![]() ![]() She had worked on TV before, done modelling too and the moment she walked in, I knew I had got the perfect casting.” It’s true that Amit Khanna, our executive producer, brought her to the set. We took a lot of people from the National School of Drama. Alok Nath, Anita Kanwar, Goga Kapoor, Sudhir Pandey, Dalip Tahil, Neena Gupta and Kiran Juneja, who later married the “Sholay” director. The 105-episode “Buniyaad” featured a cast comprising mostly new actors. ![]() “Manohar Shyam Joshi had prior experience of doing 100 plus episodic shows on DD, mainly ‘Hum Log’, so he had begun to understand this kind of breakup of a story into so many parts and keeping the audience engrossed,” he added. I took the trouble of going through some of those and understand how they are telling their stories, to understand the craft. But this kind of storytelling had begun in the West with some soap operas. ![]() “Not understanding the medium properly enough was a reason. But I hope they discover the show now,” Sippy added.Īccording to the director, the journey of “Buniyaad” began when the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting invited his father, filmmaker producer GP Sippy, and suggested them to do a show for Doordarshan.įor Sippy, who was used to working on multistarrers like “Sholay”, “Seeta Aur Geeta” and “Shaan”, the idea of helming a TV show was exciting, but he was initially reluctant about it. “Of course, the younger generation can’t look back the same way as the older generation did. The director said the show, which debuted in the late 1980s, captured the sentiment of India’s “birth pangs”. But still, somewhere in the families, the stories are there,” Sippy told PTI in an interview. Today’s young generation has forgotten all that, it has been more than 70 years. People remember it even today, they associate it with the Partition. “It has been more than 30 years and the show still has recall value. The show, written by Manohar Shyam Joshi, dealt with Partition and its aftermath. She is also known for playing several pivotal roles in TV shows like Lakhon Mein Ek, Kasamh Se, Aandhi among others.MUMBAI: Like many other old favourites, “Buniyaad” is also back on Doordarshan amid the nationwide lockdown, and director Ramesh Sippy is thrilled that even after over three decades, the serial has tremendous recall value. She is a renowned actor and filmmaker known for her roles in movies like Bareilly Ki Barfi, Shubh Mangal Saavdhan among others. Her character is that of a social worker in the serial. Seema Pahwa played the role of Gunanti AKA Badki in the cast of Hum Log. O my dog he is so cute #life#beauty#love#afection#giftĪ post shared by Seema Bhargava Pahwa on at 11:15am PDT ![]()
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