Choti Sarrdaarni
Choti Sarrdaarni (transl. Brave woman) is an Indian drama television series that premiered on 1 July 2019 on Colors TV.[1] It stars Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia, Avinesh Rekhi and Kevina Tak.[2]
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Genre | Drama |
Created by | Ranjeev Verma Nitu Verma |
Written by | Story Ranjeev Nitu Screenplay Rahul Pandey Dialogues Rajesh Chawla |
Directed by | Jaladh. K. Sharma Rajeev Srivastava Prabhat Rawat |
Creative director | Pushpa Porwal |
Starring | Nimrit Ahluwalia Avinesh Rekhi Hitesh Bhardwaj Anita Raj Kevina Tak |
Theme music composer | Nishant Raja |
Opening theme | Aagayi ab Choti Sardaarni |
Country of origin | India |
Original languages | Hindi, Punjabi |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 396 |
Production | |
Producers | Rajesh Ram Singh Pradeep Kumar Piya Bajpayee Shaika Parween |
Editors | Paresh Shah Ayan Hashmi |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 22 minutes |
Production companies | Cockcrow Shaika Entertainment |
Distributor | Viacom 18 |
Release | |
Original network | Colors TV |
Picture format | HDTV 1080i |
Audio format | Dolby Digital |
Original release | 1 July 2019 – present |
External links | |
Voot |
Plot
Carefree and bubbly Meher falls in love with Manav, who runs a local restaurant. Mehar becomes pregnant with his child. Meher's mother, Kulwant learns about Mehar's pregnancy and her relationship with Manav, she refuses to accept Manav as he is financially unstable. Kulwant invites him to her house and stabs him and tries to kill her unborn child. She wants Meher to marry Sarabjeet "Sarab" Singh Gill who is the president of the ruling party in Attari, Amritsar. He is a widower with a five-year-old son, Paramjeet "Param". Kulwant forces Meher to marry Sarab, because she wants to become a MLA. At first, Meher refuses the marriage proposal but later complies to save her unborn child from Kulwant's ill intentions.
On their wedding night, she reveals to Sarab about her pregnancy and pleads to him to let her go as she wants to settle far away and bring up her child. Sarab gets angry but later promises her to have her settled in Serbia. However, Sarab, Meher and Param visit Serbia with new identity. Unfortunately, Sarab is accused of killing Meher and is arrested and taken to India and a case is filed. Meher is kidnapped by goons and comes to know about what happened to Sarab. Meanwhile, Mehar escapes from the goons after initiating a fire in the room. Meher comes to India and rescues Sarab from the false accusation with the help from her eldest brother, Jagjeet "Jagga". Sarab accepts her child as his own. Sarab and Meher tell Param about her pregnancy. Excited, Param reveals this to everyone. A grand party is organized celebrating Meher's pregnancy news. Harleen finds out that the baby is not Sarab's and blames Meher and demands her to abort the child or leave Sarab. Harleen's attitude towards Meher changes after that.
Eventually, Meher and Sarab start developing feelings for each other. Meanwhile, Meher's third brother, Ranbir "Ranna" marries Ginni. During the marriage, Meher gets injured and is taken to the hospital. They find out that Sarab can only save Meher or the baby. Sarab first chooses the baby but later he chooses Meher. However, Meher gives birth to a baby boy and she names the child as Karanjeet "Karan" Singh Gill. Still, Harleen refuses the baby but she accepts him as time passes.
In this time, Harleen and Sarab's half-sister, Dr. Aditi Kaur Gill enters into their life to take revenge due to her toxic past. After that, Manav who now has memory loss, returns as Vikram Diwan, a CBI officer. He falls in love with Dr. Aditi and also came back to take revenge from Kulwant and Sarab. Kulwant learns that Manav is alive. Meher and Sarab meet Vikram and Meher, who are shocked after seeing Manav alive, but later she accepts that Vikram is just his lookalike. Aditi gives Param a pump which can be a reason to his brain would stop to grow. But after realizing how much Param likes her, she changes her decision and decides to unite with her siblings.
During Vikram and Aditi's engagement, Sarab and Harleen find out that Aditi is their half-sister and reunite with her. However, Vikram gets flashes from his past of Manav during his marriage with Aditi. Vikram faints and is taken to hospital. He escapes from hospital and asks from his father, Suriya Pratab the reason for hiding his truth. Suriya reveals that how he finds Manav when he was stabbed after the death of his son, Vikram Diwan. After Manav recovers, Suriya introduced him as Vikram to his wife, Seema who was a heart patient. Manav is shocked after learning all of this. He learns that Meher is now in Serbia. Manav visits Serbia and meets Meher and reveals his truth. Shocked Meher ignores him because she is married. After so much circumstances, Meher and Sarab come back to India and celebrate their first marriage anniversary. During the celebration, Sarab gets shot and is sent to the hospital. Meher informs Sarab that Vikram is Manav and he is Karan's real father. Sarab is shocked and helps her to keep Karan with them. Soon, Manav learns that Karan is his son. He requests Meher to give him Karan but Meher refuses.
After that, Hell-bent Manav joints with Harleen's husband, Robbie and Pathak to get Karan's custody. They decide to show Karan's DNA report to Harleen. But, Pathak goes and blackmails Sarab. Sarab reveals Karan's secret to Punjab at a press conference. After learning truth, Aditi demands Meher and Sarab to give Karan to Manav. When Meher and Sarab refuse, she kicks them out of the Gill Mansion. Sarab and Mehar start living modestly with Param and Karan. Soon, the entire family go against Aditi. She regrets for her actions and asks for forgiveness. Manav hands over Karan to Sarab while telling that Sarab is the best father to Karan. Meher and Sarab are delighted on this. Manav leaves with Aditi after that.
Meher learns that Sarab's family accountant, Tarkash has been abusing his wife Aarti and tells Sarab. Sarab refuses to believe it. However, Meher finally unmasks Tarkash's demonic side to Sarab with evidences. After that, Sarab kicks him out of the house in anger. Meanwhile, on Yuvi's birthday, both Jagga and Meher receive messages to meet each other. Meher meets Jagga at outside and runs to hug him. But, Jagga is stabbed by somebody and he faints and dies in front of Meher. Meher screams. Police suspects Meher as the murderer and arrests her. Sarab tries his best to prove Meher's innocence while Kulwant disowns Meher and declares her dead. Unfortunately, in court, Meher is sentenced to life-time imprisonment for Jagga's death. She asks Sarab to care for their kids before she leaves.
Five years later
Now, Meher changed her name as Seerat and lives in Kashmir with her and Sarab's daughter, Seher. Sarab returns to India with Harleen and Karan while Kulwant teaches Yuvi to take revenge from Gill family. It's revealed that Tarkash killed Jagga and trapped Meher into this to take revenge.
Cast
Main
- Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia as Meher Kaur Gill (née Dhillon) aka Seerat: Kulwant's daughter; Jagga, Bittu and Ranna's sister; Sarab's wife; Manav's former fiancée; Param's step-mother; Karan and Seher's mother (2019–present)
- Avinesh Rekhi as Sarabjeet "Sarab" Singh Gill: Harleen's brother; Aditi's half-brother; Meher's husband; Simran's former husband; Param and Seher's father; Karan's step-father (2019–present)
- Aekam Binjwe as Paramjeet "Param" Singh Gill: Sarab and Simran's son; Meher's step-son; Karan's step-brother; Seher's half-brother (2021–present)
- Kevina Tak as Child Param Singh Gill (2019–2021)
- Kevina Tak as Seher Kaur Gill: Meher and Sarab's daughter; Param and Karan's half-sister (2021–present)
- Gaurika Sharma as Karanjeet "Karan" Singh Gill: Meher and Manav's son; Sarab's step-son; Param's step-brother; Seher's half-brother (2021–present)
- Aayat Khan as Baby Karan Singh Gill (2020–2021)
Recurring
- Anita Raj as Kulwant Kaur Dhillon: Meher, Jagga, Bittu, and Ranna's mother; Yuvi and Karan's grandmother (2019–present)
- Mansi Sharma / Simran Sachdeva as Harleen Kaur Bajwa (née Gill): Sarab's sister; Aditi's half-sister; Robbie's wife; Khushi's mother (2019–present)
- Krishna Soni as Rubinder "Robbie" Bajwa: Harleen's husband; Ginni's brother; Khushi's father (2019–present)
- Hanshika Rajput as Khushi Bajwa: Harleen and Robbie's daughter (2019–present)
- Hitesh Bharadwaj as Manav Sharma / Vikram Diwan: Meher's former fiancé; Karan's father; Aditi's husband (2019–2021)
- Drishtii Garewal as Dr. Aditi Kaur Gill: Harleen and Sarab's half-sister; Manav (Vikram's) wife (2020-2021)
- Abhishek Tanwar as Kaul Sahab: Meher and Seher's landlord (2021–present)
- Amal Sehrawat as Jagjeet "Jagga" Singh Dhillon: Kulwant's son; Meher's eldest brother; Amrita's husband; Yuvi's father (2019–2021) (Dead)
- Abhilasha Jakhar as Amrita Kaur Dhillon: Late Jagga's wife; Yuvi's mother (2019–present)
- Dhan Tejas as Yuvraj "Yuvi" Singh Dhillon: Amrita and Jagga's son (2021–present)
- Advit Sood as Child Yuvi Singh Dhillon (2019–2021)
- Abhishek Jangra as Baljeet "Bittu" Singh Dhillon: Kulwant's son; Meher's second brother; Jeeto's husband (2019–present)
- Yuvleen Kaur as Jeeto Kaur Dhillon: Bittu's wife (2019–present)
- Abhianshu Vohra as Ranbir "Ranna" Singh Dhillon: Kulwant's son; Meher's third brother; Ginni's husband (2019–present)
- Jinal Jain / Geetika Mehandru as Ginni Kaur Dhillon (née Bajwa): Ranna's wife; Robbie's sister (2020–present)
- Neelu Kohli as Vidita Bajwa: Robbie and Ginni's mother (2020)
- Dolly Minhas as Daljeet "Dolly" Shergill: Sarab and Harleen's aunt (2019)
- Neha Narang as Preeti Shergill: Dolly's daughter-in-law (2019)
- Avtar Gill as Avtaar Singh Kohli: Neerja's husband; Simran's father; Param's maternal grandfather (2019)
- Vineeta Malik as Neerja Singh Kohli: Avtaar's wife; Simran's mother; Param's maternal grandmother (2019)
- Shivendraa Om Saainiyol as Tarkash: Sarab's family accountant; Arati's husband; Ritu's father (2019–present)
- Shivani Gosain as Vijeyta Malik: Income tax officer (2019)
- Jai Vats as Dr. Surinder Sodhi: Gill's family doctor (2020)
- Mala Salariya as Dr. Sanjana Shinde (2020)
- Prakhar Shukla as Blackmailer (2020)
- Ranjeev Verma as Jolly Shregill: Dolly's brother (2019)
Special appearances
- Devoleena Bhattacharjee in a dance performance in sangeet ceremony (2019)[3]
- Meera Deosthale as Vidya Singh from Vidya (2019)
- Namish Taneja as Vivek Vardhan Singh from Vidya (2019)
- Salman Khan to promote Dabangg 3 (2019)
- Sonakshi Sinha to promote Dabangg 3 (2019)
- Sai Manjrekar to promote Dabangg 3 (2019)
- Arjit Taneja as Azaan from Bahu Begum (2019)
- Samiksha Jaiswal as Noor from Bahu Begum (2019)
- Taapsee Pannu to promote Thappad (2020)[4]
- Riya Shukla as Lavanya "Pinky" Kashyap from Naati Pinky Ki Lambi Love Story (2020)
- Helly Shah as Riddhima Vansh Raisinghania from Ishq Mein Marjawan 2 (2020)
- Amardeep Garg As Ganja Paaji From Radhe Krishna (2020)
Production
Development
Based in Amritsar, Punjab, the series is mainly filmed in Mumbai.[5] In November 2019, the honeymoon sequence was filmed in Serbia.[6]
On 12 September 2019, the shoot was held for 3 hours due to the fight by the workers’ union and Allied Mazdoor Union with producers owing to due in payments.[7]
The production and airing of the show was halted indefinitely in late March 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak.[8] The filming was halted on 19 March 2020.[9][10][11] The production resumed after three months and the show started airing again on 13 July 2020.[12][13] During the break, the main actors Rekhi, Ahluwalia and Tak shot a few episodes from their homes during the nationwide lockdown which streamed under Lockdown Special Episodes on Colors TV's official digital platform Voot.[14]
The production was halted again for few days from 1 September 2020 after cast member Krishna Soni tested positive for coronavirus.[15]
Reception
Critical response
The initial promo based on Gurudwara background of the series created disappointment between the Sikhs and a complaint protesting it was written to the channel by All India Sikh Students Federation as they considered some portrayal hurting their sentiments.[16]
Ratings
In week 41 of 2020, it became the fourth most watched Hindi GEC in urban with 5.281 million impressions.[17]
Crossover
In December 2019, Choti Sarrdaarni and Vidya had a crossover while Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha and Sai Manjrekar appeared to promote their upcoming film Dabangg 3.[18]
References
- "Colors launches 'Choti Sarrdaarni', A tale of a relentless 'Bahadarni". Indian Television.
- "Yeh Hai Chahatein and Choti Sardarni to air fresh episodes soon". The Times of India.
- "Choti Sardarni: Devoleena Bhattacharjee glams up Meher and Sarabjit's engagement ceremony". India Today.
- "Tapsee Pannu on the sets of Chhoti Sarrdarni". The Times of India.
- "Avinesh Rekhi, Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia and Hitesh Bharadwaj at the launch of Choti Sarrdaarni". The Times Of India.
- "Choti Sardarni: Avinesh Rekhi and Nimrit Ahluwalia shoot upcoming honeymoon sequence in Serbia; see pics". The Times of India.
- "Shoot of television show 'Choti Sarrdaarni' stalled for 3 hours over non-payment of dues". The Times Of India.
- "Television Industry in a Slump With the Lockdown". The Quint.
- "Coronavirus outbreak: Film and television shootings to stop till March 31". India Today.
- "COVID-19 impact: TV industry braces for loss as production stalled". Live Mint.
- "Entertainment industry welcomes Maharashtra govts move to resume filming projects". Outlook India.
- "Kumkum Bhagya, Choti Sardarni and other TV shows to resume shoot; get set to view fresh episodes". The Times of India.
- "Choti Sardarni new promo: Sarabjit and Nimrit are back with their fun banter to win hearts". The Times of India.
- "Choti Sardarni's Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia on shooting from home: Lighting to make-up, we do it ourselves". India Today.
- "Choti Sarrdaarni actor Krishna Soni tests positive for Coronavirus, the shoot comes to a halt". Bollywood Hungama.
- "Promo of new serial 'Choti Sardarni' irks Sikhs". Logical Daily.
- "Anupamaa becomes the most watched television show; Choti Sardarni makes an entry in top five". Times of India. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
- "Salman Aka 'Chulbul Pandey' Joins 'Choti Sarrdaarni', 'Vidya' Lead Stars For The Mahasangam Episode!". ABP News.