Begusarai (TV series)

Begusarai is a quaint quirky place in the hinterland of Bihar. It is the land of Phulan Thakur and his family, a land where bullets speak louder than words, where money and power are earned through bloodshed. Begusarai is a place where every man has to battle for his zar, zoru and zameen. Friday 1 April 2016, the show took a 20-year leap in its plot line and a whole slew of new characters were brought in. The show now goes on with the central character of Bindiya Thakur taking care of 5 grown sons who are being groomed to rule Begusarai in Unity, as she is paranoid about any woman coming between them and splitting them apart.

A new family has now been introduced to provide much needed inherent conflict to the plot. Abhimanyyu Raj Singh as the honest and upright Ramakant Misra, Veebha Anand as his principled daughter Ananya and Vijay Kumar Singh as his wayward son Mayank, form the small nucleus family. The father, has been recently transferred as Head Constable, to the Begusarai police station. Ananya is the romantic angle to the lead son of the Maa Thakurain, Shakti Thakur and Mayank is the romantic and conflict angle for Soni, the daughter of the Thakur family. The new family brings in ready conflict to the plot-line, as the children of the Thakur family come of age after the 20 year leap in the story. There is a happy ending when Bindiya realizes her mistakes and all of them apologize to Ananya. In the final scene, Ananya and Shakti are seen together.

Poonam Kumari (Shivangi Joshi) is an intelligent girl who dreams of higher studies. Priyom Thakur (Sarrtaj Gill), the son of Begusarai's Bahubali, Phulan Thakur (Narendra Jha), a ladies man, is Poonam's childhood best friend. Lakhan Thakur (Vishal Aditya Singh) is Priyom's cousin brother, who constantly is under Priyom's shadow and has loved Poonam since childhood. Lakhan and Poonam's marriage is set by Phulan Thakur, and at first Poonam is not happy, since she wants to continue her studies. Lakhan at first agrees to let her study and then get married, but he starts torturing Poonam. Phulan Thakur finds out about this and breaks Lakhan and Poonam's alliance. He then arranges Poonam's alliance with Priyom and they start to fall in love with each other. Lakhan, finding out about this alliance, starts to wreak havoc on Begusarai and the Thakur family. He kidnaps Phulan's grandchildren and Poonam decides to marry Lakhan, so he will leave the Thakur family alone ,leaving her and Priyom's Love .

While this is going on, Bindiya (Shweta Tiwari), a dancer enters Begusarai to make money by dancing in Begusarai events. She brings chaos into the Thakur family, which cause Lakhan to start hating Priyom, his brother Mithilesh (Darshan Dave), and Phulan. It is soon revealed that Bindiya has come to Begusarai with an agenda. Bindiya's father used to be the King of Begusarai, till Phulan Thakur killed him and took his place, and left Bindiya and her mother on the road. She has come to ruin the Thakur family.

Once Lakhan and Poonam get married, Lakhan once again starts to torture Poonam. Phulan asks Lakhan to move into the Thakur Haveli, and at first he denies the offer. Once Poonam tells Lakhan the truth about her and Priyom, Lakhan decides to test Poonam by moving into the Thakur Haveli. Priyom seeing how he is affecting Lakhan and Poonam's marriage, decides to marry, and gets fake married to Bindiya, not knowing her truth. Poonam sensing that Bindiya does not have the right intentions for the Thakur family, constantly butts head with her. Believing she is trying to break Priyom's marriage for her personal benefit, Lakhan moves further away from Poonam. Poonam learns about Lakhan's love for her and how he never hurt anyone when he was trying to woo her, changes her mind about Lakhan and starts to like him.

Phulan gets arrested in an kidnapping that Bindiya did and Thakur family is left distraught. Poonam starts changing Lakhan into a soft person and they start getting close. Priyom constantly gets mad at Bindiya's antics and tries to change her into a better person. Then enter Datta ji, a man with old traditions and who believes men are the best, and women are nothing but servants. When Priyom, Mithilesh, and Lakhan's sister Guddi (Richa Mukherjee) gets pregnant with Poonam's brother's child, Datta ji decides to get her married to the next person he sees. Poonam's brother dies in an accident and Datta ji decides to bury Guddi and her child alive. All the women of the Thakur family get together with all the women of Begusarai and save Guddi from Datta ji and send him to jail.

Poonam starts to blame Lakhan for her brother's death and Lakhan decides to free Poonam from their marriage. They start living separately. Bindiya changes and becomes a good person. She and Priyom start to love each other, and he becomes the Bahubali of Begusarai. Priyom's older brother Mithilesh gets jealous of Priyom and decides to start his own business. When his business partner cheats him, he tries to kill the business partner and Priyom tries to stop him. In the ensuing battle, Priyom becomes collateral and dies by Mithilesh's hands. When Bindiya learns the truth, she decides to get revenge on Mithilesh. The entire family opposes her, except for Poonam and Lakhan. When she decides to file a case against Mithilesh, but loses when Badi Amma (Sulbha Arya) locks Poonam in the supply closet. Datta ji gets out of jail and comes back into the Thakur Haveli. He strips Bindiya in front of entire Begusarai and drowns her alive. Lakhan and Poonam try to save her, but are not able to. He also tries to kill Guddi and her child, but Poonam and Lakhan save her.

Poonam and Lakhan finally reveal their feelings for each other and start a new relationship. Bindiya is revealed to be alive, and comes back to get revenge against the entire Thakur family for not coming to save her. She gives mercy to Lakhan and Poonam, but tortures the rest of the members of the family, and even kills Datta ji. Choti Amma's granddaughter, Komal (Rati Pandey), comes to visit her while Bindiya becomes the Bahubali of Begusarai. Komal starts to fall in love with Lakhan and starts to help Bindiya financially, by bringing her a business partner named Sarkar. Sarkar demands a lot of Bindiya which causes Guddi to lose her child and Lakhan and Poonam to almost get a divorce. The Thakur family goes against Bindiya and Komal and try to figure out who Sarkar is. Sarkar is revealed to be Choti Amma (Madhvi Gokhte), who wants to get revenge on Thakur family and brought Komal to Thakur Family. In a chase between Komal and Choti Amma and Lakhan and Mithilesh, Komal's car falls off a cliff and Choti Amma and Komal die. Bindiya is revealed to be pregnant with Priyom's child.

A couple months later, Poonam and Mithilesh's wife, Maya (Vaishnavi Dhanraj), have also become pregnant. When all three daughter-in-laws are celebrating their baby shower and doing a puja by the river, Guddi gets pulled into the water. Everyone looks for her, but not in time and they find her dead body. It is revealed that Komal is actually alive and killed Guddi. Komal then kidnaps Mithilesh and Poonam's father, in demand that Poonam leaves Lakhan. Mithilesh and Poonam's father try to run away, but Poonam's father dies in the ensuing chase. Poonam decides to surrender herself for the safety of the Thakur family. Lakhan finds Poonam and Komal, and shoots Komal in the chest. Poonam falls unconscious and Lakhan takes her to the hospital. At the hospital some goons kidnap Poonam and it is revealed that Komal was saved after she got shot. Komal shoots Mithilesh and Lakhan and Poonam dies during childbirth. Bindiya takes the baby and decides to raise him as her own.

• Shweta Tiwari (Season 1–2) as Bindiya Priyom Thakur/Maa Thakurain: A ex-dancer; Priyom's wife; Garv's mother; Shakti, Amar, Adarsh, Samar and Soni's namesake mother (2015–2016)
• Sartaj Gill (Season 1) as Priyom Phulan Thakur; Phulan's younger son;Mithilesh, Rajkumar and Guddi's brother; Poonam's childhood friend turned ex-fiancé; Bindiya's husband; Garv's father ; Soni and Shakti's Uncle. (2015)[3]
• Vishal Aditya Singh (Season 1) as Lakhan Thakur: Poonam's husband; Bhushan and Rekha's son; Priyom and Mithilesh's and Guddi's cousin; Shakti's father ; Soni's and Garv's Uncle. (2015–2016)
• Shivangi Joshi (Season 1) as Poonam Lakhan Thakur / Poonam Kumari: Lakhan's wife ; Munchita's Daughter; Priyom's childhood Best friend turned ex-fianceé; Shakti's mother (2015–2016)
• Vishal Aditya Singh (Season 2) as Shakti Lakhan Thakur: Poonam and Lakhan's son; Bindiya's namesake son; Ananya's husband (2016)
• Rati Pandey (Season 1) as Komal Thakur , Choti Amma's granddaughter , Later, she loves Lakhan (2016)
• Ankit Gupta as Garv Thakur; Priyom and Bindiya's son
• Vibha Anand (Season 2) as Ananya Thakur / Ananya Mishra : Ramakant's daughter; Mayank's sister, Shakti's wife (2016)
• Aalisha Panwar (Season 1) as Najma ; Ponam Childhood and Best Friend (2015)
• Sulbha Arya (Season 1) as Badi Amma Thakur ; Mithlesh ; Lakhan ; Priyom ; Rajkumar And Guddi's Grandmother ; Bhushan And phulan's Mother. (2015–2016)[3]
• Narendra Jha (Season 1) as Phulan Thakur; Mithilesh, Priyom, Guddi and Rajkumar's father, Lakhan's uncle, Adarsh, Amar, Samar, Soni and Garv's grandfather (2015–2016)
• Vaishnavi Dhanraj (Season 1) / Kanishka Soni (Season 2) as Maya Mithilesh Thakur; Mithilesh's wife; Adarsh, Amar, Samar and Soni's mother (2015–2016)
• Darshan Dave (Season 1) as Mithilesh Thakur; Priyom, Guddi and Rajkumar's elder brother, Phulan's elder son, Lakhan's Cousin Maya's husband, Adarsh, Amar, Samar and Soni's father (2015–2016)[3]
• Harshh Sethi (Season 1–2) as Bhusan Thakur; Rekha's husband; Phulan's younger brother; Lakhan's father; Shakti's grandfather [3]
• Malini Sengupta (Season 1–2) as Rekha Bhushan Thakur; Bhushan's wife; Lakhan's mother; Shakti's grandmother
• Riya Deepsi as Soni Mithilesh Thakur
• Richa Mukherjee as Guddi Phulan Thakur;Phulan's daughter Priyom, Rajkumar, Mithilesh's younger sister , Dolt's Love Interest
• Abhimanyyu Raj Singh as Ramakant Mishra/Baba
• Parichay Sharma as Amar Mithilesh Thakur
• Manish Naggdev as Adarsh Mithilesh Thakur
• Mukul Raj Singh as Samar Mithilesh Thakur
• Aru Krishansh Verma as Raj kumar Phulan Thakur; Phulan's youngest son; Priyom, Mithilesh and Guddi's brother
• Sudesh Berry as Manohar Thakur/Dadaji[3]
• Saptrishi Ghosh as SP K N Rai
• Mithli Jain as Mayank Mishra
• Madhavi Gokhte as Choti Amma
• Nikhil Mehta as Dolt Munchita Kumar: Munchita's Son ; Poonam's Brother ; Guddi's Lover
• Ankit Mohan as SP Avinash Srivastav
• Dheeraj Miglani as Ghungroo
• Vineet Raina as Bhanu
• Nandini Singh as Shravani

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