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Shastri Sisters
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| Shastri Sisters | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Shastri Sisters |
| Genre | Indian Soap Opera Drama Romance |
| Created by | Shakuntalam Telefilms |
| Written by | Neelima Bajpai Damini Kanwal Shetty Kalpana Khurana Rajita Sharma Nidhi Singh Amit Babbar |
| Directed by | Jignesh M Vaishnav Lalit Jha |
| Creative director | Mrinal Tripathi |
| Starring | Sonal Vengurlekar Ishita Ganguly Vijayendra Kumeria Sumit Bhardwaj Neha Pednekar Sujay Reu |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 329[1] |
| Production | |
| Producers | Neelima Bajpai Shymashis Bhattacharya |
| Production locations | Delhi Mumbai Kanpur |
| Editor | Afzal Sheikh |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company | Shakuntalam Telefilms |
| Release | |
| Original network | Colors TV |
| Picture format | 576i SDTV 1080i HDTV |
| Original release | 21 July 2014 – 8 August 2015 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Shastri Sisters: Chaar Dil Ek Dhadkan (transl. 'Shastri sisters: four hearts, one beat') commonly abbreviated as Shastri Sisters is an Indian television series, which aired from July 21, 2014, through August 8, 2015, on Colors TV. The show stars Ishita Ganguly, Sonal Vengurlekar, Vijayendra Kumeria, and Sumit Bhardwaj[2][3] as leads. Its plot revolves around the lives of four sisters as they journey from Kanpur to Delhi.
It was dubbed in Telugu as Manam, which airs on Gemini TV,[4][5] and in Tamil as Kanchana airing on Raj TV. It is titled as Tere Naal Ishq in Colors TV's sister channel Colors Rishtey.
Plot[edit]
This story revolves around the four Shastri sisters, Alka, Anushka, Devyani and Piya, who live with their father Narayan Shastri in Kanpur. Alka loves her neighbour Rajeev, but Narayan Shastri gets a job transfer and moves to Delhi with his daughters. They stay at Surinder Sareen's house, who is Narayan's childhood friend. Surinder has an evil wife, Minty, and two sons, the unemployed playboy, Neil, and an IAF pilot, Rajat. Minty and Neil hate the sisters and try to oust them.
To expel him from her house, Neil makes a plan and targets Devyani for insulting her in front of everyone. He takes revenge by taking help from his friends. His scheme fails because Anushka learns the truth and saves Devyani from being insulted. After that Rajeev comes to Delhi and meets Alka. Rajeev returns and this time Narayan sees, slaps Rajeev and tells him to leave. Alka tells her sisters that she loves Rajeev and cannot marry Rohan. Later, when Narayan learns this, Shasthi agrees to meet his family for her daughter's happiness and went to Kanpur with her daughter Anushka and meets Rajeev's father and asked for a marriage proposal. But he insulted her in front of everyone and refused to accept his proposal.
After returning to Delhi, he tells Alka the truth but she doesn't believe him and insults her father. Then Anushka tells her the whole truth and says that Rajeev doesn't support her. She feels hurt and apologizes to his father. Heartbroken, Alka agrees to marry Rohan. Soon Alka falls for her husband. He learn the truth of Alka and Rajeev's relationship and gets angry with her. And after that, Alka leaves her sasural. But her sisters formulate a solution and plan to convince Rohan that now she has no relation with her. To help her sister Devyani has an idea and all sisters works on it. But Rajeev learns this and foils her plan. Upon learning of this, Narayan scolds her daughters. But later, when Rohan's bua came to his house, she solves this problem and returns to her sasural.
Later Rajat enters and Anushka and Devyani fall in love with him. But when Anushka learns that Devyani also loves Rajat, she sacrifices her love for Devyani. But Rajat also loves Anushka and on his engagement day he learns that he getting engaged to Devyani and he wants to tell her truth, but is stopped by Anushka. And she gives her kasam to become engaged to her sister and he agrees. Rajat and Devyani become engaged. Devyani insults Anushka, accusing her of taking her fiancé. But Anushka remains silent for her sister's happiness, but Rajat criticises her for disrespecting her sister who sacrificed so much for her and tells he the that he loves Anushka and not her, but Anushka refuses and says that Rajat is only Devyani's.
One day later, Sareen and Rajat learn the truth about his mother Minty and his massi nikki's deeds. After this revelation Sareen ousts out Nikki from her house and scolds Minty. Narayan overhears this and tells her daughters about this scheme. And after that Alka also tells this to Devyani. Then Sareen takes Rajat to Narayan homes and explains her proposal to Anushka but Anushka refuses. Sareen says that Devyani receives many proposals, but Anushka and Rajat love each other. But Anushka wants to restore her relationship with Devyani, so Rajat insults Anushka.
Rajat's ex girlfriend Karishma returns. To make Anushka jealous Rajat announces his marriage with Karishma. But Anushka remains focussed on her relationship with her sister, which soon resumes. Later, Devyani tries to convince Anushka to stop Rajat and Karishma marriage and discusses this matter with Rajat. But he insists that first Anushka profess her love for him. Anushka decides to do this, but the police Rajat arrest Rajat. Anushka is blamed for Rajat's arrest. But it is revealed that Karishma was responsible for it.
Rajat and Anushka finally marry. But Minty gets upset. Later Neil is forced by Minty to marry his friend Leela's greedy daughter Kajal which upsets Devyani. So Devyani decides to work and partners with Alka. On the job someone attacks Devyani and she suspects Neil's involvement. After one day Neil comes to hospital to see Devyani but Anushka sees him and takes him away. She blames Neil for hurting Devyani, put he insists that he is innocent. After three days everyone returns home and Neil returns from jail. He visits Devyani.
Kajal is revealed to have married Neil only for his property. So Minty scolds her and ends her relationship with Neil. Kajal pushes Anushka off a cliff to her death. Later, Rajat is kidnapped.
1 Year later[edit]
The Sareen family and Shastri's family celebrate. Rajat and Devyani finally begin the marriage process. Then Anushka is revealed to be alive. She returns to her sasural and finds that Devyani has married Rajat. Anushka tells Devyani where she has been for the past year. Devyani asks Anushka to find Rajat. She does and has his lookalikes arrested. Neil stills loves Devyani and Anushka remarries Rajat.
Cast[edit]
- Neha Pednekar as Alka Rohan Pandey – Narayan Shastri's eldest daughter; eldest sister of Anushka, Devyani, and Piya; wife of Rohan Pandey.
- Ishita Ganguly as Anushka Rajat – Sareen Arayan Shastri's second eldest daughter, younger sister of Alka, and elder sister of Devyani, and piya, wife of Rajat Sareen.
- Sonal Vengurlekar as Devyani-narayan shastri's third eldest daughter, younger sister of Alka and Anushka, elder sister of piya.
- Vijayendra Kumeria as Rajat Surinder Sareen – Surinder and Minty's eldest son, elder brother of Neil, husband of Anushka.
- Sumit Bhardwaj as Neil Surinder Sareen – Surinder and Minty's youngest son, younger brother of Rajat.
- Rajesh Jais as Pandit Narayan Shastri – father of Alka, Anushka, Devyani, and Piya.
- Pragati Chourasiya as Piya Shastri- Narayan's youngest daughter, youngest sister of Alka, Anushka,and Devyani.
- Sujay Reu as Rohan Pandey – Alka's husband
- Neelu Kohli as Mintakshi Surinder Sareen; Minty – Rajat and Neil's mother
- Gireesh Sahedev as Surinder Sareen – Rajat and Neil's father
- Chaitrali Gupte as Vrinda Harishankar Pandey, Rohan's mother
- Prithvi Zutshi as Harishankar Pandey, Rohan's father
- Shraddha Jaiswal as Aastha Sunil Pandey, Rohan's sister-in-law
- Navneet Nishan as Nikki
- Puneet Vashisht as Dr. Raghavendra Singh
- Sudeep Sahir as Veer
- Sumit Verma as Rajeev – Alka's ex-boyfriend
- Sudha Chandran as Buaji
- Swati Kumar as Karishma
- Priyanka Khera as Kajal Neel Sareen – Neil's ex-wife
- Poonam Bhatia as Leela Massi – Minty's friend
- Smita Singh as Inspector Guggal Pandey[6] (2015)
- Dipika Kakar as Simar
Crossover episode[edit]
Sasural Simar Ka on March 3, 2015—Anushka and Devyani help Simar to get the keys of red door from Maya where she had kept Roli.
Dubbing version (Tamil)/(Telugu)[edit]
| Kanchana | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Kanchana Sakotarigal |
| Genre | Indian soap opera Drama Romance |
| Created by | Shakuntalam Telefilms |
| Starring | Ishita Ganguly Pragati Chourasiya Sonal Vengurlekar Neha Pednekar |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Tamil |
| No. of seasons | 01 |
| No. of episodes | 329 |
| Production | |
| Production locations | Delhi Mumbai Kanpur |
| Running time | Approx. 23 minutes |
| Production company | Shakuntalam Telefilms |
| Release | |
| Original network | Raj TV International: Raj TV US TET |
| Picture format | 576i SDTV 1080i HDTV |
| Original release | 31 August 2015 – 8 October 2016 |
| External links | |
| Kanchana Official Website | |
Kanchana (English: Kanchana – Soul of Affection and Love) is a Tamil serial and a soap opera that premiered on 31 August 2015.
| Manam | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Manam |
| Genre | Indian soap opera Drama Romance |
| Created by | Shakuntalam Telefilms |
| Starring | Ishita Ganguly Pragati Chourasiya Sonal Vengurlekar Neha Pednekar |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Telugu |
| No. of seasons | 01 |
| No. of episodes | 162 as 22-september-2016 |
| Production | |
| Production locations | Delhi Mumbai Kanpur |
| Running time | Approx. 21 minutes |
| Production company | Shakuntalam Telefilms |
| Release | |
| Original network | Gemini TV |
| Picture format | 576i SDTV 1080i HDTV |
| Original release | 8 February 2016 – present |
| External links | |
| TV.aspx?Program_Type=Serial&Program_Name=Manam Website | |
Manam is a Telugu serial and a soap opera that premiered on 8 February 2016 and airs Monday through Friday.
Cast (Tamil version)[edit]
- Neha Pednekar as Kanchana Narayan Shastri / Kanchana Rajan Harishankar, the elder Shastri sister. Kanchana is Rajan's wife and is also Harishankar and Brinda's daughter-in-law.
- Ishita Ganguly as Akila Narayan Shastri / Akila Ranjeet Sareen, the second Shastri sister. Akila is Rajat's wife as well as Saravanan and Meenakshi's daughter-in-law. She is the smartest sister.
- Sonal Vengurlekar as Devyani Narayan Shastri, the third Shastri sister. Devyani loves Rajat.
- Pragati Chourasiya as Priya Narayan Shastri, the younger Shastri sister. Priya is a talented student.
- Vijayendra Kumeria as Rajat Saravanan Sareen, Saravanan and Meenakshi's elder son who falls in love with Akila. Rajat becomes Akila's husband.
- Sumit Bhardwaj as Rajesh Saravanan Sareen, Saravanan and Meenakshi's younger son. Rajesh loves Devyani..
- Sujay Reu as Rajan Harishankar Pandey, Kanchana's husband. Rajan is also Harishankar and Brinda's son.
- Rajesh Jais as Narayan Shastri, the father of the Shastri sisters.
- Neelu Kohli as Meenakshi Saravanan Sareen, Saravanan's wife. Meenakshi is Rajat and Rajesh's mother
- Gireesh Sahedev as Saravanan Sareen, Meenakshi's Husband. Saravanan is Rajat and Rajesh's Father
- Chaitrali Gupte as Brinda Harishankar Pandey, Harishankar's wife. Brinda is Rajan's mother.
- Prithvi Zutshi as Harishankar Pandey, Brinda's husband and Rajan's father.
- Shraddha Jaiswal as Asha Harishankar Pandey
Cast (Telugu version)[edit]
- Neha Pednekar as Alekhya Narayan Shastri the elder Shastri sister.
- Ishita Ganguly as Anuskha Narayan Shastri / Anuskha Ranjeet Sareen, the second Shastri sister. Ranjeet Wife
- Sonal Vengurlekar as Devyani Narayan Shastri, the third Shastri sister. Nitin's love interest
- Pragati Chourasiya as Priya Narayan Shastri, the younger Shastri sister. Priya is a talented student.
- Vijayendra Kumeria as Ranjeet Sareen, Saravanan and Meenakshi's elder son, Anuskha's husband.
- Sumit Bhardwaj as Nitin Sareen, Saravanan and Meenakshi's younger son. Nitin loves Devyani..
- Sujay Reu as Rohan Harishankar Pandey, Alekhya's husband.
- Rajesh Jais as Narayan Shastri, the father of the Shastri sisters.
- Neelu Kohli as Meenakshi Surinder Sareen; Minty – Ranjeet and Nitin's mother
- Gireesh Sahedev as Surendra Sareen, Meenakshi's Husband. Ranjeet and Nitin's Father
- Chaitrali Gupte as Brinda Harishankar Pandey, Harishankar's wife. Brinda is Rohan's mother.
- Prithvi Zutshi as Harishankar Pandey, Brinda's husband and Rohan's father.
- Shraddha Jaiswal as Asha Harishankar Pandey
References[edit]
- ↑ "Shastri Sisters episodes". Shastri Sisters. 14 November 2014. Retrieved 15 November 2014.[dead link]
- ↑ "Shastri sisters excited about their roles on new show". Times Internet. 20 July 2014. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
- ↑ Shastri Sisters take special lessons
- ↑ Set of Shashtri Sisters is a 'Dilli ki galli'
- ↑ Shastri Sisters visit hometown Kanpur
- ↑ "Swati Kumar enters Shastri Sisters !". Retrieved 17 November 2014.