''Mahakavi'' is an Indian television documentary series, hosted by poet

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on Hindi news channel

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. It premiered on 5 November 2016. Prior to the begin of the series, a curtain raiser of the series was aired on 28 October 2016. It aims to bring to the audience life-story, poems and never-seen-before facts about legendary Indian poets. The weekly programme chronicles the life sketch of ten Hindi poets of twentieth century. The TV series is hosted by the renowned poet

. The series is directed by Puneet Sharma and scripted by Prabudha Saurabh. The poems of the legendary poets have been treated with the music. While the composition of music has been done by

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himself, the music has been arranged by his team Band Poetica. It is a unique attempt to present the lives of legendary poets with reconstruction and music. ''Mahakavi'' is aired every Saturday 10 pm and Sunday at 10 am and 10 pm. The series would include 10 legendary poets,

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and

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Agyey. The episode featuring the story of

was aired on 5 November 2016. The second episode featured the story of poet

on 12 November 2016. The third episode was aired on 19 November 2016 and carried the story of poet

Reception

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and TV actor Asif Sheikh, RJ Raunac, Singer

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music director

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actor

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, Deputy Chief Minister of

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, Author and RJ

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chief Yashwant Deshmukh, Bollywood actor

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Social media

The show was an instant hit and created a lot of curiosity on the internet, so much so that #महाकवि trended on Twitter on first spot on 6 November 2016.

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