Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Ye

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Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Ye
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Genre Romance
Drama
Developed by Ekta Kapoor
Written byAnil Nagpal
Directed byMujammil Desai
Santram Varma
Lalit Marathe
Creative directorTanushree Dasgupta
Starring See Below
Opening theme"Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Ye"
ComposerLalit Sen
Country of originIndia
Original languageHindi
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes107
Production
Producers Ekta Kapoor
Shobha Kapoor
Production location Mumbai
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time24 minutes
Production company Balaji Telefilms
Original release
Network Life OK
Release7 October 2014 (2014-10-07) –
6 March 2015 (2015-03-06)

Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Ye (transl. It's a strange tale) is an Indian television soap opera produced by Ekta Kapoor under her banner Balaji Telefilms. The series was broadcast on Life OK. [1]

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The show was the television debut of Sonali Bendre in the fiction genre. [2] [3] The title of the show Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh is inspired by the title song of the 1960 Bollywood film Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai .

The show was broadcast from 7 October 2014 to 6 March 2015.

Plot

Shobha (Sonali Bendre) is a middle-aged housewife married to a politician, Samarth (Harsh Chhaya). The couple has two little children and a seemingly happy marriage until Shobha discovers that her husband is having an affair, and is involved in corruption through a news broadcast. She is completely distraught and unsure of what to expect from life after it becomes the new national gossip, but she decides to pursue a career for the benefit of her children and her husband's innocent family.

Her new journey to be independent goes through major ups and downs, whilst she tries to figure out her seemingly arrogant, yet mysterious boss, Vikram Ahuja (Apurva Agnihotri). He inspires her to make an identity for herself and not rely on the one her husband has left her with. As she gets to know the man Vikram is, they form an unnamed, yet a divine bond. As her kids fall in love with the man too, their relationship becomes so strong that it's pure.

Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh is a rom-com that revolves around the lives of Vikram and Shobha, and their families—how they overcome their pasts for a better future.

Cast

Main

Recurring

Reception

Initially, the show was seen as fresh take on the saas-bahu trope in Indian television serials. [7] Explaining why the show was taken off air, the show's co-creator Ekta Kapoor said that audiences were not ready for progressive shows that showed a married woman choosing to move on even after her husband mistreats her. [8] In another interview in 2017, Kapoor said that the show was poorly received as the idea of a woman in a bad marriage moving out and leaving her husband did not match the general accepted thought process of a family despite the show's depiction of reality. [9]

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