Shobha Somnath Ki

Shobha Somnath Ki
Genre Indian soap opera
Historical drama
Created by Vikas Kapoor
Developed by Vikas Kapoor
Written by Vikas Kapoor
Directed by Arvind Babbal
Govind Agrawal
Starring Vikramjeet Virk
Ashnoor Kaur
Theme music composer Raju Singh
Opening theme "Shobha Somnath ki"
Composer(s) Raju Singh
Ravindra Jain
Surya Raj Kamal
Country of origin India
Original language(s) Hindi
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 129
Production
Producer(s) Vikas Kapoor (First 65 Episodes) Vikas Sethi
Siddhart Kumar Tewary
Location(s) Mumbai
Cinematography Deepak Pandey
Running time 24 minutes
Production company(s) Candlestick Media
Swastik Pictures
Release
Original network Zee TV
Picture format 576i (SDTV)
Original release 20 June 2011 (2011-06-20) – 26 February 2012 (2012-02-26)
Website

Shobha Somnath Ki (English: Shobha of Somnath) is an Indian historical television drama series on Zee TV based on Acharya Chatursen's Hindi novel Somnath Mahalay.[1] It tells the story of a young girl called Shobha amid the infamous raids in western India by Sultan Maḥmūd of Ghazni in the early 11th century.

The show replaced another historical drama Jhansi Ki Rani on Zee TV. Initially, the drama was produced by Contiloe Telefilms. However, due to Veer Shivaji on Colors TV and Maharana Pratap on Star Plus, Contiloe Telefilms handed over the reins to Swastik Pictures. The show was shown every day for some months, and was changed to being broadcast bi-weekly due to decreased popularity. Another show Hitler Didi replaced the time slot when Shobha Somnath Ki was shown (starting 7 November 2011). On 12 November 2011, the broadcast time was changed to weekends only. It aired its last episode on 26 February 2012.[2]

Crew

Cast

Young characters

Grown-up characters

Differences from the book

In the book, Shobhna was a Balvidhva, Brahmin girl; her father Krishna Swami was one of the "adhikari" in the famous Somnath temple. Chaula was chief dancer Ganga's daughter, later revealed to be Dadda Chalukya's daughter. Later on Shabhna lives with Chaula as her close friend. The drama shows Shobha as the daughter of Kirit Chalukya (brother of Dadda Chalukya) and eventually a princess of Bharuch.

As per the book, Dadda Chalukya used to believe a lot on Rudrabhadra: he got a son, due to his blessings. Dadda Chalukya got Bharucha's kingdom due to Rudrabhadra's blessings, he gave his first daughter Chaula to Goddess Tripursundari on Rudrabhadra's advice, but Gang Sarvagya interfered and she was given to God Somnath. As a result, Rudrabhadra was very angry. In the drama - Dadda Chalukya and Rudrabhadra are shown as great rivals and Rudhrabhadra one of the main parallel antagonist to Ghaznavi. Moreover, Gayathri Devi (wife of Dadda Chaulukya) was the person who got blessings to get a baby (without Dadda's permission). A "girl" was born not a boy and the girl is Chaula. Rudhrabhadra got a promise from Gayathri that at the age of 16 she must be given to Goddess Tripurasundari but she refused to do so later on when Chaula reached the age of 16.

Bhimdev, the son of Samrat Vallabhdev married to Udaymati, a princess of Saurastra Narvahan Khengar. He had also married to Bauladevi (also called Chauladevi) who was not a princess. Bhimdev had a son named Karandev from Udaymati and sons named Chemraj and Mulraj from Bauladev I. Mulraj died in very early age. In the series Chaula is indeed shown as a princess, but Bhimdev does not have any other wives.

Awards

ITA Awards
Zee Rishtey Awards

References

  1. ↑ Press release: Zee TV presents The Biggest Ever Historical Magnum Opus Shobha Somnath Ki
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120221050407/http://media247.co.uk/bizasia/newsarchive/2012/02/zee_tv_axes_sho.php. Archived from the original on 21 February 2012. Retrieved 16 February 2012. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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