Udaan (2014 TV series)

Udaan
Also known as	Udann Sapnon Ki
Genre	Drama
Written by	Robin Bhatt Javed Siddiqi Sameer Siddiqui (Dialogues)
Starring	Meera Deosthale Sai Ballal Varun Sharma Sehban Azim Vijayendra Kumeria Paras Arora
Opening theme	"Ye Honslo Ki Udaan Hai"
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	839 as of 4 August 2017[1]
Production
Executive producer(s)	Gurudev Bhalla Dhaval Gada[2][3]
Producer(s)	Mahesh Bhatt[4]
Location(s)	Delhi[2]
Camera setup	Multi camera
Running time	Approximately 24 minutes
Distributor	Gurudev Bhalla Productions
Release
Original network	Colors TV[5]
Picture format	16:9 (HDTV 1080i)
Original release	18 August 2014 (2014-08-18) – present
Chronology
Related shows	Resham Jhapi (Remake in Bengali )
External links
Website	colors.in.com/in/shows/udaan-3652.html

Udaan (English: Flight, Fly) (also known as Udann Sapnon Ki) is an Indian television drama show that premiered on 18 August 2014^[6] and airs on the Colors TV channel,^[7] Monday through Friday.^[8] The show is produced by Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt^[9] and is based on his unreleased movie of the same name.^[6] It stars child actor Spandan Chaturvedi in a lead role.^[10] The first promo for the show was released on 10 July 2014.^[11]

The series is dubbed into Tamil as Poovizhi Vasalile on Raj TV and broadcast Monday through Saturday at 8:30pm. It has been dubbed into Telugu as Vasantham on E TV and it airs every Monday to Saturday at 4:00 pm. It is also dubbed into Sinhala as Dhoni on Hiru TV and broadcast Monday through Friday at 6:30 pm. It is rebroadcast as Sathi Aga Dhoni on Saturday and Sunday at 5:30 pm. It is also broadcast in Bengali as Resham Zhapi on Colors Bangla.

Udaan highlights the issue of bonded labour in Indian villages.^[12]

Plot summary

Set in 1996 in the village of Azadganj, Udaan is the story of the bonded labourers of a wealthy landlord, Kamal Narayan Rajvanshi. Chakor (Spandan Chaturvedi), is kept as servant under him. While Chakor's mother, Kasturi Bhuvan (Sai Deodhar), is pregnant with her, Kasturi's father, Hariya, dies in an accident. Bhuvan has nothing to donate in Hariya's funeral resulting him to beg for money from Kamal Narayan. Instead, his wife Tejaswini suggests that they have to keep the unborn child as a collateral. The couple agrees that the child can be Rajvanshi's bonded labourer. Kasturi gives birth to a daughter, Chakor. Tejaswini allows them to take her home for seven years; then she must be brought back to Rajvanshi to serve.

After seven years, Chakor enters the haveli. She is a fearless, kind-hearted, and intelligent girl. In the haveli, she meets and befriends Vivaan Rajvanshi, Manohar Rajvanshi's son. With Vivaan's help, Chakor escapes the haveli but is dragged back into slavery by Kasturi again. While being supported by Ishwar Rawat, she dreams of freedom. Ishwar adores Chakor like his daughter and wants her to be educated. Chakor goes to school, where Arjun Khanna (Vineet Raina), a physical education trainer, enters Chakor's life.

Ishwar is determined, against all odds, that Chakor be educated. His father, Purshottam, tries to return Chakor to Rajvanshi. Chakor meets Bhagya (Sheetal Pandya), Kamal Narayan's daughter. Arjun and Bhagya fall in love and get married. Ishwar dies in a bomb blast set by Kamal Narayan.

After ten years

The show leaps ahead ten years, following Chakor, who has now become a runner. Imli, her sister loves Sooraj(Kamal Narayan's son). Chakor loves Vivaan. To free the people of Azadgunj from the clutches of Kamal Narayan and Sooraj, she becomes a top runner. On her and Tina's(Chakor's running competitor) marriage with Vivaan and Sooraj respectively, she swaps Tina with Imli as Imli is pregnant with Sooraj's child. But Sooraj knowing the bridal swap, marries Chakor and Vivaan marries Imli. After several incidents, Vivaan and Imli, who lost her child start loving each other. Chakor and Sooraj too start loving each other. The current plot is about Vivaan who believes that Imli is bearing Sooraj's child again and Sooraj tries to get Chakor back to his life. Later vivaan knows truth. Vivaan accepts his child. Ragini escaped from haveli. But other hand kamalnarayan rajvanshi got his memory. He started planning against chakor. At time suraj and vivaan became friends with imli and chakor's plan. Tejeswini returns her haveli. chakor idenfied kamalrayan's trap. kamalrayan blackmailed chakor. Because some children in kamalrayan's custody. vivaan knows kamalrayan's trap. He tells suraj. Suraj first declined vivaan's speech. Next he believed vivaan's speech. Suraj got angry. vivaan controlled suraj. vivaan advised suraj. later vivaan recued children. Chakor released kamalrayan trap with vivaan's help. suraj started hate KN. suraj announced to villagers kamalrayan is evil. He was acting well behaved. Azadganj knows kamalrayan's real face. Kamalnarayan laughing loudly. Now suraj,chakor, vivaan and imli went to tour.

Cast

Main

• Meera Deosthale as Chakor Suraj Rajvanshi/ Chakor Bhuvan Lal
• Vijayendra Kumeria as Suraj Kamal Narayan Rajvanshi
• Sehban Azim as Inspector Ajay Khurrana (Ak-47
• Sai Ballal as Kamal Narayan Rajvanshi
• Paras Arora as Vivaan Manohar Narayan Rajvanshi
• Vidhi Pandya as Imli Vivaan Rajvanshi/ Imli Bhuvan Lal

Recurring

• Vandana Singh (actress) as Ragini Kamal Narayan Suryavanshi(Antagonist)
• Sai Deodhar as Kasturi Bhuvan Lal
• Paras Chabraia / Shresth Kumar as Chagan Lakhan Singh
• Prachee Pathak as Tejaswini Kamal Narayan Rajvanshi
• Ginnie Virdi as Ranjana Kamal Narayan Rajvanshi / Ranjana Manohar Rajvanshi
• Rajiv Kumar as Bhuvan Lal
• Prakash Ramchandani as Laakhan Singh
• Varun Sharma as Aditya Ishwar Rawat(left)
• Vinny Arora as Tina Raichand(left)
• Vineet Raina as Arjun Khanna(left)
• Sheetal Pandya as Bhagya Arjun Khanna(left)
• Dolphin Dwivedi as Abha Ishwar Rawat (left)
• Jhuma Biswas as Savitri Dadi(left)
• Aryan Vaid as Kabir
• Spandan Chaturvedi as Young Chakor / Chunni
• Yash Mistry as Young Aditya Rawat
• Wahib Kapadia as Young Vivaan Rajvanshi
• Sandeep Baswana as Collector Ishwar Rawat
• Apurv Jyotir/Darshan Gujrar as Young Suraj Rajvanshi
• Tasheen Shah as Young Imli
• Vaishnavvi Shukla as Young Ragini Rajvanshi
• Jineet Rath as Young Om
• Naveen Sharma as Rakesh Deshmukh / Rocky
• Roma Bhali as Vaibhavi Deshmukh
• Suhasini Mulay as Shakuntala Rajvanshi
• Nisha Pareek as Laali
• Amit Dolawat as Mahesh Khanna
• Moni Rai as Manohar Rajvanshi
• Deep Kaur as Swarnaa Rawat
• Vijay Aidasani as Samarithan Prabhakar Rawat
• Rishina Kandhari as Vishaka
• Nishikant Dixit as Principal
• Shailesh Datar as Minister
• Chahat Tewani as Pakhi
• Sandeep Nuval as Shikoo

Guest stars

• Vidya Balan
• Salman Khan and Anushka Sharma(Sultan promotion)
• Anushka Sharma and Shah Rukh Khan (JHMS promotion)

Crossover episodes

• Balika Vadhu

Trishakti episodes

Tri means 3 and Shakti means Power, thus trishakti means Power of Three. In each Trishakti, three serials were broke down into parts and were shown one by one.

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