Caminho das Índias
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Caminho das Índias is a Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian Emmy
International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is an organization of global broadcasters, with members from nearly 70 countries and over 400 companies...

-winning television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

 telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

 (soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

) produced by Rede Globo
Rede Globo
Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...

 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
Eastern world
__FORCETOC__The term Eastern world refers very broadly to the various cultures or social structures and philosophical systems of Eastern Asia or geographically the Eastern Culture...

 and Western world
Western world
The Western world, also known as the West and the Occident , is a term referring to the countries of Western Europe , the countries of the Americas, as well all countries of Northern and Central Europe, Australia and New Zealand...

, the telenovela brings to the screen a story of contrasts. Telefutura
TeleFutura
TeleFutura is a U.S. Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida.-Overview:TeleFutura Is America’s #2 Spanish-Language Network in prime time...

 aired an edited version of India from October 5, 2010 to April 25, 2011 at 10pm central, removing episode previews and a custom-made intro and commercial bumpers were produced.

Starring Juliana Paes
Juliana Paes
Juliana Couto Paes is a Brazilian actress and former playboy model. She became nationally-known in telenovelas and modelling. She also starred a local version of the musical The Producers, as Ulla.-Biography:...

 as Maya, the female protagonist; Márcio Garcia
Márcio Garcia
Márcio Garcia Machado is a Brazilian actor, television host, writer, producer and film director.-Biography:...

 and Rodrigo Lombardi
Rodrigo Lombardi
Rodrigo Lombardi is a Brazilian actor.-Television:* 2011 - O Astro - Herculano* 2010 - Passione - Mauro* 2009 - Caminho das Índias - Raj* 2007 - Desejo Proibido - Ciro Feijó...

 as Bahuan and Raj respectively, the main male protagonists; Letícia Sabatella
Letícia Sabatella
Letícia Sabatella is a Brazilian actress.-Television:- Cinema :-Music:-External links:...

 and Cléo Pires
Cléo Pires
Cléo Pires Ayrosa Galvão, known simply as Cléo Pires , is a Brazilian actress. Daughter of actress Glória Pires and singer-songwriter Fábio Júnior, Cléo Pires is also half-sister of the actor and singer-songwriter Filipe Galvão. She first gained notoriety for her roles in the 2003 film Benjamim and...

 as Yvone and Surya respectively, the main antagonists. It also has Tânia Khallil as Duda, Débora Bloch
Débora Bloch
Débora Bloch is a Brazilian actress.She is the daughter of actor Jonas Bloch, and is descendant of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants .-External links:...

 as Silvia and Alexandre Borges as Raul, the main co-stars.

The telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

 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
IBOPE
IBOPE was established in Brazil in 1942 and provides the largest collection of information in Brazilian and Latin American markets...

. 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
Greater São Paulo
The Greater São Paulo is a nonspecific term for one of the multiple definitions the large metropolitan area located in the São Paulo state in Brazil.-Definitions:-Metropolitan Area:...

.

The telenovela popularized India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. The Indian-inspired bijoux used by Maya are now available everywhere, books about India started to pop up on the best-selling list, the number of travels to India by Brazilians tourists increased dramatically and restaurants and even nightclubs with Indian themes started to open.

Story

The title can be interpreted in two ways: it is Portuguese for "Route to the Indies
Indies
The Indies is a term that has been used to describe the lands of South and Southeast Asia, occupying all of the present India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and also Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore, the Philippines, East Timor, Malaysia and...

" (literally) or "India's Way" (figuratively). The plot spans a period during the transition of India into a modern democracy (in the 1950s), parts during the 1970s, and finally (and the majority of the plot) during modern period (1990s-2000s), where most of the complex plot begins to unravel. There are many flashbacks that figure prominently in the resolution of the narrative. But the story is equally divided between continents, as the story delves with characters in Rio de Janeiro, Rajastan and some elements in Dubai.
Many themes are explored in the novella, including love, reason, sanity, insanity, and finally tradition versus modernity (not to mention juvenile delinquency or bullying). With beliefs and values that separate the West and the East, the soap brings to the screen a story full of contrasts. The story is treated from a complex mesh of relationships, of families, their familiars and friends, who all circle in a "small world" where everyone has a relationship that connects to the other characters in some way.

Synopsis

One of the main plot points is a forbidden love between castes, as played by two characters with different origins, Maya and Bahuan. Maya is clever, sexy, amazingly charming with dimples, enchanting eyes and all. She is also cheerful, an employee of a call-center in Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

 and part of a traditional family of tradesmen. Bahuan is finishing his studies in America, where he works, but could never forget the humiliation he had to go through as a child for being a dalit
Dalit
Dalit is a designation for a group of people traditionally regarded as Untouchable. Dalits are a mixed population, consisting of numerous castes from all over South Asia; they speak a variety of languages and practice a multitude of religions...

 (untouchable).

Bahuan is the son of two servants, also untouchables, who were burned at the stake for accidentally touching their master while he bathed. As a young boy, the disorientated youth, walks by the River Ganges, where Opash Ananda is with his two sons: Amithab and Raj. Amithab (the older son) out of curiosity, touches Bahuan, reaching for his necklace. Opash sees this and reprimands his son, since Bahuan is an untouchable and is not "clean". Shankar, a liberal Brahmin
Brahmin
Brahmin Brahman, Brahma and Brahmin.Brahman, Brahmin and Brahma have different meanings. Brahman refers to the Supreme Self...

 appears and defends Bahuan, beginning a fight with Opash that will prevail until the end of the narrative. Opash leaves with his two children. Bahuan recounts his troubled life to the attentive Shankar, who reveals his lonely life and adopts the child, despite the prejudice he suffers from many people.

Maya has reached the age to marry and her parents, the perfume maker Manu Meetha and Kochi, search all over for a suitable husband. Like every Indian girl, she had always believed they were the best suited people to find the right man; but that was until she met Bahuan. Moved by an overwhelming feeling, Maya is willing to impose her will to her family and doesn't understand why he seems so reticent. Only when the truth about his origins come to light she understands his fears. Between promises and risks, the couple plan a future together and keep being surprised by fate. On their way, are Raj Ananda, her parents' "golden dream"; Bahuan's investment in his career; and the Brazilian company Cadore, of which he becomes a partner years later.

Raj is the middle child of Opash and Indira Ananda. Opash is a wealthy tradesman, who makes the agreement with Manu for Maya and Raj's marriage (making it even harder for her and Bahuan). Opash and Indira have three other children: Amithab, Ravi (the youngest son) and Shanti (their only daughter). Amithab (the eldest), married to Surya, with whom he had a precocious daughter, Anusha. Amitahab is the dutiful older son, but not having a male heir has diminished his status (although not overtly), a point of jealousy that drives the ambitious Surya. Ravi, the youngest boy, falls in love with a Brazilian girl, Camilla Motta, and their relationship, which eventually leads to marriage will bring the conflict between East and West to the forefront, as Camilla tries to adapt to the Hindu culture. Shanti, the youngest and the only girl, had been prepared for marriage since she was a small child, learning the "womanly arts" of the society: dancing, brewing chai (tea), looking beautiful and serving members of the family. But she is uncomfortable in this role, and with her friendship with Camilla she explores new possibilities beyond the home. She aspires to obtain a university education and be free to choose who she falls in love with, or if she marries. This is in stark contrast with Opash's mother and the most dominant figure in the house. She is the vanguard of tradition in the Ananda home, quoting traditional proverbs, insinuating normative roles and generally annoying Indira and Surya. But she holds a secret which will affect the people of the Ananda home. Meanwhile, she too is always being annoyed by Karan (or Chacha), brother of her late husband; her brother-in-law, a capricious older man, he lives in Opash's home after his wife left him for another.

While Maya and Bahuan secretively attempt to be together, Raj has also fallen in love with Duda while in Brazil. The feeling is mutual; however, they cannot be happy together because of his parent's arranged marriage to Maya. Duda attempts to fight for Raj's affections and his families preconceived notions. During the course of the story she becomes disillusioned, and eventually the conflict between the possible and the improbable force her to abandon her relationship with Raj, in favor of a new love. She works in a aesthetic clinic owned by Ilana and Chiara, two very different women. Ilana is married to Cesar Motta, an ambitious man who can't control their son, Zeca, a boy without imposed limits, considered a delinquent and leader of a group of bullies at the local high school. Chiara, although a beautiful mature businesswoman, reads a lot of self-help books and who will, as the plot progresses, be involved romantically with Murilo, a loyal employee in the company of the Cadore family.

At the head of Cadore is the powerful Ramiro Cadore, a rich and powerful man who is always at war with his brother, Raul. The conflicts between them make their father, the once founder and president, Mr. Cadore, very unhappy. Ramiro has his lawyer, Gabi, as his "right-hand man" and is the unrequited love interest of his secretary, Walkíria, known as Wal. He is still married to Melissa, a woman obsessed with beauty,perfumes, new age treatments, social status and wealth. Melissa's life will receive a double blow when her son, Tarso, the future heir to the Cadore fortune is discovered to be schizophrenic. Tarso finds love with Tônia, with whom he wants to live happily. To treat his schizophrenia, Tarso consults with Dr. Castanho, the love interest of Cidinha his secretary and companion. Castanho is also one of Aída's co-workers. She is Cesar's ex-wife, with whom he had two daughters: Camilla and Leinha. At the beginning of the story, Camilla is in love with an executive called Dario, but she finds love beside Ravi, in India. Leinha wants to be a film-maker and chose India as the theme for her first documentary. She's always in conflict with her father's second wife, Ilana, and is always on her mom's side when the ex-couple have a fight. Camilla, on the other hand, tries to compromise and understand her unreasonable father's motives.

The plot also portrays the couple Sílvia and Raul. Married for a long time, they have a daughter, Julia, who is Camilla and Leinha's friend. The couple's lives will change drastically with the arrival of Yvone, Sílvia's highschool friend, who comes back when her friends needs her help the most, since she is experiencing a crisis in her marriage. But, behind her innocent face, Yvone hides a personality disorder: she is a psycopath. She will take advantage of the trust deposited in her to ruin many dreams and illusions.

Still in the Brazilian nucleus, there's the story of the Indian widower Ashima, a woman who decided to try her luck in Brazil and opened a bar in Lapa, a bohemian neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. She has two children: Indra, a young man who loves computers and internet, and Malika, a little girl. Ashima did what she could to pass on the Indian values to her kids. In the same neighborhood also lives the policeman Abel, friends with everyone in the area, but very strict when it comes to traffic laws. Abel is married to the suggestive Norma, known as Norminha to the close friends, a woman who is always seducing and enticing all the men. She goes out in the night, giving Abel a milk that makes him sleep. Among the people who use to go to the bar, are Mr. Cadore and Dr. Castanho, who is always there because of Suellen, a femme fatale in who he is very interested. Finally, in Lapa, lives Radesh, a clever Indian and friend of Deva, Maya's best friend.

Production

Caminho das Índiass artistic and general director, Marcos Schechtman, and director Fred Mayrink traveled to India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 to write the telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

's first scenes, which started to be filmed on October 1, 2008, in the cities of Jaipur
Jaipur
Jaipur , also popularly known as the Pink City, is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Founded on 18 November 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II, the ruler of Amber, the city today has a population of more than 3.1 million....

, known for its pink walls, and Agra
Agra
Agra a.k.a. Akbarabad is a city on the banks of the river Yamuna in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, west of state capital, Lucknow and south from national capital New Delhi. With a population of 1,686,976 , it is one of the most populous cities in Uttar Pradesh and the 19th most...

, famous for Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal is a white Marble mausoleum located in Agra, India. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal...

. In addition to 40 people from the Brazilian team, the telenovela had the partnership of a local producer. The modern architecture of Dubai
Dubai
Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

, in the United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

, also served as filming locations for the show at the end of October.

Audience

WEEK MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT  WEEK AVERAGE   MONTH AVERAGE 
  19/01/2009 to 24/01/2009   39 38 37 38 33 31 36.00 points JANUARY
34.41
POINTS
  26/01/2009 to 31/01/2009   31 35 36 35 32 28 32.83 points
  02/02/2009 to 07/02/2009   36 34 36 35 31 29 33.50 points FEBRUARY
34.22
POINTS
  09/02/2009 to 14/02/2009   37 37 33 - - - 35.66 points
19/01/2009 to present TOTAL AVERAGE 34.33 POINTS

Cast

Actor Character
Juliana Paes
Juliana Paes
Juliana Couto Paes is a Brazilian actress and former playboy model. She became nationally-known in telenovelas and modelling. She also starred a local version of the musical The Producers, as Ulla.-Biography:...

 
Maya Meetha Ananda
Márcio Garcia
Márcio Garcia
Márcio Garcia Machado is a Brazilian actor, television host, writer, producer and film director.-Biography:...

 
Bahuan Sundrani
Rodrigo Lombardi
Rodrigo Lombardi
Rodrigo Lombardi is a Brazilian actor.-Television:* 2011 - O Astro - Herculano* 2010 - Passione - Mauro* 2009 - Caminho das Índias - Raj* 2007 - Desejo Proibido - Ciro Feijó...

 
Raj Ananda
Tânia Khallil  Duda (Maria Eduarda de Moraes Garrido)
Cléo Pires
Cléo Pires
Cléo Pires Ayrosa Galvão, known simply as Cléo Pires , is a Brazilian actress. Daughter of actress Glória Pires and singer-songwriter Fábio Júnior, Cléo Pires is also half-sister of the actor and singer-songwriter Filipe Galvão. She first gained notoriety for her roles in the 2003 film Benjamim and...

 
Surya Ananda
Débora Bloch
Débora Bloch
Débora Bloch is a Brazilian actress.She is the daughter of actor Jonas Bloch, and is descendant of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants .-External links:...

 
Sílvia Cadore Cavinato
Letícia Sabatella
Letícia Sabatella
Letícia Sabatella is a Brazilian actress.-Television:- Cinema :-Music:-External links:...

 
Yvone Oliveira Magalhães
Alexandre Borges  Raul Cadore / Humberto Cunha
Humberto Martins  Ramiro Cadore
Christiane Torloni
Christiane Torloni
Christiane Maria dos Santos Torloni is a Brazilian actress. Her first appearance was on the Brazilian TV network Rede Globo. Among the many characters she has played are Jô Penteado in A Gata Comeu , and Fernanda in Selva de Pedra...

 
Melissa Cadore
Caco Ciocler  Murilo Cavinato
Eliane Giardini
Eliane Giardini
Eliane Giardini is a Brazilian actress. Although she didn't achieve much fame until her 40th birthday, she is now considered one of the best and most beautiful Brazilian actresses...

 
Indira Ananda
Nívea Maria
Nívea Maria
Nívea Maria Cândido Graieb is a Brazilian actress.- Biography :While working as a model, she was discovered by director Walter Avancini at age 17...

 
Kochi Meetha
Bruno Gagliasso  Tarso Cadore
Marjorie Estiano
Marjorie Estiano
Marjorie Estiano is a Brazilian popular actress and singer who rose to prominence in 2004 playing Natasha in the Brazilian teen seriesMalhação.-Biography:...

 
Tônia Cavinato Cadore
Isis Valverde  Camila Motta Goulart Ananda
Caio Blat
Caio Blat
For other uses of the term, see CaioCaio Blat de Oliveira is a Brazilian stage, television and film actor. He studied Law at USP, one of the biggest universities in Brazil, but dropped out because of his acting career...

 
Ravi Ananda
Dira Paes  Norminha (Norma Cristana Almeida)
Anderson Müller  Abel Almeida
Antônio Calloni  César Gallo Goulart
Ana Beatriz Nogueira
Ana Beatriz Nogueira
Ana Beatriz Soares Nogueira is a Brazilian actress. In 1987 she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival for her role in the film Vera, directed by Sergio Toledo.-Filmography:...

 
Ilana Gallo Goulart
Duda Nagle  Zeca (José Carlos Gallo Goulart)
Danton Mello
Danton Mello
Danton Mello is a Brazilian television actor.-Television jobs:*A Gata Comeu *Novo Amor *Mandala *Vale Tudo *Tieta *Despedida de Solteiro *Guerra Sem Fim...

 
Amithab Ananda
Ricardo Tozzi  Komal Meetha
André Gonçalves  Mutineja Gopal (Gopal)
Totia Meirelles  Drª. Aída Motta
Victor Fasano  Dario
Mara Manzan
Mara Manzan
Mara Virgínia Manzan was a Brazilian actress.Mara was born in the city of São Paulo in 1952. In 1967, when she was living and studying in São Paulo, Mara visited the Teatro Oficina, and, as she used to say jokingly, never left it. She worked backstage in all sorts of activities, until one day the...

 
Dona Ashima
Thaila Ayala  Shivani Mudaliah Sundrani
Juliana Alves  Suellen Castanho
Betty Gofman  Dayse
Marcius Melhem  Radesh
Júlia Almeida
Júlia Almeida
Júlia Gonçalves de Almeida is a Brazilian actress who has participated in several telenovelas.-Biography:Born in Rio de Janeiro, she is the daughter of the telenovela writer Manoel Carlos...

 
Léinha (Léa Motta Goulart)
Maria Maya  Inês Cadore
Ana Furtado  Drª. Gabriela (Gabi)
Rosane Gofman  Wal (Walkíria)
Cissa Guimarães  Ruth
Sílvia Buarque  Berê
Ana Lima  Drª. Cecília (Ciça)
Paula Pereira  Durga
Cacau Mello  Deva
Neuza Borges  Cema
Thais Garayp  Ana
Carolina Oliveira  Chanti Ananda
André Arteche  Indra
Odilon Wagner  Michael Brown Jonhson (Maike/Eric Brown)
Cláudia Lira  Nayana
Clarice Derzie Luz  Harima
Adilson Magha  Siro
Mussunzinho  Maico
Luci Pereira  Ondina
Priscila Marinho  Sheila
Darlan Cunha
Darlan Cunha
Darlan Cunha is a Brazilian actor. Better known as Laranjinha from his breakthrough role in Cidade dos Homens and from his part in the film Cidade de Deus...

 
Eliseu
Janaina Prado  Sonya
Blota Filho  Haroldo
Alexandre Liuzzi  Pedro
Marcelo Brou  Guto


Kids
Ator Personagem
Karina Ferrari Anusha Ananda
Laura Barreto Lalit
Cadu Paschoal Hari
Nahuana Costa Malika


Introducing
Actor Character
Sidney Santiago  Ademir
Brendha Haddad Rani Meetha
Márcio Vito  Ramu
Vitória Frate
Vitória Frate
Vitória Frate is a Brazilian actress.She graduated in Performing Arts, in Rio, Vitoria Frate began her acting career in theater in plays such as Nenhuma Palavra" and "De Para", by André Paes Leme, and "Um Amor de Circo " by Deco Ferreira, among others....

 
Júlia Cadore


Special Guest Stars
Actor Character
Vera Fischer
Vera Fischer
Vera Lúcia Fischer is a Brazilian actress of long-standing reputation and works in cinema and for the small screen, particularly for telenovelas. A former beauty pageant titleholder, she was crowned Miss Brazil in 1969.-Biography:...

 
Chiara
Eva Todor  Cidinha
Paulo José
Paulo José
Paulo José Gómez de Sousa is a Brazilian television and film actor, director and narrator.-TV work:*2009 - Caminho das Índias - Profeta Gentileza*2006 - JK*2004 - O Pequeno Alquimista...

 
Profeta Gentileza
Elias Gleizer  Senhor Cadore
Murilo Rosa  Lucas Garrido
Maitê Proença
Maitê Proença
- Biography :Maitê Proença was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1958. Her grandparents were Portuguese, French and Italian. As a child, Maitê studied in an American School and, thus, speaks fluent English, as well as French, Spanish, and Italian...

 
Nanda (Fernanda)
Chico Anysio
Chico Anysio
Chico Anysio, born Francisco Anysio de Oliveira Paula Filho is a Brazilian actor, comedian, writer and composer. He is the brother of the late actress Lupe Gigliotti. Anysio is considered one of the greatest and most talented names of Brazilian comedy of all time.- Television :* 1973/80 - Chico...

 
Namit


Invited Actresses
Actor Character
Laura Cardoso
Laura Cardoso
Laurinda de Jesus Cardoso Baleroni, better known by Laura Cardoso is a Brazilian actress.-Filmography:*1964 - Imitando o Sol*1964 - O Rei Pelé*1965 - Quatro Brasileiros em Paris...

 
Laksmi Ananda
Jandira Martini  Puja


Invited Actors
Actor Character
Osmar Prado  Manu Meetha
José de Abreu  Sacerdote Pandit
Flávio Migliaccio  Karan Ananda


And
Lima Duarte
Lima Duarte
Lima Duarte is a Brazilian actor. He has played a number of characters in Brazilian soap operas, such as Zeca Diabo in "O Bem Amado" and Sinhozinho Malta in "Roque Santeiro"...

 as "Shankar Sundrani"
Stênio Garcia as "Dr. Castanho"
Tony Ramos as "Opash Ananda"

Caminho das Índias vol. 1, National

Cover: Juliana Paes
Juliana Paes
Juliana Couto Paes is a Brazilian actress and former playboy model. She became nationally-known in telenovelas and modelling. She also starred a local version of the musical The Producers, as Ulla.-Biography:...


  1. Beedi Jalaile - Sukhwinder Singh
    Sukhwinder Singh
    Sukhwinder Singh, Born as Sukhi Singh Lubana is an Indian singer best known for working as Bollywood playback artist. Singh is famous for singing "Chaiyya Chaiyya" for which he won the Best Male Playback Award at the 1999 Filmfare Awards. The song, from Mani Ratnam's 1998 film Dil Se, was composed...

     & Sunidhi Chauhan
    Sunidhi Chauhan
    Sunidhi Chauhan is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi film songs in Bollywood. She has also recorded songs for Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Assamese and Gujarati films and is credited with over 2000 songs....

     (Opening theme)
  2. Eu Nasci Há Dez Mil Anos Atrás - Nando Reis
    Nando Reis
    Nando Reis is a Brazilian musician and producer, best known as the former bassist and lead singer of Brazilian rock band Titãs and for his successful solo career, with his own band called Os Infernais...

     (India's location theme)
  3. Pára-Raio - Skank
    Skank (band)
    Skank is a Brazilian rock/reggae band, begun in 1991, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. , they had sold approximately 5,200,000 copies of their albums...

     (Murilo's theme)
  4. Uma Prova De Amor - Zeca Pagodinho
    Zeca Pagodinho
    Zeca Pagodinho is a Brazilian singer/songwriter working in the genres of samba and pagode.-Biography:...

     (Castanho and Suellen's theme)
  5. Vamos Fugir (Gimme Your Love) - Gilberto Gil
    Gilberto Gil
    Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil or , is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment...

     (Tarso and Tônia's theme)
  6. Ela Disse - Marcelo D2
    Marcelo D2
    Marcelo D2 is a Brazilian rapper.- Biography :A former vocalist of the band Planet Hemp, he started his solo career in 1998 with the album Eu Tiro É Onda. The album was recorded in his studio by David Corcos, and was mixed in New York and Los Angeles by Carlos Bass and Mário Caldato Jr...

     (Júlia's theme)
  7. Memórias - Pitty
    Pitty
    Priscilla Novaes Leone , better known as Pitty, is a Brazilian rock singer.She had played in two bands, Shes and Inkoma, before starting her solo career in 2003. She has sold over 2 million copies in her career, being one of the best selling rock artists in the 2000s...

     (Inês theme)
  8. Martelo Bigorna - Lenine (Yvone's theme)
  9. Nada Por Mim - Paula Toller
    Paula Toller
    Paula Toller is a Brazilian singer and songwriter. Toller is mainly known as the lead singer of Kid Abelha, one of Brazil's most popular music bands. In 1998, she released her self-titled first solo album, which was very well received...

     (Camila's theme)
  10. Alma - Zélia Duncan
    Zélia Duncan
    Zélia Duncan , born Zélia Cristina Gonçalves Moreira, is a Brazilian singer and composer.-Biography:Zélia was born in Niterói, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. She moved with her family to Brasília, where she lived for 16 years...

     (Melissa and Ramiro's theme)
  11. Sob Medida - Isabella Taviani
  12. Lembra De Mim - Emílio Santiago (Sílvia's theme)
  13. Amor, Meu Grande Amor - Ângela Rô Rô
    Angela Ro Ro
    Ângela Maria Diniz Gonçalves , best known by the stage name Ângela Rô Rô, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter influenced by her idols Ella Fitzgerald, Maysa Matarazzo and Jacques Brel...

     (Chiara and Murilo's theme)
  14. Não Se Esqueça De Mim - Nana Caymmi
    Nana Caymmi
    Nana Caymmi is a Brazilian singer.Caymmi was born in Rio de Janeiro, the daughter of Dorival Caymmi and Stella Maris. Her first appearance on record was on her father's album Acalanto. She married Venezuelan doctor Gilberto Aponte Paoli and moved there in 1959. She and her husband divorced in...

     & Erasmo Carlos
    Erasmo Carlos
    Erasmo Carlos, born Erasmo Esteves on June 5, 1941, in the Tijuca area of Rio de Janeiro, is a Brazilian singer and songwriter, most closely associated with his friend and longtime collaborator Roberto Carlos...

     (Maya and Bahuan's theme)
  15. Feliz - Gonzaguinha
    Gonzaguinha
    Luiz Gonzaga do Nascimento Júnior , better known as Gonzaguinha, was a noted Brazilian singer and composer. He was born in Rio de Janeiro and he was the son of Luiz Gonzaga , the "king of baião"...

     (Raj and Duda's theme)
  16. O Vento Vai Responder (Blowin' in the Wind) - Zé Ramalho
    Zé Ramalho
    Zé Ramalho is a Brazilian composer and performer. Zé Ramalho has collaborated with various major Brazilian musicians, including Vanusa, Geraldo Azevedo and Alceu Valença to name a few...

     (Dayse's theme)
  17. Dois pra lá, dois pra cá - Elis Regina
    Elis Regina
    Elis Regina Carvalho Costa, known simply as Elis Regina was an important singer of Brazilian popular music. She became nationally renowned in 1965, after singing Arrastão in the first edition of TV Excelsior festival song contest, and soon joined O Fino da Bossa, a television program on TV Record...

     (Rio de Janeiro's location theme)
  18. Até Quem Sabe - Nara Leão
    Nara Leão
    Nara Lofego Leão was a Brazilian bossa nova and MPB singer and occasional actress. Her husband was Carlos Diegues, director and writer of Bye Bye Brasil....

     (Raul's theme)
  19. Sufoco da Vida - Harmonia Enlouquece
  20. Você Não Vale Nada - Calcinha Preta (Norminha's theme)

Caminho das Índias vol. 2, Indian

  1. Beedi Jalaile - Sunidhi Chauhan
    Sunidhi Chauhan
    Sunidhi Chauhan is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi film songs in Bollywood. She has also recorded songs for Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Assamese and Gujarati films and is credited with over 2000 songs....

    , Sukhwinder Singh
    Sukhwinder Singh
    Sukhwinder Singh, Born as Sukhi Singh Lubana is an Indian singer best known for working as Bollywood playback artist. Singh is famous for singing "Chaiyya Chaiyya" for which he won the Best Male Playback Award at the 1999 Filmfare Awards. The song, from Mani Ratnam's 1998 film Dil Se, was composed...

    , Nachiketa
    Nachiketa
    Nachiketa is the child protagonist in an ancient Hindu fable about the nature of the soul and Brahman. The story is told in the Katha Upanishad , though the name has several earlier references. He was taught Self-knowledge, the separation of the human soul from the body, by the god of Death, Yama...

     Chakraborty
    Chakraborty
    Chakraborty is a common surname of Bengali and Assamese Hindus in India and Bangladesh. People with the surname Chakraborty commonly belong to the Brahmin caste...

     and Clinton Cerejo
    Clinton Cerejo
    Clinton Cerejo is known for his contributions in the music department for Indian films. His range of work includes playback singing, vocal arrangements, musical arrangements, background scores, music programming, production...

     opening theme
  2. Kajra Re - Alisha Chinai
    Alisha Chinai
    Alisha Chinai in Gujarati family and an Indian pop singer known for her several albums as well as playback singing in Hindi cinema.-Career:...

    , Shankar Mahadevan
    Shankar Mahadevan
    Shankar Mahadevan is an Indian music composer and singer. He is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that composes for Indian films and a playback singer.-Early life:...

     and Javed Ali
    Javed Ali
    Javed Ali is an Indian playback singer. He has been singing in Hindi movies from 2000 but shot to fame in 2007 when he sang the song "Ek Din Teri Raahon Mein" from the movie Naqaab and thereafter another big hit "Jashn-e-Bahaaraan" from the movie Jodhaa Akbar . He is currently one of the leading...

  3. Nagada Nagada - Sonu Nigam
    Sonu Nigam
    Sonu Nigam is an Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured in numerous Hindi movies, as well as films in Assamese, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi and Kannada language. He has also released numerous Indi-pop albums and acted in a few Hindi feature films...

     e Javed Ali
    Javed Ali
    Javed Ali is an Indian playback singer. He has been singing in Hindi movies from 2000 but shot to fame in 2007 when he sang the song "Ek Din Teri Raahon Mein" from the movie Naqaab and thereafter another big hit "Jashn-e-Bahaaraan" from the movie Jodhaa Akbar . He is currently one of the leading...

  4. Sajna Ve Sajna - Sunidhi Chauhan
    Sunidhi Chauhan
    Sunidhi Chauhan is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi film songs in Bollywood. She has also recorded songs for Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Assamese and Gujarati films and is credited with over 2000 songs....

  5. Main Vari Vari - Kavita Krishnamurti e Reena Bharadwaj (theme of Maya and Bahuan)
  6. Mast Kalandar - Sunidhi Chauhan
    Sunidhi Chauhan
    Sunidhi Chauhan is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi film songs in Bollywood. She has also recorded songs for Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Assamese and Gujarati films and is credited with over 2000 songs....

  7. Chori Chori Gori Se - Abhijeet
    Abhijeet
    -Early life:Abhijeet was born in a Bengali family in Kanpur on 30 October 1958, the youngest of four siblings. He passed his matriculation from Ramakrishna Mission Higher Secondary School, Kanpur and Class XII from BNSD Inter College Chunni Ganj, Kanpur; and graduated in commerce from Christ...

     and Udit Narayan
    Udit Narayan
    -Career:King of melody, Udit Narayan Jha was born on 1 December, 1955 in a village called Bhardaha in the Saptari district , Nepal. His father was Hare Krishna Jha and his mother was Bhuwaneshwari Devi.Narayan studied at P.B...

  8. Salaam-E-Ishq - Sonu Nigam
    Sonu Nigam
    Sonu Nigam is an Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured in numerous Hindi movies, as well as films in Assamese, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi and Kannada language. He has also released numerous Indi-pop albums and acted in a few Hindi feature films...

     and Shreya Ghoshal
  9. Salaam - Alka Yagnik
    Alka Yagnik
    Alka Yagnik is an Indian singer who is ranked among the best Hindi playback singers of all time. She is a seven-time winner of the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award as well as a two-time recipient of the prestigious National Film Awards...

  10. Azeem o Shaan Shahensh - Mohamed Aslam
  11. Bangra Jaya - Alexandre de Faria

Caminho das Índias vol. 3, Lapa

Cover: Juliana Alves
  1. Eu vou pra Lapa - Alcione
  2. Malandro é malandro, mané é mané - Diogo Nogueira
    Diogo Nogueira
    Diogo Nogueira is a singer and songwriter from Brazil. He is the son of composer João Nogueira and Ângela Maria Nogueira...

     (theme of César and Ilana)
  3. Só faltou você Lado a Lado B - Leandro Sapucahy
  4. Vaso Ruim - Casuarina (theme of Radesh)
  5. Tristeza Pé no Chão - Teresa Cristina & Grupo Semente
  6. Amor de verdade - Beth Carvalho
    Beth Carvalho
    Elizabeth Santos Leal de Carvalho is a Brazilian samba singer, guitarist, cavaquinist and composer.-Biography:...

  7. Errei - Sururu na Roda (Live)
  8. Pretinha Jóia Rara - Moyseis Marques
  9. Em Desfile Chatos - Jota Canalha
  10. Sal e Pimenta - Gabriel o Pensador
    Gabriel o Pensador
    Gabriel Contino, Gabriel o Pensador , is a Brazilian rapper.-Biography:Coming from a unique background among Brazilian rappers, Gabriel, the son of a well known journalist in Brazil, hit fame in 1992 with the song "Tô Feliz " the debut single from his first...

  11. Puro êxtase - Barão Vermelho
    Barão Vermelho
    Barão Vermelho is a Brazilian rock band. Formed in 1981 in Rio de Janeiro, it was originally led by songwriting duo Cazuza and Roberto Frejat , which assumed the vocals after Cazuza's departure in 1986...

  12. Anjo da madrugada - Babi Xavier
    Babi Xavier
    Babi Xavier, born Anna Bárbara Xavier, is a Brazilian television actress, singer and TV hostess.-Television:*Perdidos de Amor – Ivea, actress*Por Amor – Aninha, actress...

     (theme of Duda and Lucas)
  13. Lourinha Bombril (Parate y mira) - Bangalafumenga
  14. Legal, Vou ficar - Quatro Fatos
  15. Põe aê uma música - DJ Alex Guedes
  16. Uma flor uma raiz - Fino
  17. Coletivo Mezcla - Riosalsa (theme of Suellen and Ademi)

Caminho das Índias vol. 4, International

  1. Halo - Beyoncé Knowles
    Beyoncé Knowles
    Beyoncé Giselle Knowles , often known simply as Beyoncé, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child...

     (theme of Yvone)
  2. Thinking of You - Katy Perry
    Katy Perry
    Katy Perry is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised by Christian pastor parents, Perry grew up listening to only gospel music and sang in her local church as a child. After earning a GED during her first year of high school, she began to pursue a...

     (theme of Bahuan and Shivani)
  3. Orishas - Público
  4. Never Gonna Be Alone - Nickelback
    Nickelback
    Nickelback is a Canadian rock band from Hanna, Alberta. Since 1995 the band has included guitarist and lead vocalist Chad Kroeger, guitarist and back-up vocalist Ryan Peake and bassist Mike Kroeger.. The band's current drummer and percussionist is Daniel Adair who has been with the band since 2005....

     (theme of Tônia and Tarso)
  5. Tip of My Tongue - Something Sally feat. Joss Stone
    Joss Stone
    Jocelyn Eve Stoker , better known by her stage name Joss Stone, is an English soul singer-songwriter and actress. Stone rose to fame in late 2003 with her multi-platinum debut album, The Soul Sessions, which made the 2004 Mercury Prize shortlist...

     (theme of Aída and Darío)
  6. Small Talk - Ovi
  7. To Love you All Over Again - Madeleine Peyroux
    Madeleine Peyroux
    Madeleine Peyroux is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Peyroux is noted for her vocal style, which has been compared to that of Billie Holiday....

     (theme of Chiara)
  8. Sober - Pink
    Pink (singer)
    Alecia Beth Moore , better known by her stage name Pink , is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actress....

  9. Use Somebody - Kings Of Leon
    Kings of Leon
    Kings of Leon is an American rock band that originated in Albion, Oklahoma but formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 1999. The band is composed of brothers Anthony Caleb Followill , Ivan Nathan Followill and Michael Jared Followill Kings of Leon is an American rock band that originated in Albion,...

  10. Lies - McFly
    McFly
    McFly are an English pop rock band who first found fame in 2004. The band consists of Tom Fletcher , Danny Jones , Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd . They were signed to the Island Records label from their 2004 launch until December 2007, before creating their own label, Super Records...

     (theme of Zeca)
  11. Madly - Tristan Prettyman
    Tristan Prettyman
    Tristan Prettyman is a singer-songwriter and former Roxy model from San Diego, California. She is signed to Virgin Records and released her first major label album Twentythree on August 2, 2005, followed by her second album Hello...x which was released on April 15, 2008...

     (theme of Duda and Lucas)
  12. Quando e se - Ari Hest
    Ari Hest
    Ari Hest is an American singer-songwriter and a native of Riverdale in the Bronx borough of New York.-Early life:Ari took piano lessons as a child and later, as a teenager, taught himself to play his mother's nylon string guitar by ear with influences from both his parents' record collection and...

     (theme of Silvia and Murilo)
  13. Lay Lady Lay - Dan (theme of Dr. Castanho and Suellen)
  14. I'm in the Mood for Love - Daniel Boaventura (theme of Maya and Raj)
  15. All the Way - Ronaldo Canto e Mello (theme of Camila and Ravi)
  16. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Oséas (theme of Shankar y Laksm)

Caminho das Índias vol. 5, Instrumental

  1. Os portais do Taj Mahal - Alexandre de Faria (Geral theme)
  2. Tema de Maya e Bahuan - Alexandre de Faria (theme of Maya and Bahuan)
  3. Quase um Intocável - Alexandre de Faria (Untouchable's theme)
  4. Caminho das Índias - Alexandre de Faria (theme of geral dance)
  5. Nos passos de Shankar - Alexandre de Faria(theme of Shankar)
  6. Meu Salaam - Alexandre de Faria (romantic theme)
  7. Meditação e Karma - Alexandre de Faria (incidental theme)
  8. Re Tchori - Alexandre de Faria (theme of geral dance)
  9. Habanera para Tarso - Alexandre de Faria (theme of Tarso)
  10. Maxixe Chorado - Alexandre de Faria (theme of Lapa neighboord)
  11. Uma Canção sem Palavras - Alexandre de Faria (tema triste)
  12. Tango da Ausência - Alexandre de Faria (theme of Lapa neighboord)
  13. Berceuse pour un Nuit - Alexandre de Faria (incidental theme)
  14. Toda Levada - Alexandre de Faria

Awards

In November 2009, Caminho das Índias was prized as Best telenovela in the 2009 Emmy International
International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is an organization of global broadcasters, with members from nearly 70 countries and over 400 companies...

.
In Brazil, it won 4 awards for Best telenovela.
The cast won many awards, too.
Bruno Gagliasso won 5 awards as Best Supporting Actor.
Dira Paes won 4 awards as Best Supporting Actress.
Rodrigo Lombardi won 2 awards as Best Actor.
Juliana Paes won 1 award as Best Actress.

See also

  • Brazil–India relations
    Brazil–India relations
    Brazil–India relations refers to the bilateral relations between Brazil and India.Brazil's main language is Portuguese. India's main languages are Hindi and English...

  • Caste system in India
    Caste system in India
    The Indian caste system is a system of social stratification and social restriction in India in which communities are defined by thousands of endogamous hereditary groups called Jātis....

  • Culture of India
    Culture of India
    India's languages, religions, dance, music, architecture, food and customs differ from place to place within the country, but nevertheless possess a commonality....

  • Indian soap opera
    Indian soap opera
    Indian soap operas are soap operas written, produced, filmed in India, with characters played by Indians , with episodes broadcast on Indian television channels/channel chains that are not often limited to the Republic of India itself: often many “serials,” as they’re more commonly referred to as,...

  • Masala chai
    Masala chai
    Masala chai is a beverage from the Indian subcontinent made by brewing tea with a mixture of aromatic Indian spices and herbs.-Terminology:-Plain chai:...


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