Malgudi Days by R.K. Narayan - TV Series
Let me share my all time favourite short story in the form of TV serial.
Malgudi Days by R. K. Narayan (October 10, 1906 - May 13, 2001)
I have already written an article about him. Check here.
Malgudi Days
Collection of Narayan’s short stories. All the stories are taken place in a fictional town called Malgudi.
It is one of my childhood favourite stories in those days.Since I was unable to understand novels much my interest was to read short stories.
Narayan’s stories are always very simple in nature, the characters look very natural and realistic.
In the end of 70s and beginning of 80s, Doordarshan (a public broadcast Terrestrial television channel run by Prasar Bharati, a board nominated by the Government of India) use to broadcast many famous stories from independent producers and directores to popularize telivision serials. Malgudi days was one of those successful collective programme.
Directed by Kannada actor Late Shankar Nag and produced by T.S. Narasimhan of the Padam Rag Films. The whole serial was shot near Agumbe in Shimoga District, Karnataka, The serial was shote with great artist of that time.
In this program, my preference is not only with the story but the title music , the cartoon.
The music was composed by T.S. Vaidyanathan and the cartoons drawn none other than R.K. Lakshman: Narayan’s own brother.
Let me sharing some stories of this TV serials from You Tube. Thanks to people who shared this.
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That was a good and informative post. It brought back nostalgic memories of my childhood when i saw 3 episodes of Malgudi days. However, i remember only one episode where the main character wins a tractor as a prize and events unfold as he tries to get rid of the tractor fearing it to be a burden rather than a boon.
Thank you for the wonderfull post.
Hi Raj,
It was an interesting article. It gave me an oppurtunity to re-visit my memory on malgudi days, as everyone I too enjoyed the title music and it’s cartoons, I recently saw few episodes in Pogo wanted to view all of them, but mmm…could’nt find time. Thanks again for helping me re-collect those wonder ful child hood days.
thanks for this. i was search these videos. also you can swami & friends TV series here.
http://in.youtube.com/view_pla.....amp;page=2
thanks again for sharing.