Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev is a Hindu spiritual television drama series which airs on Life OK channel. It premiered on 18th December, 2011 and showcases the story of Lord Shiv, also called as Mahadev. The drama is inspired by the works of Devdutt Pattanaik. The story has been researched from Bodhisattva and has been penned up by Mihir Bhuta. It airs every Mon-Fri at 8 pm.
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| Genre | Mythological Drama Spiritual Drama |
| Created by | Life OK |
| Written by | Story Mihir Bhuta Brij Mohan Pandey Dialogues Subrat Sinha Screenplay Bhavna Vyas Manoj Tripathi |
| Directed by | Nikhil Sinha Manish Singh |
| Creative director | Anirudh Pathak |
| Starring | See Below |
| Opening theme | Shiv Shiv |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 01 |
| No. of episodes | 316 as on January 25, 2013 |
| Production | |
| Cinematography | Deepak Garg Amit Malavia |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | approx. 25 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Life OK |
| Release | 18th December, 2011 – Present |
Plot
Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev is the story of the Hindu God Shiv, also called as Mahadev. The show portrays his journey from a hermit to a house holder. In the show Shiva takes many incarnations and many incidents take place. However, this plot mentions only the major events.
The story starts with the tale of Shiva's marriage with Sati. Sati who is the daughter of Prajapati Daksh, a staunch Vishnu devotee, is drawn towards Shiv against the wishes of her father. She finally marries Shiva, but soon dies by self-immolation when her husband is insulted at the yajna of Daksh. The grief-striken Shiva produces Veerbhadra, who slays Daksha, however he restores Daksha's life after beseeching of Daksha's wife. A distraught Shiva leaves with burnt corpse of Sati and wanders the universe. Vishnu severs the body into pieces, shattering them on earth. Shiva transforms the pieces into Shakti Peethas, embodiments of the power of the Goddess Adi Shakti.
Sati is reborn as Parvati, the daughter of Himavan, king of the Himalayas and Mainavati. She is also the sister of the river-goddess, Ganga. Parvati is raised in the hermitage of the Shiva devotee sage Dadhichi, who teaches her devotion to Shiva. Parvati grows up and like Sati, is captivated by Shiv. She slowly remembers her past life, then wins Shiva by her austerities leading to their marriage.
Shiva and Parvati give birth to Kartikey, who slays the demon Tarakasur and his brothers. Kartikey is also nominated for the throne of the King of Dev but Shiv asks Indra to continue as the king. After this Kartikeya is sent to the Dakshin where he is cared by Meenakshi and here he slays the demon Tripath with her help. The story goes on with the tale of the destruction of Tripura, belonging to the revengeful sons of Tarakasura, who were earlier given boons by Shiva. And just before the destruction of the Tripura, Shiva and Parvati's daughter, Ashoksundari is born.
After the destruction of Tripura, except Lord Indra everyone congratulate Shiv for destructing Tripur and also for being the father of Ashokasundari. Rishi Durvasa gives him a special garland, which Shiva gave Narada as prasadam. When given Lord Indra accepts the garland placing it on the trunk of his elephant, Airavata to proof that he is egoistic throws it. This enrages the sage and he curses Indra and evryone to be bereft of all wealth and fortune. Soon later to take revenge on the destruction of Tripura, King Bali attacks heaven and in attempt to steal Amrita (nectar of immortality). But it falls into the Ocean of milk. To get the Amrit back Devas join hands with Asuras to churn the ocean for the Amrita and to share it among them.
The churning of the ocean, known as Samudra Manthan is an elaborate process. In the process the Devas disadvantage the Asuras in many ways. Despite this, they churn the ocean. In the process Lord Vishnu also takes his second incarnation of a turtle, Kurm.
The process releases a number of things from the ocean. One product is the lethal poison known as Halahal. This could contaminate the ocean and destroy all of creation. To save everyone Lord Shiv inhales the poison in an act of self-sacrifice but Parvati rescues him by pressing his neck to stop the poison from spreading. As a result, the color of Lord Shiva's neck turns blue. During the churning many things are obtained from the ocean which includes Lakshmi, the Goddess of fortune and wealth. Thus, everyone gets their wealth and fortune back. Later Vishnu takes the Amrit secretly from the Asur and distributes it among the Dev.
The story takes some years leap after which it is shown that Kartikey has been removed from the post of Senapati, which pleases Indra and for the first time, after so many years, a grown-up Ashoksundari meets Kartikey. Kartikey also meets his parents. He enlightens Ashoksundari about meditation and she is inspired by it so much that she renounces her life to meditate, which disturbs Parvati.
Looking at the ill-happenings of the world, of how Ahilya is seduced by Indra, Parvati gives birth to a Mangalkari son Vinayak. Vinayak stops Mahadev from entering Kailash. Enraged, Mahadev cuts off his head; however, an elephant's head is fixed to his body. He is declared the head of all soldier and is given the name of Shree Ganesh. Kartikey and Ashoksundari return to Kailash. A challenge takes place. The one who will take seven rounds of sansar and come to Kailash first will become the most respectful God. Ganesh takes three rounds around his parents. Kartikey comes to Kailash first; however, Mahadev declares Ganesh as the winner.
Cast
Awards
| Year | Awards Event | Category | Nominees | Result |
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| 2012 | Zee Gold Awards | Most Fit Actor / Actress | Mohit Raina Mouni Roy |
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Music
Music for the first 140 episodes was composed by Sandeep Mukherjee, Kartik, and composer duo Inder Bawra and Sunny Bawra. Later on, Sandeep Mukherjee for a few episodes and then Bawra brothers for a few episodes, took over complete responsibility as the series composer. Famous Pakhawaj player, singer and composer Pandit Bhavani Shankar recorded an original composition for the Tandav sequence shown after Sati's demise.
Production
Ritoo Jenjani, who has worked in Kamal Hassan's upcoming Tamil film Vishwaroopam, has done the prosthetic makeup for the presentation of Kali.
The production house also plans to release DVD version of the show under the title Mahadev: The Movie for the first phase.
Reception
The show has been a popular mythological drama currently on air. The episode of 9 September 2012, featuring Kali killing the demon Raktabij earned the highest TRP ever of the show since 2011. As per TAM ratings, this special episode of the show recorded a 8.2 TVR.