Alka Kubal Athlye‘s popular serial ‘Mangalsutra’ has completed century and now in its 125th episode on Mi Marathi TV channel. To celebrate this happy occasion, the team of ‘Mangalsutra’ held a function at Mumbai’s Kohinoor hall on Thursday 16th March 2011.

Speaking on this occasion, Alka in the capacity of the producer thanked entire team and the channel for their strong support. “We thank our viewers for their overwhelming support for popularizing our serial and we assure them more in days to come. We only wish that this serial attains that 500 mark.” said the popular actress.

Endorsing her wish, senior actor Anand Abhyankar said confidently that the serial would certainly complete that figure, in view of the success it has attained while scoring the century. Young Varad Chavan( Son of Vijay Chavan) who is also part of the cast was more optimistic and expressed his wish to see the serial cross 1000 mark.

The clippings of forthcoming episodes, make it clear that serial does have the required content to target the audience from city as well as rural sector. With Alka herself playing the protagonist Mother – who is always there to protect her children and at the same time turning strict to show them the right way. Produced by Alka alongwith her husband Sameer Athlye and Shilpa Masurkar, the serial is directed by Tanaji Ghadge. Based on the story of Ramachandra Sadekar, the screenplay is written by Sachin Darekar and dialogues by Aruna Joglekar.

Besides Alka Kubal Athalye, the other main artistes of the serial are Suhas Palshikar, Anant Jog, Nagesh Bhosale, Surekha Kudchi, Kishori Ambiye, Anand Abhyankar, Asha Sathe, Sanjay Khapre, Varad Chavan, Sanjay Shejwal, Rutuja Bagwe, Amruta Sakpal and Triyug Mantri. The entire team of ‘Mangalsutra’ was present for this celebration, exchanging pleasantries only to prove their excellent team work