Rakhi Bandhan

Rakhi Bandhan (Bengali: রাখি বন্ধন) is a Bengali television soap opera that premiered on November 28, 2016 and airs on Star Jalsha. Sayanta Modak, Sraboni Bhunia, and Subhrojit Saha play lead roles. The show ran in dubbed Tamil as Minmini Pookal, airing on Vijay Super, but has since been stopped.^[1]The show's USP^{[clarification needed]} is the unique bonding between the young actors Krittika and Soham, who played Rakhi and Bandhan respectively. Krittika was applauded for her comic timing, dialogue delivery and expressions. The show took a leap of 12 years in September 2018 and the young actors were replaced by Subhrajit and Srabani as Bandhan and Rakhi respectively.

Rakhi Bandhan
Genre	Drama
Created by	Blues Productions
Written by	Snehasish Chakroborty
Directed by	Bidyut Saha
Starring	Srabani Bhunia Subhrojit Saha Sayanta Modak Rupsha Chakroborty
Theme music composer	Arup Ghosh
Opening theme	"Rakhi Bandhan" by Joy and Trisha
Composer(s)	Snehasish Chakraborty
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Bengali
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	700
Production
Producer(s)	Snehasish Chakroborty
Production location(s)	Kolkata
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	Blues Productions
Release
Original network	Star Jalsha
Picture format	576i SDTV 1080i HDTV
Original release	November 28, 2016 – present
External links
Rakhi Bandhan on Hotstar

The show is produced by Blues Productions.

Plot summaryEdit

Rakhi Bandhan is a Bengali family drama. It is a sweet relationship based story between a brother and a sister. Bandhan and his sister, Rakhi are orphans. Neglected by their relatives, they become each other's support system. Their aunt Malina and a local goon Champa Chameli Das are troublemakers in Rakhi and Bandhan's lives.

12 Years LeapEdit

The show leaps ahead 12 years following Rakhi and Bandhan who are grown up now, but their bonding as brother and sister is not good.

CastEdit

MainEdit

• Subhrajit Saha as Adult Bandhan Chatterjee
• Srabani Bhunia as Adult Rakhi Chatterjee
• Sayanta Modak as Rakhi's love interest/Ved
• Soham Basu Roy Chowdhury^[2] as young Bandhan Chatterjee
• Krittika Chakraborty^[2] as young Rakhi Chatterjee
• Rita Koiral / Chaitali Chakraborty as Jethima/Malina Chatterjee
• Rupsha Chakraborty as Chaara
• Debjani Chattopadhyay as Anamika Banerjee

SupportingEdit

• Subhasish Mukherjee as Jethu/Amaresh Chatterjee
• Indrani Ghosh as Champa Chameli Das
• Kushal Chakraborty as Sabyasachi
• Siddharata Banerjee as Sanjay Sinha
• Piyali Basu as Uttara/Swati (Rakhi and Bandhan's mother)
• Pradip Dhar as Madan
• Arpita Dutta Chowdhury as Damayanti (Rakhi and Bandhan's Mami)
• Debjani Chattopadhyay as Anamika Banerjee
• Gaurav Ghosal as Dil
• Moumita Chakraborty as Jagatjanani
• Saikat Das as Tiyash
• Boni Mukherjee as Deepika