Karmaphal Daata Shani (transl. Shani, the divine judge of deeds) is an Indian dharmic devotional television series, which aired from 7 November 2016 to 9 March 2018 on Colors TV. The series was produced by Swastik Productions of Siddharth Kumar Tewary.
Contents
Plot
The story of the series is based on the life of God Shani Dev, who is known for his justice and wrath. The serial also shows Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva as Shani's mentors. It also shows Shani's tough childhood, getting the title of karmaphaldaata, his downfall, his return to Suryalok, marriage, getting his wife's curse and finally his return as Karmphaldaata. The story is about Shani, son of Suryadev and Chaaya who is the shadow form of Sandhya, first wife of suryadev and with Sandhya, suryadev has two children namely Yama and Yami, when Sandhya cannot bear Suryadev's Heat she created Chaaya, to take Care of her Children until she returns from a tap, she Warns her not to get close to her husband but Chaaya did so against Sandhya, Shanidev was born as dark but Suryadev later accepts his colour. Sandhya hates Chaaya and her son Shani, because she thinks that Chaaya Cheated her By getting close to her husband. So, she creates much trouble for Shani and his mother Chaaya with help of Indradev. But Shani faced all this with help of his karmapal power and his karma. Later, Shani exposes Sandhya's evil character in front of Suryadev, so Suryadev chases out Sandhya and announced Chaaya as his official wife. Due to this, Chaaya Get Pregnant Again and they got a second baby named Badhra but actually because of Sandhya's evil plan Bhadhra became against for everyone and finally she killed herself but unfortunately the blame goes to Shani himself and as a result, Chaaya started to hate Shani and she took shani's karmalpal position from himself. Later, frustrating Shani forgave everything and went away and the years had gone.
10 years later, Shani returns and now he marries Dhamini due to some situation and even he earns lot of enemies namely Ravana, Indra and Rahu. However, Shani faces all and tries to keep the situation normal, but due to sevvai, Dhamini curses Shani as he never sees anyone's face, because they were getting far instead of consummating their marriage. To avoid these kind of situations, Shani must to take over his karmapal power again but Shani refused. Later, Chaaya understood Shani by Dhamini's proof and speech. Finally, Ravana took a war on Suryaloka to capture all navagrahas but Shani tried to stop him as much as he can. By the end, Shani retakes his karmapal power and even released from bane which Dhamini gave and defeat Ravana and joins with his family. Further he continues his karmapal to everyone.
Cast
Main
Rohit Khurana as Shani - Partial Incarnation & Student of Shiva; Surya and Chhaya's son; King of Shaniloka; Kakol's Mount Friend; Karmaphaldaata/Dandnayak; Sandhya's step-son; Bhadra's brother; Yami and Yam's half-brother; Dhamini and Neelima's husband.
Kartikey Malviya as young Shani
Juhi Parmar as
Saranyu/Sandhyadevi - The goddess of clouds, First Queen of Suryaloka; Surya's first wife; Vishwakarma's daughter; Yam's and Yami's real mother.
Chhayadevi - The goddess of shadows; Second Queen of Suryaloka; Shani's and Bhadra's mother; Surya's second wife; Sandhya's reflection and spiritual sister; Yama's and Yami's step-mother.
Recurring
Tarun Khanna as Shiva
Tina Datta as Dhamini
Salil Ankola as Surya
Gufi Paintal as Vishwakarma
Kunal Bakshi as Indra
Zohaib Siddiqui as Rahu
Tinu Verma as Shukracharya
Kamaljeet Rana as Vyaktagandha
Purvesh Pimple as Kakol, Shani's friend/mount
Praneet Sharma as young Kakol
Sachin Yadav as Yama
Devish Ahuja as young Yama
Kajol Srivastav as Yami/Yamuna
Drisha Kalyani as young Yami
Shahbaz Khan as Ravana
Saurabh Raj Jain as Narrator
Parvati Sehgal as Neelima, Shani's power and first wife
Jannat Zubair Rahmani as younger Neelima
Nirbhay Wadhwa as Hanuman
Krish Chauhan as young Hanuman
Ishant Bhanushali as Ganesha/Vinayaka
Raj Routh as Kamadeva
Yash Bhojwani and Ayush Pathak as the Ashwini Kumaras
Awards and nominations
Awards
ITA Award for Best Historical/Dharmic, Devotional Serial, 2017
ITA Award for Best Director-Drama, 2017 - Siddharth Kumar Tewary
ITA Award for Best Child Artiste, 2017 - Kartikey Malviya
Zee Gold Award for Best Child Actor - Kartikey Malviya
Golden Petal Award for Favorite Child Actor, 2017 - Kartikey Malviya
Golden Petal Award For Best Special Effects, 2017 - Swastik Pictures
Golden Petal Awards for Best Music Fiction, 2017 - Divya
Nominations
ITA Award for Best Teleplay, 2017 - Utkarsh Naithani
ITA Award for Best Actor - Female, 2017 - Juhi Parmar
ITA Award for Best TV Show, 2017
ITA Award for Best Actor - Male, 2017 - Salil Ankola, Kartikey Malviya
Zee Gold Award for Best Debue in a Lead Role - Kartikey Malviya