Dishayen
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The Serial Dishayen is the first Indian rating serial of the 21st century, shot by the TV company "Time Magnetics (India) Ltd" in the years 2001–2003 had one of the highest rating in India. Its first night show started successfully on the channel "DD-Doordarshan’s National Network" and revived the genre of "soap-operas". The originality of the TV serial Dishayen was in the idea of double roles. In grand cinema the scripts with twins and doubles were always successful. Combined shootings of the film allowed to use the effects of double persons. However, one thing is to shoot a three hour film when there is enough time for montage, and another thing when there are 261 episodes with continuing conveyor work. If one and the same actress plays two twins the shooting and montage are extremely nervous and time consuming. The cast of Dishayen was excellent in realization of this difficult task. The serial was shown several times by the channels "Channel 7-9" , "Ajman TV". The success of the serial was noticed in the homeland. The serial was bought by China, Hungary and reached the territory of Common Wealth of Independent States (CIS)
(Armenia
, Azerbaijan
, Belarus
, Georgia
, Russia
, Kazakhstan
, Kyrgyzstan
, Moldova
, Tajikistan
, Turkmenistan
, Ukraine
, Uzbekistan
). Thus, about two milliards people saw this serial. Now the serial production is one of the most demanded in India and many talented actors, producers and directors realize themselves successfully on TV. The production of TV serials is now powerful media-industry in India; its money turnover is comparable to that of Bollywood. Such producers as Ekta Kapoor (daughter of Jeetendra, sister of Tusshar Kapoor), Hasmukh Shah, Narendra Kessar, Milind Somand, Parvati Gopalan etc. One can suppose that now Purbi Joshi, Karan Oberoi, Sudhanshu Pandey (sex symbol from the "Band of Boys") Rajive Verma, Shagufta Ali, Vinita Mallik, Smita Hai, Jayaa Mathur, Rajni Chandra, Dharmesh Vyas and Reena Kapoor, who played in the serial Dishayen will become for the world public dear and desired guests on the TV screen.
- Season 1, Pooja Ghai - Season 2 ) - She is colonel Sharma’s daughter who dreams to become Bollywood star and arriving to Mumbai reaches her goal, sacrificing family happiness.
Neha ( she is played by Purbi Joshi
- Season 1, Pooja Ghai - Season 2 ) - She is the second twin daughter of colonel Sharma and Shila. She helps Nikita to realize her dream and become the film star substituting her at the wedding with Rajive. Thus, her dream to have her own family comes true.
Rajive ( he is played by Karan Oberoi
) - He is Samir’s stepbrother. He is weak-willed and indecisive in his actions and even in love. He can easily betray his ideals, but at the same time he is a loving son. He blames Samir’s criminal way of life, though he is worried for his destiny.
Sameer ( he is played by Sudhanshu Pandey
) - He is a masterful man of unrestrained nature who is in war with the law and at the same time he is able to love passionately and faithfully. He was ready for any crazy actions for Nikita: he could spoil his relations with his mother and even to sacrifice his life.
). Nikita dreams about the career of star in Bollywood, Neha is the simpler one. It so happened that the father of the twins (Rajiv Verma) wanted that his daughter Nikita, who dreams to be an actress, married handsome Rajive(Karan Oberoi
). Nikita in desperation tells her twin sister that she will commit suicide if Neha does not agree to substitution and marries Rajive. Nikita tried to persuade Neha saying that it was her wish to lead silent and calm family life.
At first conjugal night, just after ceremony, Neha says to her husband that she is not Nikita. Rajive answers that he knows of that substitution because Nikita told him about it and he agreed because he wanted a wife as Neha. At sisters’ home their aunt (Shagufta Ali) finds the truth. Almost immediately the sisters’ aunt informs the bridegroom’s mother Mrs.Gayatri(Vinita Mallik) about the substitution. The angry mother-in-law makes the false daughter-in-law leave her house.
Slowly, however, Neha makes her way into her in-laws hearts by her behaviour. The only exception is Sameer(Sudhanshu Pandey
), her brother-in-law. Sameer is the dark horse of the family. He is known as Baba in underworld, unknown to his own family. Unknown to everybody, he has also developed soft corner for Nikita. Nikita, on the other hand, gets a bigger punishment than deserved for her behaviour. A producer(Uday Tikekar) inebriates her and takes semi-nude pictures of her. He starts blackmailing her.
Nikita runs back to her sister and meets her secretly. She tells her sister everything. The twins decide to do something, but before that they suffer an accident. Nikita survives, but Neha goes missing. The in-laws of Neha think that Nikita has died, while Nikita realizes that if she wants to escape, she has to impersonate Neha. Her plan works and she is brought back to the house.
Unknown to her, Neha has survived the accident. Neha's memories are lost, but as everything comes back, Neha heads back to her in-laws. She is kept unaware of the truth by Rajive and Nikita. Meanwhile, Sameer kills Neha's and Nikita's cousin over a scuffle, and Rajive gets framed.
The parents of the twins are distraught by the turn of events, unaware of the fact that another tragedy is coming from an unexpected place. Enter Vishal(Narendra Jha
), a convict who is the illegitimate child of the twin's father. Vishal was brought single-handedly by his now dead mother. His only objective is to make his father pay for his sin.
As Vishal's identity is known, the mother of the twins spurns her husband. The twins, however, accept their brother. Soon, however, Neha and Nikita's world blows apart when Neha learns the truth. Neha is even more shocked to learn that Nikita is carrying Rajive's baby. This is particularly disturbing, as Neha herself is pregnant from Rajive. Neha confronts Rajive and asks him to divorce Nikita.
Meanwhile, Vishal also enemizes Sameer. The enmity escalates, till Sameer too learns the truth of the twin's pregnancy. This makes him distraught, as he realizes that he had a soft spot for Nikita. In a freak accident, Nikita loses her child. She sees that divorce from Rajive is imminent, which makes her doubly sad.
Strangely, her abortion brings her parents together and they accept Vishal as their son. Sameer, whose ego and pride are damaged beyond repair, mends fences with Vishal and turns himself up to police for investigation of his crimes. Neha, meanwhile learns that Rajive never served divorce papers to Nikita. She thinks that Rajive's fidelity is wavering.
Rajive, on the other hand, is disturbed because he is equally answerable to both the sisters. When Rajive fails to serve Nikita the divorce papers, Neha gets angered and threatens to divorce him. Sameer sides Neha and they both leave the house. However, accident plays its role yet again. Sameer and Neha suffer a brutal accident.
All the people go to meet them, but Sameer dies after asking apologies for all things done by him. When Nikita and Rajive go to see Neha, she has delivered twins. She handles the twins to Sameer and Nikita and dies. This also signifies the end of the story, as all the characters got what destiny had in store for them.
Commonwealth of Independent States
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(Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
, Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
, Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
, Georgia
Georgia (country)
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, Russia
Russia
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, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
, Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...
, Moldova
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
, Tajikistan
Tajikistan
Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....
, Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...
, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
, Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
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). Thus, about two milliards people saw this serial. Now the serial production is one of the most demanded in India and many talented actors, producers and directors realize themselves successfully on TV. The production of TV serials is now powerful media-industry in India; its money turnover is comparable to that of Bollywood. Such producers as Ekta Kapoor (daughter of Jeetendra, sister of Tusshar Kapoor), Hasmukh Shah, Narendra Kessar, Milind Somand, Parvati Gopalan etc. One can suppose that now Purbi Joshi, Karan Oberoi, Sudhanshu Pandey (sex symbol from the "Band of Boys") Rajive Verma, Shagufta Ali, Vinita Mallik, Smita Hai, Jayaa Mathur, Rajni Chandra, Dharmesh Vyas and Reena Kapoor, who played in the serial Dishayen will become for the world public dear and desired guests on the TV screen.
Cast
Nikita ( she is played by Purbi JoshiPurbi Joshi
-Biography:Purbi Joshi born on 19 August 1984 is the daughter of well known television actor Sarita Joshi and sister of Ketki Joshi . In 1995, Purbi got her first break in Faasle TV serial....
- Season 1, Pooja Ghai - Season 2 ) - She is colonel Sharma’s daughter who dreams to become Bollywood star and arriving to Mumbai reaches her goal, sacrificing family happiness.
Neha ( she is played by Purbi Joshi
Purbi Joshi
-Biography:Purbi Joshi born on 19 August 1984 is the daughter of well known television actor Sarita Joshi and sister of Ketki Joshi . In 1995, Purbi got her first break in Faasle TV serial....
- Season 1, Pooja Ghai - Season 2 ) - She is the second twin daughter of colonel Sharma and Shila. She helps Nikita to realize her dream and become the film star substituting her at the wedding with Rajive. Thus, her dream to have her own family comes true.
Rajive ( he is played by Karan Oberoi
Karan Oberoi
Karan Oberoi is an Indian television actor, anchor and singer, who acts in Hindi TV serials and TV commercials, most notably popular TV series Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin . He was also part of the Indipop boy band, A Band of Boys, formed in 2001, along with Sudhanshu Pandey, Sherrin Varghese , Siddharth...
) - He is Samir’s stepbrother. He is weak-willed and indecisive in his actions and even in love. He can easily betray his ideals, but at the same time he is a loving son. He blames Samir’s criminal way of life, though he is worried for his destiny.
Sameer ( he is played by Sudhanshu Pandey
Sudhanshu Pandey
Sudhanshu Pandey is an Indian model and Bollywood actor. He was born and raised in Uttar Pradesh. After a career in fashion modeling, he debuted in Bollywood in a 2000 movie Khiladi 420.-Filmography:- External links :* * * *...
) - He is a masterful man of unrestrained nature who is in war with the law and at the same time he is able to love passionately and faithfully. He was ready for any crazy actions for Nikita: he could spoil his relations with his mother and even to sacrifice his life.
Short content of the first season of Dishayen
According to the plot the serial narrates about two twin sisters Neha and Nikita (Purbi JoshiPurbi Joshi
-Biography:Purbi Joshi born on 19 August 1984 is the daughter of well known television actor Sarita Joshi and sister of Ketki Joshi . In 1995, Purbi got her first break in Faasle TV serial....
). Nikita dreams about the career of star in Bollywood, Neha is the simpler one. It so happened that the father of the twins (Rajiv Verma) wanted that his daughter Nikita, who dreams to be an actress, married handsome Rajive(Karan Oberoi
Karan Oberoi
Karan Oberoi is an Indian television actor, anchor and singer, who acts in Hindi TV serials and TV commercials, most notably popular TV series Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin . He was also part of the Indipop boy band, A Band of Boys, formed in 2001, along with Sudhanshu Pandey, Sherrin Varghese , Siddharth...
). Nikita in desperation tells her twin sister that she will commit suicide if Neha does not agree to substitution and marries Rajive. Nikita tried to persuade Neha saying that it was her wish to lead silent and calm family life.
At first conjugal night, just after ceremony, Neha says to her husband that she is not Nikita. Rajive answers that he knows of that substitution because Nikita told him about it and he agreed because he wanted a wife as Neha. At sisters’ home their aunt (Shagufta Ali) finds the truth. Almost immediately the sisters’ aunt informs the bridegroom’s mother Mrs.Gayatri(Vinita Mallik) about the substitution. The angry mother-in-law makes the false daughter-in-law leave her house.
Slowly, however, Neha makes her way into her in-laws hearts by her behaviour. The only exception is Sameer(Sudhanshu Pandey
Sudhanshu Pandey
Sudhanshu Pandey is an Indian model and Bollywood actor. He was born and raised in Uttar Pradesh. After a career in fashion modeling, he debuted in Bollywood in a 2000 movie Khiladi 420.-Filmography:- External links :* * * *...
), her brother-in-law. Sameer is the dark horse of the family. He is known as Baba in underworld, unknown to his own family. Unknown to everybody, he has also developed soft corner for Nikita. Nikita, on the other hand, gets a bigger punishment than deserved for her behaviour. A producer(Uday Tikekar) inebriates her and takes semi-nude pictures of her. He starts blackmailing her.
Nikita runs back to her sister and meets her secretly. She tells her sister everything. The twins decide to do something, but before that they suffer an accident. Nikita survives, but Neha goes missing. The in-laws of Neha think that Nikita has died, while Nikita realizes that if she wants to escape, she has to impersonate Neha. Her plan works and she is brought back to the house.
Short content of the second season of Dishayen
Nikita is well adjusted to the world of Neha's in-laws. She also realizes that she made a big mistake by refusing to marry Rajive. Meanwhile, Sameer, along with Neha's cousin try to make Nikita's life hell, not knowing the truth. Nikita slowly transforms to the dutiful wife Neha was and develops feelings for Rajive.Unknown to her, Neha has survived the accident. Neha's memories are lost, but as everything comes back, Neha heads back to her in-laws. She is kept unaware of the truth by Rajive and Nikita. Meanwhile, Sameer kills Neha's and Nikita's cousin over a scuffle, and Rajive gets framed.
The parents of the twins are distraught by the turn of events, unaware of the fact that another tragedy is coming from an unexpected place. Enter Vishal(Narendra Jha
Narendra Jha
Narendra Jha is an Indian actor known best for his role in the television series Ravan.-References:...
), a convict who is the illegitimate child of the twin's father. Vishal was brought single-handedly by his now dead mother. His only objective is to make his father pay for his sin.
As Vishal's identity is known, the mother of the twins spurns her husband. The twins, however, accept their brother. Soon, however, Neha and Nikita's world blows apart when Neha learns the truth. Neha is even more shocked to learn that Nikita is carrying Rajive's baby. This is particularly disturbing, as Neha herself is pregnant from Rajive. Neha confronts Rajive and asks him to divorce Nikita.
Meanwhile, Vishal also enemizes Sameer. The enmity escalates, till Sameer too learns the truth of the twin's pregnancy. This makes him distraught, as he realizes that he had a soft spot for Nikita. In a freak accident, Nikita loses her child. She sees that divorce from Rajive is imminent, which makes her doubly sad.
Strangely, her abortion brings her parents together and they accept Vishal as their son. Sameer, whose ego and pride are damaged beyond repair, mends fences with Vishal and turns himself up to police for investigation of his crimes. Neha, meanwhile learns that Rajive never served divorce papers to Nikita. She thinks that Rajive's fidelity is wavering.
Rajive, on the other hand, is disturbed because he is equally answerable to both the sisters. When Rajive fails to serve Nikita the divorce papers, Neha gets angered and threatens to divorce him. Sameer sides Neha and they both leave the house. However, accident plays its role yet again. Sameer and Neha suffer a brutal accident.
All the people go to meet them, but Sameer dies after asking apologies for all things done by him. When Nikita and Rajive go to see Neha, she has delivered twins. She handles the twins to Sameer and Nikita and dies. This also signifies the end of the story, as all the characters got what destiny had in store for them.