Udaariyaan

Udaariyaan
Genre	Drama Romance
Created by	Sargun Mehta Ravi Dubey
Developed by	Sargun Mehta Ravi Dubey
Screenplay by	Ritu Goyal Rachel Navarre Dialogues Rajesh Chawla
Story by	Mitali Bhattacharya Romit Ojha
Directed by	Uttam Ahlawat
Creative director	Ankur Bhatia
Starring	Priyanka Chahar Choudhary Ankit Gupta Twinkle Arora Hitesh Bharadwaj
Theme music composer	Kevin Rajiv Bhatt Ripul Sharma George Joseph Singer Gurnam Bhullar Label Diamond Star Worldwide
Composer	Diamond Star Worldwide Debojyoti Mishra Raja Narayan Deb Background Music: Indrashish-Arunashish
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	763
Production
Executive producer	Ali Hasan
Producers	Ravi Dubey Sargun Mehta
Cinematography	Raju Gauli
Editors	Dharmesh Patel Kamal
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	21–23 minutes
Production company	Dreamiyata Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. & Devirosh Films
Original release
Network	Colors TV
Release	15 March 2021 (2021-03-15) – present

Udaariyaan (transl. Flight of Dreams) is an Indian Hindi-language television family drama series that premiered on 15 March 2021 on Colors TV. Produced by Sargun Mehta and Ravi Dubey, it formerly starred Priyanka Chahar Choudhary and Ankit Gupta. Currently it stars, Twinkle Arora and Hitesh Bharadwaj.

Plot

The story revolves around a love triangle between Fateh Singh Virk and two sisters, Tejo and Jasmine Kaur Sandhu. In the beginning, Tejo’s wedding is finalized with a man named Jas. However, he turns out to be a fraud and steals all of the expensive items on the wedding day. While Fateh is a national boxing champion, Tejo is a college professor. Both of them wish to make their future in Moga, while Jasmine only has one dream, to go to Canada. Soon later, Fateh falls in love with Jasmine and wishes to marry her. Jasmine too falls for him and agrees for marriage after Fateh gets a job in Canada. However, she breaks relations with him when she finds out he lost his job. Later, though, she regrets her decision after seeing love Fateh holds for her. In order to save the family’s reputation, Tejo and Fateh both marry. Afterwards, Tejo too falls for Fateh even though he still loved Jasmine. Jasmine, harshly regretting her decisions confesses her love to him while also plotting against Tejo. As Fateh accepts her back and cheats on Tejo, Tejo wishes for a divorce. To worsen the current circumstances, Jasmine brings back Jas. Later on, Tejo gets engaged to Angad so Fateh and Jasmine could get married. As both Fateh and Jasmine are about to leave for Canada, Fateh burns her boarding ticket and passport, revealing to her that the wedding was fake and planned by him when he finds out about the misdeeds Jasmine committed to attain him. On the other hand, Angad falls in love with Tejo, but she declares him as a friend. Fateh and Jasmine go their separate ways, though Jasmine vows to seek vengeance from Fateh. After many trials tribulations, Fateh and Tejo end up together. Angad and Jasmine both join hands to separate them, but later, Angad realises his evil deeds. Jasmine ends up marrying Amrik (Fateh's brother), though she was trying to marry Fateh for revenge. Later on, Fateh, Tejo, Amrik and Jasmine get into a car accident where Jasmine turns over a new leaf after seeing Amrik and Tejo's love for her. In a turn of events, as Fateh and Tejo are about to get engaged, Fateh breaks relations with her. In anger, Tejo decides to marry Angad but on the wedding day, finds out she is pregnant with Fateh's child. Angad tells her to go to Fateh, but in reality sets her up to get burned alive in a warehouse.

6 months later

Jasmine and Amrik decide to go to London and start their life afresh as everyone in their family was still refusing to accept their relationship especially after Tejo's death. In London, Jasmine and Amrik come across Tanya, Tejo's look-alike. Angad, also residing in London believed Tanya was Tejo and wished to kill her. Tanya admits to being Tejo and accuses Fateh and Jasmine of trying to kill her. In the end, Angad's true face is revealed and he is arrested for Tejo's murder. Amrik ends up dying while saving Tanya. In a shocking event, it's revealed that Tanya isn't Tejo and assigned by the cops to find out the truth behind Tejo's murder. Tanya, Jasmine and Fateh return to Moga and have Tanya pretend to be Tejo. Jasmine finds out she is pregnant with Amrik's child and is determined to give her child the perfect life. She once again becomes obsessed with getting Fateh as she wants him to raise the child with her. Shockingly however, Tanya reunites Tejo who is now mentally unstable after the fire. Jasmine continues plotting against her but fails in every one of her attempts. Later, Fateh marries Tejo and she eventually regains her memories. Later, Jasmine ends up miscarrying and fakes her pregnancy. She pretends to give birth and leaves an orphan at the hospital, claiming it to be Amrik and her child. Tejo and Fateh know the truth but for the family's happiness, keep it a secret and raise the child as their own daughter. They name her Nehmat. Jasmine, on the other hand, marries Yash and moves to Canada, finally accomplishing her lifelong dream. However, she is in for a rude awakening as Yash starts mistreating her.

6 years later

Jasmine returns to India with her daughter Naaz, suffering from domestic violence by Yash and his mother, however, her father refuses to accept her. Tejo and Fateh lovingly raise Nehmat while Jasmine and Naaz barely get by. Jasmine decides to leave Naaz with her family so she can attain the love and happiness she deserved. Jasmine leaves a note stating that she doesn't wish to meet them again as she is not a great person to have in anyone's life. Naaz and Nehmat become friends and treat each other like sisters. However, Naaz starts getting jealous of the attention Nehmat also gets and misses Jasmine. Seeing this, Fateh and Tejo decide it would be best to also adopt Naaz. Unfortunately, before this could happen, Fateh, Tejo and the Virks all die in a car accident. Nehmat, Naaz and Tejo's family are left devastated.

16 years later

16 years later, Naaz and Nehmat are all grown up. Nehmat and Ekam are madly in love.Ekam, a trainee IPS officer wishes to help Nehmat find the reason behind the Virk family's accident and demise, as well as his father's suspension. Naaz is still suffering from inferiority complex due to all the attention Nehmat gets, wishing to snatch all her happiness. The only person who sees Naaz's true face is Malika (Ekam's sister). Hence, the two don’t get along. Naaz tries to break Nehmat's friendship with Malika by showing her to-be husband and Nehmat in a secret affair. Moreover, she releases an article labeling Ekam’s father as a corrupt cop under Nehmat’s name, due to which he commits suicide. In reality, Advait only wishes to marry Malika so Ekam doesn’t question his family about the Virk family’s car accident. It’s revealed that Advait's father and Jasmine were behind it.

Being pressurized by Naaz, Nehmat eventually marries Advait and falls victim to his tortures. Harleen (Jasmine's youngest daughter) also arrives in Moga inform Nehmat that she is Advait's legal wife. However, falling in love with Ekam,she destroys the marriage certificate. Additionally, to keep Ekam away from Nehmat, she threatens Advait to jeep Nehmat with him. After a series of events, Nehmat is proven innocent of all accusations. The father and son duo try to stop Nehmat but remain unsuccessful. Though greatly loving Ekam, Nehmat still doesn't agree for marriage with him since she wants Ekam and Harleen to be together. Harleen after realising that Ekam can never love anyone other than Nehmat and seeing Ekam and Nehmat's love and care for each other, reveals to the media her legal marriage to Advait, three years previously in Canada, thereby nullifying Advait's marriage with Nehmat.

During the Holika Dahan, Advait tries to kill Harleen by putting her inside the Holika Dahan but Nehmat saves her. Ekam brings Advait to the police station and Nehmat and Harleen beat him up and he is soon arrested. During the Holi festival, Ekam and Nehmat get closer after being intoxicated with Bhaang in their drink. Shamsher Kapoor decides to forcefully bring Harleen to the police station for her to take back the complaint against Advait. After a series of events, Harleen is shot by Shamsher. Nevertheless, Harleen eventually regains consciousness and becomes aware of the fact that she is infertile, but decides not to inform her family. Nehmat decides to sacrifice her love for Harleen by leaving Moga, so she can get her love Ekam. But Ekam stops her and make her realise her love for him. Renuka too witnessed Nehmat and Ekam's love for each other and goes to Sandhu's house with Ekam's marriage proposal for Nehmat. Before Nehmat and Ekam's wedding preparations begins, Ekam and Nehmat secretly get married in Gurudwara and consummates their marriage. During wedding functions, Jasmine plots many conspiracies to call off Nehkam's wedding but fails. On wedding day Nehmat gets blackmailed by Jasmine to cancel the wedding or she will frame Ekam for Advait murder and will kill Ekam. Nehmat agrees forcefully. Under family pressure, Ekam and Harleen are married.

Nehmat leaves Moga and reaches Samrala. Nehmat encounters a con artist named Joginder who was faking to be Sartaj.Ekam goes on a mission to Samrala to arrest a smuggler gang, where Nehmat and Ekam feels each other's presence. Nehmat saves Ekam there, without his acknowledgement. After returning to Moga, Ekam plans to make Harleen visit local villages to cheer her up. Ekam and Harleen unintentionally end up in Samrala. Nehmat hides herself from Ekam and Harleen. Jogender discovers Ekam is a police officer, intoxicates Ekam and attemps to kill him, but Nehmat saves Ekam. Nehmat releases real Sartaj from Joginder's capture. Later, it is revealed that Sartaj is the eldest son of Balbeer Randhawa. Naaz marries Balbeer in order to gain full access to Rupi's ancestral land and the Randhawa house. Sartaj takes a fainted Nehmat to Randhawa house claiming her to be his fiancée. Nehmat and Ekam are shocked and overwhelmed to see each other. Nehmat continues the drama of being Sartaj's fiancée so that Ekam can move on with Harleen. Nehmat finds that she is pregnant with Ekam's child and leaves with Sartaj concealing her pregnancy from him. Nehmat delivers a baby girl name Aliya, which Harleen steals from hospital by threatening and bribing Nurse to exchange Nehmat's baby with a dead child, and tell Ekam and whole family that she had adopted her from orphanage. Ekam too names the baby girl Aliya.

6 years later

Ekam and Harleen are living with Aliya. Nehmat with Sartaj is mourning over Aliya's presumably death. Nehmat works at a summer camp. Aliya convinces Harleen to let her go to the summer camp. Nehmat and Aliya form a bond without knowing that they are mother and daughter, but after Nehmat saves Aliya from an accident and goes to hospital Sartaj finds the truth and tells Nehmat.

Nehmat confronts Harleen who refuses to admit her sin, saying that Nehmat can’t snatch Aliya from her. Jasmine along with Harleen plans Nehmat's death, but instead Sartaj die whilst Harleen's car who is following Nehmat crashes into a river and she is presumed dead. Ekam forcefully marries Nehmat for Alia and with time reconcile their love. Later Aliya also accepts Nehmat as her mother. Harleen is revealed to be alive but in a coma which she wakes up from without any memory of who she is. She goes to Moga. After some months Harleen regains her memory and reaches to Ekam's house and is angry with Nehmat's presence there. Harleen goes to meet Jasmine who was in jail. Jasmine tells her that Ekam and Nehmat are married now. This makes Harleen determined to take revenge from Nehmat. Harleen tries to marry Ekam again but this time Ekam refuses to marry her because he is already married to Nehmat and loves her.

Cast

Main

• Priyanka Chahar Choudhary as
  • Tejo Sandhu Virk: Satti and Rupi's elder daughter; Jasmine and Dilraj's sister; Fateh's wife; Nehmat's mother, Ekam's Mother-in-law. (2021–2022) (Dead)
  • Agent Tanya Gill: Tejo's lookalike (2022)
• Ankit Gupta as Fateh Singh Virk: Gurpreet and Khushbeer's elder son; Amrik and Mahi's brother; Tejo's husband; Nehmat's father; Ekam's Father-in-law. (2021–2022) (Dead)
• Twinkle Arora as Nehmat Ekam Randhawa (nee Virk Sandhu): Tejo and Fateh's daughter; Candy, Naaz and Harleen's cousin; Renuka's Daughter-in-law ; Mallika's sister-in-law ; Ekam's ladylove love and wife ; Aliya's mother; Sartaj's love interest (2022–2023)
  • Kevina Tak as Child Nehmat Sandhu Virk (2022)
• Hitesh Bharadwaj as ASP Ekampreet "Ekam" Randhawa: Jayveer and Renuka's son; Balveer's nephew; Mallika's elder brother; Shanky and Sartaj's cousin; Nehmat's love interest and husband; Aliya's father (2022–2023)
  • Saksham Kalia as Child Ekam Randhawa (2022)

Recurring

• Ananya Gambhir as Aliya Randhawa: Nehmat and Ekam's daughter; Tiger's cousin (2023–present)
• Isha Malviya as
  • Jasmine "Jazz" Ahluwalia(née Sandhu)(formerly Virk/Bajwa): Satti and Rupi's daughter; Tejo and Dilraj's sister; Amrik's widow; Yash's ex-wife; Mr. Ahluwalia's wife; Naaz and Harleen's mother; Nehmat's maternal aunt; Advait's Mother-in-law; Sartaj's step maternal grandmother (2021–present)
  • Harleen Advait Kapoor (nee Ahluwalia) : Jasmine and Mr. Ahluwalia’s daughter; Naaz’s half-sister; Nehmat’s cousin sister; Advait's wife; Sartaj's step aunt (2022–present)
• Sonakshi Batra as Naaz Bajwa Randhawa: Jasmine and Yash's daughter; Harleen's half-sister; Nehmat's cousin sister; Nikhil's ex-wife; Balveer's wife; Sartaj's step-mother (2022–2023)
  • Kanishtha Kaushik as Child Naaz Sandhu Bajwa (2022)
• Vivian Dsena as Dr. Sartaj Singh Randhawa: Ekam and Mallika's cousin; Nehmat's admirer and former fiancé; Balveer's elder son; Shankar's elder brother; Naaz's step-son; Jasmine's step-grandson; Tiger's paternal uncle (2023) (Dead)
• Rohit Purohit as Advait Kapoor: Shamsher and Rama's elder son; Nikhil's elder brother; Mallika's ex-fiancé; Harleen's husband (2022–2023)
• Kushagre Dua as Joginder Singh (Fake Sartaj): Head of a smuggling gang; Ekam and Nehmat's enemy (2023)
• Neha Thakur as Mallika Randhawa: Jayveer and Renuka's daughter; Ekam's younger sister; Nehmat's childhood best friend and sister-in-law; Shanky and Sartaj's cousin; Naaz's rival; Advait's ex-fiancée (2022–2023)
  • Gurbani Kaur Nagi as Child Mallika Randhawa (2022)
• Siddharth Vasudev as Balveer "Balli" Singh Randhawa: Jayveer's brother; Naaz's husband; Sartaj and Shankar's father; Tiger's grandfather (2023)
• Avi Rakheja as Shankar "Shanky" Randhawa: Balveer's younger son; Sartaj's younger brother; Ekam and Mallika's cousin; Cherry's husband; Tiger's father (2023)
• Loveleen Kaur as Cherry Randhawa: Shankar's wife; Tiger's mother (2023–present)
• Ruhaan Kapoor as Tiger Randhawa: Shankar and Cherry's son; Aliya's cousin (2023–present)
• Sukhdev Barnala as Jayveer Randhawa: Balveer's elder brother; Renuka's husband; Ekam and Mallika's father; Nehmat's father-in-law; Aliya's grandfather (2022) (Dead)
• Meenu Sharma as Renuka Randhawa: Jayveer's widow; Ekam and Mallika's mother; Nehmat's mother-in-law; Aliya's grandmother (2022–present)
• Samarth Jurel as Nikhil Kapoor: Shamsher and Rama's younger son; Advait's brother; Naaz's ex-husband (2022–2023)
• Manish Khanna as Shamsher Kapoor: Neeru's elder brother; Rama's husband; Advait and Nikhil's father; Harleen's Father-in-law and Naaz's former father-in-law (2022–2023)
• Kavita Ghai as Rama Kapoor: Shamsher's wife; Advait and Nikhil's mother; Harleen's Mother-in-law and Naaz's former mother-in-law (2022–2023)
• Vishal Saini as Prince: Neeru's husband (2022–2023)
• Sapna Soni as Neeru (nee Kapoor): Prince's wife; Shamsher's younger sister (2022–2023)
• Raman Dhagga as Rupinder "Rupi" Singh Sandhu – Sukhmini's younger son; Harman's brother; Satti's husband; Tejo, Jasmine and Dilraj's father; Nehmat, Naaz and Harleen's maternal grandfather; (2021–present)
• Kamal Dadiala as Satti Kaur Sandhu – Rupi's wife; Tejo, Jasmine and Dilraj's mother; Nehmat, Naaz and Harleen's maternal grandmother (2021–present)
• Mohinder Gujral as Sukhmini Kaur Sandhu – Rupi and Harman's mother; Tejo, Jasmine, Abhiraj, Navraj and Dilraj's grandmother (2021–2022)(Dead)
• Amrit Chahal as Lovely Kaur Sandhu – Harman's wife; Abhiraj and Navraj's mother; Shelly's mother-in-law (2021–present)
• Sukhpal Singh as Harman Singh Sandhu – Sukhmini's elder son; Lovely's husband; Abhiraj and Navraj's father; Shelly's father-in-law (2021–present)
• Abhiraaj Chawla / Aman Jaiswal / Tushar Dhembla / Love Sandhu as Abhiraj Singh Sandhu – Lovely and Harman's elder son; Navraj's brother; Shelly's husband;Nehmat, Naaz and Harleen's maternal uncle; (2021–present)
• Nandini Tiwari as Shelly Kaur Sandhu – Abhiraj's wife; Nehmat, Naaz and Harleen's maternal aunt (2022)
• Karan Grover as
  • Angad Maan – Tejo's ex-fiancé and obsessive lover; Arjun's brother; Riya's paternal uncle and caretaker (2021-2022)
  • Arjun Maan – Angad's brother; Preet's husband; Riya's father (2021)
• Bhavya Sharma as Riya Maan – Preet and Arjun's daughter; Angad's niece (2021-2022)
• Unknown as Preet Maan – Arjun's wife; Riya's mother (2021)
• Abhishek Kumar as Amrik Singh Virk – Gurpreet and Khushbeer's younger son; Simran, Fateh and Mahi's brother; Jasmine's first husband (2021–2022) (Dead)
• Manish Tulsiyani as Yash Bajwa – Jasmine's ex-husband; Naaz's father; Harleen's step-father (2022)
• Chetna Singh as Simran Virk Janjua – Gurpreet and Khushbeer's elder daughter; Fateh, Amrik and Mahi's elder sister; Amarpreet's ex-fiancée; Buzzo's wife; Candy's mother (2021–2022)
• Jaivik Wadhwa as Candy Janjua– Simran and Amarpreet's biological son; Buzzo's adoptive son; Nehmat's adoptive cousin (2021-2022)
• Virsa Riar as Buzzo Janjua – Fateh's best friend; Simran's husband; Candy's adoptive father (2021–2022)
• Ram Aujla as Khushbeer Singh Virk – Beeji and Bauji's elder son; Balbir and Pammi's brother; Gurpreet's husband; Simran, Fateh, Amrik and Mahi's father; Candy's grandfather; Nehmat's grandfather (2021–2022)(Dead)
• Gurvinder Gauri as Gurpreet Kaur Virk – Nimmo's sister; Khushbeer's wife; Simran, Fateh, Amrik and Mahi's mother; Candy's grandmother; Nehmat's grandmother (2021-2022)(Dead)
• Rashmeet Kaur Sethi as Mahi Kaur Virk – Gurpreet and Khushbeer's younger daughter; Simran, Fateh and Amrik's sister (2021–2022)
• Ranjit Riaz Sharma as Bauji – Beeji's husband; Khushbeer, Balbir and Pammi's father; Simran, Fateh, Amrik and Mahi's grandfather; Candy's great-grandfather; Nehmat's great-grandfather (2021–2022)(Dead)
• Jaswant Daman as Beeji – Bauji's wife; Khushbeer, Balbir and Pammi's mother; Simran, Fateh, Amrik and Mahi's grandmother; Candy's great-grandmother; Nehmat's great-grandmother (2021–2022)(Dead)
• Unknown as Balbir Singh Virk – Bauji and Beeji's younger son; Khushbeer and Pammi's brother; Nimmo's husband; Kiran and Ashu's father (2021)
• Amandeep Kaur as Nimmo Kaur Virk – Gurpreet's sister; Balbir's wife; Kiran and Ashu's mother; Nehmat's co-grandmother cum saviour (2021–2022/2023–present)
• Indresh Malik as Amanpreet Singh Bajwa – Simran's ex-fiancé; Candy's biological father (2022)
• Lokesh Batta as Jass Kohli – Tejo's ex-husband (2021)
• Loveneet Kaur as Sweety – Jasmine's best friend (2021–2022)
• Kiran Kaur as Pammi Kaur Virk Bajwa – Beeji and Bauji's daughter; Khushbeer and Balbir's sister; Manjit's wife (2021)
• Pardeep Soni as Manjit Singh Bajwa – Pammi's husband (2021)
• Anju Kapoor as Saroop – Satti's sister in-law; Tejo, Jasmine and Dilraj's maternal aunt (2021-2022)
• Pawan Dhiman as Gurpreet and Nimmo's brother (2021)
• Mathlub Khan as Mr. Dhillon – Jasmine's assistant; a wedding decorator (2022)
• Mohit Nain as Gippy – Jasmine's ex-fiancé (2021)
• Santosh Malhotra as Mrs. Kohli – Jass's mother (2021)
• Amanpreet Kaur as Preeto – Jasmine's best friend; Neetu's sister (2021)
• Rishabh Mehta as Sandeep – Jasmine's first lover (2021)
• Sourav Jain as Aman – Tejo's student who shot Tejo (2021)

Production

Casting

Priyanka Choudhary, Ankit Gupta and Isha Malviya were cast to portray the leads Tejo, Fateh and Jasmine respectively. Malviya's character later turned negative. Post the six month leap, Choudhary also played Tanya. Karan Grover was roped in as the main antagonist and had dual roles of Angad and Arjun.

In September 2022, the series took a generation leap when Twinkle Arora, Hitesh Bharadwaj and Sonakshi Batra were cast as Nehmat, Ekam and Naaz respectively. Isha Malvya returned in the dual role of an older Jasmine and her youngest daughter, protagonist Harleen. In April 2023, Rohit Purohit quit the show. In the same month, Kushagre Dua enter the show as Joginder Singh. In late April 2023, Vivian Dsena joined the show as Sartaj Kanwal Singh.In late June 2023 Sonakshi Batra quit the show. In mid July 2023 Vivian Dsena quit the show.

Filming

The series is set in Moga, Punjab. It has been shot in Chandigarh, since its inception. During the six months leap track, the series was shot in London.

Release

A special song promo was released with Sargun Mehta, Choudhary, Gupta and Isha Malviya alongside rapper Badshah.

Crossover

• Udaariyaan had a crossover with Choti Sarrdaarni from 19 April 2021 to 20 April 2021, where Tejo and Sarab met.
• Udaariyaan had crossover episodes with Junooniyatt on 22 and 23 March 2023.
• It hosted a Bollywood themed Diwali bash in November 2021, which was attended by the cast of Colors TV's shows along with Gurpreet Ghuggi, Gippy Grewal and Gurnam Bhullar.

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result	Ref.
2022	21st Indian Television Academy Awards	Best Actress (Drama)	Priyanka Choudhary	Nominated
		Best Actor (Popular)	Ankit Gupta	Nominated
	22nd Indian Television Academy Awards	Popular Actress (Drama)	Priyanka Choudhary	Nominated
			Isha Malviya	Nominated
		Popular Actor (Drama)	Ankit Gupta	Nominated
		Popular Serial (Drama)	Udaariyaan	Won

External links

• Udaariyaan at IMDb