Shrikant is a TV show based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya's 1917-1933 four volume novel Srikanta. The show aired on Doordarshan in 1987.
The show was again telecast on DD National from 30 April 2020 during the lockdown due to coronavirus
The show tells the story of protagonist Shrikant (Farooque Shaikh). Sujata Mehta plays Raj Lakshmi. She nurses him to health when he is infected by plague. Later during a sea voyage to Burma, he meets Abhaya (Mrinal Kulkarni), a woman abandoned by her husband (Irrfan Khan). In Burma, he receives the devotion of a lodge caretaker played by Sukanya Kulkarni. His love ideal remains Rajlakshmi.