Sunaina (TV series)

Sunaina is a television series on Pogo channel.

Plot

The show revolves round a fifteen-year-old girl called Sunaina Mathur and the crazy world she lives in. Her typical family, a crazy set of friends, and a school where you break all the rules are the backdrop. It is a half hour family sitcom where each time, you enter the world of Sunaina and her friends and deal with her bizarre problems and their even more bizarre solutions.

The protagonist Sunaina has a gift. Her dreams tend to come true. Either on an actual level or a philosophical level. They are the crux of every episode. This uncanny ability is a close guarded secret between Sunaina and her group of close friends. Her family does not know about it.

How her day will go is dictated by her cryptic dreams, which she must share with her friends. The dreams are like solved mysteries, and the bulk of the story is based around how she and her friends decipher it and set out to solve it. If the dream is something good, then she and her friends look forward to solving it. If its something bad, she and her friends cook up a plan and will do all they can to offset it. But as a constant, every day, Sunaina gets up and decides to solve a problem related to her dream. And how she creates a problem bigger than the problem she dreamt about is the inherent comedy of errors of the series.

The dreams could be about herself, her family, her friends, her school teachers, people she has read about, Shahrukh, Hrithik, Darryl Hair, the rude lady she met at the bus stop yesterday, a courier man who she is waiting for etc.. (Basically anyone who is present in her subconscious mind and she is mentally aware of...)

The basic connect for the average kid/family viewer is that everyone dreams. We all try to decipher our dreams. Sometimes we hope our dream comes true. Some we don’t. Most of us just forget. And here is a girl whose dreams come true uncannily.

We sometimes wish we were like her, and sometimes were glad we are not her. But every day, we all wish to see how Sunaina tackles her problem for the day and what kind of mess she makes out it and yet manages to emerge victorious/battered but wiser.^[1]

About The Show

Here comes Sunaina, a regular teenager (well...almost), with a wonderful family and really cool friends! But her life is far from normal. In fact, it is more like a roller coaster ride! That's because she has one bizarre ability – what she dreams comes true! In her mad scramble to prevent some things from coming true Sunaina always lands herself and her family and friends in an even bigger mess!^[2]

Character

Sunaina Mathur: Sunaina is your typical next door, except for the fact that her dreams become reality. She is just 15 and likes to do what every other 15 year old does. Go to school, hang out with her friends, fight with her brother and much more. But most of her time is usually spent finding out what hidden meaning her dreams had! When she is not busy with her dreams she usually spends time with her friends Ritu and Nina, drools after Rohan Ranthava and play Tennis. She is so brilliant in Hindi which helps her to take advantage on Rohan for studies.

Nina Kutty: Nina is the exact opposite of Ritwika. She is the leader of the pack and doesn't always believe in Sunaina's dreams coming true.She however reluctantly takes part in piecing the dream together! She is extremely confident and takes decisions spontaneously. Not all of them are right ones however and she usually pays them later. She also scolds Ritu for being so romantic and asks her to choose something sensible. The only time Nina wobbly in the knees is when Rohan Ranthava walks By.

Sohail Shaikh: Sohail's claim to fame is his acting talent. He is a born performer. Studies don't come as easily to him through. He is extremely laid back and is full of wise cracks. He also believes he has the solution to everything. Every time he says "Trust me! Main hoon Na, the girls know that it spells trouble. He is the most enthusiastic about everything Sunaina and her friends do, but somehow at the first signs pf trouble Sohail is the most difficult person to find. He hates his studies and loves enjoying his life completely. He hates Rohan Ranthava as the girls are always behind him dying to be his girlfriend.

Ritika Bhattacharya: She is been Sunaina's friend since second grade and always stands by her. She is a die hard romantic and also very much emotional. Every time she hears of a new dream, she paints the worst-case scenario and scares everybody including herself. She is very unsure of her self and believes anything anybody tells. Unlike the other girls she loves Rohan Ranthava and tries to impress him.

Geethika Mathur: Sunaina's mom is an actress in television but her home is always her first priority. Some of the roles she chooses to do are a source of fun for the rest of the family but she does them anyway. She is very keen on cleanliness and keeps polishing her cutlery. Being an actress she is also very particular about her looks. She is a compulsive worrier and always worries about what Sunaina does and always nags her about everything.!Unlike sunaina's father, her mother looses her temper very easily.She is very keen about paintings and love them.

Vijay Mathur:As far as Dads go, he is the coolest. He is very close to his daughter and she can talk to him about anything. He owns his own restaurant called the Flaming Dragon, where he loves to experiment with Chinese cuisine. Unfortunately for Sunaina, he uses her as a guinea pig for all his new recipes. He loses his phone always as though there has been a memory charm. Once,he lost his phone and troubled Sunaina.

Rishabh Mathur:Rishabh is Sunaina's 10 year old kid brother. He and Sunaina have a typical sibling relationship and are always fighting. He is a gizmo freak and loves playing video games especially BEN 10, It was revealed that he carries his BEN 10 toys and video games to school as seen in 'The Haircut', he also looses attention outside the environment as seen in 'The Thief Episode'. He is scared of his enemy "Sameer" whose mother is a good friend of Geethika Mathur. He also wears think glasses because of his constant gaming,but doesn't like it when anybody teases him about it. He hates being treated like a child by his mother who is always molly coddling him.

Rohan Randhava: He is the lover boy in their school "Springfield". Every girl wishes to be his lover. He doesn't have brains and goes behind Swagathika for copying notes and solving problems in Maths. He calls her Sugu and Nina hates it. The first episode of Sunaina starts with the dream of Sunaina and Rohan. He needs good help from Sunaina for learning Hindi as she is very brilliant in it.

Miss Malpekar: She is their class teacher. She teaches maths and science for them. Gives them a whole lot of homework even for weekends for which Sohail hates her. She like Swagathika as she is very studious. She hates when people call her Mrs Malpekar. After every sentence she says O.K which frightens everybody. Once, after Sunaina's dream she was transferred to teacher for smaller classes despite the fact she hates and feel kiddish taking them. When the new teacher turned into a nightmare they changed the new teacher with the older one.

Principal Shastri:He is the principal of Springfield High School. He is a very funny guy who uses a lot of "that" in his sentence. For example: I always said he "That" and everybody asks him "What Sir". He has a niece named niharika

One-time Appearance Characters

Niharika:The niece of Principal Shastri, she once came and became friends with Sohail, but Sunaina, Nina and Ritu stopped her from becoming Sohail's girlfriend by telling lies to her about Sohail (like he breaks girls cycles, gets his shoes polished, chooses a Girlfriend every month) after breaking up with Sohail, she fell in love with Rohan.

Ms.Malika Malphatia: A substitute teacher in Sunaina's class for Biology and Maths after Ms. Malpekar fractures her leg. She became a permanent teacher from Sunaina's plan, but after becoming a permanent teacher, she became too strict and again from Sunaina's dream's, Ms. Malpekar came back and Ms. Malphatia left the job.

Cast

• Palak Jain as Sunaina Vijay Mathur
• Umang Jain as Nina Kutty
• Jayshree Soni as Ritika Bhattacharya
• Devansh Doshi as Sohail Shaikh
• Mridula Sathe as Swagatika
• Kalika Vatnani as Ms. Malpekar
• Kaustub Thakare as Rohan
• Lalit Parimoo as Principal Shastri
• Pragati Mehra as Geethika Mathur
• Nitish Pandey as Vijay Mathur
• Markand Soni as Rishabh Mathur

References

External links

• Official Sunaina Website