Date: 16th January 2010, By: Rejesh Puri, Himani Shivpuri, Moulli Ganguly & Troupe
Shakuntala Mehra is a successful business woman living with her husband Dushyant, who has no significant role either in her personal or in her professional life. Their daughter Deepu married against her mother’s will and is subsequently estranged. Their son Siddharth returns from abroad during his study break and his mother sends him to look after the power plant at Karnal.
Sonia, the girl chosen by the great Shakuntala Mehra as a perfect wife for her is also a childhood friend of Siddharth. Shakuntala plans a big celebration party to announce the engagement of her son to Sonia where she and Dushyant have a tiff as to whether Deepu should be invited or not. Siddharth returns from Karnal and drops a bombshell that he has already married a village girl Suhani whose simplicity had him hooked. Shakuntala Devi allows her to stay but is tracing Suhani’s background while Suhani tries to learn English and adapt to high society lifestyle which generates both, humour and confusion.
Shakuntala discovers that Suhani is an orphan and was involved in a lot of fraud cases and exposes Suhani in front of Siddharth and offers her huge money to leave Siddharth. Bur Siddharth who is in love with her does not leave her. Suhani with her pure heart teams up with father-in-law Dushyant, servant Bansi and Shahuntala’s secretary Pyarelal and creates a situation where Shakuntala has to reunite with her pregnant daughter. Suhani also resolves the disputes at Karnal project which would have otherwise jeopardized the projects.
In short, this girl proves that it’s not only one’s social standing and education that determines ones nature; Life teaches lessons which are far more exemplary. It is during the climax that certain realities are unveiled which provide a unique twist to the tale and put Shakuntala in a fix where she has to make a choice between her long held beliefs and the recent realities that have dawned on her.
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HIMANI SHIVPURI
Her big commercial break came with Sooraj R. Barjatya’s Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!
She made her television debut with TV serial Humrahi, directed by Kunwar Sinha. Thereafter she became a regular feature on Indian television, starring in serials like, Kasautii Zindagi Kay, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi as Raksha. Chandni, Dollar Bahu, Josh, Ek Ladki Anjaani Si and most recently in Ghar Ek Sapna, and India Calling.
Though she acts mainly in character actor, she has done some memorable roles in films like Koyla, Pardes, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Anjaam and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.
Over the years she has worked for many films productions houses including Yash Raj Films (owned by director Yash Chopra), Rajshri Productions and Dharma Productions and Dharma Productions (owned by Yash Johar).
She has been recently seen in the J.P. Dutta’s film Umroo Jaan.
MOULLI GANGULY
She enacted the role of Shaina in the popular K-series soap Kahiin Kissi Roz for three and half years and just sometime back she was acting the role of the protagonist’s wife in Resham Damkh. She had made a mark in the silver screen as well by her role in the film Raincoat by the renowned filmmaker Ritupormo Ghosh.
She recently participated in the reality show Nach Baliye 2 and also was working in the serial Aatthvan Vachan.
PRANAV TRIPATHI
Is one of the most respected names on the Indian theatre scene. His plays have traveled widely in India & abroad. He has produced the following plays:
Kuch tum kaho, kuch hum kahein.
(Starring: Smriti Irani & Apara Mehta)
Kahani mein twist hai.
(Starring: Sangeeta Ghosh & Kiran Karmarkar)
Bapuna Rajma Lilaleher (Gujarati)
(Starring: Arvind Rathod)
Conceived “Tarkash” the live poetry recitation by Javed Akhtar.
Cast:
Rejesh Puri, Himani Shivpuri, Moulli Ganguly, Hemant Jha, Pooja Damania, Piyush Ranade
Yogesh Tripathi, Anand Mastana, Rishi Jha, Nimesh Dillpral
