# Samvidhaan

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

| Episode No. | Episode Name |
| 1 | The First Step: Cabinet Mission To Objectives Resolution |
| 2 | Independence: A Divided Legacy |
| 3 | Independent India: Righting Fundamental Wrongs with Fundamental Rights |
| 4 | People's Rights, Principles of Governance and Duties |
| 5 | Strengthening The Weak: Minority, Women and Backward Rights |
| 6 | Whose Land Is It?: Land Reforms And Acquisition |
| 7 | Link Language: Hindi Or Hindustani? |
| 8 | Federalism: Linking The States And The Centre |
| 9 | Three Pillars: Executive, Legislature, Judiciary |
| 10 | From Preamble to the Final Draft and beyond |

## 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.