Aisa Des Hai Mera (TV series)

Infobox Television
show_name = Aisa Des Hai Mera


caption = A promotional logo image of "Aisa Des Hai Mera".
format = Drama
picture_format = 480i (SDTV),
runtime = approx. 22 minutes
creator = Siddhant Cinevision
director = Lekh Tandon, Rajesh Sethi, & Jitu Arora
producer = Manish R. Goswami
starring = see below
opentheme = "Aisa Des Hai Mera" by Kunal Ganjawala
country = IND
network = Sony TV
first_aired = 2006
last_aired = 2006
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = Total 139
website = http://www.setasia.tv/shows/shows_inside.php?id=65

"Aisa Des Hai Mera" was an Indian television drama series that aired on Sony TV in 2006 on every Monday-Thursday at 9pm. Currently, the series is being re-telecast on Sony TV.

Plot

The story revolves around the life of a girl name Rusty, who is born in an upper middle class white family, John and Linda in England. Living separate from her divorced mother and drunkard father, Rusty from her childhood starts having vague dreams about her being connected to India somehow. So to overcome her fright, Rusty goes to many psychiatrists to get some help. And one day, she comes to know that all the dreams that she was having about India are actually true, she is a half-Indian. So to really know the truth, Rusty goes to John and asks if he is not really her father. John tells her that her her mother, Linda had once been married to an Indian man, Randheer Deol (a Sikh) and Rusty is their daughter. After that they got divorced and Randheer told Linda to raise Rusty without telling her about her Indian origin.

Yet in all her growing up years, Rusty is inexplicably drawn to many facets of the Punjabi Indian culture even in London. Everything that relates to the Punjabi culture wheter it is food or cloths fascinates her and tend to have some kind of meaning to her though she cannot explain why? After knowing the truth, Rusty decides to go to Punjab in search of her family. And fortunately she finds her family, but doesn't reveal the truth because she does not want to create a rift between her father and his wife, Mathura. But as the elders have said, "truth is not hidden for long..." and Rusty's truth is also revealed to her family. At first they don't accept her but Rusty manages to cling to their hearts. Although everyone falls in love with Rusty after awhile, her step-mother Mathura still hates her (pretends to be nice to Rusty) and wants to take avenge by throwing her out of the house. But as the story goes on, Rusty's life goes through many tribulations and at the end she manages to create love for herself in all of her family members even her stepmother.

Cast

*Saumya Tandon ... Rusty Deol
*Kanwaljit Singh ... Randheer Singh Deol (Rusty's father)
*Ranjit Chowdhary ... Ranbir Singh Deol (Rusty's grandfather)
*Beena ... Biji (Rusty's grandmother)
*Dolly Minhas ... Mathura Deol (Rusty's stepmother, main antagonist)
*Naresh Suri ... Iqbal Deol (Randheer's elder brother)
*Mahru Shaikh ... ?? (Iqbal's wife)
*Soni Razdan ... Linda (Rusty's real mother, uses her to attain Randheer's property, later dies, antagonist)
*Bharat Kapoor ... Baldev Singh (Ranbir's best friend who later becomes enemy and wants to take revenge from Deol family because Ranbir broke up his engagement with his sister who killed herself, antagonist)
*Manoj Bidwai ... Andy Singh (Baldev's son who entraps Rusty in London because of his family's rivalary with Randheer's family, antagonist)
*Pawan Shankar ... Ajit Singh Gill (Rusty's love-interest, later marries Rusty's cousin, Kandy)
*Gunjan Walia ... Kandy Deol (Rusty's cousin who blames Rusty for destroying her love life, marries to Rusty's love-interest to take avenge, but later realizes it was a mistake)
*Gaurav Chopra ... Samay (Randheer's friend's son, later marries Rusty to take revenge, antagonist)
*Benjamin Gilani ... ?? (Randheer's childhood friend, Samay's father)
*Krutika Desai ... ?? (Samay's mother, antagonist)
*Ravee Gupta ... ?? (Samay's sister, antagonist)
*Yusuf Hussain
*Vinita Malik
*Pawan Malhotra
*Kiron Kher
*Manav Vij
*Simple Kaul ... Simi

External links

* [http://www.setasia.tv/shows/shows_inside.php?id=65 Official Site on SET Asia]