| Bhagya Lakshmi | |
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| Genre | Drama thriller fiction |
| Written by |
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| Directed by | Sanjay Satavase |
| Creative director | Shivangi Babbar |
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| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of episodes | 808 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Ritesh Yadav Akash Ahuja Dhoopi Shibani |
| Producer | Ekta Kapoor |
| Cinematography | Maneesh Malik |
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| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company | Balaji Telefilms |
| Original release | |
| Network | Zee TV |
| Release | 3 August 2021 – present |
Bhagya Lakshmi (transl. Lakshmi's Lucky Destiny) is an Indian television series which premiered from 3 August 2021 airing on Zee TV. It is produced by Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms and it stars Aishwarya Khare and Rohit Suchanti.[1][2]
Premise
The show revolves around Lakshmi, a kind-hearted naïve girl from a village who gets married to a businessman named Rishi Oberoi. However, things take a turn when Lakshmi learns the truth of her marriage.
Rishi was actually coerced by his parents, especially by his mother Neelam, to get married to Lakshmi for one year as they believed that Lakshmi could save him from bad luck or death as told by their pandit. Rishi also has a girlfriend Malishka, who had earlier approved of this marriage. However, as they get married, Malishka senses a change in Rishi's behaviour – actually Rishi had begun to like Malishka. Before one year is over, Lakshmi gets to know the truth about her marriage and leaves her house and doesn't return although Neelam requests her to.
Eventually in court, Lakshmi and Rishi are told to stay together for 6 months before the divorce is finalised seeing Rishi and Lakshmi's bonding. During the 6 months, Rishi falls in love with Lakshmi, however Malishka hatches a plan and makes it seem like Rishi slept with her although he didn't. Lakshmi finalises her divorce and leaves. Rishi and Malishka's marriage is fixed. However, Rishi brings her back claiming that he will get her married to a guy and help her get settled as a friend. However, Rishi proposes to Lakshmi and tells Malishka that he only loves Lakshmi; but Lakshmi rejects it after thinking about Malishka. Lakshmi's marriage is fixed with Vikrant, but it turns out that Vikrant was planning to deceive Lakshmi, and he already had a wife but was marrying Lakshmi only for a child. They get to know about him on the day of wedding, and the wedding is called off. Lakshmi again leaves the house due to being insulted. Fearing that Rishi will break off his marriage with Malishka, Rishi and Malishka's marriage date is fixed. But Rishi again brings her back on the pretext of her planning his and Malishka's wedding, as a way to make her accept her love for him. However, just before the wedding Rishi says he can't marry anyone but Lakshmi, and he loves and will only marry Lakshmi. Lakshmi again rejects, but Neelam says that she can't let them marry and askes Rishi to choose between her and Lakshmi. Rishi chooses Lakshmi and leaves his house with Lakshmi.
Lakshmi finally accepts that she loves him too but denies marrying him as it will make Neelam sad. They start living together, although the area they live in raises questions on them being a live-in couple. Soon, Rishi, Rishi's father, cousin and Lakshmi's sisters finally convince her to get married. They finally get married and believe everything will be happy from now on. When they were leaving for honeymoon, Malishka causes Rishi and Lakshmi's accident and tries to kill them. Both of them are saved, and Neelam finally accepts them and calls them back home. In their house once again, Rishi and Lakshmi are to get married, but Lakshmi faints just before the marriage and turns out that Lakshmi has lost her mental stability. Rishi brings her back home much to a few members' disappointment.
Cast
Main
- Aishwarya Khare as Lakshmi Oberoi (née Bajwa): Kuljeet and Manoj's eldest daughter; Shalu and Bani's sister; Neha's cousin; Rishi's wife (2021–present)
- Rohit Suchanti as Rishi Oberoi: Neelam and Virendra's son; Sonia's brother; Ahana, Ayush and Devika's cousin; Lakshmi's husband (2021–present)
Recurring
- Mohit Malhotra as Vikrant Kakkar: Anjana and Puneet's son; Saloni's husband; Lakshmi's ex–fiance (2023)
- Maera Mishra as Malishka Bedi: Abhay and Kiran's daughter, obsessive one-sided pyscho lover of Rishi (2021–present)
- Munira Kudrati as Shalini "Shalu" Bajwa: Kuljeet and Manoj's second daughter; Lakshmi and Bani's sister; Neha's cousin; Ayush's love interest (2021–present)
- Aman Gandhi as Ayushmaan "Ayush" Chopra: Karishma and Manpreet's son; Ahana's elder brother; Rishi, Sonia and Devika's cousin; Shalu's love interest (2021–present)
- Manasi Bhanushali as Bani Bajwa: Kuljeet and Manoj's youngest daughter; Lakshmi and Shalu's sister; Neha's cousin (2021–present)
- Smita Bansal as Neelam Oberoi: Virendra's wife; Rishi and Sonia's mother; Ayush, Ahana and Devika's aunt (2021–present)
- Uday Tikekar as Virendra "Veer" Oberoi: Harleen and Vishwas's younger son; Karishma and Mahendra's brother; Neelam's husband; Rishi and Sonia's father; Ayush, Ahana and Devika's uncle; Lakshmi's father-figure (2021–present)
- Neena Cheema as Harleen Oberoi: Vishwas's widow; Karishma, Virendra and Mahendra's mother; Rishi, Sonia, Ahana, Ayush and Devika's grandmother(2021–present)
- Shivani Jha as Sonia Oberoi: Neelam and Virendra's daughter; Rishi's sister; Ahana, Ayush and Devika's cousin (2021–present)
- Parul Chaudhary as Karishma Oberoi: Harleen and Vishwas's daughter; Virendra and Mahendra's sister; Manpreet's ex-wife; Ahana and Ayush's mother; Rishi, Sonia and Devika's aunt (2021–present)
- Hemant Thatte as Manpreet Chopra: Karishma's ex-husband; Ahana and Ayush's father (2021)
- Aditi Shetty as Ahana Chopra: Karishma and Manpreet's daughter; Ayush's younger sister; Rishi, Sonia and Devika's cousin (2021–present)
- Bebika Dhurve as Devika Oberoi: Mahendra's daughter; Rishi, Sonia, Ayush and Ahana's cousin (2021–2023)
- Massheuddin Qureshi as Preetam Bajwa: Manoj's brother; Rano's husband; Neha's father; Lakshmi, Shalu and Bani's uncle (2021–2022)
- Neha Prajapati as Rano Bajwa: Preetam's wife; Neha's mother; Lakshmi, Shalu and Bani's aunt (2021–present)
- Avantika Chaudhary / Tasneem Khan / Urmimala Sinha Roy as Neha Bajwa: Rano and Preetam's daughter; Lakshmi, Shalu and Bani's cousin; Rishi and Ayush's former one-sided-lover (2021–2022) / (2022) / (2022–present)
- Karan Kaushal Sharma / Deepjyoti Das as Abhay Bedi: Kiran's husband; Malishka's father (2021–2023) / (2023)
- Karuna Verma as Kiran Bedi: Abhay's wife; Malishka's mother; Neelam's friend (2021–present)
- Kavita Banerjee as Sonal: Malishka's best friend (2022–present)
- Ankit Bhatia as Balwinder "Ballu" Sood: Lakshmi's ex-fiancé and obsessive one-sided lover; Rishi's former driver; Kamali's husband (2021-Present)
- Melanie Pais as Inspector Durga (2022)
- Akash Choudhary as Viraj Singhania: Malishka's former best friend and ex-fiancée (2021)
- Kaushal Kapoor as Darshan: Lakshmi's employer (2022)
- Mridula Oberoi as Kalyani: Lakshmi's boss (2022)
- Veerendra Saxena as Manoj Bajwa: Preetam's brother; Kuljeet's husband; Lakshmi, Shalu and Bani's; father Neha's uncle (2021) (Dead)
- Firdaus as Arnav: A talented kick boxer and swimmer (2022)
- Neelu Dogra as Kuljeet Bajwa: Manoj's wife; Lakshmi, Shalu and Bani's mother; Neha's aunt (2021) (Dead)
- Syed Ashraf Karim as Gurucharan Anand: Manoj's friend and accountant (2021)
- Jyoti Mukherjee / Rajani Gupta as Anjana Kakkar: Puneet's wife; Vikrant's mother (2023) / (2023)
- Shraddha Jaiswal as Saloni Kakkar: Vikrant's wife (2023)
- Sandeep Kapoor as Puneet Kakkar: Anjana's husband; Vikrant's father (2023)
- Girish Thapar as Pandit: Neelam consulted him for Rishi's safety (2021)
- Ajay Raju as Pandit Ji (September 2023)
Special appearances
- Sriti Jha as Pragya Mehra
- Shabir Ahluwalia as Abhishek Mehra[3]
- Shraddha Arya as Dr. Preeta Arora Luthra
- Dheeraj Dhoopar as Karan Luthra
- Anjum Fakih as Srishti Arora Luthra
- Supriya Shukla as Sarla Arora
- Anisha Hinduja as Rakhi Luthra
- Abhishek Kapoor as Sameer Luthra
Production
Casting
Khare and Suchanti were finalised to reprise their roles as leads in May 2021 itself, but due to the lockdown in Maharashtra, they signed the contract only in June.
Filming
The filming and production began on 14 June 2021 in Film City, Mumbai.
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result | Ref |
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| 2022 | Indian Television Academy Awards | Best Story | Anil Nagpal | Won | |
| Best Actress in Supporting Role - TV (Popular) | Munira Kudrati | ||||
| Best Actor in Supporting Role - TV (Popular) | Aman Gandhi | ||||
| Best Actor in Lead Role (Popular) | Rohit Suchanti | Nominated | [4] | ||
| Best Actress in Lead Role (Popular) | Aishwarya Khare | ||||
| Best Television Show - Fiction (Popular) | Ekta Kapoor | ||||
| 14th Gold Awards | Best Actor in Lead Role (Popular) | Rohit Suchanti | TBA | [5][6] | |
| Best Actress in Lead Role (Popular) | Aishwarya Khare | ||||
| Best Onscreen Couple | Rohit Suchanti & Aishwarya Khare | ||||
| Best TV Show (Fiction) | Ekta Kapoor | ||||
| Best Director | Muzzammil Desai | ||||
| Best Actor in Supporting Role (Male) | Uday Tikekar | ||||
| Best Actor in Supporting Role (Female) | Munira Kudrati | ||||
| Best Actor in Negative Role (Female) | Maera Mishra |
Adaptations
| Language | Title | Original release | Network(s) | Last aired | Notes |
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| Telugu | Chiranjeevi Lakshmi Sowbhagyavathi చిరంజీవి లక్ష్మి సౌభాగ్యవతి |
9 January 2023 | Zee Telugu | Remake | |
| Hindi | Bhagya Lakshmi भाग्य लक्ष्मी |
3 August 2021 | Zee TV | Ongoing | Original |
References
- ↑ "Zee TV to launch Ekta Kapoor Series 'Bhagya Lakshmi' soon". Biz Asia. 17 June 2021. Archived from the original on 17 June 2021.
- ↑ "Aishwarya Khare and Rohit Suchanti to be a part of Zee TV's Bhagyalaxmi". ABP Live. 7 June 2021. Archived from the original on 7 June 2021.
- ↑ Bureau, ABP News (23 August 2021). "Abhi and Pragya reach Rishi and Lakshmi's wedding | Bhagya Lakshmi". ABP Live. Archived from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
- ↑ "List of Nominees: 21st ITA Awards, 2022". Archived from the original on 10 November 2021. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
- ↑ "Team Balaji Telefilms nominated in almost categories at 14th Gold Awards, 2022". 4 July 2022. Archived from the original on 5 July 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
- ↑ "List of nominees: Gold Awards, 2022". Archived from the original on 13 July 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2022.