Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Ye

Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Ye (transl. It's a strange tale) is an Indian television soap opera produced by Ekta Kapoor under her banner Balaji Telefilms The series was broadcast on Life OK and streamed online after airing on television on Hotstar.[1][2]

Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Ye
Logo of Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh
GenreRomance
Drama
Created byBalaji Telefilms
Developed byEkta Kapoor
Written byAnil Nagpal
Directed byMujammil Desai,
Santram Varma,
Lalit Marathe
Creative director(s)Tanushree Dasgupta (Balaji Telefilms )
Creative Team
Sandiip Sikcand and Imran Mir
StarringSee Below
Opening theme"Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Ye"
Composer(s)Lalit Sen
Country of originIndia
Original language(s)Hindi
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes110
Production
Producer(s)Ekta Kapoor
Shobha Kapoor
Production location(s)Mumbai
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running timeApprox. 24 minutes
Production company(s)Balaji Telefilms
DistributorStar India
Release
Original networkLife OK
Picture format576i
HDTV 1080i
Original release7 October 2014 (2014-10-07) –
6 March 2015 (2015-03-06)
External links
Website
Production website

The show was the television debut of Bollywood actress Sonali Bendre in the fiction genre.[3] The title of the show Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh is inspired by the title song of the 1960 Bollywood film Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai, originally sung by Lata Mangeshkar.[4]

The show was broadcast between 7 October 2014 and 6 March 2015.

Plot

Shobha (Sonali Bendre) is a middle-aged housewife married to a politician, Samarth (Harsh Chhaya). The couple has two little children and a seemingly happy marriage until Shobha discovers that her husband is having an affair, and is involved in corruption through a news broadcast. Left all devastated, she doesn't know what to expect from life after it became the new gossip of the nation, but for the sake of her children and her husband's innocent family she decides to pursue a career.

Her new journey to be independent goes through major ups and downs, whilst she tries to figure out her seemingly arrogant, yet mysterious boss, Vikram Ahuja(Apurva Agnihotri) . He inspires her to make an identity for herself and not rely on the one her husband has left her with. As she gets to know the man Vikram is, they form an unnamed, yet a divine bond. As her kids fall in love with the man too, their relationship becomes so strong that it's pure.

Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh is a rom-com that revolves around the lives of Vikram and Shobha, and their families—how they overcome their pasts for a better future.

Cast

Main

Recurring

Reception

Initially, the show was seen as fresh take on the saas-bahu trope in Indian television serials.[8] Explaining why the show was taken off air, the show's co-creator Ekta Kapoor said that audiences were not ready for progressive shows that showed a married woman choosing to move on even after her husband mistreats her.[9] In another interview in 2017, Kapoor said that the show was poorly received as the idea of a woman in a bad marriage moving out and leaving her husband did not match the general accepted thought process of a family despite the show's depiction of reality.[10]

International broadcasting
Country Network Local title Series premiere Timeslot Episodes
 Somalia MCTV Fikir Aan La Fileynin October 21, 2017 21:00 107

References
  1. Sonali Bendre's show to replace 'Baawre'?
  2. title=Watch Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh
  3. Sonali Bendre is childlike, says TV actor Apurva Agnihotri – Daily News & Analysis
    - Sonali Bendre enters fiction space on TV with Ajeeb Daastan Hai Yeh
    - I never thought of doing a fiction show: Sonali Bendre
  4. Ekta Kapoor's next show on Life Ok titled Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh
  5. "Sonali Bendre was interested in Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh bEcause iT was a finite show - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  6. "Sonali Bendre is childlike: Apurva Agnihotri". The Indian Express. 23 September 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  7. "Harsh Chhaya to make comeback with 'Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Ye', says not interested in playing father". The Indian Express. 29 September 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  8. "Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Yeh / Pilgrim's progress". The Indian Express. 24 October 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  9. "Stop Calling Indian TV 'Regressive' – You're Part of the Problem". The Quint. 18 June 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  10. "Ekta Kapoor on why nobody questions TV, ideas that didn't work and her dream to see Ranveer Singh on small screen". The Indian Express. 29 June 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
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