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Anamika is a female pop artist from India. She released her first album in 1996, Catwalk, which instantly got her to fame in the newly picking up ‘Indipop’ industry. She was also nominated for the Channel V awards category for Best album, Best female pop singer and Best video that year. She made contributions to the movie Auzaar with the song ‘Dil de de na’ alongwith singer, Jojo. In 1998, Anamika launched her second album Intezar, with some catchy numbers like Kaaala Sha Kaala, Nindra, Aaja Aaja and Kahi karta hoga intezaar.

Satyamev Jayate program is already a huge hit among audiences in India. The show is aired every Sunday and within 4 episodes it has acquired tremendous recognition and appreciation from audiences within India and abroad. The show tries to portray the ills and vices of Indian society whether it is dowry harassment, child sexual abuse, killing of girl infants, role of doctors and medicines in the society and other many other aspects of the society.

In the episode “Daughters are Precious” Aamir speaks about the brutal killings of unborn girls along with female feticide which is very disturbing. The episode integrated the collusion of doctors, families and a strange social structure that motivates the craving for a baby boy.

Female foeticide is very rampant in Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and other parts of northern India. The show illustrated that over 3 crore unborn girls have been killed since independence. The figure is really shocking without any doubt. After highlighting a sequence of social issues plaguing Indian society, actor Aamir Khan, in the 4th episode of his program turned the attention on healthcare and several malpractices in the medical occupation. Compromised ethics, dishonesty, shocking revelations in medical area were among problems highlighted by Aamir Khan with the assistance of experts and research. Navya represents the young and new generation of modern India. Navya is a 19-year old college student and a normal girl-next-door, who is actually confused about her existence.

She is very identifiable with the infancy of India. Navya obviously balances modernity & conventionality in her day-to-day existence without even intentionally thinking about it. Like any other teenagers nowadays, Navya has middle class upbringing, who continuously struggle between friends and parents to their kids. Her friends take pleasure in adequate freedom and one of them has a boyfriend. Navya clandestinely wishes for the same thing – somebody who would do soft things for her – however she is satisfied in her own life. As destiny would have it, Navya starts loving Anant, a boy from a conventional and conformist family.

Over time, the plot wonderfully captures Anant’s and Navya’s journey of affection, love and their tribulations and trials trying to stay exclusively Indian and yet moving forward with the times. The story centres round Jeevika and Maanvi who shared a unique bond comprising exceptional love and care for each other. Maanvi and Jeevika, raised in the upscale city of Delhi by their loving parents were unfortunately orphaned in childhood.

They settle into a middle class and traditional family in Rishikesh after losing their parents under strict discipline and strong values, which is undeniably a sharp contrast to their lives earlier. They grow up stifling many demands which they openly made earlier and had to encounter many challenging and interesting situations to fit into a traditional mould. Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon is a completely star-crossed love story portraying an appealing dissimilarity of personalities tangled in a relationship wavering between love & hatred. Arnav and Khushi have completely contradictory ideologies. If Khushi thinks of means, Arnav thinks only of ends. Khushi’s relations are very vital to her, while Arnav believes all individuals come with a value and can be influenced for one’s advantage. Khushi is an 18 year old girl from Uttar Pradesh, is straightforward, embedded in family and is focused by an obvious ethical compass.

She firmly stands for what she genuinely believes and never allows her inculcated values to go away. She will not transform herself to obey the rules of individual’s trivial expectations.

In severe difference, Arnav is a 28 year old, merciless, ‘win at all costs’ guy who thinks everything can be easily purchased in this world, including love. Arnav has no contemplation for relations and no doubts for utilizing & manipulating individuals as pawns to attain his objectives.

As the story moves ahead, their love-hate association witnesses a sequence of theatrical conflicts. Bade Acche Laggte Hai is the story of two strangers getting married and falling in love.

Priya is a happy go lucky woman in her early 30s, not married so far and quite sure that she wouldn’t be able to get married ever. She takes tuitions for college students and is happy with the world.Ram Kapoor, a wealthy man in his early 40s, is a ruthless entrepreneur who also believes that he has missed the bus of marriage.

But as fate would have it, they bump into each other through a minor car accident which hurts their egos more than their vehicles and then after a series of miscommunications and misunderstandings, destiny contrives once again to get the two married.What more surprises await Ram and Priya? Will they fall in love? To get these answers, watch Bade Acche Laggte Hai yeh dharti, yeh nadiyaa, yeh raina aur tum. Saath Nibhaana Saathiya is the story of a saas-bahu relationship retold through a young and simple girl's point of view, whose name is Gopi.Raised by her loving Mama and tyrannical Mami, Gopi has been bereft of the true love of a mother. She craves the same love, and hopes to win it from the family she is married into. Gopi's life is ruled by her Mami Urmilaben and her street smart cousin, Rashi, who undermine her and treat her like a servant. Gopi has no ambitions and is uneducated.

Her only dream is to have a loving husband and in-laws.Kokilaben Modi is a strong willed woman whose dream is to become a mother-in-law and rule over her daughter-in-law. Unlike Kokilaben, Hetal is a simple woman who tries to keep the family together. Kokila has raised her son Aham to only listen to her commands.

Aham is a workaholic and will let nothing come in his way to success.Kokilaben's husband, Parag, is the reason Kokilaben has been so strict with Aham's upbringing. She doesn't want Aham to turn into a couch potato like his father.

Koki also feels that if her husband would have done well, she would have got more importance in the family. Hetal's son Jigar, on the other hand, is sweet and simple like his mother and father, Chirag. Jigar is not as ambitious as Aham and works under Aham. Baa is Hetal and Kokila's mother-in-law and everyone loves and respects her.

Kokila, however, never listens to her and marches to the beat of her own drums.The story begins with Kokilaben's search for the perfect bahu for her son, Aham. She wants a simple and docile girl who she can rule over. Her search ends with Gopi. She marries off Aham and Gopi. It is the law of the universe that balance changes when something new comes in touch with something old and set in its way. The equation between a saas and a bahu is not any different. If the bahu walks the tight rope, the saas watches her do this with a hawk’s eye, even expecting her to falter at the very next step.Sanyukta Majumdar is the progressive matriarch who not only fulfilled her duties of a wife, mother and saas like an ideal housewife, she did so happily.

She wholeheartedly accepted Sushila, a one-time actress of mythological films as her eldest bahu, overlooking her colourful and childish persona. But Sushila is a child at heart, and like a child, who takes the criticism constructively, only to make the same mistakes again. Sanyukta has given up on Aniket who is irresponsible and slow in disposition making him unable to function like normal people.Of one thing Sanyukta is very clear, she wants her new bahu to not only fulfill her duties, but will do so as per the parameters set by her. This is a story where conflicts arise because diverse mindsets end up clashing for the very same goal, each other’s happiness! Diya Aur Baati Hum is the story of Sandhya's struggles, who dreams of becoming an IPS officer.

She dreams to break the boundaries of her confined existence of middle class values. The story is also about Sooraj, who is a self made man. Sooraj runs a famous sweet shop near his house.Sooraj and Sandhya get married under strained circumstances.

Sandhya will not be able to finish her graduation. Soon she is part of the family she does not even know. This story is about Sandhya's struggle to fulfill her dream and a journey where she finds help from the most unlikely quarter - a husband who can make it possible. Love stories happen when two people like each other. In this story, however, two people fall in love who have come together for all the wrong reasons.A boy who does not understand the meaning of love, but wants to acquire what he desires and a girl who is helpless and can save herself and her family only by giving into his demands.

This story is based in a small town of Allahabad, where the smallest thing happening in one’s house is known to everyone. People here, especially women, lead a very careful life.

Men openly dominate the house, college and society and nobody complains about it. They have accepted it as a part of life and try to find happiness in the margins.The Saxena family, however, is different.

Though they are traditional, they believe in educating their daughters without any hesitation. Pratigya and Arushi consider themselves lucky to be born into this family. Their father has left no stone unturned to ensure that his daughters have the same education as his son, despite social pressure.

They are a close knit family. With a very successful first season in 2008, Jo Jeeta Wohi SuperStar is back with Season II and this time it promises to bring the best of music through the best of talent. It showcases the most outstanding talent across singing reality shows in the past few years.The show comprises of 6 Champions, who are winners of singing reality shows and 12 Challengers, who are popular faces/runners up from the same shows who will compete against each other. The 6 Champions compete on Saturday and the one with the lowest score moves to the Challengers' group. The 12 Challengers battle it out on Sunday – the top 2 performers are up for public voting and the one with the highest number of votes moves to Champions group.

The weakest performer of the week is then eliminatedTwo renowned music directors, Shaan and Shantanu will be mentoring the Champions and the Challengers respectively. They are joined by renowned lyricist Swanand Kirkire on the panel as a judge.In its journey of 26 episodes, each episode will showcase an innovative musical challenge that has not been witnessed before. With a fresh take on music, the show promises 13 weeks of a never seen before musical extravaganza on Indian Television. Shararat is a magical comedy serial that was first aired on STAR Plus India, and it has been airing on TV Asia channel USA and is currently being aired on Disney Channel India and also on Star One. About the show- Once upon a time a woman by name of Rani Devi gained the blessings of a holy sage because of her acts of charity and kindness.The sage granted her with a boon of magical powers, which would be handed down to each daughter in the generations coming up. Some funny magic and a small story in every episode makes it interesting to watch and hard to skip.

It is repeated from time to time on other Star Channel (like Star Utsav) also. Son Pari is an Indian television TV sitcom which was telecasted on Star Plus.

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It ran for about 250 episodes successfully from November 23, 2000 to October 1 2003. This show had a very light but adventurous theme attached to it. The concept of this series revolved around friendship between a fairy tale and a small girl. In the story the girl finds a gem which has magical powers and when it is rubbed, a fairy and her friend Altu appears to help her in tough times. The fairy in this serial was popularly called as Son Pari due to her golden attire which she uses to wear.

The show represented very cheerful and fun filled moments of friendship between Son Pari and the little girl named Fruty. The fairy helps Fruty in day to day challenges and saves her father from being cheated by another woman who wants to marry him due to his property and riches. Tere Liye is a popular TV Drama series that airs on Star Plus. With nice story, excellent background music and awesome songs sung by singers like Kailash Kher the serial has got a good response.

It is a love story of Taani and Anurag from their childhood to the adulthood.Tere Liye Storyline: The story is about the selfless love between Taani and Anurag. Both of them grow together from childhood, adolescence finally to Adulthood with a deep bond of love between them. The love story is about how both of them meet in childhood and develop a beautiful and emotion full bond but circumstances separate them. Later both of them meet again and remember each other, and the connection between them, but only to get both of them separated again. Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi is a well-known Indian television daily show which has attained good recognition due to its strong characters and good story line. The main plot of the show revolves around Tulasi and Maheer Veerani.

Tulasi belongs to an average working class family while Meheer is a well know industrialist in the Mumbai city. The show which was first aired in the year 2000 ran continuously for 8 years before it ended in the year 2008. The show provided insight into all the challenges that women will have to face when she is married to a rich class family.

After boring people by relaying over 10,000 episodes it stopped,many people were happy. Ambar-Dhara was a famous TV Serial of Sony TV. It was a story of two twin sisters named Ambar and Dhara who were joined to each other by Body. But, they both were much different from each other. Ambar was a famous singer and Dhara was a famous student. In spite of this, they both were dearest to each other.

They faced many difficulties in their life as they lead a unique life. But, at last, they had to chose a normal life to lead after their operation and they were separated finally. The show was aired from 24 Sep. 2007 to 24 April 2008. It was a new concept and something different from normal daily soaps in India. The newest daughter-in-law that has been introduced on the Indian television but with a touch of modernized and free thoughts is what people will relate the character of Suhana playing the lead role in Star Plus’s new TV serial Sasural Genda Phool. Premiered on the March 8st 2010, this is an away from the league and usual Saas-Bahu serials that overall is a lighthearted witty story about Suhana that airs on Star Plus every Monday to Friday at 19:30.A pampered daughter of a Father who agrees to marry Ishaan who is a totally different character and lives in a family that is totally different from Suhana’s upbringing will showcase that how a girl who has sky-scraping desires in life adjust through this ordeal of marrying a very grounded human being named Ishaan.

Ayushmaan was a daily soap that aired in Sony TV. It was the story of a simple, talented, emotional and a 17 year old boy who wanted to become a doctor. But his father was against this profession.

But, Ayushmaan loved this profession so much that he joined a hospital against the will of his father and with the blessings of his mother. But, as he was very talented, many started to become jealous of him. But Ayush did not have any proud and he also did not protest. He was possessive and wanted to give his best.

But, in spite of that he had to see many tragedies and at last his own brother was against him. Balika Vadhu (Kachchi Umar Ke Pakke Rishte) is one of the most recent and most popular Hindi TV Serial. The serial broadcasts on Colors TV and after the broadcast of first episode on July 21, 2008 this has been a huge hit with high TRPs. Due to a different theme then the regular Saas Bahu Theme in Hindi Soap Operas, this is quite popular. It has been produced by Sunjoy Waddhwa & Comall Waddhwa and has already crossed 700 episodes mark in success. The theme behind the serial is Child Marriage which still prevails in some backward societies of India. India Calling was Hindi television serial which airs on the STAR One channel every week at 7:30 PM.

Into this story; Chandini is ordinary class girl who belongs to middle class living in Jalandhar city with her parents Ranjit Kapur and Meera Kapur and Beeji. Chandini dreams of going to Bombay. She is unaccustomed to nonstop pace of the city life. In backdrop of the call center, watch the Chandini’s struggles in her life. She is on journey for finding her sister named mini didi aka Manisha kapoor. India Calling has a title song which was aired together with the show.Chandni lands up into Mumbai for searching her sister.

Situations lead her to do job with the India Calling, the leading call centre. This story takes through life of Chandni at call centre and also her relationship with its owner named as Aditya. Aditya is city slicker, snob whose grandfather who owns call centre.

He also has elder brother, who is married. Kahin to Hoga was one of the most loved Indian soap opera from Balaji Telefilms, which aired for a duration of 5 long years from September 8, 2003 to February 15, 2007. Under the Production of Ekta Kapoor this show was a family drama which was filled with many turmoil’s and turns, thrilling action, romance and love amongst many varied couples casted in this series. The story when moves further becomes more interesting and keeps the viewer’s anticipation to a peak bringing them back to their television sets to watch what will happen next. The story mainly focuses on two lead characters Sujal and Kashish played by Rajeev Khandelwal and Aamna Shariff. There were many different characters in this show whose life was also portrayed with many twists and turns, but in the end the show ends on a happily ever after note keeping the audiences content.

This show won many Television Awards for best daily soap, as well as the actors who displayed their brilliant acting skills in this soap. Kasauti Zindagi Ki, produced by Balaji Telefilms and is yet another daily soap opera which is aired on Star plus. The show was aired in prime slot and has captured good amount of audiences for making it a successful soap opera. The story is about two lovers Aurag and Prerna. They are always put to test by their lives. Though they love each other deeply, their fate is such that they are never close to each other.

This does not stop them from loving each other. Both Anurag and Prerna go through lot of hurdles and tests which crops up each time a hurdle is passed. A beautiful tune and song is aired when both of them meet and this music makes the chemistry more better. Kasturi is yet another soap opera that is produced by soap opera queen, Ekta Kapoor from their Balaji Telefilms circuit. The serial was first aired in the year 2007 on star plus.

After a successful running for about 2 years, the show came to an end in the year 2009. Kasturi reached the spot of no.8 on Star TV top 10 television serials and title song was also quite a hit.

The story is about Kasturi Chawla, who hails from a well to do middle class family. She works for a famous rockstar – Robbie Sabharwal, after she graduates from university. Kumkum – Pyara Sa Bandhan is an Indian television soap opera aired from Monday to Friday at 1:00 PM on STAR Plus in India and 1:30pm in the UK. The soap opera tells the tale of the Wadhwa family and its admirable daughter-in-law, Kumkum. The show used to tell the story of the married couple of Sumit and Kumkum Wadhwa, but in an earlier episode, Kumkum was shot, and in that Sumit killed himself. They were reborn, with Sumit being very shy and living with a big family in Delhi and Kumkum being born as a fun-loving prankster with her family in a village.

Both hate each other after meeting in college, but due to some circumstances Sumit was kicked out of his house, and now they are acting as they are husband and wife in front of Kumkum’s family. Kavyanjali is the new daily serial that is aired on Star plus television channel. This is yet another show that has captured audiences from different parts of the country. Produced by Balaji Telefilms, the story revolves around the character Kavya Nanda.

The main theme is around the story that two lovers never meet inspire their souls love each other deeply. Circumstances and situations created around the two lovers make them to stay separately even though they love deeply. The show and its title song is positioned at no. 6 on the star plus all-time top 10 serials list. Millee was a TV serial that used to air on Star Plus. It was the story of an orphan girl, Milee who was very happy in her life. He had no tensions in her life and she just enjoyed her life.

But, she had to undergo many tragedies when she understood the value of relationships. In a word, though she was possessive and naughty, she had to see many ups and downs in her life with the flow of time. The story starts with Milee living in a orphan taken care by Nanny’s.

She is then sent to job in a rich family as a servant and later she finds out that the owner of the house is her father. She is very happy to finally find her father but he refuses to accept her.

She even falls in a love relationships in this serial. The serial has already ended and no repeats are currently scheduled. Entertainment television Colors has gained immense popularity in a short time and the credit to this success can be rightly traced to its serials which are entertaining as well as have a social message for all. One of such serials which have helped all to get familiar with the atrocities carried out on women is Na Aana is Des Lado. Through this attempt the creative team has successfully portrayed the fate of the rural Indian women who still suffer in the name of power and greed.

The music, the songs in, and the title song of Na Aana is Des Laado has also led to popularity of this show. Pavitra Rishta talks about the story of Manav, a poor mechanic, who fell in love with Archana at first sight.

However, he was saddened by the fact that it will be impossible to win her heart because her mother, Sulochana, vowed that she will find a rich and well-educated husband for her. Arcana is not well educated but she does the household chores without a flaw. She was about to marry a rich man before but the wedding was cancelled because her sister in law’s brother made stories about her, which made her husband to-be back out.

Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat is one the most popular shows on Star Plus channel and has been ranked at no 7 in top 10 rating of Star Plus. This TV Series was launched on 21 January 2008 and ran for more then 2 years successfully. The story of this serial is about Rani (a young girl) who is shy and simple. She is from a village and he mother is the only one working in house to earn money as her father has passed away.

Rani is very loving and caring to her family and she wants make them proud. Aside from her mother, there is her Dadi and a young brother in her family.

Like every girl if this age, she also dreamt of some charming and handsome prince would come and take her to his kingdom. A prince Yudishter enters into the show to make it more interesting. Saarthi is yet another daily serial which is aired on Star Plus. The show has been well received by many house wives due to its timing. Directed by Kaeed Kujarwala, the main plot of the story revolves around Dharma and aAdharma.

The story opens up by showing a rich family which believes in Indian tradition. The story picks up its pace when two brothers – Mansen and dharamdayal Goenka, choose different paths to reach their goals. While Mansen Goenka follows the path of dharma, Dharamdayal Goenka follows the path of adharma. Their father puts a condition to distribute the property if both the families stay under single roof. The ladli, a production of Diipendu data productions and now it is telecasting via Star Plus television each week day (Monday – Friday) at 10 p.m.

Since this is a teledrama which can be enjoyed with all the family members, now it has managed to become a popular teledrama in India. Because of the story flow of this ladli story, it managed to reach to this destination in a very short time with compare to other tele-dramas telecasted in a similar capacity. Also the director and all the technical team has taken some special efforts to keep the story much realistic than making a fiction. Along with that they have done some marvelous job while making dialogs and story line.

Because of these special efforts, the viewers have the chance to watch the drama without getting bored and they are always ending the story with some curiosity and viewers waiting till they telecast the next episode.