ANUPAMAA: Anupama, who part with her ambitions and goals in a bid to raise her family, feel dejected when she fail to get any credit for her sacrifices and trials. She then decide to her live on her own terms. Don't miss the Premiering episodes of "ANUPAMAA" on 14th April only on Star Life.
Plot
The show revolves around Gujarati homemaker Anupama, who is a devoted wife, mother and daughter-in-law. She has a family-oriented and self-sacrificing nature. Time and again, she is humiliated for being a mere housewife and for having an incomplete degree and education.
Anupama's husband, Vanraj Shah has been having an affair with his colleague, Kavya Gandhi for the past 8 years. Despite being warned by her best friend, Devika and Kavya's husband, Aniruddh, she refuses to believe it and expresses her faith in Vanraj. On her 25th Wedding Anniversary, when Anupama sees Vanraj and Kavya getting intimate, she is left shattered and breaks ties with Vanraj and decides to live her life on her own terms. Anupama's younger son, Samar also breaks all ties with Vanraj after learning the same. Rakhi informs the Shahs about the affair leaving them shattered. Soon, Anupama's elder son, Paritosh marries Kinjal while Samar and Nandini fall for each other after Samar learns about Nandini's infertility.
Anupama takes care of Vanraj's health after he meets with an accident. Vanraj develops a soft corner for Anupamaa. He tries to express his feelings to her, but Anupamaa rebukes him for it. Anupamaa decides to start afresh and tells Vanraj that she wants a divorce. Vanraj fears losing Anupamaa and his family and leaves the house. Anupama finds him in a wellness resort in Surat and confronts him.
Anupama gets diagnosed with Ovarian cancer and asks Vanraj to sign the divorce papers. Later, Kavya and Aniruddh gets divorced with Kavya preparing for her wedding with Vanraj. Vanraj goes missing on the wedding day and is confronted by Anupama for lacking courage as well as commitment. Kavya and Vanraj get married. After getting successfully treated by an emergency surgery, Hasmukh asks Anupamaa to continue staying with them as she will always remain a part of their family, to which she agrees.
Kavya continuously taunts Anupama, trying to humiliate her and failing in her attempts to turn the family against her. Anupamaa Dance Academy gets established with the help of Samar and Nandini and the family rejoices. Anupama advises Vanraj to open a café in her academy but Kavya instigates him against Anupama and instead of being grateful for her help, he taunts her.
Anuj Kapadia, a successful business tycoon returns to India from USA. He turns out to be Anupama's college batchmate and one-sided lover. Seeing Anuj and Anupama spend time together, Vanraj seethes with jealousy. Anuj's team likes Anupama's business idea and he offers her a partnership deal in his restaurant. Vanraj fumes and asks her to refuse the offer. Anupama signs the contract and joins Anuj as a business partner. Meanwhile, Rohan, Nandini's obsessive former boyfriend returns to win her back and attempts Samar and Anupama's murders but gets caught red-handed by Anuj and leaves their lives fearing to be jailed for his father's scams.
Tired of all the taunts and accusations, Anupama decides to move out of the Shah house while Samar leaves with her. Later they start living in a rented house. Kavya makes Vanraj, Dolly and Anupamaa sign the property papers. In his frustration over Anupama's repeated character assassination by some family members, Anuj confesses his unrequited love for Anupama to the Shahs, unaware that she overheard him. Initially shattered by one-sided love of Anuj, Anupama and latter get consoled and convinced by Samar and Gopichandra respectively to continue their relationship as friends.
Later Kavya reveals about tricking everyone signing property papers on her name, which makes Vanraj vengeful. He handovers divorce papers to her shocking everyone. However the latter refuses to divorce him. Meanwhile, Anuj gets injured while fighting with some goons and Anupama starts realiZing her feelings for him. She decides to stay at his residence until he recovers completely. However Vanraj shocks everyone by starting his business venture Vanika Teamworks with a girl named Malvika. However Malvika turning out to be Anuj's sister and Anuj being an adopted child to Kapadias comes as a huge shocker for everyone.
Later it is revealed that Malvika suffers from depression and a victim of Domestic Violence by her former husband. While Anupamaa helps her to overcome the trauma, Kavya's exit leads to a major argument between Samar and Nandini fuelled by Vanraj. While they clear their misunderstandings soon after Kavya's return, Anupamaa gets shocked to know about Vanraj trapping Malvika in his love trap to become rich overnight and employees Kavya in her project to keep an eye on Vanraj.
Later Vanraj instigates Malvika against Anuj leading Anuj to transfer whole Kapadia Empire to the former. Anuj and Anupamaa vows to start a new chapter by relaunching Anupamaa Dance Academy. On Valentine's Day while Anupamaa proposes Anuj, Nandini leaves Samar due to her insecurities regarding marriage and returns back to USA. This leaves him heartbroken and he decides to just focus on his dance career and vows never to believe in love again. Later Shahs decide to celebrate Anupamaa's 45th birthday and everyone gets elated to know about Kinjal's pregnancy.
Later Paritosh crosses his limits by calling his unborn baby a bad omen ultimately facing wrath of whole family. Soon Anupama and Anuj decides to get married much to Leela, Vanraj, Kavya, Rakhi, Pakhi and Paritosh's anger. As the marriage rituals begins with Anupamaa and Anuj's supporters Malvika returns and fires Vanraj, Kavya and Paritosh from her company due to their non-professionalism and insensitive behaviour towards her brother and Anupama.
Cast
- Rupali Ganguly as Anupamaa "Anu" Joshi (formerly Shah): A talented Kathak dancer; a devoted homemaker and businesswoman; Kanta's daughter; Bhavesh's sister; Vanraj's former wife; Paritosh, Samar and Pakhi's mother; Anuj's former business partner and love interest; co-owner of Anupamaa Dance Academy. She used to get insulted by some family members, but realised her own worth after Vanraj's affair revealation and decided to stand on her own feet. Initially shattered by Anuj's feelings towards her she decided to continue her friendship eventually making her to realise her feelings for him. (2020–present)
- Gaurav Khanna as Anuj "AK" Kapadia: A business tycoon; GK's foster son; Malvika's elder adoptive brother; Anupamaa's college friend, former business partner and love interest; Devika and Samar's good friend; Pakhi's school trustee. He loved Anupamaa since college days and remained unmarried for his unrequited love towards her. He considers Gopichandra as his family and likes Samar and other supporters of Anupamaa since their very first meet. (2021–present)
- Sudhanshu Pandey as Vanraj Shah: Leela and Hasmukh's son; Dolly's brother; Anupamaa's former husband; Kavya's husband; Paritosh, Samar and Pakhi's father; Malvika's former business partner and former one-sided love interest. He used to insult Anupamaa and started an extra-marital affair with Kavya, but realised her worth as divorce approached. However soon after Anuj's entry in their lives he started humiliating Anupamaa again. After getting cheated by Kavya in signing house papers on her name, he started a new business venture with Malvika and in his passion to become rich overnight trapped Malvika in his love game by telling half truth of his married lives to her. Later he gets fired from her company along with Kavya and Paritosh due to non-professionalism and insensitive behaviour towards Anupamaa and Anuj.(2020–present)
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- Madalsa Sharma Chakraborty as Kavya Shah (formerly Gandhi): Nandini's aunt; Aniruddh's former wife; Vanraj's wife. Post her break-up with Aniruddh, she started an extra-marital affair with Vanraj. Initially used to show her concerns towards Anupamaa being innocent, she started hating her after affair revealation. She's a greedy and self-obsessive woman who's obsessed to Vanraj and leaves no chance to humiliate Anupamaa and her supporters. Later she joins Anuj's company to keep an eye over Vanraj. But gets fired from the company by Malvika along with Vanraj and Paritosh due to non-professionalism and insensitive behaviour towards Anupamaa and Anuj . (2020–present)
- Paras Kalnawat as Samar "Bakuda/Samu" Shah: An excellent tap dancer and choreographer; Anupamaa and Vanraj's younger son; Paritosh and Pakhi's brother; Nandini's former love interest; co-owner of Anupamaa Dance Academy. His passion for dance was criticised by some family members but Anupamaa as well as Nandini and Kinjal supported him to follow his dreams. He hates Kavya and Vanraj for deceiving his mother, but loves and supports Anupamaa immensely that often goes against whole family for her and loved Nandini in the same way and respects Anuj and his love towards Anupamaa since their very first meet. He considers Kinjal as his elder sister. However after Nandini leaves him due to her insecurities regarding marriage, he gets heartbroken and vows to focus on his dance career and decides to fulfil fatherly responsibilities towards Kinjal's child after Paritosh refuses to do so. (2020–present)
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- Vidvaan Sharma as young Samar (2022) (in flashbacks)
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- Nidhi Shah as Kinjal "Kinju" Dave Shah: Rakhi and Pramod's daughter; Paritosh's wife; Anupamaa and Vanraj's daughter-in-law. She loves and supports Anupamaa like her own mother and often rebukes Rakhi and Paritosh for their rough behaviour. She supported Anupamaa in her divorce proceedings and respects Anuj's love towards Anupamaa. She's like an elder sister to Samar and Pakhi and considered Nandini as her sister also. (2020–present)
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- Ashish Mehrotra as Paritosh "Toshu" Shah: Anupamaa and Vanraj's elder son; Samar and Pakhi's brother; Kinjal's husband. He used to humiliate Anupamaa just like his father and even taunted Samar and Kinjal for supporting Anupamaa in her divorce proceedings but later realized her worth. But started showing his true colours again after Anuj's arrival in their lives but realised his mistakes thus beginning his relationship with Kinjal and career with a fresh start however returned back to his original self after Anupamaa decides to marry Anuj. He considered Nandini as his sister. Later Malvila employees him in her company. But he gets fired from the company along with Kavya and Vanraj due to non-professionalism and insensitive behaviour towards Anupamaa and Anuj (2020–present)
- Dheer Bhanushali as young Paritosh (2022) (in flashbacks)
- Muskaan Bamne as Pakhi "Sweety" Shah: Anupamaa and Vanraj's daughter; Paritosh and Samar's sister. She also used to humiliate Anupamaa just like her father. But realized her worth after Kavya caused her to suffer from depression. She supported Anupamaa and respected Anuj's love towards her however returned back to her original self after Anupamaa decides to marry Anuj. She's like younger sister to Kinjal and considered Nandini as her sister also. (2020–present)
- Alpana Buch as Leela Shah aka Baa: Jignesh's sister; Hasmukh's wife; Vanraj and Dolly's mother; Paritosh, Samar, Pakhi and Meenali's grandmother. She also used to humiliate Anupamaa just like her son. But realised her worth after affair got revealed and supported her in her divorce proceedings. She again tried to humiliate Anupamaa after Anuj's arrival but mended her ways after a reality check given by Hasmukh however returned back to her original self after Anupamaa decides to marry Anuj. (2020–present)
- Arvind Vaidya as Hasmukh Shah aka Bapuji: Leela's husband; Vanraj and Dolly's father; Paritosh, Samar, Pakhi and Meenali's grandfather. He loves and supports Anupamaa like his own daughter and rebukes Vanraj and Leela for their insensitive behaviour. He supported Anupamaa in her divorce proceedings and respects Anuj's love towards her and decides to get Anupamaa married from his house. (2020–present)
- Shekhar Shukla as Jignesh aka Mamaji: Leela's brother; Vanraj and Dolly's uncle. He also loves and supports Anupamaa like his own daughter and rebukes Vanraj and Leela for their rough behaviour. He has a crush over Kinjal's mother Rakhi Dave but often rebukes her when she tries to do his family's insult.(2020–present)
- Deepak Gheewala as Gopichand "GK" Karodia: Anuj and Malvika's househelp and foster father. He is like family to Anuj and Malvika after their parents' demise and always supports Anuj and Anupamaa. (2021–present)
- Aneri Vajani as Malvika "Mukku" Kapadia: Anuj's younger foster sister; GK's foster daughter; Vanraj's former business partner and former one-sided lover. She's a sweet fun loving girl who started her business venture with Vanraj as Vanika Teamworks. She loves her brother immensely and likes Anupamaa and family. But deep down she's possessive towards her brother and mentally unwell due to her traumatic and abusive marital life. After starting her business venture with Vanraj she got infatuated by him and trapped herself into his love trap by listening to the half truth about his married lives. Later she breaks her partnership with Vanraj after realising her mistake but give another chance on Anuj's insistence for the sake of Shahs. But later fires Vanraj along with Kavya and Paritosh due to their non-professionalism and insensitive behaviour towards her brother and Anupamaa. (2021–present)
- Ekta Saraiya as Dolly Shah Patel: Leela and Hasmukh's daughter; Vanraj's sister; Sanjay's wife; Meenali's mother. She is like a sister to Anupamaa and supports her often rebuking Leela and Vanraj for their rough behaviour. (2020–present)
- Paresh Bhatt as Sanjay Patel: Dolly's husband; Meenali's father. He is like a brother to Anupamaa and supports her often rebuking Leela and Vanraj for their rough behaviour. (2020–present)
- Stuti Zakarde as Meenali "Meenu" Patel: Dolly and Sanjay's daughter; Leela and Hasmukh's youngest granddaughter; Paritosh, Samar and Pakhi's cousin. She is like daughter to Anupamaa and loves her immensely. (2020–present)
- Jasveer Kaur as Devika Mehta: Anupamaa's best friend; Anuj's friend. She supports Anupamaa and respects Anuj's love towards Anupamaa. (2020–present)
- Tasneem Sheikh as Rakhi Dave: Pramod's wife; Kinjal's mother. Owner of Dave's Excellency Coaching Institute, an arrogant and money-minded lady who judges people on the basis of their educational qualifications and financial background. She often becomes an overprotective mother to Kinjal thus creating problems for Shahs. She exposed the affair between Kavya and Vanraj in front of Shahs. Kinjal and Pramod often rebukes her for her insensitive behaviour. (2020–present)
- Madhavi Gogate/Savita Prabhune as Kanta Joshi: Anupamaa and Bhavesh's mother; Paritosh, Samar, Pakhi and Nihar's grandmother. She forced Anupamaa to get married post her husband's demise. But now supports her always and respects Anuj's love towards her. (2020–2021)/(2021–present)
- Mehul Nisar as Bhavesh Joshi: Kanta's son; Anupamaa's brother; Nihar's father. He supports his sister and respects Anuj's love towards her. (2020–present)
- Anagha Bhosale as Nandini "Nandu" Iyer: An excellent classical dancer and choreographer; Kavya's niece; Samar's former love interest; former Co-owner of Anupamaa Dance Academy. She supported Anupamaa and loved her like her own mother. She even warned Kavya against deceiving Anupamaa. Initially reluctant due to her bitter past she accepted Samar's love after he clarified that her past doesn't affected his love. She respected Anuj's love towards Anupamaa. She considered Paritosh as her elder brother and Kinjal and Pakhi as her sisters. However she left Samar out of her insecurities regarding marriage leaving him heartbroken. (2020–2022)
- Unknown as Nihar Joshi: Bhavesh's son; Kanta's youngest grandson; Paritosh, Samar and Pakhi's cousin. He's like youngest son to Anupamaa and loves her immensely. (2020)
- Rushad Rana as Aniruddh Gandhi: Kavya's former husband. He tried to warn Anupamaa about affair for her well-being and later tried to save his marriage but in vain. (2020-2021)
- Apurva Agnihotri as Dr. Advait "Adi" Khanna: Owner of Blissdom's Wellness Resort, a spiritual and free-spirited person; Anupamaa's doctor and mentor. He became a good friend to Anupamaa and Shahs during their resort stay and Anupamaa's fight with cancer. (2021)
- Varun Sharma as Rohan: Nandini's former boyfriend and obsessive lover. He left Nandini after coming to know about her infertility, but returned to win her back by trying to manipulate Samar against Nandini, trying to defame her and later attempting both Samar and Anupamaa's murders but got caught red-handed by Anuj and left fearing to be jailed. (2021)
- Payal Nair as Parul Sharma: Devika's former sister-in-law; Pakhi's principal. She helped Anupamaa to stand on her feet again by giving her a job as cooking teacher due to her excellent culinary skills. (2020–2021)
- Parull Chaudhary as Dr. Mona Chopra: Pakhi's psychiatrist. She helped Pakhi to come out of her depression caused by Kavya. (2021)
- Bhakti Chauhan as Jhilmil: Shah family's former househelp. She was like a sister to Anupamaa and supported her. (2020)
- Vivan Singh Rajput as Siddharth "Sid" Desai: Pakhi's psycho classmate who blackmailed her. He was exposed by Anupamaa when he tried to molest Pakhi. (2020)
- Farukh Saeed as Pramod Dave: Rakhi's husband; Kinjal's father. He likes Shahs and rebukes Rakhi for her rough behaviour. (2020)
- Sunita Rai as Mansi Jain: Food critic at Vanraj's café. She visited Vanraj's café to review it. But got irritated by Kavya's self-obsessive behaviour thus cutting 3 stars and giving only 2 stars due to customer service and Anupamaa's food. (2021)
- Kiara Khantwal as Kiara: Video blogger at Vanraj's café. She visited Vanraj's café as a random customer with her friend to review it. Though she was also irritated by Kavya's behaviour towards normal customers but gave 5 star ratings for customer service and Anupamaa's food and hospitality. (2021)
Guests
- Ajay Devgan: To promote his film, Bhuj: The Pride of India (2021)
- Sara Ali Khan as Rinku Suryavanshi: To promote her film, Atrangi Re (2021)
- Pranali Rathod as Akshara Goenka: To promote generation leap in Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai/in merger episodes of both the series (2021/2022)
- Harshad Chopda as Dr. Abhimanyu Birla: For merger episodes of Anupamaa and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2022)
- Karishma Sawant as Dr. Aarohi Goenka: For merger episodes of Anupamaa and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2022)
- Mayank Arora as Kairav Goenka: For merger episodes of Anupamaa and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2022)
- Sharan Anandani as Vansh Goenka: For merger episodes of Anupamaa and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2022)
- Swati Chitnis as Suhasini Goenka: For merger episodes of Anupamaa and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2022)
- Niyati Joshi as Swarna Goenka: For merger episodes of Anupamaa and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2022)
- Sachin Tyagi as Manish Goenka: For merger episodes of Anupamaa and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2022)
- Ali Hassan as Akhilesh Goenka: For merger episodes of Anupamaa and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2022)
- Ami Trivedi as Manjari Birla: For merger episodes of Anupamaa and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2022)
- Vinay Jain as Dr. Harshvardhan Birla: For merger episodes of Anupamaa and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2022)
- Paras Priyadarshan as Neil Birla: For merger episodes of Anupamaa and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2022)
- Pragati Mehra as Dr. Mahima Birla:For merger episodes of Anupamaa and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2022)
- Ashish Nayyar as Dr. Anand Birla: For merger episodes of Anupamaa and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2022)
- Neeraj Goswami as Dr. Parth Birla: For merger episodes of Anupamaa and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2022)
- Nisha Nagpal as Shefali Birla: For merger episodes of Anupamaa and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2022)
- Niharika Chouksey as Nishtha Birla: For merger episodes of Anupamaa and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2022)
| Anupamaa | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Developed by | Leena Gangopadhyay |
| Screenplay by | Bhavna Vyas |
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| Directed by | Romesh Kalra[1] |
| Creative director | Ketaki Walawalkar |
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| Opening theme | Anupamaa |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 549 |
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| Cinematography | Gulshan Shah |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 20–24 minutes |
| Production company | Director's Kut Productions |
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| Original network | StarPlus |
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| Original release | 13 July 2020 – present |
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