Asambhav (Marathi TV series)
| Asambhav (असंभव) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | drama, suspense |
| Written by | Vivek Agnihotri |
| Directed by | Satish Rajwade, Sangit Kulkarni |
| Starring | Umesh Kamat, Urmila Kanetkar, Nilam Shirke |
| Voices of | Swapnil Bandodkar, Madhuri Karmarkar |
| Theme music composer | Swapnil Bandodkar |
| Opening theme | Nainam Chhidranti Shrastrani, Nainam Dadhati Pavaka |
| Composer(s) | Madhusudan Joshi, Guru Thakur |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language(s) | Marathi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 800 plus |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Nikhil Sane, Deepak Rajadhyaksha (Zee Marathi) |
| Producer(s) | Pallavi Joshi |
| Location(s) | Mumbai |
| Cinematography | Sandy/V. Shoaib |
| Editor(s) | Gaurav Meshram |
| Release | |
| Original network | Zee Marathi |
| Original release | 2008 – 2010 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Asambhav is an Indian Marathi language TV serial which aired on Zee Marathi from 2008 to 2010. The show starred Umesh Kamat and Urmila Kanetkar in lead roles. It was well received by the audience. It received various awards and gained popularity.It was popular mainly because of its genre. The serial is based on the popular concept of re-incarnation in Hindu culture. The drama revolved around the cast which were presented as the rebirths of the past life and the dramatic events that occurred in their lives. This serial had Umesh Kamat, Urmila Kanetkar, Neelam Shirke- Kulkarni, Anand Abhyankar in leading roles with screenplay/writer Chinmay Mandlekar and was directed by Satish Rajwade for most of its run of 2 years.
Plot
A young woman remembers the wrongs done to her in her past life and takes rebirth to avenge herself. As her mission unfolds, many secrets of the past are unveiled.Adinath Shastri (Umesh Kamat), the second child of Madhusudan Shastri returns to India from America for a sabbatical and has plans to get married to Sulekha (Neelam Shirke-Kulkarni) who is his Aunt's (Madhurani Prabhu) sister. They fall in love over the internet and plan to marry as soon as he comes back and has plan to go back to America with his wife. Adinath and Sulekha get engaged and plan to get married soon. However fate takes an unexpected twist when he travels to Konkan for work and accidentally meets Shubhra (Urmila Kanetkar) after he meets with an accident. Shubhra lives with her mother and is supposed to get married soon to a person named Ramakant Khot. She nurses Adinath back to health and congratulates him on his engagement. Adinath is surprised as he does not remember telling Shubhra about it to which she replies that she had a vision in which she saw him getting engaged. Adinath is taken by surprise. As few days passes by Shubhra and Adinath spend time together and get married without any plans. They return to the "Shastri Wada" in Vasai (near Mumbai) on the day he was supposed to get married to Sulekha where his family members are in full swing with the marriage preparations. He introduces Shubhra as his wife to which everyone react in an atrocious manner. Sulekha is heartbroken and fumes at Adinath and Shubhra. Initially, the family members reject his decision but later accept Shubhra. Adinath's grandfather- Dinanath Shastri (Anand Abhyankar) tells that Shubra has a striking resemblance to his Parvati Vahini (Parvati Aunt) who mysteriously disappeared 60–70 years ago. He welcomes Shubhra and regards her as the re-incarnation of Parvati. That night, an old man by the name of Sopan (who used to be the servant at the Wada 60–70 years ago and now lived in the outhouse of the Wada) mysteriously disappears and later confronts Sulekha. At first Sulekha doesn’t pay any heed to him until he addresses her as Indumati and later explains her that she is "his Indumati" who died mysteriously when he was young. (Here it is implied that Sulekha is in fact a re-incarnation of Indumati, the anagonist) Sopan presents her with an ugly figurine that of a woman playing a tambourine and says that the figurine will help her regain her memories of past life and give her the strength to finish the goal which she had vowed then. And returns to Wada. At the mean time at the Shastri's, things go on in a mundane way until Shubra has visions again where she sees a black car hitting a teenage boy, although she doesn’t know who the boy is. She has the visions repeatedly but Adinath doesn’t take it seriously. Later Shubra has a vision of the outhouse being set on fire and warns Adinath about it. A day later the outhouse really has a fire accident and Sopan escapes and takes refuge at Sulekha's house. Everyone considers Sopan as dead. Adinath's nephew (Chandu's son) Prathamesh is dumb but he mumbles and addresses Shubhra as Parvati even though no one tells him about her. He becomes friends with Shubra and both of them have a good understanding among themselves. Prathamesh behaves in a strange fashion and sketches all the visions Shubra has although no one tells him anything. Later on it is revealed that Prathamesh is a re-incarnation of Goda, a timid but good maid who used to work at the Wada when Parvati existed. It is also revealed that Adinath is in fact the reincarnation of Mahadev Shastri (Parvati's husband, Dinanath's elder brother) and hence fate brought Shubhra and Adinath (past life's Parvati and Mahadev) together under mystical circumstances and got them married as strangers. Adinath's sister Priya Shastri (Sharvari Patankar) has an unexplained resent towards Sulekha from the time Adinath introduces her to his family. As the story progresses, the visions seen by Parvati comes true. The boy seen by Shubhra is in fact Nikhil Shastri who is hit by the black car. (Sulekha hypnotizes Nikhil and hence causes the accident) and in the similar way brings about the death of her own mother (Meenal Naik), Kshipra (Sujata Joshi), BalKrishna Shastri (her brother in law) Shubra and Adinath consult a neurophysiologist Dr. Samant (Sunil Barve) to regain the memories of their past life while in parallel Sulekha consults a lady by the name Tanishka (Manjusha Godse-Datar) to learn the art of mind control and hypnosis more profoundly. Dr. Samant is shown to be the reincarnation of Shrirang Ranade. Both Sulekha and Shubra dive into their past birth and the story unfolds that Parvati and Mahdev were once a happy couple but did not have any children and Parvati was a staunch believer of Shri Krishna and plans to name her children after the names of Krishna (which unfortunately never happens). Dinanath Shstri hence fulfills her wish with his own children (Hence the names Madhusudan Shastri (Adinath's father), BalKrishna Shastri and Kusum) While at around that time in the village of Vasai came two sisters: Goda and Indumati. The brother in law of Mahadev has an extra marital affair with Indumati which when discovered infuriates the patriarch of the Shastri Family (Mahadev's father) and he humiliates Indumati in front of the entire village by applying back color on her face and making her ride a donkey. Simultaneously a person by the name Shrirang Ranade comes to the Wada and Mahadev takes to the misunderstanding that there is something going on between Parvati and him (Shrirang) and banishes Parvati from the Wada. Indumati (present day's Sulekha) then vowes that she would destroy the Shastri family and uses black magic and kills everyone from Shastri family except young Dinanath Shastri (who is saved at the last moment by Parvati) and in the process, she, Indumati and Goda are buried alive in the underground cave near the wada. Since the story of revenge remains incomplete in the past birth, Indumati, Parvati, Goda, Mahadev and other characters take rebirth and finish the incomplete vows. [1]
Characters
| Actor | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Umesh Kamat | Adinath Shastri/Mahadev Shastri | Male Lead |
| Anand Abhyankar | Dinanath Shastri (Shastriji) | Parallel Male Lead |
| Manasi Salvi/Urmila Kanetkar | Shubhra Shastri/ Parvati Shastri | Female Lead |
| Sunil Barve | Dr. Viraj Samant/Shrirang Ranade | Series Regular |
| Nilam Shirke | Sulekha Raut/Indumati | Female Lead / Main Antagonist |
| Satish Rajwade | Inspector Vikrant Bhonsale | Director |
| Kishor Kadam | Yashwantrao Saranjame | Antagonist |
| Sharvari Patankar | Priya Shastri | Supporting role |
References
- ↑ Zee Marathi (7 August 2009). "Zee Marathi Show". Zee Marathi. Retrieved 7 August 2009.