Deewani

Deewani
Promotional poster
Genre	Drama Romance
Written by	Dialogues Abhishek Sharma
Screenplay by	Gautham Hegde
Story by	Pearl Grey Divya Nayyar Lakshmi Jaykumar
Directed by	Amit D. Malik Devendra Pandey
Starring	Aditi Sanwal Nitin Goswami Sehrish Ali
Composer	Prakash Jaykawad
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	173
Production
Producers	Shyamsheesh Bhattacharya Nilima Vajpayee
Cinematography	Pradeep M Gupta
Editors	Afzal Khan Mithilesh
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22-24 minutes
Production company	Shakuntalam Telefilms
Original release
Network	Dangal TV
Release	18 March 2024 (2024-03-18) – present

Deewani (transl. Crazy lover) is an Indian Hindi-language drama television series that airs on Dangal under the banner of Shakuntalam Telefilms and stars Aditi Sanwal, Nitin Goswami and Sehrish Ali. It premiered on 18 March 2024.

Plot

Cheerful, beautiful Meera lives with her family in Uttar Pradesh and she believes in love. Parth, a ruffian and the youngest son of the famous businessman Madan Thakur, whose Meera's father, Sanjeev works at his company and he lives with his family and he hates his father due to a misunderstanding and he is in love with Payal. Meera and Parth meet when he had saved her from an accident. Meera's overprotective mother, Chhaya, who always believes in villagers' rumours doesn't like Parth and she asks her daughter to avoid him as she believes that Parth will ruin her daughter.

Parth and Meera becomes friends, breaking her mother's rules. Meanwhile, Meera learns that Payal had an illicit affair with a man named Tarun and she confronts Payal about this but she taunts her. At the celebration at Parth's house, Meera spots Payal again and she tries to confront her again but she and her friends lock her in their family's bakery where Parth is and he misunderstands her and confronts Meera. Where Meera confesses Payal's truth to Parth to his surprise, but the entire family except Meera's parents blames Parth and Meera as Chhaya blames Parth because she believes Parth had kidnapped her. Then they confine Meera, but she escapes. After learning about Payal's truth, Parth goes to her house during the holi celebration where Parth chases Payal and he confronts her. Payal calls him a ruffian and reveals how she used him by loving Tarun as she doesn't love him. Due to their altercation, Parth's brother, Garv accidentally pushes Payal, killing her. To save the family and avoid Garv's arrest, Parth takes the blame and is sentenced to seven years imprisonment. Meera is surprised to hear this as she believes that Parth is innocent and she tries to meet him, but her parents prevent this. Parth and they emotionally blackmails Meera. She promises to prove Parth's innocence to everyone.

Parth is now released from jail after seven years and now he hates love due to the incident, whereas Meera returns to her family after completing her education. Parth and Meera finally meet again, Meera proposes Parth but he rejects her due to his keen hatred of love and he asked her to stay away from him. Garv falls for Meera and he plans to marry her as Parth's family and Meera's family accept this, unaware of the truth.

Parth's grandmother learns about Meera's love towards on Parth and she tries to make him to marry Meera but fails. Parth's mother, Sheela, also learns about this and she asks him to stay away from her. Meera asks Parth to spend time with him, but their antics are recorded by Parth's malicious aunt, Manju, and she exposes Parth and Meera's relationship truth to the family on the day of Garv and Meera's wedding which leads into a fight between Garv and Parth but Meera blames the entire family for this incident and she tries to leave them but she is stopped by grandmother and is then hospitalised for a panic attack.

Parth's grandmother asks both Meera and Parth to marry to save the family, to which they agree and they do marry. But Meera's family learns of this and blames them for ruining the family, leading Chhaya to disown her by declaring her dead. This shocks Parth's family, as they blame Meera as Sheela starts to hate her and she doesn't accept Meera as her daughter-in-law but some family members including Madan, Pragya and her husband Nachiket and their grandmother support her while some family members including Sheela, Manju, Sahil, Garv and Madan's brother dislike her as Garv decided to take revenge against on the couple while Sheela and Manju starts to humiliate Meera whereas, Sahil falls for Meera's younger sister, Smriti.

Payal's twin sister, Priyal, seeks vengeance on Parth for her sister's death and she poses as Payal. Parth tries to divorce Meera to marry Payal/Priyal but she opposes their divorce when she learns about the truth of Priyal and exposes Priyal's truth to Parth by bringing her family. In the fire of revenge, Priyal pushes Parth into the cliff, but Meera saves him and gets injured. Parth is admitted into the hospital and Garv gives 40 lakh rupees for his treatment.

Parth wants to repay the money to Garv by doing a job, but he get rejected from a couple of companies on the charge of murdering Payal. A photoshoot stylist named, Devika Basu offers Parth to become a model but Parth denies, Meera encourages Parth to take one more chance and he got convinced as he agreed to work with her but Garv keeps creating problems to separate Meera from Parth's life. As Devika gets obsessed with Parth and she plans to separate Meera from Parth.

Meanwhile, Smriti gets pregnant with Sahil's child as he cheats on her as he doesn't accepts his child in which she tries to commit suicide but Meera stops the former in which Garv keeps an opportunity by marrying her as his intension is to out Meera from the family and also Parth's life. Garv then puts an accident in which she gets suffered from miscarriage as Smriti starts to blame Meera whom she believed that Meera had killed her child. Whereas, Devika creates many problems to separate them in which she hires Rudra, a hitman to separate Parth and Meera. Smriti finds out Garv had killed her child and exposes him to the family and she divorces Garv.

Meera gets to knows about Devika's intension and decided to save her relationship but on the Janmashtami day, Rudra plants a bomb in which the bomb gets blast and Rudra kidnaps Meera as Meera learns about Rudra's truth and tries to run away but Rudra blackmails Meera as she had no choice, but she decided to live with him as Parth and the entire family is assumed that Meera is dead.

Meera is living under Rudra's custody as Rudra had blackmailed Meera as she is forced to marry Rudra as he still keeps his obsessive towards on her but however, he then tortured Meera to avoid her to meet Parth as she still loves Parth but she also hides her identity from everyone. Whereas Parth, who still misses Meera becomes famous model as his family had fixes his marriage with Devika. It is revealed that both Rudra and Devika receives a fake letter under Meera's name to make him to believe that he want to move on which leads him to announce his and Devika's marriage inside the family.

Cast

Main

• Aditi Sanwal as Meera Thakur (2024–present)
• Nitin Goswami as Parth Thakur: Madan and Sheela's younger son; Garv's younger brother; Sahil and (2024–present)
• Sehrish Ali as
  • Payal Sharma: (2024)
  • Priyal Sharma: (2024)

Recurring

• Rupa Divetia as Mrs. Thakur: (2024–present)
• Manish Khanna as Madan Thakur: (2024–present)
• Charul Bhavsar as Sheela Thakur: (2024–present)
• Vijay Tilani as Garv Thakur: (2024–present)
• Zeel Takkar as Smriti "Bittu" Thakur: (2024–present)
• Siraj Mustafa Khan as Mr. Thakur: (2024–present)
• Mona Mokhha as Manju Thakur: (2024-present)
• Viplove Sharma as Sahil Thakur: (2024–present)
• Palak Rana as Pragya Thakur: (2024)
• Unknown as Nachiket Thakur: (2024)
• Junaid Ahmad as Sanjeev Tiwari: (2024–present)
• Ishrat Khan as Chhaya Tiwari: (2024)
• Unknown as Dev: (2024–present)
• Unknown as Shiv: (2024–present)
• Pankaj Pandey as Ravi: (2024–present)
• Hunar Hali Gandhi as Devika Basu: (2024–present)
• Rohit Choudhary as Rudra Yadav: (2024–present)

Production

Development and casting

The series was announced by Shakuntalam Telefilms July 2023 and was confirmed in February 2024 by Dangal. Initially, Sonal Vengurlekar and Saumya Saraswat were in talks to play the female negative lead, but they later backed out due to unspecified reasons. In August 2023, Nitin Goswami, Sanchita Ugale, Jyothi Mukherjee and Veronica Talreja joined the cast. Many of them later backed out due to late production development. In January 2024, Aditi Sanwal, Nitin Goswami and Sehrish Ali were signed as the leads.

Release

The first promo was released on 28 February 2024 featuring Aditi Sanwal, Nitin Goswami and Sehrish Ali. It was Launched on 18 March 2024. It replaced the television series Sasumaa Ne Meri Kadar Na Jaani.

See also

• List of programmes broadcast by Dangal TV

External links

• Deewani at IMDb
• Deewani on Dangal Play