''Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Ye'' ( It's a strange tale) is an Indian television soap opera produced by

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under her banner

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. The series was broadcast on

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and streamed online after airing on television on Hotstar. The show was the television debut of

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actress Sonali Bendre in the fiction genre. The title of the show ''Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh'' is inspired by the title song of the 1960 Bollywood film ''

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'', originally sung by

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. 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 (

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). 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 becomes 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

* Sonali Bendre as Shobha Sachdev * Apurva Agnihotri as Vikram Ahuja *

as Samarth Sachdev, Shobha's ex-husband

Recurring

* Vivana Singh as Sarika Sachdev/Madhura Kashyap *

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as Sharda Sachdev, Samarth's mother * Devyansh Tapuriah as Rehaan * Kreesha Shah as Jia * Ruchi Savarn as Garima Ganguly * Sandeep Rajora as Tarun *

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as Sandeep * Mihika Verma as Shikha *

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as Saurabh Ganguly *

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as Anil * Prashant Chawla as Sanjay Ganguly * Unknown as Abhay, Sarika's husband * Garima Kapoor as Riddhima *

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as Shobha's friend

Reception

Initially, the show was seen as fresh take on the ''saas-bahu'' trope in Indian television serials. 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. 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.

International broadcasting

South Africa StarLife An Unusual Tale September 30, 2021 107 episodes 18:00

References

External links

*
Official website
on Hotstar {{DEFAULTSORT:Ajeeb Daastaan Hai Ye Balaji Telefilms television series Life OK original programming 2014 Indian television series debuts 2015 Indian television series endings