Sasural Simar Ka
Sasural Simar Ka is an Indian soap opera that was aired on Colors TV. The show premiered on 25 April 2011, produced by Rashmi Sharma Telefilms. It starred Dipika Kakkar, Avika Gor, Shoaib Ibrahim, Manish Raisinghani, Keerti Gaekwad Kelkar, Dheeraj Dhoopar, Vaishali Takkar, Siddharth Shivpuri, Varun Sharma, Nikki Sharma, Monica Sharma, Krissann Barretto, Rohan Mehra and Mazher Sayed. The show ended on 2 March 2018, completing 2,063 episodes.
Plot
The story revolves around the lives of two sisters from Vrindavan, Simar and Roli who marry Prem and Siddhant respectively, and how they become the perfect daughter-in-laws of Bharadwaj household by managing various difficult situations, solving various problems and defeating evil people coming to destroy their family.Simar dreams of becoming a dancer but her conservative parents are against her dream, considering dancing as an improper and obscene occupation. Instead, they are planning to get their daughter married to wealthy businessman Prem Bharadwaj. At the day of the wedding, there's a great dancing contest and to allow Simar to participate in it without disturbing their parents, Roli takes Simar's place until the latter returns. However, Simar is late and thus, dressed up and veiled Roli is forced to marry Prem. This creates problems, as Simar and Prem love each other and Roli is in love with Siddhand. After some time, everybody unites with the person he/she loves and both Simar and Roli are accepted in Bharadwaj House. Nirmala, Simar and Roli's grandmother-in-law and family matriarch and Rajendra and Sujata, their parents-in-law, have deep trust in the sisters and always support them but Pari, Uma and Khushi, the other daughter-in-laws of the Bharadwajs, are jealous of them as they do not get such attention and respect due to their craftiness and greed and try to create difficulties in their lives from time to time. Simar is unable to conceive again after a miscarriage and Khushi agrees to become a surrogate mother of Prem and Simar's child. A daughter named Anjali is born and the Bharadwajs look after her with much love and care. But later, Roli has a car accident and unintentionally runs over a woman named Sunaina. While looking around the place of the accident for clues, Simar is kidnapped by Sunaina's husband Vikrant and forced to leave her family and look after his daughter Sanjana.
2 years later
Simar returns to her family to find out Prem has remarried to another woman named Surabhi. Simar, Roli, Prem and Siddhant also have to cope up with a supernatural creature: Sunaina's spirit who has returned for a revenge, and also with Vikrant, who falls in love with Simar. Eventually, Sunaina and Surabhi, are banished. Vikrant tries to murder Prem and is sent to jail. Sanjana is adopted by Simar and Prem.Later, the story revolves around Simar, Roli, Prem and Siddhant and how they protect Bharadwaj House from some supernatural creatures who want to destroy them. These supernatural creatures include Sunaina's soul, a shapeshifting female serpent named Maya, daayans named Mohini and Indravati, Patali Devi-Gayatri, ghosts named Maalti, Madhavi and Chhoti Dulhan, Shaitan, a Moon Jewel named Chandramani and another two daayans named Mahamaya and Kamya. During defeating Patali Devi-Gayatri and Kaal, Simar's life gets in danger. To protect her elder sister, Roli sacrifices her life and she dies. After Roli's sad demise, Siddhand is remarried to Prerna, Simar's childhood friend and moves abroad with her. To gain his powers back and return to the world, Kaal, with the help of some witches, among which are Mahamaya and Kamya, casts a spell on Simar and impregnates her with a child possessing evil powers. Simar has no other option but to leave Bharadwaj House with her newborn son Piyush.
16 years later
After major time leaps, the story shows Simar and Piyush returning to Bharadwaj House and reuniting with their family. Simar and Prem 's daughter Anjali, brought up by Bharadwaj's treacherous and crafty daughter-in-law Khushi, has grown up to be a spoilt and selfish fashionista, who blames her mother for abandoning her. Simar and Prem together help their children in their lives. They marry Anjali to Vikram Sanjeev Agarwal and later Piyush to his best friend Roshni Kapoor. After Simar helps Anjali managing her marriage, Anjali accepts her mother.Kaal awakens on Piyush's 25th birthday, possessing him, and killing Roshni's father, Sumit Kapoor, but is finally defeated by a sorceress named Riddhima. Later, Anjali divorces her husband and returns to the Bharadwaj House. Sanjana returns to Bharadwaj House from London, where she was sent years ago to pursue higher studies. Upon realising Sanjana and her college friend Sameer Kapoor 's mutual feelings, the Bharadwajs fix their marriage. However, Anjali discovers that Sameer is a fraud who is conspiring against the Bharadwajs and to spare herself from the same fate, she marries Sameer in a secret ceremony. She humiliates her family members and treats them like servants. She even slaps her mother Simar. After Piyush plots a master plan to get the Bharadwaj's property back from Anjali, she threatens to kill her own mother but is stopped by Simar who shoots her and Anjali falls into a coma.
Bhairavi, Sameer's mother is revealed to have shot Anjali. Together with Sameer, she enters the Bharadwajs' lives to avenge Prem for running her husband and Sameer's father over. It is subsequently revealed than Bhairavi murdered him herself after he discovered she was a drug dealer and is using the Bharadwajs as a cover-up. After absorbing supernatural powers, Bhairavi turns into a daayan and kills Simar, leaving the Bharadwajs heartbroken. However, the Mother Goddess Durga, deeply worshipped by the Bharadwaj Family, enters their household in the form of Simar, to destroy Bhairavi and bring Simar back to life. After her defeat, Bhairavi is arrested. Sameer repents for his mistakes and the Bharadwajs forgive and accept him after realising he truly loves Sanjana. Anjali wakes up from coma and asks forgiveness from all the family members but in reality, her purpose is taking Sameer away from Sanjana. Her intentions are revealed when she tries to kill her new fiancée Sahil and set Bharadwaj Mansion on fire, and she is arrested. Simar considers her daughter dead and asks the other family members to forget about her. The Saga of the Mystery Box begins, leading to Aliya, who shoots Roshni with a gun to avenge her father's death who had committed suicide due to Piyush's mistake, and Roshni sadly dies, leaving the family in sadness and making Piyush mad.
6 months pass after Roshni's sad demise. The show portrays the story of Simar and Prem searching for their son Piyush who got lost after Roshni's death 6 months prior, and managing the married life of their adopted daughter, Sanjana. Simar finds out that Piyush has lost his memory and is being looked after by a girl named Avni and her mother, Hema. Simar takes her son back to Bharadwaj House together with Avni and Hema. Bhairavi has returned from jail and is living with Sameer and Sanjana, but is actually plotting her revenge, having paid Avni and Hema to kidnap Piyush and destroy the Bharadwaj Family. Sanjana loses her unborn child. When Avni tries to expose Bhairavi, the latter attempts to kill her but only succeeds in murdering Avni's mother. Bhairavi shooting a gun leads to Piyush regaining his memory. In the end, Simar kills Bhairavi and Piyush marries Avni, promising her that he would always be by her side. The Bharadwajs worship the Mother Goddess and celebrate togetherness. Pari apologises to Simar for her past mistakes. Simar also remembers her sister Roli and Nirmala says that the Bharadwaj Family is not only a family but a thought.
Cast
Main
- Dipika Kakkar as / Keerti Gaekwad Kelkar Niharika Simar Prem Bharadwaj: Roli's sister; Prem's wife, Anjali, Piyush and Sanjana's mother
- Shoaib Ibrahim as Prem Bharadwaj: Siddhant's brother; Simar's husband, Anjali, Piyush and Sanjana's father
- Avika Gor as Roli Siddhant Bharadwaj: Simar's sister; Siddhant's wife
- Manish Raisinghan as Siddhant Bharadwaj: Prem's brother; Roli's husband
- Varun Sharma as Piyush Bharadwaj: Simar and Prem's son; Roshni's former husband; Avni's husband
- Nikki Sharma as Roshni Kapoor / Roshni Piyush Bharadwaj: Piyush's former wife
- Monica Sharma as Avni Piyush Bharadwaj: Piyush's wife
- Krissann Barretto as Sanjana Mehta : Sunaina and Vikrant's daughter; Simar and Prem's adoptive daughter; Sameer's wife
- Rohan Mehra as Sameer Kapoor: Anjali's former husband; Sanjana's husband
- Vaishali Takkar as Anjali Bhardwaj: Simar and Prem's daughter; Vikram and Sameer's former wife
- Keerti Gaekwad Kelkar as Simar Prem Bharadwaj: Roli's sister; Prem's wife, Anjali, Piyush's mother, Sanjana's adoptive mother - In 2017, Kelkar replaced Kakar in the role of Simar Bharadwaj.
- Dheeraj Dhoopar as Prem Bharadwaj : In 2013, Dhoopar replaced Ibrahim as Prem.
- Mazher Sayed as Prem Bharadwaj : Sayed replaced Dhoopar as Prem in 2017.
- Gaurav Khanna as Prem Bharadwaj : Khanna replaced Sayed as Prem in January 2018.
- Mansi Srivastava as Prerna: Siddhant's second wife.
Recurring
- Jayati Bhatia / Niyati Joshi as Nirmala Bharadwaj : Matriarch of Bhardwaj family, Prem and Siddhant's grandmother
- Vandana Vithlani / Pavitra Punia as Bhairavi Dhanraj Kapoor: Sameer's mother
- Shweta Sinha / Aashka Goradia as Pari Shailendra Bharadwaj: Shailendra's wife
- Ishani Sharma as Aliya: Roshni's murderer
- Adarsh Gautam as Rajendra Bharadwaj: Prem's father
- Ashu Sharma as Satyendra Bharadwaj: Prem's eldest brother
- Shabaaz Abdullah Badi as Rahul
- Snehal Sahay as Uma Satyendra Bharadwaj: Satyendra's wife
- Sahil Anand as Shailendra Bharadwaj : Prem's second eldest brother
- Ssumier Pasricha as Shailendra Bharadwaj : Prem's second eldest brother
- Vishal Nayak as Shailendra Bharadwaj : Prem's second eldest brother
- Nimisha Vakharia as Manoranjan Singh: Nirmala's younger sister
- Nishigandha Wad as Sujata Rajendra Bharadwaj: Prem's mother
- Ashiesh Roy as Suryendra Bharadwaj: Nirmala's younger son
- Jhanvi Vohra as Karuna Suryendra Bharadwaj: Suryendra's wife
- Jyotsna Chandola as Khushi Sankalp Bharadwaj: Sankalp's wife
- Kanchi Singh as Cherry Bharadwaj: Suryendra and Karuna's daughter
- Pankaj Dheer as Jamnalal Dwivedi: Simar and Roli's father
- Jaya Ojha as Meena Jamnalal Dwivedi: Simar and Roli's mother
- Himani Shivpuri as Rajjo Dwivedi: Simar and Roli's paternal aunt
- Rakshit Wahi as Gautam Dwivedi: Simar and Roli's younger brother
- Avika Gor as Shruti "Jhumki" Verma
- Arti Singh as Madhavi
- Priyamvada Kant as Anisha: Khushi's elder sister
- Vishal Aditya Singh as Veeru: Khushi's partner
- Falaq Naaz as Janvi Bharadwaj: Prem's sister
- Khushwant Walia as Aarav Bharadwaj: Shailendra and Pari's son
- Kenisha Bharadwaj as Ananya Aarav Bharadwaj: Aarav's wife
- Swati Chitnis as Shobha: Shakti's mother
- Sana Amin Sheikh as Naina: Siddhant's fiancé
- Rohit Khurana as Shaurya Singhania: Janvi's first husband
- Shikha Singh as Meghna Singhania: Shaurya's sister
- Shalini Sahuta as Sonia Oberoi: Simar's friend
- Aruna Singhal / Roma Bali as Archala: Pari's mother
- Alan Kapoor as Amar Malhotra: Prem's friend and Janvi's third husband
- Bobby Darling as Bobby: Khushi's Partner
- Karuna Verma as Shanti Arora: Anurag's mother
- Shivangi Sharma as Bhakti: Anurag's childhood friend
- Kanika Shivpuri as Shanti's sister-in-law: Anurag's paternal aunt
- Amita Khopkar as Jwala Devi: Land Mafia
- Anshul Trivedi as Baba: Jwala Devi's son
- Meera Deosthale as Priya: Vikrant's employee
- Arun Bakshi as Gandhi: a priest
- Dolly Chawla as Sejal Gandhi: Gandhi's daughter
- Aadesh Chaudhary as Vikrant Mehta: Sunaina's husband and Sanjana's father
- Neetha Shetty as Sunaina Vikrant Mehta / Aditi : Vikrant's wife, Sanjana's mother
- Minal Karpe as Savita "Baa" Mehta: Vikrant & Karthik's mother
- Pratik Shukla as Kartik Mehta: Vikrant's younger brother, Kavya's husband
- Sadhana Sharma as Kkavya Kartik Mehta: Kartik's wife
- Neha Lakshmi Iyer as Surbhi Prem Bharadwaj: Pari's younger sister and Prem's second wife
- Priyanka Bhole as Leela: Sarpanch's daughter
- Aniruddh Singh as Dr. Anurag Arora: Janvi's second husband
- Siddharth Vasudev as Rai Bahadur Rajveer Singh: Manoranjan's son
- Sayantani Ghosh as Rajkumari Rajeshwari: Rajveer's partner
- Manish Raisinghan as Aryan: Rajveer's servant
- Kunika as Thakurain: Mohini's enemy
- Rushad Rana as Sumit Kapoor: Roshni's father
- Jasveer Kaur as Rita Sumit Kapoor: Roshni's mother
- Sanjeev Jogtiyani as Ravikant Agarwal: Vikram's paternal uncle
- Shweta Gautam as Saroj Ravikant Agarwal: Ravikant's wife
- Vikas Sethi as Sanjeev Agarwal: Vikram's father
- Siddharth Shivpuri as Vikram Agarwal: Tanvi's husband, Anjali's ex-husband
- Sneha Shah as Tanvi Vikram Agarwal: Vikram's wife
- Ali Hassan as Shaitan
Production
Crossover episodes
Trishakti episodes
Tri means three and Shakti means power, thus Trishakti means Power of Three. In each Trishakti, three serials were broke down into parts and were shown one by one.Thapki Pyar Ki | Sasural Simar Ka | Ishq Ka Rang Safed |
Thapki Pyar Ki | Sasural Simar Ka | Ishq Ka Rang Safed |
Thapki Pyar Ki | Sasural Simar Ka | Balika Vadhu |
Thapki Pyar Ki | Sasural Simar Ka | Udaan |
Thapki Pyar Ki | Sasural Simar Ka | Udaan |
Thapki Pyar Ki | Sasural Simar Ka | Ishq Ka Rang Safed |
Swaragini | Sasural Simar Ka | Udaan |
Thapki Pyar Ki | Sasural Simar Ka | Udaan |
Thapki Pyar Ki | Sasural Simar Ka | Balika Vadhu |
Adaptations
- In Pakistan, the show was initially broadcast by Geo Kahani but stopped after few episodes. It was airing on Urdu 1 till October 2016.
- In the Indian state, Kerala, the show also aired in Malayalam language as Sithara on Surya TV.
- In Kazakhstan, it aired on Astana TV as Абысындар.
- In Bulgaria, it aired on Diema Family as Ритъмът на мечтите in Bulgarian.
- In Thailand, it is translated into Thai and aired on Channel 9 MCOT HD.
- In Serbia, the show was broadcast by RTV Pink under the title Simar.
- In the Indian state, Tamil Nadu, the show is also aired in Tamil as Moondru Mudichu on Polimer TV.
- In Vietnam, the show is dubbed into Vietnamese as Cuộc Chiến Những Nàng Dâu and aired on Echannel VTV Cab 5.
- In India, the show also aired in Telugu as Moodu Mullu on Star Maa
- In Romania, it is aired on Național TV as Destine Rătăcite with Romanian subtitles.
Awards and nominations