Buniyaad
| Buniyaad | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Soap Opera |
| Written by | Manohar Shyam Joshi |
| Directed by | |
| Starring | see below |
| Opening theme | "Buniyaad" by Anup Jalota |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of episodes | 105 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Amit Khanna |
| Cinematography | K.K. Mahajan |
| Editor | M.S. Shinde |
| Original release | |
| Network | DD National |
| Release | May 1986 – May 1987 |
Buniyaad (literally Foundation) is an Indian television soap opera directed by Ramesh Sippy[1] and Jyoti Sarup. The series was written by Manohar Shyam Joshi and dealt with the Partition of India in 1947 and its aftermath.[2] It first aired in 1986 on the Indian state television channel DD National. It was re-aired on DD Metro, DD Retro and Sahara One.[3]The story spans the life in India between 1916 and 1978.
Plot[edit]
Master Haveliram Khanna, a government school teacher, and his wife Lajwanti (Lajjo) were originally from Pindi. They lived with Haveliram's maternal uncle Atmaanand, his two biological sons - Kulbushan and Roshanlal - and his adopted son Satbir(Sat). Satvir was the illegitimate son of Atmanand's sister Veerawali and her lover Vrishbhan. They lived in Bicchowali Gali, Lahore in 1947 during the Partition of India. During the Partition, 3/4th of the Hindu population migrated from Lahore, as the Pakistan was created and minorities moved in forcefully to save their religion. Lajwanti sends his son Roshanlal to go for Okara to rescue Channi, Dammo, and Guru Dutt, relatives of Lajwanti's maternal family. Roshanlal's bus is looted near Shahdara Bagh. However, he reaches the DAV College Lahore Refugee Camp to save his life. Satbir went to Gaindamal in Gawalmandi Shop for his well-being. Lala Gaindamal originally came from Mandi Bahauddin in 1900, within 4 years. In 1904, he opened a shop in Anarkali Bazaar and owned a house in Kucha Radha Kishan of Old Lahore. Lochan's family migrated to Shimla in July 1947 and she forced Kulbushan to migrate to East Punjab, Dominion of India but Kulbhushan stayed in Lahore. Riots occurred in West Punjab where Hindus were killed by Muslim Mobs. Lajwanti and sons migrated to the New Independent Country of India in a convoy and she remembers the days in 1915 when she met Master Haveliram and remembers how Veerawali avoided relation come from Montgomery and Wazirabad. Lajwanti's uncle takes him away forcefully to Lajwanti in Pindi and sells him to an old drunkard as a bride, but destiny had something else in store and he died on the wedding night and she again came to Bicchowali in Lahore. Veerawali and Lajjo regularly meet each other in Shah Alami Gate. Again Ralliyaram came with a relation from Chak Jhumra and she again denied it. Veerawali likes Vrishbhan, who was from Delhi when he came to Lahore during a business trip with Veerawali's father. Lajjo and their sons, Kulbhushan, his pregnant wife Lochan, with his daughter and son, Roshan Lal and Satbir migrated towards India. Lochan gave birth to a baby girl when she crossed the Ravi and forced Kulbhushan to meet his father who was sick in Shimla, but Satbir said that all families of Korey Koot and most refugees migrated to Delhi as this is the capital of India where the refugee camps will be in a good condition and Kulbhushan said to his mother and brothers that you will wait for me in Ambala but Roshanlal said that we have perfect livelihood and employment opportunities in Delhi rather than in Shimla, finally Lajjo and her sons reached to the Purana Qila Refugee Camp in Delhi. In Purana Qila Refugee Camp lajjo meets with many people who came as refugees in Delhi from different cities of Punjab, Rawalpindi, Sheikhupura, and Sialkot. Bubbly, who was from Sheikhupura, lost her parents in riots and found her relatives when she worked as a list maker in different refugee camps like Kingsway Camp, Kashmiri Gate, Subzi Mandi, and Gandhi Maidan, became the love interest of JB but didn't married due to misunderstanding created by Shyamlal and heartbroken, she reached to Saharanpur but reached to Calcutta for work but betrayed by Dalpat and sell to hotel and work as a dancer and renamed as Barbie. Roshanlal and Satbir found Haveliram everywhere in all camps of Punjab from Ambala, Ludhiana, and Jalandhar. In Jalandhar they meet Munshi Khajanchand who sees Haveliram on a train heading towards Pathankot at Amritsar Railway Station. Haveliram which was lost in Lahore, was founded in Kashmir with the help of Nivedita Sengupta. Roshanlal received him from the Ambala Cantonment, but lost his memory but got back his memory when he again slipped from the stairs of a basement to see Habibullah, who hid himself from rioters. Haveliram was admitted to the hospital where he got his memory and asks him that he is in Mayo Hospital but Satbir tells him that he is in Irwin Hospital. He then asks where is Arvin Hospital in Lahore but tells him that he is in Delhi. Kulbhushan got a government quarter in Ludlow Castle, Delhi where the whole family shifted. Roshan Lal wants to marry a rich Bengali lady Nivedita for money. After some time, they got a house as a claim for the property, they left behind in Pakistan at Lajpat Nagar 1.
Cast[edit]
| Actor/Actress | Character | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Sudhir Pandey | Lala Gaindamal | Haveliram's father |
| Asha Sharma | Janko (Chai Ji) | Haveliram's mother |
| Rajesh Puri | Munshi Khajanchand | Gaindamal's accountant (munshi) |
| Bharti Achrekar | Ram-Pyari | Fruit-seller Ram-
Pyare's wife and Gaindamal's family acquaintance |
| Meher Mittal | Ram-Pyara | Fruit-seller Ram-pyari's husband and Gaindamal's family acquaintance |
| Girija Shankar | Raliya Ram | Haveliram's elder brother and Shanno's husband |
| Asha Sachdev | Shanno | Gaindamal's elder daughter-in-law |
| Mangal Dhillon | Labhaya Ram | Raliya Ram's son |
| Pallavi Joshi | Rano | Labhaya Ram's Wife |
| Neesha Singh | Kanni | Labhaya's niece and Pasho's daughter |
| Gayathri Burman | Pasho | Raliya Ram's only surviving daughter |
| Anjan Srivastav | Lala Dharamchand | Rano's Grandfather |
| Alok Nath | Master Haveliram | Freedom fighter and patriot |
| Anita Kanwar | Lajoji (Lajwanti) | Haveliram's wife |
| Goga Kapoor | Bhai Aatmaram | Lajwanti's uncle, Haveli Ram's mentor and fellow freedom fighter |
| Dalip Tahil | Bhushan (Kulbhushan) | Haveliram's elder son |
| Soni Razdan | Lochan (Sulochana) | Haveliram's elder daughter-in-law and Bhushan's wife |
| Rajan Haksar | Daddyji -Rai Bahadur Mewa Lal | Lochan's Father and Bhushan's Father-in-law |
| Sarita Sethi | Mommy Ji - Mohini Marasan | Lochan's mother and Bhushan's mother-in-law |
| Suresh Chatwal | Girdharilal | Lochan's stepbrother |
| Arun Bakshi | Kanwar | Play Director and Lochan's love interest |
| Shernaz Patel | Kukki | Kulbhushan's elder daughter |
| Mazhar Khan | Roshan (Roshanlal) | Haveliram's younger son |
| Neena Gupta | Rajjo | Roshan's wife |
| Leela Mishra | Chaachi | Rajjo's aunt and flat-owner |
| Natasha Sinha | Nivedita Sengupta | Roshan's first employer and love interest |
| Jayshree Arora | Mrs. Sengupta | Nivedita's Mother |
| Kiran Juneja | Veeravali in Lahore/ Pragyavati in Uttarkashi | Haveliram's sister |
| Sudhir Dalvi | Guruji | at Pragyavati's Uttarkashi Ashram |
| Vijayendra Ghatge | Lala Vrishbhan | Veeravali's love interest, Satbir's and Jay's biological father |
| Anjana Mumtaz | Subhadra | Vrishbhan's wife and Jay's mother |
| Kanwaljit Singh | Satbir | Veeravali and Vrishbhaan's illegitimate son, Haveliram and Lajjo's adopted son |
| Abhinav Chaturvedi | Jay Bhushan (Jay) | Vrishbhan's legitimate son, Kaka's biological father |
| Krutika Desai Khan | Mangla | Jay's wife and Satbir's lifelong love interest |
| Kamia Malhotra | Kanta Suri (Babli) in Sheikhupura -Delhi |Barbie in Calcutta | Jay's secretary and love interest, Kaka's biological mother |
| Antariksh Mathur | Kaka | Satbir's adopted son, Babli's biological son |
| Vikas Anand | Harsharandas | Mangla's Father |
| Zankhana Desai | Rajrani | Mangla's Mother |
| Vinod Nagpal | Shyamlal | Subhadra's family friend and distant relative |
| S. M. Zaheer | Habibullah | Vrishbhan's Lawyer and friend |
References[edit]
- ^ Venugopal, Vasudha (26 July 2016). "Director of hit TV drama Buniyaad, Ramesh Sippy, still not paid by Doordarshan". The Economic Times. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
- ^ "'Buniyaad' set to re-create the nostalgia of partition and popularity of old-world charm". Indian Television Dot Com. 25 July 2013.
- ^ "SaharaOne aims to tap Gen X with 'Buniyaad'". Indian Television Dot Com. 20 January 2006.
External links[edit]
- DD National original programming
- Indian television soap operas
- Partition of India in fiction
- 1986 Indian television series debuts
- 1980s Indian television series
- Television shows set in the British Raj
- Television shows set in Lahore
- Indian period television series
- Television shows set in Delhi
- 1987 Indian television series endings
- Indian political television series