Caminho das Índias | |
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Genre | Telenovela |
Created by | Glória Perez |
Directed by | Marcos Schechtman |
Starring |
Juliana Paes Márcio Garcia Rodrigo Lombardi Letícia Sabatella Tânia Khallil Eliane Giardini Tony Ramos Lima Duarte Osmar Prado Nívea Maria and big cast |
Theme music composer | Vishal Bhardwaj |
Opening theme | Beedi Jalaile "Sunidhi Chauhan" |
Country of origin | Brazil |
Original language(s) | Portuguese language |
No. of episodes | 203 (original run) 160 (syndication) |
Production | |
Location(s) | India & Brazil |
Camera setup | Multiple-camera setup |
Running time | 50–80 Minutes |
Release | |
Original network | Rede Globo |
Picture format | (HDTV) 1080i – 16:9 (SDTV) 480i – 4:3 |
Original release | January 19 – September 11, 2009 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | A Favorita |
Followed by | Viver a Vida |
External links | |
Website |
India – A Love Story (Portuguese: Caminho das Índias, lit: Path to the Indies; also known as There, Where the Love Is in Georgia) is a Brazilian Emmy-winning television telenovela (soap opera) produced by Rede Globo and first broadcast from January 19 to September 11, 2009. It ranked within the top of the most watched shows on Brazilian television. Caminho das Índias storylines examine beliefs and values that differentiate the Eastern and Western world, the telenovela brings to the screen a story of contrasts. Telefutura aired an edited version of India from October 5, 2010 to April 25, 2011 at 10 pm central, removing episode previews and a custom-made intro and commercial bumpers were produced.
Starring Juliana Paes as Maya, the female protagonist; Márcio Garcia and Rodrigo Lombardi as Bahuan and Raj respectively, the main male protagonists; Letícia Sabatella and Cléo Pires as Yvone and Surya respectively, the main antagonists. It also has Tânia Khallil as Duda, Débora Bloch as Silvia and Alexandre Borges as Raul, the main co-stars.
The telenovela was originally screened as six one-hour chapters per week, from Monday to Saturday. It was one of the Brazil's highest-rated programmes, often appearing at the top of the daily's ratings released by the Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics. The average audience share for a chapter reached between 36 and 45 millions, with each point equivalent to sixty thousand households tuned on Rede Globo in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo.