''Saaya'' is an

Indian soap opera Indian television drama (in Indian English Indian serials) are television programs written, produced, and filmed in India, with characters played by Indians and episodes broadcast on Indian television. India's first television drama was '' Hu ...

aired on

Sony Entertainment Television Sony Entertainment Television (SET) is an Indian Hindi-language general entertainment pay television channel, that was launched on 30 September 1995, and is owned by Culver Max Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese Sony. SET India's ...

in 1998. The series was produced by popular production house,

UTV Software Communications The Walt Disney Company India Private Limited, known simply as Disney India, is the Indian subsidiary of the Indo Pacific region of the American media and entertainment conglomerate The Walt Disney Company and headquartered in Mumbai, Maharasht ...

and revolved around two very different girls – Sudha ( Manasi Joshi Roy) and Kamiya (

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) who become friends.

Premise

Sudha is a quiet, fragile and an incredibly shy girl who comes from an orthodox family where her father Jagat Narayan has the final say. Kamiya, on the other hand, is bursting with a vibrant zest for life and is an extroverted, confident young girl from a modern family. Sudha and Kamiya meet in college and become best friends always there to support each other through the rough times until things change between them.

Cast

* Manasi Joshi Roy as Sudha *

as Kamiya *

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as Shekhar *

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as Mr Mehra, Tanya father * Manju Vyas as Mrs Mehra, Tanya mother *

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as Karan Mehra *

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as Manoj * Prakash Ramchandani *

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as Bhaskar Sir *

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as Bhaskar wife *

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as Jagat Narayan, Sudha's father * Savita Prabhune as Sudha's mother * Pamela Mukherjee as Sudha's sister *

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as Prakash, Sudha's brother *

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as Prakash wife *

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as Sinha, Shekar father *

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as college principal *

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as Police Inspector Makhija *

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as Chief Editor Krishnamurthi *

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as Assistant Editor Pandey *

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as Ranvir Rastogi *

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as ad agency owner of Eazyclean washing powder (Episodes 20 to 25) *

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as Arnav Nanda *

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as Ranvir Rastogi promoting partner. (Special Appearance) Episodes No 41 to 45 *

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as Malik (Special Appearance Episode 114,115)

References

External links

Saaya Official Site on Sony TVWatch Saaya on YouTube
{{SET Shows Indian television soap operas Sony Entertainment Television original programming 1990s Indian television series UTV Television