Piya Basanti Re

Piya Basanti Re
Created by	Rashmi Sharma Telefilms Limited
Written by	Shobhit Jaiswal
Directed by	Dev Dutt J Gupta
Creative director	Rashmi Sharma
Starring	Adaa Khan Alan Kapoor Surbhi Zaveri Vyas
Opening theme	Dharmesh Mitra
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	01
No. of episodes	88
Production
Producers	Rashmi Sharma Pawan Kumar Marut
Production locations	Baroda Mumbai
Editors	Lalit Tiwari Kamal Mathari
Running time	22 mins
Production company	Rashmi Sharma Telefilms
Release
Original network	Sony Pal
Original release	1 September (2014-09-01) – 12 December 2014 (2014-12-12)

Piya Basanti Re is an Indian television series that airs Monday through Saturday evenings on Sony Pal. It premiered on 1 September 2014. It is produced by Rashmi Sharma Telefilms Limited featuring Adaa Khan and Alan Kapoor as leads. The series concluded on 12 December 2014.

Plot

The story begins with Geeta Patel, who works as a maid for the wealthy Shah family. Gita has a beautiful, very intelligent, and a perfect "cinderella" of a daughter, Piya, who she works hard to send to college. Piya's father, Gita's husband, had died fighting for the army and that had left Geeta and her daughter impoverished. But, Piya keeps her head up, takes pride in her mother's work, and excels at college. Piya attends college with Kabir (Alan Kapoor), Aditi (Sunayana Fozdar), Akshay (Siddharth Shivpuri), and Ayesha (Rashmi Singh). Kabir is the son of Nita Shah and Mahesh Shah, the oldest son of Baa, the head of the Shah family. Mahesh's sister, Savita, who is Baa's daughter, is married to Jatin, and they are the parents of Aditi and Akshay. The woman who had hired Geeta to work for the Shah family, Ganga, is actually Ayesha's mother. However, Ganga is not wealthy by any means, and Ayesha enjoys living large and pretending to be rich and so, Ganga never discloses that she is Ayesha's mother. One day, Piya's mother injures herself and is unable to work. Money being tight, Piya decides to work for the Shah family as their maid and simultaneously attends college. In college and at home, Piya's interactions with Kabir increase, who begins to fall for her. In addition, Akshay begins to fall for Ayesha, who is Aditi's best friend, and comes very close to figuring out her life is a lie many times. Eventually, Piya and Kabir marry, much to the disappointment of all of Kabir's family members. Despite all this, Baa supports Piya and assures Piya that she is welcome in the Shah family as more than just a maid. As the TV show description on YouTube puts it, "An alternate spin on the famous- Cinderella story, Piya Basanti Re is the journey of Pia from being a maid’s daughter to becoming the daughter-in-law of the very rich Gujarati household where her mother worked as a maid."

Cast

• Adaa Khan as Piya Kabir Shah
• Alan Kapoor as Kabir Shah
• Dinesh Soni as Jatin
• Siddharth Shivpuri as Akshay
• Sunayana Fozdar as Aditi
• Rashmi Singh as Ayesha
• Krishna Bharadwaj as Himesh
• Hemant Choudhary as Col Vijay
• Vipra Rawal as Savita
• Rasik Dave as Mahesh Shah
• Surbhi Zaveri Vyas as Neeta Mahesh Shah
• Rupa Divetia as Baa
• Jaya Ojha as Geeta Patel
• Sudha Chandran as Yamini Singh

References

Watch all episodes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/SWk6iDddjPorM/videos?sort=da&view=8&flow=grid