Punyi Pukur
Punyi Pukur | |
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Genre | Drama Romance |
Created by | Magic Moments Motion Pictures |
Written by | Leena Gangopadhyay |
Directed by | Saibal Banerjee Snehashish Jana |
Starring | Monami Ghosh Koushik Roy Aparajita Adhya |
Voices of | Madhuraa Bhattacharya |
Opening theme | "Punyi Pukur" |
Composer | Debojyoti Mishra |
Country of origin | India |
Original language | Bengali |
No. of episodes | 491 |
Production | |
Producer | Saibal Banerjee |
Production location | Kolkata |
Production company | Magic Moments Motion Pictures |
Release | |
Original network | Star Jalsha |
Picture format | 576i SDTV 1080i HDTV |
Original release | 7 December 2015 28 May 2017 | –
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Jol Nupur |
Followed by | Bhojo Gobindo |
External links | |
Official Website |
Punyi Pukur was a Bengali television soap that premiered on 7 December 2015 On Star Jalsha and aired every day at 9:30 PM IST.[1][2] It was produced by Magic Moments Motion Pictures, and starred Monami Ghosh and Koushik Roy in lead roles and Aparajita Adhya, Bharat Kaul and Anushree Das among others in prominent supporting roles; while Debaparna Chakraborty essayed a negative role. The show replaced the popular show Jol Nupur.
Plot[]
Punyi Pukur follows the story of Kankon at her in-laws' house and how her relationship with her in-laws take turns with time. It is a story of Kankon, who lives in a village and since she was not getting married, Kankon and her mother, Hoimonti always had to listen her uncle's taunts. Kankon's father is tracking lover and gets missing from her birth. Kankon's aunt Basumati and her sister Chhuti is always in favor of Kankon. Kankon is very much interested in idol making from a localite, Biswanath, who has a past. Later, Kankon marries into a wealthy house in Kolkata.
Kankon's husband Somudro is a professor at a college and with time falls in love with Kankon. Kankon too loves him, but both, due to their ego and pride do not confess to each other. Meanwhile, Somudro doubts Kankon's childhood acquaintance, Riju to be Kankon's lover. It is revealed that Kankon's marriage was fixed to Riju but it never happened. Kankon does not love Riju, but Somudro keeps on doubting her. And, in order to make Kankon feel jealous, he tells her that his friend Sayoni and he are in love with each other. Kankon is very much hurt but does not give in, thinking that she is a village girl and unworthy of him.
To make Kankon even more jealous, he brings Sayoni home and asks Sayoni to act as his lover and act as if they would be marrying each other. Sayoni is revealed to be in love with Somudro since a long time. But Somudro has never considered Sayoni anything more than a friend. On the day of Somudro's birthday, in front of everyone, Sayoni attempts to put a ring on Somudro's finger. But Somudro immediately pulls his hand away and in front of everybody grabs Kankon's hand and confesses his love for her.
Cast[]
Main[]
- Monami Ghosh as Kankaboti Banerjee aka Knakon, Samudra's wife.
- Koushik Roy as Prof. Samudraneel Banerjee aka Pupul, Kankon's husband.
Recurring[]
Banerjee family / Samudra's family
- Aparajita Adhya[3] as Radharani Banerjee aka Radha - Debjit's first wife, Shrestha's elder cousin sister and Samudra's step/adoptive mother.(deceased)
- Bharat Kaul as Barrister Debjit Banerjee - Samudra's father, Radha and Shrestha's husband.
- Anushree Das as Barrister Shrestha Banerjee - Debjit's second wife, Radha's younger cousin, Samudra's mother.
- Ambarish Bhattacharya as Chandrajit Banerjee - Debjit's younger brother, Samudra's uncle.
- Rajanya Mitra as Koyel Banerjee - Chandrajit's wife, Samudra's aunt.
- as Shahana Ganguly - Debjit's younger sister, Atri's mother.
- as Saanji Banerjee - Debjit-Shrestha's daughter, Radha's step/adoptive daughter, Samudra's elder sister and Sourav's wife.
- as Sourav - Saanjhi's husband and Samudra's brother-in-law.
- Koushik Roy as Prof. Samudraneel Banerjee aka Pupun - Debjit-Shrestha's son, Radha's step/adoptive son, Saanji's younger brother and Kankon's husband.
- Monami Ghosh as Kankaboti Banerjee aka Kankon - Samudra's wife.
- Koushik Roy as Ronnie Golmes/Banerjee - Twin brother of Samudra estranged at birth.
- as Atri Ganguly - Shahana's son, Samudra's younger cousin brother.
- Nabanita Malakar as Aratrika Banerjee aka Mimi - Atri's wife and Samudra's sister in law.
- as Joyeeta Banerjee aka Jiya - Chandrajit-Koyel's daughter, Smudra and Saanji's younger cousin sister, briefly Sourav's unwilling wife.
Mukherjee family / Kankon's family
- Chandan Sen as Chandra Shekhar Mukherjee - Kankon's father, Hoimonti's husband, estranged for a long period.
- as Hoimonti Mukherjee - Kankon's mother, Chandra Shekhar's wife.
- as Shyam Shankar Mukherjee - Chandra Shekhar's younger brother and Kankon's uncle, Basumati's husband.
- Rita Dutta Chakraborty as Basumati Mukherjee - Shyam Shankar's wife, Chhuti's mother, Kankon's aunt.
- Monami Ghosh as Kankaboti Banerjee (née Mukherjee) aka Kankon - Chandra Shekhar-Hoimonti's daughter, Samudra's wife.
- Koushik Roy as Prof. Samudraneel Banerjee aka Pupun - Kankon's husband.
- as Debasree Banerjee aka Chhuti - Shyam Shankar-Basumati's daughter, Kankon's younger cousin sister.
- Sourav Das as Sarbajit Majumdar - Chhuti's husband.
Others[]
- Santu Mukherjee as Bishwanath Pal aka Bishu - Radha's elder brother-like man, a sculptor.
- as Goutam Majumdar - Sarbajit's uncle.
- Sreela Majumdar as Saswati Majumdar - Sarbajit's aunt.
- as Dr. Dasgupta - Radha's sworn younger brother.
- Debaparna Chakraborty as Sayani Ghosh - Pupun's friend, who wants to marry him.
- Shankar Chakraborty as Aratrika's father.
- Rahul Dev Bose in episodic role in episode 1
References[]
- ^ "Punyi Pukur". Hotstar.
- ^ "Women's panel receives plaint on 'regressive' Bangla TV soaps". The Times of India. 19 March 2017.
- ^ "TV celebs speak against body shaming". The Times of India. 10 March 2018.
- 2015 Indian television series debuts
- 2017 Indian television series endings
- Bengali-language television programming in India
- Star Jalsha original programming