The show is based on the popular Gujarati novel 'Saraswatichandra', by Govardhanram Madhavaram Tripathi.

I am happy it happened,' he said.īhansali, who is known for creating dramas on a wide canvas like 'Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam', 'Devdas', 'Black' and others, has brought the same grandeur to his debut TV show, his first production for the small screen. I don't know how and when.It just happened. We are proud of what we have created,' Bhansali said. We have been working on it for a year or so with utmost honesty. It's for the first time that I am coming up with a TV show. 'It is a very special day in my life, in my almost 20 years of career. The show 'Saraswatichandra' was launched last night on its sets put up in Filmcity, in suburban Goregaon. But I felt doing a TV show would be better,' Bhansali told reporters here last night.

I felt TV was the best medium to explore it. There are almost double or triple audience for TV than for films. 'I think today TV has a bigger reach than films. Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who has adapted popular Gujarati novel 'Saraswatichandra' into a TV serial, said he actually wanted to make a film based on the subject but later felt television was a better medium.

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