Dekha Ek Khwaab

Dekha Ek Khwaab
Intertitle of Dekha Ek Khwaab.
Genre	Indian soap opera Drama Entertainment
Written by	Ritu Bhatia Ishita Moitra
Directed by	Sagar Kagra Deepak Thakur
Creative director(s)	Persis Siganporia
Starring	For entire cast see below
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	173
Production
Producer(s)	Shrishti Arya Goldie Behl
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	Approx. 20 minutes
Production company(s)	Rose Audio Visuals Pvt. Ltd.
Broadcast
Original channel	Sony Entertainment Television India and Sony Entertainment Television Asia
Picture format	720i (SDTV)
Original run	November 21, 2011 (2011-11-21) – August 2, 2012 (2012-08-02)

Dekha Ek Khwaab (English: Saw A Dream, Hindi: देखा एक ख़्वाब) was an Indian soap opera that aired on Sony Entertainment Television India and Sony Entertainment Television Asia. The series premiered on 21 November 2011^[1] and went off air on August 2, 2012.^[2]

Plot

The series revolves around a 19 year old girl named Moniya(Priyal Gor), who has a dream to become a Princess and eventually discovers that she is Rajkumari Manyata, the crown princess of Devgarh. Manyata was kidnapped at the age of three, and had been living with Murari Lal, the poor watchman kidnapped her in order to take revenge from her father, Maharaj Brijraj(Shahbaz Khan) when he drove his car over Murari's wife and children while drunk. She had been under the illusion that Murari was her father, and never gave much thought to why he was so protective of her. Murari had been hopping from one place to another to keep Moniya away from her real family.

Story line

After eleven years Murari takes Manyata to Mumbai, where Manyata's real family is also residing, she falls in love with a commoner named Akash Verma(Abhishek Rawat). There she finally gets to know about her past and is brought back to her own family, the Devgarh Royals. While Murari is put behind the bars. But Manyata acts rudely with her family, not believing the truth and attempting to run away. Yuvraj Udayveer Singh(Ashish Kapoor) of Jaigarh, to whom Manyata was engaged at the age of 3, tries to make friendship with her, and Manyata's relationship with him takes off with a very rocky start but they eventually become friends. As Uday finds out about Manyata's and Akash's love affair he becomes upset as he too has fallen in love with Manyata. Jainandini (Manyata's younger sister)(Shritama Mukherjee) gets mad about this as she has liked Uday since childhood. Rajmata Mrinalini Devi (Queen Mother of Devgarh and Manyata's paternal grandmother)(Aruna Irani) tries to keep Manyata away from Akash so that Uday can marry her. But Manyata finds out about this plan. Frustrated of all Uday calls Akash to meet him by a cliff where they end up fighting resulting with Akash falling over the cliff. Jainandini records their fight on her cell phone and starts blackmailing Uday.

While, on the other hand Manyata getting to know that Akash is missing, unknown of the truth, she takes up the goal to become a perfect princess. Rajmata wants to decide who the family's heir would be. She chooses Jainandini because of Manyata's irresponsible attitude but Manyata too voices her opinion. The priest hence arranges three exams to see who of the two should be the heir. Jainandini creates many obstacles for Manyata in this, she also tries to kill Manyata but Manyata wins and after she is declared the 21st heiress or Yuvrani of Devgarh she leaves Jainandini with a warning. After her coronation ceremony, Uday proposes to Manyata. But Manyata finds out how he pushed Akash off the cliff and hence she gets Uday arrested. Uday gets out of jail on a bail and informs Manyata about a contract between Rajmata and Uday's father, Maharaj Girijraj, which says that the Yuvrani of Devgarh will be married to the Yuvraj of Jaigarh (Heir of Jaigarh), but Manyata is nowhere to marry him. But after Uday states that the whole property of Devgarh has been brought by him and would be rightfully Manyata's only after their marriage, she is forced to marry him. At the same time Rajmata stays unaware about all the happenings as Jainandini, who is still ragging for revenge, makes Rajmata meet with a fall, which takes her to coma. On the other hand Jagat Singh Rathore (Jainandini's ex-fiance) comes back and Jainandini, who is determined to take revenge, starts using him. Manyata has to fight several problems created by Uday. Jagat tells Jainandini about one of his friends named Aryan Rai Chawdhury and he turns out to be Akash, alive, leaving Jainandini shocked. But he has turned evil and wants to harm the royal families while earlier he only wanted Manyata as Moniya without harming her family. While on the other hand, Manyata unaware about this gets to know the plans of Uday and her father, he also gets to know about Maharaj Brijraj, her father's ex-love, Maya and unable to take the pains of continuous revenges from Uday and his father against her and her family, she is forced to marry him. Manayta comes to know about Aryan, who claims that he is not Akash and tells him to be the fiance of a girl named, Tara, but finally agrees to be Akash. During Manyata's and Uday's wedding, Manyata realises her love for Uday and goes to meet Akash for the last time. But this does not go too well since Jaynandini sits on the bride's alter as Manyata. Uday realises it and turns hostile. Manyata comes back but it is too late and Uday breaks his marriage contract. Now, Jaynandini takes the opportunity and tries to win back Uday while Uday tries to make Manyata jealous. And the situation turns in the way that who would going to win Udayveer and his love back. In a party organised by Uday, Manyata gets upset seeing him dance with Jainandini and dances with him and she finally professes her love to Uday and he reciprocates to her feelings. However, Akash and Jainandini team up to create misunderstandings between them. Unnati threatens Jainandini to stop. While, on the other way Uday meets with an accident, due to anger initiated by a misunderstanding among him and Manyata, leaving her heart broken and lamented. Manyata spends day and night in prayers for Uday's well being. However, Manyata realises Uday's love for her after his lawyer informs Manyata that he had given her back her property which he bought earlier to take revenge. Uday getting to know about Manyata's prayers and devotion to get him back makes him happy. Jainandini too realises all the evil and cunning deeds done by her and apologizes, and Manyata eventually forgives her. Thus, Manyata and Uday finally reunite and the story ends on a good note.

Cast

• Priyal Gor as Rajkumari Manyata Kumari / Moniya
• Shritama Mukherjee as Rajkumari Jaynandini (Jai)
• Aruna Irani as Rajmata Mrinalini Devi
• Shahbaz Khan as Maharaj Brijraj
• Anita Kulkarni as Maharani Komal Devi
• Ashish Kapoor as Rajkumar Udayveer Singh / Uday
• Ankita Bhargava as Rajkumari Unnati
• Amit Behl as Maharaj Giriraj
• Mark Farokh Parakh as Vijayendra Singh / Vijay
• Sujata Sehgal as Menaka Singh
• Rajesh Jais a Murari Lal
• Kuldeep Malik as Doctor Saheb
• Abhishek Rawat as Aakash Verma / Aryan Rai Chawdhury
• Kunal Bakshi as Jagat Singh Rathore
• Falaq Naaz as Tara
• Disha Mansi Kumar as Maya

References