Jai Kali Kalkattawali

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Jai Kali Kalkattawali
Title Poster of Jai Kali Kalkattawali
Genre	Soap opera Crime Thriller
Created by	Shree Venkatesh Films
Written by	Concept Star Jalsha Creative Team Screenplay Sarbari Ghosal Dialogues Sourab Sengupta
Directed by	Sayan Dasgupta Swarnendu Samaddar
Creative director	Sahana Dutta
Starring	Ananya Chatterjee Biswanath Basu
Opening theme	Jai Kali Kalkattawali
Composer	Upali Chattopadhyay
Country of origin	India
Original language	Bengali
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	661
Production
Producers	Shrikant Mohta Mahendra Soni
Production location	Kolkata
Running time	22 minutes
Production company	Shree Venkatesh Films
Release
Original network	Star Jalsha
Picture format	576i SDTV 1080i HDTV
Original release	24 July 2017 (2017-07-24) – 1 June 2019 (2019-06-01)
Chronology
Preceded by	Agnijal
Followed by	Sreemoyee
External links
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Jai Kali Kalkattawali (Bengali: জয় কালী কালকাত্তায়ালি yāi kālī kālakāttāy.āli) is an Indian Bengali language anthology crime "Chalo Paltai" drama series that premiered on 24 July 2017 starring Ananya Chatterjee and Biswanath Basu (who were also shown as a couple Probodh and Subarna in Zee Bangla's Subarnalata). It was produced by Shree Venkatesh Films, one of the biggest production houses in Eastern India. It went off-air on 1 June 2019, airing 661 episodes. It was re-aired on Star Jalsha and Star Jalsha HD during lockdoown period, due to COVID-19.

This show marked the comeback of Ananya Chatterjee in the television industry after five years.

Plot[]

Abhaya is a detective who also a devotee of Goddess Kali, and a saviour in disguise for women. Abhaya was brought up by her in-laws when she was just six after her mother's death due to domestic violence and her father was a priest of the Mukherjees and he died after leaving her to her in-laws' place.

The show starts with Abhaya's childhood where Abhaya goes to pray Goddess Kali but she sees her mother facing domestic violence and was murdered and burned in fire, which she saw it as a terrible dream. She suddenly wakes up but the dream of her mother's death constantly reminds her. She is also a devotee of Goddess Kali and a housewife of the Mukherjees. Sometimes, to catch criminals, she disguises herself.

As she confronts the it follows the story of Abhaya, a docile homemaker from a traditional Bengali family who crusades against injustice against women. It shows how she uses her skills to solve crimes and catch criminals while looking after her family.

The show ended with Radharani fixing time bomb in Abhaya's chair, where Abhaya successfully wins, and Radharani dies and at the very end, it was shown Abhaya saying a few words.

Cast[]

Main[]

• Ananya Chatterjee as Abhaya Mukherjee aka Mishti - Sarada's daughter, Khokon's wife, Animesh and Bharati's second daughter in-law, Gungun and Topor's mother, a detective
• Biswanath Basu as Tathagata Mukherjee aka Khokon - Animesh and Bharati's second son, Gungun and Topor's father, Abhaya's husband, Bochon's younger brother, Buri and Tojon's elder brother, a police officer
• as Sarbani Mukherjee aka Buri - Animesh and Bharati's only daughter and the third child of Animesh and Bharati; Bochon and Khokon's younger sister and Tojon's elder sister

Recurring[]

• Manasi Sinha as Bharati Mukherjee - Bochon, Khokon, Buri and Tojon's mother; Abhaya and Mahua's mother-in-law; Phuljhuri, Gungun and Topor's paternal grandmother, Animesh's wife
• Manishankar Banerjee as Animesh Mukherjee - Bochon, Khokon, Buri and Tojon's father; Abhaya and Mahua's father in-law; Phuljhuri, Gungun and Topor's paternal grandfather, Bharati's husband
• Mita Chatterjee as Animesh's paternal aunt aka Pishithamma
• as Hema Malini - Bochon, Khokon, Buri and Tojon's paternal grandmother; Abhaya and Mahua's paternal grandmother in-law; Bharati's mother-in-law; Phuljhuri, Gungun and Topor's great-grandmother, Animesh's mother
• Ranita Mukherjee as Banasali Mukherjee aka Mahua - Animesh and Bharati's eldest daughter-in-law, Phuljhuri's mother, Bochon's wife. She is jealous of Abhaya.
• Oindrila Saha as Kaushiki Mukherjee aka Phuljhuri - Bochon and Mahua's daughter, Gungun and Topor's elder cousin sister, Animesh and Bharati's eldest granddaughter
• Tanish Chakraborty as Topor - Abhaya and Khokon's son, Animesh and Bharati's grandson, Gungun's younger brother, Phuljhuri's cousin brother
• Sandip Chakraborty as Bochon Mukherjee - Animesh and Bharati's eldest son, Phuljhuri's father, Mahua's husband; Khokon, Buri and Tojon's elder brother, Abhaya's brother-in-law
• Sampurna Mondal / Saheli Ghosh Ray as Ishani Mukherjee aka Gungun - Abhaya and Khokon's daughter, Phuljhuri's younger cousin sister, Topor's elder sister
• as Swagato Mukherjee aka Tojon - Animesh and Bharati's youngest son as well as the youngest child
• Bhaswar Chatterjee as Baba Biswalok (later disguised as Priyajit Sarkar, a magician, only to seek revenge from Abhaya)
• Annwesha Hazra as Amrita^[1]
• Suman Banerjee as Amaresh Sengupta
• Bhaskar Banerjee as Bhaskar Ganguly
• Priyanka Bhattacharjee as Shruti, Buri's student
• Chandrayee Ghosh as Radharani - A corrupt self-proclaimed godwoman (Deceased)
• Moyna Banerjee as Sarada - Abhaya's biological mother (Deceased)
• Rii Sen as Damayanti Bose - Film actress (Deceased) ^[2]
• Tramila Bhattacharya as Mithila, a police officer
• Joyjit Banerjee as a fellow Inspector^[3]
• Priyanka Halder as Rikhiya, Amaresh's girlfriend
• Diya Chakraborty as Upanita and Upasana (double role)
• Manali Dey as Manjari
• Sarmistha Acharjee as Pooja
• Tanuka as Basundhara (Deceased)
• Debchandrima Singha Roy as Ira
• Raja Ghosh
• Rajiv Bose
• Aritra Dutta
• Anindita Raychaudhury
• Sritama Dey
• Tumpa Ghosh as Tanushree
• Nabonita Dey as Riyaa.
• Adrija Roy as Diya Singha - Barnali and Durjoy's daughter (Deceased)
• Sohini Sanyal as Barnali Singha - Diya's mother, Durjoy's wife
• Joy Badlani as Durjoy Singha - Diya's father, Barnali's wife
• Sagarika Roy
• Aishi Bhattacharya
• Ujjwal Malakar
• Nandini Chatterjee as Nivedita Palit - Pooja's mother in-law
• Moushumi Priya Debnath as Pia
• Sayanta Modak as Korok, Pia's husband
• Sreetama Bhattacharya as Sudipa
• Geetashree Roy as Rikia
• Payel Dey as Ritoja
• Pratyusha Paul as Ranja
• Sonalee Chaudhuri as Chandni
• Aindrila Sharma^[4] as Poulomi
• Aishwarya Sen as Paromita
• Samrat Mukherji as Animesh
• Alivia Sarkar as Linda
• Rajesh kr Chattopadhyay as Ajay
• Trina Saha as Keya
• Ushasi Ray as Muniya
• Jasmine Roy as Swati - Sandip's wife and Goutam's love interest
• Farhan Imroze^[5]as Sandip - Swati's husband /Fake Sandip or Goutam, Rini's husband and Swati's love interest
• Aemila Sadhukan as Rini, Goutam's wife
• Soumitrisha Kundu as Raka
• Sohan Bandyopadhyay
• Debdut Ghosh
• Doly Basu
• Kushal Chakraborty
• Anirban Guha
• Phalguni Chatterjee
• Ritoja Majumder
• Vivaan Ghosh
• Animesh Bhaduri as Sukumar- Sarbani's love interest
• Sourav Chatterjee
• Saptarshi Roy as corrupted principal
• Ratan Sharkel as toffee seller
• Kanyakumari Mukherjee
• Arnab Banerjee
• Judhajit Banerjee

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