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MUMBAI: Reliance Home Video & Games has released Katha Sagar, a popular TV serial originally telecast on National Doordarshan in 1886 on DVD and VCD.
The series has 37 stand alone short stories of totally nineteen hours of content. The duration of each story being of 30 to 60 minutes, is a complete family entertainer in itself.
This series of short stories brought to the homes of millions wholesome entertainment via Indian adaptations of short stories written by world renowned authors such as Anton Chekhov, O‘Henry, Guy De Maupassant, H.H.Munro, Leo Tolstoy, etc. Some stories were adapted to fit an Indian context, but the adaptation captured the essence of the original story very well. This series marked the Television debut of India‘s most renowned director Mr.Shyam Benegal, under whose skillful direction this series reached a viewership rating of 85.1 percent.
Featuring the works of some of the best directors in the Indian Film & TV industry like Shyam Benegal, Kundan Shah, Anil Ganguly, Kishen Sethi, A. Salaam, Ved Rahi, Ramesh Gupta, Satyen Bose and Narendranath.
Staring Ashok Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Shammi Kapoor, Utpal Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Moushumi Chatterjee, Om Puri, Saeed Jaffery, Urmila Matondkar, Bindu, Suresh Oberoi, Pallavi Joshi, Supriya Pathak, Rohini Hattangadi, Neena Gupta, Kulbushan Kharbanda, Tiku Talsania, Anjan Srivastav, Kittu Gidwani, Archana Puransingh, Vikram Gokhale, Raza Murad, Parikshat Sahni and many more.
While the DVD comprising of eight discs costs Rs 2499, the VCD consisting of seven discs costs Rs 699.
