Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke


Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke is an Indian television series, which premiered on 21 May 2012 and was broadcast on Zee TV. The show was all about celebrating adolescence depicting the lives of two teenage girls, Gunjan and Rachna. The teenage years mark the real beginning of a person's blossoming youth and the events that occur in one's life in this period leave permanent imprints affecting his/her personality.
The Show Was Dubbed In English and aired on Zee World on DSTv channel: 166. The show ended on 23 January 2015.

Plot

Season 1

The show follows the lives of two teenage girls - Gunjan and Rachna. It shows stages in their lives including love, marriage and other problems faced by young women.
The series starts with Gunjan a fun loving girl from Mumbai who lives her life to the fullest. She resides with her mother, Sneha. Sneha's husband, Aakash resides in Australia for his business. Sneha suffers from cancer and video records a message for Gunjan expressing concern for her.
Rachana, from small town Benaras, is shy and introvert and fearful of her father, Dayal, who she thinks will have her married off if she fails in her exams.
After Sneha dies, Rachna's mother Shail brings Gunjan to Benaras. Dayal and his family are struck by Gunjan's modern lifestyle while Gunjan refuses to interact with anyone still hurting from her mother's death. The family get busy celebrating their son Mayank's return to Benaras. At night Mayank mistakenly enters Gunjan's room and they fight.
A young boy Mithu is harassing Rachna and Gunjan teaches him a lesson. The girls become friends and Gunjan tells the family the whole story.
Gunjan and Mayank help Rachna with hockey practice. Dayal starts planning on fixing Rachna's marriage and opposes her involvement in hockey. At Rachna's game, she excels and Dayal finally supports her. Rachna's wedding is fixed to Vihaan who instead flirts with Gunjan. Eventually, Gunjan exposes him and the alliance is broken off.
Gunjan and Mayank develop a bond and Shail announces their wedding. However, on the day of the wedding, Charu marries Mayank. She creates several problems in the house and files a fake dowry case against the family. Rachna, Kabir, and Gunjan expose Charu's intentions and she is arrested.
Gunjan and Mayank get married. On the other hand, Rachna who is working in Kabir's company as a fashion designer, announces her marriage proposal from Kabir in front of the family.
On the wedding day, Kabir disappears leaving Rachna with a message to take care of his mentally ill brother Bittu. Despite her family's disapproval, in order to prove her love, Rachna decides to take care of Bittu and leaves the house. Mayank and Gunjan start fighting leading Shail to announce that they must stay separately for at least six months and should then decide if they want to stay together. Reminiscing the past, they part ways.

Season 2: 6 months later

Mayank and Gunjan decide to meet at a crowded dargah but confusion ensues and they miss one another returning home to tell their families that they failed to reunite. Meanwhile, Bittu is admitted to the hospital as Rachna continues taking care of him.
Mayank runs into Gunjan at a market, but she is unable to recognise him. Finally her father Akash tells Mayank that Gunjan lost her memory in an accident. Mayank joins Gunjan's college to woo her back. Rachna is heartbroken to hear of Gunjan's memory loss. She finds a job at a man named Omkar's house as a decorator. He is shocked to see her because she looks like his dead wife. His son Lucky becomes attached to Rachna thinking she's his mother.
Om becomes aware that his brother Lalit had killed his wife Divya. He threatens Lalit's wife Urvashi to stop him from harming Rachna. Om and Lalit get into a fist fight and eventually Lalit and Urvashi are arrested. Om thanks Rachna, Mayank and Gunjan for their help. Rachna consoles Lucky. Gunjan and Mayank affirm to forget the past and start afresh.
Kabir returns but is cold towards Rachna who stil loves him deeply. Rachna's family plan to send her away and she sadly agrees. Kabir decides to woo her back and succeeds. Kabir and Rachna are finally married.
The show ends on a happy note with both Rachna and Gunjan announcing their pregnancies and all family members posing for a group photo.

Special episode and events

"Rachna Ki Sagai" was a special episode broadcast on 19 January 2013. The episode showcases Rachna and Vihaan's engagement ceremony. The episode was graced by various television actors performing on different songs.
Guest List
"Ladakpan Ke Suhane Rang" was a three-hour Holi special event hosted by Zee TV celebrated on the sets of Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke wherein various actors from the Zee TV family performed. The episode showcases the Holi of three different states, including Shail of Sapne Suhane Ladakpan Ke celebrating Holi in Uttar Pradesh style, Neetu of Ek Mutthi Aasman and Saavri Bua of Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya showcasing Holi of Punjab and Rajasthan.
"Dawat-E-Eid" was an Eid special event on the sets of Qubool Hai where Rachna and Mayank gave their individual performances. A crossover episode was filmed with Ek Mutthi Aasmaan on 5 May 2014.

Cast

Main

Development and Premier

The series produced by Shakuntalam Telefilms was a story depicting life's of youth and problems they faces. The show premiered on 21 May 2012 at 2:00 pm and airs from Monday to Friday. At the launch event, while talking about the show, Sukesh Motwani, Fiction Head of Zee TV, said, "Sapne Suhane Ladakpan ke is all about celebrating adolescence. The show is full of hope, aspirations, wish, longing, desire and yearning. The idea was to enrich the lives of the viewers through an endearing content which will remind them of their carefree wonder years." Further, producer Neelima Bajpai, said, "We’ve made the show look youthful and appealing".

Casting

and Mahima Makwana were cast to play lead role of Gunjan and Rachna respectively. While Vaishnavi Mahant and Manasi Salvi were cast to play the prominent roles. Ankit Gera was paired opposite Roopal Tyagi.Apparently Nikhil Chaddha was paired opposite Mahima Makwana, after his exit, In December 2013, Piyush Sahdev had been roped in to play Mahima Makwana's Love interest. After six months leap, Ali Hassan makes an entry in the show to play important character of Omkar Opposite Divya. However, soon his track ended, and after three months re-enter the show recovering from his knee injury. Aanchal Khurana was roped in to play main villan role of Charu. The other casts included were Alka Mogha, Harsh Rajput, Shakti Singh among others.

Reception

The show was among the top rated Indian shows and had often made its placed in top 10 most watched Hindi GEC's show. In week 6,2013 with the rating of 4.3 TVR the show climbed to NO.1 spot in the Hindi GEC space, with reference to the show success hindustantimes published an article quoting, "Television's prime time slot gets redefined". The report published on May 4, 2013, stated that with 2.9 Trp the show achieved 3 position among top 10 fictional shows. An article published by toi in 2013 quoting, "Love stories pulling up TRPs on small screen", mentioned that the show received 4.0 Trp in week 4. Yet, another report published on June 29, 2013, stated that the show remained at 6 among top 10 fiction shows Top 10 fiction shows with the rating of 2.6. In week 16,2013, with the Trp of 2.5 show remained at 6. In week 17,2014 it averaged to 5.3 TVR. However, it week 18,2014 it averaged to 4.7 TVR. Nevertheless,the show was quite popular among the Indian audience, specially youth's.

Awards and nominations

Broadcast

Series was released on 21 May 2012, on Zee TV, the series also airs on Zee TV HD and Zee TV Asia. The show was also broadcast internationally on the latter's international distribution. It airs in U.K., U.S., Canada, South Africa, and on Zee TV Worldwide.
CountryChannelNameLanguage
WorldwideZee TVSapne Suhane Ladakpan KeHindi
IndiaZee AnmolSapne Suhane Ladakpan KeHindi
South AfricaZee WorldYoung DreamsEnglish
RussiaZee TVЮНЫЕ ГОДЫ ЧУДЕСНЫЕRussian
OnlineZEE5Sapne Suhane Ladakpan KeHindi
ThailandZee Nungสองหัวใจไม่หยุดฝันThailand
IndonesiaZee BioskopCita Cinta RemajaIndonesian