Diya Aur Baati Hum
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Genre Indian soap opera
Romance
Dramedy
Created by Shashi Sumeet Productions
Written by Shashi Mittal
Anshuman Sinha
Seema Mantri
Raghuvir Shekhawat
Directed by Sumeet H Mittal
Rohit Raj Goyal
Starring See Below
Theme music composer Shubha Mudgal
Kailash Kher
Opening theme Diya Aur Baati Hum
Country of origin India
Original language(s) Hindi
No. of seasons 01
Production
Producer(s) Shashi Mittal
Sumeet H Mittal
Editor(s) Jay B Ghadiali
Location(s) Pushkar
Ajmer
Singapore
Delhi
Karnal
Hyderabad
Latur
Mumbai
Cinematography Sudesh Kotian
Sunil Vishwakarma
Rashid Beg
Production company(s) Shashi Sumeet Productions
Broadcast
Original channel Star Plus
Picture format 576i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Original airing 29 August 2011
External links
Official website
Diya Aur Baati Hum is an Indian television soap opera on the Star Plus. It started airing on 29 August 2011 and airs Monday through Saturday evenings. It stars Anas Rashid and Deepika Singh as the main protagonists.
Contents [hide]
1 Dubs
2 Plot summary
3 Cast
3.1 Former cast
4 References
5 External links
Dubs[edit]This show is formally released in Hindi and is known as Diya Aur Bati Hum on Star Plus. It is also dubbed in Tamil and known as En Kanavan En Thozhan and in Telugu known as Ee Tharam Illalu. The series is also remade in Malayalam as Parasparam on Asianet, in Bengali as Tomay Amay Mile on Star Jalsha and in Kannada as Akashadeepa on Asianet Suvarna. It also airs on Pakistan's Urdu channel Urdu 1. The old episodes are also aired on STAR Utsav. The serial drama is also dubbed in Sinhala in Sri Lanka on Sirasa TV channel using the name Swapna. It also airs in Romania on Naţional TV as Destine Implinite and in Bulgaria on bTV (Bulgaria) as Svetlinata na moya jivot.
Plot summary[edit]Diya Aur Baati Hum is the story of Sandhya as she trains as an Indian Police Service 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 owns a famous sweet shop near his house.
Sooraj and Sandhya get married under strained circumstances. Sandya struggles with her strict mother-in-law who does not accept that her daughter-in-law could become a police officer. The story shows how a husband becomes his wife's strength and helps her to fulfil her dream. Sooraj gets the title of World's Top Cook. Sandhya completes IPS training and wins the Best Cadet Trophy. The programme now shows her work as an ASP in Pushkar.
Two terrorists come to Sandhya's house disguised as a simple poor woman and Sooraj's helper. They mislead Sooraj and others that Sooraj has to go Dubai. So everyone makes preparations to go to Dubai. Chaturi, Bhabo and Sooraj go to Dubai but their flight was hijacked by Disha-Sooraj's helper, Prema and their head called Baiji(Maya) Rajkumar's sister. Flight 2310 is hijacked while they are on the plane. The hijackers demand for Rajkumar's freedom. They kill 3 people and everyone's lives are in danger. Sandhya manages to capture them with the help of Zakir and Arjun. They kill Maya, Prema and Disha. But unfortunately Bhabo gets shot while she was saving Sooraj. Baba sa blames Sandhya for all this, while Sandhya and Zakir get praised all over the country.
Bhabo's one kidney gets damaged, but is save and comes back home. Sooraj also thinks that Sandhya has done wrong and does not treat Bhabo has her mother. He removes Sandhya out of Rathi house. Bhabho is shocked by Sooraj's decision. Ankur and Ankita take Sandhya to their home. Bhabo makes attempts to reunite Sooraj and Sandhya but fails. Sandhya receives orders to go to Scotland for training. Sandhya with heavy heart decieds to go, so that Sooraj can stay happy.
Meanwhile, Bhabo's health gets deteriorated and other kidney also gets damaged. Doctor tells that Bhabo needs kidney and her kidney transplant must be done immediately. Sooraj and family arrange for a kidney, but Sooraj comes to know that the lady who is going to donate kidney to Bhabo is not doing willingly and her husband was forcing her to do so because of money. Sooraj saves that woman and refuses to take her kindey. The entire family says that he must have thought of Bhabo before doing this. At this point, Bhabo explains to Sooraj that he thought of humanity first and saved the woman, in the same way Sandhya thought of saving all the passengers and the country first as if the terrorists wolud be alive then they would kill lakhs of people. Hearing this, Sooraj and Rathi family realize their mistake. A secret donor donates her kidney to Bhabo.
On Republic Day, Sandhya receives award for her bravery. Soraj goes to take award on behalf of Sandhya and apologizes to Sandhya in front of everyone. Sandhya sees this function on TV and goes to meet Sandhya. Sooraj apologizes Sandhya and brings her back home. Sandhya, after returning to Rathi house is sad and tries to stay away from Sooraj. Ankur plan a trip for Rathi family to Mumbai. At Mumbai, Sooraj notices Sandhya's behaviour and thinks that she is hiding something from him. Then he comes to know that the person who donated kindey to Bhabo is none other than Sandhya. Sandhya takes promise from him to not to reveal this truth to anyone.
Bhabo tells Sooraj and Sandhya to now think of their child. After returning to Pushkar, Sandhya comes to know that she is pregnant. On Holi, Sandhya eats laddoo of Bhang and reveals that she is pregnant. Sooraj is extremely happy by this news. Rathi family rejoices and Bhabho takes extra care of Sandhya. But to everyone's worry, Sandhya develops the disease of sleep-walking and at one night was to fall from the terrace cliff but Sooraj saves her. Bhabo and Sooraj are worried about her condition. Sandhya's doctor reveal that she is going to give birth to twin babies. On Ankur's request, Rathi family moves to his house as his house is save for Sandhya.
Cast[edit]Anas Rashid as Sooraj Arun Rathi
Deepika Singh as A.S.P. Sandhya Sooraj Rathi
Ashok Lokhande as Arun Rathi
Neelu Vaghela as Santosh Arun Rathi
Karan Goddwani as Vikram Arun Rathi
Kanika Maheshwari as Meenakshi Vikram Rathi
Varun Jain as Mohit Arun Rathi
Pooja Singh as Emily Mohit Rathi
Sehrish Ali as Chhavi Dilip
Varun Khandelwal as Ankur Arvind Kothari
Aryan Sharma as Chotu
Urmila Sharma as Dai Sa
Kanishka Soni as Dai Sa's Bahu
Former cast[edit]Gautam Gulati as Former Vikram Arun Rathi
Neil Bhatt as A.S.P Zakir Siddiqui
Devashish Sharma as S.P. Rajeev Ranjan
Rashmi Pitre as Chaturi
Deepak Gheewala as Dado Sa
Ragini Shah as Maa Sa
Rakesh Kukreti as Arvind Kothari
Surbhi Tiwari as Kanchan Arvind Kothari
Urmila Nimbalkar as Former Ankita Ankur Kothari
Nupur Alankar as Kisna
Kiran Bhargava as Malti Agarwal
Pallavi Rao as Kajri
Eijaz Khan as Abhimanyu Singh
Preeti Chaudhary as Kavita Sharma
Manini Mishra as Officer Agrima Singh
Charu Asopa as Roma Reddy
Alan Kapoor as ASP Rahul Kapoor
Keith Sequeira as Officer Roy
Arjun Punj as Arjun Chaudhary
Gaurav Sharma as Rajkumar
Vindhya Tiwari as Prema
Jyoti Sharma as Disha
Gurdeep Kohli as Maya
Special appearances
Aamir Khan, host of Satyamev Jayate (TV series), with the cast of Diya Aur Baati HumAamir Khan to promote Satyamev Jayate
Salman Khan to promote Dabangg 2
Shahrukh Khan to promote Chennai Express