Posted:
11 years ago
Saraswatichandra serial story is based on
a Gujarati novel by Govardhanram
Madhavaram Tripathi, an author of early
twentieth century from Gujarat, India. It
is widely read Gujarati literature. The
supernovel was written over a period of 15 years, with the first volume being
published in 1887 and the fourth one in
1902. The novel, written in five parts,
narrates the lifestyle and ideology of
people in the early 20th century. It depicts
the social fabric of that time: extended family life and the beginning of the
meltdown of old customs and traditions.
Saraswatichandra story is a dramatic love
story with a sad ending. Saraswati the
male lead is indifferently raised by his
step mother and yet he grows up and becomes a compassionate person who
has lofty ideas and decides to do without
his personal happiness without informing
his father, who fixes his marriage to
Kumud an educated girl from a rich
family. Saraswati decides to cancel the engagement and writes to Kumud to
inform her. But soon she replies and soon
the two keep on exchanging letters. Soon
Saraswati decides to defy the customs
and pays a visit to his fiancee. The two
soon serenade and a short lived romance takes place and soon Saraswati returns
home after promising Kumud and her
family that he would return. However, on
his return a family feud takes place and
Saraswati writes to Kumud that he is not
able to marry her. And unfortunately Kumud is being forced to marry a rich
person Prabhat,who is a very
shrewed,dishonest and cheap person.
Kumud somehow manages to live with
him who has external affairs. But
circumstances are build up such that Prabhat's father come to know his deeds
and made Saraswati as his secretory who
have left home and this way Saraswati
and Kumud once again meet. Saraswati
wants Prabhat's actual face to come up in
front of everybody but he gets kidnapped but somehow some holyman rescue him
and he gets saved and started living in a
temple. Meanwhile, Kumud's old lovers
love letters get disclosed and he
blackmails her to leave and go and stay at
your mom's place. This forces her to leave home and she tries to commit sucide but
some holywomen saves her life and takes
her to the same temple where Saraswati
lives. They both meet once again and
Saraswati starts believing they both are
made for each other but Kumud can't have the same as she wants to go back to
her inlaws but she doesn't know that she
is now widow when she comes to know
this she says she can't be of anyone now.
And wants Saraswati to get married to
her sister Kusum ,but he refuses and tries to convince her. And the sad ending of the
story comes as Kumud convince him
saying that if he wants her to be happy so
marry her sister and he agrees for the
same.Edited by -Narnia- - 11 years ago