Uttaran

Uttaran (transl. Discarded) is an Indian soap opera that aired on Colors TV on weeknights from 1 December 2008 to 16 January 2015.[2][3][4]

Uttaran
Genre	Drama Romance Action Soap opera
Written by	Ajay Aseem Arora Kumar Abhishek
Story by	Mitali Shipra Arora
Directed by	Ravindra Gautam, Nandita Mehra, Santosh Bhatt
Starring	Sparsh Khanchandani Ishita Panchal Rashami Desai Tina Datta Nandish Sandhu
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	1,549[1]
Production
Producer(s)	Kalyan Guha Rupali Guha Harsh Dave
Cinematography	Santosh Suryavanshi Raj Panth
Production company(s)	Film Farm India
Release
Original network	Colors TV
Original release	1 December 2008 (2008-12-01) – 16 January 2015 (2015-01-16)
External links
Website

The show has three generation leaps which starred Sparsh Khanchandani and Ishita Panchal, then the show took 10 years leap and starred Tina Datta,[5][6] Rashami Desai, Nandish Sandhu, Rohit Khurana, Gaurav Chopra and Sharhaan Singh in lead roles, then the show took another 18 year leap and starred Tina Datta, Sreejita De, Saurabh Raj Jain, Vikas Bhalla, Mrunal Jain, Ajay Chaudhary and Gaurav S Bajaj in lead roles.[7]

It is one of the longest television series by episode count. It is the third longest-running Indian television series of Colors TV.[8]. The series was dubbed into Tamil as Sindhu Bhairavi on Raj TV and in Malayalam as Valsalyam on Surya TV. The series was re-made in Tamil as Oviya on Colors Tamil. The series was also dubbed into English as True Love on Glow Tv.

Between 2009 to 2012, Uttaran was one of the top ranking show of Indian Television and one of number one TRP rated show in Colors TV (along with Balika Vadhu)[9][10][11][12].

Synopsis

Uttaran follows two friends from different socio-economic backgrounds - Ichha Bharti (Sparsh Khanchandani / Tina Datta), a maid-servant's daughter, and Tapasya Thakur (Ishita Panchal / Rashami Desai), the child of a wealthy landlord. Ichha is kind, caring and helpful, while Tapasya is spoilt, selfish and jealous.

Plot

The story set in Mumbai starts with Tapasya Thakur, a young 8 year-old girl becomes friends with her family maid Damini's same aged daughter Ichha Bharti, and they share a sister-like bond.

Tapasya's grandaunt Sumitra influences her to see Ichha differently. Tapasya hits jealousy when her parents Divya and Jogi care for Ichha as their own child, unaware that Jogi was responsible for Ichha's father Rajendra's death.

13-16 years later

Ichha and Tapasya grow up. Tapasya rejects her rich prospective simpleton groom Veer Singh Bundela. He falls in love with Ichha who now feels the same for him, and their wedding is fixed.

Tapasya realizes her feelings for Veer and attempts suicide. So on Ichha marries Veer's brother Vansh, a drug addict, as Tapasya marries Veer. Tapasya tries to get rid of Ichha whose past with Veer is found out by Vansh.

Tapasya manipulates and misleads Vansh into thinking he is responsible for Ichha's suffering. As a result, he kills himself. Veer and Vansh's mother Gunvanti blames Ichha for Vansh's death.

Soon Tapasya's true nature is exposed by Veer. He secretly marries Ichha in Vrindavan. After some friction, the family accepts them. Tapasya meets businessman Raghuvendra Rathore and gets pregnant with his child.

Raghuvendra leaves Tapasya without knowing her pregnancy. She returns to Veer saying that she is pregnant with his child. Veer doesn't trust her. Ichha figures that Tapasya isn't carrying Veer's child. Everyone refuse to believe her.

Veer comes to know that the child is Raghuvendra's. Tapasya is banished from Bundela Mansion and delivers a daughter whom she unintentionally abandons. Veer and Ichha raise Tapasya's daughter named Mukta.

Ichha delivers twins Yuvraj and Meethi. She saves Veer from Avinash, a cruel who vows revenge on him for winning his property. He attacks Veer who loses his memory. Ichha kills Avinash and is jailed for 18 years.

18 years later

Yuvraj, Meethi and Mukta are grown up. Meethi and Mukta are best friends just like their mothers. Ichha returns but the arrogant, selfish and insolent Yuvraj hates her. Meethi also grew up presuming Ichha dead.

Avinash's nephew, Kanha who was raised by Damini is a successful CEO and happily married to Surbhi. Meethi and Yuvraj were brought up by Gunvanti and Damini individually, as Gunvanti brainwashed Yuvraj against Ichha.

Sumitra reveals to Meethi that Ichha is alive, but lies that she ruined Tapasya's life since childhood.

Initially, Meethi is in denial. But during a college field trip, she runs into a saint who not only confirms that Ichha is alive, but was also in prison for murder, Meethi then develops an negative opinion towards Ichha, believing her to be a murderer.

Meethi tries to find out the truth regarding Ichha's incarceration. Despite knowing what the saint told her about Ichha is true, she still wants to hear it from Kanha. He reveals that Ichha was in prison for murder but fails to mention she killed Avinash to save Veer.

Meethi confronts Ichha and cruelly rejects her believing her to be a murderer. Damini and Kanha try to convince Meethi to forgive Ichha. They state the reason behind this, but Meethi refuses to believe this as she saw Kanha destroying documents regarding Ichha being incarcerated for murder.

Damini and Kanha try to convince Meethi who becomes extremely hostile towards them every single time. Damini's attempt to repair Ichha and Meethi's relationship completely backfire, as Meethi becomes further distances herself from Ichha and grows to hate her even more.

Mukta and Meethi fall in love with their college friend, Aman Verma who eventually chooses Mukta, but they never get together as she breaks up with him due to an insecurity. Meethi comforts a distraught Aman. Sumitra brainwashes Mukta, who starts getting close to Yuvraj.

Mukta takes Meethi to a party, spikes her drink and calls the cops stating that it is a rave party. In an intoxicated state, Meethi confesses her feelings for Aman and the cops arrest them. Yuvraj later, tries to rape Mukta but Ichha saves her.

Mukta realises that she misunderstood Ichha and Meethi. She decides to help Ichha reunite with Veer. Shortly after Yuvraj is arrested, Gunvanti reveals Ichcha is his mother. His hatred further intensifies as Ichha testifies against him in court leading him to be incarcerated for 5 years.

Veer having not regained his memory lives with Gunvanti and his new wife Amla. Tapasya who has genuinely reformed after living in U.S. for the last 18 years, restores his memory. Meethi is encouraged by Ichha's former orphan student Vishnu Kashyap and accepts her. Eventually, Veer and Ichha are reunited.

Meethi marries Vishnu on Ichha's arrangement. He is revealed to be Avinash's son, Akash Chatterjee, who has married her to take revenge.

Later, Mukta discovers Akash's identity (but she is unaware of his agenda) and tries to locate the real Vishnu Kashyap (Ajay Chaudhary) a humble blue-collar worker, who works for an NGO, in order to expose Akash, she also informs her father, Raghuvendra of this, regarding Akash's identity, just as Mukta was about to meet the real Vishnu, Akash orders his goons to kidnap and kill Mukta, as she was getting close to exposing him, fortunately, she is saved by Raghuvendra.

At Akash and Meethi's wedding, Mukta tries to expose his identity, but unfortunately, Ichcha, Veer, Jogi, Divya and Tapasya (except for Sumitra) refused to believe her, subconsciously they know she isn't lying, but consciously they refuse to accept the truth, Raghuvendra is completely enraged and disgusted by the fact that they did not believe Mukta, mainly at Jogi and Divya, who have raised Mukta since childhood, he refuses to allow his daughter stay with people who do not trust and respect her, as he cruelly states to everyone that "when the truth is revealed" (regarding Akash's identity) "they will remember this night and bow their heads down in shame".

Jogi and Veer tried to convince Raghuvendra send Mukta back to the Thakur Mansion, and try to justify their reasons for not believing him and Mukta regarding Akash, but Raghuvendra not only (outright) refuses to send his daughter back to the Thakur Mansion, but he also cruelly put them both in their place, as he coldly state "that if he was in their positions, he would have believed Mukta, regardless whether or not there was any physical evidence" as well as coldly pointing out that they do not know the meaning of the word trust and respect when it comes to relationships, otherwise they would have believed Mukta regarding Akash's identity, as Jogi and Veer are both hurt by what he says.

Meanwhile, Ichha and Tapasya risk their life to save Mukta from Veer's uncle Tej who shoots Tapasya. Ichha is fatally hit by a truck and donates her heart to Tapasya before dying.

Sometime after Ichha's death, Raghuvendra finally gets the evidence to expose Akash's identity (as he has been gathering these said evidence, ever since Mukta had informed him; regarding Akash's identity) he informs Veer, Jogi, Divya and Tapasya regarding the night of the wedding, when he and Mukta tried to warn everyone about Akash, just as Raghuvendra predicted, everyone (metaphorically) bow their heads down in shame for not believing Mukta, when she tried to warn them the first time.

Surbhi is revealed to be Akash's maternal cousin. His mother Ekadashi orders him to kill Meethi but he falls in love with her. Meethi who fell for Akash too leaves the house. Kanha throws Surbhi out of the Thakur house.

Pregnant, Surbhi repents for her actions. During childbirth, she dies. Kanha forgives her and promises to raise their son Ajitesh as good and honest. As Vishnu and Mukta love each other, they get married and she later gives birth to Manav. Meethi and Akash reunite. She is accepted by his family.

Yuvraj, having undergone a plastic surgery, returns as Mukta's new boss for revenge. He eventually kidnaps and threatens to kill her. While saving Mukta, a pregnant Meethi loses her child and declares Yuvraj dead for her. Ekadashi banishes her. Meethi leaves for Srinagar.

Caught up in a terrorist attack by a man named Asgar, Meethi slips into a river and is transported by the current across the border to Gilgit in Pakistan. There she is rescued by Asgar's brother Aashfaq, a simple farmer who falls in love with her at first sight.

Meethi gets back to India with Aashfaq's help. He bids her a tearful farewell. Akash and Meethi reconcile. She adopts Akash and his first girlfriend Nandini's illegitimate daughter Rani. Nandini saves Akash from his old enemy and murders him. She is imprisoned.

Meethi and Akash adopt the enemy's daughter Tamanna, who is hates by Rani. Sumitra reforms. Afraid that Tapasya and Ichha's story might repeat, she and Damini eventually manage to convince Mukta and Meethi to reconcile. In the end Sumitra and Damini reflect the everlasting friendship of Ichha and Tapasya.

Cast

Main Cast

• Sparsh Khanchandani as Young Ichha (2008–09)
• Ishita Panchal as Young Tapasya (2008–09)
• Rashami Desai as Tapasya Rathore: Divya and Jogi's daughter; Ichha's friend; Veer's former wife; Raghuvendra's wife; Mukta's mother (2009–14)
• Tina Datta as Ichha Bundela: Damini and Rajendra's daughter; Tapasya's friend; Vansh's former wife; Veer's wife; Yuvraj and Meethi's mother, Kanha's adoptive mother (2009–13) / Meethi Chatterjee: Ichha and Veer's daughter; Yuvraj's sister; Kanha's adoptive sister; Akash's wife; Aashfaq's love interest; Rani and Tamanna's adoptive mother (2012–15)
• Nandish Sandhu/Vikas Bhalla as Veer Singh Bundela: Gunvanti and Umed's son; Vansh's brother; Tapasya and Amla's former husband; Ichha's husband; Kanha's adoptive father (2009–13)
• Rohit Khurana as Vansh Singh Bundela: Gunvanti and Umed's son; Veer's brother; Ichha's former husband (2009–10) / Rocky: Ruby's fiancé (2011-12)
• Sharhaan Singh as Siddharth Verma: Tapasya's ex-boyfriend (2009–12)
• Gaurav Chopra as Raghuvendra Pratap Rathore: Malvika's former husband; Tapasya's husband; Ambika and Mukta's father (2010–14)
• Sreejita De as Mukta Kashyap: Tapasya and Raghuvendra's daughter; Ambika's half sister; Vishnu's wife; Manav's mother (2012–15)
• Saurabh Raj Jain/Bharat Chawda as Yuvraj Singh Bundela: Ichha and Veer's son; Meethi's brother; Kanha's adoptive brother (2012–14)
• Gaurav S Bajaj as Aman Verma (2012)
• Mrunal Jain as Akash Chatterjee, Avinash and Ekadashi's son; Sankrant's brother; Meethi's husband; Nandini's former boyfriend; Rani's father; Tamanna's adoptive father (2012–15)
• Ajay Chaudhary as Vishnu Kashyap: Mukta's husband; Manav's father (2013–15)

Supporting Cast

• Pratima Kazmi as Sumitra Devi: Pushkar's mother, Divya's aunt, Tapasya's grandmother (2008–15)
• Vaishali Thakkar as Damini Bharti: Rajendra's wife; Ichha's mother; Thakur family's maid (2008–15)
• Ayub Khan as Jogi Thakur: Divya's husband; Tapasya's father (2008–14)
• Pragati Mehra/Pyumori Mehta Ghosh as Divya Thakur: Pushkar's cousin; Jogi's wife; Tapasya's mother (2008–14)
• Akanksha Awasthi as Rohini: Pushkar's wife (2008–13)
• Arun Singh Sharma as Pushkar: Sumitra's son; Divya's cousin (2008–13)
• Shamim Sheikh as Baldev Singh Bundela: Umed and Tej's father (2009–13)
• Akhil Mishra as Umed Singh Bundela: Baldev's son; Tej's brother; Gunvanti's husband; Vansh and Veer's father (2009–13)
• Beena Banerjee as Gunvanti Bundela: Umed's wife; Vansh and Veer's mother (2009–13)
• Monalika Bhonsle as Chanda (2009–13)
• Pawan Mahendru as Kasa (2009–13)
• Sunil Sinha/Kiran Karmarkar as Tej Bundela: Baldev's son; Umed's brother (2009–13)
• Chaitanya Choudhury as Kanha Chatterjee: Avinash's brother's son; Veer and Ichha's adopted son; Yuvraj and Meethi's adoptive brother; Surbhi's husband; Ajitesh's father (2012–14)
• Pranitaa Pandit as Surbhi Chatterjee: Ekadashi's sister's daughter; Akash and Sankrant's cousin; Kanha's wife; Ajitesh's mother (2012–14)
• Krutika Desai Khan as Ekadashi Chatterjee: Avinash's wife; Akash and Sankrant's mother, Meethi's mother-in-law (2012–15)
• Varun Toorkey as Sankrant Chatterjee: Ekadashi and Avinash's son; Akash's brother; Ambika's husband (2013–15)
• Arti Singh as Kajri Yadav (2013–14)
• Vividha Kirti as Ambika Chatterjee: Malvika and Raghuvendra's daughter; Mukta's half sister; Sankrant's wife (2013–15)
• Sonica Handa as Amla Bundela: Veer's former wife (2012–13)
• Rajesh Khera as Maharani (2014)
• Tiku Talsania as Colonel Swarnik Agnihotri (2014)
• Krip Suri as Asgar Mehrami: Saba and Aashfaq's brother (2014)
• Gaurav Vasudev as Babar (2014)
• Sahil Phull as Aashfaq Mehrami: Saba and Asgar's brother (2014)
• Anchal Sabharwal as Fida (2014)
• Shriya Jha as Nandini Mehra: Akash's former girlfriend; Rani's mother (2014–15)
• Rishina Kandhari as Malvika Rathore: Raghuvendra's former wife; Ambika's mother (2014–15)
• Madhura Naik as Nilofer (2014)
• Mansi Sharma as Saba Mehrami: Asgar and Aashfaq's sister (2014)
• Samiksha Bhatnagar as Zubieda (2014)
• Rakesh Pandey as Ansari Sahab (2014)
• Farida Dadi as Anjum (2008–11)
• Aastha Chaudhary as Madhura (2011)
• An unknown actor as Avinash Chatterjee: Ekadashi's husband; Akash and Sankrant's father (2011–12)
• Sharad Kelkar as Satyaveer Singh (2011)
• Shikha Singh as Kuki (2011)
• Priya Marathe as Ruby: Rocky's fiancée (2011–12)
• Harsha Khandeparkar as Sanchi Singh (2011)
• Arun Bali as Godman (2014)
• Vikas Sethi as Inspector Abeeran Mattoo (2010)
• Nikhil Arya as Inspector Suryakant Tarte (2011)

International broadcast

• In Nepal (Nepali Language) it began airing on DH Ramailo Tv as "Jadeuri" (Worn Out) at 9:30 PM NST.
• In Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani Language) it began airing on Dalğa TV
• In Pakistan (Hindi language) it began airing on Hum TV with the same title in 2010.
• In Kazakhstan (Kazakh Language) it began airing on Astana TV under the title Қыз ғұмыры in 2013 and ended in 2016.[13]
• In Armenia (Armenian Language) it began airing on Shant TV under the title Merjvace (Մերժվածը) in 2016.[14]
• In Indonesia (Indonesian Language) it began airing on ANTV on 21 September 2015. The series ended on 18 September 2016.
• In Sri Lanka, Tamil Language with Sinhala subtitles. In 2014, it began airing on Nethra TV under the title Sindhu Bhairavi (සින්දු භෛරවී).
• In Lithuania (Lithuanian Language), it airs on LNK under the title "Dvi širdys" (English: Two Hearts) in 2017.
• In Serbia, at PRVA TV (Hindi language, Serbian subtitles) under the title "Odbačena", meaning in English "Discarded" in 2012 and ended in 2015.
• In Bosnia and Herzegovina, at OBN TV (Hindi language, Serbian subtitles) under the title "Odbačena", meaning in English "Discarded" in 2012 and ended in 2015.
• In Romania (Hindi language, Romanian subtitles) it began airing on National TV under the title "Dragoste și Ură", meaning in English "Love and Hate". It started on 11 September 2015 and is currently on air.
• In South Africa, it began airing on Glow TV (DSTV 167, OVHD 108 and StarSat 570) under the title "True Love". It began in September 2017.
• In Turkey (Turkish Language) it began airing Kanal7(1080p60HD TURKSAT)Movie named "Kördüğüm". It is currently on air.
• In Macedonia, it aired on Alsat-M with Albanian subtitles from 2012 till 12 March 2018, where it aired the final episode in a one-hour special episode.
• In Bulgaria, it aired on Nova Television (Bulgaria) under the title "Моята карма" which translates as "My Karma"
• In Vietnam, it aired on VTVcab 5 - E Channel on 8:00 pm every weekend with 2 episodes (45–60 minutes per one) in 2019 (also aired on VTVcab 6 - HayTV on 6:00 pm every weekend in 2019 and HanoiTV 1 on 7:50 pm every day in 2018 but stopped) under the title "Con của người Hầu gái" (or "Con gái nàng hầu"), meaning in English "The housewife's daughter" and is currently on air.

References

1. "Uttaran episodes". Uttaran. 14 November 2014. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
2. "Uttaran to end on January 16". Times of India. 1 January 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
3. "Uttaran actor Sahel Phull to star opposite actress Nia Sharma". ABP News. 20 February 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
4. "Tina Dutta hosts a 'Uttaran' reunion at her place". Times of India. 29 June 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
5. "Tina Datta Goes Bold for a Calendar Shoot, Poses with a Nude Model". India.com. 14 December 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
6. "Pratigya and Uttaran in a TRP tussle". Times of India. 21 September 2011. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
7. https://m.timesofindia.com/tv/news/hindi/uttaran-actor-gaurav-chopraa-makes-a-comeback-on-tv-with-ek-shakti-ek-aghori/articleshow/68688424.cms
8. "Tina Dutta breaks down on last day of 'Uttaran'". Times of India. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
9. "Times of India".
10. "Telegraph".
11. "India today".
12. "India Forum".
13. "Odbačena krenula na Astana TV". Astana.kz. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
14. "Նոյեմբերի առաջին տասնօրյակում Հայաստանում ամենաբարձր դիտելիությունն ունեցել է "Շանթ" հեռուստաընկերությունը". National.am. 14 November 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2016.

External links

• Uttaran on IMDb
• Uttaran on Voot