| Bairi Piya | |
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Promotional Poster of Bairi Piya |
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| Format | Drama |
| Created by | Balaji Telefilms |
| Written by | Story & Screenplay Anil Nagpal, Anshuman Sinha & Vandana Tewari Dialogues Shirish Latkar & Amit Jha |
| Directed by | Suraj Rao, Santosh Kolhe, Deepak Chavan, Randeep Shantaram Mahadik & Fahad Kashmiri |
| Creative director(s) | Sandiip Sikcand, Prashant Bhatt & Madhuri Rapsang |
| Starring | Sharad Kelkar & Supriya Kumari |
| Country of origin | India |
| Language(s) | Hindi |
| No. of episodes | Total 252 |
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| Producer(s) | Ekta Kapoor & Shobha Kapoor |
| Editor(s) | Vikas Sharma, Vishal Sharma & Sandeep Bhatt |
| Cinematography | Ashok Salian & Danish Singh |
| Running time | 24 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Colors (TV channel) |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) |
| Original run | September 21, 2009 – September 3, 2010 |
Bairi Piya (loosely translated as ‘Cruel Beloved’) is an Indian soap opera produced by Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms.
Bairi Piya is an atypical love story painted across a canvas portraying the predicament of destitute farmers & their families. The initial episodes accentuated the stark reality that morality was a luxury many families couldn’t afford.
Though the series started with the intent of highlighting the problems faced by the poor peasants of Vidarbha region of Eastern Maharashtra, that track was soon relegated to the backburner after receiving much criticism, despite it revealing the true miserable conditions of poor peasants. The Women Rights Commission even pleaded for the show to be discontinued on the grounds that the practice of taking young girls to fulfil landlords' needs was not admissible for open public viewing.
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The story follows the lives of debt-ridden farmers trying to eke out a living from under the servitude of the charismatic autocrat Thakur Digvijay Singh. The lofty thakur rules with the same unctuousness as his ancestors did before him, until his path crosses Amoli’s. A poor farmer’s daughter, Amoli fights the Thakur’s amorous advances with an unshakable inner resolve, which in turn fuels his obsession even further.
The show traces Thakur Digvijay’s agonizing journey from lust to love as his unlikely nemesis. Amoli brings about his fall from grace & ultimately his rise to virtuous glory.
Moving away off the beaten path from the classic ‘Cinderella code’, Bairi Piya depicted its ‘hero’ as a tarnished, morally ambivalent figure, realistically imperfect & riddled with contradictions. The flawed protagonist, mimicking life, disturbed the audience with his weaknesses, resulting in many remembering Bairi Piya as a 'melodrama with a difference'.
The astounding popularity of this unlikely hero was suggestive partly of the changing bias of a rapidly progressive TV audience, inadvertently redefining their perception of the attributes of a conventional hero.
The story of the culpable landlord Thakur Digvijay’s obsessive love for the hapless village girl Amoli may have been unpalatable for a section of the audience.
Yet for many, it was the surprising reformation of the same Thakur through Amoli’s grit & resolve & her own disconcerting emotions for her bête noire that made the show highly intriguing.
The last track of the show culminated into a hurriedly put together ‘happy ending’, leaving the audience baffled & unsated.
Bairi Piya took its final curtain call on 3rd Sept 2010 much to the chagrin of its many distraught fans, who have since been campaigning for a renewed season, or a similarly conceptualized show starring the same lead pair.
The lead protagonists
The supporting cast (in alphabetical order)
Best actor in a negative role – Male, Zee Gold Awards 2010. Awarded to Sharad Kelkar for his portrayal of ‘Thakur Digvijay’ in Bairi Piya.
Bairi Piya was replaced by Laagi Tujhse Lagan which formerly aired in 9:30 pm slot since its launch in December 2009
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