''Mere Sai - Shraddha Aur Saburi'' (English: ''My Sai - Faith And Patience'') is an Indian Hindi-language

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television series which premiered on

Sony Entertainment Television Sony Entertainment Television (SET) is an Indian Hindi-language general entertainment pay television channel, that was launched on 30 September 1995, and is owned by Culver Max Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese Sony. SET India's Y ...

on 25 September 2017. It stars

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in the lead role along with

Kishori Godbole Kishori Godbole is a Marathi TV and film actress. She is the daughter of Marathi singer Jaywant Kulkarni. She is known for her role as Mrs. Vibhavari Suhaas Tendulkar in '' Mrs Tendulkar''. She is also a well known theater actress of many pla ...

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in supporting roles. The show traces the journey of

Sai Baba of Shirdi Sai Baba of Shirdi (c. 1838? - died 15 October 1918), also known as Shirdi Sai Baba, was an Indian spiritual master and fakir, considered to be a saint, revered by both Hindu and Muslim devotees during and after his lifetime. According to a ...

, a fakir who after witnessing the injustices due to religious and caste discrimination, faces several trials and tribulations on his journey to bring peace and love to the society.

Plot

helps many people of Shirdi village and even fulfils one's needs. He had corrected mistakes of many villainous and greedy people (Kulkarni sarkar) who hate him and his teachings. He showed them the path of Dharma and made them devoted only to God.

Cast

Main

*Abeer Soofi as Sai Baba (2017-2019) **Abhishek Nigam as Young Sai Baba (2017) *

as Sai Baba (2019–present) * Toral Rasputra /

as Bayaza Bai/Bayaza Maa *

as Kulkarni Sarkar (2017–present) *Satish Salgare as Kulkarni Sarkar (2020)

Recurring

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as Keshav Kulkarni *Saurabh Shrikant as Tatya Patil * Vikas Verma as Uddhav *Vikas Kumar as Ali *Arsh Syed as Bheema *Piyush Singh as Bhanu *

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as Ganpat Rao *Aaloak Kapoor as Gokuldas *Sushma Prashant as Appa Kote Patil's mother * Rakshit Wahi as Tatya Patil *Yash Rajendra Karia as Bheema *

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Bal Gangadhar Tilak Bal Gangadhar Tilak (; born Keshav Gangadhar Tilak (pronunciation: eʃəʋ ɡəŋɡaːd̪ʱəɾ ʈiɭək; 23 July 1856 – 1 August 1920), endeared as Lokmanya ( IAST: ''Lokmānya''), was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and an independence ...

*Manav Soneji as Ali * Vansh Sayani as Baal Sai *

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as Savitri * Ruhanika Dhawan as Rama *Raj Sharnagat as Narayan *Sneha Bhawsar as Sulakshana *Shishir Sharma as Sateshwar *Syed Aman Mian Sharma as Keshav Kulkarni *Priyanka Joshi Hait as Rukmini Vaini: Kulkarni's wife *

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as Chihu Tai (Kulkarni's younger sister) *Bhupindder Bhoopii as Santa (2019) *Arun Singh as Devidas *Chirag Dave as Mhalsapati Ji *Vivaek Srivastav as Nanasaheb Chandorkar *Dhruti Mangeshkar as Jhipri 'Lakshmi' (Young) *Drisha Kalyani as Jhipri 'Lakshmi' (Grown) *Hemant Thatte as Appa Kote Patil *Avtaar N Vaishnani as Keshav: Kulkarni's son - young *Bhushan Dhupkar as Panta: Kulkarni's servant *Harpreet Singh Bindra as Anta: Kulkarni's servant *Chandan Madan as Srikanth *Bippin Procha as Ranoji *Mahesh Welkar as * Tarun Khanna as Ratnakar Rao *Siddarth Arya as Bal Sai *Aishani Yadav as Yamuna: Mhalsapati's eldest daughter *Mohammad Samar as Balram: Pari's cousin *Amit Jaat as Tryambak: Bayaza Maa's younger brother *Anupriya Parmar as Gunwanta Bai: Tryambak's wife *Rajiv Mishra as Dilawar Ali *Sangita Adhikari as Pandhari's wife *Smita Dongre as Funtru Kaki *

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as Suvarna Bai * Supriya Pilgaonkar as Suhasini Bai: Appa Kote Patil's aunt * Sneha Wagh as Tulsa *Bhawana Meghwal as Nirali's mother *Advait Soman as Uddhav * Tasheen Shah as Tara: Pari's cousin and as Gayatri: Sopan's daughter *

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as Kamla Tai: Champa's mother-in-law *

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as Savita *

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as Geeta Maa (cameo) *Sandeep Bhojak As BrahmaNandam (2019) *Nishkarsh Kulshrestha as Raghunath * Niel Satpuda as

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(2019) *Jay Zaveri as Ganpat/Das Ganu Maharaj * Shruti Bhist as Sumati *Kalpesh Rajgor as Chintamani *Aaditya Bajpayee as Mohan *Anubhav Dixit as Digambar *

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as Ganjanan *Khushboo Tawde as Tejaswi *

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as Madhusudan *

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as Chakra Narayan *Govind Khatri as Kakasaheb Dixit *Amit Anand Raut as self in episodes 1012-1012 and promo of "Sai Vachan" * Girish Oak as Khashaba *Vikas Singh Rajput as Mahesh * Prachi Vaishnav as Malti *Vishwanath Kulkarni as Hemant Ahmad Harhash as Raj Verma

Production

The filming of the series which resumed after three months owing

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outbreak in India in late June was halt soon in early July until 7 July 2020 when a crew member was tested positive for the virus and the cast and crew were kept under quarantine.

References

External links

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