Durga
Genre	Indian soap opera Drama Mythology Romance Thriller
Created by	Shree Venkatesh Films
Directed by	Anupam Hari
Creative director	Sahana
Presented by	Shree Venkatesh Films
Starring	Sandipta Sen Gourab Chatterjee Swagata Mukherjee Payel De
Theme music composer	Jeet Ganguly
Composer	Jeet Ganguly
Country of origin	India
Original language	Bengali
Production
Producers	Shrikant Mohta Mahendra Soni
Production location	Kolkata
Running time	22 minutes
Production company	Shree Venkatesh Films[1]
Original release
Network	Star Jalsha
Release	8 September 2008 (2008-09-08) – 26 June 2010 (2010-06-26)
Related
Gaaner Oparey

Durga was an Indian Bengali language television soap opera, which aired from 8 September 2008 – 26 June 2010 on Bengali GEC Star Jalsha.^[2] The show starred Sandipta Sen,^[3] Gourab Chatterjee^[4] and Swagata Mukherjee^[5] and Payel De in lead roles.

A spiritual sequel or a reboot of this series, Durga Durgeshwari, premiered in 2019 and ended in 2020. It starred Sampurna Mondal and Bishwarup Banerjee in the lead roles.^[6]

Plot

It is the tale of the journey of a village belle and an ardent devotee of Goddess Durga, Durga (Sandipta Sen) who marries a mentally unwell heir, Rupam (Gourab Chatterjee), of an urban rich family. Rupam is held captive for several years by an evil woman Damini (Swagata Mukherjee). Damini held Rupam around the waist and captured him.However, Durga's faith in the Goddess, which is her strength helps her to cure Rupam. The Goddess (Payel De) comes to her rescue during all of Durga's challenges. Thus, Durga helps Rupam lead a normal life by defeating the foul plans of his relatives with the help of Goddess Durga.

Cast

• Sandipta Sen as Durga Roy Chowdhury, Sibnath and Jaya's daughter, Rupam's wife and an ardent devotee of Goddess Durga
• Gourab Chatterjee as Rupam Roy Chowdhury, Arindam and Jayanti's son, Durga's husband, a mentally unwell heir
• Swagata Mukherjee as Damini Roy Chowdhury, Arijit's second wife, Titli's mother, an evil lady who killed Rupam's mother and tries to harm Rupam and Durga.
• Payel De as Goddess Durga aka Sati
• Ditipriya Roy as Gauri, Child version of Goddess Durga
• Debesh Roy Chowdhury as Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, Gayatri's husband and Damini's Sidekick
• Moyna Mukherjee as Gayatri Roy Chowdhury, Aniruddha's wife and Damini's Sidekick
• Dr. Basudev Mukhopadhyay as Arijit Roy Chowdhury, Damini's husband and Sreerup, Arup and Titli's father
• Saptarshi Roy as Sreerup Roy Chowdhury, Ketaki's husband
• Saibal Bhattacharya as Arup Roy Chowdhury, Neela's husband
• Rajat Ganguly as Arindam Roy Chowdhury, Rupam's father
• Pritha Chatterjee as Jayanti Roy Chowdhury, Rupam's mother who was killed by Damini
• June Malia as Ketaki Roy Chowdhury, Sreerup's wife
• Rupanjana Mitra as Neela Roy Chowdhury, Arup's wife
• Debolina Dutta as Titli Roy Chowdhury, Damini and Arijit's daughter, Rupam and Durga's well wisher
• Subhrajit Dutta as Titli's love interest
• Tina Dutta as Kumkum Roy Chowdhury, Neela's daughter
• Bodhisattva Majumder as Sibnath, Durga's father
• Swagata Bose as Jaya, Durga's mother
• Sumanta Mukherjee as Narayan Choudhary, zamindar of Sonajhuri village
• Anindya Pulak Banerjee as Supriyo, son of Narayan Choudhary
• Rita Dutta Chakraborty as Maya Maa, a Yogini
• Debika Mitra as a Nun who rescued Durga
• Nitya Ganguly as Kanai Kaka, servant of the Roy Chowdhury family
• Pradip Bhattacharya as Hari Kaka
• Samir Biswas as Sashadhar, priest of the Durga temple in Sonajhuri village who gave the idol of Goddess to Durga
• Sudipa Basu as Jhumur's mother
• Bimal Chakraborty as Damini's lawyer

Adaptations