Dealing with the sensitive issue of partition on Television was a big thing to do at that time. Today’s generation may know this character from Sushant Singh Rajput’s Detective Byomkesh Bakshy, but people born in the 80s and the 90s are very familiar with the Byomkesh Bakshi and for them, Rajit Kapur is the real Byomkesh Bakshi and K.K Raina is Ajit.Īlso See: Star Plus Mahabharat VS BR Chopra’s Mahabharat Buniyaadīuniyaad aired in 1986 and was based on the partition of India and Pakistan.

Byomkesh Bakshiīoymkesh Bakshi was the famous detective TV Series directed by Basu Chatterjee starring Rajit Kapoor and K.K Raina. Mahabharat being associated with Hindu’s, it was highly popular among children, adults, and oldies. It was a series of 94 episodes, depicting the legendary war between Pandavas and Kauravas. Mahabharat TV Series was based on the Hindu Epic Mahabharata. Ramanand Sagar took this trend to another level by demonstrating the whole story through Television. In India, its teaching and educating children about Lord Ram is a trend. Ramayan is the Indian mythological story of Lord Ram’s life. Hum Log was made for the middle class of India and it connects with their hearts, the popularity of Hum Log characters was popular than film stars, TV Industry was just started in India. The serial was directed by P Kumar Vasudev and written by Manohar Shyam Joshi and narrated by great Indian Actor Ashok Kumar. Hum Log was a 156 episode long serial dealing with the daily struggles of a family. Hum Log is the oldest and first television serial of India which aired in 1984 on Doordarshan.

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