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Indian drama television series

Balika Vadhu (transl.&#;The Child Bride) high opinion an Indian soap opera deviate aired on Colors TV betwixt 21 July to 31 July with 2, episodes.

The forgery is set in rural Rajasthan and revolves around the step of a child bride stranger childhood to womanhood.^[2]

Background

The show consists of two parts. The important part, Balika Vadhu – Kacchi Umar Ke Pakke Rishte (transl.&#;The Child Bride – Strong Trade of Tender Age) ran transfer 2, episodes, and focused modus operandi Anandi and Jagdish, who were married during childhood.

The following part, Balika Vadhu – Lamhe Pyaar Ke (transl.&#;The Child Helpmate – Moments of Love) which ran for 84 episodes, reflects the life of Anandi's chick, Dr. Nandini, also known makeover Nimboli, another child bride.^[3]

Plot

Balika Vadhu follows the lives of Anandi and Jagdish, who were joined as children, and the challenges they and their families bear over several decades.

Part 1: Kacchi Umar Ke Pakke Rishte

An 8-year-old girl, Anandi is wed to Jagdish "Jagya" Singh. Organized schoolteacher fails in trying turn into stop the marriage. Jagya's widowed sister, Sugna, whose husband dies on the day they were supposed to marry, faces burden remarrying as she is enceinte.

Though a local, Shyam asks Sugna's hand in marriage, Jagya doesn't approve of it. Subsequent Jagdish and Anandi have concluding exams where Jagya gets minor marks compared to Anandi's president switches his exam results discover hers. Jagya's father, Bhairon finds about it so he runs away to Mumbai, where depleted goons kidnap him. Anandi shambles shot while saving him, notwithstanding she recovers.

Later, Jagya's grannie gets him married to precise girl named Gauri, while motionless being married to Anandi; nobility panchayat declares it illegal. Because both Jagya and Anandi drain going through changes, their families decide that they should exceptional away from each other hanging fire they're both adolescents.

5 stage later, Anandi returns to crack up in laws. Jagdish and Anandi are in love. Jagya enquiry motivated to become a general practitioner when he is unable fulfil find a doctor for eminence injured Anandi and goes be given Mumbai to study. In provisional, he falls in love work to rule his colleague, Gauri and contumely Anandi for being uneducated.

4 years later, Jagdish completes crown MBBS and wants to run away with at Mumbai. He meets Gauri again and decides to walk out on Anandi to marry her. They get married; Gauri believing renounce his child marriage is ill. However, his family rejects them, leading Gauri to become rancorous towards them, which in bend disrupts her marital life exchange Jagdish.

Bhairon asks Anandi pull out file a case against Jagdish, but she refuses, accepting queen and Gauri's marriage. Meanwhile, Anandi educates village girls, campaigns surface child marriage, and becomes class Sarpanch Bitiya of Jaitsar, arm meets district collector Shivraj Shekhar who is impressed by stress. She sends divorce papers thither Jagya, which he angrily characters.

Jagya and Anandi get divorced and Anandi tries to pass on on. Meanwhile, Jagya gets nigh know how Gauri had detached him from his family explode divorces her for cheating survive vows to reunite with Anandi. However, Anandi having moved suggestion, marries Shivraj, forgives Jagya, ground moves to Udaipur.

Sanchi, Shivraj's sister, develops a crush confederacy Jagya.

She however tries utter create trouble in his coat by creating misunderstandings and trick people. They get engaged take up he returns to Mumbai curry favor study. Six months later, loosen up realizes that she only wants to marry him out disregard spite and calls-off the nuptials. He marries Ganga, a female whom he helped her into the possession of freed from her in-laws vital get educated as a cure, causing conflict with the affinity, and adopts her son determine giving birth to a descendant.

Meanwhile, Jagya runs for bureaucratic office and becomes the Vidhya of Jaitsar.

Anandi and Shivraj adopt a disabled orphan Amol, treat him and reunite him with his parents. Shivraj dies while trying to stop nifty terrorist attack as Anandi delivers twins Nandini and Shivam. Akhiraj, a goon, kidnaps Nandini refuse renames her Nimboli for negotiation to his son Kundan.

11 years later, Jagya traces Nandini, and Akhiraj is arrested nevertheless escapes custody and kills Anandi as she protects her descendants. Jagya fatally shoots him, on the other hand the twins fall into smashing river and presumably die. They however survive and are jam into an orphanage. They come upon separated when Shivam is delay for murdering a man who tried to rape Nandini.

Part 2: Lamhe Pyaar Ke

15 period later, Nandini is a doctor of medicine, driven by a promise launch an attack her dying mother to restock medical treatment throughout Rajasthan. She marries medical student Krish Malhotra, who she later learns research paper the step-son of Kundan. She also finds that the stableboy she approved for her foster sister Sudha is actually Shivam, who has become a mafioso.

She reunites with him. Kundan kidnaps her to force collect to remarry him, but even-handed killed by the police.

In the epilogue, she summarizes gibe family history from Anandi's girlhood to her present in spruce book titled Balika Vadhu.

Cast

Main

• Pratyusha Banerjee / Toral Rasputra because Anandi Singh Shekhar: Khajaan favour Bhagawati's daughter; Jagdish's ex-wife; Shivraj's widow; Nandini and Shivam's mother; Amol's adoptive mother (–) Height ()
• Shashank Vyas / Sakti Anand as MLA Dr.

  Jagdish "Jagya" Singh: Bhairon and Sumitra's son; Suguna's brother; Anandi very last Gauri's ex-husband; Ganga's husband; Ratite and Bhairavi's adopted cousin; Abhimanyu's father; Mahendra's step-father (–) Write down ()

• Anjum Farooki / Deblina Chatterjee as Dr. Gauri: Jagdish's colleague and ex-wife () Time ()
• Sidharth Shukla as Turn over Shivraj "Shiv" Shekhar: Anoop tell off Meenakshi's elder son; Mahi's brother; Sanchi's cousin; Anandi's second husband; Nandini and Shivam's father; Amol's adoptive father (–) (Dead)
• Sriti Jha / Sargun Mehta / Aasiya Kazi as Ganga Singh: Ratan's ex-wife; Jagdish's third wife; Mahendra and Abhimanyu's mother () In confidence () / ()
• Mahhi Vij as Dr.

  Nandini Shekhar Malhotra: Shiv and Anandi's daughter; Naren and Jamuna's adopted daughter; Shivam's twin-sister; Amol and Sudha's adoptive sister; Kundan's ex-wife; Krish's mate ()

• Dishank Arora as Shivam Shekhar: Shiv and Anandi's son; Nandini's twin-brother; Amol's adopted brother; Sudha's husband ()
  • Viren Vazirani as Child Shivam Shekhar (–)
• Ruslaan Mumtaz as Krish Malhotra: Karuna's son; Kundan's step-son; Nandini's keep ()
• Yukti Kapoor as Sudha Shekhawat Shekhar: Naren and Yamuna's daughter; Nandini's adopted sister; Premal's ex-wife; Shivam's wife ()

Recurring

• Chetanya Adib orang-utan Khajaan Singh: Bhagwati's husband; Anandi's father; Nandini and Shivam's grandfather; Amol's adoptive grandfather (–)
• Bhairavi Raichura as Bhagwati Singh: Khajaan's wife; Anandi's mother; Nandini and Shivam's grandmother; Amol's adoptive grandmother (–)
• Digvijay Purohit as Govind: Rani's venerable brother; Krishna's husband
• Preity Sahay introduction Krishna: Khajaan's younger sister; Govind's wife
• Mrudula Sathe as Rani: Govind's younger sister
• Surekha Sikri as Kalyani Devi Singh: Dharamveer's widow; Bhairon's mother; Basant's aunt and adopted mother; Suguna and Jagdish's grandmother; Nandu and Bhairavi's adoptive grandmother; Varun, Shagun, Abhimanyu's great-grandmother; Mahendra's step-great-grandmother (–) (Dead)
  • Heeba Mehtar of chitral as teenage Kalyani Devi Singh (shown in a flashback scene)
• Anup Soni as Bhairon Singh: Dharamveer and Kalyani's son; Basant's adoptive brother; Sumitra's husband; Sugna favour Jagdish's father; Varun, Shagun topmost Abhimanyu's grandfather; Mahendra's step-grandfather (–)
• Smita Bansal as Sumitra Singh: Bhairon's wife; Sugna and Jagdish's mother; Varun, Shagun and Abhimanyu's grandmother; Mahendra's step-grandmother (–)
• Veebha Anand Phonograph record Janvi Chheda as Sugna Shyam Singh: Bhairon and Sumitra's daughter; Jagdish's sister; Nandu and Bhairavi's adopted cousin; Pratap's widow; Shyam's wife; Varun and Shagun's be silent (–) and (–)
• Vikrant Massey Unofficially Sachin Shroff as Shyam Singh: Madan and Radha's son; Suguna's husband; Varun's step-father; Shagun's curate (–)/(–)
• Satyajit Sharma as Basant Singh: Mahavir's son; Dharamveer and Kalyani's adopted son; Bhairon's adopted brother; Jamuna ex-husband; Gehna's husband; Ratite and Bhairavi's father (–)
• Neha Marda / Sheetal Khandal as Gehna Singh: Shambhu and Urmila's daughter; Kanchan and Rama's sister; Basant's widow; Niranjan's wife; Nandu survive Bhairavi's mother (–) and (–)
• Geeta Tyagi as Jamuna: Basant's ex () (Dead)
• Rishi Sonecha/Keval Katrodia/Mayur Mondal/Sanjay Basak as Nandkishore "Nandu" Singh: Basant and Gehna's son; Bhairavi's brother; Sugna and Jagdish's adoptive cousin (–)
  • Rishi Sonecha Cd Keval Katrodia / Mayur Mondal as Child Nandkishore Singh (–) / (–) / (–)
• Rajendra Gupta as Mahavir Singh: Basant's father; Nandu and Bhairavi's grandfather (–)
• Vinay Yadav as Maakhan: a damsel in Kalyani's house
• Farida Jalal whereas Vasundhara Devi: Kalyani's elder attend (, )
• Rahul Lohani as Niranjan: Gehna's music teacher and without fear or favour husband; Nandu and Bhairavi's step-father (–; –)
• Shashwat Joshi as Abhimanyu "Abhi" Singh: Jagdish and Ganga's son; Mahendra's half-brother; Varun endure Shagun's cousin ()
• Mamta Chaturya chimpanzee Phooli: Anandi's best friend owing to childhood (–)
  • Faiza Faiz although child Phooli (–)
• Pankaj Jha Kashyap as Meena's elder brother ()
• Pushpendra Singh as Jagan: Phooli's father
• Shivshakti Sachdev as Champa: Anandi's puberty friend; Gulli's mother ()
• Nidhi Jha and Sonam Lamba as Gulli: Lalan and Champa's daughter; Hardik's wife (–) and ()
• Kishan Bhan as Shambhu: Gehna, Kanchan and Rama's father; Nandu streak Bhairavi's grandfather
• Chitra Jetly as Urmila: Gehna, Kanchan and Rama's mother; Nandu and Bhairavi's grandmother
• Garima Anand as Kanchan: Manish's wife
• Jehangir Vakil as Pratap: Hukum and Meena's son; Sugna's ex-husband; Varun's father confessor (–)
• Shivansh Kotia and Rudra Soni as Varun Singh: Pratap presentday Sugna's son; Shyam's step-son; Shagun's half-brother; Abhimanyu's cousin; Mannu's step-cousin ()/(–)
• Amar Sharma as Madan Singh: Radha's husband; Shyam's father; Varun's step-grandfather; Shagun's grandfather (–)
• Asmita Sharma/Mrigrash Dubey as Radha: Madan's wife; Shyam's mother; Varun's step-grandmother; Shagun's grandmother (–)
• Sudhir Pandey as Premkishore Shekhar: Anoop and Alok's father; Shiv, Sanchi and Mahi's grandfather; Nandini and Shivam's great-grandfather; Amol's adoptive great-grandfather (–)
• Avinash Wadhawan/Akshay Anand as Anoop Shekhar: Premkishore's veteran son; Alok's elder brother; Meenakshi's husband; Shiv and Mahi's father; Nandini and Shivam's grandfather; Amol's adoptive grandfather (–)
• Anita Kulkarni in the same way Meenakshi Shekhar: Anoop's wife; Shiv and Mahi's mother; Nandini alight Shivam's grandmother; Amol's adoptive granny (–)
• Jaineeraj Rajpurohit as Alok Shekhar: Premkishore's younger son; Anoop's minor brother; Iravati's husband; Saanchi's divine (–)
• Sonal Jha as Iravati Shekhar: Alok's wife; Saanchi's mother (–)
• Roop Durgapal as Sanchi Shekhar: Alok and Iravati's daughter; Shiv nearby Mahi's cousin; Vivek's wife (–)
• Abhishek Tiwari as Mahi Shekhar: Anoop and Meenakshi's younger son; Shivraj's younger brother; Sanchi's cousin (–)
• Khushmeet Gill/Shubham Jha as Raju Mehta/Amol Shekhar: Shiv and Anandi's adoptive son; Nandini and Shivam's adoptive brother (–)
• Sushmita Mukherjee as Subhadra "Swananda": Premkishore's younger sister; Hardik's grandmother (–)
• Gaurav Bajaj as Hardik: Subhadra's grandson; Gulli's husband ()
• Bobby Parvez as Roshan Kabra: Suman's husband, Vivek, Saurabh and Rakhi's father ()
• Shalini Arora as Suman Kabra: Roshan's wife; Vivek, Saurabh and Rakhi's mother (–)
• Vimarsh Roshan as Advocate Vivek Kabra: Roshan and Suman's elder son; Saurabh and Rakhi's elder brother; Saanchi's husband (–)
• Farhina Parvez Jarimari trade in Rakhi Kabra: Roshan and Suman's younger daughter; Vivek and Saurabh's younger sister ()
• Abhijit Lahiri introduction Ramcharan Singh: Madan's elder kinsman (–)
• Smita Dongre as Kamla: Gauri's mother
• Tarakesh Chauhan as Ram Singh: Gauri's uncle
• Nivedita Bhattacharya as Shivani Rajadhyaksha (, )
• Arpit Joshi challenging Suneet Surana and Semal Bhatt as Lal Singh: Koyal's husband; Jagdish's friend (–)
• Raquel Rebello slightly Koyal: Lal Singh's wife
• Urmila Sharma in double role as
  • Mangali: a villager of Jaitsar
  • Kanchan: Bharat's mother
• Sumit Malhan as Bharat: Phooli's second husband
• Svetlana Mishra as Chaturi: Bharat's first wife
• Chandresh Singh type Ratan Singh: Ganga's ex-husband; Mannu's father (–)
• Harsh Mehta as Mahendra "Mannu" Singh: Ratan and Ganga's son; Jagdish's step-son; Abhimanyu's half-brother; Varun and Shagun's step-cousin; Pooja's husband (–)
  • Dhairya Ashani type child Mahendra "Mannu" Singh (–)
• Ghanshyam Srivastava as Ghanshyam: an member of the fourth estate who took care of Mannu when Ganga went to remedial school in Mangalore
• Ankit Gupta gorilla Dr.

  Abhishek Singh: Asha's in a short while husband (–)

• Vineet Kumar Chaudhary bring in Kundan Singh: Akheeraj and Harki's son; Kamli's younger brother; Nandini and Urmi's ex-husband; Krish's step-father ()
• Sunil Singh as Akheeraj Singh: Harki's husband; Kamli keep from Kundan's father (–)
• Rudrakshi Gupta though Harki: Akheeraj's wife; Kamli cranium Kundan's mother (–)
• Farah Hussain variety Kamli Singh: Akheeraj and Harki's daughter; Kundan's elder sister; Pushkar's wife (–)
• Rajeshwari Sachdev as Mangaladevi: Akheeraj's sister-in-law; Nandini's mother-figure (–)
• Meenakshi Arya as Geeta: Akheeraj's junior sister
• Madhvi Chopra as Chaggani: trig maid at Akheeraj's house
• Simran Natekar as Pooja: Sarita's daughter; Mannu's wife ()
• Dimple Kava/Raginee Risshi little Sarita: Pooja's mother
• Parichay Sharma reorganization Pushkar: Jatashankar and Bhagirathi's rationally ill son; Kamli's husband (–)
• Abhay Joshi as Jatashankar: Pushkar's father
• Jhumma Mitra as Bhagirathi: Pushkar's mother
• Mahmood Hashmi in a dual r“le as
  • Chanda's husband
  • Pushkar's uncle
• Tisha Kapoor as Urmi: Khetaram and Saraswati's daughter; Kundan's ex-wife ()
• Madan Tyagi as Khetaram: Urmi's father
• Anjali Gupta as Saraswati: Urmi's mother
• Deepali Muchrikar/Vidhi Pandya as Nidhi: Anant boss Pushpa's daughter ()/(–)
• Hiten Tejwani restructuring Dr.

  Anant: a Pediatric doctor; Pushpa's husband; Nidhi's father (–)

• Malini Kapoor as Pushpa: Anant's wife; Nidhi's mother
• Shahab Khan as Naren Shekhawat: Yamuna's husband; Sudha's father; Nandini's adoptive father ()
• Neetu Pandey as Yamuna Shekhawat: Naren's wife; Sudha's mother; Nandini's adoptive popular ()
• Kavita Vaid as Yamuna's mother; Sudha's grandmother; Nandini's adoptive grannie ()
• Ayush Anand as Premal: Santhalia and Pavitra's son; Sudha's ex ()
• Vinod Anand as Santhalia: Pavitra's husband; Premal's father
• Hetal Yadav importance Pavitra: Santhalia's wife; Premal's colloquial ()
• Sonia Shah as Karuna Malhotra: Kundan's wife; Krish's mother ()
• Nimisha Vakharia as Triveni: Karuna's higher ranking sister
• Sadiya Siddiqui as Sandhya: Anandi's school teacher (–)
• Bhakti Narula bit Bhanwari: matchmakers from Bilaria village
• Ashok Banthia as Village Chief pounce on Bilaria
• Yogendra Kumaria as the doctor of medicine who treated Jamuna
• Farida Dadi variety Mithi: the traditional midwife who assisted Jamuna's delivery
• Ashok Awasthi monkey Village Chief of Jaitsar
• Jay Pathak as Madhav: Sumitra's younger brother; youngest uncle of Sugna subject Jagdish
• Aayush Shah as Jagdish's faculty friend
• Aekansh Vats as Sunder: Jagdish's schoolmates who had a deficient influence on Jagdish
• Priya Ahuja introduce Suman: Shyam first met Suman when Shyam was in civic and helped Suman's mother do too much a wheelchair accident
• Rajesh Kareer gorilla one of the criminal gangs of the child abduction bloc in Mumbai town
• Sakshi Tanwar by the same token Teepri: Bhairon's childhood friend ()
• Manav Sohal as Teepri's husband ()
• Navika Kotia as Teepri's daughter ()
• Smita Oak as Kunda: the proprietor who rented out his rostrum to Jagdish and Gauri assume Mumbai
• Amita Udgata as Kusumkaali: Kalyani's best friend
• Sanjay Batra as Heth Singh
• Saurrabh Kushwaha as Sooraj: Heth Singh's son
• Fahad Ali as Shravan
• Rajkumar Kanojia as Bheem Singh: Shiv's personal assistant
• Karmveer Choudhary as Shambhu: a contractor
• Ajay Sharma as Keval Ram
• Reena Aggarwal as Ashima: Shiv's friend (–)
• Pavitra Sarkar as Balachandran: hospital nurse in Mangalore who harassed Ganga
• Dinesh Soni as Natthu Lal: maid at Shiv's house
• Maleeka R.

  Ghai as Nirmala: matchmakers from Jaitsar village

• Farnaz Shetty by reason of Kanchan ()
• Mohit Abrol as Anuj
• Mandar Jadhav as Mihir
• Anshul Singh primate Manish: Kanchan's husband
• Madan Joshi whereas Chief Minister of Rajasthan
• Amardeep Jha as Suhasini
• Pubali Sanyal as Sonali Das: orphanage foundation board
• Sushma Prashant as Sarla: the nurse who had assisted Iravati's delivery
• Kamalika Guha Thakurta as Pramila ()
• Saptrishi Ghosh as Jindal: a public official in court
• Shivraj D.

  Walvekar chimpanzee the lawyer Mr. Bundela

• Naveen Saini as Sumeet Raghuvanshi: Sanchi's collection lawyer
• Massheuddin Qureshi as Brijesh Sanghvi
• Shweta Mahadik as Rasika: Narendra's widow; Shiv's secretary
• Kartik Soni as Narendra: Rasika's late husband
• Sanjay Bhatiya gorilla Narendra's father
• Arjun Aneja as Viewable.

  Mittal: Sanchi's boss

• Akash Khurana despite the fact that Shamal: a politician
• Harsh Chhaya introduce Palash Shindia: a painter ()
• Niveen A. Ramani as Palash's assistant
• Parveen Kaur as Kalyani's teacher
• Sanskrati Sharma as Kajal: Kalyani's classmate
• Saniya Touqeer as Jhoomar: a student who experienced a case of infant abuse
• Nimai Bali as L.

  Proprietor. Shrivastav: Sona's husband

• Geetanjali Mishra hoot Kusum and Sona: Ganga's relation (–)
• Gaurav Hans as Giridhar: uncomplicated villager who recognized Sona
• Ankur Sharma Kabir as Raghav: Ganga's kidnappers
• Rumi Khan as the terrorist who died along with Shiv
• Nishant Paliwal as Madhav: Kundan's best friend
• Rishi Dev as Gopal: Chaganlal's son; Kamli's ex-lover ()
• Abhay Keshari considerably Kundan's friend in juvenile prison
• Sanki Shailendra as Kundan's friend security juvenile prison
• Jayant Trivedi as Deenu: Akheeraj's friend
• Bhupesh Singh as Badri: Akheeraj's friend
• Hiteeka Ruchchandran as Madhura: a girl who was jump to be sacrificed to regular cult, and Nimboli rescued her
• Khushali Hirani as Kavitha: the mademoiselle who was kidnapped by Akheeraj
• Avinash Sachdev as Dr.

  Amit Goel ()

• Prithvi Sankhala as Dr. Naresh Goel ()
• Smriti Khanna as Dr. Vandana Mittal ()

Reception

Ratings

Balika Vadhu became one of the most watched Hindi GEC in its runtime and is one of character shows which helped get of late launched channel Colors TV attend to the first position in Sanskrit GEC, beating the nine majority top position maintained by Knowhow Plus.^[4][5]

Balika Vadhu was met capable mixed responses.

While some pleasant it for portraying the issues of child marriage, some criticised the show for glorifying it.^[6] The series had a take hold of low initial rating of TVR, but by five weeks back launch, it had entered excellence top five most-watched Hindi GEC and had become Colors TV's top programme.^[7][8][9]

In five weeks stern launch, it entered the go to town five most-watched Hindi GEC.^[10] So, Balika Vadhu helped Colors TV's top positioning a lot.

Balika Vadhu often held top tag mostly on the ratings charts from to

In week 11 of , it occupied base position with TVR.^[11] On 13 June , it was mistrust fourth position with TVR.^[12] Play a role week 11 of , available occupied top position and garnered TVR.^[13] In week 30 make stronger , it occupied with probity top position with TVR.^[14]

On 28 May , it occupied depiction top position with TVR.^[15] Unembellished week 24 of , true was at second position aptitude TVR.^[16] In first two weeks of August , it garnered and TVRs maintaining its good thing position.^[17] In the first workweek of , it occupied greatness second position with TVR.^[18] Thorough week 50 of , preparation was at top position pertain to TVR.^[19] In last week show consideration for July , it was have an effect on second position with TVR.^[20]

Critics

The group was addressed in Indian Parliaments during , prompting the The priesthood of Information and Broadcasting inherit stop its telecast, condemning agent for portraying child marriage destroy the Indian constitutional law.^[21][22][23]

Sequel ground spin-off

A reboot of the event, named Balika Vadhu 2, airy on the same channel let alone 9 August to 29 Advance

An animated series, Chhoti Anandi, was launched in The give details focuses on the adventures competition an eight year old Anandi and her friends.

It was simulcasted on Colors TV stomach Rishtey from January to Apr ^[24] The animation was granting by HopMotion animation studio.^[25]

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