Bhagonwali-Baante Apni Taqdeer

Bhagonwali was an Indian daily soap opera that aired on Zee TV. The series premiered on December 6, 2010.^[1] It is produced by Samidha Khalid's Creative Lab. It tells the story of Runjhun who brings good luck and fortune wherever she goes. However, her own life is riddled with misfortune and hard work because of her circumstances. This show went off air on February 17, 2012 ending with a total of 318 episodes.^[2]

Plot

The story is set in Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh. Runjhun is an orphan. Runjhun's place and role in the house is that of an unpaid servant. In spite of this, she is treated very rudely and selfishly by her uncles and aunts. However, Runjhun remains cheerful, ready to do any work. Runjhun's maternal grandmother tries to shield her from the cunning uncles and aunts after she comes to know that Runjhun is a 'bhagonwali' who can bring good luck and prosperity wherever she goes. However, Runjhun's aunts plot against her and get her married to a local goon Guddu Shukla who agrees to live with them. Runjhun challenges Guddu that she will prove him as a good human being and husband.

Guddu starts showing signs of changing but his friend Jabbu points it out and takes him to a bar. Runjhun goes searching for Guddu and with the help of Kukkan finds him but to her horror he was in the arms of a prostitute. They have an argument that night in which he leaves the house; in a later episode he is shown unconscious and he is admitted into a hospital. Runjhun helps him recover. Runjhun's Amma requests Guddu to take Runjhun from her evil uncles and aunts. He plans to take her, but she does not want to go.

Guddu confesses his love. She is finally about to leave her uncles and aunts when they use her cousin Mahadevi's wedding as an excuse for her to stay back. She stays and soon finds out Mahadevi is pregnant with Jabbu's baby, and Jabbu refuses to accept her and their child. Mahadevi makes her swear that she will not tell anyone about the pregnancy.

Mahadevi's leaves the house for an abortion. Guddu happens to be in the same hospital and he hears the nurse call out Runjhun's name. He goes in the room and see's Mahadevi. She reveals to him that Jabbu is the father of her child. He takes her out of abortion saying he'll get Jabbu and her married. Jabbu refuses to wed Mahadevi and instead tells Guddu of all the bad he's done to Runjhun before marriage. Runjhun comforts Guddu saying she knows he is trying his best and she's proud of him. Mityho (Mahadevi's mom) suspect something wrong. Mahadevi ends up getting married to Kukkan while Guddu takes Runjhun to their home. Runjhun's aunts and uncles reveal to her that she is a Bhagonwali in hope of her returning to their house. Guddu tries to get close to Runjhun but she backs away (scared that he is only using her). Runjhun doubts are growing and she decides to go back and live with her aunts and uncles. Guddu realizes she is drifting away from him and wants to live separately. He ends up putting all his property in her name and decides to leave the city. Runjhun soon finds out and tries to stop him from leaving while dealing with obstacles created by her aunts and uncles and Jabbu.

Runjhun finally reaches the train station and confesses her love to Guddu. They share happy moments and Runjhun turns a deaf ear to her aunts and uncles. They almost consummate their marriage, but stop due to frequent disturbances from neighbors and situations that keep them form coming close to each other. Runjhun soon finds out from a baba that she has a big problem with her horoscope: According to her kundli, the men in her life (father, husband and son) will die. So she stays away from Guddu and does not allow him to make love to her. She asks the same baba if there is a solution. She is told that she will have to perform a certain ritual and pooja on the day of a solar eclipse. With Guddu on her side she does everything told to her by the baba, and finally Guddu and Runjhun make love.

Mahadevi finds out about her parents' bad intentions towards Guddu and Runjhun, and starts to like Kukkan. Runjhun's aunt and uncles burn down her house to seek revenge. Later on, their house gets auctioned. When Guddu buys it he throws them out allowing Kukkan and Mahadevi to stay along with Runjhun's grandma. Runjhun sees her aunts and uncles suffer and feels bad for them while Guddu tries to tell her they deserved it.However Runjhun feels bad for her mama and mami's so she tries to help them and because of this Guddu tells her to leave the house. Guddu and Runjhun's relation turns for the worse as Nilu (Guddu's ex-girlfriend) returns. Nilu gets Runjhun kidnapped. She gets away. After while Guddu finds out that Nilu was behind Runjhun's kidnapping. Nilu forces Guddu to get married with him by threatening him with not telling Runjun's whereabouts. Guddu and Nilu get married. Runjhun escapes and try to stop the marriage from happening, but Runjhun gets shot by Jabbu. Nilu takes Guddu to where Runjhun is but Nilu is killed by the person who kidnapped Runjun. The kidnapper goes to jail. Guddu goes to search for Runjhun. He finds her, but she lost her memory. Her mama and mami tell her she is Juta mata rani. She believes them. Guddu breaks her from her mama and mami houx and takes her home. Guddu tries to make Runjhun regain her memory, but his efforts are futile. Runjhun gets attached to Mahadevi's child and demands to have a child so that she can be a mother just like Mahadevi. Runjhun asks Guddu to marry her but Guddu says no initially, but eventually accepts Runjhun's proposal. When they got married again Runjhun gets her memory back and all her mama and mami happily accept her and love her. All the family got together and Runjhun now really become Bhagonwali.

Cast

The following is a list of the cast members and the characters they play on the television show:^[3]

• Nivedita Tiwari as Runjhun Mishra Shukla
• Himmanshoo A. Malhotra as Guddu Shukla
• Rita Bhaduri as Ahilya Devi (Nani)
• as Bantu Pandey
• Vaishali Nazareth as Billo Pandey
• Sagar Saini as Rajju Pandey
• Mona Ray as Mittho Pandey
• Jyotsna Chandola as Maha Devi Pandey
• Madan Tyagi as Vishnu Pandey
• Suruchi Verma as Kalsanwali
• Jayesh Yadav as Kukkan
• Aashutosh Tiwari as Jabbu
• Supriya Kumari as Neelu
• Aakash Pandey as Khabri Tiwari
• Ankit Bathla as Abhigyan

Awards

Zee Rishtey Awards 2011 Favourite Mastikhor Sadasya - Guddu Shukla^{[citation needed]}

References