Suryaputra Karn

Suryaputra Karn
Suryaputra Karn
Genre	Hindu Ancient Historical Historical drama
Created by	Siddharth Kumar Tewary
Based on	Mahabharata through Karna's perspective
Written by	Mihir Buta Vinod Sharma Utkarsh Naithani
Directed by	Kamal Monga Gautam Nagrath Swapnil Mahaling (Shahane) Sumit Thakur Sunil Dharmadhikari Gurpreet Rana Kiran Gorde
Creative director(s)	Anish N surana
Theme music composer	Lalin Nandi
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi
No. of seasons	01
No. of episodes	307
Production
Producer(s)	Siddharth Kumar Tewary Gayatri Gill Tewary Rahul Kumar Tewary
Production location(s)	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	Approx 24 minutes
Production company(s)	Swastik Pictures
Release
Original network	Sony Entertainment Television (India) Sony Entertainment Television Asia
Picture format	576i(SDTV) 1080i(HDTV)
Original release	June 29, 2015 (2015-06-29) – August 7, 2016 (2016-08-07)

Suryaputra Karna (English: Son of Surya, Karna) was an Indian historical television series, which premiered on June 29, 2015 on Sony Entertainment Television (India) and Sony Entertainment Television Asia. The show aired Monday through Friday nights at 8:30 PM. Produced by Siddharth Kumar Tewary of Swastik Pictures, the series covers the life journey of Karna, a great archer and one of the major characters from the Mahabharata.^[1] The show starred Gautam Rode^[2] (adult Karna), Vishesh Bansal (young Karna) and Basant Bhatt (teenage Karna) as the lead character at various stages of his life. Saurabh Pandey, Meghan Jadhav, Navi Bhangu, Priya Bathija, Shaleen Bhanot, Kanan Malhotra, Pankhuri Awasthy, Ajay Jayram and Ketan Karande also starred in pivotal roles.

Plot summary

The story revolves around the protagonist of Mahabharata and the ace archer of Mahabharata, Karna and tells the Mahabharata from his point of view.^[3] The show covers life journey of Karna on his way of becoming a great warrior and a great personality. Karna was the King of Anga (present day Bhagalpur and Munger). Karna was one of the greatest of warriors in Mahabharata . As per the Mahabharata, Karna conquered entire earth for the sake of Duryodhana. Karna was equal to 2 Maharatha warriors.

Karna was the son of Surya and Kunti. He was born to Kunti before her marriage with Pandu. Karna was the closest friend of Duryodhana and fought on his behalf against the Pandavas (his brothers) in the Kurukshetra War. The rest of the story deals with how Karna fought against misfortune throughout his life and his fate for giving assistance to Duryodhana in the Kurukshetra War. The show continued after Karn's death and ending of the war.

Yudhisthir became the king of Hastinapur and ruled the kingdom in the way suggested by Karn and fulfilled his dream of bringing a change in the society. Vrishketu, son of Karn and Parikshit, son of Abhimanyu complete their training and Yudhisthir announces to make Parikshit, the King of Hastinapur. Then the destruction of Dwarka and the Yadavas and at last Krishna being killed by a hunter is shown. At last the Mahaprasthan of the Pandavas is shown where all of them along with Draupadi, start off to a journey to reach the heaven after making Parikshit, the King of Hastinapur. Only Yudhisthir is able to reach heaven alive where he is welcomed by the rest of the Pandavas, Draupadi, all the Kaurav brothers and the eldest brother Karn. Krishna also appears there and the show ends there with Krishna blessing everyone.

Cast

Production

Karanvir Bohra, Karan Grover, Karan Tacker, Avinesh Rekhi and Aditya Redij were approached for playing the lead role of Karna, but Gautam Rode was signed for the eponymous role. In 2015, Gautam Rode won the Best Actor in a Historical Serial award in Indian Telly Awards for the show. The show was intended to be a finite series of 150 episodes but was extended up to August due to a rise in the ratings. It re-runs on Sony Pal, Daily at 5 pm. ^[4]

International broadcast

• In Indonesia, it premiered in September 2015 on antv.^[5] There also the show is very popular.
• In India, it has been dubbed in Tamil as Karnan - Suryaputhran and telecasted Monday through Fridays at 8.30 pm on Polimer TV.
• In India, it has been dubbed in Malayalam as Karnan and telecasted Monday through Saturday at 6:30 pm on Mazhavil Manorama.

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