Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai
| Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai | |
|---|---|
| File:Yeh Un Dino Ki Baat Hai.png Show Poster | |
| Genre | Drama Romance |
| Created by | Shashi Sumeet Productions |
| Written by | Shashi Sumeet Mittal Vaishali Nageen Rajesh Chawla Mayur Puri Sanjay Chhel |
| Directed by | Jaladh Sharma |
| Creative directors | Indrajeet Mukherjee Ambica Sharma |
| Starring | Ashi Singh Randeep Rai |
| Voices of | Kumar Sanu Sadhana Sargam[1] |
| Theme music composer | Anu Malik Nishant-Raja Sanjay Chhel Lyrics |
| Opening theme | Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 177 (as of May 9, 2018) |
| Production | |
| Producers | Shashi Sumeet Mittal Sumeet Hukamchand Mittal |
| Production locations | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Editors | Dharmesh Patel Priya Suhas |
| Production company | Shashi Sumeet Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | SET |
| Release | 5 September 2017 – Present |
Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai (English: It’s About Those Days) is a Hindi drama series on SET and produced by Shashi Sumeet Productions, which started airing from 5 September 2017 replacing the serial Pehredaar Piya Ki from the same production house.It is based on real life love story of Sumeet Mittal and his wife Shashi Mittal who are producers of the show.[2][3]Newbie Ashi Singh and TV actor Randeep Rai play the lead roles of Naina and Sameer respectively.[4] The show is based on the youngsters' love story and is set in the 1990s.[5][6]
The show has been critically acclaimed for its performances and script.[7][8]
Plot synopsis
Yeh Un Dino Ki Baat Hai chronicles a 1990’s love story between Naina and Sameer. The show explores the magic of ‘first love’. Naina, a quintessential good girl, meets flamboyant Sameer in her school in Ahmedabad. She starts liking him the moment she meets him. But, when she watches Sameer hit another boy she has to tell the truth to the principal of the school. This results in Sameer’s suspension and his dislike towards Naina. The same is followed by a series of misunderstandings between Sameer and Naina. In order to avenge his insults Sameer takes a bet with his friends that he will make Naina fall in love with him. What starts as a bet ends up in true love for Sameer as Naina cares for him like no one has ever done. Naina comes to know of the bet and is heartbroken. As Sameer realizes his true love for Naina, he decides to win her back. But when Sameer tries to apologize to her, Naina refuses to even talk to him, let alone forgiving him.
Through a chain of events, he ends up staying at Naina’s house for her sister Pooja’s wedding. Meanwhile, Naina’s sister Pooja gets a proposal for marriage and her marriage is fixed. Preeti and Shefali begin to support Sameer after seeing his efforts along with Munna and Pandit to convince Naina to forgive him. Arjun, Naina’s brother and Shefali also start liking each other during this time. In Pooja's marriage, Naina and Sameer unite as Naina realizes that now Sameer loves her. At this time the school organises a farewell party for the seniors. For the farewell party, Sameer gifts his maternal grandmother’s sari to Naina on his Grandfather’s behalf said. At the farewell party, Naina wears the sari. While on his way to the farewell party Sameer remembers that he has forgotten his camera. So he returns home. He sees Nanaji lying on the ground motionless. He is stunned and he takes him to the hospital. Back at the farewell, Naina gets worried about Sameer and as her family planned to got to their village for 2 days, she was leaving. Coincidences occur and they end up without seeing each other. As Sameer admits his Nanaji in the hospital he comes to know that he was suffering from severe heart attack. His friends and his family come to the hospital. Nanaji gives some huge responsibilities to Sameer's mom which he carried out for these many years. And Nanaji whispers his last words to Sameer about Naina and Sameer together. He passes away shocks everyone.
After Nanaji's death Mr.and Mrs.Somani decided that they will take Sameer to Delhi with them . Meanwhile, while in their village, Village Sarpanch's Wife proposes Marriage between Preeti and her son called as Kachru, who has fallen in love in Preeti. Since Preeti is intent on not wanting to get married to Kachru, Bela politely avoids agreeing, on the excuse that Preeti’s father was not there. Meanwhile on Delhi, Sameer is lonely without his Nanaji, Naina, and best friends Munna and Pandit. His paternal grandmother keeps taunting him because he is her “step-grandson”. She also puts a lock on the phone when she hears Sameer talking to his friends, feeds him leftover food, gives his pizza to the dog and gets the servant Keshav to mop the floor with the Sameer’s sweater that Naina had made for him. Vishakha tries to protest but is silenced by her. But Sameer gets back at her by exposing that she wears a wig because she is a little bald.
But all this while, Sameer builds a bond with his little sister Deepika and becomes friends with his next door neighbor Amrita who lends him her phone so that he can talk to Naina. Sameer also writes a letter to Naina. In the letter Sameer says that he is coming to meet Naina in Ahmedabad. Naina decides to give Sameer her picture as a gift and Sameer decides to give Naina imported chocolates. Amrita also gives Sameer a pair of earnings for Naina. Meanwhile, Taiji suspects that Naina has an affair with Munna or Pandit and repeatedly taunts her. Naina also comes to know that she has failed in her exams due to being lost in thoughts of Sameer. Sameer also sneaks from his house in Delhi and goes to Ahmadabad. Their meeting takes an unexpected turn with Sameer leaving Naina heartbroken because she gave him her picture as their anniversary gift. This causes him to reminisce the past and he leaves Ahmedabad in anger to return back to Delhi. Later, he learns that he had made a mistake and apologizes to Naina. He promises Naina that he will love his family and be good to them whereas Naina promises that she will excel in her studies. They promise to make their love their "strength".
Through a chain of events,Sameer reaches his home with his newfound friends on the way. At school, Naina asks Munna to post her love letter to Sameer as Shanti teacher wanted to check all the girls' bag. But Munna leaves the letter in class resulting in Shanti teacher finding the letter. Shanti teacher confronts Naina about the letter and tells her to do what she thinks is right. Back in Delhi, Sameer tries to keep up with the promise he made to Naina. Meanwhile there is a fight between Munna and Pandit. Naina,who failed in the first unit test, tops the class with 93% in the second unit test. Naina tries to get Munna and Pandit together again by telling them that Sameer is ill and they should go to Delhi to see him. Meanwhile, Sameer resorts to vices like drinking and smoking, and falls into bad company. After that Munna and Pandit reach Delhi and the trio throw the bad company out of the house before any other family member knows.
Munna and Pandit resolve their dispute and return from Delhi. Naina discovers a dancing inter state competition in her school which would be held in Delhi. She realizes this is her only chance to meet Sameer and go to Delhi as an excuse. Naina is first outsed from the dance group however, with the help of her classmate Kamya, she is eventually allowed to join the dance group and go to Delhi. She writes a letter to Sameer who receives it on the day she arrives to Delhi. Naina and Sameer have many hits and misses. Sameer goes to see Naina's dance however, he does not let Naina know of his presence as he is largely affected by Dadi's words that anyone he loves will die or remain unhappy forever. Naina returns to Ahmadabad without meeting Sameer. Sameer will now return to Ahmadabad once telling his Mother about the actions of his Dadi. Naina and Sameer will now finish school and the show will focus on them going into college.
Theme song
The opening theme of the show Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai is composed by Anu Malik. The lyrics are written by Sanjay Chhel and it comprises the voices of legendary singers Kumar Sanu and Sadhana Sargam.[9][10]
Cast
- Ashi Singh as Naina Agarwal
- Randeep Rai as Sameer Maheshwari
- Sadiya Siddiqui[11] as Naina's Voiceover
- Jiten Lalwani[12] as Sameer's Voiceover
- Hema Sood as Shefali
- Somendra Solanki as Arjun Agarwal
- Ayesha Kaduskar as Preeti Agarwal
- Sanjay Choudhary as Manoj aka Munna
- Kristina Patel as Swati
- Raghav Dhir as Pandit
- Abha Parmar as Beena Agarwal (Taiji)
- Sanjay Batra as Tauji
- Sachin Khurana as Anand Agarwal (Chachaji)
- Madhusree Sharma as Bela Agarwal (Chachiji)
- Chandresh Singh as Rakesh Agarwal (Naina's father)
- Ahsaan Qureshi as Principal Pandey
- Kiran Kumar as Jai Prakash Maheshwari (Sameer's maternal grandfather/Deceased)
- Shweta Rajput as Pooja Aggarwal
- Love Joshi as Varun (Pooja's husband)
- Vaishnavi Mahant[13] as Vishakha Somani (Sameer's Mom)
- Sandeep Rajora as Vivek Somani (Sameer's step-father)
- Kitu Gidwani as Vivek's mother
- Rohit Chandel as Rohan Somani
- Rishina Kandhari as Shanti Madam (Maths Teacher)
- Rushad Rana as Lochan Sir (English Teacher)
- Jayshree T. as Fulla bua
Reception
The show has received mostly positive reviews and is considered to be doing well. It was particularly hailed for a fresh outlook and for bringing out the nostalgia and the flavours of the 90s well.[14] The show topped the Sony TV shows by gaining a TRP of 1.1 its first week.[7][15]
Bollywood Life hailed it as one of the best TV shows launched in 2017 and praised the performances of newcomers Ashi Singh and Randeep Rai.[8]
UK's weekly Asian newspaper Eastern Eye praised the creative team of the show for leaving no stone unturned to recreate the city of Ahmedabad from an earlier era and called it a tribute to the city.[16]
This show has also earned compliments from various television as well as film actors.[17]
References
- ^ ""Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai",a show revisiting 90s era, airs on Sony from today". uniindia.com. 5 September 2017.
- ^ "Sony TV confirms launch date of 'Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai'". bizasialive.com. 31 August 2017.
- ^ "Pehredaar Piya Ki Makers' Next Move After Show Was Taken Off Air". NDTV. 5 September 2017.
- ^ "Pehredaar Piya Ki makers 'heartbroken' after show was axed; next project Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai". Firstpost. 6 September 2017.
- ^ "Why Sony's new show Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai is giving us all the good vibes about the 90s". inuth.com. 8 September 2017.
- ^ "Gear up to go into flashbacks with Sony TV's new show 'Ye Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai'". Bollywoodmdb.com. 1 September 2017.
- ^ a b "Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai will take you down the memory lane". indiatoday.in. 8 September 2017.
- ^ a b "Kundali Bhagya, Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai – a look at the best shows launched in 2017!". BollywoodLife.com. 28 December 2017.
- ^ "Bollywood songs are losing poetic value: Kumar Sanu". radioandmusic.com. 5 September 2017.
- ^ "Kumar Sanu: Singers who sang the original track must also sing the rehashed version". Hindustan Times. 15 September 2017.
- ^ "Sumeet Mittal to act in 'Yeh Un Dinon...'". Business Standard. 20 December 2017.
- ^ "Jiten Lalwani's 'strange love' for dubbing". Times of India. 24 December 2017.
- ^ "Vaishnavi Mahant on her new show 'Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai', the possibility of 'Shaktimaan 2' and much more!". bollywoodmdb.com. 12 September 2017.
- ^ "Ye Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai: A few shows down & the story keeps you hooked!". bollywoodmdb.com. 14 September 2017.
- ^ "Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai Promo: Randeep Rai And Ashi Singh's New Show Will Make You Feel Nostalgic". Retrieved August 31, 2017.
- ^ "SHASHI MITTAL'S TRIBUTE TO AHMEDABAD IN YEH UN DINON KI BAAT HAI!". Eastern Eye. 18 September 2017.
- ^ "Veteran actress Supriya Pilgaonkar compliments makers of 'Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai' - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
