''Aurat'' is a TV series starring

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as the protagonist, it aired on

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in late 1990s, and was later broadcast on Sony. This was a

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production. The series shows challenges and tribulations faced by women characters in society. The title song Ye aurat hai kudrat ka anmol tohfa''' was sung by

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. Aurat had many well known TV actors like

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, Bijay Anand,

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and others.

Cast

as Pragati * Aman Verma as Karanpratap Singh *

Surendra Pal Surendrapal Singh (born 25 September 1953) is an Indian film and television character actor who works in Hindi films and TV series. He is best known for his roles of Dronacharya in ''Mahabharat'', Amatya Rakshas in ''Chanakya'', Tamraj Kilvish ...

as Rudrapratap Singh * Raman Khatri as Inspector Vikram * Shashi Sharma as Mrs. Rudrapratap Singh *

as Asha * Bijay Anand as Rajesh Kumar *

Raman Kapoor Raman Kapoor is an Indian singer and songwriter from Gurgaon, India. He was a contestant on the TV shows ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa'' and '' Rising Star''. He is known for his songs "Neat Daru", "Do Ghunt Pilade", "Punjabi Song Saiyaan", "Mere Rashke Qa ...

as Vinodpratap Singh *

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as Kusumpratap Singh *

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as Rajendra Kumar * Kaushal Kapoor as Inspector Tiwari * Sagar Salunkhe as Anand * Adarsh Gautam as Vikas * Anwar Fatehan as Mukhiya *

Dharmesh Tiwari Dharmesh Tiwari (27 April 1951 – 6 August 2014) was an Indian actor and film director. He is memorable for portraying Kripacharya in the TV series ''Mahabharat'' and Malayraj in ''Chanakya''. He essayed the role of a judge on the Hindi TV s ...

as Dharmesh Tripathi * Neelam Sagar * Pradeep Sharma as Bhupinder Singh *

Deep Dhillon Deep Dhillon is an Indian actor who works in Hindi and Punjabi cinema. He played the role of Jayadratha in the famous Indian TV serial ''Mahabharat'' and appeared as Sahasrarjun in the TV serial '' Vishnu Puran''. He is known for playing Ins ...

as Grover * Kapil Kumar Kochar as Harish Shah * Manju Vyas as Mrs. Modi * Shekhar Navre as Mr. Modi * Anupam Bhattacharya as Sanjay *

Rajesh Puri Rajesh Puri is an Indian television actor. He acted in comedy serials like '' Yeh Duniya Gazab Ki''. Rajesh also acted in a DD1 serial Aamrapali (TV serial) in 2002. He is also identified as Lalit Prasad (a.k.a. Lalloo) of Hum Log, the Televisi ...

as Issa Bhai * Mohan Azad as Moosa * Manish Khanna as Ranjeet Makhija *

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as Durgaprasad * Aruna Sanghal as Minnie Grover

References

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