Kirdaar

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.

Kirdaar
Written by	Gulzar Samaresh Basu Malti Joshi Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi
Directed by	Gulzar
Starring	Om Puri
Opening theme	"Kirdaar" by Jagjit Singh
Composer	Jagjit Singh
Country of origin	India
Original languages	Hindi Urdu
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Running time	22–24 minutes
Original release
Network	DD National
Release	31 October 1993 (1993-10-31) – 23 January 1994 (1994-01-23)

Cast

• Om Puri
• Surekha Sikri^[3]
• Ananya Khare (credited as Priti Khare)
• Sadiya Siddiqui
• Bhupendra
• Nadira
• Irrfan Khan^[4]
• Neena Gupta
• Mita Vashisht
• Reema Lagoo
• Shahib Abbas
• Mita Vashisht

Episodes

• Alaan - Written by Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi
• Hisaab Kitaab - Written by Gulzar
• Haath Peele Kar Do - Written by Gulzar
• Khuda Hafiz - Written by Samaresh Basu
• Bel Nimbu - Written by Manoj Basu
• Culture - Written by Malti Joshi
• Sunset Boulevard Part 1 - Written by Gulzar
• Sunset Boulevard Part 2 - Written by Gulzar
• Mann Dhuan Dhuan - Written by Malti Joshi
• Mukhbir - Written by Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi
• Rehman ki Jutti - Written by Rajinder Singh Bedi
• Shikod - Written by Prafulla Roy
• Baba Noor - Written by Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi