Meet: Badlegi Duniya Ki Reet
Meet is an Indian Hindi-language television drama series that premiered on August 23, 2021, on Zee TV and digitally streams on ZEE5, produced by Shashi Sumeet Productions. It replaced Hamari Wali Good News. The show stars Ashi Singh and Shagun Pandey in the lead-roles.[1][2] It is a remake of Zee Sarthak's Sindura Bindu.
| Meet: Badlegi Duniya Ki Reet | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Shashi Mittal |
| Screenplay by | Girish Dhamija |
| Story by | Seema Mantri |
| Directed by | Vaibhav Singh Pushkar Pandit Avinash Kumar |
| Creative director | Shweta Bishnoi |
| Starring | Ashi Singh Shagun Pandey |
| Opening theme | "Yeh Meet Hai, Yeh Meet Hai" |
| Composer | Ashish Rego |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 549 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Sumeet Hukamchand Mittal Shashi Mittal Jitendra Singla |
| Cinematography | Ajay Lalta Gupta Vipul Virendra Singh |
| Editors | Shashank Harendra Singh Ajay Saroj Singh |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 20–22 minutes |
| Production company | Shashi Sumeet Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | Zee TV |
| Picture format | 576i HDTV (1080i) |
| Original release | 23 August 2021 – present |
Plot
The show starts with the story of Meet Hooda, a spirited girl from Haryana. Her father was a police officer who lost his life and Meet takes up all the responsibilities of her house. Meet Hooda meets Meet Ahlawat. Though they initially are at loggerheads, but soon become friends. Ahlawat falls in love with Hooda's sister Manushi and their wedding is arranged. Due to misunderstandings, Ahlawat breaks his friendship with Meet. On the wedding day, Manushi runs away and marries Kunal leading Meet Hooda to marry Meet Ahlawat. No one's happy about this and Meet Ahlawat is unwilling to accept her as his wife. Eventually the Ahlawat family start accepting Meet Hooda and Meet Ahlawat wishes to start a new life with her. But Manushi comes back in this house. Meet competes with her own sister to earn her own husband. Meet decides to join the police force and goes for police training and is designated as a sub-inspector. Meet Ahlawat supports him throughout.
She gets to know her father's killer is in the Ahlawat Mansion. There is a conflict in the house when everything leads up to her loving father-in-law getting arrested. Meet Hooda consoles her husband and they make love. But tensions rise up so much her husband tries to throw her out of the house if she doesn't leave her job. At the end Meet gets her innocent father-in-law out of jail and the family gets Meet Ahlawat back with her by tactics. Right then Meet's pregnancy is announced. The couple lives a happy time finally till Meet Ahlawat accidentally kisses his old friend hallucinating it was his wife. Meet is heartbroken. She goes into labor and she delivers a baby. Manushi kidnaps the newborn and she is told her baby was stillborn. A shattered Babita is manipulated by Masoom and she begs her to leave her son forever believing she can't carry a child again. Meet somehow discovers her baby is alive and has been kidnapped by Manushi. She rushes for her baby but Manushi burns down the place and Meet gets caught in it. Meet is presumed to be dead. On the other hand, she leaves a note for her husband that she is finally leaving because of his cheating.
1 year later
Meet is in the form of Manjari Desai who hails from Vadodara. She is all set to take seek revenge from Manushi, Kunal and Masoom for taking away her child. Meet Ahlawat hates Meet's memories now and has a rough exterior now. Soon the duo meet again and the story follows. They get Isha Ahlawat married again, to her love Deep, after all the drama and insults Meet Hooda had to tolerate even during Isha's first marriage. Isha accidentally kills Deep. Meet Hooda and Meet Ahlawat to lose their baby in a tragic accident where Meet Hooda's mother end up in coma. A raging Meet Ahlawat marries Deep's sister Neelam as a responsibility and to take revenge on Meet Hooda. But Meet Hooda refuses to leave her husband. With time he mellows down but his second wife gets angry. Neelam has a split personality disorder, the other her is called Laila. After lots of clashes Meet Hooda finally gets her husband back. They adopt a newborn. But Meet Ahlawat dies saving Meet Hooda's life in terrorist attack.
1 year later
Meet Hooda comes to Sarkarpur to complete her dead husband's dream of a factory. But she gets caught up in the regressive Sarkar family whe she marries Manmeet Sangwan, look–alike of Meet Ahlawat. Manmeet has a childhood sweetheart Shagun. Manmeet wanted to take revenge on Meet, he even tries to kill her. But they turn friends after events and now she is in love with him. Shagun tries to act as a thorn in Meet and Manmeet’s relationship out of jealousy. Rajvardhan and Babita die in a car accident; and on Rajvardan’s death bed he has asked Manmeet to take Meet's responsibility.
Cast
Main
- Ashi Singh as Meet Manmeet Sangwan (nee: Hooda, formerly: Ahlawat) (formerly: Manjari Desai): Anubha and Ashok's younger daughter; Manushi's sister; Meet Ahlawat's first wife and widow; Manmeet's wife (2021–present)
- Shagun Pandey as
- Meet Ahlawat: Rajvardhan and Babita's younger son; Masoom and Tej's younger brother; Shantanu, Esha, Ishaani and Kunal's elder cousin; Meet Hooda's first Husband (2021–2023) (Dead)
- Manmeet Sangwan: Meet Ahlawat's lookalike; Sarkar and Yashoda's son; Meet's second husband (2023–present)
Recurring
- Abha Parmar as Mrs. Hooda: Ashok's mother; Manushi and Meet Hooda's grandmother (2021–2022)
- Vaishnavi Macdonald as Anubha Ashok Hooda: Ashok's widow; Meet Ahlawat's first mother-in-law, Manushi and Meet Hooda's mother (2021–2022)
- Sharain Khanduja as Manushi Hooda: Anubha and Ashok's elder daughter; Meet Hooda's elder sister; Meet Ahlawat's ex-fiancé and sister-in-law, Kunal's wife (2021–2022)
- Ravi Gossain as Inspector Ashok Hooda: Mrs. Hooda's son; Anubha's husband; Meet Ahlawat's father-in-law, Manushi and Meet Hooda's father (2021) (Dead)
- Pratham Kunwar as Kunal: Rajvardhan and Ram's nephew; Masoom, Tej, Meet Ahlawat, Esha and Ishaani's cousin; Manushi's husband (2021–2022)
- Sooraj Thapar as Rajvardhan Ahlawat: Ram's elder brother; Babita's husband; Masoom, Tej and Meet Ahlawat's father; Duggu's grandfather; Jr. Ram and Lakhan's adoptive grandfather (2021–2023)[3] (Dead)
- Sonica Handa as Babita Rajvardhan Ahlawat (nee Rana): Abhay's younger sister; Rajvardhan's wife; Shantanu's aunt; Masoom, Tej and Meet Ahlawat's mother; Duggu's grandmother; Jr. Ram and Lakhan's adoptive grandmother (2021–2023) (Dead)
- Nisha Rawal / Parakh Madan as Masoom Ahlawat: Rajvardhan and Babita's daughter; Tej and Meet Ahlawat's elder sister; Shantanu, Esha, Ishaani and Kunal's elder cousin; Hoshiyar's wife; Duggu's mother (2021–2022) / (2022–2023)
- Adityarao Nuniwal as Hoshiyar: Chhavi's elder brother; Masoom's husband; Duggu's father (2021–2022)
- Het Makwana as Duggu: Masoom and Hoshiyar's son (2021–2022)
- Vishal Gandhi as Tej Ahlawat: Rajvardhan and Babita's elder son; Masoom's younger brother and Meet Ahlawat's elder brother; Shantanu, Esha, Ishaani and Kunal's elder cousin; Sunaina's husband; Jr. Ram and Lakhan's adoptive father (2021–2022)
- Riyanka Chanda as Sunaina Tej Ahlawat (nee Singh): Jaypratap's daughter; Tej's wife; Jr. Ram and Lakhan's adoptive mother (2021–2023)
- Afzaal Khan as Ram Ahlawat: Rajvardhan's younger brother; Ragini's husband; Ishaani and Esha's father (2021–2023)
- Preeti Puri as Ragini Ram Ahlawat: Ram's wife; Esha's mother; Ishaani's step-mother (2021–2023)
- Tamanna Jaiswal as Esha Deep Beniwal (nee Ahlawat): Ram and Ragini's daughter; Ishaani's younger half-sister; Masoom, Tej, Meet Ahlawat and Kunal's younger cousin; Shantanu's ex-wife; Deep's widow (2021–2022)
- Ashutosh Semwal as Deep Beniwal: Rajvardhan's employee; Barfi's son; Neelam's elder brother; Meet Ahlawat's colleague and childhood friend; Esha's husband (2021–2022) (Dead)
- Surabhi Talodia as Ishaani Ahlawat: Ram and Sushma's daughter; Ragini's step-daughter; Esha's elder half-sister; Masoom, Tej and Meet Ahlawat's younger cousin (2022–2023)
- Dhairya Dwivedi as Jr. Ram Ahlawat: Tej and Sunaina's elder adoptive son; Lakhan's adoptive brother (2021–2022)
- Vaidik Poriya as Lakhan Ahlawat: Tej and Sunaina's younger adoptive son; Jr. Ram's adoptive brother (2021–2022)
- Shalini Mahal as Chhavi: Hoshiyar's younger sister (2021–2022)
- Manoj Kolhatkar as Inspector Hawa Singh (2022)
- Chandan Anand as Minister Abhay Rana: Babita's elder brother; Shantanu's father; Ashok's killer (2022)
- Ankit Vyas as Shantanu "Shanty" Rana: Abhay's son; Masoom, Tej and Meet Ahlawat's cousin; Esha's ex-husband (2022)
- Gazal Sood as Tanya: Meet Ahlawat's college friend (2022)
- Asmita Sharma as Barfi Beniwal: Deep and Neelam's mother, Meet Ahlawat's second mother-in-law(2022)
- Gouri Agarwal as Neelam Beniwal: Deep's younger sister; Meet Ahlawat's second wife, Barfi's daughter (Dead)
- Manish Khanna as Jaypratap Singh: Sunaina's father (2021–2022)
- Randeep Rai as Advocate Anurag Rathi: Meet Hooda's enemy-turned friend (2022) (Cameo)
- Dinesh Mehta as Robber (2022–2023)
- Riya Subodh as Robber (2022–2023)
- Javed Pathan as Robber (2022–2023)
- Prachi Kadam as Anubha (2023–present)
- Yogendra Singh as Mahendra Sangwan (2023–present)
- Hridayansh Shekhawat (2023–present)
- Mohit Sachdev as Narendra Sangwan (2023–present)
- Susheel Singh as Sarkar Sangwan (2023–present)
- Garima Srivastav as Yashoda Sarkar Sangwan: Sarkar's wife; Manmeet's mother (2023–present)
- Krutika Khira (2023–present)
- Sheetal Dabholkar as Gunwanti Mahendra Sangwan (2023–present)
- Pranjali Singh Parihar as Sapna (2023–present)
- Shivendra Sanyal (2023–present)
- Dolphin Dwivedi as Sundari (2023–present)
- Priyanka Bora as Imrati (2023–present)
- Palak Rana as Meghna (2023–present)
- Aman Maheshwari as S.P. Neeraj Bhatia (2023–present)
- Mahi Soni as Child Veera Sangwan (Gunwanti and Mahendra's daughter) (2023–present)
Guests
| Actor / Actress | Occasion |
|---|---|
| Neha Marda | Meet's Wedding, 2021 |
| Mugdha Chaphekar | |
| Megha Ray | |
| Amandeep Sidhu | |
| Sriti Jha | Diwali Celebration, 2021 |
| Shabir Ahluwalia | |
| Mugdha Chaphekar | |
| Krishna Kaul | |
| Kanika Mann | |
| Nishant Singh Malkani | |
| Debina Bonnerjee | |
| Gurmeet Choudhary | |
| Reem Shaikh | |
| Rithvik Dhanjani | |
| Anjali Tatrari | |
| Avinesh Rekhi | |
| Megha Ray | |
Production
Development
The marriage track in the show was a high-budget track, probably the most spent track in the series.[4]
Release
In August 2021, Zee TV announced two new shows at their early slots namely Meet and Rishton Ka Manjha and both the shows were launched on the same date.[5]
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Indian Television Academy Awards | Best Actor | Shagun Pandey | Nominated | [6] |
| Best Actress (Jury) | Ashi Singh | Won | [7] | ||
| Best Television Show - Fiction | Shashi Sumeet Productions | Nominated | [6] |
References
- "Ashi Singh: I was Nervous About Short-Haired Look in Meet Badlegi Duniya Ki Reet". News18. 28 August 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
- ""I'm yet to sign on the dotted line"- Ashi Singh on her new TV Show with Shagun Pandey". The Times Of India.
- "Sooraj Thapar to play Shagun Pandey's father in Shashi and Sumeet Mittal's next". The Times Of India.
- "Ashi Singh unveils her wedding look in Meet". The Times Of India.
- "Meet - Badlegi Duniya Ki Reet | TV - Times of India Videos". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
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- "ITA Awards 2022: Here's the Complete Winners List". News18. 7 March 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.