Savitri – Ek Prem Kahani
| Savitri – Ek Prem Kahani | |
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| Also known as | Savitri |
| Genre | Drama |
| Directed by | Ranjan kumar singh, Anil v kumar, Santosh Bhatt,Saagar Kagra |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of episodes | 163 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Shabbir Ahluwalia and Sakett Saawhney[1] |
| Original release | |
| Network | Life OK |
| Release | 18 February – 4 October 2013 |
Savitri is an Indian fantasy drama television show, which aired on Life OK from 18 February 2013[2] to 4 October 2013. The initial co-producers were Film Farm India, but before the series went on air, the production was switched to Flying Turtles.[1] In August 2013, a cast revamp was carried out.[3] It is a modern take on the traditional Indian folktale of Savitri and Satyavan from the Mahabharata.[4]
It's the story about princess damyanti and senapati veer who were in love with each other. But, their love story was taken over by a powerful demon called "rahukaal". To revenge her lover's death and end rahukaal's terror, damyanti cuts rahukaal's body parts into 52 pieces and place them into different parts of the world. Subsequently, she kills herself in the grief of losing her beloved lover.
After 1000 years, damyanti and veer reincarnate as savitri and satyavan. Savitri has some powers from which she could see dead people and help them attaining salvation. Satya sees savitri in a park and fell in love with her. Satya proposes savitri but she rejects him due to her strange powers and she gets unknown flashbacks whenever satya touches her.
After many circumstances, satya and savitri get married. After their marriage, gulika who is actually rahukaal's sister tries to snatch mayavi kitab from savitri which includes savitri's past life and rahukaal's digged body parts.
However, gulika succeeded in bringing rahukaal's head from the tribal people when satya and savitri is on their honeymoon. One day, satya gets kidnapped by rahukaal and in exchange of returning satya gulika asked to find rahukaal's hand to savitri. After many hurdles, savitri succeeded in bringing rahukaal's hand and rescue her husband.
But soon their happiness taken over by rahukaal's evil tricks, rahukaal plot his snakes around satya which makes him to do everything which can separate him from savitri.
Savitri soon learns about tara-dwaar which has some immense powers where rahukaal's legs were protected from 1000 years. Dhoomketu who is a well-wisher of savitri tells her how she could trap rahukaal into kaalchakra if she able to reach tara-dwaar safely.
Savitri collects triangles after passing through different challenges, savitri finally able to trap rahukaal into kaalchakra.
But, due to vishagati (rahukaal's mother) curse savitri reborn in the past as damyanti where she unable to recognise her patner veer (satya).
In past timeline, damyanti's maternal uncle wanted to be the king of champanagar for which he tries to kill damyanti several times but every time he gets failed because of veer (who is appointed as damyanti's bodyguard).
Later, there arises many internal conflicts in the kingdom. Senapati's doppleganger join hands with chandaal singh in achieving his evil desires.
Damyanti turns herself to savitri to meet veer and to know about senapati's conspiracy against the kingdom. But, eventually they fall in love with each other.
One day, it revealed that doopleganer senapati actually killed by the real senapti and the real senapati acting like a doppleganger to know chandal's Singh true intentions against the kingdom.
Veer get to know that savitri is actually rajkumari damyanti and start avoiding her for her royal status and knowing his mere soldier status.
Rahukaal enters the kingdom as prince chandrabhan to get married to damyanti & get Paras mani (a powerful gem). Damyanti failed to convince veer that she loves him and not want to marry chandrabhan. When veer rejects her proposal, damyanti decide to marry chandrabhan instead and satisfy her parents decision.
Rahukaal kills mahamantri due to which veer starts doubting his intentions. After gathering few evidences, he become assured about rahukaal's plot, he informs the same to Maharaj and they later cancels damyanti's marriage with him.
Unable to bear his defeat, rahukaal kidnaps veer and damyanti. Damyanti kills rahukaal which eventually repeats the past due to which vishgati's curse gets broken.
The show ends showing satya and savitri getting happily re-united in the present.
Cast
- Avneet Kaur as Child Rajkumari Damayanti[5]
- Riddhi Dogra as Rajkumari Damayanti / Savitri Satyavan Rai Choudhary
- Krip Suri as Rahukaal
- Yash Pandit / Ashish Kapoor as Senapati Veer / Satyavan Rai Choudhary
- Sumana Das as Mishti[6]
- Salil Ankola as Maharaj[7] (Damayanti's Father)
- Suchita Trivedi as Maharani[7] (Damayanti's Mother)
- Angad Hasija as Dev
- Reshmi Ghosh as Gulika
- Ahad Ali Aamir as Rajkumar Divateen
- Indrani Haldar as Leena Rai Choudhary / Vishghati
- Karan Suchak as Vikrant
- Utkarsha Naik as Damayanti's Mother
- Vahbbiz Dorabjee as Vishkamini
- Amit Behl as Senapati
- Puneet Vashisht as Dhumketu
References
- ^ a b Shabbir Ahluwalia the new producer of Savitri - The Times of India
- ^ Savitri-a fantasy mega series launched - The Times of India
- ^ Savitri is not going off air: Saaket Saawhney | The Times of India
- ^ "Life OK's Savitri: What is the show all about?". Bollywood Life. 17 February 2013.
- ^ Avneet Kaur in Life OK's Savitri - The Times of India
- ^ "Sumana Das to enter Life OK's Savitri". India Forums Dot Com. 20 February 2013. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Salil Ankola and Sucheta Trivedi to essay Damayanti's parents in Life OK's Savitri". Tellychakkar Dot Com. 21 March 2013. Retrieved 18 February 2020.