Rukma Roy
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Biography
Kiranmala is an Indian Bengali language television series which aired on Star Jalsha from 4 August 2014 to 19 November 2016.. It was produced by Surinder Films and starred Rukma Roy and Farhan Imroze and Chandrayee Ghosh.
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. Theh give birth kto Alokmala, who changes the jealousy in Bajramala and Donkar's heart into love. Karkati becomes angry and tries to destroy Achinpur and Amrita Nagari. Kiranmala suicides to save the world from Katkati. She and Katkati both go to Mokhsa (Kingdom of Death), where Kiranmala is rewarded with Svarga, while Katkati, Pyakati, Pishachini and Bitkel are left to suffer in Naraka.
Cast
- Rukma Roy as Rajkumari Kiranmala / Urmimala / Jhinukmala
- Farhan Imroze as Rajkumar Prithviraj/Kumar
- Kaushik Chakraborty as Raja Bijoy / Kiranmala's father
- Aditi Chatterjee as Rani Rupmati / Kiranmala's mother
- Chandrayee Ghosh as Rakkoshi Rani Katkati/ Kotimaa
- Chaitali Chakraborty as Pyakati / Kotkoti's mother
- Rajni Gandhai as Alokmala/Hingting(Kiranmala's daughters)
- Arjun Chakraborty as Nakula
- Sonamana Arinsha as Sonamoni
- Moumita Gupta as Raj Mata / Kiranmala's grandmother
- Subhra Sourav Das as Donkar
- Partha Acharya as Bitkel
- Joymala Ganguly as Lalona
- Sayantani Guhathakurta as Chhalonamoyi
- Sumanta Mukherjee
- Mafin Chakraborty as Maya Pari / Maya Arshi
- Indradev Banerjee as Barun
- Chhanda K Chatterjee as Bodyi Buri
- Anirban Bhattacharya as Kaal Tapaswi
- Riya Ganguly Chakraborty as Shankhini
- Vivaan Ghosh as Shuborno kumar
- Kanchana Moitra as Suroshini
- Madhubani Ghosh as Bajramala / Kotkoti's daughter
- Debjani Chattopadhyay as Maharani Amrapali / Kumar Prithviraj's mother
- Arijit Chakraborty as Maharaja Bikram Singha / Kumar Prithviraj's father
- Sayan Chakraborty as Alien
Reception
The serial was promoted by many film personalities from Tollywood like Koel Mallick and Raj Chakraborty in the last episode of the latter serial on August 3, 2014.
At the Kolkata Book Fair, seven children from Kolkata met Rukma Roy (who plays Kiranmala) at the stall of Star Jalsha.The actress said:
"Happy that the work of famed fantasy writer Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder 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 will bring a change in the usual look of Bengali serials after many years."
Television special
A telefilm named Kiranmala has been premiered on STAR Jalsha on 15 March 2015 featuring June Malia as the queen of time.