Pratidaan

Pratidaan (Bengali: প্রতিদান); was a Bengali television soap opera that premiered on 21 August 2017 and aired on STAR Jalsha. Produced by Boyhood Productions, it stars Sandipta Sen^[1] and Rezwan Rabbani Sheikh^[2] in lead roles and Rukma Roy^[3] and Debraj Mukherjee in negative roles. It replaced Star Jalsha's show Milon Tithi. The show will go off air on 23 December 2018 and will get replaced by Bhoomikanya.^{[citation needed]}

Shimul comes from a village where education has not left its mark yet and being a responsible school teacher herself, Shimul makes it a point to impart education and knowledge to everyone possible in the village. She is progressive in nature and an accomplished educator. As an empowered woman who wants to create her own identity yet stay deeply rooted to her values, Shimul's only motto in life is to enlighten everyone she comes across with proper education. Destiny however, has a poignant role to play in Shimul's life as she gets married into a family where education is of least priority.

Neel is a happening college-goer but hates studies to such an extent that he passed his graduation exams only after appearing for it the 4th time. Neel is also extremely spoilt and is guided by his mother, who herself believes that studies are a waste of time. Neel's mother wants her daughter-in-law to be illiterate as she doesn't want anyone in the family to be more qualified than her son. Shimul brings changes in Neel for the better, and the two go about life hand-in-hand, overcoming hurdles that life throws at them. Off late, Neel succumbs to a life laced with tragedy and alcohol after the sad demise of Shimul. Sunaina, a con and a bar-crooner makes an entry and is found to be Shimul's exact lookalike.

• Sandipta Sen as Shimul Bosu Sen aka "Shiuli Phool" / Mrs. Braginza or "Beguni Phool"/Sunaina (briefly disguised as)
• Rezwan Rabbani Sheikh as Neel Sen / Ronit/Anghsuman/Fake Neel
• Rukma Roy as Madhushree Chowdhury
• Tanuka Chatterjee as Shantipriya Sen

• Saptarshi Chowdhury as Young Neel
• Anindya Chakrabarti / Debraj Mukherjee as Ambikesh Nandy
• Surojit Bandopadhyay as Ganapati Sen aka Chanachur Buro
• Sahana Sen as Mala
• Subrata Guha Roy as Neel's Uncle
• Ranjini Chatterjee as Madhabi
• Rimjhim Mitra as Jaya
• Boton as Jaya's Husband
• Nabanita Dutta as Pallabi
• Priya Malakar as Nisha
• Bharat Kaul as Nisha's Father
• Chumki Choudhury as Kalyani
• Sudip Sarkar as Pranabesh
• Sanjoy Bapi Basu as Bhaskar
• Purbasha Debnath as Shema