Top Bangla Serial – 10 Serials That Are Popular In Bengal Now

Bangla Serials are full of drama and emotions. Here logic seldom works. However, the Bangla serial remains the primary source of entertainment for millions of Bengalis. Star Jalsha and Zee Bangla are the two major Bengali channels that run popular Bangla serials. In this article, we have listed the top Bangla serials of 2021.

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1. Mithai

Zee Bangla serial Mithai is currently leading the TRP charts. The plot of Mithai revolves around a cheerful village girl who sells sweets for a living. Due to her poor economic background and lack of education, she has to face indifference from her husband.

Watch On – Zee Bangla, Zee5
Star Cast – Soumitrisha Kundu, Adrit Roy Biswajit Chakraborty
Genre – Drama, Romance, Comedy
Timing – 2 PM, 4 PM, 8 PM

2. Aparajita Apu

This Zee Bangla serial is about a passionate young girl who wants to become a government officer. Her conservative mother-in-law is against this. But, she gets full support from her husband to fulfill her dreams.

Watch On – Zee Bangla, Zee5
Star Cast – Susmita Dey and Rohaan Bhattacharjee
Genre – Drama
Timing – 12:30 AM, 7 AM, 3:30 PM, 8:30 PM

3. Krishnakoli

Krishnakoli is Zee Bangla’s top serial. Krishnakoli is about a village girl Shyama, a Kirtan singer, who faces a lot of discrimination because of her dark skin color. As destiny has it, she got married to a wealthy and handsome businessman Nikhil.

Initially, Nikhil’s family did not accept him. Her sister-in-law Disha creates a lot of problems for her. How Shyama manages this problem with the help of Nikhil is the storyline.

The show has taken a leap of 18 years. The twist and turns in the story always keep the serial in the limelight.

Watch On – Zee Bangla, Zee5
Star Cast – Tiyasa Roy, Neel Bhattacharya, Rimjhim Mitra
Genre – Drama
Timing – 2:00 PM, 7:00 PM

4. Jamuna Dhaki

The concept of Jamuna Dhaki is quite refreshing. It is about a woman Dhaki player. These days, there is a heavy demand for ladies Dhaki during Durga Puja in Kolkata.

Every year Jamuna’s father, Ganga, plays dhaki during Durga Puja at the Rai household. This year she accompanied his ailing father to the Rai family Puja. Due to his poor health, Ganga could not play the Dhak. In such a situation, Jamuna went on to play the Dhak.

Here, she met Sangeet, the son of the Rai family. Sangeet fell in love with her. They get married. However, The aristocratic Rai family finds it hard to accept that a poor Dhaki girl has become a part of their family. How will Jamuna adjust in the family is the storyline.

Watch On – Zee Bangla, Zee5
Star Cast – Swati Bhattacharya, Rubel Das, and Debjani Chatterjee
Genre – Drama
Timing – 3:00 PM, 7:30 PM

5. Khorkuto

Khorkuto, the Star Jalsha Bengali mega serial, shows the two different worlds of people living in joint family and the nuclear family. The show teaches us about family bonding and values.

Gungun, a rich spoilt brat, is brought up by her paternal aunt and father. The neglect by her mother has scarred her. She has lost faith in marriage and the family system. Her father wished that she gets married to a family where people care for each other. Accidentally, he met Soujanya and his middle-class joint family. Soujanya is born and brought up with strong family bonds.

What will transpire when these two people get hitched.

Watch On – Star Jalsha, Hotstar
Star Cast – Koushik Roy, Trina Saha, Chandan Sen, Abhishek Chatterjee
Genre – Drama
Timing – 7:30 PM, 11:30 PM

6. Khelaghor

This story is about a rich girl Purna who believes in tradition and a thug Shantu. Shantu’s family struggle with poverty. Both the families are poles apart in terms of financial strength, power, and social status.

Purna accidentally gets married to a thug Shantu. During an altercation, Shantu applies vermillion on the head of Purna. Initially, Shantu refuses to accept Purna as his wife. The show narrates the love story of people from two different classes in society. Will Purna bring out the goodness in Shantu.

Watch On – Star Jalsha, Hotstar
Star Cast – Syed Arefin, Swikriti Majumder, Sayantani Gupta, Sounak Ray, Sneha Das
Genre – Drama
Timing – 1:00 PM, 6:00 PM

7. Sanjherbati

Charu, a nice decent village girl, makes sweets for livelihood. Arjo is a wealthy, visually challenged businessman. Arjo’s doting mother arranged a marriage between him and Charu. Launched in the year July 2019, the show has already paved its way to the top serials of Star Jalsha. The show has garnered lots of appreciation from the viewers.

Watch On – Star Jalsha, Hotstar
Star Cast – Debchandrima Singha Roy, Sheikh Rezwan Rabbani, June Malia
Genre – Drama
Timing – 2:30 PM, 8:30 PM

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8. Mohor

For a long time, Star Jalsha serial Mohor has maintained its top position in the TRP. Mohor is the story of a village girl. She runs away from her arranged marriage to pursue her dreams.

After many hurdles, she managed to get admission to a college. Here, she met professor Sankho. Later, she gets hitched with him. The chemistry between the leading player Sonamoni Saha and Pratik Sen is unmatched in Bangla television.

Hindi serial Shaurya Aur Anokhi Ki Kahani is the remake of Mohor. It is also a great honor that five other languages, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Malayalam, and Tamil, have also remade this mega Bengali serial. You can watch the show on Hotstar too.

Watch On – Star Jalsha, Hotstar
Star Cast – Sonamoni Saha, Pratik Sen
Genre – Drama
Timing – 9:30 AM , 4:30 PM, 8:00 PM

9. Titli

Bengali serial Titli is the story of a bubbly girl who dreams of becoming a Pilot. Titli lost her hearing capability when a plane crashed nearby the field where she was playing. She took this as a challenge and decided to become a pilot.

To earn money, Tili’s father left her at his friend’s house in Kolkata. There she met Sunny, who is from a wealthy family.

Will Titli’s dream come true and How Sunny will help her in this journey is the plot of this serial.

Watch On – Star Jalsha, Hotstar
Star Cast – Aryann Bhowmik, Madhupriya Chowdhury, Rimjhim Mitra, Ayendri Lavnia Roy
Genre – Drama
Timing – 11:30 AM, 10:30 PM

10. Sreemoyee

Sreemoyee is one of the most-watched Bangla serials. It is the story of a middle-aged housewife devoted to her family and tries to make everyone happy. But, everyone takes her for granted.

She was shocked to know about her husband’s extramarital affair with his office colleague. This revelation urged her to make her own identity. The power-packed performance by the cast has maintained the show at the top of the TRP list.

Hindi serial Anupamaa is a remake of Sreemoyee.

Watch On – Star Jalsha, Hotstar
Star Cast – Indrani Haldar, Sudip Mukherjee, Ushasie Chakraborty, Saptarshi Maulik, Tota Roy Chowdhury
Genre – Drama
Timing – 3:30 PM, 7:00 PM

11. Karunamoyee Rani Rashmoni

Rani Rashmoni was the founder of the famous Dakshineswar Kali Temple. She fought against the aggression of the British East India Company with untamed zeal.

The show narrates the events of Rani Rashmoni’s life. Despite being born in a poor village family, she got married to Zamindar Babu Rajchandra Das of Janbazar. The show also depicts her fight against the patriarchal society.

Watch On – Zee Bangla, Zee5
Star Cast – Ditipriya Roy, Sourav Saha, Gourab Chatterjee
Genre – Historical Drama
Timing – 12:30 PM, 3:00 PM 6:30 PM