Many old connections arise out of nowhere and the buried past rises its head again, posing questions that challenge their long held beliefs. Masterji marrying a widow causes consternation in the neighbourhood.īut they raise a family of their dreams until the partition throws the wind out of sail. While Masterji and Lajoji are fired by idealism of the Arya Samaj to fight the British, his family members are steeped in the mundane issues of everyday life. The characters have their well-defined curves and are a mixed lot. The family is pushed to leave their home and on the way, Masterji goes missing and his wife Lajo reminisces the times leading to their marriage in 1916. The symbol of that unwillingness to accept the rot in public life was Master Haveliram (Alok Nath), who lived in Lahore with his wife Lajo (Anita Kanwar), his sons Bhushan (Dalip Tahil), Roshan (Mazhar Khan), Satbir (Kanwaljit Singh) and daughter-in-law Lochan (Soni Razdan). No one thought that they would leave their homes one night, never to return. Thats when Manohar Shyam Joshi brought out his magnum opus Buniyaad, the partition saga telling the transition of a Punjabi family from Lahore to Delhi.Ī time, when people on both sides believed that partition was just an alteration of the borders and people would continue living the way they did. The reels of Hum Log are supposed to be lost except the first episode.īut thanks to YouTube, I happened to see all the 105 episodes of Buniyaad and I was quite bowled over by the quality of writing seen in Indian television in its inchoate days.
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