A Mouthful of Sky was the first serial in English to be produced in India. Aired on the state-owned Doordarshan

DoorDarshan

Doordarshan is an Indian public service broadcaster, a division of Prasar Bharati. It is one of the largest broadcasting organizations in India in terms of the infrastructure of studios and transmitters. Recently, it has also started Digital Terrestrial Transmitters. On September 15, 2009,...

 TV channel and based on the script by Ashok Banker

Ashok Banker

Ashok Kumar Banker is a novelist and short story writer living in Mumbai, India. He has written professionally since his early teens, and has worked as a door-to-door surveyor for market research firms, a print journalist, columnist, scriptwriter for television series and documentaries, and in...

, the serial deals with the lives, loves, ideals and aspirations of the post-independence generation of Indians, people in their mid-thirties who straddle the twin worlds of conventional Indian society as well as the urban westernized ethos

Ethos

Ethos is a Greek word meaning "character" that is used to describe the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a community, nation, or ideology. The Greeks also used this word to refer to the power of music to influence its hearer's emotions, behaviors, and even morals. Early Greek stories of...

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Plot

The basic story is about five MBAs who reunite 13 years after graduation to confront a macabre secret from the past which a group of ruthless enemies use to try to destroy them. Woven into this crime-thriller structure are sub-plots dealing with urban Indians from various communities and their struggle to mix the inherent contradictions of their Indianness with their westernized outlook and language.

The show was directed by:

• Anant Balani
  Anant Balani
  Anant Balani was a Bollywood film director and screenwriter.He directed films such as Patthar Ke Phool in 1991 which starred Salman Khan. He also wrote the script for Insaaf: The Justice , released in 2004....
  
  
• Mahesh Bhatt
  Mahesh Bhatt
  Mahesh Bhatt , is a prominent Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.Bhatt's early directional career consisted of acclaimed films, such as Arth, Saaransh, Janam, Naam and Zakhm....
  
  
• Ajay Goel

Cast

• Rahul Bose
  Rahul Bose
  Rahul Bose is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, social activist, and rugby union player.Bose has appeared in Hindi films such as Pyaar Ke Side Effects and Jhankaar Beats. Time magazine named him "the superstar of Indian arthouse cinema" for his work in parallel cinema films like English,...
  
  
• Milind Soman
  Milind Soman
  Milind Soman is a Scottish-born Indian model and actor. He was born in Scotland and lived in England for seven years before his family moved back to India.-Professional life:...
  
  
• Samir Soni
  Samir Soni
  Samir Soni is an Indian actor and a model who appears in Bollywood films.- Biography :Soni was born on 1970 to a Punjabi Hindu family in London, United Kingdom and attended school at St. Xavier's School, Delhi...
  
  
• Ayesha Dharker
  Ayesha Dharker
  Ayesha Dharker is a British-Indian actress. She is known for her performance in the Tamil Indian film, The Terrorist , for which she was awarded Best Artistic Contribution by an Actress at the Cairo International Film Festival and nominated for a Chlotrudis Award and National Film Award for Best...
  
  
• Simone Singh
  Simone Singh
  Simone Singh, in Jamshedpur to a Sikh father and Bengali mother, is an Indian actress.She made her acting debut with the television series Sea Hawks followed by a small role in Swabhimaan, in 1995...
  
  
• Krutika Desai Khan
  Krutika Desai Khan
  Krutika Desai Khan, who sometimes also spells her name as Kruttika Desai, is the daughter of noted Stage personalty Late Shri Girish Desai. She is a popular Indian Film , Theater & Television actress. Krutika is married to Imtiaz Khan, the son of renowned Hindi film actor of the yester years,...
  
  
• Vikram Chopra
• Ranjeev Mulchandani
• Neesha Singh
• Shiuli Subaya
• Kushal Punjabi
  Kushal Punjabi
  Kushal Punjabi is an Indian film and television actor, who won the TV reality game show, Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout, the Indian version of internationally popular "Wipeout" in February 2011, taking home the prize of 5 million.-Early life and family:...
  
  
• Parvin Dabbas

External links

• A Mouthful Of Sky Excerpts