4 January 1941) is an Indian actress, who is known for her supporting roles in over a hundred Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati-language films. Born as Anjana Manjrekar, she married Sajid Mumtaz, an Air India official. Her son ...

* Irrfan Khan *

Ravi Jhankal Ravi Jhankal is an Indian television, stage and film actor, mostly known for working in Shyam Benegal's films, including '' Welcome to Sajjanpur'' (2008) and '' Well Done Abba'' (2010) and for the role of P. V. Narasimha Rao in '' Pradhanmantr ...

* Pankaj Berry * Rajendra Gupta * Lalit Tiwari * Sulbha Deshpande * Dina Pathak * Sulabha Arya * Rama Vij * Naresh Suri *

Urmila Matondkar Urmila Matondkar (born 4 February 1974) is an Indian actress and politician. Known for her work primarily in Hindi cinema, Hindi films, in addition to Telugu cinema, Telugu, Malayalam cinema, Malayalam, Marathi cinema, Marathi and Tamil cinema ...

Shreeram Lagoo Dr. Shriram Lagoo (16 November 1927 – 17 December 2019) was an Indian film and theatre actor, in Hindi and Marathi, in addition to being an ENT Surgeon. He was known for his character roles in films. He acted in over 250 films including Hin ...

* Meera Madhuri *

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, 0155433 Indian drama television series 1986 Indian television series debuts Television shows based on short fiction 1980s Indian television series 1986 Indian television series endings Indian anthology television series DD National original programming Television shows based on works by Leo Tolstoy Adaptations of works by O. Henry Adaptations of works by Arnold Bennett Television shows based on works by Guy de Maupassant Adaptations of works by August Strindberg Adaptations of works by Anton Chekhov Works by Saki Short stories by Katherine Mansfield Television shows based on works by Nikolai Gogol Adaptations of works by Ivan Turgenev