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Documentaries under Bharatayana

Manipal: Under its Bharatayana project celebrating 150 years of India’s First War of Independence, the Manipal Institute of Communication will produce four or five documentaries focussing on the period from 1947 to 2007.

Addressing presspersons here on Monday, Honorary Director of Manipal Institute of Communication M.V. Kamath said that these documentaries would be produced in four or five years.

The institute would be holding a series of special talks by experts and eminent persons on the First War of Indian Independence, the freedom struggle and post-Independence India here under the Bharatayana project.

Mr. Kamath said that the Manipal Film Study Centre (MFSC), Centre for Humanities, Manipal University, in association with the Manipal Institute of Communication, would be screening 12 episodes of the serial “Bharat Ek Khoj” at the Dr. T.M.A. Pai Planetarium Complex here on August 7, 21, and 28, and September 11, 18, and 25. The screening would be held from 5.30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on these days. There is no entry fee.

The episodes, which would be screened are Bengal Renaissance and Raja Ram Mohun Roy and 1857 Part 1 on August 7; 1857 Part 2 and Indigo Revolt on August 21; Mahatma Phule and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan on August 28; Vivekananda, Extremists and Moderates on September 11; And Gandhi Came Part 1 followed by And Gandhi Came Part 2 on September 18; and Separatism and Do or Die on September 25.

The serial is based on the book The Discovery of India written by the first Prime Minister of independent India late Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

It had been telecast on Doordarshan. The serial explores different periods of Indian history and was made in 1988 by writer, director and producer Shyam Benegal.

The star cast includes Om Puri, Roshan Seth, Tom Alter, Neena Gupta, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Ashok Kumar and Salim Ghose, Mr. Kamath said.

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