Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule

Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule^[1] is an Indian historical drama television series Directed by Rupesh D Gohil and Produced by RDG Productions Pvt.Ltd. The drama, aired on Doordarshan National, is based on the life of Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule.

Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule
Genre	Historic Period Drama
Written by	Shivendra Kumar
Directed by	Rupesh D Gohil
Creative director(s)	Yusuf Surti
Starring	Ketaki Kulkarni I Prafulla Kamble I Nandkumar Patil I Advika Divakar I Prerna Bhatt I Sandhya Kute I Punam Chandolkar I Aditi Patil I Dr.Rajesh Aher I Mandar Pathak I Sweekar Mathkar
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi
No. of episodes	107
Production
Producer(s)	Rupesh D Gohil
Location(s)	Mumbai
Production company(s)	RDG Productions
Release
Original network	DD National
Original release	11 August 2016
Chronology
Related shows	The Great Maratha I DD National
External links
Website

Savitribai Jyotirao Phule (3 January 1831 – 10 March 1897) was an Indian social reformer and poet. Along with her husband, Jyotirao Phule she played an important role in improving women's rights in India during British rule. The couple founded the first women's school at Bhide Wada in pune in 1848.. She also worked to abolish discrimination and unfair treatment of people based on caste and gender. She is regarded as an important figure of the Social Reform Movement in Maharashtra and is regarded as "Rashtramata" (The Mother of The Nation). But unfortunately majority of many Indians especially young generation is not aware of Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule and Mahatma Jyotiba Phule. The story starts with a terrifying incident of a girl burnt alive in a village in Maharashtra and while covering this news ace reporter Kavya Banerjee meets social reformer Bhaskar manjule for his review and opinion regarding the incident. Bhaskar while giving his interview gives example of Savitribai Phule and to his shock Kavya questions him about Savitribai Phule as she is completely unaware of this iconic lady. Bhaskar scolds Kavya and tells her that its very shameful being a female journalist she doesn’t know about this great lady. Kavya feels guilty and she decides to find out more information on Savitribai Phule. Kavya on suggestion of Bhaskar manjule leaves for kudaal village near satara to meet retired professor Namdev patil who is a true follower of Savitribai Phule…

Kavya meets Namdev in his village but he refuses to give information about Savitribai Phule but later on seeing her dedication and sincerity about her work he agrees to narrate the story of Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule’….

Cast

• Ketaki Kulkarni as Savitribai Phule
• Lohitakshaya Pattnaik as Jyotiba Phule
• Prafulla Kamble as Nevase Patil [Savitribai father]
• Prerna Bhatt as Laxmibai [Savitribai mother]
• Sandhya Kute as Aaji [Savitribai Aaji]
• Nandkumar V. Patil as [ Teacher ]
• Advika Divakar as Journalist
• Punam Chandolkar as Shantabai [Dalit lady]
• Aditi Patil as Muktabai [Shantabai Daughter]
• Dr. Rajesh Aher as Pantoji [Senior Brahmin]
• Mandar Pathak as Bhinse Brahmin
• Sweekar Mathkar as Borker teacher Brahmin
• Rohan Pednekar as Shiva Villager

External links

Official Website of Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule

Watch Online all Episode - Youtube

Official Facebook Page

References