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Monday, July 29, 2013

Season of re-runs and gritty viewing

Source: Hindustan Times | By Poonam Saxena, HT
July 27, 2013

It's the season of re-runs. Buniyaad, India's first big family serial in colour (Hum Log was in black and white), returned to Doordarshan this week, 27 years after it was made. For readers who belong to another generation and have only the fuzziest notion of what Buniyaad was all about, here's a very brief, very basic primer.

Set against the backdrop of Partition, the show traces the fortunes of the family of the idealistic nationalist and Arya Samaji, Master Haveliram and his gentle, loving wife Lajoji.

This is the show that launched dozens of careers — from Alok Nath (who played Haveliram) to a whole host of................

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