Abanindranath Tagore’s Khirer Putul was written in 1896 and the folk fantasy story has enchanted readers since.

Zee Bangla has come up with this story of Khirer Putul for the audiences. It is an amalgamation of fantasy, folklore, in the times of this grave pandemic.

Khirer Putul – is a tale for a King, (here have been named Shamantak) who has two wives or queens. The Duo rani the eldest, our protagonist, Sudha who suffers and is tremendously ignored and then there is the beautiful, pampered Suyoni Rani called Sagarika , the youngest queen who is learning magic and uses them freely to get what she wants! When the king decides to embark on a journey across the distant seas, he asks his favourite younger queen what it that she wants is. She asks for rare and expensive jewellery and sarees that is as blue as the sky. The Duorani wishes for nothing but the king’s safety. The King to be fair insists that Duorani too asks for something. She then says that she wants a black faced monkey.

On arrival back from the trip, the Suorani hates everything that has been brought for her. She throws them out as they are uncomfortable and not worthy of her attention. While on the other hand, the monkey and the elder queen Duorani becomes confidant. Slowly the monkey carries across messages between the queen and the King. The monkey decides to trick Maa Shashti (who is present throughout the story as almost Sudha’s mother) with a clever plan that will make solve all of Duorani’s problems.

The monkey knows that the King longs for a child. While on the other hand, he convinces the Duorani to make sugar dolls or Khirer Putul. All this while tricking Maa Shashti the Bengali goddess of fertility and child bearing into solving the Duorani’s problem and establishes her status rightfully in her palace.

The director of the serial is Amit Das and the music has been composed by Saumik Guha Roy.

The cast of the serial consists of Sudipta Roy as (Sudha / Duorani), Sreetama Roychowdhury as (Sagarika/ Suorani) and Suman Dey as (Shamantak / Raja).

Khirer Putul will begin from 27^th July, Monday to Saturday, 8 to 8.30 pm on Zee Bangla.

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