Aapki Antara
Aapki Antara (International title: Antara), produced by Drishtant Media, is a soap opera which ran on Zee TV from 1 June 2009 through 18 February 2010 as a social problem drama focusing on the issue of autism.[1][2]
| Aapki Antara | |
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| Created by | Monish Sekhri / Drishtant Media pvt ltd |
| Written by | Monish Sekhri Amit Senchoudhary Koel Chaudhuri |
| Directed by | Sanjay Surkar Dharam Dhiman |
| Starring | Zaynah Vastani Darshan Pandya Prabhleen Sandhu |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 175 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Monish Sekhri |
| Running time | 27 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Zee TV |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV), |
| Original release | 1 June 2009 – 18 February 2010 |
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| Website | |
Initially scheduled to premiere on 25 May 2009, it was postponed and premiered on 1 June 2009.[3]
Plot
Aapki Antara is the story of a five-year-old girl named Antara. She is born to Anuradha, who had a relationship out of wedlock with Aditya Verma. When Anuradha dies in a car accident, Antara is orphaned, leaving Aditya with the responsibility of taking his illegitimate daughter home to his wife, Vidya, and son, Abhishek, and raising her as a part of his family.
With Antara in their life, things are not the same again for the Verma family. Antara does not behave like a normal child, being unable to express her emotions and living in her own world. To the outside world, she is a daydreamer and slow child. Eventually, Antara is revealed to have autism. Both she and her family are faced with the journey of navigating the world and being accepted by the society Antara is brought up in. Through her story, the show guides people to understand the needs of those with autism and handle them with sensitivity.
Cast
- Antara Verma - Zaynah Vastani (Kid)/Aaina Mehta (Teenager)/ Anjum Farooki(Adult)
- Aditya Verma (Antara & Abhishek's father) (dead) - Darshan Pandya
- Vidya Verma (Abhishek's mother & Antara's stepmother) - Prabhleen Sandhu/Kshitee Jog
- Sameer Malhotra (Aditya's friend and brother-in-law) - Himanshu Malhotra/Prashant Ranyal
- Aarti Malhotra (née Verma; Aditya's sister, Sameer's wife) - Tulika Upadhyay
- Abhishek Verma - Raj Simaria (Kid)/Sahil Deshmukh Khan(Teenager)/Darshan Pandya (Adult)
- Billu Gupta - Aarav Velhal (Kid)/Sandeep Upadhyay (Teenager)/Rayo Bakhirta (Adult)
- Mr. Gupta (Billu's father) - Nikhil Ratanparkhi
- Mrs. Gupta (Billu's mother) - Alka Mogha
- Vidya's mother (Kiran) - Sujata Kumar
- Vidya's father - Vijay Aidasani
- Anuradha Rai (Antara's mother) - Rupali Ganguly
- Vikram (Antara's doctor; Vidya's childhood friend) - Sachin Khurana
- Mili Malhotra (Sameer & Aarti's adopted daughter) - Apurva Paranjape (Teenager)
References
- "Meet the cutie in Aap Ki Antara". Reddit. 10 June 2009. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- "The missing plot". Daily News and Analysis. 10 September 2009. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- "IPL ends soon...what next on TV?". Hindustan Times.
