Shaurya Aur Anokhi Ki Kahani

Shaurya Aur Anokhi Ki Kahani
Genre	Drama
Developed by	StarPlus Leena Gangopadhyay
Written by	Satyam Tripathi Munisha Rajpal Rajesh Rajpal
Screenplay by	Ila Bedi Dutta Damini Kanwal Shetty Bhavna Vyas
Story by	Ila Bedi Dutta Mitali Bhattacharya Damini Kanwal Shetty
Directed by	Imtiaz Punjabi Samir Kulkarni Rakesh Kumar Vikram Ghai
Creative director	Manjari Mukul
Starring	Debattama Saha Karanvir Sharma
Theme music composer	Sargam Jassu Nakash Aziz
Composer	Kingshuk Chakravarty
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	155
Production
Producers	Tony Singh Deeya Singh Jashan Singh Gia Singh
Cinematography	Hanoz Kerawala Raju Gauli
Editors	Jaskaran Singh Omkar Singh
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22–24 minutes
Production company	DJ's a Creative Unit
Original release
Network	Star Plus Utsav Plus
Release	21 December 2020 (2020-12-21) – present
Related
Mohor

Shaurya Aur Anokhi Ki Kahani (transl. Shaurya and Anokhi's story) is an Indian television drama series that premiered on 21 December 2020 on StarPlus. The series is a remake of Star Jalsha's Bengali series Mohor. Produced under DJ's a Creative Unit, it stars Debattama Saha and Karanvir Sharma.

Plot

Shaurya Sabherwal belongs to an affluent family in Chandigarh. He is a modern-day misogynist and believes that women should be restricted from studying and working. He has such a nature because his mother left him in his childhood unwillingly, to pursue her career in order to aid and support her elderly parents, while he was influenced by his uncle and aunt forming him into what he is now. On the other hand, Anokhi Bhalla is an ambitious and headstrong girl, willing to make a mark on society. Having a completely different ideology, she feels that the society is patriarchal and women should strive to live on their own terms.

The story begins with Shaurya's engagement with his long-time girlfriend, Shagun. However, on the engagement day, Shagun reveals to Shaurya that she is willing to go to Cambridge to study further. A reluctant Shaurya asks her to choose between her married life and Cambridge. Shagun chooses to follow her dream while an infuriated Shaurya breaks the engagement. On the other hand, Anokhi studies in the same college in which Shaurya's mother, Aastha is a professor, who's highly supportive towards Anokhi. She participates in a debate competition where she speaks up about the need for women to become independent.

Finally, Anokhi's marriage is fixed with an orthodox and alcoholic person, Monty much to Anokhi, Babli, and Rama's reluctance. Anokhi's in-laws permit her to continue her studies after marriage in Toronto, Canada. But, the true colors of the family are revealed when she overhears Monty's conversation wherein he addresses wives as 'Glorified Servants' and reveals his unwillingness to allow Anokhi to study. Anokhi tries to persuade her father to stop her marriage, but the latter locks her up in her room. Later, Babli and Rama learn of Monty's ugly side. They decide to free Anokhi from this forced relation and helps her to run away. After many hurdles, Anokhi finally manages to escape her marriage and arrive at Aastha's house. Aastha facilitates her admission at Sabherwal Institute of Arts and Commerce Institute (SIAC) by requesting her estranged husband, Shaan.

Shaurya bombards Anokhi with questions, but she cracks the interview with flying colors. The confidence with which she answered all the questions, astonished all panel members. Later, Anokhi gets tensed as she has to arrange for her Transfer Certificate and fifty thousand rupees for her admission. Babli tries to help Anokhi by lending her gold bangles, which she can mortgage. But, Vineet foils their plan and insults them. Shaurya accuses Anokhi of theft and refuses to provide her admission. But, Aastha proves Anokhi's innocence and thus after several hurdles, Anokhi is finally admitted to SIAC.

Anokhi finds it difficult in adjusting to her new classmates at SIAC. After college premises, the students confined Anokhi and insulted her. They then locked her up in the classroom. Anokhi was deeply traumatized after this incident, but she mustered courage and sought to expose the students. The group of students, led by Kitty and Bebo (Shaurya's cousin sisters) used tactful ways to confute Anokhi's claim. Shaurya too initially refuted all her claims but later they teamed up to expose the students. Ultimately, the students accepted their mistake. Elsewhere, an agitated Raja shoots Aastha, who was later rescued by Anokhi's parents.

Aastha is quickly rushed to Chandigarh where she is operated on. Anokhi and Shaan worry about Aastha, as the latter's health deteriorates. Gayatri gets tensed upon listening about Aastha's deteriorating health. Thus, she insists Shaurya to meet Aastha. Later, it is shown that Shaurya visits Aastha. This reveals that Shaurya is not bad at heart and really cares about his mother. But the latter's past constantly haunts him, due to which he isn't able to express his love for his mother freely. Later, an infuriated Devi confronts Aastha. Shaurya overhears their conversation and again misunderstands Aastha and hurls accusations at her. Anokhi, who was hearing all this, defends Aastha. Later after a heated argument, Devi manipulates Shaan to give divorce to Aastha.

Aastha expresses her desire of celebrating Shaurya's birthday with him. Anokhi conveys this to Shaurya, who sternly refuses and mistakenly harms Anokhi. Later, Aastha comes to Shaurya to clear out all grudges with him. Shaurya, who was reluctant to hear her, brutally insults her, so she leaves. When Aastha goes missing, Shaurya and Anokhi search for her together. When they search for Aastha in the market, they are caught in the midst of a riot. Anokhi is injured in a blast near the market, but Shaurya rescues her and has her hospitalized. Elsewhere, Shaan finds Aastha.

When Aastha is found, Shaurya unwillingly seeks forgiveness from her. Later, Shaurya becomes envious on seeing Anokhi getting close to ACP Aahir. To separate Shaurya from Aastha and Anokhi, Tej plans to appoint him as the chairman of their college's new branch at Patiala. This is when Shaurya realizes that he is falling for Anokhi. Aahir's growing concern for Anokhi irks Shaurya and the latter vents his frustration on Anokhi. Anokhi couldn't tolerate the insult and decides to return to her hometown, Kapurthala.

Before leaving for Kapurthala, Anokhi appears for the Economics Preliminary examination. Although she had worked hard for this and topped the exam, she is accused of cheating. She was on the verge of rustication, but Shaurya proves her innocence. Even though she was proven innocent, she doesn't change her decision to leave the college. Elsewhere, Aastha and Shaan file for a divorce. Even though they separate legally, Shaan decides to start afresh with Aastha.

Later, Shaurya convinces Anokhi to continue her studies at SIAC. Aastha becomes skeptical about Shaurya and Anokhi's relationship as she realizes that Shaurya and Anokhi are falling for each other. Further, Shagun makes a re-entry, intending to spoil Shaurya and Anokhi's budding love. Amidst this, Shaurya realizes how much he loves Anokhi, and wants to tell her this; he travels to Anokhi's hostel, drenched in the rain, where he falls sick. Shaurya spends most of the night with Anokhi, whilst Devi is worried sick as to where Shaurya is. She calls ACP Ahir to help investigate who eventually finds Shaurya. To prevent Anokhi from getting in trouble, Shaurya formulates a plan where it would seem as if he was in the library. Anokhi gets off the hook.

Shaurya wishes to tell Anokhi about his feelings on the day of the festival, however, his plans are spoiled because of ACP Ahir. In a fit of rage, he accidentally crashes into Ahir's car and as a result, is arrested. ACP Ahir also reveals that he has feelings for Anokhi.

On the day of Holi, Anokhi eagerly anticipates Shaurya's arrival; however, she begins to worry when she sees Shaurya's family arrive at the college without him. Anokhi asks Kanchan to call Shaurya but Kanchan tells her that she should call him herself. When she does this, however, she is surprised to hear ACP Ahir's voice on the other line, who tells her that Shaurya is in lock-up. Anokhi, flabbergasted, travels to the police station, lecturing Shaurya about how his childish behavior led to her and the students' Holi being ruined. Anokhi returns to the college and whilst reorganizing her decorations she is held by Shaurya (who was released from jail after apologizing to ACP Aahir), this is seen by Shagun. Shagun sees that Shaurya has moved on and is smitten with someone else, so she prepares to go despite Devi's protests. However, Shaurya mistakes Shagun for Anokhi and lovingly colors her face. This puts Shagun under the delusion that Shaurya still has feelings for her. She takes the vacant job of the professor for Economics at SIAC and tells Shaurya the reason she has come back from the UK, but he tries to explain that he likes Anokhi now and that Shagun should not have left her career for this. When Anokhi enters the room, Shaurya is rude to her. Later, he apologizes and asks her to dine with him on a date. Anokhi, ecstatic, agrees. After which Devi makes a plan and sends Shagun to the date where Anokhi misunderstands Shaurya. Shaurya proposes to Anokhi but she thinks that he is taking revenge on her. A furious Shaurya goes to Goa without letting anyone know but Anokhi follows him to Goa, where Babli and ACP Aahir reaches too. Soon, Shaurya gets into an accident, and Aastha and Devi fight about rights over Shaurya and the truth finally comes out that Shaurya and Anokhi are in love with each other.

Soon, Shaurya goes missing and is assumed to be lost somewhere which worries the Sabherwals and Aastha. Aastha comforts Devi and the two come closer during this time and understand that they both are mothers, one gave birth to Shaurya and the other raised him. Shagun confronts Anokhi and asks her where she has hidden Shaurya. Shocked, Anokhi looks for him and soon finds out that it was Vineet who kidnapped him with other goons so that he could demand ransom from the Sabherwals. After she tells the Sabherwals that her sister's husband kidnapped Shaurya. Devi blames Anokhi for his kidnapping. After much effort she finds Shaurya, but the Sabherwals reach there and leave with Shaurya. The next day, Shaurya tries to find Anokhi but the receptionist tells him that she with her sister and Aahir left for Chandigarh. Shaurya tries to reach there but receives the news of Devi's minor heart attack and rushes to the villa. Devi asks Shaurya to get engaged to Shagun but he denies it. Devi fakes a heart attack and thus Shaurya gets engaged to Shagun.

However, the next day he meets Anokhi and they both confess their love for each other, but Anokhi chooses her career and leaves Shaurya where in a fit of anger he fills vermilion in Anokhi's hairline making her Mrs. Anokhi Shaurya Sabherwal. Even though Shaurya is happy about the marriage, Anokhi is furious at Shaurya for taking such a decision without even asking her. She claims that she can't believe that the person who didn't even fight for her mother's rights will fight for her rights. She puts a condition for him to accept his mother into his life and become a good son and then try to become a good husband. However, Aastha refuses to come back. Shaurya visits Anokhi and tells her about Aastha's decision where the couple share a few romantic moments. Aahir proposes Anokhi for marriage where she refuses and tells him the truth of her marriage. Elsewhere, Anokhi is selected for an Economics seminar in Delhi where Shaurya plans a romantic trip with her. The couple share romantic moments under rain and Shaurya pours his heart out to Anokhi about why he hates his mother, Aastha. Later Shagun tracks down Shaurya and Anokhi and she learns about Shaurya's marriage with Anokhi. The family members learn of Shaurya's marriage whereupon they confront Shaurya, but he takes a stand and says that he loves Anokhi and thus married her. Tej and Devi wisely send Shaurya to Patiala and in Shaurya's absence they rusticate Anokhi from college and hostel.

Shaurya reconciles with Aastha. When he learns of Anokhi's rustication he gets mad at the Sabherwals. Tej refuses to accept Anokhi as the daughter-in-law of Sabherwals and therefore Shaurya leaves Sabherwal mansion. However Tej meets Anokhi privately and blackmails her into leaving Shaurya or else he will disown Shaurya and ruin his career. As a result of this, Anokhi hides in ACP Ahir's basement without the knowledge of Shaurya who is desperately looking for her. With the help of ACP Ahir, he finds Anokhi. When he tries to talk to her, she shouts at him, stating that she does not accept their marriage and that he should go away. Shaurya reluctantly leaves, and goes to the Sabherwal mansion, telling his family that the story of Shaurya and Anokhi is over, much to their delight. He then goes into his room, sulking intensively, mirroring Anokhi's emotions. the next day, some guys tease Anokhi. She gets dizzy. Shaurya goes and holds her. He brings her back to her consciousness. Shaurya drops Anokhi home and discovers that the reason behind her rude behavior is something else. He asks Anokhi about the reason but she remains quiet. But Shaurya forces her to reveal her conversation with Tej. While Anokhi tries to apologise to Shaurya, he gets furious as Anokhi was not able to take a stand for their love and decided to leave him. He proclaims that their relationship is over and leaves the house. A broken Anokhi tries to stop Shaurya, but her efforts remain futile.

Later on Shaurya brings Shaan, Aastha, Babli and Ahir together, and announces that he has decided to marry Anokhi again with all the rituals and marital vows. He also says that Anokhi should not be aware of their plan. While initially everyone remains a bit hesitant, later on for the sake of Shaurya and Anokhi’s love all of them agree to the plan. While Anokhi regrets over her actions and for losing Shaurya forever, Shaurya goes to Kapurthala to meet the Bhallas and express his desire to marry Anokhi. They agree for Shaurya and Anokhi’s marriage wholeheartedly. The next day, Shaurya announces in front of the Sabharwals that he is going to marry Anokhi again, leaving everyone in a state of shock. He asks Devi to make a list of all the rituals to be conducted and to discuss with Aastha and decide among themselves who is going to perform which of the rituals. Devi tells Shaurya that Aastha cannot be invited for the wedding to which Shaurya replies that it’s not possible and if Devi doesn’t want to be a part of the function, she need not, leaving her in shock. Later on, at college, Shaurya asks Shagun, whether she can join in his plan for fooling Anokhi by playing along for a fake marriage, to which Shagun agrees. Later on Shaurya declares in front of Anokhi that he will marry Shagun, leaving her traumatised.

Cast

Main

• Debattama Saha as Anokhi Shaurya Sabherwal (née Bhalla): Rama and Ramesh's daughter, Babli and Raja's sister, Aastha's student, Shaurya's wife. She is a focused and hardworking girl who believes in gender equality. She elopes from her forced wedding in order to make a career and be independent. Later she falls in love with her professor, Shaurya and eventually marries him. (2020–present)
• Karanvir Sharma as Shaurya Sabherwal: Aastha and Shaan's son, Devi and Tej's foster son, Shagun's former fiancé, Anokhi's husband. He was a former misogynist because he assumed that his mother left him to pursue her career. Initially he hated Anokhi but later on fell in love and married her. He used to hate his mother but later accepted her. (2020–present)

Recurring

• Alka Kaushal as Devi Sabherwal: Tej's wife, Shaurya's aunt-turned-foster mother. She instigates Shaurya against Aastha by telling him that Aastha left him to focus on her career. Later she teams up with Shagun to remove Anokhi from Shaurya's life. (2020–present)
• Sooraj Thapar as Tej Sabherwal: Devi's husband, Shaurya's uncle-turned-foster father, Shaan and Alok's elder brother. He is the patriarch of the Sabherwal family and chairman of Sabherwal Institute of Arts and Commerce [SIAC]. He taunts Shaan for being an irresponsible father and an alcoholic. (2020–present)
• Khalid Siddiqui as Shaan Sabherwal: Aastha's estranged husband, Shaurya's father, Tej and Alok's brother. He has been addicted to alcohol after Aastha left him. As a result, he could not concentrate on neither work nor his son. (2020–present)
• Deepa Parab as Aastha Shaan Sabherwal (née Kashyap): Shaan's estranged wife, Shaurya's mother. Though she left the Sabherwal house to take care of her parents, her son Shaurya believes that she left for her career. She loves Shaan and Shaurya and is Anokhi's mentor. (2020–present)
• Hitesh Bharadwaj as ACP Aahir Chattwal: Shaurya and Anokhi's well-wisher. He helped Shaurya and Anokhi to find Aastha. He used to love Anokhi. (2021–present)
• Swarda Thigale as Shagun Kapoor: Shaurya's ex-fiancée and ex-love interest. She plans with Devi to remove Anokhi form Shaurya's life. She returns form Cambridge to marry Shaurya.(2021–present)
• Pankaj Kalra as Ramesh Bhalla: Rama's husband, Babli, Raja and Anokhi's father. He is orthodox and assumes daughters to be a burden. He decides to marry Anokhi to an alcoholic. He disowns Anokhi after she elopes from her wedding. (2020–present)
• Pyumori Mehta Ghosh as Rama Bhalla: Ramesh's wife, Babli, Raja and Anokhi's mother. She helped Anokhi to elope from her forced marriage. (2020–2021)
  • Aparna Ghoshal replaces Ghosh (2021–present)
• Falaq Naaz as Babli Bhatia: Rama and Ramesh's daughter; Raja and Anokhi's elder sister; Vineet's wife (2020–present)
• Anuj Kohli as Vineet Bhatia: Babli's abusive husband. (2020–present)
• Ayushi Bhatia as Reema: Anokhi's college friend and well wisher. (2020–present)
• Harsh Vashisht as Alok Sabherwal: Gayatri's husband, Yash, Kitty and Bebo's father, Tej and Shaan's younger brother. He is like Tej and Devi. (2020–present)
• Eva Ahuja as Gayatri Sabherwal: Alok's wife, Yash, Kitty and Bebo's mother. She admires Aastha. (2020–present)
• Gulshan Nain as Yash Sabherwal: Gayatri and Alok's son, Kitty and Bebo's elder brother, Kanchan's husband. (2020–present)
• Reema Vohra as Kanchan Sabherwal: Yash's wife and Shaurya and Anokhi's well wisher. (2020–present)
• Trishala Idnani as Kitty Sabherwal: Gayatri and Alok's daughter; Yash and Bebo's sister; Shaurya's younger cousin sister (2020–present)
• Sindhu Reddy as Bebo Sabherwal: Gayatri and Alok's daughter; Yash and Kitty's sister; Shaurya's younger cousin sister; Anmol's love interest. (2020–present)
• Jitendra Nokewal as Anmol Arora: Kitty and Bebo's college friend; Bebo's love interest. (2020–present)
• Rajvir Chauhan as Pawan "Raja" Bhalla: Rama and Ramesh's son; Anokhi's elder brother; Babli's younger brother (2020–present)
• Poonam Sirnaik as Beeji: Babli, Raja and Anokhi's paternal grandmother; Ramesh's mother (2020–present)
• Bhavna Chauhan as Shagun Kapoor: Shaurya's ex-fiancée and love interest. She was replaced by Swarda Thigale in April 2020. (2020)
• Shilpa Kataria Singh as Mrs. Kapoor: Shagun's mother (2020)
• Arup Pal as Mr. Kapoor: Shagun's father (2020)
• Gautam Handa as Monty Khanna: Anokhi's ex-fiancée (2020)

Production

Development

Before its premiere, it was titled as Shaurya – Ek Anokhi Kahani and the first promo of the series was released, but soon, the earlier promo was discarded and the title was changed to Shaurya Aur Anokhi Ki Kahani.

On 20 December 2020, fire broke out on the sets of the series and the shoot was disrupted for a while.

Training

Debattama Saha who was cast as Anokhi preparing for which she said, "Punjabi as a language was new to me so I had to work hard on that. I improved my skills during various workshops I attended".

Filming

Based on the backdrop of Punjab, the series is mainly filmed at the sets at Film City in Mumbai while the initial sequences were shot in Patiala in early December 2020.

On 13 April 2021, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray announced a sudden curfew due to increased COVID-19 cases, while the production halted from 14 April 2021. Soon, the team of the series decided to move their shooting location to Goa until the next hearing. After the sudden lockdown in Goa, the crew further shifted to Hyderabad to continue with their shooting until the next hearing.

Release

The first promo of the series was released on 2 December 2020 featuring the leads Debattama Saha and Karanvir Sharma.

Reception

Ratings

In the UK, the series had its peak viewership with 76.2 K viewers on 23 January 2021 being the second most watched Indian television series in the UK. The viewership further increased to 80.6 K on 26 January 2021, occupying third position. Maintaining the same position, the series had the viewership of 82.8 K on 26 February 2021. On week ending 7 March 2021, it maintained its third position with 103.2 K viewership.

Soundtrack

Shaurya Aur Anokhi Ki Kahani Original Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Sargam Jassu and Nakash Aziz
Released	21 December 2020
Genre	Romance Soundtrack
Length	4:39
Language	Hindi
Label	Star India
Producer	Tony Singh Deeya Singh

Shaurya Aur Anokhi Ki Kahani: Tracklisting

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Anokhi Teri Jugni"	2:15
2.	"Jo Tera Howega"	2:24

Adaptations

Star Jalsha's Bengali series Mohor is adapted in various Indian languages including this series as listed below.

Language	Title	Network(s)	Original release	Episodes	Notes
Bengali	Mohor	Star Jalsha	28 October 2019–present	Ongoing	Original
Kannada	Sarasu	Star Suvarna	11 November 2020–present	Ongoing	Remake
Telugu	Guppedantha Manasu	Star Maa	7 December 2020–present	Ongoing	Remake
Malayalam	Koodevide	Asianet	4 January 2021-present	Ongoing	Remake
Tamil	Katrukenna Veli	Star Vijay	18 January 2021–present	Ongoing	Remake
Marathi	Swabhiman - Shodh Astitvacha	Star Pravah	22 February 2021–present	Ongoing	Remake

External links

• Shaurya Aur Anokhi Ki Kahani on IMDb
• Shaurya Aur Anokhi Ki Kahani on Hotstar