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Kirdaar (2018)

Kirdaar poster
Country
India
Length
1 season, 9 episodes
Elsewhere
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How it feels

Each episode is a standalone short story adaptation from Indian writers in different languages. Famous actors play diverse characters in tales that explore human nature and relationships across different settings.

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What happens

Kirdaar is an Indian television series aired on DD National directed by Gulzar. It ran between 1993 and 1994, based on short stories written by different writers in different languages, mainly Urdu, Hindi and Bengali writers. The short stories were featured from writers like Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, Malti Joshi and Samaresh Basu. It starred Om Puri playing various characters in all the episodes and different actors in each episode like Surekha Sikri, Irrfan Khan, Reema Lagoo and Neena Gupta. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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