Shyam Benegal: Making of ‘Bharat Ek Khoj’

Few filmmakers have dealt with themes from Indian History as well as Shyam Benegal has. In the 1980s Benegal made one of the finest series ever done on the subject, Bharat ek Khoj based on The Discovery of India by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. On Nehru’s death anniversary, here is Benegal on what it taught him.