Udaariyaan

Indian drama television series
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Udaariyaan
GenreDrama
Romance
Created bySargun Mehta
Ravi Dubey[1]
Developed bySargun Mehta
Ravi Dubey [2]
Screenplay byRitu Goyal
Rachel Navarre
Dialogues
Rajesh Chawla
Story byMitali Bhattacharya
Romit Ojha
Directed byUttam Ahlawat
Creative directorAnkur Bhatia
StarringSee below
Theme music composerShubham Rangra
Kevin
Rajiv Bhatt
Ripul Sharma
George Joseph
Singer
Shubham Rangra
Gurnam Bhullar
Label
Diamond Star Worldwide
Desi Beats
Soundtrack
Udaariyan by Shubham Rangra
Composers
  • Diamond Star Worldwide
  • Shubham Rangra
  • Debojyoti Mishra
  • Raja Narayan Deb
  • Background Music:
  • Indrashish-Arunashish
Country of originIndia
Original languageHindi
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes1121
Production
Executive producerAli Hasan
ProducersRavi Dubey
Sargun Mehta
CinematographyRaju Gauli
EditorsDharmesh Patel
Kamal
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time21–23 minutes
Production companyDreamiyata Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. & Devirosh Films
Original release
NetworkColors TV
Release15 March 2021 (2021-03-15) –
24 July 2024 (2024-07-24)

Udaariyaan (transl. Flight of Dreams) is an Indian Hindi-language television romantic drama series. It aired from 15 March 2021 to 24 July 2024 on Colors TV and streams on JioCinema.[3] Produced by Sargun Mehta and Ravi Dubey, it is one of the longest running Indian television soap opera.[4] It stars Priyanka Chahar Choudhary, Ankit Gupta, Twinkle Arora, Hitesh Bharadwaj, Aditi Bhagat, Anuraj Chahal, Alisha Parveen Khan, Avinesh Rekhi, and Shreya Jain over generations.[5]

Plot

Jasmine and Tejo Sandhu are two sisters from Moga dreaming of their future. While Jasmine dreams of settling in Canada, Tejo wants to remain in Punjab. Fateh Singh Virk is a boxer who is in love with Jasmine. They pursue a relationship but Jasmine refuses to marry Fateh when she finds out that he has lost his job. Tejo and Fateh marry to save the family's reputation. Fateh does not want to move on and continues to romance Jasmine.

Tejo is heartbroken when she finds out the truth. When Fateh and Tejo start falling for each other, Jasmine starts plotting against them. She marries Fateh's brother, Amrik, by mistake. However, due to Amrik's love and care for her, Jasmine also falls for him. Tejo's former fiancé, Angad, sets Tejo on fire and everyone presumes her to be dead.

During their trip to London, Jasmine and Amrik meet Tejo's lookalike, Tanya, who is assigned to find out about Tejo's murder. Amrik dies while saving Tanya from Angad, who is later jailed for his crimes. Jasmine is revealed to be pregnant. Tanya finds Tejo and reunites her with Fateh. Jasmine, on the other hand, miscarries but leaves an orphan at the hospital, claiming it to be her and Amrik's child. Tejo and Fateh find out the truth but raise the girl, naming her Nehmat. Jasmine moves to Canada and marries Yash.

Jasmine returns to India with her daughter Naaz, after suffering from domestic violence at the hands of Yash and his mother. Nehmat learns she is adopted, but believes that she is Jasmine and Amrik's daughter. Jasmine leaves Naaz with the Sandhus. Nehmat and Naaz bond with one another. Tejo, Fateh and the Virks die in a car accident.

Nehmat and Naaz are raised by the Sandhus. Nehmat is in love with Ekam, a trainee IPS officer. Meanwhile, Naaz suffers from an inferiority complex due to all the attention Nehmat gets. Naaz pressurises Nehmat to marry Advait Kapoor so she can marry his younger brother, Nikhil Kapoor. Jasmine returns and it's revealed that Jasmine and Advait's father were behind the accident that killed Tejo, Fateh and the Virks. Nehmat's marriage to Advait is nullified as Jasmine's daughter, Harleen, is revealed to be Advait's legal wife. Advait tries to kill Harleen but is jailed. On the other hand, Harleen falls for Ekam. Ekam and Nehmat decide to get married but she decides to back out after being blackmailed by Jasmine. Ekam and Harleen get married.

Nehmat finds out that she's pregnant with Ekam's child. She gives birth to a daughter, but Harleen kidnaps her. Nehmat is told that her child was born dead while Harleen and Ekam name the child Aliya.

Aliya meets Nehmat in a summer camp and they form a bond. Eventually, Ekam and Nehmat find out the truth and confront Harleen. Jasmine and Harleen decide to plot an accident in which Harleen is presumed to be dead. Nehmat finds evidence against Jasmine and gets her jailed.

Ekam marries Nehmat but Harleen returns and plots against the two. Nehmat and Ekam deport her back to Canada after finding out the truth. Aliya starts hating Nehmat and Ekam on seeing this. Harleen is revealed to be pregnant with Ekam's child.

A grown up Aliya wants to go to Canada to meet Harleen. She is in love with Armaan. On the other hand, Harleen is married to Deepak Dhillon and her daughter with Ekam, Aasma, returns to India. She keeps meeting Armaan and their marriage is fixed. The two marry unwillingly. Aliya grows jealous and vengeful. Aasma and Armaan start falling for each other but the former finds out about his relationship with Aliya. Aasma is hurt but agrees to divorce Armaan. Armaan ends his relationship with Aliya and reveals his feelings for Aasma. Aliya marries Raja but continues to plot.

Aliya tries to murder Aasma but Aasma ends up in an enemy country instead. Believing that she is dead, Armaan marries Aliya, who is pregnant with Raja's child. Armaan saves Aasma and brings her back to India. Armaan and Aasma adopt Zaid while Aliya gives birth to a daughter, Khushi. Aasma is revealed to be pregnant and Aliya hires goons to get rid of her, which leads to Aasma going into early labor. She gives birth to twin girls but is made to believe that one of her daughters died during birth. The goons throw the girl in the river, but she gets saved by Armaan.

Aasma is living with her daughter, Haniya, and Zaid. Armaan is raising Meher, unaware that she is his and Aasma's daughter. Aliya wants to get rid of Meher to get Armaan. Armaan and Aasma come face to face and Aliya is exposed and arrested. The police jeep gets into an accident and Aliya gets paralyzed. After the accident, Aliya turns over a new leaf and apologizes to Aasma for her misdeeds.

Ranvijay Singh, aka Rockstar RV, is introduced. Aliya and RV fall in love, but Aliya remains faithful to Raja. In a twist of events, RV turns out to be Sukhi’s illegitimate son. Sukhi promises to get Aliya and RV married as Raja is mentally unstable. However, Aasma stops the wedding and RV leaves the Gill house. Aliya turns negative again and starts torturing Aasma. She kidnaps Haniya and Meher, but Aasma rescues them. Meher’s truth comes out that she is Armaan and Aasma’s daughter. In a last ditch effort, Aliya tries to kill Aasma but ends up falling to her death.

Meher and Haniya have grown up to be opposite of each other. Meher is disillusioned by love because she believes that Armaan faked his love for Aasma and left them all. Haniya has fallen for Sarab, but Sarab sees Meher as his ideal type. However, due to Meher’s rude behavior, he starts clashing with her.

Haniya tries to talk to Meher and Aasma about her love, but she doesn’t get the chance to do so. Aasma decides to get Meher and Sarab married as she thinks only Sarab can handle Meher’s attitude. After many misunderstandings, Meher finally accepts to marry Sarab, and Sarab also confesses his love. Meher also eventually confesses her love. Munni, who was insulted by Meher in front of everyone, starts to provoke Meher against Haniya. Haniya confesses to Meher that she used to love Sarab, which causes a drift between the sisters.

Meher decides to get Haniya married to Vikram to make sure Haniya stays away from Sarab. However, Vikram is revealed to be Shakti's younger brother who wants to seek revenge against Meher and Haniya. Vikram and Shakti's truth is revealed on the wedding day and the two sisters reunite. However, Munni gets Meher kidnapped and pretends that Meher ran away from her wedding. Haniya is forced to marry Sarab for her family's honor.

Meher starts to despise Haniya and believes Haniya plotted everything to get Sarab. Slowly, Meher becomes obsessed with getting back with Sarab and threatens suicide if Sarab doesn't divorce Haniya. Haniya realises Munni is in cahoots with Shakti and decides to expose her. However, Munni outsmarts Haniya and blames everything on her. Haniya begs Meher to trust her, so Meher gives her a chance to prove her innocence. Once Munni's truth is exposed to Meher as well, the sisters join hands to expose Munni.

Munni's truth is exposed in front of everyone and Haniya is proven innocent. Munni is forgiven after she realizes the wrongs of her ways. On the other hand, Meher, realizing that Haniya's love for her and Sarab is pure and selfless, accepts Sarab and Haniya's marriage. The show ends on a happy note with all the family united as one.

Cast

Main

Recurring

Production

Casting

Priyanka Choudhary,[6] Ankit Gupta[7] and Isha Malviya[8] were cast to portray the leads Tejo, Fateh and Jasmine respectively. Malviya's character later turned negative. Post the six month leap, Choudhary also played Tanya.[9] Karan Grover was roped in as the main antagonist and had dual roles of Angad and Arjun.[10]

In September 2022, the series took a generation leap when Twinkle Arora,[11] Hitesh Bharadwaj and Sonakshi Batra[12] were cast as Nehmat, Ekam and Naaz respectively.[13] Isha Malviya returned in the dual role of an older Jasmine and her youngest daughter, protagonist later turned into an antagonist, Harleen. In April 2023, Rohit Purohit quit the show.[14] In the same month, Kushagre Dua enter the show as Joginder Singh.[15] In late April 2023, Vivian Dsena joined the show as Dr. Sartaj Singh Randhawa.[16] In late June 2023, Sonakshi Batra quit the show. In mid-July 2023 Vivian Dsena quit the show. In August 2023 Twinkle Arora and Hitesh Bharadwaj quit the series.[17]

In August 2023, the series took another generation leap when Aditi Bhagat, Anuraj Chahal and Alisha Parveen Khan were cast as Aasma, Armaan and Aliya respectively.[18] In April 2024, Kunal Karan Kapoor was cast as the parallel lead Ranvijay, opposite Aliya.[19]

In May 2024, the series took another generation leap when Aditi Bhagat, Avinesh Rekhi and Shreya Jain were cast as Haniya, Sarabjeet and Meher respectively.[20]

Filming

The series is set in Moga, Punjab. It has been shot in Chandigarh, since its inception.[21][22] During the six months leap track, the series was shot in London.[23]

Release

A special song promo was released with Sargun Mehta, Choudhary, Gupta and Isha Malviya alongside rapper Badshah.[24]

Crossover

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Recipient Result Ref.
2022 Indian Television Academy Awards Best Original Story Sargun Mehta and Ravi Dubey Won [27]
2023 Indian Telly Awards Rising Star: Editorial Choice Isha Malviya Won [28]
Fan Favourite Negative Lead: Female Nominated
Fan Favourite Negative Lead: Male Karan Grover Won
Fan Favourite Actress Priyanka Chahar Choudhary Nominated
Fan Favourite Actor Ankit Gupta Nominated
Fan Favourite Jodi Priyanka Chahar Choudhary and Ankit Gupta Nominated
Fan Favourite Show Udaariyaan Nominated
Fan Favourite Director Uttam Ahlawat Won

References

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