Katha Sagar

Katha Sagar (translation:"A Sea of Stories") is an Indian television series that aired on DD National in 1986. The series featured a collection of stories by writers from around the world, including Katherine Mansfield, Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, O. Henry, and Anton Chekhov. Each episode was directed by one of eight well known Indian directors, including Shyam Benegal, Kundan Shah, Ved Rahi and Satyen Bose. Most of the stories in the series were one-episode long.

Many years after its original run, the series was again produced by Prem Krishen Malhotra and Sunil Mehta, founders of "Cinevista Communications Limited".

Plot
The series included about 37 stories based on different titles like "Fear" by Guy de Maupassant, "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol, "A Cup of Tea" by Katherine Mansfield, "Where Love Is, God Is" by Leo Tolstoy, and many others. Some of the stories were adapted to fit an Indian context but the adaptation embodied the essence of the original story very well.

Cast

 * Sharmila Tagore
 * Shammi Kapoor
 * Om Puri
 * Saeed Jaffrey
 * Tiku Talsania
 * Ashok Kumar
 * Utpal Dutt
 * Waheeda Rehman
 * Moushumi Chatterjee
 * Marc Zuber
 * Kulbhushan Kharbanda
 * Anjan Srivastav
 * Kiran Kumar
 * Kitu Gidwani
 * Archana Puran Singh
 * Mangal Dhillon
 * Shashi Puri
 * Vijayendra Ghatge
 * Vikram Gokhale
 * Raza Murad
 * Parikshit Sahni
 * Beena
 * Neena Gupta
 * Suresh Oberoi
 * Pallavi Joshi
 * Supriya Pathak
 * Bindu
 * Rohini Hattangadi
 * Vishnu Sharma
 * Radha Seth
 * Satish Kaushik
 * Bharat Bhushan
 * Satyen Kappu
 * Benjamin Gilani
 * Lucky Ali
 * Ajit Vachani
 * Harish Patel
 * K. K. Raina
 * Iftekhar
 * A. K. Hangal
 * Anjana Mumtaz
 * Irrfan Khan
 * Ravi Jhankal
 * Pankaj Berry
 * Rajendra Gupta
 * Lalit Tiwari
 * Sulbha Deshpande
 * Dina Pathak
 * Sulabha Arya
 * Rama Vij
 * Naresh Suri
 * Urmila Matondkar
 * Shreeram Lagoo
 * Meera Madhuri
 * Suresh Oberoi