''Durga'' was an Indian

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language television

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, which aired from 8 September 2008 – 26 June 2010 on Bengali GEC

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. The show starred

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and Swagata Mukherjee and

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in lead roles. A spiritual sequel or a reboot of this series, ''

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'', premiered in 2019 and ended in 2020. It starred Sampurna Mondal and Bishwarup Banerjee in the lead roles.

Plot

It is the tale of the journey of a village belle and an ardent devotee of Goddess

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, Durga (

) who marries a mentally unwell heir, Rupam (

), of an urban rich family. Rupam is kept captive for several years by an evil woman Damini (Swagata Mukherjee). However, Durga's faith in the Goddess, which is her strength helps her to cure Rupam. The Goddess (

) comes to her rescue during all of Durga's challenges. Thus, Durga helps Rupam lead a normal life by defeating the foul plans of his relatives with the help of Goddess Durga.

Cast

as Durga Roy Chowdhury, Sibnath and Jaya's daughter, Rupam's wife and an ardent devotee of Goddess

as Rupam Roy Chowdhury, Arindam and Jayanti's son, Durga's husband, a mentally unwell heir * Swagata Mukherjee as Damini Roy Chowdhury, Arijit's second wife, Titli's mother, an evil lady who killed Rupam's mother and tries to harm Rupam and Durga. *

as Goddess

aka Sati *

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as Gauri, Child version of Goddess

* Debesh Roy Chowdhury as Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, Gayatri's husband and Damini's Sidekick * Moyna Mukherjee as Gayatri Roy Chowdhury, Aniruddha's wife and Damini's Sidekick * Dr. Basudev Mukhopadhyay as Arijit Roy Chowdhury, Damini's husband and Sreerup, Arup and Titli's father * Saptarshi Roy as Sreerup Roy Chowdhury, Ketaki's husband * Saibal Bhattacharya as Arup Roy Chowdhury, Neela's husband * Rajat Ganguly as Arindam Roy Chowdhury, Rupam's father * Pritha Chatterjee as Jayanti Roy Chowdhury, Rupam's mother who was killed by Damini *

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as Ketaki Roy Chowdhury, Sreerup's wife *

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as Neela Roy Chowdhury, Arup's wife *

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as Titli Roy Chowdhury, Damini and Arijit's daughter, Rupam and Durga's well wisher *

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as Titli's love interest *

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as Kumkum Roy Chowdhury, Neela's daughter * Bodhisattva Majumder as Sibnath, Durga's father * Swagata Bose as Jaya, Durga's mother * Sumanta Mukherjee as Narayan Choudhary, zamindar of Sonajhuri village *Anindya Pulak Banerjee as Supriyo, son of Narayan Choudhary *

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as Maya Maa, a

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as a

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who rescued Durga * Nitya Ganguly as Kanai Kaka, servant of the Roy Chowdhury family * Pradip Bhattacharya as Hari Kaka * Samir Biswas as Sashadhar, priest of the Durga temple in Sonajhuri village who gave the idol of Goddess to Durga *

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as Jhumur's mother * Bimal Chakraborty as Damini's lawyer

Adaptations

References

External links

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