Classic Legends

Classic Legends is an Indian television Hindi entertainment show based on the notable and talented people of the Hindi film industry. The first four seasons of the show were aired on Zee Classic. The fifth season airs on Zee Anmol Cinema, Zee Bollywood and Zee Cinema HD. The show is presented by popular Bollywood lyricist, Javed Akhtar. In the show, Javed Akhtar explores the lives of great artists from the golden era of Bollywood who graced the silverscreen with their powerful performances. The first season of show premièred on 11 December 2011 followed by four other seasons.[1][2][3]

Classic Legends
Title card of Season 5
GenreNon-fiction
Presented byJaved Akhtar
Country of originIndia
Original languageHindi
No. of seasons5
No. of episodes65
Production
ProducerEssel Vision Productions
Running time40 mins (approx.; seasons 1, 3 & 4)
50 mins (approx.; seasons 2 & 5]
Release
Picture format
Original release11 December 2011 (2011-12-11) –
2 March 2019 (2019-03-02)

Each episode takes on one artist while the series covers people who were popular actors, actresses, music composers, directors, singers and lyricists.

Season 1

The series is presented by Javed Akhtar. Every season has a total of 13 episodes, each exploring the life of a famous personality from the Hindi film Industry. The first season was aired from Dec 11, 2011-Mar 4, 2012. The season featured stories of a variety of people from the film industry ranging from Raj Kapoor to Guru Dutt, Nargis to Kishore Kumar and lyricists like Sahir Ludhianvi to name a few.

Episode Date Portrait Personality
OverallSeason
1 1 11 December 2011 Raj Kapoor
2 2 18 December 2011 Majrooh Sultanpuri
3 3 25 December 2011 R.D. Burman
4 4 1 January 2012 Kishore Kumar
5 5 8 January 2012 Nargis
6 6 15 January 2012 Bimal Roy
7 7 22 January 2012 Vijay Anand
8 8 29 January 2012 Ashok Kumar
9 9 5 February 2012 Sahir Ludhianvi
10 10 12 February 2012 Mehboob Khan
11 11 19 February 2012 Madhubala
12 12 26 February 2012 Guru Dutt
13 13 4 March 2012 Shammi Kapoor

Season 2

After an overwhelming response to the first season, the second season was aired barely eight months after the first season ended. The season was aired from Nov 18, 2012-Feb 10, 2013.[4] In this season, Dilip Kumar's biography was extended to the next episode.So, instead of 13, biography of 12 personalities was shared. The season featured the anecdotes from the life of actors like Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand, singer Mohammad Rafi and lyricist Shailendra. Meena Kumari was the only actress whose story featured in this season.

Episode Date Portrait Personality
OverallSeason
14 1 18 November 2012 S.D. Burman
15 2 25 November 2012 Meena Kumari
16 3 2 December 2012 Dev Anand
17 4 9 December 2012 Dilip Kumar
18 5 16 December 2012
19 6 23 December 2012 Mohammad Rafi
20 7 30 December 2012 Anand Bakshi
21 8 6 January 2013 Hrishikesh Mukherjee
22 9 13 January 2013 Chetan Anand
23 10 20 January 2013 Shailendra
24 11 27 January 2013 Sunil Dutt
25 12 3 February 2013 Nasir Hussain
26 13 10 February 2013 Pran

Season 3

The season three was aired from Nov 2, 2014-Jan 25, 2015. Unlike other seasons, no lyricist was discussed, however, for the first time the life incidents of two singers were shared, instead of one.[5] This season featured stories of stars like Nutan and Sanjeev Kumar, directors like Yash Chopra and singer Lata Mangeshkar.

Episode Date Portrait Personality
OverallSeason
27 1 2 November 2014 Yash Chopra
28 2 9 November 2014 Sanjeev Kumar
29 3 16 November 2014 Shankar Jaikishan
30 4 23 November 2014 Mehmood Ali
31 5 30 November 2014 Mukesh
32 6 7 December 2014 Dharmendra
33 7 14 December 2014 Lata Mangeshkar
34 8 21 December 2014 Manoj Kumar
35 9 28 December 2014 Madan Mohan
36 10 4 January 2015 Nutan
37 11 11 January 2015 Manmohan Desai
38 12 18 January 2015 O.P. Nayyar
39 13 25 January 2015 Waheeda Rehman

Season 4

After a gap of more than two years, the fourth season[6] was aired from Sep 24, 2017-Dec 17, 2017. The season featured stories of artists like Rajendra Kumar, Vyjayanthimala,[7] singer Asha Bhosle and composers Laxmikant Pyarelal. The final episode of this season was touted as a tribute to veteran actor Shashi Kapoor who passed away thirteen days before the episode aired.[8]

Episode Date Portrait Personality
OverallSeason
40 1 24 September 2017 Balraj Sahni
41 2 1 October 2017 Asha Parekh
42 3 8 October 2017 Rajendra Kumar
43 4 15 October 2017 Asha Bhosle
44 5 22 October 2017 Laxmikant Pyarelal
45 6 29 October 2017 Kalyanji Anandji
46 7 5 November 2017 Vyjayanthimala
47 8 12 November 2017 Hemant Kumar
48 9 19 November 2017 Ravi
49 10 26 November 2017 Sadhana Shivdasani
50 11 3 December 2017 Shakeel Badayuni
51 12 10 December 2017 Rajendra Krishan
52 13 17 December 2017 Shashi Kapoor

Season 5

With the show doing fabulously well and on popular demand, the show was back with Season 5 commencing from 8 December 2018. It airs on 3 channels - Zee Anmol Cinema, Zee Bollywood and Zee Cinema HD. For the first time, biography of not one but two people featured in a single episode. Final episode of this season was aired on 2 March 2019.

Episode Date Portrait Personality
OverallSeason
53 1 8 December 2018 Rishi Kapoor
Sridevi
54 2 15 December 2018 Mumtaz
S.H. Bihari
55 3 22 December 2018 Ajit
Khayyam
56 4 29 December 2018 Om Prakash
Manna Dey
57 5 5 January 2019 Nirupa Roy
Wajahat Mirza
58 6 12 January 2019 Amrish Puri
Anu Malik
59 7 19 January 2019 Leela Mishra
Basu Chatterjee
60 8 26 January 2019 C. Ramchandra
Raja Mehdi Ali Khan
61 9 2 February 2019 Hasrat Jaipuri
Talat Mahmood
62 10 9 February 2019 Mukhram Sharma
Nadira
63 11 16 February 2019 Amiya Chakravarty
Hema Malini
64 12 23 February 2019 Mala Sinha
Ravindra Jain
65 13 2 March 2019 Jaya Bachchan
Prakash Mehra

See also

References
  1. "'I can share unpublished things about Bollywood legends': Javed Akhtar". newKerala.com. 15 December 2011.
  2. "Now, Javed Akhtar to host TV show". rediff.com. 9 December 2011.
  3. "Hindi Cinema Owes Its Glory To Its Classic Legends, Says Javed Akhtar". news18.com. 21 September 2017.
  4. "Zee Classic returns with 'Classic Legends Season 2'". bestmediainfo.com. 9 November 2012.
  5. "Zee Classic is back with 'Classic Legends Season 3'". bestmediainfo.com. 31 October 2014.
  6. "Why Asha Parekh Was A Notorious Child". news18.com. 29 September 2017.
  7. "Zee Classic to highlight Vyjayanthimala's journey on Classic Legends Season 4". televisionpost.com. 1 November 2017.
  8. "A tribute to Shashi Kapoor". Tribune. 16 December 2017.
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