Mere Angne Mein

Mere Angne Mein
Genre	Family drama
Created by	Sphere Origins
Screenplay by	Shilpa Chaubay Sushil Chaubay Pankaj Mavchi Dialogues Vinod Tarani
Story by	Vinod Rangnath, Shilpa Choubay
Directed by	Partho Mitra (2015–17) Vinayak Choube (2017)
Creative director	Shikha Vij
Starring	See below
Composer	Lalit Sen
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	770
Production
Executive producer	Aayush Agrawal
Producers	Sunjoy Waddhwa Komall Sunjoy Waddhwa
Production location	Mumbai
Editors	Janak Chauhan Firoz Khan Anil Vaishya
Running time	43 minutes / 21 minutes
Production company	Sphere Origins
Original release
Network	Star Plus
Release	15 June 2015 (2015-06-15) – 5 August 2017 (2017-08-05)

Mere Angne Mein is an Indian soap opera that aired on Star Plus from 15 June 2015 to 5 August 2017. The show starred Kruttika Desai Khan, Ananya Khare, Ekta Kaul, Karam Rajpal, and Richa Mukherjee as main leads. It was dubbed in English and aired on Star Life as Family Affairs.

Plot

The series showcases the lives of the Srivastavs, a middle-class family in Mughalsarai, Uttar Pradesh, India. Shanti Devi is the matriarch who handles the family affairs in her own style and has complete control over everyone and their activities in the house. When Riya enters the family by marrying Shanti Devi's grandson, Shivam, she is in conflict with Shanti Devi and the established rules of the house. In addition, the series focuses on the family of Shanti Devi's daughter, Sarla. The story is interwoven with the two families' saga of incoherent conflicts.

Cast

Main

• Kruttika Desai Khan as Shanti Srivastav / Shashikala / Ammaji: Sarla and Raghav's mother (2015–2017)
• Ananya Khare as Sarla Srivastav Agarwal: Shanti's daughter; Raghav's sister; Ashok's wife; Parineeta, Amit and Sonal's mother (2015–2017)
• Karam Rajpal as Shivam Srivastav / Bullet Raja: Kaushalya and Raghav's son; Preeti and Namita's brother; Riya's widower (2015–2017)
• Ekta Kaul as Riya Mathur Srivastav: Anupam's daughter; Shivam's first wife (2015–2017) ^[1]
• Richa Mukherjee as Aarti "Charni" Srivastav: Shivam's second wife (2017)

Recurring

• Suchita Trivedi as Kaushalya Srivastav / Khusiya: Ramesh's sister; Raghav's wife; Shivam, Preeti and Namita's mother (2015–2017)
• Varun Badola as Raghav Srivastav: Shanti's son; Sarla's brother; Kaushalya's husband; Shivam, Preeti and Namita's father (2015–2017)
• Ishaan Singh Manhas as Golu Singh (2017)
• Charu Asopa as Preeti Srivastav Khare: Kaushalya and Raghav's daughter; Shivam and Namita's sister; Nandkishore's wife (2015–2017)
• Dushyant Wagh as Nandkishore Khare / Nandu: Preeti's husband (2016–2017) / Lucky, A new identity taken by Nandu for Preeti (2016)
• Garima Parihar as Namita Srivastav Sinha / Nimmi / Choti Rani: Kaushalya and Raghav's daughter; Shivam and Preeti's sister; Vyom's widow (2015–2017)
• Roshni Rastogi as Rani Chauhan Agarwal / Raniya: Amit's wife (2015–2017)
• Pallavi Gupta as Parineeta Agarwal Sinha / Pari: Ashok and Sarla's daughter; Amit and Sonal's sister: Sujeev's wife (2015–2017)
• Neeraj Malviya as Amit Agarwal: Ashok and Sarla's son; Parineeta and Sonal's brother; Rani's husband (2015–2017)
• Ashiesh Roy as Ashok Agarwal: Sarla's husband; Parineeta, Amit and Sonal's father (2015–2017)
• Sanjana Phadke as Renu: Ramesh's wife (2015–2017)
• Abhilash Chaudhary as Ramesh: Kaushalya's brother (2016–2017)
• Anuj Thakur as Chandra (2017)
• Shreya Laheri as Sonal Agarwal: Ashok and Sarla's daughter; Parineeta and Amit's sister (2015–2016)
• Aditi Dadhich as Bunty (2015–2016) ^[2]
• Abhishek Singh Pathania / Shresth Kumar as Vyom Sinha: Sharmili's son; Sujeev's step brother; Namita's husband (2015–2016) ^[3]
• Sudhir Pandey as Dadda: Shanti's brother-in-law (2016)
• Amita Udgata as Laleshwari Sahay / Laliya: Shanti's childhood friend; Riya's Bua Dadi (2015)
• Yaseer Nomani as Munna (2016)
• Vijay Kalvani as Kishan Gupta (2015–2016)
• Kapil Arya as Ajay (2017)
• Shraman Jain as Mohit "Mihir" Pahuja (2015–2016)
• Wasim Mushtaq as Sujeev Sinha: Sharmili's step-son; Vyom's step-brother (2015–2016)
• Sunil Raghuvansh as Bhooshit Chauhan
• Pawan Chopra as Anupam Mathur: Riya's father (2015–2016)
• Neelu Kohli as Sharmili Sinha: Sujeev's step mother: Vyom's mother (2015-2016)
• Puja Sharma as Chanda (2016) ^[4]
• Abhishek Sharma as Lallan Singh: Bablu's Uncle (2016-2017)
• Varun Jain as Pramod Prasad (2017)
• Ritesh M Shukla as Joker Thief (2017)

Production

In June 2016, Neelu Kohli quit being unhappy with her character shaping up. ^[5]

In October 2016, Ekta Kaul took a break from the series for her holiday, but soon after she returned, she was diagnosed with dengue and the script was rewritten for her absence. ^[6] In February 2017, she quit the series for personal reasons and her character was killed after giving birth. ^[7]

In March 2017, Ananya Khare quit the series stating multiple reasons. ^[8]

In March 2017, Richa Mukherjee was cast as the new female lead opposite Karam Rajpal . ^[9] However, after Ekta Kaul and Ananya Khare quit, the ratings declined and the series ended on 5 August 2017. ^{[10] [11]}

References

1. "'I take life as it comes'". Tribune India.
2. "Aditi Dadhich joins the cast of Star Plus' Mere Angne Mein".
3. "Abhishek Singh Pathania out of Mere Angne Mein; Shresth Kumar to enter".
4. "Puja Sharma to enter Mere Angne Mein". The Times of India. 3 May 2016.
5. "Nilu Kohli out of 'Mere Angne Mein'". The Times of India. 2 June 2016.
6. "Ekta Kaul missing in action - Times of India". Times of India. 4 November 2016.
7. "Ekta Kaul quits popular TV show Mere Angne Mein. And this is the reason". Hindustan Times. 17 February 2017.
8. "Ananya Khare quits Mere Angne Mein, Is Krutika Desai responsible?". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 19 February 2017.
9. "Richa Mukherjee replaces Ekta Kaul with a meek character as the lead in Mere Angne Mein". Hindustan Times. 2 March 2017.
10. "'Mere Angne Mein' to go off air in the last week of July". The Times of India. 14 June 2017.
11. "SHOCKING! Star Plus show MERE ANGNE MEIN to go OFF AIR". 24 May 2017.

External links

• Mere Angne Mein at IMDb
• Mere Angne Mein streaming on Hotstar