For a while now, critics have cited that Indian television needs a new lease of life. Maker of the gargantuan series, Bharat: Ek Khoj (based on Jawaharlal Nehru’s epic Discovery Of India) -- Shyam Benegal, is set to metamorphose the idiot box by January, 2014. Based on the making of the Constitution of India, the septuagenarian will recreate the debates that underwent into making the longest constitution in the sovereign world.

Shyam Benegal with Sachin Khedekar on the sets of Samvidhaan, the miniseries