Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai
Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai is an Indian Hindi language coming of age romantic period drama television series produced by Shashi Sumeet Productions which was aired on Sony TV It stars Ashi Singh and Randeep Rai as Naina Agarwal and Sameer Maheshwari. Set in the 1990s and based on youngster's love story, it is inspired by the real-life love story of producers Shashi and Sumeet Mittal.
The show has received critical acclaim with praise for its performances and script.
In July 2019, it was announced that the show would go off air and the last episode was aired on 16 August 2019. However, Sony TV announced that the show will return with a second season at an indefinite date.
Plot
The story is set in 1990, in Ahmedabad,Gujarat. Naina Aggarwal is a 16 year old studious girl who studies at Pragati Vidya Ka Mandir. Her priorities include her family, friends and studies.She is a motherless child. She lives in a joint family of her father Rakesh, brother Arjun, elder uncle and aunt Naresh and Beena, their son Prateek, her younger uncle and aunt Anand and Bela, their daughters Preeti and Pooja. Her mother passed away when she was young.Sameer Maheshwari is a 17 year old hosteler who lives in Nainital. Due to his mischievous behaviour, he is suspended from his school and returns to his maternal grandfather, Jaiprakash Maheshwari in Ahmedabad. He had lost his father. His mother,Vishakha is now married to Vivek Somani, who dislikes Sameer. He is closest to his grandfather, whom he fondly calls Nanu. Sameer joins Naina's school, where both of them meet for the first time and Naina instantly falls for him. Much to Naina's surprise, Sameer is her classmate.
Although Naina has a soft corner for Sameer, she had to stand against him in various circumstances, because she was the Head Discipline Monitor of her school. Naina's father who is the librarian of that school also stands against Sameer, and insults him. An enraged and fed-up Sameer decides to take revenge from Naina, by engaging in a bet to his seniors, wherein Sameer has to make Naina say "I Love You" and hug him. Sameer starts wooing Naina.
After a few months, the school decides to go on a trip to Mount Abu. Sameer and his friends Manoj and Pushpendra decide to complete their bet during the trip. During their trip, Sameer realises that Naina is a very caring and good at heart. Though Sameer has a soft corner for Naina, he never realises that he has already fallen for her; despite Munna and Pandit asking him, he brushes off the topic. On the last day of their trip, Naina finally confesses her feelings. She soon comes to know of the bet, and is completely dejected and heartbroken.
After a few days, Sameer finally realises that he has also fallen for Naina; he tells his friends about this. Sameer is now clueless what to do now, as Naina hates him now and doesn't even talk to him. Meanwhile, Arjun gets to know about the bet. Enraged, he confronts Sameer, and mistakenly Sameer pushes Arjun, and the latter breaks his leg. This causes Naina and her father to be more cold towards him. As a punishment, Sameer is asked to serve Arjun until he recovers. During this time, Pooja's marriage is fixed and the functions go on. Sameer immensely apologizes for breaking Naina's heart. Naina finally forgives him and start their relationship.
Meanwhile, Sameer's grandfather passes away. He soon shifts to Delhi, which Naina comes to know days later. They both communicate through phones and letters. This makes their relationship more stronger.
Sameer returns to Ahmedabad after a year. Naina, Sameer and their friends enroll to VJN College. In the college too, they face too many problems due to their nemesises, but their love gets stronger day by day. Naina also breaks up with Sameer due to Arjun-Shefali's relationship to be exposed to their families. Naina, fearing the same, ends her relationship to avoid Sameer getting heartbroken.
One fine day, Naina's elder aunt fixes Naina's marriage to an arrogant CA Sharad. The alliance soon breaks because of Sharad's violent behaviour towards Anand and also slapping Naina in front of the college. During this time, Anand gets to know about Sameer and Naina's relationship and he approves,because of Sameer's true love and loyalty. Anand also promises to conduct their marriage.
After a lot of trials and tribulations, including family clashes, the couple finally get married. Sameer had built a huge bungalow for Naina with the money Nanu gave him. They also open a boutique namely Samaina Boutique. In the meantime, Swati gets married to a businessman, Preeti gets married to Shubham, Manoj gets married to Rewa and Arjun gets married to Juhi.
Sameer's Mamaji and his son's eye on Sameer's grandfather's factory and business. To kick out Sameer from the business, they insult him in various ways. Enraged Sameer returns home. Hot-headed, he and Naina have a major fight, the latter knowing nothing about what happened in the factory. Both of them slap each other and Naina returns to her home. She soon gets to know the incident and goes to meet Sameer; she meets with an accident. This reunites the couple.
The boutique is now not going very well. Sameer gets to act in an advertisement, where he realizes his acting potential. They decide to travel to Mumbai for an acting career. They also consummate their marriage.
The couple travel to Mumbai with Rakesh. Naina soon finds a job as a writer, but due to her boss's negative attitude, she resigns from her job. Sameer gets his first acting venture in a pressure cooker advertisement, but struggles to find a permanent job. He decides to support his wife with writing. They present their first story to Aruna Irani. She accepts their story and telecast their serial.
Finally, Naina becomes pregnant while Preeti is also pregnant. Naina delivers a baby girl and Preeti delivers a baby boy. Sameer and Naina name their child "Suman Maheshwari". After the birth of their child, they buy their rented house in Mumbai. Sameer also buys his Ahmedabad bungalow which he sold while traveling to Mumbai. After 2 years, they return to Ahmedabad and reconcile with their family members, who turned foes during their marriage.
Naina, Sameer, Munna, Swati, Pandit, Preeti, Hema and Kamya reunite at their school's 50th anniversary. Sameer and Naina reminiscence their old days. The couple lives happily ever after. The story ends in 1998.
Cast and characters
Main
- Ashi Singh as Naina Maheshwari - sameer's wife
- Randeep Rai as Sameer Maheshwari – Naina's husband
Recurring
- Ayesha Kaduskar as Preeti Shubham – Naina's closest cousin sister
- Chandresh Singh as Rakesh Agarwal – Naina and Arjun's father
- Sachin Khurana as Anand Agarwal – Naina's younger uncle
- Madhusree Sharma as Bela Agarwal – Naina's younger aunt
- Kristina Patel as Swati – Naina's best friend
- Sanjay Choudhary as Manoj aka Munna – Sameer and Pandit's best friend
- Raghav Dhir as Pushpendra Pandit aka Pandit – Sameer and Munna's best friend
- Kiara Bhanushali as Suman Maheshwari – Sameer and Naina's daughter
- Abha Parmar as Beena Agarwal – Naina's elder aunt
- Sanjay Batra as Naresh Agarwal – Naina's elder uncle
- Vivaan Singh Rajput / Somendra Solanki as Arjun Agarwal – Naina's elder brother
- Hema Sood as Shefali Victor – Naina's pen pal, Arjun's ex-girlfriend
- Nidhi Bhavsar as Juhi Agarwal – Beena's niece, Arjun's wife
- Malina Kumra as Kamya – Naina and Sameer's friend
- Hema Sai as Hema – Naina and Sameer's friend
- Shweta Rajput as Pooja Mittal – Anand and Bela's daughter
- Love Joshi as Varun Mittal – Pooja's husband
- Rashika Singh as Neeli Madhumakkhi – Varun's Sister
- Kiran Kumar as Jaiprakash Maheshwari – Sameer's grandfather
- Vaishnavi Mahant as Vishakha Somani – Sameer's mother
- Jayshree T. as Phulla Bua – Naina and Preeti's grand-aunt
- Ahsaan Qureshi as U.P Pandey – Principal of Pragati Vidya Ka Mandir
- Melanie Nazareth as Prabha Maheshwari – Sameer's aunt
- Rajendra Chawla as Kamlesh Maheshwari – Sameer's uncle
- Rishina Kandhari as Shanti Madam – Maths teacher of Pragati Vidya Ka Manir
- Kanchan Gupta as Nirmala – Shubham and Tanvi's mother
- Ruchita Vijay Jadhav as Vanita – Sameer and Naina's neighbour
- Nishi Singh as Sunaina Parekh – Naina and Sameer's nemesis at college
- Hitesh Sharma as Kartik Dholakia – Sameer and Naina's nemesis at college
- Subuhi Joshi as Poonam Maheshwari – Sameer's sister in-law
- Atul Verma as Devang Maheshwari – Sameer's cousin brother
- Vikas Tripathi as Shubham – Preeti's husband, Nirmala's son
- Meghan Jadhav as Aditya Gadkari – Tanvi's husband
- Tarjanee Bhadla as Tanvi Gadkari – Nirmala's daughter,
- Sandeep Rajora as Vivek Somani aka Bobby – Sameer's step-father
- Kitu Gidwani as Mrs Somani – Vivek's mother
- Rohit Chandel as Rohan Somani – Vivek's son
- Riddhima Taneja as Deepika Somani – Vivek and Vishaka's daughter
- Manika Mehrotra as Rinky Agarwal – Naina and Preeti's second cousin
- Aditya as Prateek Agarwal aka Pralay – Naresh and Beena's son
- Prachi Joshi as Rewa – Munna's wife
- Rushad Rana as Lochan Sir – Drama teacher of Pragati Vidya Ka Mandir
- Guddi Maruti as VJN college Principal
- Devarshi Shah as Raghav/Ameer Maheshwari – Naina's fake husband
- Vishnu Sharma as Jayesh Bhoummik Raval aka JBR – Accounts teacher of VJN college
- Arjun Aneja as Farhan Poonawala
- Vikram Singh Rathod as Sanjay Tibriwal – Naina and Sameer's classmate
- Nirbhay Shukla as Vicky – Kartik's friend
- Vaibhav Shrivastav as Priyank – Kartik's friend
- Sejal Sharma as Dimple
- Charu Trikha as Mitali
- Garima Joshi as Sahiba
Guests
- Kumar Sanu
- Anant Mahadevan
- Aruna Irani
Voiceover
- Sadiya Siddiqui as Naina's Voiceover
- Jiten Lalwani as Sameer's Voiceover
Soundtrack
Adaptation
It has been dubbed in Tamil language as Ninaithale Inikum on Polimer TV.It also has been dubbed in Sinhala language as Season Ticket on Hiru TV from 29 July 2019.
Reception
It was particularly hailed for its fresh outlook and for bringing out the nostalgia and the flavours of the 90s. It topped Sony TV shows by gaining a TRP of 1.5 in its first week.The Times of India hailed it as one of the best TV shows launched in 2017 and praised the performances of newcomers Ashi Singh and Randeep Rai.
The UK's weekly Asian newspaper Eastern Eye praised the creative team of the show for leaving no stone unturned to recreate the city of Ahmedabad from an earlier era, calling it a tribute to the city.
This show has also earned compliments from various television and film actors.