Krishnakoli

Krishnakoli (Bengali: কৃষ্ণকলিী); is a popular Bengali television soap opera that premiered on 18 June 2018 and airs from Monday to Sunday on Bengali entertainment channel Zee Bangla. It is also available on the digital platform ZEE5. It is produced by Susanta Das of Tent Cinema and stars Tiyasha Roy and Neel Bhattacharya in the lead roles.[1][2] The TV soap has been able to hold top positions in TRP charts.[3]

Krishnakoli
Also known as	Krishnokoli
Genre	Drama Romance
Created by	Tent Cinema
Written by	Screenplay Nandalal Majumdar Dialogues Ayan Chakraborty
Story by	Susanta Das Sayantani Bhattacharya
Directed by	Susanta Das Siddhanta Pal Bijoy Maji Danish Makhaul Tilottama Pillai
Creative director	Bijoy Maji
Starring	Tiyasha Roy Neel Bhattacharya Rimjhim Mitra Susmita Roy Chakroborty Soumi Chatterjee Mishmee Das
Theme music composer	Debjit Roy Aditi Munshi
Composer	Upaali Chatterjee
Country of origin	India
Original language	Bengali
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	836
Production
Producer	Susanta Das
Production location	Kolkata
Running time	22 minutes
Production company	Tent Cinema
Distributor	ZEE5 Zee Entertainment Enterprises
Release
Original network	Zee Bangla
Picture format	576i SDTV 1080i HDTV
Original release	18 June 2018 – present
External links
Website

Plot

Shyama, who despite being dark skinned, sets out to prove that it doesn't matter what skin colour you might be. She marries Nikhil Shyama faces many problems after marriage, due to discrimination of her skin color. However, she is talented and sets out on a journey, to create an identity for herself. Shyama, a dusky girl, who believes that her complexion is akin to Lord Krishna's complexion. Her life changes after marriage wen she goes on to make a career in music. After marriage, Shyama's mother-in-law dislikes her but later in few years of time she becomes more of a daughter and allow her to sing.[4] Then, Shyama takes part in music competition where Ashok, his brother-in-law, plans to kill her but she manged to escape. Then, she fell in a river and got missing while escaping. Later, Nikhil discovers a girl looking similar like Shyama named Amropali. After that she got married to Nikhil. But after some months of their marriage, Shyama returned with help of her cousin-in-law Aditya and exposed Disha-Ashok and sent them to jail. Then, Amropali become jealous and planned to kill pregnant Shyama by kidnapping. But luckily while travelling Shyama accidentally fell on a truck and went to Benaras while Akshok mistook Amropali to be Shyama and killed her.[5]

After 18 years

Shyama and her daughter Krishna stay in Benaras but Shyama has lost her memory so she doesn't remember her past.[6] Then Nikhil and his family went to Banaras and met Krishna. They were happy with Krishna's singing. After that Krishna and Shyama came to Kolkata as Krishna would be participating in a music competition. They met Nikhil on the road and he brought them to their house. Ashok-Disha's daughter Munni and Amropali's sister Sunaina insulted them. Krishna went to the competition along with Nikhil. There Nikhil met with Radharani and Rukmini Mashi, who have now became rich and Radha's daughter Rai, who is also a participant insulted Krishna there. Then, at the New Year party, Munni decided to take revenge from Krishnaby mixing alcohol in her soft drink so that she cannot sing in the party and let everybody down which will make Nikhil throw her out of the house.[7] But then Shyama came and sang the song and everybody were shocked to see that Shyama is Krishna's mother.

Cast

Main

• Tiyasha Roy as Shyama Nikhil Choudhury / Amropali Nikhil Chowdhury aka Mum (Dead) – dual roles
• Neel Bhattacharya as Nikhil Choudhury
• Rimjhim Mitra as Disha Ashok Choudhury
• Mishmee Das as Sunaina (Amropali's cousin)
• Soumi Chatterjee as Krishna Choudhury (Shyama and Nikhil's daughter)
• Raunak Dey Bhowmick as Aniruddha Dutta aka Ani (Kanika's son)
• Ananya Guha as Srijani Choudhury aka Munni (Disha and Ashok's daughter)

Recurring

• Susmita Roy Chakroborty as Parvati (Shyama's sister-in-law)
• Ayush Das as Gopal (Parvati's son)
• Sarbari Mukherjee as Rukmini / Guruma
• Priyam Chakroborty[8] as Tithi
• Vivaan Ghosh as Ashok Choudhury
• Pooja Karmakar as Priyanka Mukherjee
• Nibedita Mukherjee as Sujata Basanta Choudhury
• Sanjib Sarkar as Krishnacharan
• Mou Bhattacharya as Bishnupriya
• Shankar Chakraborty as Basanta Choudhury
• Priyanka Halder as Papiya Arun Choudhury
• Shreemoyee Chattaraj as Radharani Dutta
• Koushik Bhattacharya as Arun Choudhury
• Basudeb Mukherjee as Dadamoshai
• Raj Bhattacharya as Romen Das
• Rajib Bose as Aditya Choudhury
• Shobhana Bhunia as Tumpa
• Shatabdi Nag as Shraboni
• Kushal Chakraborty[9] as Amropali's father
• Riyanka Dasgupta as Amropali's maternal aunt
• Sanjoy Bapi Basu as Alok
• Purbasha Roy as Bijli
• Piyali Basu as Gouri Ramen Das
• Fahim Mirza as Rony
• Soumi Paul as Madhumita Sen
• Nandini Dutta as Rai Dutta (Radharani Dutta's daughter)
• Avery Singha Roy as Kanika Dutta (Radharani's sister-in-law)

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Name	Result
2020	Zee Bangla Sonar Sansar[10]	Sera Sonsar	Team Krishnakoli	Won
		Best Actor in Negative Role	Aditya Choudhury	Won
		Facebook ZeeBangla Popular Face	Neel Bhattacharya	Won
		Sera Chele	Nikhil Chowdhury	Won
		Best Jodi	Neel-Tiyasha as Shyama-Nikhil	Won
2019	Shyama Prasad Bangio Samman	Best Jodi	Neel-Tiyasha	Won
		Best Actor in Supporting Role	Shankar Chakraborty	Won
2019	Tele Academy Award[11]	Best Jodi	Neel-Tiyasha	Won
		Best Actress in Supporting Role	Nivedita Neel Mukherjee	Won
		Popular Serial	Team Krishnakoli	Won
		Best Screenplay	Sushant Das & Nandalal Majumder	Won
2019	Zee Bangla Sonar Sansar	Best Serial	Team Krishnakoli	Won
		Best Actress in Negative Role	Rukmini as GuruMa	Won
		Sera Sasuri/Mother-in-law	Sujata Chowdhury	Won
		Sera Baba	Krishnacharan	Won
		Sera Sasur/Father-in-law	Basanta Chowdhury	Won
		Sera Chele	Nikhil Chowdhury	Won
		Best Jodi	Neel-Tiyasha as Shyama-Nikhil	Won
2019	ZBFG Award	Best Jodi Popular	Neel-Tiyasha as Shyama-Nikhil	Won
		Best Actor	Neel Bhattacharya as Nikhil	Won
		Best Serial	Team Krishnakoli	Won
2018	ZBFG Award	Best Actor	Neel Bhattacharya as Nikhil	Won

As an onscreen couple, Neel-Tiyasha won in an Episode of Dadagiri Unlimited season 8 (Episode Telecast date 17 August 2019)[12]

Reception

The series is being first ranked for the most watched television series since the day it had premiered.[13] It fetched a TRP of 11.8 million impressions by being in top first position among other Bengali television series.[14] In week 3 of 2021, it garnered 6.476 million impressions and retained the first position.[15]

Adaptations

Sr.No.	Language	Title	Original release	Network(s)	Episodes
1	Telugu	Krishnatulasi (TV soap)[16][17]	2021 -	Zee Telugu	0 (promo)[18]

References

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15. "WEEK 3 - DATA: Saturday, 16th January 2021 To Friday, 22nd January 2021". BARC India. Archived from the original on 29 January 2021.
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