''Amber Dhara'' is an Indian

Hindi language Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

television series that aired on

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from 24 September 2007 until 24 April 2008, based on the lives of

conjoined twins Conjoined twins – sometimes popularly referred to as Siamese twins – are twins joined ''in utero''. A very rare phenomenon, the occurrence is estimated to range from 1 in 49,000 births to 1 in 189,000 births, with a somewhat higher incidence ...

, Amber and Dhara.

Plot

The story revolves around the life of conjoined twins Amber(

Kashmira Irani Kashmira Irani is an Indian film, television and theatre actress known for playing Amber in ''Amber Dhara'', Draupadi in ''Dharmakshetra'' and Samaira Khanna in '' Dosti... Yaariyan... Manmarziyan ,Princess Sonali in the musical Zangoora-The Gy ...

) and Dhara(

Sulagna Panigrahi Sulagna Panigrahi is an Indian television and film actress. As a débutante, she played the lead role in the television serial ''Amber Dhara'' as Dhara, and went on to play the principal character in '' Do Saheliyaan''. She further did a grey r ...

), who share their liver and are conjoined at the hip. 20% of the liver is part of Amber's body and the remaining 80% is part of Dhara's body which rules out the possibility of a surgery being carried out to separate the twins without any fatality being involved in the process. The surgeon, a quack doctor who the twins' mother, Lata, consulted asserted that if the surgery is carried out, Amber will die thereby scaring her off to get any other doctor's opinion. The girls face many obstacles and decide to run away to

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to pursue Amber's dream to become a singer. Anuj, who is responsible for luring them to Mumbai, is revealed to have had bad intentions and wants the girls to join the circus. Amber and Dhara are dressed up in clownish outfits and are told that they are going to perform but instead are tricked into coming to the circus where they are made fun of. Both girls try to escape the humiliation but Anuj and his goons catch them and force the girls to stay. Amber and Dhara decide to perform one show and end up making many friends at the circus. After giving a marvelous performance, the two girls escape from the Circus. Luckily, their friend Akshat finds them and they live with him until they are able to pursue Amber's dream. They join a band but somehow end up getting arrested for the murder of Akshat's mother. Their mother comes to support them and fights the case for them, but finds out that their estranged father is fighting for the other side. In the end, they are surgically separated from each other without any fatalities and go on to live their own lives.

Cast

as Amber Dixit *

as Dhara Dixit *

Mona Ambegaonkar Mona Ambegaonkar (born 5 March 1970) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films and television. She has featured in over 15 plays, 18 feature films, 38 TV projects, 37 advertising campaigns. She had a minor role in film ''Hazaar Chaurasi Ki ...

as Lata Dev Shukla (Amber and Dhara's Mother) *

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as Dev Shukla, (Husband of Lata Shukla) * Paintal as Mahendra Pratap Dixit (Lata Shukla's Father) *

Harshad Chopda Harshad Chopda (born 17 May 1983) is an Indian television actor known for his portrayal of Captain Aditya Hooda in ''Bepannaah'' and Dr. Abhimanyu Birla in ''Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai''. He is the recipient of four Indian Television Academy A ...

Ali Merchant Ali Merchant is an Indian Actor, anchor, DJ and music producer. Merchant has appeared in over 35 Television shows including Fiction and Non-fiction on all prime channels like ''Colors, MTV, Star Plus, Life Ok, Sony TV, Zee TV, Channel V''. ...

as Akshat Mehra (Amber/Dhara's close friend, also love-interest of Amber) * Nasirr Khan as Anuj (Kidnapper of Amber and Dhara) *

Shweta Gulati Shweta Gulati is an Indian television actress best known for playing the role of Tia Ahuja in '' Remix'' and Dr. Nikita Malhotra in ''Dill Mill Gayye''. Career Her first advertisement was directed by Prahlad Kakkar. Later more commercial a ...

as Sonya Jaiswal (Amber/Dhara's childhood friend) *

Himani Shivpuri Himani Bhatt Shivpuri (born 24 October 1960) is an Indian actress known for her character roles in Bollywood films and Hindi soap operas. Her films include '' Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!'' (1994), ''Raja'' (1995), '' Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge'' (1 ...

as Biji (Akshat's Grandmother) *

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as Kamini Mehra (Akshat's Mother) *

Kamya Panjabi Kamya Panjabi is an Indian film and television actress popular for playing antagonist roles in TV soaps. She participated in ''Bigg Boss 7'' in 2013. She joined the Indian National Congress party on 27 October 2021. Career Panjabi became know ...

as Deepika (antagonist) * Naresh Suri as Mr. Mehra (Akshat's Father) * Vinod Singh as TK (Amber/Dhara's colleague in the band) * Rahul Raj Singh as Kunal (Head of the 'band' group, also love-interest of Dhara) *

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as Shanu *

Pankaj Berry Pankaj Berry (born 8 January 1956) is an Indian film and television actor. He did his post-graduation from Department of Indian Theatre, Panjab University, Chandigarh where he acted in many theatre productions of the department. His first majo ...

as Doctor, Lata's Friend

References

{{SET Shows Sony Entertainment Television original programming Indian drama television series 2007 Indian television series debuts 2008 Indian television series endings Television series about twins Swastik Productions television series