Deewani

Deewani is an Indian Hindi-language drama television series that airs on Dangal under the banner of Shakuntalam Telefilms and stars Aditi Sanwal, Nitin Goswami and Sehrish Ali. It premiered on 18 March 2024.

Plot
Cheerful, beautiful Meera lives with her family in Uttar Pradesh and she believes in love. Parth, a ruffian and the youngest son of the famous businessman Madan Thakur, whose Meera's father, Sanjeev works at his company and he lives with his family and he hates his father due to a misunderstanding and he is in love with Payal. Meera and Parth meet when he had saved her from an accident. Meera's overprotective mother, Chhaya, who always believes in villagers' rumours doesn't like Parth and she asks her daughter to avoid him as she believes that Parth will ruin her daughter.

Parth and Meera becomes friends, breaking her mother's rules. Meanwhile, Meera learns that Payal had an illicit affair with a man named Tarun and she confronts Payal about this but she taunts her. At the celebration at Parth's house, Meera spots Payal again and she tries to confront her again but she and her friends lock her in their family's bakery where Parth is and he misunderstands her and confronts Meera. Where Meera confesses Payal's truth to Parth to his surprise, but the entire family except Meera's parents blames Parth and Meera as Chhaya blames Parth because she believes Parth had kidnapped her. Then they confine Meera, but she escapes. After learning about Payal's truth, Parth goes to her house during the holi celebration where Parth chases Payal and he confronts her. Payal calls him a ruffian and reveals how she used him by loving Tarun as she doesn't love him. Due to their altercation, Parth's brother, Garv accidentally pushes Payal, killing her. To save the family and avoid Garv's arrest, Parth takes the blame and is sentenced to seven years imprisonment. Meera is surprised to hear this as she believes that Parth is innocent and she tries to meet him, but her parents prevent this. Parth and they emotionally blackmails Meera. She promises to prove Parth's innocence to everyone.

7 years later
Parth is now released from jail after seven years and now he hates love due to the incident, whereas Meera returns to her family after completing her education. Parth and Meera finally meet again, Meera proposes Parth but he rejects her due to his keen hatred of love and he asked her to stay away from him. Garv falls for Meera and he plans to marry her as Parth's family and Meera's family accept this, unaware of the truth.

Parth's grandmother learns about Meera's love towards on Parth and she tries to make him to marry Meera but fails. Parth's mother, Sheela, also learns about this and she asks him to stay away from her. Meera asks Parth to spend time with him, but their antics are recorded by Parth's malicious aunt, Manju, and she exposes Parth and Meera's relationship truth to the family on the day of Garv and Meera's wedding which leads into a fight between Garv and Parth but Meera blames the entire family for this incident and she tries to leave them but she is stopped by grandmother and is then hospitalised for a panic attack.

Parth's grandmother asks both Meera and Parth to marry to save the family, to which they agree and they do marry. But Meera's family learns of this and blames them for ruining the family, leading Chhaya to disown her by declaring her dead. This shocks Parth's family, as they blame Meera as Sheela starts to hate her and she doesn't accept Meera as her daughter-in-law but some family members including Madan, Pragya and her husband Nachiket and their grandmother support her while some family members including Sheela, Manju, Sahil, Garv and Madan's brother dislike her as Garv decided to take revenge against on the couple while Sheela and Manju starts to humiliate Meera whereas, Sahil falls for Meera's younger sister, Smriti.

Payal's twin sister, Priyal, seeks vengeance on Parth for her sister's death and she poses as Payal. Parth tries to divorce Meera to marry Payal/Priyal but she opposes their divorce when she learns about the truth of Priyal and exposes Priyal 's truth to Parth by bringing her family. In the fire of revenge, Priyal pushes Parth into the cliff, but Meera saves him and gets injured. Parth is admitted into the hospital and Garv gives 40 lakh rupees for his treatment.

Parth wants to repay the money to Garv by doing a job, but he get rejected from a couple of companies on the charge of murdering Payal. A photoshoot stylist named, Devika Basu offers Parth to become a model but Parth denies, Meera encourages Parth to take one more chance and he got convinced as he agreed to work with her but Sheela, Manju, Sahil and Garv keeps creating problems to seperate Meera from Parth's life.

Main

 * Aditi Sanwal as Meera Thakur: Sanjeev and Chhaya's daughter; Smriti's elder sister; Garv's ex-fiancée; Parth's one-sided lover turned wife (2024–present)
 * Nitin Goswami as Parth Thakur: Madan and Sheela's younger son; Garv's younger brother; Sahil and Pragya's cousin; Payal's ex-boyfriend; Meera's husband (2024–present)
 * Sehrish Ali as
 * Payal Sharma: Parth's ex-girlfriend; Tarun's ex-lover; Priyal's elder twin sister (2024) (Dead)
 * Priyal Sharma: Payal's younger twin sister; Parth's one-sided obsessive lover and enemy (2024)

Recurring

 * Junaid Ahmad as Sanjeev Tiwari: Chhaya's husband; Meera and Smriti's father; Parth's father-in-law (2024–present)
 * Ishrat Khan as Chhaya Tiwari: Sanjeev's wife; Meera and Smriti's mother; Parth's mother-in-law (2024–present)
 * Zeel Takkar as Smriti Tiwari: Sanjeev and Chhaya's younger daughter; Meera's younger sister; Parth's sister-in-law (2024–present)
 * Rupa Divetia as Mrs. Thakur: Madan's mother; Garv, Parth, Sahil and Pragya's grandmother; Sheela and Manju’s mother-in-law; Meera and Nachiket's grandmother-in-law (2024–present)
 * Manish Khanna as Madan Thakur: Sheela's husband; Garv and Parth's father; Meera's father-in-law; Sahil and Pragya's uncle (2024–present)
 * Charul Bhavsar as Sheela Thakur: Madan's wife; Garv and Parth's mother; Sahil and Pragya's aunt; Meera's mother-in-law (2024–present)
 * Siraj Mustafa Khan as Manju's husband: Madan's brother; Garv and Parth's uncle; Sahil and Pragya's father; Nachiket's father-in-law (2024–present)
 * Mona Mokhha as Manju Thakur: Garv and Parth's aunt; Sahil and Pragya's mother; Nachiket's mother-in-law (2024-present)
 * Vijay Tilani as Garv Thakur: Madan and Sheela's elder son; Parth's elder brother; Sahil and Pragya's cousin; Payal's murderer; Meera's ex-fiancé and one-sided lover (2024–present)
 * Viplove Sharma as Sahil Thakur: Manju's eldest son; Pragya's brother; Garv and Parth's cousin; Nachiket's brother-in-law (2024–present)
 * Palak Rana as Pragya Thakur: Manju's youngest daughter; Sahil's sister; Garv and Parth's cousin; Nachiket's wife (2024–present)
 * Unknown as Nachiket: Pragya's husband; Manju's son-in-law; Sahil 's brother-in-law (2024-present)
 * Unknown as Dev: Parth's friend; Pragya's lover (2024–present)
 * Unknown as Shiv: Parth's friend (2024–present)
 * Hunar Hali Gandhi as Devika Basu : (2024–present)

Development and Casting
The series was announced by Shakuntalam Telefilms July 2023 and was confirmed in February 2024 by Dangal. Initially, Sonal Vengurlekar and Saumya Saraswat were in talks to play the female negative lead, but they later backed out due to unspecified reasons. In August 2023, Nitin Goswami, Sanchita Ugale, Jyothi Mukherjee and Veronica Talreja joined the cast. Many of them later backed out due to late production development. In January 2024, Aditi Sanwal, Nitin Goswami and Sehrish Ali were signed as the leads.

Release
The first promo was released on 28 February 2024 featuring Aditi Sanwal, Nitin Goswami and Sehrish Ali. It was Launched on 18 March 2024. It replaced the television series Sasumaa Ne Meri Kadar Na Jaani.