Period-drama ‘Ami Sirajer Begum’ to end soon

Bengali television show ‘

Ami Sirajer Begum

’ is going to conclude its journey soon. The cast and the crew shot the last episode yesterday (May 08).

Rumours were rife that ‘Ami Sirajer Begum’, ‘Ke Apon Ke Por’ might go off-air, as the channel is launching three news shows, including a music reality show. But according to the sources, the channel might not end the family drama ‘Ke Apon Ke Por’, which recently crossed 1000 episodes. The show scores well on the TRP charts despite running for almost 3 years now. But the makers decided to conclude the show ‘Ami Sirajer Begum’ quite abruptly as the show wasn’t scoring well as expected.

The period-drama, which has

Sean Banerjee

(as Nawab Siraj-Ud-Daulah) Pallabi Dey (as Lutfunnisa Begum), Chandrayee Ghosh (

Ghaseti Begum

), Badshah Moitra (as

Mir Jafar

), Tulika Basu (as Sharf-un-Nisa Begum) and others, is one of the most ambitious projects of the Bengali General Entertainment Channel, that airs the show. From shooting sets to the costumes, everything was crafted by the makers keeping the era in mind. In fact, many sequences were shot in Mumbai.

But despite high hopes, the serial couldn’t yield the expected TRPs, reports suggest.

On the other hand, another television serial ‘Mayurpankhi’, that was launched a few months back might also go off-air soon. according to the sources.