Buddha (TV series)
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Buddha — Rajaon Ka Raja (titled as Buddha — The King of Kings) is an Indian drama series which aired on Zee TV and DD National, produced by Bhupendra Kumar Modi, under the banner Spice Global.[1][2] The programme stars Kabir Bedi in a cameo role as Asita Muni, the sage who announces the coming of Gautama Buddha.[3] The story of the serial is based on the life of Gautama Buddha that shows how a prince, Siddhartha, became a Buddha.[4][5] The role of Mayadevi – scheduled to be played by Sameksha Singh – was replaced with Deepika Upadhyay.[6][7] Himanshu Soni played the lead role of Buddha,[8] while Kajal Jain played Siddhartha Gautama's wife Yaśodharā.[9] Earlier, Ashutosh Gowariker wanted to collaborate with Shekhar Kapur for a television series on Buddha.[10]
Buddha | |
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Also known as | Buddha – Rajaon ka Raja |
Genre | Historical drama |
Written by | Gajra Kottary Prakash Kapadia Puneet S. Shukla |
Starring | Himanshu Soni Kajal Jain Gungun Uprari Sanket Choukse Kabir Bedi Sameer Dharmadhikari Jagat Singh Reshmi Ghosh Siddharth Vasudev Amit Behl Hemant Choudhary |
Country of origin | India |
Original language | Hindi |
No. of episodes | 55 |
Production | |
Producer | Bhupendra Kumar Modi |
Cinematography | Veer Dhaval Puranik |
Running time | 1 hour |
Original release | |
Network | Zee TV DD National |
Release | 8 September 2013 (2013-09-08) – 21 September 2014 (2014-09-21) |