Kirdaar

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Kirdaar
Written by Gulzar
Samaresh Basu
Malti Joshi
Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi
Directed byGulzar
Starring Om Puri
Opening theme"Kirdaar" by Jagjit Singh
ComposerJagjit Singh
Country of originIndia
Original languagesHindi
Urdu
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes13
Production
Running time22–24 minutes
Original release
Network DD National
Release31 October 1993 (1993-10-31) 
23 January 1994 (1994-01-23)

Kirdaar is an Indian television series aired on DD National directed by Gulzar. [1] It ran between 1993 and 1994, based on short stories written by different writers in different languages, mainly Urdu, Hindi and Bengali writers. [2] The short stories were featured from writers like Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, Malti Joshi and Samaresh Basu. It starred Om Puri playing various characters in all the episodes and different actors in each episode like Surekha Sikri, Irrfan Khan, Reema Lagoo and Neena Gupta.

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