''Phatichar'' (translation: poor, wearing tattered clothes) is an Indian television series on

Doordarshan Doordarshan (), abbreviated as DD, is India's State-owned enterprise, state-owned public broadcasting, public television broadcaster. Established by the Government of India on 15 September 1959, it is owned by the Ministry of Information and B ...

in 1991, starring

Pankaj Kapur Pankaj Kapur (born 29 May 1954) is an Indian actor who has worked in Hindi theatre, television and films. Recipient of a Filmfare Award and three National Film Awards, his most acclaimed film roles include that of Inspector P.K. in '' Raakh'' ...

in the title role. His character lived in a cement pipe and the show portrayed, in a bitter-sweet manner, the life of the disadvantaged living on the margins. This is a black humor telecasted as TV series in

, written and directed by Anil Chaudhary. Sharang Dev was the music director. The catch phrase of the show was "''Arre yaar phatichar, tu itna emotional kyun hain''?"

Plot

Writer Ajit Vachhani (Character has the same name of the actor) gets a project from the renowned publisher Paul to write his biography. But before he could finish the writing the character runs away from the unfinished novel. The character got the name "Phatichar" given by a bell boy in a hotel. By accident Phatichar gets involved with a poor family of a blind sister, a dwarf brother and their drunkard uncle. He started living in a water pipe of municipality. While living with this family he becomes familiar with harsh reality of the common man's life. He becomes concerned and worried about this despondency of poor people. He tries to solve these in his candid but comical way.

Cast and crew

Cast

Pankaj Kapoor Pankaj Kapur (born 29 May 1954) is an Indian actor who has worked in Hindi theatre, television and films. Recipient of a Filmfare Award and three National Film Awards, his most acclaimed film roles include that of Inspector P.K. in '' Raakh'' ...

as Phatichar * Ajit Vachhani as Writer Ajit Vachhani * Nina Gupta as Sapna *

Avtar Gill Avtar Gill (born 14 May 1950) is an Indian actor who appears predominantly in Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the De ...

as Banke * Preeti Khare as Mala *

Rajesh Puri Rajesh Puri is an Indian television actor. He acted in comedy serials like '' Yeh Duniya Gazab Ki''. Rajesh also acted in a DD1 serial Aamrapali (TV serial) in 2002. He is also identified as Lalit Prasad (a.k.a. Lalloo) of Hum Log, the Televis ...

as chacha *

Anupam Kher Anupam Kher (born 7 March 1955) is an Indian actor, director and producer who works primarily in Hindi cinema. In a career spanning over four decades, he has acted in more than 540 films. A veteran of Indian cinema, Kher is recipient of two Na ...

in a cameo role

Crew

* Writer and Director: Anil Chaudhary * Cinematographer: Sunil Sharma * Music Director: Sharang Dev * Producer: Indu Prakash * Editor: Gajendra Singh

References

{{reflist DD National original programming 1991 Indian television series debuts