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For the audience the bridge between the two is the English language." There is a gap between Nehru the character and Nehru the commentator. What worried me though is that Nehru thought in English and the only way I can communicate his character is through it. "Since I have done the role before, the physical image will be accepted. "Shyam was astute in casting me," says Seth. And hence the deja vu aspect of the television Nehru. For the actor (his performance in David Hare's Map of the World at the West End was critically acclaimed), it is like slipping into familiar clothes: he played Jawaharlal Nehru in Richard Attenborough's film Gandhi. The nose is delicate, with a gradual tilt. The voice is slightly nasal, the accent unadulterated Hindustani. Myths and the collective Indian unconscious.īenegal could not have selected a better television anchorman: Nehru himself. Benegal's ticket evenĪllows him stopovers in the realm of the imagination: the scriptures, His odyssey through history and even pre-history. of the pre-Indus Valley civilization to 1946) in The book allows Benegal to cover a time span of 5,500 Nehru's magnum opus is a convenient, hardy Plaster of Paris are being emptied with the spend-thrift flourish of a Meticulously detailed - all over Bombay's Film City.
#Bharat ek khoj duryodhan character made by full#
Mauryas and the Cholas have been springing up - full blown and With shoe-string budgets and fudged accounts. There any of the recycled props beloved of the new television moghuls There has never been anything done on such a gargantuan scale in India before.īenegal is sparing no expenses. Bharat Ek Khoj, as Doordarshan's most ambitious project ever is titled, is likely to cost the exchequer well over the budgeted Rs 4 crore.
#Bharat ek khoj duryodhan character made by serial#
India's unofficial cinema laureate has boarded the epic shuttle express to make his marathon 52-episode television serial which is based on Jawaharlal Nehru's masterful Discovery of India due to go on the air this November to coincide with the birth centenary of Nehru. It is all in a day's work for Shyam Benegal. Hell here is a ravine: overnight Kurukshetra has been transformed into a place which Malkhan Singh would feel at home in. The next morning, a portly Yama Dev with the green glow of death playing about his beetle-browed nightmare face emerges from down under, sulphurous smoke in his wake, to lecture Nachiketa on the Upanishads. Just a few feet away, Arjun's chariot, magnificent and mahogany, is parked. Ram, gingerly and hesitant, and Lakshman, ever the pouting reluctant, ask the canny 10-headed Brahmin for advice on statecraft.
Ravana lies dying - an arrow jutting out of his navel.
In another corner of the battlefield and a little later in the day. He turns, then straightens up and embarks an a lecture on the lessons of the Mahabharat. An end-of-the-world smoke curls up eerily from its edges.Īnd into this desolation walks Jawaharlal Nehru, frail and slightly stooped, twigs crackling under his Peshawar-chappaled feet. The battlefield with upturned maces and blood-spattered shields lies abandoned and silent like a desert after the caravan of life has passed. Roshan Seth as Jawaharlal Nehru It is Kurukshetra, the day after.
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