Naamkarann

Naamkarann
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Genre	Drama
Based on	Zakhm
Written by	Mitali Bhattacharya Arundhati Sharma
Directed by	Mahesh Bhatt Loknath Pandey Sandeep Vijay
Starring	Aditi Rathore Zain Imam
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	8
No. of episodes	468
Production
Producers	Guroudev Bhalla Dhaval Gada
Cinematography	Santosh Suryavanshi Raj Panth Shivankar Arora
Editor	Sudhir
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	21 minutes
Production companies	Dhaval and Guroudev Productions Pvt. Ltd
Original release
Network	Star Plus
Release	12 September 2016 (2016-09-12) – 18 May 2018

Naamkarann (lit. Naming) is an Indian Hindi romantic drama television series, which premiered on 12 September 2016 and is being broadcast on Star Plus. It is inspired by the 1998 Bollywood film Zakhm which was based on the life of filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt. The serial is dubbed into Malayalam as Vezhambal and is being broadcast on Asianet. It will be replaced by Star Plus upcoming Series Krishna Chali London at the 9:30 PM Primetime Slot from 21 May 2018.

Synopsis

Naamkaran starts off about the painful life of 10 year old Avni Ayesha, an illegitimate child who lives alone with her mother Ayesha Haider, and maternal grandmother Nanno. Her father is the famous film director Ashish Mehta who lives separately from them and meets them in secret due to society and his mother, Dayawanti Mehta - a deeply religious Hindu woman who disapproves of his relationship with the Muslim Ayesha. The story revolves around Dayawanti rejecting Avni at every step determined for her son to break his relations with his "illegitimate" family. Ashish is forced to marry Neela, the kind-hearted daughter of a rich businessman. Neela finds out his truth only later. Meanwhile, Avni becomes best friends with Neela who helps Avni in her battle for justice.

Avni at one point tries to make her heartbreaking story public, thinking it would help her in some way, by making a movie out of her life. Just after the movie's launch, Ayesha is injured in an accident arranged by Dayawanti. Ayesha gives birth to Aman,she ragains conscious after Avni playing the Azaan and as Avni went to tell the doctors, in her absence, Dayawanti suffocated and murdered Ayesha and takes baby Aman in as her family heir, renaming him Amol. With help from Neela and her best friend Ali, Avni proves Dayawanti killed Ayesha but Dayawanti manipulates an emotionally distraught Ashish into believing that Avni killed her own mother. Ashish, blindly believing his mother, sends Avni behind bars. Neela gets her out of prison and gets ready to leave with Avni. Dayawanti tricks Avni into meeting her alone at a clifftop and shoots her. Avni falls into the water below.

15 years later

Avni is now a grown woman, renaming herself Ananya Verma. She lives with Neela and together they both plot Dayawanti's ruination and getting Aman back from her. She is a generous thief who steals money from rich people for donating them to hospitals. Working her case is Police Officer Neil Khanna.

Neil and Ananya bump into each other at the cliff where Avni was shot and get into a minor fight. Suspicious of her, Neil asks his colleague and friend DD to investigate her. Meanwhile, Avni's childhood friend Ali is shown to be Neil's best friend. He runs a cafe and believes Avni is alive.

Ananya finds out that Dayawanti is planning to get her granddaughter Riya married to the son of a rich businessman Prakash. This is because Dayawanti is drowning in debt. To prevent the wedding, Ananya wins Dayawanti over and befriends Riya. Riya's fiancé turns out to be Neil. A series of events bring Ananya and Neil closer. Meanwhile, Amol returns but is shown to have grown into a spoilt brat. Ali suspects that Ananya is Avni but Neela convinces him to keep the secret if he wants Ananya to succeed in her revenge.

Neil's mother, Shweta, dislikes Ananya from the beginning. On his wedding day, Neil finds out about Ananya being Avni but does not tell anyone. Seeing the only way to stop Neil and Riya's wedding, Ananya replaces the bride and is married to Neil. Neil believes the wedding to be fake but Neela and his father Prakash recognize Ananya to be his wife. Avni tries to leave Neil but he convinces her to stay and promises. After a series of investigations and difficult tasks completed by Neil, Avni, Ali, Neela and Neil's colleague Mitali, it is revealed Ashish was murdered by Dayawanti after he discovered the truth of Ayesha’s murder. He left the tape of Dayawanti’s confession somewhere for someone trustworthy to find, Avni enraged by her parents’ murders goes to murder Dayawanti. After Neil consoles her explaining how she shouldn’t burn in the fire of hatred. Dayawanti is arrested along with her children Ketan and Diksha.

The story then focuses on Neil and Avni's confused emotions regarding each other. Neil becomes jealous of Ali because of his bond with Avni. Shweta and Riya try to use this to their advantage but fail. When they return, Shweta reveals Avni's identity to everyone prompting Neil's grandmother to throw Avni out of the house. Neil is then critically injured in a bomb blast planned by Amol. Avni saves Neil's life and is welcomed back into the family.

Neil attempts to arrest human trafficker Ragini Pandit. Pandit joins forces with Dayawanti to destroy Neil and Avni. Meanwhile, Avni saves Neil's ex-girlfriend Juhi from Pandit. Amol realises Dayawanti has been using him and turns over a new leaf. Circumstances end in him burning Dayawanti alive to which resulted him being sentenced. Shweta also accepts Avni as her daughter-in-law.

Juhi tells Neil that Neil and her daughter, Mishti, is being held by Pandit's son Vidyut. Avni rescues Mishti who grows close to Avni. Jealous of Mishti's closeness to Avni and wanting Neil back, Juhi tries to create misunderstandings between them. It is revealed that Mishti is in fact Vidyut's daughter. Avni and Neil find out Juhi's truth and get her to confess but she escapes to Vidyut's house with Mishti. Vidyut makes it look like Avni shot Juhi dead and forces Neil to put Avni behind bars. He gave Neil an option to either put Avni behind bars or give Avni to him as he got obsessed with her. Neil takes Neela’s permission to allow him and had to act as if he doesn’t believe Avni’s innocence which created misunderstandings.

6 months later

Heartbroken by the blame of killing Juhi and the lack of trust between her and Neil, Avni learns new fighting skills to fight back for crimes she didn’t commit. She plans to escape from jail with Ali's help and take revenge against Vidyut. Neil has been taking a double role of Neo so he can prove Avni’s innocence while breaking the law. Whereas Vidyut abducts Neela and tells Avni to escape from jail with Ragini Pandit to save Neela. Avni manages to send a message to Neil who rescues Neela and, believing in Neil, decides not to escape from prison. Neela discovers Mishti is alive. Neil saves Neela Maa and Mishti. Neil manages to get Vidyut to confess that Ragini killed Juhi and Avni is innocent. Pandit goes to jail and Vidyut is placed under house arrest. Vidyut breaks into Neil's house and Avni has a feeling of something bad happening and her doubt turns right when Neela gets shot and is killed. Avni mourns over Neela’s death and cremates her feeling guilty. Avni blames herself for Neela's death. Avni helps Neil thwart Vidyut's men and later that night they consummate their marriage.

Vidyut reveals to Avni that he drugged Neil's father to kill Neil but Neela came in the way and was killed. Vidyut threatens Avni that to save Neil's father, she will have to marry Vidyut. To stop all that's happening, Avni decides to burn Vidyut's house and enters his house as a bride. Neil tries to save her but fire fighters find two dead bodies in the house leaving Avni's fate unknown.

10 years later

Neil quit the job as a police officer and has become a radio jockey on the radio channel Raabta and often visits the cliff where Avni and Neil met for the first time. Avni, on the other hand, has changed her identity to Neilanjana and takes care of a 17 year old Sayesha, who is Mishti and other orphan children along with Sunheri, Tara and Sitara in Kashid. Sayesha is shown to be an aspiring singer who is an ardent fan of actor KK. Neil has become KK's body double. KK went Kashid for shooting with Neil and there they met with the orphan kids and KK especially made a special bond with Sayesha. Neil met with kids & Sunheri but haven't yet met with Neilanjana aka Avni & is unaware of Avni's existence. Meanwhile, DD and Mitali are back in Neil's life. Mitali came to know about Avni's identity but for Avni's (intentionally for her gain as she is in love with Neil) sake she kept it secret from Neil. Mitali is plotting against Avni to throw out Avni from Neil's life. Sayesha and KK got kidnapped when they got lost in jungle. Avni and Neil individually went in jungle to find them where Avni thought Neil as kidnapper and started to beat him. During their fight, Neil managed to look at Avni's face and got to know that she is alive. Neil and Avni somehow rescued them. The rumours about KK and Saysha have to lead to his mother to propose Saysha for KK but Avni was not interested. But as Neil advised Avni, she agreed to let Saysha get engaged to KK. But Kamini Kapoor comes to know the truth of Saisha being an orphan and calls off the engagement. Meanwhile, the media gets informed about Avni being alive and file a case against her fake death drama. Avni gets taken under custody for interrogation. Neil reaches police station and bailed Avni. On the other hand, Sayesha and KK decide to run away and marry. Saisha reaches the venue and waits for KK all the night outside the temple. But KK didn't come as his mom emotionally blackmails him. Avni get worried about Sayesha's whereabouts but doesn't get a piece of news. Finally, KK's dad calls Avni secretly to tell her about Sayesha's whereabouts. They reach the temple, where Sayesha faints. Sayesha is revealed to be pregnant and Avni decides to abort the child. But before abortion, KK reached there.Later,it is revealed that it was Avni's plan to reunite KK and Sayesha and make them realise their mistake.Soon after this, they get married in a register office.Saisha is often treated badly by Kamini without KK noticing. Avni is in search of new homes for the kids and gets a call from a home owner. It is later revealed that it was a plot set up by Kamini to make Avni realise her mistake by her acceptance of KK and Saisha's marriage. The goons drug Avni and she somehow manages to run away from them but only to be surrounded by the goons later on. Neil comes and saves Avni. Later, Prakash gets a call from the Central Jail that Vidyut is dead. Saisha gets to know about her true identity. Mowgli is found to have many similarities with Neil. It is revealed to Prakash that Mowgli is Avni and Neil's son.

Cast

Main

• Arsheen Naamdaar as young Avni Ayesha, Asha & Ashish's illegitimate daughter, Dayavanti's granddaughter, Neela's adopted daughter, Aman's elder sister and Riya's cousin sister. (2016-2017)
• Barkha Bisht Sengupta as Asha Mehta (née Ayesha Haider), Ashish's wife, Avni and Aman's mother (2016-2017)
• Sayantani Ghosh as Neela Parikh, Ashish ex-wife and Avni's adoptive or stepmother (2016-2018)
• Viraf Patel as Ashish Mehta, Asha's husband,Avni and Aman's father (2016-2017)
• Ragini Shah as Dayawanti Mehta (replaced Reema Lagoo due to her death) Avni, Riya and Aman's grandmother (2016-2017)
• Shubh Kalra as young Ali (2016)
• Aditi Rathore as Avni Neil Khanna (née Ayesha) - Neil's wife, Asha & Ashish's illegitimate daughter, Neela's adopted daughter, Aman's elder sister, Mowgli's mother, Ali's childhood friend and his Love interest and Riya's cousin sister. (2017–present)
• Zain Imam as Neil Khanna, Avni's husband, Shweta-Prakash's son, Mowgli's father, IPS officer (ACP), RJ Neil at Raabta Radio channel and KK's body double (2017–present)
• Nalini Negi as Riya Mehta, Avni and Amol's cousin, Ketan and Hetal's daughter, Dayawanti's granddaughter, who wanted to marry with Neil. (2017)
• Gautam Vig as Ali, Avni's childhood best friend, Chamko cafe's owner who loved Avni. (2017-2018)
• Sana Amin Sheikh as Mitali Sharma, police inspector, Neil's friend. (2017–present)
• Karam Rajpal as Vidyut R, Ragini Pandit's son, Mishti's father (2017-2018)
• Ayesha Vindhara as young Mishti, Juhi-Vidyut's daughter. (2017-2018)
• Soni Singh as Sunheri, Avni's friend and her well-wisher, who was in jail with Avni. (2017–present)
• Kabir Shah as Mowgli Khanna, Neil and Avni's son (2018-present)
• Payal Bhojwani as Saisha Karan Kapoor, elder Mishti, Juhi-Vidyut's daughter, who lives with Avni and Karan's wife. (2018–present)
• Zaan Khan as Karan Kapoor, film industries superstar, Sayesha's husband and Neil's friend. (2018–present)
• Jayati Bhatia as Kamini Kapoor, Karan's mother. (2018–present)

Recurring

• Gulfam Khan as Fatima Banu, Avni's maternal grandmother, Ayesha's mother (2016-2017)
• Palak Dey as young Riya (2016)
• Rajesh Singh as Tiku, Fatima's nephew (2016)
• Kunwar Amarjeet Singh as Aladdin (2016)
• Anaya Soni as Hetal Mehta (replaced Pooja Verma), Ketan's wife, Riya's mother, Avni's and Amol's aunt (2016)
• Vivek Madan as Hansmukh, Diksha's ex-husband (2016)
• Puru Chibber as Ketan Mehta, Dayawanti's son, Ashish's younger brother, Riya's father, Avni and Aman's uncle (2016-2017)
• Neelam Sivia as Diksha, Dayawanti's daughter, Ashish and Ketan's younger sister, Avni and Aman's aunt (2016-2017)
• Sushant Mohindru as Aman Ayesha, Asha & Ashish's son, Avni's younger brother and Riya's cousin (2017)
• Shruti Ulfat as Shweta Prakash Khanna, Prakash's wife, Neil's mother and Avni's mother-in-law. Mowgli's grandmother (2017–present)
• Sanjay Swaraj as Prakash Khanna, Shweta's husband, Neil's father and Avni's father-in-law. in-law. Mowgli's grandfather. (2017–present)
• Neelu Kohli as Harleen Khanna, Neil's grandmother, Prakash's mother and Shweta's mother-in-law. Mowgli's great grandmother. (2017–present)
• Karan Jagdish Singh as Avni's lawyer. (2018-present)
• Manini Mishra as Ragini Pandit, Vidyut's mother, leader of a human trafficking racket (2017-2018).
• Kabir Shah as Mowgli, Avni and Neil's son (2018-present)
• Priya Tandon as Monica, a prisoner (2017-2018)
• Jahaan Arora as Dakhal Dayal (DD), Neil's close friend and colleague, a police officer, Sunheri's love interest. (2017–present)
• Poonam Preet as Juhi, Neil's ex-girlfriend and Mishti's mother (2017)
• Prakriti Nautiyal as Tara, Avni's friend, earlier a prisoner.(2017–present)
• Pragya Nautiyal as Sitara, Avni's friend, earlier a prisoner.(2017–present)
• Bhavesh Balchandani as Samrat, an orphan at sukoon house (2018–present)
• Swasti Katyal as Pinki, An Orphanage girl who lives with Avni (2018–present)
• Pawani sharma as Daisy,an orphan at sukoon house. (2018–Present)
• Mohit Chauhan as Karan's father. (2018–present)

Soundtrack

Track list(s)	Title	Singer(s)	Lyricist	Music composer(s)
1	"Naamkarann Title Track"	Shreya Ghoshal version	Kausar Munir	Anu Malik
2	"Naamkarann Title Track"	Monali Thakur version	Kausar Munir	Anu Malik
3	"Aaj Jaane Ki Zid"	Arijit Singh	E. M. I. Pakistan	Punsurjan Aaryan
4	"Aa Leke Chalu Tujhko"	Palak Muchhal, Sneha Shankar	Vijay Vijawatt	Jeet Gannguli
5	"Chal Meri Jaan"	Aryan	Aryan	Aryan
6	"Chal Meri Jaan" (unplugged)	Palak Muchhal	Aryan	Aryan
7	"Dhal Gaya Chand"	Asho Ghosala	Katil Shuphaie	Aaryan
8	"Dhoop Ka Ek Tukda"	Anuradha Paudwal, Kumar Sanu	Vijay Vijawatt	Samidh
9	“Ae dil hai mushkil”	Arijit Singh	Pritam
10	Tere dar par sanam	Aryan	Ravee
11	Tere dar par sanam female	Saloni	Ravee

See also

• Vishesh Films
• Zakhm

External links

• Naamkarann steaming on Hotstar
• Naamkarann at IMDb