Ayushmaan

Ayushmaan
Directed by Santosh Batt, Shiladitya Sen & Gautam Deva
Creative director(s) Anjali Bhushan Nugyai
Starring See Below
Opening theme "Ayushmaan" by Sonu Nigam
Country of origin India
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 163
Production
Editor(s) Gaurav Deep
Running time 22 minutes
Production company(s) Cinevistaas Limited
Broadcast
Original channel Sony Entertainment Television India
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
Original run 2004 – 2005
External links
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Ayushmaan is a Hindi language Indian television serial on Sony Entertainment Television Asia (Global), started nearly at the end of the year 2004. It is a story of a medical child genius.[1]

Story

The popular soap was the story of a teenager whose carefree adolescence is pitted against the responsibilities that his medical profession demands from him but later the same also leads heart-rending conflicts. It is in fact a story based on child prodigy who becomes a qualified doctor at the age of 17.[2]

The shower of blessings of his parents actually give him the optimistic outlook to life and also give him the strength which will help him to keep treading in his chosen path. Being a practicing doctor also, Ayushman remains a teenager at heart and everything turns topsy-turvy when Cupid strikes him at heart. He happens to fall in love with a lady doctor who is much senior to him and once again makes a tough struggle to strike a balance between his professional and personal life.

In trying to fit in with his peers and gain acceptance he paid no attention to academics and intentionally just managed to scrape through school and college. The dean of a renowned hospital, Dr. Reema Seth recognizes his talent and forces him to acknowledge and accept his strengths. From here begins his journey of self-realization and he becomes the youngest qualified doctor. Ayushmaan had a brilliant star cast.

The show indeed started off with a lot of promise as it dealt with the life of child geniuses. It also showed in details how most of the child geniuses in the Indian subcontinent go through rejection because they end up doing something different from the common mass. All was going fine till the time when the real protagonist of the serial Ayushmaan falls in love with the girl called Tani.

Hence after the story lost its original track. Moving from Tani to Sonya to Kavya the whole soap in the later stages became the chronicle of his love life. Looking at Ayushmaan's life in the later stages one would be bound to think that serving in the noble profession of doctor is just a child's game. Then the character of Ayushmaan's brother Bodhi who was first shown as the mentally retarded turns up to be the existing villain.

Cast

Cast exchange

Vinod Singh to Sudeep Sahir for Ayushmaan

As the wonder doctor in Ayushmaan, Vinod Singh was forced to make an exit from the Cinevistaas daily in November 2004. This was after he allegedly bashed up a studio hand during an Ayushmaan shoot at the Cinevistaas studio in Kanjur Marg.

He had taken offence when a helper from the neighbouring set brushed past his co-star Tani (Neha Mehta). The channel had described his action has "unfortunate" and said they "did not subscribe to such behaviour". Later, Sudeep Sahir handled the role of Ayushmaan.[3][4][5]

Crew

References

  1. ↑ "Ayushmaan - Sony TV". alehigado.com. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
  2. ↑ "Ayushmaan". setsyndication.com. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
  3. ↑ "'Aayushman' kicked out of serial". Telly Chakkar. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
  4. ↑ "Vinod Singh’s exit from Aayushman disappoints". tribuneindia.com. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
  5. ↑ "Idiot box egoes". Calcutta, India: telegraphindia.com. 7 April 2006. Retrieved 25 April 2012.

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