Samvidhaan: The Making of the Constitution of India is a ten-part television mini-series based on the making of the Constitution of India, directed by Shyam Benegal. The show premiered on 2 March 2014 on Rajya Sabha TV, with an episode scheduled to air every Sunday morning. The series can be viewed on YouTube on Rajya Sabha TV's channel.
Making
Shama Zaidi and Atul Tiwari are writers of the series. Zaidi said that it took her six months to write the script. The material came from debates, committee meetings and biographies of Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi. Many of the famous speeches of India's freedom fighters figure in the series. Swara Bhaskar has hosted and narrated the show. The series was shot in Film City, Mumbai and recreates the debates that took place before the drafting of the Constitution of India. Dayal Nihalani is the associate director of the mini-series. For the series, a replica of the Central Hall of Parliament during the time of the Constituent Assembly was set up.
The first look of Samvidhaan was unveiled on 24 September 2013. The first look was officially launched on 20 February 2014, the pen-ultimate day of 15th Lok Sabha by President Pranab Mukherjee in Parliament House, New Delhi. Music is composed by Shantanu Moitra.
Episodes
Cast
Rakesh Pandey as Sachchidananda Sinha
Sachin Khedekar as Dr. Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar
Dalip Tahil as Jawaharlal Nehru
Utkarsh Majumdar as Vallabhbhai Patel
Tom Alter as Abul Kalam Azad
Neeraj Kabi as Mahatma Gandhi
Kaizaad Kotwal as Frank Anthony
Ivan Rodrigues as P. Subbarayan
Shyam Kishore as Lakshmi Narayan Sahu
Devendra Sharma as Raibahadur Shyam Nandan Sahai
Ila Arun as Hansa Mehta
Amit Behl as C. Rajagopalachari
K. K. Raina as K. M. Munshi
Rajendra Gupta as Rajendra Prasad
Aanjjan Srivastav as Bal Krishna Sharma Naveen
Mohit Chauhan as Brajeshwar Prasad
Suzanne Bernert as a journalist
Narendra Jha as Muhammed Ali Jinnah
Divya Dutta as Purnima Banerjee
Rajeshwari Sachdev as Rajkumari Amrit Kaur
Rajit Kapur as Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer
Harish Patel as M. A. Ayyangar
Imran Hasnee as Nawab of Bhopal Hamidullah Khan
Kenneth Desai as Syama Prasad Mookerjee
Atul Tiwari as Govind Ballabh Pant
Deepika Amin as Renuka Ray
Shiv Kumar Subramaniam as N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar
Rahul Singh as J. B. Kripalani
Paresh Ganatra as K. T. Shah
Kanupriya Shankar Pandit as Sucheta Kriplani
Akash Khurana as Rohini Kumar Chaudhuri
Ravi Jhankal as Seth Govind Das
Salim Ghouse as V. I. Munuswamy Pillai
Saurabh Dubey (actor) as Mahavir Tyagi
Vijay Kashyap as B. Pocker Sahib Bahadur
Amit Singh Thakur as Liaquat Ali
Himani Shivpuri as Begum Aizaz Rasul
Lalit Mohan Tiwari as Shibban Lal Saxena
Natarajan Balkrishna as K. Hanumanthaiah
Denzil Smith as the Auctioneer
Anil Rastogi as Calcutta MP N. Ahmed
Narendra Sachar as Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
Screening
The series was telecasted on Rajya Sabha TV from 2 March 2014 at 10 AM (with repeats at 1PM & 10PM) every Sunday.