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Uttaran (transl. Discarded; international title:True Love) is an Indian soap opera that aired on Colors TV on weeknights from 1 December 2008 to 16 January 2015.

The show has three generation leaps which starred Sparsh Khanchandani and Ishita Panchal, then the show took 10 years leap and starred Tina Datta, Rashami Desai, Nandish Sandhu, Rohit Khurana and Sharhaan Singh, then the show took another 18 year leap and starred Tina Datta, Sreejita De, Saurabh Raj Jain, Vikas Bhalla, Mrunal Jain, Ajay Chaudhary and Gaurav S Bajaj.

It is the third longest-running Indian television series of Colors TV. The series was dubbed into Tamil as Sindhu Bhairavi on Raj TV, in English as True Love on Glow TV and in Malayalam as Valsalyam on Surya TV. The series was remade in Tamil as Oviya on Colors Tamil and in Marathi as Asava Sundar Swapnancha Bangla on Colors Marathi.

Synopsis

Uttaran follows two friends from different socio-economic backgrounds - Ichha Bharti (Sparsh Khanchandani / Tina Datta), a maid-servant's daughter, and Tapasya Thakur (Ishita Panchal / Rashami Desai), the child of a wealthy landlord. Ichha is kind, caring and helpful, while Tapasya is spoilt, selfish and jealous. Post the second leap the story shifts to Iccha's daughter Meethi ( Tina Datta ) and Tapasya's daughter Mukta ( Sreejita De ).

Plot

The story set in Mumbai starts with Ichha, a poor Widow's 8 year-old daughter. Unlike her other friends who have accepted their fate, Ichha challenges her fate continuously. When Ichha's mothers starts working at Thakur Mansion as a maid, Tapasya Thakur, a young 8 year-old girl daughter of Jogi Thakur and Divya Thakur becomes friends with Ichha, and they share a sister-like bond.

Tapasya's grandaunt Sumitra influences her to see Ichha differently. Tapasya hits jealousy when her parents Divya and Jogi care for Ichha as their own child, unaware that Jogi was responsible for Ichha's father Rajendra's death.

13-16 years later

Ichha and Tapasya grow up. Tapasya is a rich spoilt brat whereas Ichha is a simpleton girl who want to establish a school in her mother's name to give free education to poor kids. Tapasya's father gets a proposal for Tapasya but she is already dating Sid behind her father's back. Tapasya goes ahead still with meeting Veer in-spite of being in a committed relationship with Sid. In every meet, Tapasya lies and leaves Veer and Ichha alone, which leads to Veer knowing Ichha and falling in love with her simplicity, honesty and compassion for others, who later feels the same for him but stays in denial because of Veer having come for Tapasya and not her. Later both Ichha's and Veer's family agree to their relation and they are about to marry but soon seeing Veer shower Ichha with expensive gifts, Tapasya starts feeling insecure and on wedding day, does a suicide drama and begs Ichha to let her marry Veer. Ichha and Dhamini helpless agrees to that.

Ichha later sees one of her student being lured into drug addiction and gets him admitted to rehab, where she meets Vansh who is also a drug addict and Veer's elder brother. Looking at Iccha's caring nature, Vansh too falls in love with her. Veer, unaware of Vansh's feelings for Ichha, on other hand tries to divorce Tapasya and then marry Ichha. Tapasya tries to manipulate her ex boyfriend Sid to kill Ichha and according to Tapasya's plan, he even shoots Iccha, but Veer saves her and gets her immediately admitted to hospital. Somehow, Tapasya manipulates Veer's mom to let Vansh marry Ichha and finally Vansh Ichha married and Veer is left heartbroken.

Vansh gets to know about Tapasya's truth who she tried to kill Ichha and snatched Veer from Ichha, and decides to kill her but Tapasya manipulates and misleads Vansh into thinking he is solely responsible for Ichha's sufferings and as a result, he kills himself in front of Tapasya as Tapasya looks on. Veer and Vansh's mother Gunvanti blames Ichha for Vansh's death and throws her out.

Soon Tapasya's true nature is exposed by Veer in front of Thakurs and Bundelas, how thrice Tapasya tried to kill Ichha and how she made a mentally unstable Vansh commit suicide. Jogi gets shocked seeing true colors of Tapasya and disowns her, and she is left alone.

Ichha returns to Bundela house and as Veer and Ichha care for each other secretly, love rekindle between them. But due to society and people questioning Veer and his family because of her, Ichha leaves for Vrindavan, thinking her staying away from him will make him move on. Veer, who had loved Ichha always, can't move on and it starts affecting his health. Veer in anger decides to marry whosoever his mother wants him to. On engagement day, Veer gets a call about Ichha's cottage in Vrindavan catching fire and he leaves engagement midway to save Ichha. They finally reunite and express their love for each other and marry in Vrindavan. After some friction, the family accepts them. Tapasya meets businessman Raghuvendra Rathore.

Raghuvendra has soft corner for Tapasya but she betrays him in game of poker and he leaves her because of her disloyalty. Tapasya is pregnant with Raghuvendra's baby but he unaware. She returns to Veer saying that she is pregnant with his child. Veer doesn't trust her. Ichha figures that Tapasya isn't carrying Veer's child. Everyone refuse to believe her.

Veer comes to know that the child is Raghuvendra's. Tapasya is banished from Bundela Mansion and delivers a daughter whom she unintentionally abandons. Veer and Ichha raise Tapasya's daughter Mukta, unaware that Tapasya gave birth to her.

Ichha delivers a baby boy, and Sumitra and Pushkar steal the baby. They bribe the nurse to tell Ichha and her family that the baby was stillborn. Sumitra instructs Pushkar to dump Ichha's baby at a filthy place so that he may live a poor life. Mr Rathor bumps in to Pushkar and the baby and he takes the baby from him. Tapasya and Rathore adopt the baby and name him Yuvraj. Ichha is pregnant again and only tells Veer. She saves Veer from Avinash, a cruel who vows revenge on him for winning his property. He attacks Veer who loses his memory. Ichha kills Avinash and is jailed for 18 years. Ichha gives birth to a baby girl in prison, Ichha tells Damini to raise the baby and they name her Meethi.

18 years later

Yuvraj, Meethi and Mukta are grown up. Meethi and Mukta are best friends just like their mothers. Ichha returns but the arrogant, selfish and insolent Yuvraj hates her. Meethi also grew up presuming Ichha dead.

Avinash's nephew, Kanha who was raised by Damini is a successful CEO and happily married to Surbhi. Meethi and Yuvraj were brought up by Gunvanti and Damini individually, as Gunvanti brainwashed Yuvraj against Ichha.

Sumitra reveals to Meethi that Ichha is alive, but lies that she ruined Tapasya's life since childhood.

Initially, Meethi is in denial. But during a college field trip, she runs into a saint who not only confirms that Ichha is alive, but was also in prison for murder, Meethi then develops an negative opinion towards Ichha, believing her to be a murderer.

Meethi tries to find out the truth regarding Ichha's incarceration. Despite knowing what the saint told her about Ichha is true, she still wants to hear it from Kanha. He reveals that Ichha was in prison for murder, but fails to mention that she killed Avinash to save Veer.

Meethi confronts Ichha and cruelly rejects her believing her to be a murderer. Damini and Kanha try to convince Meethi to forgive Ichha. They state the reason behind this, but Meethi refuses to believe this as she saw Kanha destroying documents regarding Ichha being incarcerated for murder.

Damini and Kanha try to convince Meethi to forgive Ichha, who becomes extremely hostile towards them every single time. Damini's attempt to repair Ichha and Meethi's relationship completely backfire, as Meethi further distances herself from Ichha and grows to hate her even more.

Mukta and Meethi fall in love with their college friend, Aman Verma who eventually chooses Mukta, but they never get together as she breaks up with him, due to her insecurities. Meethi comforts a distraught Aman. Sumitra brainwashes Mukta, who starts getting close to Yuvraj.

Mukta takes Meethi to a party, spikes her drink and calls the cops stating that it is a rave party. In an intoxicated state, Meethi confesses her feelings for Aman and the cops arrest them. Yuvraj later, tries to rape Mukta but Ichha saves her.

Mukta realises that she misunderstood Ichha and Meethi. She decides to help Ichha reunite with Veer. Shortly after Yuvraj is arrested, Gunvanti reveals Ichcha is his mother. His hatred further intensifies as Ichha testifies against him in court leading him to be incarcerated for 5 years.

Veer having not regained his memory lives with Gunvanti and his new wife Amla. Tapasya who has genuinely reformed after living in U.S. for the last 18 years, restores his memory. Meethi is encouraged by Ichha's former orphan student Vishnu Kashyap and accepts her. Eventually, Veer and Ichha are reunited.

Meethi marries Vishnu on Ichha's arrangement. He is revealed to be Avinash's son, Akash Chatterjee, who has married her to take revenge.

Later, Mukta discovers Akash's identity (but she is unaware of his agenda) and tries to locate the real Vishnu Kashyap a humble blue-collar worker, who works for an NGO, in order to expose Akash, she also informs her father, Raghuvendra of this, regarding Akash's identity. Just as Mukta was about to meet the real Vishnu, Akash orders his goons to kidnap and kill Mukta, as she was getting close to exposing him. Fortunately, she is saved by Raghuvendra.

At Akash and Meethi's wedding, Mukta tries to expose his identity, but unfortunately, Ichcha, Veer, Jogi, Divya and Tapasya (except for Sumitra) refused to believe her. Subconsciously, they know she isn't lying, but consciously they refuse to accept the truth. Raghuvendra is completely enraged and disgusted by the fact that they did not believe Mukta, mainly at Jogi and Divya, who have raised Mukta since childhood. As he refuses to allow his daughter stay with people who do not trust and respect her, he cruelly states to everyone that "when the truth is revealed" (regarding Akash's identity) "they will remember this night and bow their heads down in shame".

Jogi and Veer tried to convince Raghuvendra to send Mukta back to the Thakur mansion, and try to justify their reasons for not believing him and Mukta regarding Akash. But Raghuvendra not only refuses to send his daughter back to the Thakur mansion, but he also cruelly put them both in their place, as he coldly state "that if he was in their positions, he would have believed Mukta, regardless whether or not there was any physical evidence" as well as coldly pointing out that they do not know the meaning of the word trust and respect when it comes to relationships, otherwise they would have believed Mukta regarding Akash's identity; as Jogi and Veer are both hurt by what he says.

Meanwhile, Ichha and Tapasya risk their life to save Mukta from Veer's uncle Tej who shoots Tapasya. Ichha goes to the temple and prays for Tapasya's recovery while she is there, she is fatally hit by a truck and donates her heart to Tapasya before dying. Tapasya now takes care of Meethi and considers her as a daughter just like Mukta.

Sometime after Ichha's death, Raghuvendra finally gets the evidence to expose Akash's identity (as he has been gathering the said evidence, ever since Mukta had informed him; regarding Akash's identity) he informs Veer, Jogi, Divya and Tapasya regarding the night of the wedding, when he and Mukta tried to warn everyone about Akash, just as Raghuvendra predicted, everyone (metaphorically) bow their heads down in shame for not believing Mukta, when she tried to warn them the first time.

Surbhi is revealed to be Akash's maternal cousin. His mother, Ekadashi orders him to kill Meethi but he falls in love with her. Meethi who fell for Akash too leaves the house. Tapasya throws Surbhi out of the Thakur house.

Pregnant, Surbhi repents for her actions. During childbirth, she dies. Kanha forgives her and promises to raise their son Ajitesh as good and honest. As Vishnu and Mukta love each other, they get married and she later gives birth to Manav. Meethi and Akash reunite. She is accepted by his family.

Yuvraj, having undergone a plastic surgery, returns as Mukta's new boss for revenge. He eventually kidnaps and threatens to kill her. While saving Mukta, a pregnant Meethi loses her child and disowns Yuvraj for good; after finally seeing brother as the monster he truly is. Ekadashi banishes her. Meethi leaves for Srinagar.

Caught up in a terrorist attack by a man named Asgar, Meethi slips into a river and is transported by the current across the border to Gilgit in Pakistan. There, she is rescued by Asgar's brother, Aashfaq, a simple farmer who falls in love with her at first sight.

Meethi gets back to India with Aashfaq's help. He bids her a tearful farewell. Akash and Meethi reconcile. She adopts Akash and his first girlfriend, Nandini's illegitimate daughter, Rani. Nandini saves Akash from his old enemy and murders him. She is imprisoned.

Meethi and Akash adopt the enemy's daughter, Tamanna, who is hated by Rani. Sumitra reforms. Afraid that Tapasya and Ichha's story might repeat, she and Damini, eventually manage to convince Mukta and Meethi to reconcile. In the end, Sumitra and Damini, reflect the everlasting friendship of Ichha and Tapasya.

Cast

Main cast

• Tina Datta as
  • Ichha Bundela: Damini and Rajendra's daughter; Jogi's adopted-daughter; Tapasya's friend; Vansh's former wife; Veer's wife; Yuvraj and Meethi's mother, Kanha's adoptive mother (2009–13)
    • Sparsh Khanchandani as Young Ichha (2008–09)
  • Meethi Chatterjee: Ichha and Veer's daughter; Yuvraj's sister; Kanha's adoptive sister; Akash's wife; Aashfaq's love interest; Rani and Tamanna's adoptive mother (2012–15)
• Rashami Desai as Tapasya Thakur Rathore: Divya and Jogi's daughter; Ichha's friend; Veer's former wife; Raghuvendra's wife; Mukta's mother (2009–14)
  • Ishita Panchal as Young Tapasya (2008–09)
• Nandish Sandhu/Vikas Bhalla as Veer Singh Bundela: Gunvanti and Umed's son; Vansh's brother; Tapasya and Amla's former husband; Ichha's husband; Yuvraj and Meethi’s father; Kanha's adoptive father (2009–13)
• Rohit Khurana as Vansh Singh Bundela: Gunvanti and Umed's son; Veer's brother; Ichha's former husband (2009–10)
  • Rocky: Ruby's fiancé (2011–12)
• Sharhaan Singh as Siddharth Verma: Tapasya's ex-boyfriend (2009–12)
• Gaurav Chopra as Raghuvendra Pratap Rathore: Malvika's former husband; Tapasya's husband; Ambika and Mukta's father (2010–14)
• Sreejita De as Mukta Rathore Kashyap: Tapasya and Raghuvendra's daughter; Ambika's half-sister; Vishnu's wife; Manav's mother (2012–15)
• Saurabh Raj Jain/Bharat Chawda as Yuvraj Singh Bundela: Ichha and Veer's son; Meethi's brother; Kanha's adoptive brother (2012–14)
• Gaurav S Bajaj as Aman Verma (2012)
• Mrunal Jain as Akash Chatterjee, Avinash and Ekadashi's son; Sankrant's brother; Meethi's husband; Nandini's former boyfriend; Rani's father; Tamanna's adoptive father (2012–15)
• Ajay Chaudhary as Vishnu Kashyap: Mukta's husband; Manav's father (2013–15)

Supporting cast

• Pratima Kazmi as Sumitra Devi: Pushkar's mother, Divya's aunt, Tapasya's grandmother (2008–15)
• Vaishali Thakkar as Damini Bharti: Rajendra's wife; Ichha's mother; Thakur family's maid (2008–15)
• Ayub Khan as Jogi Thakur: Divya's husband; Tapasya's father; Ichcha's adopted-father (2008–14)
• Pragati Mehra/Pyumori Mehta Ghosh as Divya Thakur: Pushkar's cousin; Jogi's wife; Tapasya's mother (2008–14)
• Akanksha Awasthi as Rohini: Pushkar's wife (2008–13)
• Arun Singh Sharma as Pushkar: Sumitra's son; Divya's cousin (2008–13)
• Shamim Sheikh as Baldev Singh Bundela: Umed and Tej's father (2009–13)
• Akhil Mishra as Umed Singh Bundela: Baldev's son; Tej's brother; Gunvanti's husband; Vansh and Veer's father (2009–13)
• Beena Banerjee as Gunvanti Bundela: Umed's wife; Vansh and Veer's mother (2009–13)
• Monalika Bhonsle as Chanda (2009–13)
• Pawan Mahendru as Kasa (2009–13)
• Sunil Sinha/Kiran Karmarkar as Tej Bundela: Baldev's son; Umed's brother (2009–13)
• Chaitanya Choudhury as Kanha Chatterjee: Avinash's brother's son; Veer and Ichha's adopted son; Yuvraj and Meethi's adoptive brother; Surbhi's husband; Ajitesh's father (2012–14)
• Pranitaa Pandit as Surbhi Chatterjee: Agarth and Kadambari's daughter; Ekadashi's niece; Nirbhay's sister; Akash and Sankrant's cousin; Kanha's wife; Ajitesh's mother (2012–14)
• Krutika Desai Khan as Ekadashi Chatterjee: Avinash's wife; Akash and Sankrant's mother, Meethi's mother-in-law (2012–15)
• Varun Toorkey as Sankrant Chatterjee: Ekadashi and Avinash's son; Akash's brother; Ambika's husband (2013–15)
• Arti Singh as Kajri Yadav, Nirbhay's wife (2013–14)
• Vividha Kirti as Ambika Rathore Chatterjee: Malvika and Raghuvendra's daughter; Mukta's half-sister; Sankrant's wife (2013–15)
• Sonica Handa as Amla Bundela: Veer's ex-wife (2012–13)
• Rajesh Khera as Maharani (2014)
• Tiku Talsania as Colonel Swarnik Agnihotri (2014)
• Krip Suri as Asgar Mehrami: Saba and Aashfaq's brother (2014)
• Gaurav Vasudev as Babar (2014)
• Sahil Phull as Aashfaq Mehrami: Saba and Asgar's brother (2014)
• Anchal Sabharwal as Fida (2014)
• Shriya Jha as Nandini Mehra: Akash's former girlfriend; Rani's mother (2014–15)
• Rishina Kandhari as Malvika Rathore: Raghuvendra's former wife; Ambika's mother (2014–15)
• Madhura Naik as Nilofer (2014)
• Mansi Sharma as Saba Mehrami: Asgar and Aashfaq's sister (2014)
• Samiksha Bhatnagar as Zubieda (2014)
• Rakesh Pandey as Ansari Sahab (2014)
• Farida Dadi as Anjum (2008–11)
• Usha Bachani as Mrs. Khurana (2009)
• Aastha Chaudhary as Madhura (2011)
• An unknown actor as Avinash Chatterjee: Ekadashi's husband; Akash and Sankrant's father (2011–12)
• Sharad Kelkar as Satyaveer Singh (2011)
• Shikha Singh as Kuki (2011)
• Priya Marathe as Ruby: Rocky's fiancée (2011–12)
• Harsha Khandeparkar as Sanchi Singh (2011)
• Arun Bali as Godman (2014)
• Vikas Sethi as Inspector Abeeran Mattoo (2010)
• Nikhil Arya as Inspector Suryakant Tarte (2011)
• Toral Rasputra as Anandi (Guest)

Ratings

Uttaran became one of the most watched Hindi GEC in its runtime and has maintained top 10 position mostly on the ratings charts from the beginning till it completed 836 episodes.

Uttaran opened with a rating of 2.7 TVR in its debut week and soon five weeks after its launch, it entered the top 4 most-watched Hindi GEC. Thus, Uttaran became second most watched show of Colors after Balika Vadhu.

In week of 24 October 2009, it occupied top position and garnered 8.2 TVR. In week of 14 November 2009, it garnered its highest weekly rating of 9.6 TVR.

In week 3 of 2010, it occupied top position and garnered 8.1 TVR. In week of 17 July 2010, it garnered its highest weekly rating of 8.4 TVR. In week 46 of 2010, it occupied third position with 5.64 TVR.

For a record week of 44, it was the top 10 position in Hindi GEC throughout the year 2011 and In week 13 of 2011, it occupied top position with 5.9 TVR.

In week 7 of 2012, It occupied fifth position with 4.44 TVR.

References

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2. "Uttaran to end on January 16". Times of India. 1 January 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
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4. "Tina Dutta hosts a 'Uttaran' reunion at her place". Times of India. 29 June 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
5. "Tina Datta Goes Bold for a Calendar Shoot, Poses with a Nude Model". India.com. 14 December 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2018.
6. "Pratigya and Uttaran in a TRP tussle". Times of India. 21 September 2011. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
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External links

• Uttaran at IMDb
• Uttaran on Voot

• 2000s Indian television series
• 2010s Indian television series
• 2008 Indian television series debuts
• 2015 Indian television series endings
• Indian drama television series
• Indian television soap operas
• Colors TV original programming
• Television shows set in Rajasthan