Meri Saasu Maa

Meri Saasu Maa
Genre	Drama Romance
Created by	Saba Mumtaz
Written by	Saba Mumtaz Amit Senchoudhary Anjum Abbas Sahar Quaze
Directed by	Prabhat Prabhakar
Starring	Hiba Nawab Pearl V Puri Anindita Saha Kapileshwari Siddharth Arora
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	187
Production
Producer(s)	Saba Mumtaz Rahul Kumar Tewary
Location(s)	Lucknow Mumbai
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	Approx. 22 minutes
Production company(s)	Swastik Pictures
Release
Original network	Zee TV
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Original release	26 January 2016 - 5 September 2016
External links
Website

Meri Saasu Maa English: My Mother-In-Law was a family television drama that aired on Indian television channel Zee TV.^[1] Hiba Nawab plays a lead role in this serial.^[2]

Plot

Meri Saasu Maa is the story of Pari (Hiba Nawab) and her pursuit to find a mother in her mother-in-law (Anindita Saha Kapileshwari).

Story

Pari’s mama, the main person behind the wedding, is running around with loads of work, as the entire house, is geared up in wedding preparations. Merriment and festivities are on in full swing. He talks to a lady, his wife, Pari’s maasi, who is a miserly lady, avoiding to spend any extra money, much to his frustration. All are tensed as the lights suddenly go off. He comes and asks about what the problem is and why the generator is not on, and then hurries to get it done. In the darkness, a girl dresses up in traditional clothing, and wears jeans underneath, is shown to be making her way with the lantern, and proceeds towards the generator area, and the lights come back on. The people wonder who got it done so fast, and Pari’s father comes and tells them that there is no one else, other than his daughter, Pari, who is the bright light of the house. Pari is shown for the first time. He goes to Pari, and asks her about what she doing. She says that she was getting ready when the lights went off, and she came to fix it. The grandmother comes and joins them too. People announce that the baraat has come. Massi comes and reprimands her for not being dressed when the baraat is at the door. Pari tries to speak, but he does not let her, and takes her from there. Pari becomes sad. The grandmother asks her not to be sad at what she said. She then coaxes Pari to smile, and she complies. Granny kisses her, and then through a hole, she makes Pari see her mother-in-law, who seems to be a highly amiable lady. The grandmother says that she looks wonderful. Pari comments that she seems like her mother, and starts imagining her mother-in-law, giving her the motherly love that she has wanted all her life. Then she starts rushing, but the grandmother asks her to wear the lehenga and gives it to her, and takes off her jeans. Pari smiles and takes it. Pari rushes off from there, donning the lehenga over the jeans. She overhears the groom talking to some girl in the rickshaw, that this marriage is just a sham and a compromise, and that they then can enjoy their life, while the bride sits rotting in one corner. Pari is shocked. Just then, the mother comes and finds them like this, and asks them to hold for some more time, and continue with this charade and pretense. She says that he has to marry this bespectacled girl to be able to get their father off their shoulders. Pari is aghast, as she sees the true colours of her sasuma. she asks the girlfriend to leave and rushes inside with the groom. She tries to search her father, but she is unable to.

Downstairs, all wait for Pari to arrive, at the mandap, while her bitter masi proclaims that she has brought her up with much love and care. Meanwhile, Pari starts looking for her father, but then her masi comes and takes Pari away, asking her not to waste time. Pari is brought in the mandap forcibly by her masi, while she is appalled and tensed. Her father reassures her and asks her to calm down. The marriage rituals begin and Pari remembers what she just heard, and is horrified. She takes her hand away from the groom and stands up, asking them to stop. They are all shocked. The groom’s mother asks what the problem is, as its okay to be nervous, but all would be fine. Pari tells her father that she is not the groom’s choice. He and his mother are appalled and deny it outright. Pari asks Rohit to speak up, as his silence is raising questions. Her masi reprimands her for talking nonsense, and apologises for her. Pari tells Rohit that it is not too late and that he should marry who he loves, so that their lives are not spoiled. She tells his mother about what she had heard. The groom’s mother takes it as an insult, and tries to distract them, but Pari tells the entire truth, and asks Rohit to speak up. He looks at the mother, and then says that she is lying, which shocks Pari. She narrates the groom’s mother’s dialogues to her, and she gets tensed. The masi starts reprimanding Pari’s father to speak. Pari gets emotional as she starts speaking about how she had merely wanted a mother. Pari is tensed as tensions amount up. The groom leaves with his family, while Pari stands tensed with the rest of the family. The masi is furious with rage, and reprimands Pari by asking "What's the problem?" and "Why doesn't she die?". Pari rushes in, distraught and appalled. The masi continues to vent out venomous aggression and rants against her, and how she has only been a problem for her ever since she was born. She eyes her mother’s picture and then turns on the music player to play a lullaby. She thinks that she thought she would be able to search for her mother, but is no longer sure how she will do it.

The next morning, Pari’s father and grandmother are tensed, when she does not respond at all, while the maasi and her daughter, insinuate that she might have committed suicide. They break the door open but do not find Pari, and do not know where she went.

Meanwhile, Maasa steps down the stairs, while the people treat her with much reverence. She eyes a couple going past, and one of them is her granddaughter. She is enraged and asks for the keys from her aide, and then gets inside a truck, and follows the bike couple. She puts brakes right in front of the bike. The boy is unable to understand and shouts, "Who is it?". As she steps out, the girl recognises her, and mounts off the bike in fear. Maasa comes and slaps the boy and wrenches the girl by her hair and takes her from there.

Suman, the girl is brought home by Maasa, and all the other ladies gather up, as Maasa throws her on the floor in rage. Babita, one of the Bahus, is amused however. Suman rushes to granny and begs to be saved. Just then, Maasa comes out, with all of Suman’s western clothes, and then burns them alight, much to everyone’s shock and horror. She tells Suman’s mother that she did wrong by giving her western clothes, and mobiles, and hollers at Babita for having wrongly influenced her by watching movies. Maasa says that she is known for her fame, and that she will not bear anyone tainting it. She reprimands the mother, saying that she shall kill her if her daughter is caught like this next time. Maasa reprimands that she cannot keep a daughter okay, and that they shall call the priest, to fix her wedding. The men come in, and talk about this marriage, where the girl refused to marry the boy at the altar. Maasa says that women take respect of the house lightly these days. Suman’s father comes and asks her to calm down, as he shall handle it all. Maasa taunts that he cannot handle either his wife or his daughter. Suman’s mother thinks that none of them can put down her anger, except for the one and only, Sattu.

Sattu, the male lead, is shown to be praying in the temple, with much fervour and devotion. The priest blesses him all the good health, while he says to bless his mother, as that is all he wants. He then descends down. As he is walking down the stairs, he collides and grazes past pari, and the diyas alight up her dupatta, and then the whole place. He turns around and is shocked, while Pari is scared as she is trapped in the fire. He jumps inside. They both confront each other, behind a giant poster of Maasa in the background. The screen freezes on their faces.

After sometime Sattu dies in a car accident. The show takes 6 years' leap and sees Pari and Maasaab in a situation with Bunty Singh Chauhan who she later marries.(The New Male Lead).

Cast

Main cast

• Hiba Nawab as Pari Sinha , Pari Sharma , Pari Singh Chauhan - (Protagonist)^[3]
• Anindita Saha Kapileshwari as (Maa Saab)Bhawna Devi/ Rachna Devi Pari's Mother^[4]
• Pearl V Puri as Satyendra Sharma (Sattu) - (Pari's Husband) {Dead} ^[5][6][7][8]
• Siddharth Arora as Bunty Singh Chauhan ^[9][10]
• Nimai Bali as Digvijay Singh Chauhan^[11]
• Mazel Vyas as Arpita Chauhan (bunty's Younger sister)
• Suman Shashi Kant as Sashikala Sinha - Pari's Step Mother
• Meenakshi Arya
• Prithvi Shankala as Pari's father
• Krishna Soni as Kamlesh Sharma
• Dhiraj Totlani as Ankit Sinha - Pari's Brother
• Arpita Amar as Meera Sinha - Pari's Sister
• Rashul Tandon as Sarvesh Sharma
• Nirmala.J.Chandra as Aarti Sarvesh Sharma
• Kushabh Manghani as Akhilesh Sharma
• Tanvi Dogra as Babita Akhilesh Sharma
• Haider Karim as Mastana
• Aanchal Khurana as Roopmati ^[12]
• Nina Sharma / Kiran Bhargava as Daddo (Eldest Lady in the house) {Dead}
• Tisha Kapoor as Shona
• Vaishnavi Mahant as Pari's late-mother (in photoframe) {Dead}

Guest appearances

• Rakhi Sawant^[13][14]
• Shamita Shetty perform on hour episode with Kaala Teeka

References

External links

• Official website