Mere Sai - Shraddha Aur Saburi
Mere Sai - Shraddha Aur Saburi (English: My Sai - Faith And Patience) is an Indian Hindi-language mythological historical drama television series which premiered on Sony Entertainment Television on 25 September 2017. It stars Tushar Dalvi in the lead role along with Kishori Godbole, Vaibhav Mangle in supporting roles.[2][3][4] The show traces the journey of Sai Baba of Shirdi , a fakir who after witnessing the injustices due to religious and caste discrimination, faces several trials and tribulations on his journey to bring peace and love to the society.
Mere Sai - Shraddha Aur Saburi | |
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Also known as | Mere Sai |
Genre | Historical drama Mythological |
Created by | Aparna Padgaonkar |
Written by | Roshni Suvrna |
Screenplay by | Koel Chaudhuri |
Story by | Roshni Suvrna |
Directed by |
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Creative director | Siddhav Nachane |
Starring |
Ahmad Harhash as Raj Verma |
Theme music composer | Devendra Bhome |
Opening theme | "Om Sai Om...Sai Om..." |
Composer | Devendra Bhome |
Country of origin | India |
Original language | Hindi |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 1382 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Rajan Singh |
Producers | Nitin Vaidya Ninad Vaidya Aparna Padgaonkar |
Cinematography | Santosh Tripathi |
Editor | Amey Godkar |
Running time | 22 mins |
Production company | Dashami Creations |
Release | |
Original network | Sony Entertainment Television |
Picture format | |
Original release | 25 September 2017[1] – present |
Plot
Sai Baba of Shirdi helps many people of Shirdi village and even fulfils one's needs. He had corrected mistakes of many villainous and greedy people (Kulkarni sarkar) who hate him and his teachings. He showed them the path of Dharma and made them devoted only to God.
Cast
Main
- Tushar Dalvi as Sai Baba (2019–present)
- Abeer Soofi as Sai Baba (2017-2019)
- Abhishek Nigam as Young Sai Baba (2017)
- Toral Rasputra / Kishori Godbole as Bayaza Bai/Bayaza Maa
- Vaibhav Mangle as Kulkarni Sarkar (2017–2020; 2021–present)
- Satish Salgare as Kulkarni Sarkar (2020)
Recurring
- Himanshu Rai[5][6] as Keshav Kulkarni
- Saurabh Shrikant as Tatya Patil
- Vikas Verma as Uddhav
- Vikas Kumar as Ali
- Arsh Syed as Bheema
- Piyush Singh as Bhanu
- Siddhant Karnick as Ganpat Rao
- Aaloak Kapoor as Gokuldas
- Sushma Prashant as Appa Kote Patil's mother
- Rakshit Wahi as Tatya Patil
- Yash Rajendra Karia as Bheema
- Anant Mahadevan as Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Manav Soneji as Ali
- Vansh Sayani as Baal Sai
- Sonal Vengurlekar as Savitri
- Ruhanika Dhawan as Rama
- Raj Sharnagat as Narayan / Naveen
- Sneha Bhawsar as Sulakshana
- Shishir Sharma as Sateshwar
- Syed Aman Mian Sharma as Keshav Kulkarni
- Priyanka Joshi Hait as Rukmini Vaini: Kulkarni's wife
- Sharmila Rajaram Shinde as Chihu Tai (Kulkarni's younger sister)
- Bhupindder Bhoopii as Santa (2019)
- Arun Singh as Devidas
- Chirag Dave as Mhalsapati Ji
- Vivaek Srivastav as Nanasaheb Chandorkar
- Dhruti Mangeshkar as Jhipri 'Lakshmi' (Young)
- Drisha Kalyani as Jhipri 'Lakshmi' (Grown)
- Hemant Thatte as Appa Kote Patil
- Avtaar N Vaishnani as Keshav: Kulkarni's son - young
- Bhushan Dhupkar as Panta: Kulkarni's servant
- Harpreet Singh Bindra as Anta: Kulkarni's servant
- Chandan Madan as Srikanth
- Bippin Procha as Ranoji
- Mahesh Welkar as
- Tarun Khanna as Ratnakar Rao
- Siddarth Arya as Bal Sai
- Aishani Yadav as Yamuna: Mhalsapati's eldest daughter
- Mohammad Samar as Balram: Pari's cousin
- Amit Jaat as Tryambak: Bayaza Maa's younger brother
- Anupriya Parmar as Gunwanta Bai: Tryambak's wife
- Rajiv Mishra as Dilawar Ali
- Sangita Adhikari as Pandhari's wife
- Smita Dongre as Funtru Kaki
- Flora Saini as Suvarna Bai
- Supriya Pilgaonkar as Suhasini Bai: Appa Kote Patil's aunt
- Sneha Wagh as Tulsa
- Bhawana Meghwal as Nirali's mother
- Advait Soman as Uddhav
- Tasheen Shah as Tara: Pari's cousin and as Gayatri: Sopan's daughter
- Ketki Dave as Kamla Tai: Champa's mother-in-law
- Sarita Joshi as Savita
- Supriya Pathak as Geeta Maa (cameo)
- Sandeep Bhojak As BrahmaNandam (2019)
- Nishkarsh Kulshrestha as Raghunath
- Niel Satpuda as Ali (2019)
- Jay Zaveri as Ganpat/Das Ganu Maharaj
- Shruti Bhist as Sumati
- Kalpesh Rajgor as Chintamani
- Aaditya Bajpayee as Mohan
- Anubhav Dixit as Digambar
- Anang Desai as Ganjanan
- Khushboo Tawde as Tejaswi
- Praneet Bhat as Madhusudan
- Pankaj Berry as Chakra Narayan
- Govind Khatri as Kakasaheb Dixit
- Amit Anand Raut as self in episodes 1012-1012 and promo of "Sai Vachan"
- Girish Oak as Khashaba
- Vikas Singh Rajput as Mahesh
- Prachi Vaishnav as Malti
- Vishwanath Kulkarni as Hemant
Ahmad Harhash as Raj Verma
- Krishna Kant Singh Bundela as Sadhu
Production
The filming of the series which resumed after three months owing COVID-19 outbreak in India in late June was halt soon in early July until 7 July 2020 when a crew member was tested positive for the virus and the cast and crew were kept under quarantine.[7]
References
- "Abhishek Nigam to play the role of young Sai in 'Mere Sai' - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
- "Abeer Soofi: I am not a saint in real life - The Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
- "Little wonder on the sets of Mere Sai". Mid-Day. 20 June 2018. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
- "Tarun Khanna roped in for 'Mere Sai' - The Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
- "Himanshu Rai: I am glad I got a chance to do 'Mere Sai' - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
- "Himanshu Rai talks about working with Tushar Dalvi: His unbiased assessment helps me groom my acting skills in Mere Sai - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
- "Mere Sai shoot stalled after crew member tests positive for coronavirus". The Indian Express.