Kasturi | |
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Intertitle of 'Kasturi' | |
Created by | |
Written by | Story & Screenplay Vipul Mehta, Sonali Jaffar, Nishikant Roy, Gauri Kodimala, Mrinal Jha & Salil Sand Dialogues Dheeraj Sarna, sharad tripathi,Amal Donwaar & Dharamendra Singh |
Directed by | Garry Bhinder, Vicky Chauhan, Fahad Kashmiri, Deepak Saini, Shankar Verma, Navneet Baj Saini & Hitesh Tejwani |
Starring | See Below |
Opening theme | 'Kasturi' by Shreya Ghoshal Love theme-mitwa (film-kabhi alwida na kehna) |
Country of origin | India |
Original language(s) | Punjabi and Hindi |
No. of episodes | Total 350 |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Tanveer Alam |
Producer(s) | Ekta Kapoor & Shobha Kapoor |
Cinematography | Sanjay Memane, Suhas Shirodkar & Rajan Singh |
Editor(s) | Vikas Sharma, Lalit Tiwari, Sandeep Bhatt, Nishit Shah & Kamal Prasad Bhattarai |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | STAR Plus |
Picture format | 576i (SDTV), |
Original release | 23 April 2007– 31 March 2009 |
Kasturi was an Indian soap opera that aired on STAR Plus channel from 23 April 2007 through 31 March 2009.It aired every Monday to Thursday 9:30pm onwards. The show had the best ratings in the first year even though it was facing immense competition from the rival channel shows. The ratings declined later due to multiple track changes and addition of new characters.
Plot summary
Kasturi revolves around Kasturi Chawla (Shubhangi Atre Poorey), a young woman from a middle-class family. After graduating from university, she begins working for Robbie Sabharwal (Karan Patel) - a spoilt, arrogant, yet immensely popular rockstar.
Robbie and Kasturi take an instant disliking to each other due to the difference in their class, values and morals. Kasturi befriends Robbie's best friend Raunak (Jatin Shah), who seems to respect and understand her beliefs. As Robbie and Kasturi spend more time together, they start to fall in love and eventually confess their feelings. Their relationship is short-lived, as a misunderstanding causes Robbie to believe that Kasturi is cheating on him with Raunak.
Kasturi revolves around Kasturi Chawla (Shubhangi Atre Poorey), a young woman from a middle-class family.After graduating from university, she begins working for Robbie Sabharwal (Karan Patel) - a spoilt, arrogant, yet immensely popular rockstar.
After Robbie and Kasturi split up, Raunak proposes to Kasturi and she accepts after brief hesitation. On the day of their wedding, Robbie comes to know that he had misunderstood Kasturi and Raunak's relationship. He apologizes and begs Kasturi to reconcile with him, but she denies on the basis that their relationship has no future due to his constant lack of trust in her.
Raunak and Kasturi's wedding is followed by a series of events where Robbie tries to sabotage their relationship, but his attempts backfire and bring Raunak and Kasturi even closer. Soon, Raunak dies in an accident and Kasturi starts to believe that Robbie killed him. She sets out to take revenge by marrying him, under the pretext of moving on, and then makes life a living hell for him. Her plan seems to succeed and Robbie ends up in coma. However, Kasturi is shell-shocked when, in Malaysia, she comes face to face with Raunak, who is very much alive.
Raunak smugly tells Kasturi how he has been toying with her all along and how he has been the sole cause of her misery. He explains that he had always secretly resented Robbie because he (Robbie) gained fame and popularity while Raunak had not. So when he realized that Robbie/Kasturi broke up, he decided to get even by deliberately marrying Kasturi to hurt Robbie. Then he faked his own death to frame Robbie for murder. The person who helped him engineer this plot turns out to be Robbie's sister Shivani (Mouni Roy). She and Raunak have been in love since childhood, and she loathes Robbie with equal passion. The two of them tell an appalled Kasturi that their next move is to kill Robbie to get their hands on his wealth.
Kasturi returns to India, but finds out that Robbie (who has now recovered) detests her for making him suffer for a crime he didn't commit. Eventually, one incident leads to another and Robbie/Kasturi reunite - only to have Raunak re-enter their lives and torture Kasturi on a daily basis, as she's the only one who's aware of his true intentions. A lot of twists and turns follow - Maasi (Robbie's maternal aunt) enters the picture and is revealed to be in cahoots with Raunak. Kasturi is shot, falls off a cliff and loses her mental balance.
Robbie lets her stay in his house, but she behaves like a child and can't remember anything about her past. Shortly after that, Raunak's true colours are exposed to everyone and he's sent to prison. However, everyone is still unaware of the fact that Maasi was in cahoots with him. Another accident returns Kasturi to her normal state. Once again, she and Robbie reunite.
During the preparations for Robbie and Kasturi's wedding, a middle-aged businessman named Kabir Dhanrajgir (Mohnish Behl) is introduced to the story. Kasturi finds out that a significant portion of Robbie's property has been sold, and that Kabir acted as a catalyst to it. When she begs him to fix the situation, he blackmails her by saying that she would have to marry him for that. On the day of her wedding, she leaves Robbie and marries Kabir.
Robbie resorts to drinking and sleeping around to keep his mind off Kasturi. On the other hand, spending time with Kabir makes Kasturi realize that he is a kind-hearted man but doesn't share a good rapport with his two grown up children, who term him as a failed parent.
But after that Robbie gets to know that Kabir is not a good person and has killed his 3 wives. Knowing this Robbie tries to get Kasturi out of this mess by telling about Kabir; but Kabir blackmails Robbie that he will kill Kasturi's parents. Kabir dies by falling from a cliff. Kasturi comes to know the truth after his death.
Robbie again wants to marry Kasturi but his mom Devika (Sheeba Chaddha) scolds Kasturi for spoiling his life. So Kasturi leaves the house without telling anybody and goes to live with her friend Sanchi. Robbie goes to meet Kasturi and finds out that she went away. He goes back to his mom and tells her that he hates her for separating them. Kasturi starts working in the office of Gayatri Devi (Kamalika Guha Thakurta). There she meets 3 brothers—Abhi, Ajay and Adwit—and solves their problems. Robbie is very sad thinking about Kasturi, when his daddy comes and tell him to start singing again for him. Kasturi's employers want to organize an event and they want Robbbie to start the event. Kasturi is there, too. She gets lost in the memory of her and Robbie's love. When Abhi calls Robbie he says that he has stopped singing. Kasturi is thinking about Robbie and Robbie is thinking about Kasturi. At the end, when Kasturi is about to be married to one of the three brothers, he finds about her and Robbie. Then Robbie and Kasturi marry and all is well.
Cast
- Karan Patel .. Robbie Sabbarwal
- Shubhangi Atre Poorey .. Kasturi Robbie Sabbarwal
- Bharat Chawda.. Abhimanyu Singania
- Nandish Sandhu/ Jatin Shah ..Raunak Singhaniya
- Mohnish Behl.. Kabir Dhanrajgir
- Roopa Ganguly .. Kaushalya Chawla
- Sanjay Taneja ..J.P. Chawla
- Prabhat Bhattacharya..Ajay Chawla
- Amita Chandekar ..Pooja Chawla
- Sai Tamhankar.. Navneet
- Nikhil Arya/Salil Acharya ..Nikhil
- Preeti Gupta ..Alaana Sabbarwal
- Priya Arya ..Alka Chawla
- Mouni Roy ..Shivani Sabbarwal
- Naman Shaw ..Girish
- Kamalika Guha Thakurta ..Gayatri
- Sudha Chandran ..Maasi
- Lata Haya ..Shakuntala
- S.M. Zaheer .. Daadaji
- Kanika Shivpuri.. Biji
- Shivangi Sharma.. Anita
- Kiku Sharda.. Kiku Chawla
- Sheeba Chadha.. Devika Sabbarwal
- Raja Sevak.. Vishesh
- Madhurima Tuli.. Tanu
- Sandeep Mehta.. Purushottam Sabbarwal
- Ajay Arya.. Ajink
References
- Konkona inspires Shubhangi Atre, Hindustan Times, 20 February 2010
- Shubhangi’s baby blues, Daily News and Analysis, 6 August 2007
- Karan v/s Shubhangi, Times of India, 18 June 2008
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Kasthuri | |
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Tamil | கஸ்தூரி |
Genre | Tamil soap opera Family Drama |
Based on | Gopurangal Saivathillai by Manivannan |
Directed by | K. Rajiv Prashad (1-506) K.Shiva (507-785) V.Sadasivam (786-1000) R.Nandhakumar (1000-1237) S.R.Elavarasan (1238-1449) Thava karthick (1450-1532) |
Creative director(s) | Subbha Venkat S.Ashok Kumar Kamela Nasser Chandramohan Nag |
Starring | Easwari Rao Niya Jai Krishna Latha Delhi Ganesh Shyam Neelima Rani Deepa Venkat Vadivukkarasi |
Theme music composer | S. Vijayashankar |
Opening theme | 'Kasthuri Pennoda' S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (Vocal) Kabilan (Lyrics) |
Country of origin | India |
Original language(s) | Tamil |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 1,532 |
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Producer(s) | Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor |
Production location(s) | Salem, Tamil Nadu Chennai Singapore |
Running time | approx. 24-28 minutes per episode |
Production company(s) | Balaji Telefilms |
Release | |
Original network | Sun TV |
Original release | 21 August 2006 – 31 August 2012 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Atthai @ 6.30PM Kanmaniyae @ 11.30AM Muthaaram @ 11.00AM |
Followed by | 'Madhavi' @ 6.30PM 'Uravugal' @ 11.30AM 'Sondha Bandham' @ 11.00AM |
Kasthuri is an Indian Tamil-language soap opera that aired on Sun TV from 21 August 2006 @ 6.30PM and later a show named replaced this serial 'Madhavi' on 19 April 2010 it shifted at 11.30AM this serial is replaced by kanmaniyae and again shifted at 13 December 2011 on Monday through Friday at 11:00AM IST for 1532 episodes.[1].The show starred Easwari Rao, Niya, Latha, Delhi Ganesh, Shyam, Neelima Rani, Aparna and Nithish among others. It was produced by Balaji TelefilmsEkta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor, directed by Various Director.It had been receiving the highest ratings of Tamil serials and received high praising from viewers. It also aired in Sri LankaTamil Channel on Shakthi TV.
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Plot[edit]
The story of a village girl who gets married to a groom from the city. Ram is the groom and he is very particular in choosing a modern and educated girl. While he and his parents come to this village to actually see Kasturi, unknowingly he sees another girl who is fairer near the well of the house. Thinking that she is Kasthuri (Easwari Rao), Ram says OK for the marriage and they arrange the marriage. On the date of marriage, Ram is shocked to see the real Kasturi very dark in color and not educated or looks modern. However, there is no choice for him other than to marry Kasthuri (Easwari Rao), so he marries her. Later he brings Kasturi to his residence in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Ram later identifies the girl he had seen in the village, gets in touch with her, and hides the truth that he is married to Kasturi and marries that girl. There is a friend of Ram who is very polite and responsible. He helps Kasturi and her father to reunite with Ram again. The entire serial showcases how Kasthuri (Easwari Rao) solves all the problems when she is alone without Ram.
Main Cast[edit]
- Easwari Rao/ Niya /Easwari Rao as Kasthuri
- Jayakrishnan as ram
- Supraja / Kavitha Solairajan as Rekha
Others[edit]
- Sujatha Panju
- Sathya
- Ashok
- Sureshwar
- CID Sakunthala
- Sakshi siva
- Niya as Simi
- Latha as Radha
- Delhi Ganesh as Ganesh
- Nizhalgal Rajasekhar
- Sivan Sreenivasan as Somasundharam
- Lakshmi priya as Rajeshwari
- Siva kavitha
- Amarasikamani
- Kamakshi
- Swapana
- Shyam
- Swetha
- Vineetha
- Vaman Malini
- Kalpana Sree
- Hasina
- Aartika Sree
- Vishnu priya
- Swetha
- Lakshmi as Sudha
- Mohan
- Murali Kumar
- Sundhari
- Bharath Kalyan
- Sri lekha
- Uma padamanaban
- Neelima Rani as Dhanam
- Apser as Thiru
- Aparna as kalayani
- Vijiketi
- Shridhar
- Snekha Eshwar as Madhavi Thiru
- Jyothi
- Oorvambu Lakshmi
- Sindhu krishnan
- Vijayalakshmi
- Deepa Venkat (1-133)
- Birla Bose
- Bharath kalyan
- J.lalitha
- Nithish
- 'Eeramana Rojave' Siva
- Vizhthukal sandhanam
- Shabanam
- joker Thulasi
- VR Thilagam
- Dev Anand
- Gayathri
- Bhavana
Airing history[edit]
The show started airing on Sun TV on 21 August 2006. It aired on Monday to Friday 6:30PM IST. Later its timing changed, a show named Madhavi replaced this show at 6:30PM IST and was shifted from Monday to Friday at 11:30AM and in 2012 @ 11AMIST.
Broadcast[edit]
The series was broadcast in Sri Lanka on the Tamil Channel Shakthi TV.[citation needed]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Official Website(in English)
- Sun TV Network(in English)
- Sun Group(in English)
- Kasthuri Serial Hub Wiki(in English)
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