Punyi Pukur
| Punyi Pukur | |
|---|---|
 | |
| 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(s) | Debojyoti Mishra |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language(s) | Bengali |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 491 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Saibal Banerjee |
| Production location(s) | Kolkata |
| Production company(s) | 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 is a Bengali television soap that premiered on 7 December 2015 On Star Jalsha and aired everyday 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 have 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. Time goes away and Kankon gets married to a wealthy house in Kolkata. Will Kankon be accepted by her mothers-in-law? How will be her equation with her husband?
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 jealoue, 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 is not worthy of him.
To make Kankon even more jealous, he brings Sayoni home and asks Sayoni to act as his lover and 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 seen Sayoni more than a friend. On the day of Somudro's birthday, in front of every day, 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 Cast
- Monami Ghosh as Kankaboti Banerjee aka Kankon - Main Lead, Samudra's wife.
- Koushik Roy as Prof. Samudraneel Banerjee aka Pupun - Main Lead, Kankon's husband.
Recurring Cast and Characters
Banerjee family / Samudra's family
- Aparajita Adhya[3] as Radharani Banerjee aka Radha - Parallel Lead, Debjit's first wife, Shrestha's elder cousin sister and Samudra's step/adoptive mother.
- 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 sister 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.
- Sohini Sanyal as Shahana Ganguly - Debjit's younger sister, Atri's mother.
- Bulbuli Choubey Panja as Saanji Banerjee - Debjit-Shrestha's daughter, Radha's step/adoptive daughter, Samudra's elder sister and Sourav's wife.
- Sudip Sarkar 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.
- Anish Mukherjee 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.
- Ayesha Bhattacharya as Joyeeta Banerjee aka Jiya - Chandrajit-Koyel's daughter, Smudra and Saanji's younger cousin sister, Sourav's forceful wife for certain period.
Mukherjee family / Kankon's family
- Chandan Sen as Chandra Shekhar Mukherjee - Kankon's father, Hoimonti's husband, estranged for a long period.
- Soma Chakraborty as Hoimonti Mukherjee - Kankon's mother, Chandra Shekhar's wife.
- Sandeep De 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.
- Aishwarya Sen as Debasree Banerjee aka Chhuti - Shyam Shankar-Basumati's daughter, Kankon's younger cousin sister.
- Sourav Das as Sarbajit Majumdar - Chhuti's husband.
Other Cast Members
- Santu Mukherjee as Bishwanath Pal aka Bishu - Radha's elder brother-like man from her and Kankon's village, a sculptor.
- Goutam De as Goutam Majumdar - Sarbajit’s uncle.
- Sreela Majumdar as Saswati Majumdar - Sarbajit’s aunt.
- Rahul Chakraborty 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 (cameo)
References
- ↑ "Punyi Pukur". Hotstar. Present. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ "Women's panel receives plaint on 'regressive' Bangla TV soaps". TIMESOFINDIA.COM. 19 March 2017.
- ↑ "TV celebs speak against body shaming". TIMESOFINDIA.COM. 10 March 2018.