Kiranmala

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Kiranmala
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Kironmala
Genre Fantasy
Drama
Created by Surinder Films
Based on Thakurmar Jhuli
by Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder
Written byWritam Ghosal
Screenplay byWritam Ghosal, Arpita Chattopadhyay
Directed by Roddur Roy
Starring Rooqma Ray
Chandrayee Ghosh
Farhan Imroze
Opening themeKiranmala by Madhuraa Bhattacharya
Composer Indraadip Dasgupta
Country of originIndia
Original languageBengali
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes721
Production
Producers Nispal Singh
Surinder Singh
Running time21/22 minutes
Production company Surinder Films
Original release
Network Star Jalsha
Release4 August 2014 (2014-08-04) –
19 November 2016 (2016-11-19)

Kiranmala is an Indian Bengali language television series which aired on Star Jalsha from 4 August 2014 to 19 November 2016. [1] [2] [3] It was produced by Surinder Films and starred Rooqma Ray, Farhan Imroze and Chandrayee Ghosh. It was based on traditional folktales as collected in Thakurmar Jhuli by Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder. The series was dubbed into Tamil and aired on Star Vijay. [4] An Odisha dubbed version was aired on Tarang TV.[ citation needed ] It returned in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The series re-aired a third time on Jalsha Movies on 13 May 2024.

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Plot

King Bijoy is the king of Achinpur. After winning a battle, his mother/Rajmata takes him to a secret room of the palace and shows him that the imprisonment of the demons will come to an end which was given to them by his father. She also tells him that of the ancestors' prophecy that a princess named Kiranmala will be born in their royal family who will save the world from the demons. But demons Queen Paykati and her daughter Katkati learned of the prophecy and plot a plan. According to their plan, Paykati goes to the royal place as a nurse for Queen Rupmoti and at the time of Rupmoti's labour time, she switches baby Kiranmala with frogs and rats. After this she throws Kiranmala in the sea, but fortunately she is saved by a fisherman and his wife and they care for Kiranmala as their daughter along with their sons. Paykati accuses Rupmoti of being a witch and everyone, including Rajmata and the king, believe her and throw Rupmoti out of the palace. 18 years later, they start forming an entire team of demons including Pishachini, Bajramala, Donkar and Bitkel. Kiranmala falls in love with Donkar's stepbrother Kumar Prithviraj, making Donkar jealous of Prithviraj. Bajramala becomes jealous of Kiranmala because Bajramala loves Prithviraj. However, Kiranmala and Prithviraj end up married. They give birth to Alokmala, who changes the jealousy in Bajramala and Donkar's heart into love. Katkati becomes angry and tries to destroy Achinpur and Amrita Nagari. Kiranmala dies by suicide to save the world from Katkati. She and Katkati both go to Mokhsa (Kingdom of Death), where Kiranmala is rewarded with Svarga, while Katkati, Pyakati, Pishachini and Bitkel are left to suffer in Naraka.

Cast

Reception

The serial was promoted by many film personalities from Tollywood like Koel Mallick and Raj Chakraborty in the last episode of the latter serial on 3 August 2014. [6] [7] The series had also become popular in neighboring Bangladesh, where several people have clashed over it at a village in the Habiganj District, injuring 100 people. [8]

At the Kolkata Book Fair, seven children from Kolkata met Rukma Roy (who plays Kiranmala) at the stall of Star Jalsha. The actress said:

"Happy that the work of famed fantasy writer Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder will be introduced to the largely uninitiated audience of Gen Next as well as others. Replete with palace, forts and 'raj-durbar' Kiranmala by Star Jalsha will bring a change in the usual look of Bengali serials after many years." [9]

Television special

A telefilm named Kiranmala has been premiered on STAR Jalsha on 15 March 2015 featuring June Malia as the queen of time. [10]

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