Choti Sarrdaarni

Chotti Sarrdaarni
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Genre	Drama
Created by	Ranjeev Verma Nitu Verma
Written by	Story Ranjeev Nitu Screenplay Rahul Pandey Dialogues Rajesh Chawla
Directed by	Jaladh. K. Sharma Rajeev Srivastava Prabhat Rawat
Creative director	Pushpa Porwal
Starring	Nimrit Ahluwalia Hitesh Bharadwaj Kevina Tak Anita Raaj Avinesh Rekhi
Theme music composer	Nishant Raja
Opening theme	Aagayi ab Choti Sardaarni
Country of origin	India
Original languages	Hindi, Punjabi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	391
Production
Producers	Rajesh Ram Singh Pradeep Kumar Piya Bajpayee Shaika Parween
Editors	Paresh Shah Ayan Hashmi
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22 minutes
Production companies	Cockcrow Shaika Entertainment
Original release
Network	Colors TV
Release	1 July 2019 (2019-07-01) – present

Choti Sarrdaarni (transl. Little chief) is an Indian drama television series that premiered on 1 July 2019 on Colors TV. It stars Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia, Avinesh Rekhi and Kevina Tak.

Plot

Carefree and bubbly Meher Kaur Dhillon fall in love with Manav Sharma, who runs a local restaurant. Mehar becomes pregnant with his child. Meher's mother, Kulwant Kaur Dhillon learns about Mehar's pregnancy and her relationship with Manav, she refuses to accept Manav as he is financially unstable. Kulwant invites him to her house and stabs him and tries to kill her unborn child. She wants Meher to marry Sarabjeet "Sarab" Singh Gill who is the president of the ruling party in Attari, Amrister. He is a widower with a 5-year-old son, Paramjeet "Param" Singh Gill. Kulwant forses Meher to marry Sarab, because she wants to become a MLA. At first, Meher refuses the marriage proposal but later complies to save her unborn child from Kulwant's ill intentions.

On their wedding night, she reveals to Sarab about her pregnancy and pleads to him to let her go as she wants to settle far away and bring up her child. Sarab gets angry but later promises her to have her settled in Serbia. However, Sarab, Meher and Param visit Serbia with new identity. Unfortunately, Sarab is accused of killing Meher and is arrested and taken to India and a case is filed. Meher is kidnapped by goons. She comes to know about what happened to Sarab. Meanwhile, Mehar escapes from the goons after initiating a fire in the room. Meher comes to India and rescues Sarab from the false accusation with the help from her eldest brother, Jagjeet "Jagga". Sarab accepts her child as his own. Sarab and Meher tell Param about her pregnancy. Excited, Param reveals this to everyone. A grand party is organized celebrating Meher's pregnancy news. Harleen finds out that the baby is not Sarab's and blames Meher and demans her to abort the child or leave Sarab. Harleen's attitude towards Meher changes after that.

Eventually, Meher and Sarab start developing feelings for each other. Sarab opens a hospital in the name of Meher. Meanwhile, Meher's third brother, Ranbir "Ranna" marries Ginni. During the marriage, Meher gets injured and is taken to the hospital. They find out that Sarab can only save Meher or the baby. Sarab first chooses the baby but later he chooses Meher. But the doctor places the baby in Meher's stomach and both Meher and the baby are alive. Meher gives birth to a baby boy and she names the child as Karanjeet "Karan" Singh Gill. Still, Harleen refuses the baby but she accepts him as time passed.

In this time, Harleen and Sarab's half–sister, Dr. Aditi Kaur Gill enters into their life fuelled with revenge due to a toxic past. After that, Manav who is memory loss now comes back as Mr. Vikram Diwan who is a CBI officer. He falls in love with Dr. Aditi and also came back to take revenge from Kulwant and Sarab. Kulwant learns that Manav is alive after seeing him on TV. Meher leaves with Sarab for CBI interrogation. They meets Vikram and Meher shocks after seeing Manav is alive, but later she accepts that Vikram is just his lookalike. Aditi gives Param a pump which resonable to his brain would stop to grow. But after realizing how much Param likes her, she promises that she will never harm Param and never let anyone else harm him.

Sarab gets Aditi and Vikram engaged. During their engagement, Sarab and Harleen find out that Aditi is their half-sister and reunite with her. However, Vikram gets flashes from his past of Manav during his marriage with Aditi. Vikram faints and is taken to hospital. He escapes from that after he recovers. He asks from his father, Suriya Pratab the reason for hiding his truth. Suriya reveals that how he finds Manav when he was stabbed after the death of his son, Vikram Diwan. After Manav recovers, Suriya introduces him as Vikram to his wife, Seema who was a heart patient. Manav shocks after learning this all. He learns that Meher is now in Serbia. Manav visits Serbia and meets Meher and reveals his truth. Shocked Meher ignores him because she is married now. After so much circumtances, Meher and Sarab come back to India and celebrate their 1-year marriage anniversary. During the celebration, Sarab gets shot and is sent to the hospital. Meher informs Sarab that Vikram is Manav and he is Karan's real father. Sarab shocks and helps her to keep Karan with them. Soon, Manav learns that Karan is his son. He requests Meher to give him Karan but Meher refuses to do that.

After that, Hell-bent Manav unites with Harleen's husband, Robbie and Pathak to get Karan's custody. They decide to show Karan's DNA report to Harleen. But, Pathak goes and blackmails Sarab. Sarab reveals Karan's secret to Punjab at a press conference. Aditi who learns the truth now, demands Meher and Sarab to give Karan to Manav. When Meher and Sarab refuse, she kicks them out of the Gill Mansion. Sarab and Mehar start living modestly with Param and Karan and encounter daily challenges. Soon, the entire family go against her. Aditi regrets for her actions and asks for forgiveness. Manav hands over Karan to Sarab while telling that Sarab is the best father to Karan. Meher and Sarab are delighted on this. Manav leaves with Aditi after that.

Meher learns that Sarab's tax encounter, Tarkash has been abusing his wife Aarti and informs about it to Sarab. When Sarabjeet refuses to believe it and defends Tarkash, Meher sets out to collect evidence against him. While Aarti meekly refuses to accept Tarkash's misdeeds, Meher provides video proof which finally helps her unmask his demonic side to Sarab. After that, Sarab kicks him out of house in anger. Meanwhile, Jagga invites Meher to meet him on his son, Yuvi's birthday. Meher meets Jagga on outside and runs to him. But, Jagga is already stabbed by somebody and he faints and dies infront of Meher unfortunately. Meher shocks and screems. However, Police comes to there and suspects that Meher as the murder and arrests her.

Cast

Main

• Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia as Meher Kaur Dhillon: Kulwant's daughter; Jagga, Bittu and Ranna's sister; Sarab's wife; Manav's former fiancée; Param's step-mother; Karan's mother (2019–present)
• Avinesh Rekhi as Sarabjit "Sarab" Singh Gill: Harleen's brother; Aditi's half-brother; Simran's former husband; Meher's husband; Param's father; Karan's step-father (2019–present)
• Kevina Tak as Paramjeet "Param" Singh Gill: Simran and Sarab's son; Meher's step-son; Karan's step-brother (2019–present)
• Aayat Khan as Karanjeet "Karan" Singh Gill: Meher and Manav's son; Sarab's step-son; Param's step-brother (2020–present)

Recurring

• Anita Raj as Kulwant Kaur Dhillon: Meher, Jagga, Bittu and Ranna's mother; Yuvi and Karan's grandmother (2019–present)
• Mansi Sharma / Simran Sachdeva as Harleen Kaur Bajwa (nee Gill): Sarab's sister; Aditi's half-sister; Robbie's wife; Khushi's mother (2019–present)
• Krishna Soni as Rubinder "Robbie" Bajwa: Harleen's husband; Ginni's brother; Khushi's father (2019–present)
• Hanshika Rajput as Khushi Bajwa: Harleen and Robbie's daughter (2019–present)
• Hitesh Bharadwaj as Manav Sharma / Vikram Diwan: Meher's former fiancé; Karan's father; Aditi's husband (2019–2021)
• Drishtii Garewal as Dr. Aditi Kaur Sharma (nee Gill): Harleen and Sarab's half-sister; Manav's wife (2020-2021)
• Amal Sehrawat as Jagjeet "Jagga" Singh Dhillon: Kulwant's son, Meher's eldest brother; Amrita's husband; Yuvi's father (2019–2021)
• Abhilasha Jakhar as Amrita Kaur Dhillon: Jagga's wife; Yuvi's mother (2019–present)
• Advit Sood as Yuvraj "Yuvi" Singh Dhillon: Amrita and Jagga's son (2019–present)
• Abhishek Jangra as Baljeet "Bittu" Singh Dhillon: Kulwant's son; Meher's second brother; Jeeto's husband (2019–present)
• Yuvleen Kaur as Jeeto Kaur Dhillon: Bittu's wife (2019–present)
• Abhianshu Vohra as Ranbir "Ranna" Singh Dhillon: Kulwant's son; Meher's third brother; Ginni's husband (2019–present)
• Jinal Jain / Geetika Mehandru as Ginni Kaur Dhillon (nee Bajwa): Ranna's wife; Robbie's sister (2020–present)
• Neelu Kohli as Vidita Bajwa: Robbie and Ginni's mother (2020)
• Dolly Minhas as Daljeet "Dolly" Shergill: Sarab and Harleen's aunt (2019)
• Neha Narang as Preeti Shergill: Dolly's daughter-in-law (2019)
• Avtar Gill as Avtaar Singh Kohli: Neerja's husband; Simran's father; Param's maternal grandfather (2019)
• Vineeta Malik as Neerja Singh Kohli: Avtaar's wife; Simran's mother; Param's maternal grandmother (2019)
• Shivendraa Om Saainiyol as Tarkash: Sarab's family accountant; Arati's husband; Ritu's father (2019–present)
• Shivani Gosain as Vijeyta Malik: Income tax officer (2019)
• Jai Vats as Dr. Surinder Sodhi: Gill's family doctor (2020)
• Mala Salariya as Dr. Sanjana Shinde (2020)
• Prakhar Shukla as Blackmailer (2020)
• Ranjeev Verma as Jolly Shregill: Dolly's brother (2019)

Special appearances

• Devoleena Bhattacharjee in a dance performance in sangeet ceremony (2019)
• Meera Deosthale as Vidya Singh from Vidya (2019)
• Namish Taneja as Vivek Vardhan Singh from Vidya (2019)
• Salman Khan to promote Dabangg 3 (2019)
• Sonakshi Sinha to promote Dabangg 3 (2019)
• Sai Manjrekar to promote Dabangg 3 (2019)
• Arjit Taneja as Azaan from Bahu Begum (2019)
• Samiksha Jaiswal as Noor from Bahu Begum (2019)
• Taapsee Pannu to promote Thappad (2020)
• Riya Shukla as Lavanya "Pinky" Kashyap from Naati Pinky Ki Lambi Love Story (2020)
• Helly Shah as Riddhima Vansh Raisinghania from Ishq Mein Marjawan 2 (2020)
• Amardeep Garg As Ganja Paaji From Radhe Krishna (2020)

Production

Casting

Kevina Tak who is a female child artist was roped to play the role of a boy named Paramjeet Singh Gill in the series.

Development

Based in Amritsar, Punjab, the series is mainly filmed in Mumbai. In November 2019, the honeymoon sequence was filmed in Serbia.

On 12 September 2019, the shoot was held for 3 hours due to the fight by the workers’ union and Allied Mazdoor Union with producers owing to due in payments.

The production and airing of the show was halted indefinitely in late March 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak. The filming was halted on 19 March 2020. The production resumed after three months and the show started airing again on 13 July 2020. During the break, the main actors Rekhi, Ahluwalia and Tak shot a few episodes from their homes during the nationwide lockdown which streamed under Lockdown Special Episodes on Colors TV's official digital platform Voot.

The production was halted again for few days from 1 September 2020 after cast member Krishna Soni tested positive for coronavirus.

Reception

Critical response

The initial promo based on Gurudwara background of the series created disappointment between the Sikhs and a complaint protesting it was written to the channel by All India Sikh Students Federation as they considered some portrayal hurting their sentiments.

Ratings

In week 41 of 2020, it became the fourth most watched Hindi GEC in urban with 5.281 million impressions.

Crossover

In December 2019, Choti Sarrdaarni and Vidya had a crossover while Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha and Sai Manjrekar appeared to promote their upcoming film Dabangg 3.

External links

• Choti Sarrdaarni at IMDb