title: Shrikant (TV series)
text: # Shrikant (TV series)
  
  Shrikant is a TV show based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya's 1917-1933 four volume novel Srikanta. The show aired on Doordarshan in 1987.
  
  The show was again telecast on DD National from 30 April 2020 during the lockdown due to coronavirus
  
  ## Synopsis
  
  The show tells the story of protagonist Shrikant (Farooque Shaikh). Sujata Mehta plays Raj Lakshmi. She nurses him to health when he is infected by plague. Later during a sea voyage to Burma, he meets Abhaya (Mrinal Kulkarni), a woman abandoned by her husband (Irrfan Khan). In Burma, he receives the devotion of a lodge caretaker played by Sukanya Kulkarni. His love ideal remains Rajlakshmi.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Farooque Shaikh as Shrikant
  * Mrinal Kulkarni as Abhaya
  * Ravindra Mankani as Rohini
  * Irrfan Khan as Abhaya's husband
  * Sujata Mehta as Raj Lakshmi
  * Sukanya Kulkarni
  * Tiku Talsania
  * Asha Sharma
  * Urvashi Dholakia as younger Raj Lakshmi
  