My favourite TV serial ever!
A mind boggling, captivating screenplay
.
Above
average acting.
almosteveryone has done justice to
their bit in this story.
The setting/presentation, dialogs, story, characterisation, plot. definitely cater to the very niche
audience that is looking for un-daily-soap dramatics. on local TV.
Gist:
A family, The shastris, of 60 years ago, well-to-do,
zamindaars, money-lenders…
Raghunath Shastri - the zamindaar has three sons, one daughter.
The daughter’s husband is a wayward, evil rogue who lives with her on the ever supportive father-in-law’s estate taking care of the Shastri properties and businesses, while conveniently unhappy with his disabled wife.
A connected [read ’well-chained’] story of a servant [Sopan]. who’s been picked up by
this zamindaar [Raghunath Shastri] due to non payment of some petty loan by this guy’s poor farmer father. who’s
only eying the Shastri wealth and wants to acquire it by hook or crook! For revenge.
He takes help of a pretty head-strong Devdaasi [Indumati]. who is later insulted when exposed so vows to
finish off the Shastri ancestry/name completely.
dies . and takes birth again. only to slowly discover that
a lot others have also re-appeared on the screen to give the war a different
ending.
You can keep feeling the team’s efforts about small small details almost everywhere. although a lo.h.t of places have been left with bigggg holes. bad [read ’atrocious’] patches of acting by ’un’-supporting cast.
Direction goes for a six once in a while. but all A.A.A.A.L.L. L. is pardonable since we are talking about some sort of epic story.
Cast.
Every single [main or otherwise] character has done justice to his/her assignment.
Aadinath A.k.a. Mahadev - Umesh Kamat - Fantastic;
Shubhra a.k.a. Paarvati - Urmila Kanetkar - Superb;
Sulekha a.k.a. Indumati - Awesome awesome [!]
Aajoba a.k.a. Deenanath Shastri - Anand Abhyankar - fair, a little hammed at times though.
Sopan Aajoba - Suhas Bhalekar
Madhusudan Shastri - Pradeep Velankar
Vasudha Shastri - Ila Bhate
Balakrishna Shastri - Shailesh Datar
Poonam Shastri - Sulekha Talvalkar
Mrs. Raut - Meenal Naik
Kusum Aatya - Amita Khopkar
Nikhil Shastri - Aswad Kale
Yashwantrao Saranjame - Kishore Kadam [ This man’s a phenomenon!]
Abhimaan Saranjame - Chinmay Mandlekar [ Dialog writer: AWSOME!]
Inspector Vikram Bhosale: Also the direcor of this serial - Satish Rajwade
Dr. Samant: Sunil Barve
Priya - Sharvari Patankar
Chandrakant Shastri - Saagar Talashikar
Radha Shastri - Ashwini Ekbote
Prathamesh Shastri - Anirrudha Devdhar
Vishnu kaka - Anil Gawas
Swapnil Kshirsagar- Ashutosh Kulkarni
Kshipra Khanvilkar - Sujata Joshi
Ramakant Khot - .
Shubhra’s mother - YIKES!
Parmeshwar [Godrej? LOL] - Hridaynath Rane
Bhagirathi - Seema Deshmukh
Bhalchandra - Ashok Shinde
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Oh. and don’t miss the title song! Sung by Swapnil Bandodkar. written by Guru Thakur and Madhusudan Joshi. Fantastic.
A MUST MUST MUSTTTTTT watch if you know Marathi well and of course, if some suspense gets those grey cells ticking.