Junooniyatt

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Junooniyatt
GenreMusical drama
Romance
Created bySargun Mehta
Ravi Dubey
Screenplay byRajesh Chawla
Story byFaizal Akhtar
Pallavi Mehta
Starring
Theme music composerSalim-Sulaiman
Singers
Salim Merchant
Shraddha Pandit
Vivek Hariharan
Lyrics
Shraddha Pandit
Music Producers
Raj Pandit
Muheet Bharti
Opening themeJunooniyatt
ComposerPreetam Maer
Country of originIndia
Original languageHindi
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes190
Production
ProducersRavi Dubey
Sargun Mehta
CinematographyIndranil Singha
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time20-45 minutes
Production companyDreamiyata Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Original release
NetworkColors TV
Release13 February (2023-02-13) –
3 November 2023 (2023-11-03)

Junooniyatt (transl. Passion/Obsession) is an Indian Hindi language musical romantic drama television series that premiered on 13 February 2023 on Colors TV and ended on 3 November 2023 completing 190 episodes.[1][2] Produced by Sargun Mehta and Ravi Dubey under the banner of Dreamiyata Entertainment, it starred Ankit Gupta, Gautam Singh Vig and Neha Rana.[3][4][5]

Plot[edit]

Ilahi, Jahaan, and Jordan are three aspiring musicians, that want to take part in The Great Indian Voice competition to show off their talents. Fate gets reversed when Jordan has one sided love on Ilahi and want to destroy Jahaan while Jahaan and Ilahi falls in love with each other.

Ilahi was abandoned by her mother Diljot as a child and was raised by her father. Her singing is an ode to her mother, who used to sing as a duo with her husband Amar. Her grandmother (Biji) is against her singing and will do anything to stop Ilahi from singing. However, it was known that Ilahi's mother was mentally forced to abandon her as Biji left no stones unturned to destroy Diljot's singing passion and career with her evil tricks. Jahaan lives in Canada with his parents. However, his parents were forced out of India after being accused of a fraud in their own family business. Jahaan wants to become a huge singer to give back honour to his parents' name. Jordan, on the other hand, comes from a rich family. He is a self-obsessed, spoilt brat who thinks he can get anything in the world. He wants to become a superstar through his rapping skills. His mother, Maheeb, is the true villain of the story, as she pulls strings to get what she wants.

Jahaan and Ilahi end up falling in love. Jordan has one-sided obsession with Ilahi and wants her no matter what. On Jahaan's wedding day, Maheeb falsely accuses Jahaan of ruining Jordan's life. She also brings up the past as to how Jahaan's parents were thieves and ruined their own family's name. Ilahi's father, Amar, breaks the marriage as he doesn't want his daughter to suffer by living with a liar. On the other hand, Maheeb also planned Baljeet and Dolly's accident so Jahaan has to leave for Canada.

Ilahi is heartbroken, thinking that Jahaan did betray her and left for Canada without saying anything. In reality, Jahaan had called her but Ilahi's grandmother disconnected the call. Under her father's pressure, Ilahi ends up marrying Jordan. Ilahi and Jordan become partners for the competition and end up winning the competition.

In Canada, Jahaan is heartbroken as his mother is in coma and he lost his true love. Seerat, Ilahi's sister, cheers him up and tries to reignite his passion. She helps him recover and gets him to sing again but she eventually falls in love with him secretly while spending time with him. Jahaan makes up his mind to seek revenge from Maheeb for what she did to him and his parents. Jahaan goes back to India with Seerat and his parents.

In India, Ilahi is kept in the dark about how she is getting proposals from record labels. Maheeb manipulates Jordan into thinking that Ilahi will leave him in the dust if she becomes famous. Jordan starts mistreating Ilahi and even leaves her to die. Jahaan ends up saving her and takes her to the hospital. Ilahi's father makes Jahaan promise that he will never come in front of Ilahi.

After Ilahi gains consciousness, she is scared of Jordan. She doesn't wanna go back with him, but Amar forces her to go back, as he thinks it's a minor misunderstanding. Jordan pretends to have changed his way in front of Ilahi. On the other hand, Jahaan becomes a sensational superstar under the masked identity of Sultan. Ilahi decides to take a chance and make her dreams a reality and goes to audition for Sultaan. Jordan, who is also unaware of Sultaan's identity, sends in his audition clip. Jahaan rejects him and Jordan can't accept the rejection. When he finds out Ilahi is going to audition as well, he slaps Ilahi in front of everyone.

Fortunately, Amar was there too and sees Jordan's true face. He apologizes to Ilahi for not trusting her. Ilahi ends up exposing Jordan's behavior to the Mehta family and asks Jordan for divorce. Jordan refuses to give Ilahi divorce. Jordan and Maheeb use Dosanjh family's property papers to blackmail Ilahi into coming back. Amidst all this, Ilahi finds out why Jahaan had left for Canada. Jahaan tells her to not worry about his problems and focus on hers as she has a battle to fight. Jahaan is also working on his plan to expose Maheeb's reality to the world. Eventually he gets successful in making Maheeb confess about her cunning plan along with Inder (who was brainwashed by Maheeb) that they made in the past to frame Baljeet and Dolly and made them apologize to them and Bebe and Bauji as well. The entire Mehta family reunites much to the dismay of Maheeb and Jordan.

Later, there was a Pooja in the Mehta House to keep their house in peace. Ilahi arrives there too with Amar, worrying about Bauji's health. She sees Jahaan, Baljeet, and Dolly too. Dolly's wheelchair started to move by itself and then falls down but Ilahi saves her. Due to Ilahi's touch, Dolly emerges from coma but mistakenly believes that Ilahi is her daughter-in-law and believes that Jahaan and Ilahi's marriage has been done. The truth was exposed to Ilahi and Amar why Jahaan left the wedding without telling anyone and believes him guilty. Jordan gets angry and bursts out, causing Dolly to faint. The doctor warns that Dolly's condition is delicate and any stress could be fatal. Jahaan requests Ilahi to pretend to be his wife until Dolly gets well. Ilahi agrees and enters Mehta House as Jahaan's wife, hiding all the truth.

Later, Jordan finds out that Jahaan is Sultan and tells him that if Jahaan wants Dolly to get well and not let Jordan tell anything to her, Jahaan has to give Sultan's identity to Jordan, meaning when Sultan shows his identity to everyone, it should be Jordan not Jahaan. In return, Jahaan tells Jordan to stop torturing Ilahi and sign the divorce papers. Jahaan and Jordan both agree to each-other's bets.

Later, Jahaan confesses his love to Ilahi on the day when their fake marriage happened because of Dolly. Jordan cancels the deal he made with Jahaan because he believed that Jahaan are Ilahi are coming closer again. On Jordan's birthday, Jordan reveals to Dolly that Ilahi is Jordan's wife, not Jahaan's and Ilahi leaves Mehta House. On the same day, by Jordan's plan, Elahi comes to know Jahaan's true identity of Sultan during his performance in a fair. She was really proud of Jahaan as he completed his dream. However, a terrorists attack occurs there, leading to the abduction of everyone present, including Ilahi and Jordan but not Jahaan. In an effort to save Ilahi and everyone, Jahaan puts his life on the line and gets shot.

Jahaan loses a lot of blood and he needed "O-negative" blood in emergency or else he won't survive. Even after a lot of searching Ilahi and other family members weren't able to find the blood. However, Jahaan's blood group matched with Jordan for which Ilahi requests him to give him his blood. Taking advantage of the situation Jordan strikes a deal with Ilahi that he wants a second chance to their marriage. Ilahi agrees with applying her condition too that he won't bother anyone in his family especially Jahaan and if he wouldn't be able to make their relation successful within a month, he'll have to sign the divorce papers to which Jordan agrees and gives his blood to Jahaan and both agree to consummate their marriage much to Jahaan's disbelief. Despite, Jahaan finds the truth about the deal, Ilahi requests Jahaan to stay out of their personal matters. Unable to see Jahaan's situation, Dolly gives an ultimatum to Jahaan that he must move on with his life and marry Seerat to which Jahaan denies but Dolly gives a condition that if he doesn't stop thinking about Ilahi then he'll have to forget his parents. Dolly gives Jahaan one week time to think about his decision. Meanwhile, Jordan's true colours are out and vows to exact revenge on both Ilahi and Jahaan.

Later, Jordan finally divorces Ilahi. Jahaan agrees to marry Seerat for the sake of Ilahi while Ilahi decides to leave Chandigarh. Seerat starts doing attacks on Ilahi so that Jahaan could be Seerat's. However, one day before Jahaan and Seerat's Haldi, Jahaan secretly marries Ilahi in the temple without Ilahi's permission. Next day, as Ilahi was leaving Chandigarh, Seerat takes Ilahi to a corner of a river where she revealed that she was doing all the attacks on Ilahi. Ilahi gets shocked while Seerat pushes Ilahi down the corner where she gets into the river. At the same time, Jahaan reveals his and Ilahi's secret marriage to the family.

Fortunately, Ilahi was saved but went to coma for 10 days. After waking up from coma, she stops Jahaan and Seerat's marriage and warns Seerat and Jordan that she would expose their reality to the family. Fortunately, Ilahi exposes Seerat and Jordan's reality to the family. Initially, Seerat and Jordan are arrested by the police.

Jahaan and Ilahi gets married happily.

Some years later[edit]

Ilahi has given birth to a baby boy, Ilhaan. Ilahi gets a call from a person and that person is revealed to be Jordan. Junooniyatt ends with the tag "To be continued...".

Cast[edit]

Main[edit]

  • Ankit Gupta as Jahaan Mehta aka Sultan : Dolly and Baljeet's son; Varun, Jordan & Tina’s cousin; Seerat's ex-fiancé; Ilahi's husband; Ilhaan's father (2023)
  • Neha Rana as Ilahi Dosanjh Mehta : Diljot and Amar's elder daughter; Seerat's elder sister; Jordan's ex-wife; Jahaan's wife; Ilhaan's mother (2023)
  • Gautam Singh Vig as Jordan Mehta aka Jordy : Maheep and Inder's son; Varun and Tina's brother; Jahaan’s cousin; Ilahi's ex-husband and obsessive one-sided lover (2023)

Recurring[edit]

  • Manasi Salvi / Rinku Ghosh as Maheep Mehta : Inder’s wife; Varun, Jordan and Tina's mother; college trustee (2023)
  • Ram Aujla / Raaj Sunger / Rishi Khurana as Inderjeet Singh Mehta aka Inder : Rajpratap and Prakash's elder son; Maheep's husband; Baljeet's elder brother; Varun, Jordan and Tina's father (2023)
  • Vishal Sharma as Baljeet Singh Mehta : Rajpratap and Prakash's younger son; Inder's younger brother; Dolly's husband; Jahaan's father; Ilhaan's paternal grandfather (2023)
  • Gurvinder Kaur as Dolly Mehta : Baljeet's wife; Jahaan's mother; Ilhaan's paternal grandmother (2023)
  • Paras Randhawa as Varun Mehta : Inder and Maheep’s elder son; Jordan and Tina's elder brother; Jahaan's cousin; Rasika's husband (2023)
  • Mansi Sharma as Rasika Mehta : Varun's wife (2023)
  • Aarchi Sachdeva as Tina Mehta : Inder and Maheep's daughter; Varun and Jordan's younger sister; Jahaan's cousin sister (2023)
  • Balwinder Kaur as Prakash Kaur Mehta aka Bebe / Biji : Rajpratap's wife; Inder and Baljeet's mother; Jordan, Tina, Varun and Jahaan's grandmother; Ilhaan's paternal great-grandmother (2023)
  • Manoj Bhatia as Rajpratap Singh Mehta aka Bauji : Prakash's husband; Inder and Baljeet's father; Jordan, Tina, Varun and Jahaan's grandfather; Ilhaan's paternal great-grandfather (2023)
  • Abhishek Sharma as Sunny : Jordan’s friend (2023)
  • Vishwas Saraf as Karan : Jordan’s friend (2023)
  • Palak Jain as Seerat Dosanjh : Amar and Diljot's younger daughter; Ilahi's younger sister; Jahaan's ex-fianceé and obsessive one-sided lover; Sultan’s manager (2023)
  • Mamta Rana as Diljot Dosanjh aka DJ : Amar’s (before was estranged) wife; Ilahi and Seerat's mother; Ilhaan's maternal grandmother (2023)
  • Aman Sutdhar as Amardeep Dosanjh aka Amar : Charan's son; Diljot's (before was estranged) husband; Ilahi and Seerat's father; Ilhaan's maternal grandfather (2023)
  • Sushma Prashant as Charan Kaur Dosanjh aka Biji : Amar and Kimmi's mother; Ilahi, Seerat and Lucky's grandmother; Ilhaan's maternal great-grandmother (2023)
  • Poonam Walia as Kimmi : Charan's daughter; Happy's wife; Lucky's mother (2023)
  • Pali Geetan Wala as Happy : Kimmi's husband; Lucky's father (2023)
  • Shriaansh Sharma as Lucky : Happy & Kimmi’s son; Ilahi's cousin (2023)
  • Priya Bharadwaj as Husna : Ilahi’s best friend (2023)
  • Kawalpreet Singh as Dharmendra : Ilahi's friend; Jahaan's former landlord and elder brother figure (2023)
  • Onika Maan as Monica : Jordan’s friend (2023)
  • Tanya Mahajan as Shikha Mann : Ranjeet’s legal wife (2023)
  • Abhianshu Vohra as Ranjeet Mann : Ilahi's former obsessive lover; Shikha's legal husband (2023)
  • Aishwarya Sakhuja as Dr. Pari Ahuja : Jahaan's voice therapist (2023)

Guest appearances[edit]

Production[edit]

Casting[edit]

Ankit Gupta as Jahaan, Neha Rana as Ilahi, Gautam Singh Vig as Jordan and Manasi Salvi as Maheep Mehta (later replaced by Rinku Ghosh) were signed as the leads.[6][7][8] In early May 2023, Aishwarya Sakhuja entered the show as Dr. Pari. Her role lasted very briefly and ended mid-May 2023.[9] During later half of June 2023, Palak Jain was cast to play Seerat's role who is Ilahi's younger sister.

Development[edit]

The series was announced by Dreamiyata Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. for Colors TV in January 2023.[10]

Filming[edit]

In January 2023, principal photography commenced in Chandigarh, the series is set in Punjab.[11]

Crossover[edit]

  • Junooniyatt had crossover episodes with Udaariyaan on 22 and 23 March 2023.

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
India Today[12]

India Today noted, "The true essence of Punjab, including the dialect and aesthetics, has been kept completely intact. Viewers will find the characters relatable as they are following their dreams while love is around the corner."

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Junooniyat premieres tonight: Cast, plot and time, all you need to know about the new show".
  2. ^ "Junooniyat to Dhruv Tara, here's a look at the upcoming TV shows".
  3. ^ "Telly Tattle: Three's company". 4 January 2023.
  4. ^ "Gautam Singh Vig, Ankit Gupta open up about their upcoming show Junooniyatt after Bigg Boss 16".
  5. ^ "Junooniyatt: Ankit Gupta, Gautam Vig, and Neha Rana open up about their musical avatar in this new Colors' show". Bollywood Hungama. 9 February 2023.
  6. ^ "Bigg Boss contestants Ankit Gupta, Gautam Singh Vig return to Colors with new show Junooniyatt, co-starring Neha Rana : Bollywood News - Bollywood Hungama". Bollywood Hungama. 4 January 2023.
  7. ^ Maheshwri, Neha. "Neha Rana: It was a conscious decision to take a break and audition only for the lead character". The Times of India.
  8. ^ "Gautam Singh Vig on joining 'Junooniyatt': Was a no-brainer for me". The Times of India.
  9. ^ "Aishwarya Sakhuja to reunite with Ravie Dubey after a decade in 'Junooniyatt'". The Times of India. 3 May 2023. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  10. ^ "Ankit Gupta, Gautam Vig, Neha Rana's new Show 'Junooniyatt' to Premiere on February 13".
  11. ^ "Sargun Mehta promotes the title track of her new musical show, Junooniyatt : The Tribune India".
  12. ^ "Junooniyatt review: Ankit Gupta, Neha Rana and Gautam Vij's show depicts unique love triangle soaked in music".

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