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Mar 7, 2014 · I look forward to the elaboration of the role of this forgotten genius in the coming episodes. But on the positive side, Benegal gets full marks for his choice of Shama Zaidi as the dialogue writer. Being the daughter of a member of the Assembly herself, she was uniquely placed to do justice to the project with her dialogue writing skills-and she did.
Apr 17, 2022 · A-. A+. New Delhi: At 79, when he could have hung up his boots, renowned filmmaker Shyam Benegal took up a new challenge: to create a 10-hour long mini-series based on the debates in the Constituent Assembly debates (1946-49). ‘Samvidhaan: The Making of the Constitution of India’. The series showcases just what it was set out to do: it ...
Nov 30, 2020 · In Yadav’s understanding, then, Shyam Benegal’s Samvidhaan is supposed to serve a pedagogical purpose in educating the ill informed about the greatness of their constitution. Indeed, Samvidhaan is made for such a pedagogical need. In what follows, I present a few observations based on viewing the 10-part series, not necessarily to explain ...
Feb 22, 2014 · Mr. Benegal said, “Samvidhaan is not really a 10 part series. It is a 10 hour long film. Since it was impossible to tell this story in the two or three hours duration of a cinema film, the ...
Mar 17, 2014 · Especially if that nation is as big and diverse as India," says Shyam Benegal, director of Samvidhaan, a miniseries on the creation of the Indian Constitution. The 10-episode show, which premiered on Rajya Sabha TV on March 2 and airs every Sunday, stars various film, TV and theatre veterans, such as Sachin Khedekar, Dalip Tahil, Divya Dutta and Ila Arun.
That is his 53-part TV serial Bharat Ek Khoj (1988), based on the Nehru’s book, Discovery of India, and Yatra, based on journeys on the Indian Railways. “Samvidhaan is in some ways a continuum ...
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In this post, Professor Arvind Elangovan reflects upon the famous television series “Samvidhaan: The Making of the Constitution of India” by Shyam Benegal. He argues that despite the accomplishments of the series, which ostensibly aims to teach the viewer about the story of the making of the Indian constitution, it obfuscates more than it edifies.]
