![]() ![]() When Buniyaad went on to make more than a hundred episodes, it was BIG FUCKING DEAL. Television longevity was measured differently in the 80s. These days, we would call them both mini-series, but for some reason when I think back to the time, although I might consider Tamas a mini-series, I will not concede that Kashish was one, too. One of the shortest, most memorable TV shows was Kashish, a six-or-seven-or-eight-parter with Sudesh Berry and the really cute Malvika Tiwari. There are very few shows from the 80s that actually came back once they were done. You can't really call them seasons, because the one thing nice about TV shows in the 80s was that they were given a fixed number of episodes at the start: You could either go on for 13 weeks, which made you a medium-length show, or you could continue for 54 episodes, which would make you a Ramayan or a Khandaan. If you compare an "ordinary" American TV show to an Indian serial from the 80s, one striking difference is that back then, we never talked about "seasons". Indian shows at the time had only one "season", at best (or, as the case was sometimes, worst) two. An alphabetaized list of shows broadcast on Indian TV in the 80s ![]()
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