Katha Sagar
title: "Katha Sagar" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["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"] topic_path: "geography/india" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katha_Sagar" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| runtime | 22 minutes |
| director | Shyam Benegal |
| producer | Cinevistaas |
| language | Hindi |
| genre | Drama |
| country | India |
| network | DD National |
| first_aired | |
| last_aired | |
| num_seasons | 1 |
| num_episodes | 44 |
| :: |
| image = | caption = | runtime = 22 minutes | director = Shyam Benegal | producer = Cinevistaas | language = Hindi | genre = Drama | country = India | network = DD National | first_aired = | last_aired = | num_seasons = 1 | num_episodes = 44
Katha Sagar (translation:"A Sea of Stories") is an Indian television series that aired on DD National in 1986. The series featured a collection of stories by writers from around the world, including Katherine Mansfield, Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, O. Henry, and Anton Chekhov. 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.
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 "Fear" by Guy de Maupassant, "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol, "A Cup of Tea" by Katherine Mansfield, and "Where Love Is, God Is" by Leo Tolstoy. Some of the stories were adapted to fit an Indian context, but the adaptation embodied the essence of the original story.
Episodes
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|Title = Pratiksha
|DirectedBy = Ved Rahi
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Saeed Jaffrey, Jayant Bhatt, Beena, Sulabha Deshpande, Abhi Bhattacharya
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 2
|Title = Karz
|DirectedBy = Kundan Shah
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Deepak Kejriwal, Rajendra Gupta, Rama Vij
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 3
|Title = Teen Sadhu
|DirectedBy = Satyen Bose
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Satyen Kappu, Anup Kumar, Brahmachari
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 4
|Title = Ek Bhool
|DirectedBy = Kundan Shah
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|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 5
|Title = Sannata
|DirectedBy = Ved Rahi
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|EpisodeNumber = 6
|Title = Roti Aur Pyar
|DirectedBy = Anil Ganguly
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Ashok Kumar, Kitu Gidwani, Asha Sharma
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 7
|Title = Kalakriti
|DirectedBy = Shyam Benegal
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Neena Gupta, Supriya Pathak, Irshad Hashmi
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 8
|Title = Bahut Der Kar Di
|DirectedBy = Kundan Shah
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 9
|Title = Dard
|DirectedBy = Anil Ganguly
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Shammi Kapoor, Bharat Bhushan, Dinesh Hingoo
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 10
|Title = Musafir
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Kiran Juneja, Ajit Vachani, Shashi Puri, Prem Krishen
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 11
|Title = Qaidi
|DirectedBy = Anil Ganguly
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 12
|Title = Nandu Ki Chitthi
|DirectedBy = Shyam Benegal
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = A K Hangal, Joy Ghanekar
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 13
|Title = Ward No. 6
|DirectedBy = Shyam Benegal
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Irrfan Khan, Lalit Tiwari, Pankaj Berry
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 14
|Title = Sahara
|DirectedBy = Narendra Nath
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 15
|Title = Sunheri Yaadein
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 =
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|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 16
|Title = Sauda
|DirectedBy = Shyam Benegal
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Waheeda Rehman, Satish Kaushik, Deepak Kejriwal
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 17
|Title = Bhulava
|DirectedBy = Kundan Shah
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Benjamin Gilani, Deepika Chikhalia, Suresh Chatwal
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 18
|Title = Ek Khula Hua Darwaza
|DirectedBy = Shyam Benegal
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Pallavi Joshi, Harish Patel, Sunila Pradhan
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 19
|Title = Saboon Ki Tikiya
|DirectedBy = Shyam Benegal
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Kulbhushan Kharbanda, K K Raina
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 20
|Title = Chai Ka Ek Cup
|DirectedBy = Shyam Benegal
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Iftekhar, Suresh Oberoi, Sharmila Tagore, Pallavi Joshi
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 21
|Title = Nayi Fasal
|DirectedBy = A. Salam
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Archana Puran Singh, Vikram Gokhale, Shashi Puri, Asha Sharma
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 22
|Title = Do Raaste
|DirectedBy = N/A
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Radha Seth, Pallavi Joshi, Ajit Vachani, Lalit Tiwari, Mangal Dhillon, Sanjana Kapoor
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 23
|Title = Girgit
|DirectedBy = Shyam Benegal
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Harish Patel, Ravi Jhankal
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 24
|Title = Gehra Zakhm
|DirectedBy = Kundan Shah
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Ajit Vachani, Anjan Shrivastav
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 25
|Title = Pachtava
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Ajit Vachani, Sulbha Deshpande, Shashi Puri, Beena Banerjee, Pankaj Berry
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 26
|Title = Tarannum
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Vijayendra Ghatge, Beena, Supriya Pathak, Anuradha Patel
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 27
|Title = Zameen
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Parikshit Sahni
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 28
|Title = Dushman
|DirectedBy = Kundan Shah
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 29
|Title = Woh Ek Ladki
|DirectedBy = Anil Ganguly
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Iftekhar, Vijayendra Ghatge, Tiku Talsania, Rupini, Ramesh Rai
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 30
|Title = Chahat
|DirectedBy = Shyam Benegal
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Neena Gupta, Lucky Ali
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 31
|Title = Nayi Sherwani
|DirectedBy = Shyam Benegal
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Om Puri
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 32
|Title = Anjam
|DirectedBy = Ramesh Gupta
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary =
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 33
|Title = Do Tasveerein
|DirectedBy = A. Salam
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Shashi Puri, Anjana Mumtaz, Deepak Kejriwal
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 34
|Title = Maria
|DirectedBy = Kundan Shah
| Aux2 =
|ShortSummary = Kitu Gidwani, Mushtaq Khan
|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 35
|Title = Parvarish
|DirectedBy = Krishan Sethi
| Aux2 =
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|LineColor = 989797
|EpisodeNumber = 36
|Title = Zamana
|DirectedBy = A. Salam
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|EpisodeNumber = 37
|Title = Sabse Bada Darr
|DirectedBy = N/A
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Cast
- Sharmila Tagore as Uma
- Shammi Kapoor as Kartar
- Om Puri as Joe
- Saeed Jaffrey as Yashpal
- Tiku Talsania as Narayan
- Ashok Kumar as Sachin
- Utpal Dutt as Sanjay Saxena
- Waheeda Rehman as Anjali
- Moushumi Chatterjee as Laxmi
- Marc Zuber as Gautam
- Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Kedarnath Acharya
- Anjan Srivastav as Nekchand
- Kiran Kumar as Gorakh Sharma
- Kitu Gidwani as Ritu
- Archana Puran Singh as Aruna
- Mangal Dhillon as Maj Alok
- Shashi Puri as Dr Sudhir
- Vijayendra Ghatge as Mr Prakash Kumar
- Vikram Gokhale as Verma
- Raza Murad as Capt Prithvi
- Parikshit Sahni as Ajay
- Beena as Asha
- Neena Gupta as Chitra
- Suresh Oberoi as Arun
- Pallavi Joshi as Shanta
- Supriya Pathak as Reshma
- Bindu as Mona
- Rohini Hattangadi as Shanti
- Vishnu Sharma as Jaganath
- Radha Seth as Pooja
- Satish Kaushik as Mohan
- Bharat Bhushan as Ramnath
- Satyen Kappu as Ramcharan
- Benjamin Gilani as Rakesh
- Lucky Ali as Ramesh
- Ajit Vachani as Bhagwat
- Harish Patel as Roopchand
- K. K. Raina as Dharmesh
- Iftekhar as Shyamlal
- A. K. Hangal as Vipin
- Anjana Mumtaz as Parvati
- Irrfan Khan as Manohar
- Ravi Jhankal as Ganpat Jadhav
- Pankaj Berry as Bhushan
- Rajendra Gupta as Swaraj
- Lalit Tiwari as Bharat
- Sulbha Deshpande as Sarita
- Dina Pathak as Sarla
- Sulabha Arya as Arpita
- Rama Vij as Sushma
- Naresh Suri as Vinod
- Urmila Matondkar as Dhwani
- Shreeram Lagoo as SK
- Meera Madhuri as Sunita
References
References
- "Cinevistaas - Library of Programmes". [[Cinevistaas Limited.
- (11 August 2003). "There is lot of confusion.". [[Indian Express]].
- Awaasthi, Kavita (16 May 2016) [https://www.hindustantimes.com/tv/a-touch-of-class-shyam-benegal-remembers-the-stories-of-katha-sagar/story-uMeczv9uvQd7oZSgcioHLP.html A touch of class: Shyam Benegal remembers the stories of Katha Sagar ] {{Webarchive. link. (24 July 2022 in [[Hindustan Times]]. Retrieved 26 July 2020)
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