Award Winner : For his work in this serial, Sanjay Khan received the awards The Gem of India Award for Ex
1) The television series was produced by the company Numero Uno International which
was owned by Sanjay Khan.
2) Akbar Khan, the brother of Sanjay Khan, directed the first 20 episodes of the
serial for a period of 18 months.
3) The remaining episodes were directed by Sanjay Khan himself, and he also played
the leading role of Tipu Sultan. A total of 52 episodes were shot, some of them
in the Premier Studios in the city of Mysore in Karnataka. The serial was based
on a novel of the same name, written by the Montreal-based author Bhagwan S Gidwani.
4) The novel was a best-seller, having sold about 200 thousand copies, translated
into many languages and reprinted in 44 editions. Apart from being the author, Gidwani
also wrote the screenplay and script for the 60 episodes of the serial. The last
few episodes were shot after the fire accident, a few years later. Other prominent
actors who were chosen for this serial included Anant Mahadevan, Mukesh Rishi, Shahbaz
Khan and Deepika.