Punyashlok Ahilyabai

Punyashlok Ahilyabai
Genre	Historical fiction Drama Mythology
Directed by	Jackson Sethi
Starring	Aditi Jaltare Rajesh Shringarpure Krish Chauhan Snehlata Vasaikar
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	148
Production
Producers	Nitin Vaidya Ninad Vaidya
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	Approx. 20-23 minutes
Production company	Dashami Creations
Release
Original network	Sony Entertainment Television
Picture format	576i HDTV 1080i
Original release	4 January 2021 (2021-01-04) – present (present)
External links
Punyashlok Ahilyabai
Dashami Creations

Punyashlok Ahilyabai is an Indian historical fiction television show that is being aired on Sony TV from 4 January 2021. The show is based on the life of Ahilyabai Holkar. The show is produced by Dashami Creations.

Cast

Main

• Aditi Jaltare /Aetasha Sansgiri as Ahilyabai Holkar. She is the daughter of Mankoji Shinde and Sushilabai who marries the son of Subedar Malhar Rao Holkar and Rani Gautama Bai Sahib Holkar, Khande Rao, at the age of nine. She is kind-hearted, intelligent, religious and open-minded and wishes to study. She struggles under the clutches of a patriarchal society to gain equal rights as men but later overcomes all barriers, with her sheer dedication and support of her father-in-law, and becomes an inspiration for generations to come. She tries to make Khanderao happy and make him her friend but fails miserably, yet she never loses hope and befriends him soon. (2021–present)
• Rajesh Shringarpure as Subedar Malhar Rao Holkar, the King of Malwa region under the Maratha empire. He has four wives (Gautama, Dwarka, Bana and Harku) and is a father of two (Seetabai and Khanderao). He is a courageous, kind, and intelligent man who is deeply respected and loved by all. He decides to marry his son to a village girl called Ahilya when he stops by the village on his course and is immensely impressed by her intelligence and kindness towards others. He decides so because he thinks that having a wife like Ahilya will make his son more responsible, who is gearing up to become the future ruler of the kingdom of Malwa. He is an open-minded person who is not in favour of orthodox beliefs and traditions and supports Ahilya whenever she is scolded by her mother-in-law or is treated unequally by her husband. (2021–present)
• Krish Chauhan /Gaurav Amlani as Khande Rao Holkar. He is the only son of Subedar Malhar Rao Holkar and Gautama Bai Sahib and the husband of Ahilyabai Holkar. He is arrogant and deems himself worthy enough to be the future king of the Malwa region. After marrying Ahilya, he takes it upon himself to make her life miserable as he assumes that she wants to take over his position and rights because his father always helps and supports her. He is quite jealous of Ahilya and blames her for all his shortcomings. His mother pampers him and scolds Ahilya to please him, but after such a long time, he starts supporting Ahilya which Dwarkabai cannot control. (2021–present)
• Snehlata Vasaikar as Queen of Malwa Gautama Bai Holkar. She is the first wife of Subedar Malhar Rao Holkar, mother of Khanderao and mother-in-law of Ahilya. She is clever, intelligent and smart. Every time she pampers her son and blindly supports him despite knowing that it is wrong, in her son's love. She never misses any way to taunt Ahilya or count her small mistakes, but slowly and steadily she starts liking Ahilya. (2021–present)
• Srijana Tejveeri as Harku Bai Sahib Holkar. She is the fourth wife of Subedar Malhar Rao Holkar. She is sweet, kind-hearted and educated one among all the queens. She even knows sword fighting. She supports and cares a lot about Ahilya and treats her like a best friend, makes her feel comfortable with her they both share their secrets to each other and many times she helps her in her plans. (2021–present)
• Sukhada Khandkekar as Dwarka Bai Sahib Holkar. She is the second wife of Subedar Malhar Rao Holkar. She is Seetabai's mother and Gunoji's mother-in-law. She is a cunning loser and hates Khanderao a lot and cannot see him become the king's successor. She always brainwashes Khanderao to do wrongdoings so that the king will get frustrated and remove him from the post of his successor but is scared of Ahilya's presence (as Ahilya is intelligent). She is scared of the fact that if Khanderao and Ahilya become friends then he will become responsible and intelligent which will ruin her dream of becoming Rajmata. She wants her son-in-law Gunoji to be the future king of Malwa and her daughter Seetabai as the future queen of Malwa. (2021–present)
• James Naivedhya Ghatge as Tukoji Rao Holkar Malhar Rao and Gautama's nephew, Khanderao's cousin, Rakhmabai's husband. He is intelligent and one of Malhar Rao's most trusted nobles. He helps Khanderao and Ahilya to become friends with each other. (2021–present)

Recurring

• Anjali Ujawane as Yamuna Bai, Queen Dwarka Bai Holkar's assistant/maid who is like a family to her. She accompanied her to the palace at the time when she was getting married, since then she lives with her and spies on the other members of the family to gain important messages to inform Dwarka Bai of her plans. She hates Ahilya because she always ruins and escapes from her plans. (2021-present)
• Bhagyashree Nhalve as Bana Bai Sahib Holkar. She is the third wife of Subedar Malhar Rao Holkar. She is of bubbly and childish nature, and because of her foolishness, she supports Queen Dwarka in her plans/wrongdoings. (2021–present)
• Varada Patil as Seetabai. She is Dwarka Bai and Malhar Rao's daughter and Gunoji's wife. (2021–present)
• Shreya Choudhary as Renu. She is Ahilya's best friend. She had to struggle a lot to live her life openly because she became a widow after just a few months of her marriage and because of the orthodoxness of the society she wasn't allowed to do many things. Later, Ahilya after requesting a lot was able to bring her to the palace of Malwa from Chamundi village. She supports and helps Ahilya a lot in her life. (2021–present)
• Charmi Dhami as Rakhmabai Holkar, Tukoji's wife, like Ahilya she also belongs from a normal family, but when Ahilya was welcomed at the palace the day after her marriage with Khanderao, she became angry that when she and Tukoji got married no one welcomed them in a lavish way. (2021-present)
• Sameer Deshpande as Mankoji Shinde. He is Ahilya's father, Khanderao's father-in-law and Sushilabai's husband. He loves his daughter dearly and can go any way to protect her. He teaches moral values to Ahilya which she applies in her day to day life. (2021–present)
• Sulakshana Joglekar as Sushilabai. She is Mankoji Shinde's wife, Ahilya's mother and Khanderao's mother-in-law. She teaches Ahilya how to live properly at her in-law's place and sometimes even scolds and taunts her yet she loves and misses her a lot. (2021–present)
• Harsh Joshi as Gunojirao Holkar (Zaavai Sahib), Dhanajirao's son, Seetabai's husband, son-in-law of Malhar Rao Holkar and Dwarka. He wants to become the king of Malwa, along with the help of his father, Dhanaji Rao who is one of Malhar Rao's nobles and he plans to kill Malhar Rao and Khanderao but always fail miserably because of Ahilya. No one in the palace is aware of him and his father's wrongdoings, he also hates Ahilya because she always intervenes and ruins his plans. (2021–present)
• Aryan Preet as Ahilya's elder brother. He is Mankoji and Sushilabai's son. (2021–present)
• Abhay Harpale as Gangoba Pant Tatya, one of king Malhar Rao's trusted nobles. He is wise and he also knows sword fighting. He is honest and always tries to help Malhar Rao. (2021–present)
• Unknown as Dhanajirao Holkar, Gunoji's father, father-in-law of Seetabai (Daughter of Malhar and Dwarka), Malhar Rao's trusted nobles. He and his son plan to kill Malhar Rao and Khanderao (as he wants to crown his son as the future king), because of Ahilya they always fail miserably. (2021-present)
• Harshit Keshawani as Tanhaji, Khanderao's friend who helps him in his plans. (2021)

Cameo

• Dushyant Wagh as Bhola, who had disguised himself as Lord Shiva for an act which Ahilya by mistake thought to be an original god when she ran away from the palace. He was the one who advised Ahilya to go back to the palace to her in-laws. Later Gunoji and Dhanaji's man seriously injured him. (2021)

Production

Development

The series was announced by Dashami Creations and was confirmed in December 2020 by Sony Entertainment Television|Sony TV]].

The first promo of the series was released on 5 December 2020.

See also

• List of programs broadcast by Sony Entertainment Television

External links

• Punyashlok Ahilyabai at IMDb