Imlie

''Imlie'' (transl. Tamarind) is an Indian Hindi-language television drama series that premiered on 16 November 2020 on StarPlus and streams on Disney+ Hotstar. Produced by Gul Khan under 4 Lions Films, it formerly starred Sumbul Touqeer Khan, Fahmaan Khan, Mayuri Deshmukh and Gashmeer Mahajani. It was a loose adaptation of the Bengali series '' Ishti Kutum''. Currently, it stars Megha Chakraborty, Seerat Kapoor and Karan Vohra as the second generation.

Premise

Imlie is a young 18-year-old girl, who goes through twists and journeys of life. She crosses paths with a man Aditya at first, who eventually proves to be unworthy of her love. Soon, she forms a bond with Aryan, a businessman, and thus lasts their eternal love till and beyond their fatal deaths.

18 years later

20 years later, Imlie and Aryan's daughter, (also named) Imlie and Malini and Aditya's daughter, Cheeni are raised with opposite personalities. Soon, they find their lives tangled with a young DJ and musician, Atharva, and thus begins a twisted love triangle.

Plot

Season 1

Imlie, an 18-year-old girl is from Pagdandia village of Uttar Pradesh. Her mother, Meethi had a one night stand with Dev Chaturvedi, who left her impregnated. So, the villagers came up with a rule that if a man spends a night with a girl, they must marry. Satyakam, a farmer turned rebel, who is fighting for Pagdandia's rights is Imlie's father-figure. Aditya “Adi” Kumar Tripathi is a Delhi-based journalist working in Bhaskar Times. His girlfriend is Malini Chaturvedi (Dev's daughter). Before their engagement, Adi leaves for Pagdandia to take Satyakam's interview. Imlie helps Adi in guiding the village, and end up staying together due to heavy rain and thunderstorms. Imlie agrees to marry Adi to save his life. Imlie and Adi are forcefully married.

In New Delhi, Imlie introduces herself as a maid to the Tripathi family to save Adi. Before Adi and Malini's marriage, he reveals the marriage truth to Malini, making her faint. Imlie sees her husband marrying Malini, her half-sister with a broken heart. Adi has to go to Pagdandia for the government's peace meeting with Satyakam and decides to leave her there permanently. Soon Adi realises Imlie is his true love and Malini was just a friend. He also learns that they are half-sisters during his Pagdandia visit. Adi reveals the truth to Malini that Imlie is his first wife. Malini comes to Pagdandia with a name Kalpana and discovers that Imlie is her half-sister. Adi and Imlie reunite and Aditya convinces Satyakam and Meethi to get married. Imlie learns about her father and refuses to accept Dev and tells Satyakam will always be her father.

Imlie finally expresses her feelings to Adi. She wants to be a journalist, after seeing Adi's work. Malini stops the divorce proceedings and put on a fake suicide drama, Malini tries to break Aditya and Imlie's relationship. Imlie discovers Malini's intentions and warns Aditya, but he didn't believe her. Malini gets intimate with Aditya by intoxicating him. Imlie is devastated and files a case against Malini for the incident. Malini becomes pregnant. Imlie decides to let Malini stay in the house while The Tripathi family slowly accepts Imlie as their daughter-in-law. Finally, Adi and Malini are divorced. Malini shoots herself and frames Imlie, but Satyakam takes the blame and goes to jail. Malini demands to send Imlie out of the house. When Adi asks Imlie what happened, she loses all her patience and ends their relationship.

Aryan Singh Rathore is a businessman and the CEO of Bhaskar Times. He misunderstands that Adi is responsible for his brother-in-law's death, thus wanting revenge from him. Although Aryan was initially rude to Imlie, he later likes her. Adi misunderstands Imlie and Aryan's relationship. Malini sends divorce papers to Adi replacing them with a letter from Imlie. Adi misunderstands Aryan and Imlie's relation and announces his marriage to Malini making Imlie sign the divorce papers. After the divorce, Aryan laid moral support to Imlie. She and Aryan shares a supreme relationship of friendship and becomes comfortable with each other. With Aryan's help Imlie finally manages to expose Malini's misdeeds. Aditya throws Malini out of the house and sends Anu to jail, releasing Satyakam.

Aditya unintentionally reports a stormy weather as clear leading Aryan and Arpita getting injured in the storm. He then learns about Arvind and Aryan's revenge and tries to warn Imlie that Aryan is using her against him, but she refuses to believe. However, when Aryan publicly confronts Aditya, Imlie learns the truth. Then he frames Aditya for false weather reporting and bans his journalism license. Seeing the Tripathis condition, Imlie begs Aryan to save her family. He then puts forth the condition of marrying her but she in turn puts a condition that the marriage would be fake and should be on paper only. When Aditya learns about the same, he demands the wedding in front of his eyes, as a punishment of hurting Imlie. Imlie and Aryan finally, get married. After their marriage, Neela tries to break their relationship. Imlie gives a closure to Arpita and Narmada as she reveals Arvind's deaths reason. Out of guilt, Aryan lets Imlie go, however, she decides to return to Aryan and Aditya leaves the country.

During Arpita and Sundar's wedding, Imlie discloses the dowry situation and addresses it. Narmada demands that Imlie quit her job and Aryan speaks against it. Arpita encourages Aryan to share his true feelings with Imlie as it will give her the courage to deal with Narmada's change of behaviour better. With the help of Jyo, Aryan takes Imlie on a date. Before confessing their feelings, Imlie falls from the treehouse. Aryan tries to regain Imlie's consciousness and gets scared as she does not respond to his emergency treatments which leads him to share his feelings and Imlie regains her consciousness. As it starts raining they find a secluded place where Imlie reciprocates his feelings and they spend the night there. Later, Imlie becomes pregnant. After many turns of events, Imlie manages to expose Jyoti's misdeeds in front of Aryan with the help of Harinder-Jyoti's ex-husband, Sundar and Arpita.

On their way back home, Imlie and Aryan see a baby left alone and get her home. Malini enters as a successful Dean in a college and reveals to be holding grudges. Malini enters the Rathore mansion and reveals that Gudiya is her and Aditya's daughter who was missing. She accuses Imlie of stealing her baby, Malini manages to harm Imlie in front of Aryan's eyes. Due to that, Imlie suffers from a miscarriage. Aryan and Imlie both blame each other for their loss and part ways.

5 years later

Aryan is still grieving his baby's loss and harbours hatred toward Imlie. Imlie lives in Pagdandia with Cheeni and is shown to be fighting against social injustice as an independent journalist. Malini who happens to own significant shares of Bhaskar Times. Aryan reaches Pagdandia to solve a matter where he ended up saving Cheeni and comes to know about her. In an attempt to reunite Aryan and Imlie, Cheeni makes them drink bhang and they have their wedlock. Aryan and Imlie are blessed with a baby girl. Malini for her revenge, sets bomb in Aryan's house. In the bomb blast Aryan, Imlie and Malini die.

Season 2

18 years later

Imlie, Aryan and Imlie's daughter and Cheeni, Malini and Aditya's daughter are all grown up, with contrasting personalities. They soon cross paths with Atharva Rana (DJ Arto). Atharva falls in love with Cheeni. The Ranas and Rathores meet at a mutual family friend's wedding. Impressed by Imlie, the Rana family asks for Imlie's hand in marriage for Arto against his will. Arto finally tells Cheeni about his feelings, and she decides to fake her love to gain his property and starts manipulating him. On the wedding day, Cheeni who fails in her plans to marry Arto, manipulates Arto and makes him think that Imlie has bad intentions. To avenge Cheeni, Arto marries Imlie in order to get Cheeni her rights.

Cast

Main

*Sumbul Touqeer Khan as Imlie Aryan Singh Rathore (née Chaturvedi; formerly Tripathi): Executive Reporter of Bhaskar Times; Independent journalist; Meethi and Dev's daughter; Satyakam's step-daughter; Malini's half-sister; Aditya's ex-wife; Aryan's wife; Cheeni and Jaggu's aunt; Jr. Imlie's mother (2020–2022)
* Fahmaan Khan as Aryan Singh Rathore: Owner and CEO of Rathore Group of Companies and Bhaskar Times; Narmada's son; Arpita's brother; Imlie's husband; Cheeni and Jaggu's uncle; Jr. Imlie's father (2021–2022)
* Gashmeer Mahajani/Manasvi Vashist as Aditya Kumar Tripathi: Senior Reporter of Bhaskar Times; Aparna and Pankaj's son; Imlie and Malini's ex-husband; Jr.Imlie's uncle; Cheeni's father (2020–2022)/(2022)
* Mayuri Deshmukh as Malini Chaturvedi (formerly Tripathi): Former professor and Dean of City College and COO of Bhaskar Times; Anuja and Dev's daughter; Imlie's half-sister; Aditya's ex-wife; Jr.Imlie's aunt; Cheeni's mother (2020–2022)
*Megha Chakraborty as Junior Imlie Atharva Rana (née Rathore): Imlie and Aryan's daughter; Meethi, Dev and Narmada's granddaughter; Malini; Aditya; Sundar and Arpita's niece; Cheeni and Jaggu's cousin; Atharva's wife (2022–present)
*Seerat Kapoor as Cheeni Tripathi: Malini and Aditya's daughter; Sr. Imlie and Aryan's niece; Abhishek's fiancée; Jr. Imlie's cousin (2022–present)
**Keva Shefali as Young Cheeni Tripathi (2022)
* Karan Vohra as Atharva Rana: Rudra and Devika's younger son; Manish, Divya and Shivani's nephew; Akash's younger brother; Jr. Imlie's husband (2022–present)
*Chirag Mehra as Abhishek: Cheeni's fiancé (2022-present)

Recurring

*Bobby Parvez as Rudra Rana: Manish's and Shivani's elder brother; Akash and Atharva's father; Devika's husband (2022–present)
*Chaitrali Gupte as Devika Rana: Rudra's wife; Akash and Atharva's mother (2022–present)
* Anuradha Singh as Divya Rana: Manish's wife; Akash and Atharva's aunt; mother of two children (2022-present)
*Jitendra Bohara as Akash Rana: Keya's husband; Rudra and Devika's elder son; Atharva's elder brother; Manish and Divya's nephew (2022–present)
*Hetal Yadav as Shivani Rana: Rudra and Manish's sister; Akash and Atharva's aunt (2022–present)
*Saumya Saraswat as Keya Akash Rana: Akash's wife (2022–present)
*Riyansh Dabhi as Jagdeep "Jaggu" Prasad: Sundar and Arpita's son; Narmada's grandson; Aryan and Imlie's nephew; Imlie's cousin (2022)
*Kiran Khoje as Meethi: Dulari's daughter; Dev's ex-lover, Satyakam's wife; Imlie's mother; Imlie's grandmother; Cheeni's step-grandmother (2020–present)
*Vijay Kumar as Satyakam: Tribal leader of Pagdandiya; Meethi's husband; Imlie's step-father; Imlie's step-grandfather (2020–2022)
*Meena Naithani as Dulari Devi: Meethi's mother; Imlie's grandmother; Imlie's great-grandmother (2020–2021)
*Gaurav Mukesh as Sundar Prasad: Tripathis' former househelp; Arpita's second husband; Jagdeep's father; Imlie's uncle (2020–present)
*Rajshri Rani as Arpita "Arpi" Prasad (née Rathore): Narmada's daughter; Aryan's sister; Arvind's widow; Sundar's wife; Jagdeep's mother; Imlie's aunt (2021–present)
*Neetu Pandey as Narmada Rathore: Aryan and Arpita's mother; Imlie and Sundar's mother-in-law; Jagdeep and Imlie's grandmother (2021–present)
* Indraneel Bhattacharya as Dev Chaturvedi: Janki's son; Meethi's ex-lover; Anuja's husband; Malini and Imlie's father; Cheeni and Imlie's grandfather (2020–2021)
* Jyoti Gauba as Anuja "Anu" Chaturvedi: Dev's wife, Malini's mother; Imlie's step-mother; Cheeni's grandmother; Imlie's step-grandmother (2020–present)
*Piloo Vidyarthi as Janki Chaturvedi: Dev's mother; Malini and Imlie's grandmother; Cheeni and Imlie's great-grandmother (2020–2021)
*Ritu Chaudhary as Aparna Tripathi: Pankaj's wife; Aditya's mother; Malini's mother-in-law; Cheeni's grandmother (2020–2022)
*Chandresh Singh as Pankaj Tripathi: Harish's brother; Aparna's husband; Aditya's father; Cheeni's grandfather (2020–2022)
*Rakesh Maudgal as Harish Tripathi: Pankaj's brother; Radha's husband; Dhruv, Rupali and Nishant's father; Tanushree and Prashant's grandfather (2020–2022)
*Vijaylaxmi Singh as Radha Tripathi: Harish's wife; Dhruv, Rupali and Nishant's mother; Tanushree and Prashant's grandmother (2020–2022)
* Preet Kaur Nayak as Rupali "Rupi" Tripathi: Radha and Harish's daughter; Dhruv and Nishanth's sister; Pranav's ex-wife; Tanushree's mother (2020–present)
*Tasheen Shah as Tanushree "Twinkle" Tripathi: Rupali and Pranav's daughter; Prashant's cousin (2020–2021)
*Arham Abbasi as Nishanth Tripathi; Radha and Harish's son; Dhruv and Rupali's brother; Pallavi's husband (2020–2022)
* Chandni Bhagwanani as Pallavi Tripathi (née Thakur): Nishant's wife (2021)
*Faisal Sayed as Dhruv Tripathi: Radha and Harish's elder son; Nidhi's husband; Prashant's father; Tanushree's cousin (2020–2021)
* Astha Agarwal as Nidhi Tripathi: Dhruv's wife; Prashant's mother (2020–2021)
*Jared Saville as Prashant "Sunny" Tripathi: Nidhi and Dhruv's son (2020–2021)
*Komal Kushwaha as Imlie's friend (2020)
*Amit Anand Raut as Sanju: Imlie's kidnapper (2020)
*Amarnath Kumar as Balmesh: Aditya's informer (2020)
* Karan Thakur (actor) as Arvind Chauhan: Arpita's first husband (2021)
*Vishwa Gulati as Kunal Chauhan: A lawyer who liked Malini (2021)
*Naren Kumar as Prakash: Satyakam's adoptive son; Imlie's best friend (2021)
* Sailesh Gulabani as Pranav: Rupali's ex-husband; Tanushree's father (2021)
*Suraj Sonik as Shashank "Shanky": Malini's cousin brother (2020)
*Vishal Sharma as Tripathi's family doctor (2020)
*Neelima Singh as Neela: Aryan and Arpita's aunt (2022)
*Resham Prashant as Preeta aka Gudiya or Baby Doll: Neela's niece; Aryan's childhood friend who wanted Aryan for his wealth (2022)
*Suryansh Mishra as Madhav Tiwari who hails from Imlie's village Pagdandiya; Imlie's cameraman and friend (2022)
*Veer Singh as Uday: Arpita's ex-fiancé (2022)
*Vaibhavi Kapoor as Jyoti Rawat: Aryan's college friend; Harinder's ex-wife (2022)
*Aamir Salim Khan as Harinder "Harry": Jyoti's ex-husband; a brotherly figure to Nargiz (2022)

Guests

* Radhika Madan and Sunny Kaushal as Kartika Singh and Joginder Dhillon: To promote '' Shiddat'' (2021)
* Harshad Chopda as Dr Abhimanyu Birla: To promote a generation leap in '' Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai'' (2021)
* Ulka Gupta as Banni: To promote '' Banni Chow Home Delivery'' (2022)
*Celesti Bairagey as Rajjo: To promote ''Rajjo'' (2022)

Production

Development and release

Star Jalsha's Bengali series '' Ishti Kutum'' was remade in Hindi language on StarPlus as '' Mohi'' by White Horse Productions which aired from 2015 to 2016 which did not garner good viewership. However, by 4 Lions Films, producer Gul Khan remade the series again as ''Imlie'' for StarPlus stating, "I know you have heard and seen this before, many times, but we'll play it more real". The first promo of the series was released on 27 October 2020 and featured the leads.

Casting

Gashmeer Mahajani, playing the lead role of Aditya Kumar Tripathi decided to quit the show in January 2022. He said "''My exit was planned two months back. The reasons for the same are best known to me and Gul Khan and I think to maintain our professional integrity, it should remain between only the two of us. It was a two-month long process in which I had to give it the time to stabilize with a new fresh track and gradually reduce my screen space so that once I exit the show, it can still run on its own merit and not get hampered. For the show to run and the new track to sustain after my exit, Aditya has to be completely wrong for Imlie if Aryan has to be completely right. These are basic scripting rules. If I was writing this script, I would have done it the same way. So in the last one and a half month when the decision of my exit was finally made, that is when they made changes in my character and I was okay with it completely. One shouldn't forget that the show-runner is Imlie and she is Sumbul Touqeer. The show runs on her shoulders''".

Manasvi Vashist replaced Mahajani as Aditya but he also quit the show after few months only. Sumbul Touqeer Khan, Fahmaan Khan and Mayuri Deshmukh quit the show post generation leap in September 2022.

Megha Chakraborty was cast as female lead post generation leap and Seerat Kappor was cast as the negative lead. Karan Vohra was cast as the male lead.

On her entrance Chakraborty said, "''Imlie'' has become a huge part of my life already, and I hope the audience will enjoy this new beginning."

Filming

The filming of the series began in October 2020. Although the series is set in New Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, it was filmed at sets in Mumbai.

On 14 April 2021, due to the sudden strict COVID regulations set in by the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, shooting of all serials were asked to halt. ''Imlie'' Team moved Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad and conducted their shoot there till the next notice.

Television special

''Ravivaar With Star Parivaar'' (2022)

The cast of ''Imlie'' participated in '' Ravivaar With Star Parivaar'', a musical competition wherein eight StarPlus shows competed against each other to win the title of "Best Parivaar". ''Imlie'' emerged as the first runner-up of the show.

Adaptations

''Imlie'' is an official adaptation of '' Ishti Kutum''. The story of ''Imlie'' was originally based on '' Ishti Kutum'' till 250 episodes. Currently, the story is adapted from the series '' Milon Tithi''.

Soundtrack

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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