Bhagya Lakshmi

'Bhagya Lakshmi'
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Genre	Drama
Written by	Anil Nagpal Kavita Nagpal Dialogues Dheeraj Sarna
Directed by	Muzammil Desai
Creative director	Shivangi Babbar
Starring	Aishwarya Khare Rohit Suchanti
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	66
Production
Producer	Ekta Kapoor
Cinematography	Maneesh Malik
Editors	Vikas Sharma Vishal Sharma
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22 minutes
Production company	Balaji Telefilms
Original release
Network	Zee TV ZEE5
Release	3 August 2021 (2021-08-03) – present

Bhagya Lakshmi is an Indian Hindi-language television drama series which premiered on 3 August 2021 at Zee TV and digital platform ZEE5. The show is produced by Ekta Kapoor under the banner of Balaji Telefilms. The show stars Aishwarya Khare and Rohit Suchanti.

Plot

Hailing from a middle-class Punjabi Hindu family, the Bajwas are all set to get their daughter Lakshmi (Aishwarya Khare) married to Varun. However, when Lakshmi and her family are on their way to the mandap in a bus, a storm hits and the bus ends up dangling over a cliff. Everyone except Lakshmi's parents manages to get out of the bus okay. Manoj falls of the bus and dangles on it and makes his brother promise that he will get Lakshmi married. The bus with Kuljeet and Manoj still in it falls down the cliff. Kuljeet and Manoj, die in an accident, leaving Lakshmi disheartened and broken. On the other hand, Lakshmi’s aunt, Rano wants to usurp the Manoj’s property. She asks Manoj's assistant, Guru Charan to open the safe to get the money, however, he rejects her and says that Manoj's last wish was to get Lakshmi married and that after Rano completes his last wish, she can take everything. Rano later decides to pretend to show Guru that she will give the sisters a good life and she begins her plan by breaking Lakshmi’s marriage with Varun, in order to take her to Mumbai and marry her off to some man.

Very soon, Rano, Preetam, Neha, Lakshmi, Shalu and Bani leave for Mumbai. On the way, the sisters and Lakshmi come across a woman who tells Lakshmi that her destiny will crash with her in Mumbai and that this is all just a game for her to meet what destiny has planned for her. Ignoring it, they all get on the train and leave. On their first day in Mumbai, the girls nearly get kidnapped. Lakshmi saves herself and her sisters by stealing the auto. They end up crash landing in a hotel that belongs to Rishi Oberoi (Rohit Suchanti), an industrialist's son who seems to be arrogant and untrustworthy, but however, he is also as kind and selfless as Lakshmi. Later, Lakshmi and her sisters hide in Rishi’s office while Rishi gets frustrated about running late to a model’s event and people trespassing his 5-star hotel. Lakshmi gets Rishi to promise that he won’t get them arrested but Rishi breaks the promise and gets them arrested for trespassing and stealing an auto. Rano and Preetam get them freed with the help of Rishi’s driver who secretly lusts for Neha.

At the fashion show, Rishi helps out a model from falling down, showing his selflessness in public. Later on, Rishi also helps out an NGO to get picture with the model he helped out before. On the other hand, at the house, Rano begins treating the Bajwa sisters as maids and Bani begins to complain, while Lakshmi believes that it's family and doing good for the family doesn't make one small. Lakshmi sees Balvinder eyeing Neha negatively and points it. Later on, Balwinder asks Rano and Preetam for Neha’s hand in marriage. Rano insults him for being divorced twice, drunkard, and abusive and she berates him, rejecting the proposal. At that split moment, Rano decides that she can marry Lakshmi off to Balvinder so that Guru Charan passes her the property as promised. Balvinder takes Lakshmi on a date even though she doesn't want to. Then he tries to molest her and Lakshmi runs away after pushing him. Then Rishi almost hits her with his car. He sees that she is crying and asking her if something is wrong, Lakshmi is about to tell him about Balvinder but stops after remembering that he broke his promise before. She runs home without saying anything. Next day, Balwinder Apologizes to Rano and Lakshmi for his bad behaviour. Rano asks him to buy a gold necklace and then only she will ask Lakshmi to marry him. Balwinder does as Rano says and then the other day at Balwinder and Lakshmi's wedding, Balwinder gets drunk and says absurd about Rishi and his hotel. Rishi's flight for France gets cancelled and he rushes to the hotel. Where he sees a bad condition of his hotel and he scolds Balwinder and blames him for the poor condition of his hotel. The hotel catches fire, everybody gets out. Rishi rushes in the hotel to ensure nobody is stuck inside but automatically he himself gets stuck in a room and because of inhaling smoke he faints. Lakshmi comes to rescue him. Next day, Rishi's father comes to thank Lakshmi and gets highly affected by her simplicity and well up bringing and asks Rano and her husband to marry Lakshmi to Rishi but they misunderstand that he was asking for Neha. Rishi's father conveys the same to a confused Rishi and Neelam (Rishi's mother). They agree to meet Lakshmi for once.

Later when Rishi's parents arrive to give shagun to Lakshmi, the misunderstanding gets cleared and Virendra (Rishi's father) asks Lakshmi to decide. Infuriated, Rano and Neha try to mislead Lakshmi by creating Rishi's negative image. But after being consoled by Virendra (seeing her father in him), Lakshmi agrees to meet Rishi on a date and then decide. Thus, Rishi and Lakshmi get ready to go on a date. On the date, Lakshmi faces an awkward situation when Rishi meets his friends at a bar with her. Rishi’s childhood enemy, Harsh, decides to take revenge from Rishi for stealing his girlfriend and this, he misbehaves with Lakshmi in a room, attempting to molest her. However, Rishi comes in just in time and saves Lakshmi, thrashing Harsh. Lakshmi then gets impressed by him. Later, the two go for a dinner and Lakshmi notices his selflessness there too. Lakshmi phones up Neha and Rano to tell that Rishi was nothing like Rano and Neha had described. Coming back home, Balwinder attacks Rishi's car but they both save each other. Rishi invites Bajwas to his Birthday. In the party Rishi and Lakshmi fall for each other and Rishi proposes Lakshmi for marriage. She agrees for the marriage. Rishi's father announces Rishi and Lakshmi's engagement the next day. All get happy except Neha, Rano and Balwinder. In engagement, Balwinder shows some fake intimate pictures of him and Lakshmi and tries to break engagement but Rishi shows his immense faith on Lakshmi and proves her innocent and sends Balwinder to jail. They both get engaged and Laxmi starts falling in love with Rishi.

The marriage events start to take place where Balwinder and his goons try to kidnap Lakshmi and marry her. However, Abhi and Pragya saves her. After that Neha tries to make Lakshmi unconscious and marry Rishi. However her plan gets foiled because of Srishti and Rakhi. Balwinder tries to make Lakshmi drink water so that she can be unconscious however Karan, Sameer and Preeta foils his plan. Finally Rishi and Laxmi gets married. However, Rishi shows his true colours and confesses that he doesn't love Lakshmi and he was forced for the marriage. Next day Lakshmi gets ready for her 'Muh Dikhayi'. Neelam gives her ancestral necklace to wear. However Rano and Neha steal it. When Oberoi's get to know this they calls the cops. But Neha tries to arrest Lakshmi. However, Lakshmi catches her red-handed and slaps her. But Neha is saved by Lakshmi. Nanaji (Neelam's dad) ask Lakshmi and Rishi to go for honeymoon. For the sake of Nanaji, they both goes for honeymoon. However, Rishi falls in a lake and is captured by crocodile. Lakshmi saves him but both gets injured. To visit Rishi, Rishi's girlfriend Malishka (Maera Mishra) comes there. It is revealed that Rishi is married to Lakshmi only because of his Kundali Dosh and Lakshmi is the only girl who can always save him. It is also revealed that after 1 year Rishi is planning to divorce Lakshmi and get married to Malishka.

Cast

Main

• Aishwarya Khare as Lakshmi Bajwa Oberoi: Manoj and Kuljeet's daughter; Bani and Shalu's elder sister; Preetam and Rano's niece; Neha's cousin sister; Rishi's wife (2021–present)
• Rohit Suchanti as Rishi Oberoi: Neelam and Virendra's son; Sonia's brother; Ayushman, Devika and Ahana's cousin brother; Malishka's boyfriend; Lakshmi's husband (2021–present)

Recurring

• Smita Bansal as Neelam Oberoi: Rishi and Sonia's mother; Virendra’s wife, Lakshmi's mother-in-law (2021–present)
• Uday Tikekar as Virendra Oberoi: Rishi and Sonia's father; Neelam's husband, Lakshmi's father-in-law (2021–present)
• Neena Cheema as Harleen Oberoi: Devika, Ayushman, Sonia, Ahana and Rishi's grandmother; Karishma and Virendra's mother (2021 –present)
• Shivani Jha as Sonia Oberoi: Rishi's sister, Neelam and Virendra's daughter (2021–present)
• Parul Chaudhary as Karishma Oberoi: Rishi, Sonia and Devika's aunt; Virendra's sister; Manpreet's wife; Ayushman and Ahana's mother (2021–present)
• Hemant Thatte as Manpreet: Rishi, Sonia and Devika's uncle; Karishma's husband; Ayushman and Ahana's father (2021–present)
• Aman Gandhi as Ayushman: Rishi, Sonia and Devika's cousin brother; Ahana's brother: Karishma and Manpreet's son (2021–present)
• Aditi Shetty as Ahana: Rishi, Sonia and Devika's cousin sister; Ayushman's sister; Karishma and Manpreet's daughter (2021–present)
• Bebika Dhurve as Devika Oberoi: Rishi, Sonia, Ayushman and Ahana's cousin sister, Virendra's and Neelam's niece (2021–present)
• Munira Kudrati as Shalu Bajwa: Lakshmi's younger sister (2021–present)
• Mansi Bhanushali as Bani Bajwa: Lakshmi's younger sister (2021–present)
• Maera Mishra as Malishka Bedi: Rishi's girlfriend (2021–present)
• Masshe Uddin Qureshi as Preetam Bajwa: Lakshmi's uncle; Manoj's brother; Rano's husband; Neha's father (2021–present)
• Neha Prajapati as Rano Bajwa: Lakshmi's aunt; Preetam's wife; Neha's mother (2021–present)
• Avantika Chaudhary as Neha Bajwa: Lakshmi's jealous cousin Rano and Preetam's daughter (2021–present)
• Annkit Bhatia as Baalvinder: Lakshmi's ex-fiancé and Rishi's driver (2021–present)
• Virendra Saxena as Manoj Singh Bajwa: Lakshmi, Shalu and Bani's father (2021) (dead)
• Neelu Dogra as Kuljeet Bajwa: Lakshmi, Shalu and Bani's mother (2021) (dead)
• S Ashraf Karim as Gurucharan: Manoj's friend and accountant

Special appearances

• Sriti Jha as Pragya Arora Mehra
• Shabir Ahluwalia as Abhishek Mehra
• Shraddha Arya as Dr. Preeta Arora Luthra
• Dheeraj Dhoopar as Karan Luthra
• Anjum Fakih as Srishti Arora
• Supriya Shukla as Sarla Arora
• Anisha Hinduja as Rakhi Luthra
• Abhishek Kapur as Sameer Luthra

Episodes

Ep. 1: Hailing from a middle-class Punjabi Hindu family, the Bajwas are all set to get their daughter Lakshmi (Aishwarya Khare) married to Varun. However, when Lakshmi and her family are on their way to the mandap in a bus, a storm hits and the bus ends up dangling over a cliff. Everyone except Lakshmi's parents manages to leave the bus. Manoj falls off the bus and dangles on it and makes his brother promise that he will get Lakshmi married. The bus with Kuljeet and Manoj still in it falls down the cliff. Kuljeet and Manoj die in an accident, leaving Lakshmi disheartened and broken. On the other hand, Lakshmi's aunt, Rano, wants to usurp the Manoj's property. She asks Manoj's assistant, Guru Charan to open the safe to get the money, however, he rejects her and says that Manoj's last wish was to get Lakshmi married and that after Rano completes his last wish, she can take everything. Rano later decides to pretend to show Guru that she will give the sisters a good life and she begins her plan by breaking Lakshmi's marriage with Varun, in order to take her to Mumbai and marry her off to some man.

Ep. 2: Very soon, Rano, Preetam, Neha, Lakshmi, Shalu and Bani leave for Mumbai. On the way, the sisters and Lakshmi come across a woman who tells Lakshmi that her destiny will crash with her in Mumbai and that this is all just a game for her to meet what destiny has planned for her. Ignoring it, they all get on the train and leave. On their first day in Mumbai, the girls nearly get kidnapped. Lakshmi saves herself and her sisters by stealing the auto. They end up crash landing in a hotel that belongs to Rishi Oberoi (Rohit Suchanti), an industrialist's son who seems to be arrogant and untrustworthy, but however, he is also as kind and selfless as Lakshmi. Later, Lakshmi and her sisters hide in Rishi's office while Rishi gets frustrated about running late to a model’s event and people trespassing his five-star hotel. Rishi says that "I Promise that if you get out before 10 seconds i will not call the Police".

Production

Casting

Khare and Suchanti were finalised to reprise their roles as leads in May 2021 itself, but due to the lockdown in Maharashtra, they signed the contract only in June.

Filming

The filming and production began on 14 June 2021 in Film City, Mumbai.

Release

The first promotional teaser was released on 16 June 2021, featuring Kundali Bhagya's Shraddha Arya playing Preeta introduce the female-lead of this series, Aishwarya Khare playing the role, Lakshmi.

Following that, on 18 June 2021, another teaser was released featuring Kumkum Bhagya's Sriti Jha playing Pragya introduce Aishwarya Khare as her close-friend, Lakshmi.

Launch

Ekta Kapoor the producer of the show stated, “Lakshmi is one of the purest souls we have worked on as a character in a long time. She represents inherent goodness – neki, a value that’s perhaps diminished in people’s vocabulary over the years, but it shouldn’t. As mankind, we’ve been through a lot lately and some of the toughest times have a way of bringing forth shining examples of kindness and benevolence. We’ve all read stories of people who went out on a foot during the pandemic and helped others in need. Lakshmi’s a lot like that. And when you see someone like that, you fall in love with them and want to see life presenting them with good bhagya (destiny). Aishwarya Khare with her endearing sincerity and warmth is the right fit for Lakshmi whereas Rohit Suchanti will win hearts as always with his role as the flamboyant, practical, and dashing Rishi.”

External links

• Bhagya Lakshmi at IMDb
• Official Website

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