Waaris (2016 TV series)

Waaris (English: The Heir) is an Indian Hindi drama-thriller television series, which was broadcast on &TV from May 16, 2016 to December 1, 2017. The title track of the series have been sung by Nooran Sisters.[1] Based on the practice of Bacha posh, it starred Arti Singh, Sania Touqeer, Wahib Kapadia, Farnaz Shetty and Neel Motwani.[2]

Waaris
Show Poster
GenreSocial drama thriller
Created byDevyani Rale
Written byDevyani Rale, Manasvi Sharma, Malvika Asthana, Pranjal Saxena, Nikhil Vaddiboina and Nishikant Roy
Directed byManmeet Singh Sodhi Tabrez khan
Creative director(s)Niraj Kumar Mishra
Starring
Theme music composerAshish Rego and Saurabh Kalsi
Opening themeWaaris
Country of originIndia
Original language(s)Hindi
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes398
Production
Producer(s)Ashvini Yardi and Devyani Rale
Production location(s)Mumbai, India
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time20 minutes approx.
Production company(s)Viniyard Films, India
DistributorZee Entertainment Enterprises
Release
Original network&TV
Picture format576i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Original release16 May 2016 (2016-05-16) –
1 December 2017
External links
Website

Plot

Waaris tells about the story of Amba Pawaniya, a Punjabi mother who is forced to raise her girl child Manpreet as a boy in efforts to keep peace in the village and prevent her violent brother-in-law Jagan Pawaniya from taking leadership. The show deals with its consequences, focuses on different situations and shows the gender discrimination still popular in society, along with every mother's protective nature towards her child.

Seven years later

Amba has brought Manpreet up as a boy namely Mannu to keep her husband Charan's title and doesn't want Jagan to become leader of the village. Manpreet tends to prefer feminine things like her sisters Simran and Gunjan. Once old enough to understand, Manpreet decides to become the son her mother needs and suppresses the girl in her.

Simran learns of Manpreet's truth but supports her whenever she wants to indulge in her feminine side. Manpreet befriends Raj, a handicapped boy neglected by his father Harjeet Bajwa. The Pawaniyas and Bajwas are known for their rivalry but work together to try and bring peace to the village. Manpreet meets an older man named Jai and even thinks to match make Amba with him but he dies in an accident.

Enter Mohini, Jai's friend from his former life who loves Jai dearly. Simran and Raman fall in love. Manpreet sees this as an opportunity to bring the clashing families together and form a bond of love between the families but Amba and Harjeet refuse to accept.

Raman and Simran try to elope but are caught. A confrontation ensues during which Mohini secretly shoots Raman and Harjeet shoots Simran. The Bajwas assume Manpreet is responsible for Raman's death. Raj and Manpreet's friendship breaks and Amrit takes Raj outside the city, leaving Harjeet and Rohan behind.

Ten years later

Manpreet and Gunjan grow up. Gunjan knows the truth of Manpreet who secretly dresses as a girl every once in a while and goes by the name Preet. A grown-up Raj returns to the village and falls in love with Manpreet not knowing her identity. Mohini is shown to be married to Harjeet as Amrit left him and has a son named Nihaal.

Eventually, Raj comes to know the truth. He convinces Manpreet to reveal her true identity and they decide to marry. When Amba finds out, she tries to kill Raj but Manpreet dresses up as a bride and takes Raj to a temple to marry her.

As soon as the marriage is completed, Raj reveals that it was all a plan to avenge Raman's death. The village council dethrones her and she is sentenced to live her life outside of the Pawaniya clan's jurisdiction. Manpreet enters the Bajwa mansion with Amrit's help. Sakshi and Mohini try to break up Raj and Manpreet's marriage.

Revealed to be alive and kidnapped by Amba, Simran has lost her memory and is mentally unstable. A grown-up Rohan finds Simran when she is running away from where Amba has been hiding her. Simran is forced to live with the Bajwas as Raman's widowed wife due to Mohini.

Mohini is afraid because Simran knows that she was the one who killed Raman. Raj makes a deal with Manpreet - he will help her cure Simran and she will divorce him as soon as Simran regains her memory. Mohini brings Chandar back into their lives to have Simran remarried. Amba and Manpreet disapprove knowing Chandar is a fraudster.

Manpreet decides to marry Chandar to save Simran. Seeing Manpreet close to Chandar, Raj realises that he has really fallen in love with her, but she has lost all trust in him. Raj and Rohan find out that Mohini killed Raman. They fail to prove Manpreet's innocence because of Mohini's plans.

On Manpreet and Chandar's wedding, Mohini is arrested while Simran is secretly married off to Rohan and regains her memory. Manpreet is saved from the wedding but gets shot while trying to save Raj from Chandar who is arrested and vows revenge. Simran rejects her marriage with Rohan.

Raj proposes to Manpreet and confesses his love but she rejects him. Both Raj and Rohan fight their love for Manpreet and Simran respectively. Raj supports Manpreet in making Amba as the leader of Pawaniyas. To help and save the Pawaniya women, Raj and Rohan create an elaborate plan, eventually winning over their respective ladies as Amba becomes the leader. Raj-Manpreet and Simran-Rohan marry.

Six years later

Raj and Manpreet have two kids named Payal and Rakshit, while Simran and Rohan are the parents of twin children Mahima and Aarav. The series ends with Manpreet teaching Payal, Rakshit, Mahima and Aarav that there is no difference between men and women.

Cast
  • Arti Singh as Amba Kaur Singh– Veeru's elder sister; Charan's wife; Simran, Gunjan and Manpreet's mother; Payal, Rakshit, Mahima and Aarav's maternal grandmother
  • Sania Touqeer as young Manpreet Pawaniya
  • Farnaz Shetty as Manpreet ''Manu '' Pawaniya– Amba and Charan's youngest daughter; Simran and Gunjan's younger sister; Raj's wife; Payal and Rakshit's mother ; He was Pretended to be a Boy.[3]
  • Wahib Kapadia as young Raj Bajwa
  • Neel Motwani as Raj Bajwa– Harjeet and Amrit's youngest son; Raman and Rohan's younger brother; Nihaal's half-brother; Manpreet's husband; Payal and Rakshit's father
  • Anand Suryavanshi as Harjeet Singh Bajwa– Swaroop's elder brother; Amrit and Mohini's husband; Raman, Rohan, Raj and Nihaal's father; Payal, Rakshit, Mahima and Aarav's paternal grandfather[4]
  • Jasveer Kaur as Mohini Karmakar– Jai's former lover; Harjeet's second wife; Nihaal's mother; Raman, Rohan and Raj's stepmother[5]
  • Akshay Dogra as Jagan Pawaniya– Deena's younger son; Charan's younger brother; Raavi's husband; Sukhvir and Bubbly's father
  • Farhina Parvez as Simran Pawaniya– Amba and Charan's eldest daughter; Gunjan and Manpreet's elder sister; Raman and Rohan's wife; Mahima and Aarav's mother
  • Kaivalya Chheda[6] as Sukhvir Pawaniya– Jagan and Raavi's son; Bubbly's elder brother
  • Sanket Choukse as Rohan Bajwa– Harjeet and Amrit's second son; Raman's younger and Raj's elder brother; Simran's second husband; Mahima and Aarav's father
  • Ankita Bahugana as Gunjan Pawaniya– Amba and Charan's second daughter; Simran's younger and Manpreet's elder sister
  • Nitin Goswami/Unknown as Aman Pahuja
  • Swati Bajpai as Raavi Taluja– Sushila's daughter; Jagan's wife; Sukhvir and Bubbly's mother
  • Vandana Lalwani as Amrit Singh– Harjeet's first wife; Raman, Rohan and Raj's mother; Payal, Rakshit, Mahima and Aarav's paternal grandmother
  • Unknown as Bubbly Pawaniya– Jagan and Raavi's daughter; Sukhvir's younger sister
  • Kushabh Manghani as Nihaal Bajwa– Harjeet and Mohini's son; Raman, Rohan and Raj's half-brother
  • Angad Hasija as Chandar Randhawa– Simran and Manpreet's former fiancé[7]
  • Mohammed Iqbal Khan as Charan Pawaniya– Deena's elder son; Amba's husband; Simran, Gunjan and Manpreet's father; Jagan's elder brother; Payal, Rakshit, Mahima and Aarav's maternal grandfather (cameo appearance)[8]
  • Unknown as young Rohan Bajwa
  • Yatin Mehta as Raman Bajwa– Harjeet and Amrit's eldest son; Rohan and Raj's elder brother; Nihaal's half-brother; Simran's first husband
  • Eza Sumbul Touqeer as young Gunjan Pawaniya
  • Roop Durgapal/Vindhya Tiwari as Sakshi Sinha– Raj's childhood friend and obsessive lover
  • Lavina Tandon as Swaroop Bajwa– Harjeet's younger sister
  • Mukesh Khanna as Lala Pratap Singh Bajwa[9][10]
  • Sucheta Shivkumar as Deena Devi– Charan and Jagan's mother; Simran, Gunjan, Sukhvir, Manpreet and Bubbly's paternal grandmother
  • Rahul Verma Rajput as Ronit– Raj's friend
  • Lakshya Wahi as Yuvraj
  • Dolly Bindra as Dumroo Daayan[11]
  • Pankaj Berry as Suraiya
  • Gaurav Sharma as Veeru Singh– Amba's younger brother
  • Bhavana Balsavar as Sushila Taluja– Raavi's mother; Sukhvir and Bubbly's maternal grandmother
  • Sneh Mirani as young Sukhveer Pawaniya
  • Ashish Kapoor as Jai– Mohini's former lover

Reception

Urmimala Banerjee of Bollywood Life has commented "Waaris has the feel of the JP Dutta films of the 80s – earthy, masculine and dramatic. The highlight is obviously the performances. Right from Iqbal to Aarti Singh, they are in fine form. The plot has resemblances to Anup Singh’s Qissa. Here the difference is instead of the father, it’s the mother who makes her daughter live like a son. According to the makers, it is based on the tradition of Bacha Posh, which is quite prevalent in Afghanistan and Pakistan. With supernatural sagas and family dramas ruling TV, Waaris has a newer theme. It remains to be seen how the makers keep up the tempo, which is quite good in the first episode."[12]

References
  1. "Nooran sisters croon the Waaris title track". The Asian Age. 12 May 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  3. "Farnaz Shetty suffers burns on Waaris sets, says she is recovering now". Hindustan Times. 7 April 2017. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  4. Neha Maheshwri (27 April 2016). "Anand Suryavanshi gets a new name". The Times of India. TNN. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  5. Neha Maheshwri (19 January 2017). "Jaswir Kaur turns con woman in 'Waaris'". The Times of India. TNN. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  6. "Kaivalya Chheda roped in for &TV's Waaris". Telly Chakkar. 28 February 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  7. "Angad Hasija is all set to enter And TV's Waaris". The Times of India. TNN. 29 July 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  8. Tanvi Trivedi (16 April 2016). "Why Iqbal Khan got himself a brand new look". The Times of India. TNN. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  9. Neha Maheshwri (11 May 2016). "Shaktiman is back in action". The Times of India. TNN. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  10. "Mukesh Khanna to quit Waaris". The Indian Express. Mumbai. IANS. 24 June 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  11. Tanvi Trivedi (19 November 2016). "Dolly bani daayan". The Times of India. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  12. Urmimala Banerjee (16 May 2016). "Waaris TV Review:Iqbal Khan and Arti Singh pack in powerful performances in this social drama!". Bollywood Life. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
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