Lockdown Ki Love Story

Lockdown Ki Love Story (transl. Love story in lockdown) is an Indian television drama series that aired from 31 August 2020 to 23 January 2021 on StarPlus.[1][2] Produced by Rashmi Sharma Telefilms,[3] it starred Sana Sayyad and Mohit Malik.[4][5]

Lockdown Ki Love Story
GenreRomedy
Drama
Created byRashmi Sharma
Written byShanti Bhushan
Dialogues
Sanjay Masoom
Screenplay byShivangi Singh
Anubhav Proothi
Directed byPawan Sahu
Creative directorPavitra Kumar
StarringSana Sayyad
Mohit Malik
Opening themeLockdown Mein Phas Gaye Sajni Sajna
ComposerNishant-Raja
Country of originIndia
Original languageHindi
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes125
Production
ProducersRashmi Sharma
Pawan Kumar Marut
EditorMonu Singh
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time24–25 minutes
Production companyRashmi Sharma Telefilms
DistributorStar India
Release
Original networkStarPlus
Picture format576i
1080i (HDTV)
Audio formatDolby Digital
Original release31 August 2020 (2020-08-31) 
23 January 2021
External links
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Plot

Set in Prayagraj, the series follows the love story of Dhruv and Sonam who are forced to share a house with their respective families due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.

Dhruv's mother Nutan and his aunt Sheetal oppose their relationship due to Sonam's modern ways while her father Pratap finds Dhruv's family very backward in their thinking. The main supporters of the union are Sonam's mother Subhadra and Dhruv's father Shashikant. Despite Nutan, Sheetal, and Pratap' numerous plots, the wedding of Dhruv and Sonam was still on. Nutan, Sheetal, Pratap, and Tanu collaborated to stop their wedding. Their plan is to get Dhruv to marry his childhood friend Shweta (Milky),who has always had a crush on Dhruv. Milky persuaded Sonam to go to her mother to do bridal makeup while she impersonates Sonam as the bride. Sonam does so and Milky's mother manages to drug her to sleep. Sonam wakes up too late and witnesses Dhruv marrying Milky. Sonam tries to explain why she wasn't at the wedding, but Milky and Nutan place all the blame on Sonam. This went on to a point when Nutan burns herself intentionally. Dhruv, in a fit of rage, throws Sonam and her family out of the house.

Dhruv does not accept Milky as his wife, despite his mother's pleas. Sonam realizes the truth of what happened on the wedding day and decides to expose Milky to Dhruv as a cheat. Later, Sonam finds out she is positive for COVID-19 and the police force the Jaiswals to let her stay in the house as she was staying there before.

In an attempt to return Sonam to Mumbai, Dhruv sends kidnappers after her. However, the kidnappers mistakenly take Milky instead of Sonam. Hulchal and Babloo save Milky from the kidnappers but they call Milky's mother and demand she tell the truth about what happened on the wedding day to the Jaiswals in exchange for Milky. Their plan almost succeeds but Dhruv spoils it by finding Milky and bringing her back before Milky's mother could confess. Dhruv reveals that Sonam never had COVID-19 and it was all a ruse to get her in the house. Later when Dhruv wants to send Sonam out of the house Shasikant opposes his decision and decides to conduct a voting poll for Sonam to stay in the house or not. Sonam wins the voting poll and stays in the house. Later Nutan decides to Dhruv's future with a coin toss and Dhruv stops that. Later, he knows that both sides are tail so that his mother can win and reveals the truth to everyone.

Dhruv hears Sonam's side of the story and challenges her to bring him evidence of this in seven days. If she fails, Sonam will return to Mumbai on the eighth day. Now Raghav, Dhruv's estranged cousin, enters the story. He hates Dhruv and plans on using Sonam, with whom he is in love, to get revenge against Dhruv. He also has a video of Milky's mother admitting to what happened in the wedding.Due to a misunderstanding created by Raghav, Dhruv throws Sonam out of the house again where Raghav kidnaps her and tries to forcefully marry her. Dhruv rescues Sonam and finally sees the evidence. Dhruv confronts the conspirators and he decides to marry Sonam. In order to stop this, Milky tries to burn herself in the kitchen. She then files a case against Shashikant, Nutan and Sheetal, accusing them of burning her for dowry, in order to bring shashikant and nutan sonam makes a deal with milky and Raghav that if milky releases the Dhruv family then she will marry Raghav. Dhruv demands sonam to marry him after milky puts a fake acting in front of him that she realised her mistake and wanted to unite them. On the day of sonam and Dhruv's marriage sonam writes a letter to Dhruv apologizing to him and Dhruv rushes to sonam after he finds out that raghav is forcefully marrying sonam from raghav's mother sumitra. Dhruv and Raghav engage in a fight and Raghav shoots sonam but Dhruv saves her and took the bullet on her. The next morning sonam notices that Dhruv is acting like a child and he lost his memory. To cheer up Dhruv sonam dress up like a kid and helps Dhruv to face all problems he was facing because of the other childrens. Initially milky loved Dhruv but now she hates him because he is equal to a child and don't want him in her life so she kidnaps Dhruv with help of her mother but sonam finds Dhruv and a attacker tries to murder Dhruv but she saves him seeing her love for Dhruv Nutan apologises to Sonam for the mistrust. Nutan and sonam throw milky out if their home. But it is later revealed that milky made a child acted Dhruv sign on the house properties. Milky throws sonam and Dhruv's family out of their house. But milky blackmails Dhruv due to the stress Dhruv falls unconscious and admitted to the hospital.sheetal apologise to sonam and starts helping her to mislead milky and get back their house and they get successful Dhruv recovers and his memory returns. Dhruv and sonam decide to marry for which Sonam's father also accepts while Milky comes up with various ways to break Sonam-Dhruv’s marriage so she made a fake report of pregnant and murdered Dhruv friend bubloo as he hears her plans. Seeing this milky blackmails nutan to kill sonam otherwise she will kill the whole family. Sonam escapes after many attacks on her. On the other side Sheetal and Sonam try to find evidence about Milky faking her pregnancy. Soon, Sonam gets the evidence and marries Dhruv having the show end on a good note.

Cast

Main

  • Sana Sayyad as Sonam Goel: Subhadra and Pratap's daughter; Tanu and Amber's sister; Dhruv's wife
  • Mohit Malik as Dhruv Jaiswal: Nutan and Shashikant's son; Dheeraj and Sneha's brother; Sonam's husband

Recurring

  • Jayati Bhatia as Nutan Jaiswal: Shashikant's wife; Dhruv, Dheeraj and Sneha's mother. Initially hated Sonam for her modern ways of living, later accepts her.
  • Vijay Kumar as Shashikant Jaiswal: Nutan's husband; Shobhakant's brother; Dhruv, Dheeraj and Sneha's father
  • Kashish Duggal Paul as Subhadra Goel: Pratap's wife; Sonam, Tanu and Amber's mother
  • Rakesh Kukreti as Pratap Goel: Subhadra's husband; Sonam, Tanu and Amber's father
  • Ananya Agarwal as Sneha Jaiswal: Nutan and Shashikant's daughter; Dhruv and Dheeraj's sister
  • Ashutosh Tiwari as Dheeraj Jaiswal: Nutan and Shashikant's son; Dhruv and Sneha's brother; Ankita's husband
  • Deepika Upadhyay as Ankita Jaiswal: Dheeraj's wife
  • Nazea Hasan Sayed as Tanu Goel: Subhadra and Pratap's daughter; Sonam and Amber's sister
  • Ravin Makhija as Amber Goel: Subhadra and Pratap's son; Sonam and Tanu's brother
  • Ananya Khare as Sheetal: Shashikant and Shobhakant's sister; Dhruv, Dheeraj, Sneha and Raghav's aunt
  • Saahil Rao as Batasha: Dhruv’s cousin. His mother abandoned the Jaiswal family and eloped with another boy
  • Yash Choudhary as Hulchul: Dhruv's childhood friend
  • Abhishek Goyal as Bablu: Dhruv's childhood friend
  • Anjita Punia as Shweta "Milky” Gupta: Dhruv's childhood friend and his ex-wife.
  • Saniya Nagdev as Kutal Gupta: Milky's mother
  • Rajveer Singh as Munna Bhavani: Kidnapper
  • Aniruddh Dave as Raghav Jaiswal: Shobhkant and Sumitra's son, Dhruv's younger cousin brother
  • Adi Irani as Shobhakant Jaiswal: Sumitra's husband, Shashikant's younger brother; Sheetal's older brother; Raghav's father
  • Leena Badoli as Sumitra Jaiswal: Shobhakant's wife; Raghav's mother

Production

Development

Initially titled as Love Lockdown, it was renamed Lockdown Ki Love Story while in pre-production.[6] Shooting began in early August 2020.[7]

The show offered Malik the chance to sing on television with his own voice for the first time; in his previous role as a singer on Kullfi Kumarr Bajewala, his singing voice was dubbed.[8]

Days before the end of the series, lead actor Mohit Malik playing Dhruv tested positive for COVID-19 and did not shoot for the series and he was not shown in the series for last few episodes and for the finale episode, few of his parts was taken from the previous shots while some portions were covered with a dupe of him.[9][10]

Casting

Mohit Malik and Sana Sayyad were cast to play the leads;[11] Vijay Kumar, Jayati Bhatia, Deepika Upadhyay, Ashutosh Tiwari, Rakesh Kukreti, Kashish Duggal Paul, Ananya Khare and Nazea Hasan Sayed were also cast.[12][13][14] In November 2020, Aniruddh Dave was cast.[15]

Training

"My character in the show speaks Allahabadi dialect since he is based out of Prayagraj. When this role was offered to me, we were in the lockdown phase and I utilized that time to sharpen my hold over this particular dialect. Even when we use to do workshops with our scriptwriters, I spent extra time with them to understand the tone and tonality of the dialect/language."

Release

The first promo of the series was released on 15 August 2020 featuring the leads Sana Sayyad, Mohit Malik, and their clashing families.[17]

Cancellation

Due to decreased TRP's after the time slot change, the show was last aired on 23 January 2021.[2]

Reception

Weeks after premiere, the series saw a rise in its ratings from TRP of 0.9 to 1.3 gradually in its early prime time slot of 7:00 pm (IST).[18] However, on 2 November 2020, it was shifted to the late night slot of 11:00 pm (IST) by the channel to accommodate a one hour program Taare Zameen Par from 6:30 pm (IST).[19][20] Due to this, the ratings of the series dropped and multiple changes were made in the theme and storyline from being Romedy to a usual drama to increase the ratings which did not increase.[21][22][23] Thus, the series was off aired on 23 January 2021.[9]

References

  1. "Indiawaali Maa to Lockdown Ki Love Story: 5 new shows to premiere today". India Today. Archived from the original on 25 September 2020.
  2. "Mohit Malik unlikely to shoot for the finale episode of Lockdown Ki Love Story". The Times of India.
  3. "Indian Matchmaking' Host Sima Taparia To Play Cameo In Mohit's 'Lockdown Ki Love Story'?", Republic World, archived from the original on 28 August 2020, retrieved 28 August 2020
  4. "Mohit Malik's next show to be a love story". Bollywood Hungama.
  5. "Mohit Malik to return to small screen with 'Lockdown Ki Lovestory'". ABP Live.
  6. "Mohit Malik: If you are not talented, nobody will keep giving you chances". The Times of India.
  7. "Kulfi Kumar Bajewala fame Mohit Malik resumes shoot for new show; shares pic". The Times of India.
  8. Singh, Neeki (7 September 2020). "Mohit Malik To Sing A Special Number On His Show Lockdown Ki Love Story". Spotboye. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  9. "Exclusive: Mohit Malik likely to not shoot for the finale episode of Lockdown Ki Love Story". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021.
  10. "Lockdown Ki Love Story Ends: Here's How The Team Shot Its Climax Without Show's Main Lead Mohit Malik". Yahoo News. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021.
  11. "EXCLUSIVE: Mohit Malik opens up about his upcoming show Lockdown Ki Lovestory and his co-star Sana Sayyad". Bollywood Hungama.
  12. "Vijay Kumar talks about his show Lockdown Ki Love Story". The Tribune (India).
  13. "Caged emotion: Lockdown Ki Love Story beautifully combines fiction and non-fiction". The Tribune (India).
  14. "Mohit Malik learns Allahabadi dialect for his upcoming show 'Lockdown Ki Love Story'". The Times of India.
  15. "Aniruddh Dave on being a part of Lockdown Ki Love Story". The Tribune.
  16. "Mohit Malik learns Allahabadi dialect for Lockdown Ki Love Story". India Today.
  17. "In Video: The first promo of Star Plus' 'Lockdown Ki Love Story'". Biz Asia.
  18. "Exclusive: TV shows today have become like a T20 match, Mohit Malik on rumours of Lockdown Ki Love Story going off air". The Times of India.
  19. "'Taare Zameen Par' to air on time slot of 'Lockdown Ki Love Story'". ABP News.
  20. "Star Plus UK to air 'Taare Zameen Par' in 18:00 weekday slot". Biz Asia.
  21. "Exclusive: Lockdown Ki Love Story to go off air soon". The Times of India.
  22. "Mohit Malik from Lockdown Ki Lovestory shares video, saves Sana from the goon". The Times of India.
  23. "(Exclusive) Sana Sayyad: We actors have still not been informed about our show Lockdown Ki Love Story going off air". The Times of India.
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