Nisha Aur Uske Cousins

Nisha Aur Uske Cousins
Genre	coming of age romantic drama
Created by	VM Badola
Directed by	Rahib Siddiqui
Starring	see below.
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	268
Production
Producer(s)	Sukesh Motwani
Production location(s)	Jaipur
Production company(s)	Bodhi Tree Productions
Release
Original network	Star Plus
Picture format	576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Original release	18 August 2014 (2014-08-18) – 27 June 2015 (2015-06-27)
External links
Official website

Nisha Aur Uske Cousins (translation: Nisha and her cousins) is an Indian coming of age romantic drama television series which aired on Star Plus from 18 August 2014 to 27 June 2015.^[1] As a promotion of the show, Star Plus introduced a free mobile app on 24 July, the World Cousins Day.^[2] The story line of the show revolves around the close knit relationship between seven cousins in a joint family residing in the Jaipur city of Rajasthan and is based on the family disputes caused by the difference of opinions due to generation gap.^[3]

Nisha Aur Uske Cousins initially received praise from critics and audiences alike for its fresh concept and youth-focused narrative and as a result saw high ratings but as the series progressed, it drifted away from the initial concept and focused on the soap opera oriented themes, which saw criticism and decline in the ratings and ultimately being cancelled.

Plot

Nisha Aur Uske Cousins’ is a story that revolves around 7 cousins and the concept "Friends are forever, Cousins are for life!" Set against the backdrop of Jaipur it showcases the unconventional bond among 7 cousins living in a joint family. It is the story of their coming of age, aspirations, coping with expectations, understanding love & loss in their transition from being the ‘kids’ of the family to becoming ‘grown up’.

The cousins are introduced: Umesh, the oldest amongst the cousins whose passion is cooking; Dolly, a soon-to-be-married shopaholic (and her fiance Sumit; Kirti, a slightly narcissistic, self-involved fashionista; Nisha, a tomboy and a daredevil at heart; Suketu, an aspiring actor; Jwala, smart, painfully shy loveable geek; and Bunty, the youngest among all the cousins, and a typical mischief-maker. Despite their differing personalities, the cousins are linked together by a common thread of love and friendship and are each other's support system. Saurav, their childhood friend, is also a part of the cousins' gang.

They are a part of a joint family of three brothers, their wives, and Dadaji (Grandpa) and Dadi (Grandma). Dadaji is a strict man who loves his grandchildren but believes in discipline and traditions who has very different ideals and mindset than the cousins. The cousins sort through all the troubles that crop up during Dolly's wedding (that they themselves inevitably caused) and ensure she gets married to Sumit.

Umesh wants to open his own restaurant but is scared of his father who wants him to continue their family business. Suketu's dream of becoming an actor is not supported by Dadaji and he too is made to join the family business. Kirti breaks her relationship with her fiancé, Ritesh, after learning of his selfish motives. Jwala's tuition teacher tries to misbehave with her but she's saved by Nisha, which leads to the revelation that Nisha was a victim of child abuse when she was thirteen, after which she became a tomboy.

Nisha becomes inspired by Viraj Singh Rathore, a national level shooter and joins his Lakshya Academy as an office assistant. She writes mails to him in the name of Aarti to help him come out of his loneliness. Meanwhile, Umesh's girlfriend's - Amanpreet's father passes away, motivating Umesh to take a stand against his family and announce that he wants to marry Amanpreet, which is not received well by the elders who want Umesh to get married to a jain girl. Viraj and Amanpreet develop a brother-sister bond. After a few incidents, Umesh and Aman get married with the family's consent.

The whole truth of Nisha being Aarti is presented in a bad way in front of media at a press conference by Viraj's bua Gayatri, abusing Viraj and Nisha's relationship. Viraj is left shattered.

After facing harsh words from Viraj, a heart-broken Nisha decides to go on a trip alone to discover herself. She meets Kabir there, who has come to Jaipur from Dubai in search of his brother, whom he has never met or seen. They together rescue a little girl Chandu from goons. While trying to save Chandu and themselves from the goons, both end up getting married accidentally. They again marry unwillingly in front of Nisha's family due to Dadaji's insistence. They mutually agree on a contract marriage of 3 months after which Kabir would go to London, to fulfill his dream of becoming a world renowned dancer. Ramesh(Nisha's father) decides to follow his passion and opts out of the family business and starts his own music class. Sumit gets jealous of the growing fondness of the family for Kabir and plots against him along with his mom and Rupan(Nisha's aunt) and traps him in a fake jewellery case. Nisha along with her cousins plans to clear Kabir's name. But while doing so she meets with an accident by falling off an under-construction building because of Sumit and is hospitalised and Kabir gets jailed. Finally after regaining conscious Nisha and her cousins along with Ramesh and Lakshmi(Nisha's parents) are able to prove Kabir's innocence and convict Sumit for his crimes. Kabir and Nisha realize they are in love with each other but do not confess. Meanwhile, Kaira(Viraj's would be fiancé and friend) reveals Gayatri's truth and Viraj realizes his mistake of not trusting Nisha and also that he loves her and tries to get her back in his life.

Kabir's mom Vasundhara comes down to India and reprimands her son for lying to her about him being in London and hiding about his marriage. Though she accepts the marriage initially, she vows to separate them later as she comes to know that Nisha is a Gangwal. It is then revealed that she hates the Gangwals due to some past issues. It is then shown that Viraj and Kabir are brothers and Vasundhara had to leave Viraj when he was a child due to circumstances. She uses Viraj to create misunderstandings between Nisha and Kabir without knowing that Viraj is her son. Kabir thinks that Nisha is still in love with Viraj and decides to leave to London. Vasundhara gets to know that Viraj is her son, realizes her mistake and asks Nisha to reunite the brothers. Viraj and Kabir reunite. Viraj realizes that Nisha loves Kabir and decides to move on. Vasundhara apologizes to everyone and decides to be with Viraj as she had to leave him when he was small. In the meantime, Dolly gets to know that she's pregnant but decides to raise her baby alone and applies for divorce from Sumit. The story ends with Saurav and Dolly's love confession, Kabir proposing Nisha and their happy reunion with the cousins and the whole Gangwal family rejoicing and a flashback of all their happy moments is shown with the cousins theme song, Firdausiyana plays in the background.

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