Barrister Babu

Set in the pre-independence era in Bengal, Anirudh Roy Choudhary, a 22-year-old barrister returns to India from London to wipe out customs and disbelieves from the society, which prevents the progress of women. On the other hand, Bondita Das, is an 11-year-old Bengali Hindu girl, living with her widowed mother Sumati, aunt Devoleena, Uncle, and cousin Sampoorna. Bondita's uncle and aunt decide to arrange a marriage for Bondita with an elderly man, while Sampoorna is set to marry Saurabh, Anirudh's friend. However, during the wedding, Bondita's would-be husband dies. The villagers decide to burn Bondita along with him as a part of sati. Anirudh, who was attending the wedding for Saurabh, marries her, as a last attempt to save her. Bondita was unconscious due to her aunt's spiked food, wakes up just in time for the new ceremony to begin, and is unaware of what truly happened. At home, Anirudh's love interest, Saudamini, finds out about this and feels broken, and eventually plots to separate Anirudh and Bondita. Aniruddh refuses to recognize Bondita as his wife, and rather sees her as his responsibility. He even cures her bed-wetting habit, which is due to the psychological trauma of witnessing the death of her father, caused by a venomous snakebite.

A while later, Bondita decides to help Sampoorna to solve her dowry issue, and meets a man named Brijwasi Babu who is actually a scammer, and pretends to be a devotee of Lord Krishna. Bondita innocently helps him and gets caught by Anirudh, who then sends Bondita back to her village home to live with her uncle and aunt. Aniruddh learns what Bondita was truly trying to do from a brothel dancer named Rasiya bai, and is told that Devoleena was going to sell her into prostitution into a brothel to which Rasiya Bai belongs saved her.

Anirudh rescues Bondita and exposes Saudamini's sinister plans to separate Anirudh and Bondita. It was also revealed that Trilochan was pushed and paralyzed due to Saudamini and Binoy's misdeeds but was later miraculously cured all thanks to Bondita. Saudamini is thrown out of the Roy Chaudhary House, and Bondita is finally warmly accepted and embraced back into the family.

Bondita decides to join school and Anirudh gets to know that he needs Mr. Greenwood's signatures in order to get Bondita's admission. They reach Mr. Greenwood's house and gets surprised to see Saudamini as Greenwood's wife; Betty Greenwood. They both place a condition to sign the paper only when bondita and her friends of heera mandi would win their challenge. Bondita and her friends, along with Anirudh as their teacher and mentor, win the challenge. Bondita will be the first girl from Tulsipur to go to school. She gets ready to go to school, but on the way, Saudamini kidnaps, knocks Bondita unconscious, and locks her in a chemical factory. Anirudh attempts to rescue Bondita, but is unable to. Luckily, Saurabh is able to save Bondita, but dies while doing so. Bondita and Anirudh prevents Sampoorna from practicing sati and bring her to their mansion. A girl reaches mansion and claims to be the reincarnation of Anirudh's mother Shubhra by Premlal because he want the revenge of Saurabh's death , from Anirudh and Roy Choudhary's , later he gets caught and is arrested. While Sampoorna's parents blackmail Binoy into marrying Sampoorna. Sampoorna wants to take revenge from Trilochan because he had called her a bad omen.

The production and airing of the show was halted indefinitely in late March 2020 due to the Covid-19 outbreak in India.[5] Because of the outbreak, the filming of television series and films was halted on 19 March 2020 and expected to resume on 1 April 2020 but could not and the series was last broadcast on 31 March 2020 when the remaining episodes were aired.[6][7] The episodes resumed on 6 July 2020.[8]

The show was dubbed in Bengali and aired on Colors Bangla with the same title.[9]

After three months break when the series resumed airing post Covid-19 lockdown in week 28 of 2020, it became the third most watched Hindi GEC in urban with 4.7 million impressions.[10]

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