RAMAYAN SERIAL 2008 IN TELUGU SERIES

вЂњI come from a conservative Punjabi family, the kind that would never allow their daughters to enter showbiz. вЂњBut everyone knows me вЂ¦ IвЂ™m surprised you had trouble finding me,вЂќ she says.ДЄ Delhi girl, she moved to Mumbai in 1984, at the age of 20, to pursue her dreams.

Seated on a couch in the living room of her three-bedroom apartment, Khanolkar is dressed in a crisp red cotton kurta a big bindi sits on her forehead. When a source forwarded her number, it was labelled вЂњRenu Khanolkar (Congress Surpanakha)вЂќ. Eager to help, Meenakshi, a producer and writer with her father Moti SagarвЂ™s production house, dug out the familyвЂ™s copy and one evening, messaged screenshots of RamayanвЂ™s credits along with a possible name of the actor.ДЇrom there on, it was easy to track down Khanolkar to her plush Andheri apartment where she lives with her husband and 22-year-old son. The only hope was scanning through the CDs in the Ramayan box set, available for sale on a Canadian website. A large part of the records and copies of the original material have been lost in the three years since he parted ways with his brother Prem Sagar. KhanolkarвЂ™s co-actors searched their memories without success and Moti Sagar, in his 70s now, could not recollect her name either. It didnвЂ™t help that вЂњSurpanakhaвЂќ is spelt in several different ways on the internet. YouTube clips of the teleseries play without the credits. The internet, which usually has most answers, drew a blank.

That also explains why there were so many dead ends in the search for Ramanand SagarвЂ™s Surpanakha.

RAMAYAN SERIAL 2008 IN TELUGU SERIES

Yet, Surpanakha in Ramayan is a вЂњminor characterвЂќ who features in just four episodes in a weekly series that lasted over a year.

вЂњValmiki has gone to the extent of saying there would have been no Ramayan without Kaykeyi and Surpanakha,вЂќ says Moti Sagar, Ramanand SagarвЂ™s son, who directed the teleseries in the 1980s. вЂњI donвЂ™t think Modiji is aware that I am a Congress worker,вЂќ says the former vice-president of Mumbai Pradesh Mahila Congress, вЂњBut does it befit a Prime Minister, especially one who often harps on women empowerment, to make such a comment?вЂќДЄ demon princess, Surpanakha in the Ramayan is widely perceived as the cause of the battle between Ram and Raavan, her brother and the king of rakshasas. The irony has not escaped 55-year-old Khanolkar. To many people, the comment appeared a slight, a means of silencing a woman who had dared to laugh at the king in his own court. Thirty one years since the teleseries went on air, KhanolkarвЂ™s famous laughter reverberated on national television after Prime Minister Narendra Modi likened parliamentarian Renuka ChowdhuryвЂ™s laughter to that of SurpanakhaвЂ™s in Ramanand SagarвЂ™s Ramayan (1987-88). It got me roles in BR ChopraвЂ™s teleseries Chunni, Surinder SinghвЂ™s National Award-winning Punjabi film Marhi da Deewa and also Hema MaliniвЂ™s directorial debut Dil Aashna Hai, before I gave it all up for a career in politics.вЂќ But more importantly, that laughter opened many doors for me. вЂњI shot for two months in Umargaon and got paid a decent Rs 30,000 for it. вЂњI was just a theatre artist before but after I appeared on national television as Surpanakha, people started to recognise me on the streets, in the bus, everywhere I went,вЂќ says the actor, who has since taken her husbandвЂ™s last name, Khanolkar.

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