Ladies Special | |
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Genre | Soap opera |
Directed by | Kaushik Ghatak Saagar Kagra Naveen Maan |
Country of origin | India |
Original language | Hindi |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 293 |
Production | |
Producers | Sanjiv Sharma Vipul D. Shah |
Running time | 24 minutes |
Production company | Optimystix Entertainment |
Original release | |
Network | Sony Entertainment Television |
Release | 25 May 2009 – 16 August 2019 |
Ladies Special is an Indian television series that airs on Sony Entertainment Television. It premiered on 25 May 2009 along with a host of other new TV shows, as part of a major revamp by Sony TV. The show is about the lives of a group of ladies who travel by the Ladies Special suburban railway train in Mumbai. Season 1 went off air on 14 December 2009. Season 2 premiered on 27 November 2018 with new story and a new cast, Season 2 ended on 16 August 2019. [1] [2]
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |
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First aired | Last aired | ||
1 | 104 | 25 May 2009 | 14 December 2009 |
2 | 189 | 27 November 2018 | 16 August 2019 |
The story is set in Mumbai and is a take on the lives and challenges faced by women in big cities and how they sometimes find hope, encouragement and companionship in the most unlikely places. In this case, the protagonists are four women – Shubha Joshi, Nanda Shinde, Bubbly Chaddha, and Pooja Singh – who travel to work and back by the Ladies Special train,
Three passengers, Meghna, Prarthana and Bindu meet in a Mumbai Ladies Special train and become friends, sharing their problems with each other. Meghna Nikade is a Marathi woman, with a positive, never-give-up attitude. Her family consists of her husband, Mandar and two kids Swapna, Sachin and father-in-law. She belongs to a lower-middle-class family. She wishes to run a garment company, Swapna Garments, with her best friend, Jyoti.
Prarthana Kashyap is a stolid Bihari 30 year old and hardworking woman who works in a telecom company. Her family consists of her mother Rachna, her father, who is unemployed and a brother, Puneet, a cab driver. Although she is short tempered, she is soft natured and is kind hearted. She is married to Viraj Parimal.
Bindu Desai is a beautiful, vivacious and a Gujarati housewife. Her husband Dr. Amar Desai is a cardiologist by profession. Amar was forced to marry Bindu, but he actually loves another woman, Dr. Kangana Rajawat. Amar confesses about Kangana to Bindu, who accepts the truth without any hesitation, much to the surprise of Amar. Though Bindu's married life is not smooth, she doesn't show her uneasiness and always carries a smile on her face. Her family consists of Mota Papa and Mota Mami.
These three friends face challenges in their marital lives, but manage to solve them. Finally Megha and Mandar have another daughter, who named after Bindu. Bindu and Amar are reunited while Kangana and Puneet are married. The serial ends with a happy note.
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