Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Ye (transl. It's a strange tale) is an Indian television soap opera produced by Ekta Kapoor under her banner Balaji Telefilms. The series was broadcast on Life OK.[1]
| Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Ye | |
|---|---|
 Logo of Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh | |
| Genre | Romance Drama |
| Developed by | Ekta Kapoor |
| Written by | Anil Nagpal |
| Directed by | Mujammil Desai Santram Varma Lalit Marathe |
| Creative director | Tanushree Dasgupta |
| Starring | See Below |
| Opening theme | "Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Ye" |
| Composer | Lalit Sen |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 107 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor |
| Production location | Mumbai |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 24 minutes |
| Production company | Balaji Telefilms |
| Original release | |
| Network | Life OK |
| Release | 7 October 2014 – 6 March 2015 |
The show was the television debut of Sonali Bendre in the fiction genre.[2][3] The title of the show Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh is inspired by the title song of the 1960 Bollywood film Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai.
The show was broadcast from 7 October 2014 to 6 March 2015.
Plot edit
Shobha (Sonali Bendre) is a middle-aged housewife married to a politician, Samarth (Harsh Chhaya). The couple has two little children and a seemingly happy marriage until Shobha discovers that her husband is having an affair, and is involved in corruption through a news broadcast. She is completely distraught and unsure of what to expect from life after it becomes the new national gossip, but she decides to pursue a career for the benefit of her children and her husband's innocent family.
Her new journey to be independent goes through major ups and downs, whilst she tries to figure out her seemingly arrogant, yet mysterious boss, Vikram Ahuja (Apurva Agnihotri). He inspires her to make an identity for herself and not rely on the one her husband has left her with. As she gets to know the man Vikram is, they form an unnamed, yet a divine bond. As her kids fall in love with the man too, their relationship becomes so strong that it's pure.
Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh is a rom-com that revolves around the lives of Vikram and Shobha, and their families—how they overcome their pasts for a better future.
Cast edit
Main edit
- Sonali Bendre as Shobha Sachdev[4]
- Apurva Agnihotri as Vikram Ahuja[5]
- Harsh Chhaya as Samarth Sachdev, Shobha's ex-husband[6]
Recurring edit
- Vivana Singh as Sarika Sachdev/Madhura Kashyap
- Alka Amin as Sharda Sachdev, Samarth's mother
- Devyansh Tapuriah as Rehaan
- Kreesha Shah as Jia
- Ruchi Savarn as Garima Ganguly
- Sandeep Rajora as Tarun
- Anurag Sharma as Sandeep
- Mihika Verma as Shikha
- Rushad Rana as Saurabh Ganguly
- Gaurav Nanda as Anil
- Prashant Chawla as Sanjay Ganguly
- Unknown as Abhay, Sarika's husband
- Garima Kapoor as Riddhima
- Preeti Gupta as Shobha's friend
Reception edit
Initially, the show was seen as fresh take on the saas-bahu trope in Indian television serials.[7] Explaining why the show was taken off air, the show's co-creator Ekta Kapoor said that audiences were not ready for progressive shows that showed a married woman choosing to move on even after her husband mistreats her.[8] In another interview in 2017, Kapoor said that the show was poorly received as the idea of a woman in a bad marriage moving out and leaving her husband did not match the general accepted thought process of a family despite the show's depiction of reality.[9]
References edit
- ^ "Sonali Bendre's show to replace 'Baawre'?". 27 August 2014. Archived from the original on 4 February 2023. Retrieved 10 October 2023 – via The Economic Times - The Times of India.
- ^ "Sonali Bendre is childlike, says TV actor Apurva Agnihotri". DNA India. Archived from the original on 26 April 2022. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
- ^ "Sonali Bendre enters fiction space on TV with Ajeeb Daastan Hai Yeh". Hindustan Times. Mumbai. IANS. 12 September 2014. Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
- ^ "Sonali Bendre was interested in Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh bEcause iT was a finite show - Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 7 August 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ "Sonali Bendre is childlike: Apurva Agnihotri". The Indian Express. 23 September 2014. Archived from the original on 25 July 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ "Harsh Chhaya to make comeback with 'Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Ye', says not interested in playing father". The Indian Express. 29 September 2014. Archived from the original on 25 July 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ "Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Yeh / Pilgrim's progress". The Indian Express. 24 October 2014. Archived from the original on 25 July 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ "Stop Calling Indian TV 'Regressive' – You're Part of the Problem". The Quint. 18 June 2016. Archived from the original on 25 July 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ "Ekta Kapoor on why nobody questions TV, ideas that didn't work and her dream to see Ranveer Singh on small screen". The Indian Express. 29 June 2017. Archived from the original on 25 July 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
