25 July 2013 :: Indian television’s first-ever color soap “Buniyaad” (1986) will return to screens on the same channel, Doordarshan. The popular series which dealt with the 1947 partition will return to Doordarshan on Thursday, July 25. The show will be aired twice weekly, Thursday and Friday at 8:30pm.
Directed by Ramesh Sippy and Jyoti Sarup, the Buniyaad series became one of the most popular daily soaps to be aired on Doordarshan. Aired for the first time 27 years ago – the show is now coming back on the National channel.
Based in the times of Independence and partition, the show traced the trials, travails and tribulations faced by Master Haveliram (Alok Nath) and his family and their rise from a refugee camp after losing all they had. Anita Kanwar as Lajoji, Haveliram’s wife, Sudhir Pandey as his father Gaindamal, Kiran Juneja as Veeravali, Haveliram’s sister and Girija Shankar as Haveliram’s elder brother Raliya Ram are characters yet not forgotten.
The star-studded cast of the original “Buniyaad” also had Mazhar Khan, Soni Razdan, Bharati Achrekar, Neesha Singh, Goga Kapoor, Neena Gupta, Abhinav Chaturvedi, Natasha Sinha, Vijayendra Ghatge and Kanwaljeet Singh.
Buniyaad was an Indian television drama-series that was directed by Ramesh Sippy and Jyoti Sarup. The series was written by Manohar Shyam Joshi and dealt with the Partition of India in 1947 and its aftermath.
Buniyaad first aired in 1986 on the Indian state television channel DD National, which is owned and operated by Doordarshan network.
Actor/Actress Character Notes
Alok Nath : Master Haveliram : Freedom fighter and patriot
Anita Kanwar : Lajoji (Lajwanti) : Haveliram’s wife
Sudhir Pandey : Lala Gaindamal :Haveliram’s father
Asha Sharma : Janko (Chai Ji) : Haveliram’s mother
Kiran Juneja : Veeravali / Pragyavati : Haveliram’s sister
Vijayendra Ghatge : Lala Brijbhaan : Veeravali’s love interest
Asha Sachdev : Shanno : Gaindamal’s elder daughter-in-law
Girija Shankar : Raliya Ram : Haveliram’s elder brother and Shanno’s husband
Rajesh Puri : Munshi Ji : Gaindamal’s accountant
Dalip Tahil : Bhushan (Kulbhushan) :Haveliram’s elder son
Soni Razdan : Lochan (Sulochana) : Haveliram’s elder daughter-in-law
Mazhar Khan : Roshan (Roshanlal) : Haveliram’s younger son
Kanwaljit Singh : Satbir Veeravali and Vrushbhaan’s illegitimate son
Abhinav Chaturvedi : Jay : Vrishbhan’s legitimate son
Krutika Desai : Mangla : Jay’s wife and Satbir’s love interest
Anjana Mumtaz : Subhadra : Vrushbhaan’s wife and Jay’s mother
Vinod Nagpal : Shyamlal : Subhadra’s family friend
Kamiya Malhotra : Babli : Jay’s secretary and love interest
Mangal Dhillon: Labhaya Ram : Raliya Ram’s son
Neesha Singh : Kanni : Labhaya’s niece
Neena Gupta : Rajjo : Roshan’s wife
Shernaz Patel : Kukki : Kulbhushan’s elder daughter Antariksh Mathur : Kaka : Satbir’s son
