''Kiranmala'' was an Indian

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television series which aired on

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from 4 August 2014 to 19 November 2016. It was produced by

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and starred

Rukma Roy Rooqma Ray (also known as Rukma Roy; bn, রুকমা রায়) is an Indian television actress who predominantly appears in Bengali TV soap operas. She is known for playing the lead characters of Rajkumari Kiranmala in '' Kiranmala'' a ...

, Farhan Imroze and

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. It was based on traditional folktales as collected in ''

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'' by

Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar (15 April 1877 – 30 March 1956) was an Indian writer in Bengali of fairy tales and children's literature. He was born at Ulail in Dhaka district of Bengal province in British India (now Dhaka District of Bangl ...

. The series was dubbed into Tamil and aired on

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. An Odisha dubbed version is aired on

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Plot

The show depicts how the princess Kiranmala defeats the wicked demon queen Katkati and saves her kingdom Achinpur and Amrita Nagari and the whole of mankind. Bijoy, the king of Achinpur's wife, Rupmati gives birth to a child named Kiranmala. Katkati, Bijoy's other wife and Katkati's mother, Pyakati didn't like Kiranmala at all, fearing she might put an end to their reign. 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. And 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

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to save the world from Katkati. She and Katkati both go to Mokhsa (Kingdom of Death), where Kiranmala is rewarded with

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, while Katkati, Pyakati, Pishachini and Bitkel are left to suffer in

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Cast

as Rajkumari Kiranmala / Urmimala / Jhinukmala (Triple Role) * Farhan Imroze as Rajkumar Prithviraj/Kumar *

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as Raja Bijoy : Kiranmala's father * Aditi Chatterjee as Rani Rupmati: Kiranmala's mother *

as Rakkoshi Rani Katkati/ Kotimaa * Chaitali Chakraborty as Pyakati / Kotkoti's mother * Rajni Gandhai as Alokmala/Hingting(Kiranmala's daughters) *

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as Nakula * Sonamana Arinsha as Sonamoni *

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as Raj Mata / Kiranmala's grandmother *

Subhra Sourav Das Subhra Sourav Das is an Indian television and films actor based in Kolkata. He also worked at Kaushik Sen's theatre group Swapnasandhani.

as Donkar * Ronit Modak as Bitkel * Joymala Ganguly as Lalona * * Sumanta Mukherjee * Mafin Chakraborty as Maya Pari / Maya Arshi * Indradev Banerjee as Barun * Chhanda K Chatterjee as Bodyi Buri *

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as Kaal Tapaswi *

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/ Sayantani Guha Thakurata / Shreyasee Samanta as Shankhini / Chhalonamoyi, Kiranmala's sister a Naagini. *

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as Shuborno kumar *

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as Suroshini * Madhubani Ghoshw as Bajramala / Kotkoti's daughter *

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as Maharani Amrapali: Kumar Prithviraj's mother * Arijit Chakraborty as Maharaja Bikram Singha / Kumar Prithviraj's father *

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as Alien

Reception

The serial was promoted by many film personalities from

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and

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in the last episode of the latter serial on August 3, 2014. The series had also become popular in neighboring

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, where several people have clashed over it at a village in the

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, injuring 100 people. At the

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, seven children from

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met Rukma Roy (who plays Kiranmala) at the stall of

. The actress said:

"Happy that the work of famed fantasy writer
Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar (15 April 1877 – 30 March 1956) was an Indian writer in Bengali of fairy tales and children's literature. He was born at Ulail in Dhaka district of Bengal province in British India (now Dhaka District of Bangl ...
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 Star Jalsha is an Indian Bengali language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Disney Star (formerly ''Star India''), a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India. It broadcasts Bengali-language programming, such as family ...
will bring a change in the usual look of Bengali serials after many years."

Television special

A telefilm named ''Kiranmala'' has been premiered on

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on 15 March 2015 featuring

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as the queen of time.

References

External links

Official Website
on

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