Agnijal

Agnijal
Genre	Period Drama Romance
Created by	Shree Venkatesh Films
Written by	Concept Sahana Dutta Dialogues Sharbari Ghoshal & Suparna Chowdhury
Directed by	Anupam Hari
Starring	Rohit Samanta Tumpa Ghosh Sudip Mukherjee Sohini Sanyal
Opening theme	Agnijal by Various
Composer	Upaali Chatterjee
Country of origin	India
Original language	Bengali
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	241
Production
Producers	Shrikant Mohta Mahendra Soni
Production location	Kolkata
Running time	22 minutes
Production company	Shree Venkatesh Films
Original release
Network	Star Jalsha
Release	November 21, 2016 (2016-11-21) – July 23, 2017 (2017-07-23)

Agnijal (Bengali: অগ্নিজল); is a Bengali period drama that premiered on November 21, 2016 and airs on Star Jalsha. It is produced by Shree Venkatesh Films. It stars Rohit Samanta and Tumpa Ghosh in lead roles and Sudip Mukherjee and Tulika Basu as main antagonists. It replaced Star Jalsha's popular fantasy drama Kiranmala.

Plot summary

Set in medieval India, it is about lust for power, conspiracies, battles and the magical love story of Prince Debdakhya and Souraja, a devadasi. Agnijal is a story of Sahashra Nagari, where a king Dev Daksha falls in love with a Devdasi named Souraja. But the Acharya of the temple Dhiratna opposes their love. Dev Daksha is the prince of Sahashra Nagari and son of King Dev Varma and queen Bedantika. Dev Daksha has two younger brothers and two younger sisters. Among them Gangeyo is the best friend of Dev Daksha. But Gangeyo’s Mother, second wife of King Dev Varma, Tamakshi didn’t like Dev Daksha and always wanted Gangeyo would be the future king of Sahashra Nagari. But after the accidental death of Dev Varma, Dev Daksha became the king and fell in love with the Devdasi of Lalataksha temple, Souraja. Souraja’s Mother Kalabati always kept Souraja away from Acharya Dhiratna as she doesn’t want that her daughter will also be a Devdasi like her. But clever Dhiratna find Souraja and announces that Souraja will be the next Devdasi of the temple. Finally one day Dev Daksha marries Souraja to protect her from the hands of Dhiratna.

Cast

• Payal De/Adrija Roy as Ma Singhobahini
• Rohit Samanta as Raja Dev Daksha
• Tumpa Ghosh as Devdasi Souroja(dead)/Rani Sourojini
• Sudip Mukherjee as Acharya Dhiratna
• Rudrajit Mukherjee/Bimol as Gangeyo
• Diya Mukherjee as Sambhaba
• Rita Dutta Chakraborty as Rani Vedantika
• Rajat Ganguly as Raja Dev Varma
• Tulika Basu as Rani Tamakshi
• Namita Chakraborty as Vedantika's Well wisher
• Sohini Sanyal as Devdasi Kalabati
• Pushpita Mukherjee as Dhaima
• Ranjini Chattopadhyay as Vedantika's Well wisher
• Manishankar Banerjee as Tamonash
• Priyanka Bhattacharya as Atreyi
• Samriddho as Abhigyan
• Chaitali Chakraborty as Tamakshi's Well wisher
• Sushmita Dey as Tamakshi's Well wisher
• Sahana Sen as Shubhangi
• Rupsha Ghuha as Karali
• Payel Roy as Kuokini
• Sairity Banerjee as Jaadukori
• Aritra Datta Shrobon as Deetya's/Sarbamangala:s husband
• Deetya Das As Sarbamangala/Shrobon's wife