Harish Patel, Lalit Mohan Tiwari, Pallavi JoshiĪ street play based on the Epic of Gilgamesh is also depicted in the episode. Production designer Nitish Roy with assistants Samir Chanda and Nitin Desai built 144 sets. Jawaharlal Nehru was portrayed by Roshan Seth, the same role he portrayed in the film Gandhi. Its cast included Om Puri, Roshan Seth, Tom Alter and Sadashiv Amrapurkar. Murthy in 1988 for state-owned Doordarshan. The drama was directed, written and produced by Shyam Benegal with cinematographer V. 'India: An Exploration') is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book The Discovery of India (1946) by Jawaharlal Nehru that covers a 5,000-year history of India from its beginnings to independence from the British in 1947.