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.
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 11 December 2011 to 4 March 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 Overall Season 1 1 11 December 2011 Raj Kapoor 2 2 18 December 2011 R.D. Burman 3 3 25 December 2011 Majrooh Sultanpuri 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 18 Nov 2012 – 10 Feb 2013. 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 Overall Season 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 2 November 2014 to 25 January 2015. Unlike other seasons, no lyricist was discussed, however, for the first time the life incidents of two singers were shared, instead of one. This season featured stories of stars like Nutan and Sanjeev Kumar, directors like Yash Chopra and singer Lata Mangeshkar.
Episode Date Portrait Personality Overall Season 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 was aired from 24 Sep 2017 – 17 Dec 2017. The season featured stories of artists like Rajendra Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, singer Asha Bhosle and composers Laxmikant Pyarelal. The final episode of this season was touted as a tribute to veteran actor Shashi Kapoor, who died thirteen days before the episode aired.
Episode Date Portrait Personality Overall Season 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 By popular demand, Season 5 ran from 8 December 2018. Final episode of this season was aired on 2 March 2019. It aired on 3 channels – Zee Anmol Cinema, Zee Bollywood and Zee Cinema HD. Two biographies featured in a single episode for the first time.
Episode Date Portrait Personality Overall Season 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 Bollywood Cinema of India Jaane Pehchaane with Javed Akhtar
References
External links Zee Classic official website Classic Legends Season 5 with Javed Akhtar