Barrister Babu

Barrister Babu is an Indian social drama television series that premiered 11 February 2020 on Colors TV.[1] The show is produced by Shashi Sumeet Productions and stars Aurra Bhatnagar and Pravisht Mishra.[2]

Barrister Babu
GenreDrama
Created by
Written by
StarringAurra Bhatnagar
Pravisht Mishra
Opening themeRishta Tera Mera
Country of originIndia
Original languageHindi
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes193
Production
Producers
Cinematography
  • Sudesh Kotian
  • Prateek Singh
Camera setupMulti-Camera
Running time20 minutes approx.
Production companyShashi Sumeet Productions
DistributorViacom 18
Release
Original networkColors TV
Picture format
Audio formatDigital TV
Original release11 February 2020 (2020-02-11) –
present
External links
Voot
Production website

Barrister Babu revolves around child bride Bondita Das who is married off to Barrister Anirudh Roy Choudhary in her childhood and how Anirudh fights society for her education to make her a barrister.[3]

Plot

Set in the pre-independence era in Bengal, Anirudh Roy Choudhary, a 22-year-old barrister returns to India from London to wipe out customs and disbelieves from the society, which prevents the progress of women. On the other hand, Bondita Das, is an 11-year-old Bengali Hindu girl, living with her widowed mother Sumati, aunt Devoleena, Uncle, and cousin Sampoorna. Bondita's uncle and aunt decide to arrange a marriage for Bondita with an elderly man, while Sampoorna is set to marry Saurabh, Anirudh's friend. However, during the wedding, Bondita's would-be husband dies. The villagers decide to burn Bondita along with him as a part of sati. Anirudh, who was attending the wedding for Saurabh, marries her, as a last attempt to save her. Bondita was unconscious due to her aunt's spiked food, wakes up just in time for the new ceremony to begin, and is unaware of what truly happened. At home, Anirudh's love interest, Saudamini, finds out about this and feels broken, and eventually plots to separate Anirudh and Bondita. Aniruddh refuses to recognize Bondita as his wife, and rather sees her as his responsibility. He even cures her bed-wetting habit, which is due to the psychological trauma of witnessing the death of her father, caused by a venomous snakebite.

A while later, Bondita decides to help Sampoorna to solve her dowry issue, and meets a man named Brijwasi Babu who is actually a scammer, and pretends to be a devotee of Lord Krishna. Bondita innocently helps him and gets caught by Anirudh, who then sends Bondita back to her village home to live with her uncle and aunt. Aniruddh learns what Bondita was truly trying to do from a brothel dancer named Rasiya bai, and is told that Devoleena was going to sell her into prostitution into a brothel to which Rasiya Bai belongs saved her.

Anirudh rescues Bondita and exposes Saudamini's sinister plans to separate Anirudh and Bondita. It was also revealed that Trilochan was pushed and paralyzed due to Saudamini and Binoy's misdeeds but was later miraculously cured all thanks to Bondita. Saudamini is thrown out of the Roy Chaudhary House, and Bondita is finally warmly accepted and embraced back into the family.

Bondita decides to join school and Anirudh gets to know that he needs Mr. Greenwood's signatures in order to get Bondita's admission. They reach Mr. Greenwood's house and gets surprised to see Saudamini as Greenwood's wife; Betty Greenwood. They both place a condition to sign the paper only when bondita and her friends of heera mandi would win their challenge. Bondita and her friends, along with Anirudh as their teacher and mentor, win the challenge. Bondita will be the first girl from Tulsipur to go to school. She gets ready to go to school, but on the way, Saudamini kidnaps, knocks Bondita unconscious, and locks her in a chemical factory. Anirudh attempts to rescue Bondita, but is unable to. Luckily, Saurabh is able to save Bondita, but dies while doing so. Bondita and Anirudh prevents Sampoorna from practicing sati and bring her to their mansion. A girl reaches mansion and claims to be the reincarnation of Anirudh's mother Shubhra by Premlal because he want the revenge of Saurabh's death , from Anirudh and Roy Choudhary's , later he gets caught and is arrested. While Sampoorna's parents blackmail Binoy into marrying Sampoorna. Sampoorna wants to take revenge from Trilochan because he had called her a bad omen.

Cast

Main
  • Aurra Bhatnagar Badoni as Bondita Anirudh Roy Choudhary : Sumati and Arvind's daughter, Anirudh's wife (2020–present)
  • Pravisht Mishra as Anirudh Roy Choudhary: Barrister; Shubhra and Binoy's son; Somnath and Batuk's brother; Bondita's husband; Saudamini's former lover (2020–present)

Recurring
  • Rishi Khurana as Trilochan Roy Chowdhury: Binoy's brother; Anirudh, Somnath and Batuk's uncle (2020–present)[4]
  • Chandan K Anand as Binoy Roy Chowdhury: Shubra's Widower ; Trilochan's brother; Anirudh, Somnath and Batuk's father ; Sampoorna's Second Husband (2020–present)
  • Pranali Rathod as Saudamini "Mini" Bhaumik / Betty Greenwood : Shivraj's daughter; Anirudh's former lover; Greenwood's wife (2020)
  • Viraj Kapoor/Param Mehta as Somnath Roy Choudhary: Binoy's and Shubra's son; Sampoorna's StepSon ; Anirudh and Batuk's brother (2020–present)
  • Meet Rohra/Vaidik Puriya /Daksh Rana as Batuk Roy Chowdhury: Binoy's and Shubra's son ; Sampoorna's Stepson ; Anirudh and Somnath's brother (2020–present)
  • Arina Dey as Sumati Das: Sundaram's sister; Arvind's widow; Bondita's mother (2020–present)
  • Jason Shah as Sir John Greenwood: Saudamini's husband (2020)
  • Rohan Roy as Sundaram Jadhav: Sumati's brother; Devoleena's husband; Sampoorna's father; Bondita's uncle (2020–present)
  • Barsha Chatterjee as Devoleena Jadhav: Sundaram's wife; Sampoorna's mother; Bondita's aunt (2020–present)
  • Pallavi Mukherjee as Sampoorna Roy Choudhary/Munshi (Nee'Jadhav) : Devoleena and Sundaram's daughter; Bondita's cousin ; Saurabh's Widow ; Binoy's Second Wife (2020–present)
  • Dev Aaditya as Saurabh Munshi : Biraj and Premal's son ; Sampoorna's Former husband ; Househelp at the Roy Chowdhury household (2020)
  • Aashish Kaul as Shivraj Bhaumik: Basuri's son; Binoy's friend; Saudamini's father (2020)
  • Akshita Arora as Basuri Devi Bhaumik: Shivraj's mother; Saudamini's grandmother (2020–present)
  • Premchand Singh as Premal Munshi: Surmani and Biraj's husband; Saurabh's father (2020–present)
  • Madhushee Sharma as Surmani Munshi: Premal's first wife (2020–present)
  • Hetal Yadav as Biraj Munshi: Premal's second wife; Saurabh's mother (2020–present)
  • Adish Vaidya as Brijwasi Babu: A fraud who pretends to be a huge devotee of Lord Krishna, Bondita's friend (2020)
  • Kundan Kumar as Bihari: Househelp at the Roy Chowdhury household (2020–present)
  • Sayantani Ghosh as Rasiya Bai: Dancer at a brothel; Bondita's friend (2020)(Cameo)
  • Alka Kaushal as Tara Bai: Owner of the brothel (2020)(Cameo)
  • Ram Awana as Muchadd Babu: The man who sells Bondita to Tara Bai (2020).
  • Prakriti Nautiyal as Ramaiya: Suraiya's twin-sister; Dancer at brothel, Bondita's friend (2020)
  • Pragya Nautiyal as Suraiya: Ramaiya's twin-sister; Dancer at brothel, Bondita's friend (2020)
  • Mohan Sharma as Satya
  • Sniggdha Suman as Bholi
  • Archi Sanghvi as Ilaichi
  • Shatakshee Jain as Badal
  • Parth Mehta as Bhim
  • Vedant Pandya as Shubhu
  • Pratham Bhanushali as Gopal
  • Garv Khanna as Vinod
  • Tirth Thakkar as Ataru
  • Disha Tewani as Shubhra Roy Chowdhury : Anirudh, Somnath and Batuk's Mother ; Bondita's Mother - in law, Binoy's Former wife.
  • Chahat Tewani as Fake Shubhra Roy Chowdhury

Production

The production and airing of the show was halted indefinitely in late March 2020 due to the Covid-19 outbreak in India.[5] Because of the outbreak, the filming of television series and films was halted on 19 March 2020 and expected to resume on 1 April 2020 but could not and the series was last broadcast on 31 March 2020 when the remaining episodes were aired.[6][7] The episodes resumed on 6 July 2020.[8]

Adaptation

The show was dubbed in Bengali and aired on Colors Bangla with the same title.[9]

Reception

After three months break when the series resumed airing post Covid-19 lockdown in week 28 of 2020, it became the third most watched Hindi GEC in urban with 4.7 million impressions.[10]

References
  1. "Khatron Ke Khiladi 10 to Roadies season 17; list of TV shows to look forward". The Times of India.
  2. "Barrister Babu' Cast Full List: Everything You Need To Know". Republic World.
  3. "Barrister Babu on the sets Anirudh doesn't consider young Bondita as his wife". The Times of India.
  4. "Rishi Khurana joins the cast of 'Barrister Babu', calls his character "typical saas of TV" - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  5. "Television Industry in a Slump With the Lockdown". The Quint.
  6. "Coronavirus outbreak: Film and television shootings to stop till March 31". India Today.
  7. "COVID-19 impact: TV industry braces for loss as production stalled". Live Mint.
  8. "Shooting of popular shows 'Barrister Babu' and 'Shubharambh' commences after lockdown". Republic World.
  9. "'Barrister Babu' actors Aura Bhatnagar and Pravisht Mishra share their excitement on the show being dubbed into Bengali". The Times of India.
  10. "TV Rating War: Kundali Bhagya tops chart, Barrister Babu in top 3". India Today.
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