Meet: Badlegi Duniya Ki Reet | |
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Genre | Drama |
Created by | Shashi Mittal |
Screenplay by | Girish Dhamija |
Story by | Seema Mantri |
Directed by | Vaibhav Singh Pushkar Pandit Avinash Kumar |
Creative director | Shweta Bishnoi |
Starring | Shagun Pandey Ashi Singh Syed Raza Ahmed |
Opening theme | "Yeh Meet Hai, Yeh Meet Hai" |
Composer | Ashish Rego |
Country of origin | India |
Original language | Hindi |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 769 |
Production | |
Producers | Sumeet Hukamchand Mittal Shashi Mittal Jitendra Singla |
Cinematography | Ajay Lalta Gupta Vipul Virendra Singh |
Editors | Shashank Harendra Singh Ajay Saroj Singh |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 20–22 minutes |
Production company | Shashi Sumeet Productions |
Original release | |
Network | Zee TV |
Release | 23 August 2021 – 14 November 2023 |
Meet is an Indian Hindi-language television drama series that premiered on 23 August 2021 on Zee TV and produced by Shashi Sumeet Productions. It formerly starred Ashi Singh and Shagun Pandey. [1] [2] After a leap, it stars Syed Raza Ahmed and Ashi Singh (in a new avatar) as the second generation. It is a remake of Zee Sarthak's Sindura Bindu . The show went off air on 14 November 2023, completing its run of more than two years.
Meet Hooda is a spirited girl from Haryana. Her father was a police officer who lost his life and Meet takes up all the responsibilities of her house. Meet Hooda meets Meet Ahlawat. Initially at loggerheads, they soon become friends. Ahlawat falls in love with Hooda's sister Manushi and their wedding is arranged. Due to misunderstandings, Ahlawat breaks his friendship with Meet. On the wedding day, Manushi runs away and marries Kunal leading Meet Hooda to marry Meet Ahlawat. No one's happy about this and Meet Ahlawat is unwilling to accept her as his wife. Eventually the Ahlawat family starts accepting Meet Hooda and Meet Ahlawat wishes to start a new life with her. But Manushi returns. Meet competes with her own sister to earn her own husband. Meet decides to join the police force and goes for police training and is designated as a sub-inspector. Meet Ahlawat supports her throughout.
She gets to know her father's killer is in the Ahlawat Mansion. There is a conflict in the house when everything leads up to her loving father-in-law getting arrested. Meet Hooda consoles her husband and they make love. But tensions rise up so much her husband tries to throw her out of the house if she doesn't leave her job. At the end Meet gets her innocent father-in-law out of jail and the family gets Meet Ahlawat back with her by tactics. Right then Meet's pregnancy is announced. The couple lives a happy time finally till Meet Ahlawat accidentally kisses his old friend hallucinating it was his wife. Meet is heartbroken. She goes into labor and she delivers a baby. Manushi kidnaps the newborn and she is told her baby was stillborn. A shattered Babita is manipulated by Masoom and she begs her to leave her son forever believing she can't carry a child again. Meet somehow discovers her baby is alive and has been kidnapped by Manushi. She rushes for her baby but Manushi burns down the place and Meet gets caught in it. Meet is presumed to be dead. On the other hand, she leaves a note for her husband that she is finally leaving because of his cheating.
Meet is in the form of Manjari Desai [3] who hails from Vadodara. She is all set to take seek revenge from Manushi, Kunal and Masoom for taking away her child. Meet Ahlawat hates Meet's memories now and has a rough exterior now. Soon the duo meet again and the story follows. They get Esha Ahlawat married again, to her love Deep, after all the drama and insults Meet Hooda had to tolerate even during Esha's first marriage. Esha accidentally kills Deep. Meet Hooda and Meet Ahlawat to lose their baby in a tragic accident where Meet Hooda's mother end up in coma. A raging Meet Ahlawat marries Deep's sister Neelam as a responsibility and to take revenge on Meet Hooda. But Meet Hooda refuses to leave her husband. With time he mellows down but his second wife gets angry. Neelam has a split personality disorder, the other her is called Laila. After lots of clashes Meet Hooda finally gets her husband back. They adopt a newborn. But Meet Ahlawat dies saving Meet Hooda's life in terrorist attack. [4]
Meet Hooda comes to Sarkarpur to complete her dead husband's dream of a factory and employ female workers. But she gets caught up in the regressive Sarkar family, who doesn't want the factory as Sarkarpur believes women should not work; and instead take care of the family. In a turn of events she eventually marries Manmeet Sangwan, look–alike of Meet Ahlawat; even though he has a childhood sweetheart Shagun. Manmeet wanted to take revenge on Meet, he even tries to kill her. But they turn friends after events and now she is in love with him. Shagun tries to act as a thorn in Meet and Manmeet's relationship out of jealousy. Rajvardhan and Babita die in a car accident; and on Rajvardan's death bed he has asked Manmeet to take care of Meet. Later on conflict arises as Manmeet lied about Rajvardan and Babita's death; thus leading her to find out; then in a turn of events Manmeet believes Meet stabbed him with a knife (when in reality it was Shagun, growing more jealous). Manmeet is sent to the hospital and Sakar was trying to kill her, by asking Yashoda to shoot her, for supposedly attacking Manmeet. Thus Manmeet begs Meet to leave and never return; however Meet, goes in to disguise as a nurse, which Shagun hired to help meet, to find out what else is Shagun's plan, as Manmeet still has feelings for Meet.
Finally, it is revealed what happened and now Manmeet has forgiven Meet, but cannot bare to see Shagun leave. Thus, creating two sides where Manmeet has to choose between the two women he loves, either Meet or Shagun. Meet is supported by Yashoda (now sympathetic to Meet); and Shagun is supported by Sarkar, Gunwanti, and Mahendra. Then after a turn of events Manmeet chooses Meet; thus causing Shagun and Gunwanti (who is Shagun's elder sister) plan to get Manmeet to support Shagun but their plans backfires; thus causing Meet and Manmeet to grow closer. Then Shagun create more problems by involving her elder brother Nitin and when that starts to fail she tries to get run over, and then becomes blind, although she is faking, thus making Meet feel more guilty as Gunwanti and Nitin blame Meet for Shagun's accident. After a few months Shagun along with Nitin are finally caught and Yashoda kicks them out of the Sangwan house. Manmeet and Meet confess their feelings and consummate their marriage, soon after Meet is pregnant, Nitin, Shagun and Gunwanti plot to cause Meet's miscarriage. Sarkar vows to get Meet and Manmeet separated.
At Meet's baby shower Shagun returns and it is revealed Shagun has gotten married and has given birth to her son. Meet gives birth to her and Manmeet's daughter Sumeet.
Meet and Manmeet's daughter Sumeet is shown. Meet has fulfilled her dead husband's dream of a factory in Sarkarpur due to Manmeet and the family's help. Meet's long lost son Chiku is shown meeting with Sumeet. Initially Meet and Manmeet investigate the death of an orphan and they meet Chiku. The minister's secretary Kanika enters and commits many crimes such as kidnapping Sumeet and trying to take Chiku but she and the minister are arrested. Meet reunites with her long lost son, Chiku. Meet and Manmeet name Chiku as Rajvardhan in the memory of Chiku's grandfather, Rajvardhan Ahlawat. Shagun again comes back into the lives of Meet and Manmeet to cause havoc and destruction including lying about Chiku's maternity. Sarkar, Gunwanti and Mahendra kidnap Meet and Sumeet and while saving Meet from Sarkar, Manmeet is shot dead. Also while saving Meet, Chiku kills Sarkar and Meet gives Sumeet's responsibility over to Chiku as she takes the blame for Sarkar's murder.
Sumeet is shown as an adult living with Rajvardhan "Cheeku" in the Ahlawat House. Shagun tries to avoid Sumeet because Sumeet might recognize her as she has already seen Shagun in her childhood.
Actor / Actress | Occasion |
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Neha Marda | Meet's Wedding, 2021 |
Mugdha Chaphekar | |
Megha Ray | |
Amandeep Sidhu | |
Sriti Jha | Diwali Celebration, 2021 |
Shabir Ahluwalia | |
Mugdha Chaphekar | |
Krishna Kaul | |
Kanika Mann | |
Nishant Singh Malkani | |
Debina Bonnerjee | |
Gurmeet Choudhary | |
Reem Shaikh | |
Rithvik Dhanjani | |
Anjali Tatrari | |
Avinesh Rekhi | |
Megha Ray | |
The marriage track in the show was a high-budget track, probably the most spent track in the series. [32]
In August 2021, Zee TV announced two new shows at their early slots namely Meet and Rishton Ka Manjha and both the shows were launched on the same date. [33]
Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result | Ref |
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2022 | Indian Television Academy Awards | Best Actor | Shagun Pandey | Nominated | [34] |
Best Actress (Jury) | Ashi Singh | Won | [35] | ||
Best Television Show - Fiction | Shashi Sumeet Productions | Nominated | [34] | ||
2023 | Indian Telly Awards | Best Actress Jury | Ashi Singh | Won |
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