CHENNAI: Viewers may soon get a television channel on the lines of the National Geographic, but dedicated to Indian culture, art, heritage, language and literature.

The channel, called Basha, will be uplinked from the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) in Mysore.

Tamil is among the four languages the institute is currently focusing on.

"The design is to make 1,000 films in four languages: Tamil, Kannada, Marathi, and Bengali. The languages were chosen as they have the widest international audience," said Institute director Udaya Narayana Singh.

The focus of the programmes will be stories on Space, Time, Culture, Society, Literature and Language.

The project is titled `Bhasha Mandakini' and the films made under the programme will be translated and telecast worldwide in Spanish, German, French and English.

In each of the four chosen languages, 250 films will be made.

Some 260 episodes have already been completed.

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