Deewani
| Deewani | |
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 Promotional poster | |
| Genre | Drama Romance |
| Written by | Dialogues Abhishek Sharma |
| Screenplay by | Gautham Hegde |
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| Directed by |
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| Composer | Prakash Jaykawad |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 181 |
| Production | |
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| Cinematography | Pradeep M Gupta |
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| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 22-24 minutes |
| Production company | Shakuntalam Telefilms |
| Original release | |
| Network | Dangal TV |
| Release | 18 March 2024 – present |
Deewani (transl. Crazy lover)[1] is an Indian Hindi-language drama television series that airs on Dangal under the banner of Shakuntalam Telefilms and stars Aditi Sanwal, Nitin Goswami[2] and Sehrish Ali.[3][4] It premiered on 18 March 2024.[5]
Plot
[edit]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 blackmail Meera. She promises to prove Parth's innocence to everyone.
Parth is 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 Meera and Parth to marry to save the family, and they do. 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 is 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 is 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 was convinced as he agreed to work with her but Garv strives to separate Meera and Parth. As Devika becomes obsessed with Parth and she plans to separate Meera and Parth.
Meanwhile, Sahil impregnates Smriti as he cheats on her as he doesn't accept his child. So she tries to kill herself but Meera stops the former in which Garv keeps an opportunity by marrying her as his intention is to remove Meera from the family and also Parth's life. Garv causes Smriti to miscarry her child. Smriti blames Meera whom she believed killed her child. Whereas, Devika tries to separate them, so she hires Rudra, a hitman to separate Parth and Meera. Smriti discovers that Garv killed her child and exposes him to the family and she divorces Garv.
Meera discovers Devika's motive and decides to save her relationship but on the Janmashtami day, Rudra makes an explosion and kidnaps Meera as Meera learns about Rudra's truth and discovers Devika had helped Rudra and she tries to escape but Rudra blackmails Meera as she had no choice, but she is forced to live with him as Parth and the entire family assumes that Meera is dead.
One year later, Meera is living under Rudra's custody as Rudra had blackmailed Meera as she is forced to marry Rudra as he remains obsessed with her. But he then tortures her to prevent her from meeting Parth as she still loves Parth but she also hides her identity from everyone. Whereas Parth, who still misses Meera, becomes a famous model as his family fixes his marriage with Devika. It is revealed that Rudra forced Meera by writing a letter to Parth make him to believe that he want to move on which leads him to announce his and Devika's marriage to the family.
Cast
[edit]Main
[edit]- Aditi Sanwal as Meera Thakur: (2024–present)
- Nitin Goswami[6][7] as Parth Thakur: (2024–present)
- Sehrish Ali[8] as
- Payal Sharma: (2024)
- Priyal Sharma: (2024)
Recurring
[edit]- 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)[9]
- Rohit Choudhary as Rudra Yadav: (2024–present)
Production
[edit]Development and casting
[edit]The series was announced by Shakuntalam Telefilms July 2023 and was confirmed in February 2024 by Dangal. Initially, Sonal Vengurlekar and Saumya Saraswat[10] were in talks to play the female negative lead, but they later declined due to unspecified reasons. In August 2023, Nitin Goswami, Sanchita Ugale, Jyothi Mukherjee[11] and Veronica Talreja[12] joined the cast.[13] 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.[12]
Release
[edit]The first promo was released on 28 February 2024 featuring Aditi Sanwal, Nitin Goswami and Sehrish Ali.[3] It was Launched on 18 March 2024.[14] It replaced the television series Sasumaa Ne Meri Kadar Na Jaani.[citation needed]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "दंगल टीवी पर नया धारावाहिक 'दीवानी'". Kolkatahindinews. 19 March 2024. Archived from the original on 2 October 2024. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
- ^ "Nitin Goswami On The Shift From TV To Films And OTT: While Pursuing Opportunities Is Essential, Abandoning One For Another Isn't Advisable". Outlook India. 12 April 2024. Archived from the original on 2 October 2024. Retrieved 23 May 2024.
- ^ a b "'Deewani' coming soon on Dangal TV, promo out now! | Hot News". news.abplive.com. 1 March 2024. Archived from the original on 2 October 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "Dangal TV to launch new show 'Deewani'". www.bizasialive.com. 2 March 2024. Archived from the original on 9 July 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
- ^ "दंगल टीवी पर नया धारावाहिक 'दीवानी'". gaubharatbharati. 19 March 2024. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
- ^ "Nitin Goswami returns to TV after five years with Deewani, says he was eager to return to the medium". The Times of India. 17 March 2024. ISSN 0971-8257. Archived from the original on 2 October 2024. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
- ^ "Exclusive - Nitin Goswami On Being Part Of A Daily Soap After 5 Years: I Didn't Want To Wait Anymore". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 31 March 2024. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
- ^ "Exclusive: Sehrish Ali to play a double role in Dangal's Deewani?". IWMBuzz. Archived from the original on 20 May 2024. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
- ^ "Exclusive! Hunar Gandhi set to enter Deewani; actress says, 'I relate to my role'". The Times of India. 4 July 2024. ISSN 0971-8257. Archived from the original on 2 October 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
- ^ Siddiqui, Aqsa Akbani (7 August 2023). "Breaking! Sonal Vengurlekar Opts Out Of Dangal TV Show; 'Imlie' Fame Saumya Saraswat Roped In". Friday Release. Archived from the original on 4 April 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- ^ Siddiqui, Aqsa Akbani (22 July 2023). "Exclusive: Jyoti Mukherjee To Join Nitin Goswami And Sanchita Ugale In Dangal TV's Upcoming Show". Friday Release. Archived from the original on 2 October 2024. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- ^ a b "Exclusive! Kumkum Bhagya's Veronica Talreja set to be part of upcoming show Deewani". The Times of India. 22 July 2023. ISSN 0971-8257. Archived from the original on 3 April 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Siddiqui, Aqsa Akbani (11 July 2023). "BREAKING! Nitin Goswami and Sanchita Ugale to Play Lead Roles in Shakuntalam's Next". Friday Release. Archived from the original on 2 October 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
- ^ Deewani | New Show | Coming Soon | दीवानी | Promo | Dangal TV, 28 February 2024, archived from the original on 12 March 2024, retrieved 12 March 2024
