Diya Aur Baati Hum
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| Created by | Shashi Sumeet Productions |
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| Country of origin | India |
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Hindi English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 1487 (21 minutes) |
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| Production company(s) | Shashi Sumeet Productions[1] |
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| Original network | Star Plus |
| Original release | 29 August 2011 – 10 September 2016 |
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Diya Aur Baati Hum (English: You are the lamp and I am the wick) is a 2011 Indian television soap opera on the Star Plus channel. It started airing on 29 August 2011 and aired Monday to Sunday at 9 pm IST. It starred Anas Rashid and Deepika Singh in lead roles. The last episode was aired on 10 September 2016.
Plot summary
The story is the journey of a modern young woman who has to find a way to her dreams and who unexpectedly finds a constant companion in the person she least expected it from — her traditional husband and his family.
The serial has followed Sandhya's (Deepika Singh) life since she was a young college-going girl to the time she was forced into marriage following her parents' death to her struggles to find acceptance in a traditional Rajasthani family, to motherhood and most significantly her journey to become an IPS officer as she had always desired and the many challenges of her chosen profession. Her constant supporter has been her husband Sooraj Rathi (Anas Rashid) who has stood by her even when it has threatened to alienate him from his family. He is the favourite child of his mother Santosh Rathi (Neelu Vaghela) but it has not stopped him from standing up to his mother whenever he has felt she is in the wrong. Similarly Santosh or Bhabho, as she is known to all, has never minced words especially when it comes to her daughters-in-law. At the beginning of the series, Bhabho is Sandhya's biggest opponent but over the years has come to become her biggest supporter. Rajkumar had came back to take revenge from Sandhya. He plans a terrorist attack to harm Sooraj and Bhabho but finally Sandhya saves them but Bhabho gets shot and is rushed to the hospital but later recovered. Sandhya delivers two twins but is forced to give one away to her brother and sister in law.
- 5 years Later
Sandhya and Sooraj's son Ved is grown up. Sooraj tries to hide his real identity from Ved as he feels that he might not love him again. Later he decides to take the Kabaddi challenge. After the show focuses on Sandhya's new mission to track down a terrorist and therefore has to leave her family. She goes on a train but later a bomb hits it and everyone thinks Sandhya is dead.
- 3 Months Later
Bhabho has forgotten Sandhya and hates her just because of her job and is upset with her for leaving Sooraj. Sandhya is alive and is on a new mission to finish off a terrorist and stop him. Sooraj is to get married to Laalima. Hearing this, Sandhya breaks down but after her mission ends she rushes to the Rathi house. Sandhya and Sooraj finally reunite. Mohit starts to accuse Emily and misunderstands her relationship with Zakir. He later gets shot and dies after he tried to molest Laalima. Police suspects Laalima's brother but later Sooraj gets arrested. Finally Bhabho confessed saying she shot her son and gets arrested. Later she gets bailed by Sandhya.
The series has taken several leaps both in time and theme and at present focuses on the latest addition to the Rathi family — Aarzoo (Prachi Tehlan) wife of the family's foster son Chhotu aka Aryan (Kunal Khosla). Sandhya had doubts about Aarzoo being a terrorist but later she shot her and was sent to a mental hospital. Later she came to save Aarzoo and she succeeded. Then the show moved onto Sandhya's new mission and that was to save Ved from some disease. On the other hand, Om marries Emily on behalf of Maasa and Bhabho. Rathi family get to know that Sandhya is pregnant and she delivers a baby girl which they name Kanak. Sandhya gets proposal from the commissioner and decides to join the police again, there she meets IPS Arpita Khanna, who considers Sandhya as her rival. A new case arises, parents come to the police station to request Sandhya to find their missing daughter, Mansi. Sandhya and Arpita trace Mansi and find out that she is trying to hide from her parents, by working in a Garage, disguised as a boy. After finding Mansi Sandhya hands her over to her parents. On the other hand, Meena meets Shilpi. Sandhya saves all the girls from the evil clutches of Shilpi. 4 terrorists come along and torture Sandhya and her family. Sandhya and Sooraj save their family and the other civilians who were taken hostage by the 4 terrorists but the terrorist's leader makes them eat pills which are bombs in order for them to save their daughter Kanak. After eating the pills the terrorist leader is arrested by Arpita, the police and the army. Sandhya and Sooraj are told that the pills cannot be removed from their bodies and that they have 30 minutes before they explode. Sooraj and Sandhya say their goodbye to their family and run away to a river. Sooraj and Sandhya express their love for one another and their family arrives but Sooraj and Sandhya explode minutes later. Sandhya and Sooraj meet after death when Sandhya's mangalsutra and Suraj's chain become entangled in water before the setting sun. The show ends on this note highlighting that even death cannot separate them.
Cast
- Deepika Singh as IPS Sandhya Sooraj Rathi (2011–16)
- Anas Rashid as Sooraj Rathi (2011–16)
- Neelu Vaghela as Santosh Arun Rathi (Bhabho) (2011–16)
- Ashok Lokhande as Arun Rathi (Babasa) (2011–16)
- Devyansh Tapuriah as Ved Sooraj Rathi (2015–16)
- Prachi Tehlan as Arzoo Aryaan Rathi (2016)
- Randeep Rai/Kunal Khosla as Aryan Rathi (2015, 2016)
- Aryan Sharma as former Chotu (2011–15)
- Gautam Gulati/Karan Goddwani as Vikram Arun Rathi (2011–16)
- Kanika Maheshwari as Meenakshi Vikram Rathi (2011–16)
- Reem Sheikh as Mishri Vikram Rathi (2015–16)
- Pooja Singh as Emily Mohit/Om Rathi (2013–16)
- Varun Jain as Mohit Arun Rathi (2011–15)
- Abhinav Shukla as Om Rathi (2016)
- Dhrisha Kalyani as Pari Mohit Rathi (2015–16)
- Sehrish Ali as Chhavi Arun Rathi (2011–16)
- Unknown as Dilip (2014–2015)
- Ragini Shah as Maa Sa (2012, 2013, 2016)
- Deepak Gheewala as Dado Sa (2012, 2013)
- Rashmi Pitre as Chaturi (2011–14, 2016)
- Varun Khandelwal as Ankur Arvind Kothari (2011–16)
- Urmila Nimbalkar/Shubha Uplopwar as (2011–15)
- Ricky Patel as Vansh Ankur Kothari (Vansh Sooraj Rathi) (2015–16)
- Shivshakti Sachdev as Bulbul Ankur Kothari (2015)
- Rakesh Kukreti as Arvind Kothari (2011)
- Surbhi Tiwari as Kanchan Arvind Kothari (2011)
- Nupur Alankar as Kisna (2011)
- Kiran Bhargava as Malti Agarwal (2012)
- Unknown as Sudha (2012–14)
- Pallavi Rao as Kajri (2013)
- Eijaz Khan as Abhimanyu Singh (2013)
- Preeti Chaudhary as Kavita Sharma (2013–14)
- Charu Asopa as Roma Reddy (2014)
- Alan Kapoor as IPS Rahul Kapoor (2014)
- Keith Sequeira as Officer Roy (2014)
- Gaurav Sharma as Rajkumar (2012, 2014)
- Vindhya Tiwari as Prema (2014)
- Jyoti Sharma as Disha (2014)
- Gurdeep Kohli as Maya/Baijii (2014)
- Arjun Punj as IPS Arjun Chaudhary (2014)
- Sonam Lamba as one of the passengers on the hijacked plane (2014)
- Manini Mishra as Officer Agrima Singh (2014–15)
- Neil Bhatt as IPS Zakir Siddiqui (2014–15)
- Rituraj Singh as Mahendra Singh (2015)
- Jignesh Mehta as Avinash (2015)
- Vicky Arora as Ratan (2015)
- Banty Chopra as Lakhan (2015)
- Sandeep Nahar as Babban (2015)
- Arun Singh Rana as Prem (2015)
- Aadesh Chaudhary as Chandrashekhar (2015)
- Amit Dolawat as Himanshu Dubey (2015)
- Ekta Tiwari as Devi Narayani (2015)
- Vaishali Thakkar as Manjari (2015)
- Shalini Arora as Yashoda (2015)
- Shefali Sharma as Laalima Agarwal (2015-16)
- Akshay Batchu as Lokesh Agarwal (2015-16)
- Sarwar Ahuja as IPS Satyadev Tripathi (2015–16)
- Joyoshree Arora as Resham (2016)
- Rukhsar Rehman as Mehak (2016)
- Deepraj Rana as Gul Mohammad (2016)
- Pooja Sharma as Poorvi Om Rathi (2016)
- Rishina Kandhari as Arpita Khanna (2016)
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Guest stars
- Devoleena Bhattacharjee for Dance Performance: – Gopi from Saath Nibhaana Saathiya (2016)
- Gurmeet Choudhary & Debina Bonnerjee for Dance Performance (2016)
- Ragini Khanna as herself (2014)
- Aamir Khan to promote his show Satyamev Jayate[2] (2012)
- Salman Khan & Sonakshi Sinha to promote his film Dabangg 2 (2012)
- Shahrukh Khan to promote Chennai Express (2013)
Broadcast and remakes
National and international broadcast
It is dubbed in Telugu on MAA TV as Eetharam Illalu. In the Tamil it airs under the title, En Kanavan En Thozhan on Star Vijay. Internationally it airs in Sri Lanka dubbed into Sinhala as Swapna on Sirasa TV and in Vietnam dubbed in Vietnamese as Vợ tôi là cảnh sát on VTVCab 5 Echannel, although the ending was altered with the family celebrating. [3][4]
Remakes
The series was remade in other languages throughout India including a Marathi remake entitled Mansicha Chitrakaar To on Star Pravah, in Malayalam as Parasparam on Asianet, in Bengali as Tomay Amay Mile on Star Jalsha and in Kannada as Akashadeepa on Asianet Suvarna . However it stopped in Kannada and Marathi languages after several episodes.While the Malayalam version has completed 1000 episodes and is still on-air in Asianet.
Season 2
The creators of the show are planning a Season 2 of Diya Aur Baati Hum with the main leads of the show Anas Rashid and Deepika Singh not being part of it.[5]
References
- ↑ "Shashi Sumeet". Shashi Sumeet. Shashi Sumeet Productions Pvt. Ltd. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
- ↑ "Aamir Khan to feature on Diya Aur Baati Hum". DailyBhaskar.com. DB Corp ltd. 30 April 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
- ↑ Deepika Singh – Swapna Interview in Sri Lanka (with English subtitles). 14 December 2014 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "Cô dâu 8 tuổi và phim ngoại ồ ạt lên truyền hình Việt". Tuổi Trẻ Online. 7 January 2016.
- ↑ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/Diya-Aur-Baati-Hum-to-return-with-season-2/articleshow/53303419.cms