Sunil Negi
Produced under the auspices of Sidhi Sign Uttarakhand Production namely Atithi Satkaram , the eight episodes of first season’s first ever Web series have been released on Hungama Gold channel made on Uttarakhand’s surroundings with its pilot project shot in Satya Vihar, Haldwani and its adjacent locations in the month of July last year and rest of shooting being completed in the month of July 24.
According to the director and writer of the OTT Webseries Atithi Satkaram Jagdish Tiwari , this is the story of a family settled in the Uttarakhand’s rural areas connected with small towns like Haldwani, Kotdwar, Ramnagar, Dehradun which further connect with metropolises n states like Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. The story primarily tries to exhibit the Uttarakhand family believing in and practising various cultural festivals, traditional folk, attire and long drawn family traditions from time to time in these metropolises in their urge to connect Uttarakhand’s new generation with the hilly regions values, cultural heritage, folk songs and dialects and ancient traditions to revive our culture.
Not only this but the OTT web series also emphasises on reviving the cultural heritage , connect with villages , its culture and values in Uttarakhand ‘s singular families living in the plains losing their orginal identity. The WEB series also raises the issue of concrete land act in Uttarakhand in their urge to appeal to those living in plains to repatriate to their villages to reharvest their barren agricultural farmlands if not permanently, then atleast for few months in a year etc.
The Web series also throws light in the constructive projects of various governments throwing light on various discrepancies as well but it also points out over the negligence and apathy of the commoners living there running away from their respective constructive contribution in these governmental projects and responsibilities.
According to the producer of the Sidhi Sign Uttarakhand Production Puja Singh the main objective of the series is to show and highlight the culture and traditions of Uttarakhand and the impact of Urbanisation on the hills cultural heritage.
It’s another perspective is to connect the Uttarakhand artists/ actors with Bollywood and OTT platform enabling the actors based in various areas of Uttarakhand getting ample opportunity to act in Hindi cinema and OTT platform.
The lyrics and music to the Web series have been given by Govind Digari and Khushi Joshi with mesmerising devotional and holy festival songs.. The impressive title song of the Web series has been composed and sung by Diwan Kanwal and composed by Madhu Beri Shah.
According to the DOP of the Web series the latest highly advanced camera and entire light system with equipments are used in the shooting of this webseries. The actors who acted in this Web series with immense dexterity are leading actors of Mumbai, Garhwal, Kumaon Uttarakhand and the national capital Delhi. They are : Cast: Kalyani Gangola, Aaditya Nahar, Pratibha Pant, Anil Ghildyal, Sushila Rawat, Khushal Singh Bisht, Devendra Sonu, Devki Sharma, Padmendra Rawat, Kusum Chauhan, Kiran Lakhera, Bindra, Ganesh Bhatt, Kismat Parkar, Vimal Uniyal, Rajesh Arya, Jeevan Danu, Lachhu Pahari, Jagdish Tiwari, Dhruv Tyagi, Raja Harshvardhan, Pooja Singh, Govind Digari, Khushi Joshi, Harish Singh Rana, Joga Bisht, Bhanu Pahari, Ram Kumar Bashistha, Girish Bhatt, Bhupal Singh, Archana, Mili, Sahil Joshi, Jagdish Pandey Harish Bharti
Child Artist : Trishka etc.
According to the producer Puja Singh and the writer of the script and director Jagdish Tiwari expressed optimism about this series coming on the JIO APP, MX PLAYER, Amazon, Mini TV, Hot Star, Disney, You Tube etc in the near future.
SUNIL NEGI, EDITOR UKnationnews
