| Bandini | |
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Intertitle of "Bandini" |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Balaji Telefilms |
| Written by | Story & Screenplay R. M. Joshi, Binita Desai, Swati Pande, Mahesh Pandey, Vipul Mehta, Anand Vardhan & Manish Paliwal Dialogues Dilip Rawal, Hussaini Dawawala, Vinod Sharma & Rekkha Modi |
| Directed by | Santram Verma, Kaushik Ghatak, Partho Mitra, Ravindra Gautam, Vikrant Parmar, Santosh Kohle, Praveen Suden, Suraj Rao, Hemant Prabhu, Qaeed Kuwajerwala, Fahad Kashmiri, Ashish Shrivastav, Maqbool Khan & Deepak Chavan |
| Creative director(s) | Sandiip Sikcand |
| Starring | See Below |
| Opening theme | "Bandini" by Reecha Tripathi |
| Country of origin | India |
| Language(s) | Hindi |
| No. of episodes | total 520 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Ekta Kapoor & Shobha Kapoor |
| Editor(s) | Mohd Salim, Nishit Shah, Vikas Sharma, Khursheed Rizvi, Prem Raaj & Rajeev Yadav |
| Cinematography | Mahesh Talkad & Sanjay Malwankar |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Balaji Telefilms |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Imagine TV |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) |
| Original run | January 19, 2009 – January 29, 2011 |
Imagine TV's longest running show, Bandini, was an Indian soap opera that aired every Monday to Friday at the 10:30pm prime times slot for the past years. It was produced by the Indian soap queen Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms. It is also Imagine TV's top, most-watched and awarded show presently. Bandini had completed its half a milestone reaching 500 episode, it was and is the only Imagine TV show which has reached more than 500 episodes.
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Bandini is an invigorating tale of a young girl who is forced into a marriage of convenience with an elderly man twice her age. Set in the backdrop of rural India, this narrative vividly traces the journey of Santu and her tryst with destiny. This volatile story of age, class and caste divide will see debutant Aasiya Kazi as the young girl Santu alongside TV's most popular face Ronit Roy, as destiny binds two strangers together in this stirring saga of greed, pride, deceit and tradition.
| Series | Time slot (IST) | Series premiere | Series finale | Viewers (in millions) |
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| 1 | 10:30pm | January 19, 2009 | January 29, 2011 | 19.77 |
On January 29, 2011 more than 19 million viewers in India watched Bandini's finale on Imagine TV, It was one of the highest ratings of Imagine TV since the finale of "Rakhi Ka Swayamvaar"
| Series | Time slot | Series premiere | Series finale | Viewers (in millions) |
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| 1 | 8:00pm GMT, 9:30pm EST, 10:00pm CST & 12:30am PST | February 16, 2009 | February 18, 2011 | 21.32 |
NOTE: Bandini was renewed on January 3, 2011 by Imagine TV. On January 12, 2011 Ekta Kapoor declined the contract and decided to cancel it, because of Ronit Roy was not able shoot.
| Series premiere | Concluded |
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| February 16, 2009 | February 18, 2011 |
| Re-air | Concluding |
| February 21, 2011 | February 2013 |
Note: Bandini is re-airing in the U.K on Imagine TV, to give it's viewers another chance to see the romance of Ronit Roy and Aasiya Kazi.
Due to its successful ratings across from the world from February 21, 2011 Bandini currently re-airs in the U.K every Monday to Friday on Imagine TV at 1:00pm (GMT). It was initially said that Bandini would also re-air in other continents such as North America (U.S.A and Canada) and The Gulf of Arab (U.A.E, Qatar and Saudi Arabia).
After reviewing it was later rejected by the network as they could not find any prime time or afternoon slot for the series to air on its original network.