Shrikant (TV series)

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Shrikant is a TV show based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya's 1917-1933 four volume novel Srikanta. The show aired on Doordarshan in 1987.

Shrikant
Based onSrikanta
by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Directed byPraveen Nischol
StarringFarooque Shaikh

Rita Bhaduri Sujata Mehta Mrinal Kulkarni Irrfan Khan Ravindra Mankani Satish Pulekar

Asha Sharma
Original languageHindi
Production
Running time25 minutes
Original release
NetworkDD National
Release1987 (1987)

The show was again telecast on DD National from 30 April 2020 during the lockdown due to coronavirus[1]

Synopsis

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The show tells the story of protagonist Shrikant (Farooque Shaikh). Sujata Mehta plays Raj Lakshmi. She nurses him to health when he is infected by plague. Later during a sea voyage to Burma, he meets Abhaya (Mrinal Kulkarni), a woman abandoned by her husband (Irrfan Khan).[2] In Burma, he receives the devotion of a lodge caretaker played by Sukanya Kulkarni. His love ideal remains Rajlakshmi.

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References

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  1. ^ "Irrfan Khan's Shrikant to run again on Doordarshan, here's when you can watch". Hindustan Times. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Mrinal Kulkarni: I was embarrassed to scold Farooque Shaikh while enacting 'Shrikant'". Times of India. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Mrinal Kulkarni: I was embarrassed to scold Farooque Shaikh while enacting 'Shrikant'". Times of India. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
  4. ^ "Irrfan Khan's 80s TV show to make a comeback". Times of India. 20 August 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
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