Choti Sarrdaarni

Choti Sarrdaarni
Genre Drama
Created by
Nitu Verma
Screenplay by Rahul Pandey
Dialogues
Rajesh Chawla
Story by Ranjeev verma< Nitu verma >Faizal Akhter
Pallavi Mehta
Directed by Jaladh K. Sharma
Rajeev Srivastava
Creative director Pushpa Porwal
Starring Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia
Avinesh Rekhi
Mahir Pandhi
Theme music composer Nishant Raja
Composer Monu Music India
Country of origin India
Original language Hindi
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 810
Production
Producers Rajesh Ram Singh
Pradeep Kumar
Piya Bajpayee
Shaika Parween
Editors Paresh Shah
Ayan Hashmi
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time 20–25 minutes
Production companies Cockcrow and Shaika Entertainment
Original release
Network Colors TV
Release 1 July 2019 –
10 June 2022
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Choti Sarrdaarni (transl. Young Sarrdaarni) is an Indian Hindi language romantic drama television series produced by Cockcrow and Shaika Entertainment. It premiered on 1 July 2019 on Colors TV and ended on 10 June 2022 completing 810 episodes. It starred Nimrit Ahluwalia, Avinesh Rekhi and Mahir Pandhi.

Plot

This story revolves around a “Choti Sardarrni,” Meher Kaur Dillon. Having a bubbly and carefree personality, Meher is the daughter of the village Sarpanch, Kulwant Kaur Dhillon. Originally, she has an affair with Manav Sharma and later gets pregnant with his child. Kulwant wishes for Meher to marry a rich and successful guy unlike Manav, who works at a “Dhaba,” however is studying to become an IAS officer. Upon knowing of their secret affair, Kulwant stabs Manav and throws him into a river. She forces Meher to marry Sarabjit Singh Gill, the widowed president of Amritsar, who also has a 5-year-old son named Paramjit. To save her unborn child from Kulwant, Meher agrees for the marriage.

On the wedding night, Meher reveals her pregnancy to Sarab, who initially gets enraged but later accepts the child. Throughout their married life, both have to face many challenges with maintaining family relationships. Eventually, they fall in love and Sarab allows Meher to continue living with him and Param. Although not being his biological mother, Meher loves Param unconditionally and treats him like her own son. Seeing this, Sarab forgives Meher of her initial betrayal and accepts her and the child in her womb. Later, when Harleen, Sarab’s sister; finds out about the child not actually belonging to Sarab, she is enraged and demands Meher either leaves Sarab and Param or aborts the child in her womb. Fortunately, Sarab stops Harleen in the nick of time and saves both Meher and her unborn child. Harleen informs Sarab and Meher that although the child will not be aborted, she will never give him the respect he truly deserves. She will never consider him of her blood. Soon after, Meher delivers her son, Karanjeet Singh Gill. Some time after the delivery, Manav and Sarab’s half-sister, Aditi, come into Sarab and Meher’s life. Many trials and tribulations occur, including the fight over Karan’s custody, nonetheless, everything is sorted out in the end. Aditi and Manav fall in love and marry and Karan remains with Sarab and Meher. Later on, Meher is jailed for the allegation of murdering her brother Jagga and Sarab fails to save her.

5 years later

Meher has been bailed and resides in Kashmir with her daughter, Seher. Sarab, Karan and Param return to India from abroad and meet them unexpectedly. Later, it is revealed that the Gills' accountant, Tarkash killed Jagga to get some past revenge from Meher and gets jailed. Sarab reconciles with Meher, and also accepts Seher. He also unites Meher with her alive father, Trilochan Singh Dhillon, who Meher thought was dead for all these years. However sadly later, Sarab and Meher both die in a car accident.

16 years later

Param, Karan and Seher are grown up. Seher befriends Rajveer Singh Babbar, who immediately falls in love with her. However, Seher was already engaged to her lover, Kunal Malhotra, who is later killed by Rajveer's CM sister, Harshdeep. Finally, Seher and Rajveer marry and soon fall in love. Rajveer leaves Harshdeep upon knowing she killed Kunal, and moves to the Gill mansion. It is revealed that Seher's cousin, Khushi Bajwa loved Rajveer and also had a 4-year-old child named Prince whose real father is her friend Avinash Gupta. After Khushi leaves, Seher and Rajveer adopt Prince.

Kulwant reveals to Seher about her illegitimate granddaughter, Mannat Kaur who was left by her due to social fear. Grown up, she now lives in Dalhousie with her mother Harnoor, who later dies after revealing to Mannat about Dhillons. Seher decides to get Mannat back. Mannat comes across Dolly's grandson, Zorawar Singh Randhawa in Dalhousie, and then arrives in Attari to live with Gills and Dhillons, hiding her identity. Later, Kulwant finds Mannat's truth and reunites with her. Eventually, Seher and others too find that Mannat is Bittu and Harnoor's daughter.

Later, Zorawar and Mannat falls in love with each other. However, Kulwant decides to get Mannat married to Nirvair and Dolly decides to get Zorawar married to Scarlet. However, Kulwant later gives in to Mannat's demands and gets her married to Zorawar. The family comes together and clicks a family photo alongside the portrait of Sarab and Meher while Choti Sarrdaarni comes to an end.

Cast

Main

  • Nimrit Ahluwalia as
    • Meher Kaur Dhollon Gill – Kulwant and Trilochan's daughter; Jagga, Bittu and Rana's sister; Manav's former love interest; Sarab's second wife; Karan and Seher's mother; Param's step-mother; Prince's adoptive grandmother. (2019–2021) (Dead)
    • Seher Kaur Gill Babbar – Meher and Sarab's daughter; Param and Karan's half-sister; Khushi, Yuvi, Mannat, Gullu and Cherry's cousin; Kunal's ex-fiancée; Rajveer's wife; Prince's adoptive mother. (2021–2022)
      • Kevina Tak as Child Seher Kaur Gill (2021)
  • Avinesh Rekhi as Sarabjeet "Sarab" Singh Gill – Smriti and Sukhwinder's son; Harleen's brother; Aditi's half-brother; Simran's widower; Meher's husband; Param and Seher's father; Karan's step-father; Prince's adoptive grandfather. (2019–2021) (Dead)
  • Mahir Pandhi as Rajveer "Raj" Singh Babbar – Devender's son; Harshdeep's brother; Seher's husband; Prince's adoptive father. (2021–2022)
  • Amandeep Sidhu as Mannat Kaur Dhillon Randhawa – Bittu and Harnoor's daughter; Gullu's half-sister; Yuvi, Karan, Seher and Cherry's cousin; Param's step-cousin; Zorawar's wife. (2022)
    • Zara Khan as Child Mannat Kaur Dhillon (2022)
  • Gaurav Bajaj as Zorawar "Zorro" Singh Randhawa – Simrat and Inderpal's son; Kiara's brother; Mannat's husband. (2022)
    • Vihaan Thakkar as Child Zorawar Singh Randhawa (2022)

Recurring

  • Anita Raj as Kulwant Kaur Dhillon – Trilochan's wife; Jagga, Bittu, Ranna and Meher's mother; Yuvi, Karan, Seher, Mannat, Gullu and Cherry's grandmother; Param's step-grandmother. (2019–2022)
  • Shehzada Dhami / Vineet Raina / Hitanshu Jinsi as Paramjeet "Param" Singh Gill – Sarab and Simran's son; Meher's step-son; Seher's half-brother; Karan's step-brother; Khushi's cousin; Yuvi, Mannat, Gullu and Cherry's step-cousin; Devika's ex-fiancé. (2021) / (2021–2022) / (2022)
    • Aekam Binjwe as Teenage Param Singh Gill (2021)
    • Kevina Tak as Child Param Singh Gill (2019–2021)
  • Adhik Mehta as Karanjeet "Karan" Singh Gill – Meher and Manav's son; Sarab's step-son; Seher's half-brother; Param's step-brother; Yuvi, Mannat, Gullu and Cherry's cousin; Khushi's step-cousin. (2021-2022)
    • Gaurika Sharma as Child Karan Singh Gill (2021)
    • Aayat Khan as Baby Karan Singh Gill (2020–2021)
  • Varun Toorkey as Kunal Malhotra – Seher's ex-fiancé (2021) (Dead)
  • Apara Mehta as Manmita Chaddha – Seher, Karan and Param's caretaker; Tricky's grandmother (2021)
  • Prince Rochlani as Tricky Chaddha – Manmita's grandson; Param, Karan and Seher's brother-figure (2021)
  • Mansi Sharma / Simran Sachdeva as Harleen Kaur Gill Bajwa – Smriti and Sukhwinder's daughter; Sarab's sister; Aditi's half-sister; Robbie's wife; Khushi's mother; Prince's grandmother (2019; 2021–2022) / (2019–2021)
  • Krishna Soni as Rubinder "Robbie" Bajwa – Vidita's son; Ginni's brother; Harleen's husband; Khushi's father; Prince's grandfather (2019–2022)
  • Sheetal Ranjankar / Jazz Sodhi as Khushi Bajwa – Harleen and Robbie's daughter; Param and Seher's cousin; Karan's step-cousin; Avinash's former lover; Prince's mother (2022)
    • Hanshika Rajput as Child Khushi Bajwa (2019–2021)
  • Het Patel / Laksh Pravin Jain / Ravya Sadhwani as Diljit "Prince" Singh Babbar – Khushi and Avinash's son; Seher and Rajveer's adopted son (2022)
  • Arjun Singh Shekhawat as Avinash Gupta – Khushi's best friend and lover; Prince's father (2022)
  • Hitesh Bharadwaj as Manav Sharma / Fake Vikram Diwan – Surya and Seema's foster son; Meher's former love interest; Aditi's husband; Karan's father. (2019–2021)
  • Drishti Garewal as Dr. Aditi Kaur Gill Sharma – Sukhwinder's daughter; Harleen and Sarab's half-sister; Manav's wife. (2020–2021)
  • Astha Agarwal as Kiara Kaur Randhawa – Simrat and Inderpal's daughter; Zorawar's sister. (2022)
  • Dolly Minhas as Daljeet "Dolly" Shregill Randhawa – Jolly and Smriti's sister; Inderpal's mother; Kiara and Zorawar's grandmother (2019–2022)
  • Karan Mehat as Inderpal Singh Randhawa – Dolly's son; Simrat's husband; Kiara and Zorawar's father (2022)
  • Harleen Kaur Rekhi as Simrat Kaur Randhawa – Inderpal's wife; Kiara and Zorawar's mother (2022)
  • Amal Sehrawat as Jagjit "Jagga" Singh Dhillon – Kulwant and Trilochan's eldest son; Bittu, Ranna and Meher's brother; Amrita's husband; Yuvi's father (2019–2021) (Dead)
  • Abhilasha Jakhar as Amrita Kaur Dhillon – Jagga's wife; Yuvi's mother (2019–2021) (Dead)
  • Ravi Chhabra as Yuvraj "Yuvi" Singh Dhillon – Amrita and Jagga's son; Karan, Seher, Mannat, Gullu and Cherry's cousin; Param's step-cousin (2021)
    • Dhan Tejas as Teenage Yuvi Singh Dhillon (2021)
    • Advit Sood as Child Yuvi Singh Dhillon (2019–2021)
  • Abhishek Jangra as Baljeet "Bittu" Singh Dhillon – Kulwant and Trilochan's second son; Jagga, Ranna and Meher's brother; Harnoor's former lover; Jeeto's husband; Mannat and Gullu's father (2019–2022)
  • Yuvleen Kaur as Jeevani "Jeeto" Kaur Dhillon – Bittu's wife; Gullu's mother (2019–2022)
  • Raanav Sharma as Gulzar "Gullu" Singh Dhillon – Jeeto and Bittu's son; Mannat's half-brother; Yuvi, Karan, Seher and Cherry's cousin (2021–2022)
  • Abhianshu Vohra as Ranbir "Ranna" Singh Dhillon – Kulwant and Trilochan's youngest son; Jagga, Bittu and Meher's brother; Ginni's husband; Cherry's father (2019–2022)
  • Jinal Jain / Geetika Mehandru as Ginni Bajwa Kaur Dhillon – Vidita's daughter; Robbie's sister; Ranna's wife; Cherry's mother (2019–2022)
  • Ravya Sadhwani as Cherry Kaur Dhillon – Ginni and Ranna's daughter; Yuvi, Karan, Seher, Mannat and Gullu's cousin (2021–2022)
  • Mandeep Bamra / Acherr Bharadwaj as Nikhil Deol – Anurita's brother; Rajveer's friend (2021)
  • Neha Rana as Anurita – Nikhil's sister; Param and Karan's love interest (2021)
  • Aryan Arora as Gagandeep "Gagan" Jamwal – Seher's best friend (2021)
  • Vibha Chibber as Harshdeep Kaur Babbar Gadgill – Devender's daughter; Rajveer's sister; Kulbir's wife (2021)
  • Sanjay Mangnani as Bobby Verma – Harshdeep's employee; Dimpy's husband (2021)
  • Heena Soni as Dimple "Dimpy" Verma – Harshdeep's employee; Bobby's wife (2021)
  • Mamta Luthra / Alka Badola Kaushal as Rimple Kaur Babbar – Balwinder's wife (2021)
  • Raju Pandit as Balwinder Singh Babbar – Devender's brother; Rimple's husband (2021)
  • Piya Valecha as Dr. Gayatri Sahni – Seher and Rajveer's doctor (2021)
  • Puja Sharma as Nimrat "Nimmi" Bhullar – Seher's friend (2021)
  • Dimple Bagroy as Gillori – The lady who mistreated orphanage kids (2021)
  • Ayesha Singh as Malani Gandhi – Air hostess (2021)
  • Rutuja Sawant as Devika / Malaika – Param's ex-fiancée (2022)
  • Alika Nair / Anjali Gupta as Harnoor Sandhu – Bittu's former lover; Mannat's mother (2022) (Dead)
  • Jassi Kapoor as Inspector Gunwant "GST" Singh Tawde: Mannat's friend (2022)
  • Rishikesh Ingley as Akhil Arora: Zorawar's manager (2022)
  • Irina Rudakova as Scarlet: Zorawar's ex-fiancee (2022)
  • Neha Narang as Preeti (2019)
  • Puneet Issar as Beant Singh Gill – Sukhwinder's brother; Amrit's husband (2021)
  • Rinku Dhawan as Amrit Kaur Gill – Beant's wife (2021)
  • Abhishek Rawat as Shekhar Ram Kaul – Meher and Seher's landlord in Kashmir (2021)
  • Shivangi Verma as Samaira Sethi – Sarab's colleague (2021)
  • Ramnitu Chaudhery as Saloni Majumdar – Sarab's college friend (2021)
  • Neelu Kohli as Vidita Bajwa – Robbie and Ginni's mother; Khushi and Cherry's grandmother; Prince's great-grandmother (2020)
  • Kaushal Kapoor as Surya Diwan – Seema's husband; Vikram's father; Manav's foster father (2020) (Dead)
  • Vishavpreet Kaur as Seema Diwan – Surya's wife; Vikram's mother; Manav's foster mother (2020)
  • Ranjeev Verma as Jolly Shergill – Dolly and Smriti's brother (2019)
  • Avtar Gill as Avtaar Kohli – Neerja's husband; Simran's father; Param's grandfather (2019)
  • Vineeta Malik as Neerja Kohli – Avtaar's wife; Simran's mother; Param's grandmother (2019)
  • Shivendraa Om Saainiyol as Tarkash – Gill family accountant; Arati's husband; Ritu's father; Jagga's murderer (2019–2021)
  • Bhavini Gandhi as Arati – Tarkash's wife; Ritu's mother (2020–2021)
  • Krisha Pandirkar as Ritu – Tarkash and Arati's daughter; Param and Yuvi's friend (2020–2021)
  • Delnaaz Irani as Kristan Martha – Meher and Sarab's boss in Serbia (2020)
  • Shivani Gosain as Vijeyta Malik – Income tax officer (2019)
  • Jai Vats as Dr. Surinder Sodhi (2020)
  • Ahmad Harhash as Sameer Arora (2019)
  • Mala Salariya as Dr. Sanjana Shinde (2020)
  • Prakhar Shukla as Blackmailer (2020)
  • Ram Yashvardhan as Police Inspector Rajan Chautala – Sandhya's enemy who framed Meher (2021)
  • Kratika Sengar as Sandhya Shastri – Meher's friend; Sameer's wife; Param, Karan and Seher's guardian (2021)
  • Ankit Gera as Sameer Shastri – Sandhya's husband (2021)

Special appearances

  • Unknown as Simran Kohli Kaur Gill – Neerja and Avtaar's daughter; Sarab's first wife; Param's mother (2019) (Dead)
  • Shefali Rana as Shekhar Kaul's mother (2021)
  • Unknown as Trilochan Singh Dhillon: Kulwant's husband; Jagga, Meher, Bittu and Ranna's father; Yuvi, Karan, Seher, Mannat, Gullu and Cherry's grandfather; Param's step-grandfather. (2021)
  • Prakash Ramchandani as Kuljeet Singh Gadgill: Harshdeep's husband (2021)
  • Arpita Pandey as Sukhpreet "Sukhi" Kaur Grewal: Nimmi's friend (2021)
  • Unknown as Pushpa Rathore: Jaswant's wife; Ajit's mother; Devika's fake mother (2022)
  • Ajay Dutt as Jaswant Rathore: Pushpa's husband; Ajit's father; Devika's fake father (2022)
  • Shubh Karaan as Ajit Rathore: Pushpa and Jaswant's son; Devika's fake brother (2022)
  • Unknown as Kavita Rajput: Blood donor (2022)
  • Unknown as Kavita's husband (2022)
  • Sudesh Berry as Guruji (2022)
  • Unknown as Sandhu's father (2020)
  • Lokesh Batta as
    • Mr. Sandhu: Ginni's ex-fiance (2020)
    • Nirvair Singh Brar: Mannat's ex-fiance (2022)
  • Unknown as Nirvair's father (2022)

Guests

Production

Development

Based in Amritsar, Punjab, the series is mainly filmed in Mumbai. In November 2019, the honeymoon sequence was filmed in Serbia.

On 12 September 2019, the filming was held for three hours due to the fight by the workers’ union and Allied Mazdoor Union with producers owing to due in payments.

Casting

In February 2021, the show took a 5 years leap and female child artist Kevina Tak, who played as Param, roped to play as Meher and Sarab's daughter, Seher. Child artists Aekam Binjwe, Gaurika Sharma and Dhan Tejas entered to play as Param, Karan and Yuvi after leap.

In July 2021, it was announced that the show would take a leap of 16 years and Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia will play the role of her daughter Seher. It was officially confirmed with the release of the promo showing the 16 year leap with new characters Mahir Pandhi and Varun Toorkey, whereas the exit of Avinesh Rekhi, Anita Raj and other supporting actors. Actors Shehzada Dhami and Adhik Mehta roped to play as adult Param and Karan. However, Anita Raj and Mansi Sharma returned as Kulwant Kaur and Harleen Gill in late 2021 and then few more supporting actors came back in January/February 2022.

In December 2021, Shehzada Dhami quit the show and Vineet Raina replaces him. In February 2022, Raina too quit and was replaced by Hitanshu Jinsi.

In March 2022, it was announced that Nimrit Ahluwalia is leaving the show due to her health issues and Mahir Pandhi is leaving too. Amandeep Sidhu announced to play the role of Mannat Kaur and Dishank Arora, Salman Shaikh was approached to play Zoravar Singh, new male lead of the show, but Gaurav S Bajaj replaced them. In late March 2022, it was announced that Hitanshu Jinsi is quitting the show.

Filming

The production and airing of the show was halted indefinitely in late March 2020 due to the coronavirus outbreak. The filming resumed after three months and the show started airing again on 13 July 2020. During the break, the main actors Rekhi, Ahluwalia and Tak shot a few episodes from their homes during the nationwide lockdown which streamed under Lockdown Special Episodes on Colors TV's official digital platform Voot.

The production was halted for few days from 1 September 2020 after Krishna Soni tested positive for coronavirus.

Cancellation

In early May 2022, it was announced that Choti Sarrdaarni will telecast its last episode on 27 May 2022 but it didn't. Then on 10 June 2022, it telecasted its last episode.

Reception

Critical response

The initial promo based on Gurudwara background of the series created disappointment between the Sikhs and a complaint protesting it was written to the channel by All India Sikh Students Federation as they considered some portrayal hurting their sentiments.

Ratings

In week 41 of 2020, it became the fourth most watched Hindi GEC in urban with 5.281 million impressions.

Adaptations

Language Title Original release Network(s) Last aired Notes
Tamil Uyire
உயிரே 		2 January 2020 Colors Tamil 27 March 2021 Remake
Kannada Hoo Male
ಹೂಮಳೆ 		16 November 2020 Colors Kannada 16 October 2021

Crossover

In December 2019, Choti Sarrdaarni and Vidya had a crossover while Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha and Sai Manjrekar appeared to promote their upcoming film Dabangg 3.