‘SHREE GANESH” T.V. serial is based on the vast and many folded subject material regarding the most popular and most auspicious “God of India” – “Lord Ganesh”.
Since immemorial Lord Ganesh is deep-rooted in the culture and religions of India. Lord Ganesh or Ganpati is worshipped and remembered in the beginning of every auspicious occasion of the land, since Ganesh is Omni-present in all four Vedas namely Rigveda, Yajurveda, Sameveda and Atharvaveda. The great God is also there in all the eighteen upanishades and puranas mainly Ganesh Puran and Mudgal Puran and innumerable Ganesh stories and folk legends. Lord Ganesh is the only God who is worshipped by all great Gods.
In the beginning of the serial Lord Ganesh is show as original “Mahaganesha”, the creator of Universe having glow full five faces. Devi Shakti who forms half the self of Lord Shiva is having a longing to get Ganesh as her son. But that with of Devi Shakti is not fulfilled for a long time due to the destiny formed by Maliaganesh himself.
Led by divine circumstances Shakti takes birth in human form as daughter of Daksha Prajapati, son of Brahma, but due to stubbom attitude of Daksha Prajapati his daughter Sati sacrifices herself on the alter of Daksha -Yagna.
Afterword it takes a long time when goddess Shakti, in next incarnation, takes birth as the daughter of Mountain King Himalaya and queen Maina namely “Parvati”. Devi Parvati again prays Maha Ganesh to incarnate himself as her son. Her wish also gets many twists and turns and ultimately Ganesh is created by Devi Parvati Out of her own glow in the form of child. This Parvati’s child confronts Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva in a fit of anger severs head of the child. Parvati gets extremely angry to see his son beheaded, but is calmed by the prayers of all Gods and thus Ganesh finally becomes “Gajanan” the elephant headed God.
Hereafter new chapters of Ganesh stories commence. Ganesha’s activities become many folded. In childhood he is playful and naughty. He plays with his elder brother Lord Kartikeya (Shanmukham) and performs unbelievable miracles. In youth, he marries Riddhi and Siddhi Goddesses of wisdom and success. In this period of Lord Ganesh,
many miraculous incidents take place. In the meantime Lord Ganesh creates himself in eight main incarnations namely Ekdant, Vakratunda, Mahodar, Gajanan, Lambodar, Vikata, Vighnaraj, Dhoonaravarna and kills demons like Sindoorasur. Devatak, Narauntak Sindhudaitya. Lolapasur etc. There are many stories of Ganesh as one can imagine, in these stories Ganesh with his miraculous power and sharp wisdom solves all the difficult and insolvable problems of the universe. He destroys evil and creates peace and prosperity.
At present the serial is limited to 104 (one hundred and four) episodes only but the story material related to Lord Ganesh is much more to contain in this number limit, it can be expanded many more episodes.
The popularity of “Lord Genesh” and it’s title is a foregone conclusion because every Indian irrespective of his religion respects and worships Lord Ganesh to protect himself from evil designs of wicked people. “Shree Ganesh” is a name, which gives auspicious to the subject itself.
Cast
• Jagnesh Mukti as Ganesh
• Sunil Sharma as Shiva
• Priyanka as Parvati
• Sandeep Mohan as Vishnu
• Arup Pal as Brahma
• Surbhi Tiwari as Sati
• Sunil Nagar as Daksh
• Sameer Dharmadhikari as Indra
• Shilpa Kataria Singh as Shachi
• Sanjay Swaraj as Narada
• Radha Krishna Datt as Kashyap
• Shweta Rastogi as Aditi
• Nimay Bali as Tarakasura
Credit
• Genre – Mythology
• Created by Vikas Kapoor
• Based on Lord Ganesh
• Written By – Vikas Kapoor & Lt. Darshan Laad
• Directed by – Dheeraj Kumar
• Country of Origin – India
• Language – Hindi
• Producer – Zuby Kochhar
• Production Company – Creative Eye Ltd.