Jamai Raja (TV series)


Jamai Raja is an Indian television drama series, aired on Zee TV, that premiered on 4 August 2014, and ended on 3 March 2017 after a successful 3-year run. It was produced by actor Akshay Kumar and co-produced by Ashvini Yardi and Meenakshi Sagar. Jamai 2.0 is a romantic thriller web series which is the digital sequel of Jamai Raja which streams on ZEE5. It stars Ravi Dubey, Nia Sharma and Achint Kaur in lead roles. It premiered on 10 September 2019.

Plot

Durga Devi Patel and her daughter have a lot of misunderstandings and differences between them. DD is a rich jewellery designer. Her daughter Roshni Patel believes that her mother does not love her and does not give her time and only loves money. Due to this reason she hates DD and never behaves well with her. The show starts off showing Roshni getting her kids at the NGO she manages ready for school and it is shown that it is her birthday. She goes to the airport with her Nani to pick up DD up who is coming back to India. Meanwhile, DD is shown as an arrogant person. In her flight she is seated next to Siddharth Khurrana who seeing how arrogant DD is decides to mess with her and act like a middle class person who has no manners or etiquettes. When DD meets Roshni she gives her a hug and tells her that she should've dressed better. She gives Roshni a heap of birthday gifts but does not wish her "Happy Birthday" like every other year. Roshni meets Siddarth and he acts like a middle class man after Roshni starts to hate Siddarth Khurrana without knowing who he is. Siddarth changes his identity in front of Roshni and says that he is a middle class man names Siddarth Kukreja. He falls in love with her and after a few meetings she reciprocates. They get married but in the not in the attendance of DD as she does not approve of their love or their marriage. After marriage they start living together in DD's house and Siddarth becomes a 'Ghar Jamai'. After many episodes DD finally starts to accept Siddarth as her son-in-law. She trusts him and gives him the Power of Attorney papers for her property and business to guard and keep safely. His mother starts to hate DD as she believes that she is ruining Sid's life. DD decided to get Roshni and Siddarth married again in a grand manner. At the day of the wedding Sid's mother, who had been acting like a middle class woman, revealed her identity and the fact that she has named all of DD's businesses and property to herself. DD and Roshni are shattered. Siddharth knows nothing about this and he is not present there. Roshni starts to hate Siddharth thinking he was also involved in what Simran had done. Roshni goes away from him and goes to Bankok.

6 months later

Roshni lives in Bangkok with her friend Yash Mehra who loves her. DD wants them together. Roshni returns to India and meets Sid who convinces her that he did not have any hand in what happened that he really loves her and that she does too. Roshni is sick and in order to make her feel better he tells her to drink some Brandy she doesn't trust him and tells him to drink some too to prove that there is no poison in the Brandy. He takes a big gulp out of the bottle and makes her drink some too. They become drunk and share an intimate moment and get physically close. They get together. The next day, Roshni receives a mms where it is perceived that Siddarth is telling Kritika that he will fool Roshni and get her to sleep with him. This however, is not the case and what Siddarth was saying was part of a game and not about Roshni in any way or form. Roshni doubts Siddharth and accuses him of raping her. Then Sid becomes angry. He takes Roshni to the Family Court. The judge decides to give them both 3 months period to save their marriage. As days pass, Sid and Roshni grow closer. Meanwhile, Sam is being forced to marry her boss, Baweja, who took the help of Rajveer to succeed. Roshni goes as a maid to Baweja's house and finds Sam unconscious in a cupboard. Baweja is caught and sent to jail, where he dies. Rajveer kidnaps Roshni. DD reaches and when Rajveer threatens to kill Roshni, DD kills him to save her daughter. Sid's sister, Kritika, files a case against DD and withdraws it, leading Sid and everyone else to think that she forgave DD, but when actually she will take her revenge without Sid's suspicion. Roshni and Sid reunite and after the end of 3 months, they decide to not get divorced. Sid's mother, Simran, blackmails Sid saying that if he divorces Roshni, she will return DD's property and business. Sid is now compelled to divorce Roshni to give her back her old life. He divorces her, and Roshni is shattered. Yash falls for Sam and proposes to her, which she accepts. Roshni's biological father, Shiv Patel, comes back to the house and has lost his memory. He soon regains his memory but acts like he doesn't have his past memories to get DD's love and affection.
Sid and Roshni, along with Mona Bua and Shiv, team up to get DD to confess her true feelings to Shiv. She accepts that he is her husband when Sid informs a reporter about Shiv's identity. Meanwhile, Yash finds out about an accident that claimed the life of his sister and brother-in-Law. Simran and Kritika plots to separate Roshni and Sid. Kritika tracks down Sid's childhood friend, Misha, and convinces Simran to meet her and ask her to marry Sid. One day, Siddharth tells Roshni to make a banana milkshake for him and Misha. She goes and makes the milkshake but while she is away Kritika puts mango in Misha's milkshake. Misha is severyly allergic to mangoes and can die if she consumes them. She takes a sip of the milkshake and suffers from an allergic reaction. Siddharth believes that Roshni did this on purpose and yells at her. Siddharth then with the help of Misha finds out that it was Kritika who put the Mango in the milkshake and is shattered as he blamed Roshni. Misha tells him about the real reason of her coming to India. He goes and convinces Roshni and apologises to her.
DD and Shiv Patel's problems are solved and they again get married. On the day of marriage Roshni comes to know about the truth behind her divorce. She proposes to Sid and he accepts. Misha's love interest with Neil. Sid, Roshni, Misha and Neil go for date. They return to home when some goons attack them. Sid fights with the goons and gets shot. They kidnap Misha and molest her. Misha fakes being mentally unstable in order to trick Sid into marrying her, in the process Roshni's dad is killed,Misha frames Kritika but Sid was able to prove her innocence and Kritika finally realized her mistake and apologize to Sid. Misha's obsession with Sid's love was exposed and the police took her away. Roshni tells DD that she is pregnant. DD hides it from everyone and accept Siddharth's proposal for Roshni.They get married with the truth unveiled. DD wants special care for Roshni so she makes her to live in her house. Sidharat and family also come with her as they do not want to miss the opportunity of caring for Roshni. Roshni and Sid meet up with a kid named Ayesha. They Ayesha home upon knowing that Ayesha is lost. She is greeted with happiness from all of the family members except for Dd, NM and Dadi bua. Roshni suffers from a miscarriage when Sid and Ayesha are out. Did blames Sid and Ayesha for this situation and calls him a murderer of his own child! Sid and Roshni are in grieve over the miscarriage. Sid decides to adopt Ayesha. Roshani firstly oppose it than agrees. DD is not happy over their decision. Later, Ayesha saves DD from the fire and she becomes kind with Ayesha and agrees over the adoption. DD meets Shabnam at her workplace and decides to bring her to her house, listening to her back story. DD organize a party to introduce Ayesha in front of everyone. Shabnam threatens to kill Roshni but fails. It is revealed that Shabnam and Ayesha are the daughters of Shiv Patel which does not end up being true. DD enrages after hearing that news and plans to kill Shabnam. Sidharath saves Shabnam. He came to know about how kritika got married to bunty. He is enraged and kicks Bua Dadi out of the house. Sam gets divorce papers from Yash and everyone including Roshni blames Sid for that. Shabnam drugs Sid and bring him to her room. When Sid wakes up, he find himself in a bad situation. Shabnam accuses Sid for molestation. Everyone loses faith in Sidharath expect for Roshni. Shabnam kills Sid and DD gets blamed for his murder. Shattered Roshni tries to save her mother from jail but fails. She meets DD and they both cry over Sid's death. Sid's parents leave the place.
6 months later
Shabnam is controlling DD's house and Roshni is taking care of nani and Ayesha. She meets a mechanic named Raghu who is a carbon copy of Sid. She finds him only the way to save her mother and to take revenge of Sidharat's murder from Shabnam. Raghu helps him like Sid. Roshni follows Raghu during his marriage with Shabnam and thinks that he is Sidharat suffering from amnesia. Sid's mother act for being sick and the truth for Sidharat being Raghu is revealed. Roshni supports Sid and they manage to defeat Shabnam. They meet up with a backward rajhistani family who claims that Roshni got married to their son kunal. They drug Roshni which causes her to lose her memory, telling her that they are her family. Confused Roshni accepts it and when Sid and DD reach their they find themselves in a worse situation. Kunal beats Sid and throw him out of the house. Sidharath comes and save Roshni from Shabnam and the family by being Jyoti tai. Shabnam comes again to destroy their lives but they threw her back again with no returning point. DD plans a trip for Sidharath and Roshni to GOA so that they could spend some quality time with each other which is destroyed by Alex. Sid enters Alex home and finds her dead. The main villain who killed Alex and playing the game was Yash. Sid acts for being in the coma and Yash reveals his is identity. Sid saves Ayesha and tells Roshni about the situation. Yash throws DD from the hill top and Sid fails to save her. DD loses her memory after the incident and remembers Sidharath as kukreja. Sid tries to bring her memory back. Yash kidnaps DD. He ties Roshni from one rope and DD from the other. Sid tries everything to save her but fails. DD dies and Roshni blames Sid for that. She leaves him and everyone thinks that she died.

2 years later

Roshni and Sid have been separated after the death of DD as Roshni thinks DD died because of Sid. She is going to marry Neil Sengupta which breaks Sid's heart. On the other hand, Neil's family members do not like Roshni and try to stop their marriage. Roshni and Sid now being in Neil's life. Payal is out against Neil's family and creates a lot of drama in their lives. Later Roshni and Sid died in a car accident and everyone predicts that their son Karanvir Khurana also died but the truth was that Satya, son of Roshni's caretaker died but her caretaker makes Karan as Satya.

21 years later

Things have changed after the death of Roshni and Sid. Karanveer "Karan" Khurana, Sid and Roshni's son, has grown up. Neil and Ria are dead too. Their child, Mahi Sengupta, is taken care by Payal. It is about Mahi and Karan. Their relationship is like Roshni and Sid. Shabnam's daughter also comes back to take revenge for her mother Shabnam.

Cast

YearAwardCategoryNomineeResult
2014Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite Saas Jamai Rishta Ravi Dubey & Achint Kaurrowspan="4"
2014Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite Saas Bahu RishtaNia Sharma & Shruti Ulfat-
2014Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite SaasAchint Kaur-
2014Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite Nayi JodiRavi Dubey & Nia Sharma-
2014Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite Naya Sadasya - MaleRavi Dubeyrowspan="13"
2014Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite Naya Sadasya - FemaleNia Sharma-
2014Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite Popular Face Ravi Dubey-
2014Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite JodiRavi Dubey & Nia Sharma-
2014Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite Popular Face - FemaleNia Sharma-
2014Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite BetiNia Sharma-
2014Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite ParivaarAshvini Yardi-
2014Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite BetaRavi Dubey-
2014Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite Saas-SasurShruti Ulfat & Sanjay Swaraj-
2014Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite Mata-Pita RishtaShruti Ulfat & Sanjay Swaraj-
2014Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite DostiRavi Dubey & Sandit Tiwari-
2014Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite Dharavahik - FictionGrazing Goat Pictures-
2014Indian Television Academy AwardsGR8! ON-Screen Couple Of The YearRavi Dubey & Nia Sharma-
2015Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite Zee Personality of the YearAchint Kaurrowspan="5"
2015Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite KutumbhAshvini Yardi-
2015Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite BhaiRavi Dubey-
2015Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite SautanShagun Ajmani-
2015Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite Stylish Personality of the YearAchint Kaur-
2015Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite BetiNia Sharmarowspan="4"
2015Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite BetaRavi Dubey-
2015Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite Pati-Patni RishtaRavi Dubey & Nia Sharma-
2015Zee Rishtey AwardsFavourite BuzurgApara Mehta-
2015Television Style AwardsMost Stylish BetiNia Sharma
2015Indian Telly AwardsBest Onscreen CoupleRavi Dubey & Nia Sharmarowspan="8"
2015Indian Telly AwardsBest Actor in Leading RoleRavi Dubey-
2015Indian Telly AwardsBest Actress in Supporting RoleAchint Kaur-
2015Zee Gold AwardsBest Actor - FemaleNia Sharma-
2015Zee Gold AwardsBest Actor - MaleRavi Dubey-
2015Zee Gold AwardsMost Popular Jodi on TelevisionRavi Dubey & Nia Sharma-
2015Zee Gold AwardsBest Supporting Actor - MaleSanjay Swaraj-
2015Zee Gold AwardsBest Supporting Actor - FemaleApara Mehta-
2015Zee Gold AwardsZee recognition for Best Performance in leading role- FemaleAchint Kaurrowspan="1"

Remake & Spin-off

In June 2017 the series was remade in Bengali as Jamai Raja, and was aired on Zee Bangla, and a Spin-off titled Jamai 2.0 debuted on ZEE5 with cast members Ravi Dubey, Nia Sharma, and Achint Kaur reprising their roles.