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	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 (2015-12-07) – 28 May 2017 (2017-05-28)
Related
Jol Nupur Bhojo Gobindo

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 . Alongside Guddi , this is a very regressive serial produced by Magic Moments Motion Pictures as its plotline centers around polygamy, abuse of women, and excessive negativity.

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 (née Mukherjee) aka Kakon – Chandra Shekhar-Hoimonti's daughter, Samudra's wife.
• Koushik Roy as
  • Prof. Somuddroneel Banerjee aka Somuddro / Pupul – Debjit-Shrestha's son, Radha's step/adoptive son, Saanji's younger brother and Kankon's husband
  • Ronnie Golmes/Banerjee – Twin brother of Samudra estranged at birth.

Recurring

Banerjee family / Samudra's family

• Aparajita Adhya ^[3] as Radharani Banerjee aka Radha – Debjit's first wife(divorced), Shrestha's elder cousin sister and Samudra's step/adoptive mother. Being divorced, she stayed back in the Banerjee residence and she didn't accept the signature on the divorce paper. (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.
• 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.
• 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, Samudra 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.
• Soma Banerjee 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.
• 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.

Others

• Santu Mukherjee as Bishwanath Pal aka Bishu – Radha's elder brother-like man, 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.

References

1. "Punyi Pukur". Hotstar .
2. "Women's panel receives plaint on 'regressive' Bangla TV soaps". The Times of India . 19 March 2017.
3. "TV celebs speak against body shaming". The Times of India . 10 March 2018.