Hindi TV Serial - Ballika Vadhu - Jagya finally manages to come back in the house

Things are getting more complicated on the show. With Anandi due to get married to Shivam, his Choti Ma does not like the fact that she is a divorcee and is also unhappy over the fact that Jagya is also there in the village. She has been mollified by telling her that Jagya is no longer part of the family and his actions have been condemned by everybody in the family. Anandi is also not soft towards him, but her natural tendencies is not to be harsh towards anyone, or to think badly of anybody, and hence she does not even understand all the motives of Jagya.
Jagya has been very angry with the attitude of his family towards him, after all, he is the son of the family, and blames Anandi for whatever has happened to him from his family's side. He wants revenge, and they show him having a discussion with himself over what is the right way and what is the wrong way, and finally he agrees that he is the one who has been wronged, that Anandi is the one who has done this, and that he wants revenge.
So, first order is to ensure that he changes the attitude of people towards him. He admits that he assaulted a villager, agrees to work for him till he has undone the damage, and then in a series of remarkable events, ensures that the villagers now see him as a good guy. He also manages to ensure that his family finally forgives him, but Bhairon is not so happy over this, and Shiv does not want him to come anywhere near Anandi.
Now that Jagya has managed to come home, his next step is to ensure that the problems are all overcome, and the final problem is that Anandi is away from him, and he tells Dadisa that he wants Anandi back, and she is shocked at his statement, but will she support him ?

Hindi TV Serial - Pyaar Ka Dard Hai...Meetha Meetha - Latika accuses Adi, Pankhuri saves him

The serial is taking an interesting turn, moving the story on its head. So far the lead characters of Aditya and Pankhuri were moving away from each other, with each of them supposed to marry different people - Aditya was supposed to be marrying Latika while Pankuri was supposed to be marrying Shivam. The marriage of Pankhuri and Shivam was a pressure marriage, with family pressure causing the marriage. On the other and, the marriage of Adi and Latika was supposed to happen because they were of the right social class for the marriage, and were right for each other.
However, things did not turn out this way. The marriage of Adi and Latika was abruptly ended because of a major fight between Harish and Avantika during the mehendi ceremony, and as a result, Adi got so angry that he called off his own marriage, leaving both Latika and her mother surprised and angry. In fact, they were in a problem financially and hence needed the marriage to happen. So Latika told her mother that she will do something to ensure that it happens.
Soon after Adi and Nana played a trick to get harish and Avantika together again, with the premise that Adi had been kidnapped while he was hiding away. Pankhuri got to know and went to meet him and Latika also found out from Pankhuri and went to meet him as well. On the way back, there were riots and hence Pankhuri had to come back because of security reasons and spent the night in his room (and you know that there will be a lot of problems because of this).
The next day Latika stated that Aditya had assaulted her, but then Pankhuri managed to save the situation by stating how she was in the room all night, thus preventing the claim from Latika. Shivam also reached the place at the same time, and was shocked to hear this.
What will happen now is that Pankhuri's marriage to Shivam will get broken because of accusations that she had an affair with Adi, and Adi will turn up in Kullu to save her reputation and will marry her.

Hindi TV Serial - Pratigya - Shakti goes after Pratigya, but Samar harmed

The serial continues to show drama between the members of the house, and with villains like this in the house, who needs to have enemies outside the house. So it is in this case, where Shakti keeps on plotting against Krishna and Pratigya, and even against his own father when he believes that his father is favoring his own brother. A few times, they have found Shakti guilty of plotting against Sajjan Singh when Shakti got the property transferred to his name by false premises, and there was a lot of effort done to ensure that these properties were returned back to Sajjan Singh. Even after, Sajjan Singh gave some punishment to Shakti, but he remained in the house even after that.
Now, Shakti is very angry over the marriage of his sister Komal with Karthick, since Kartik belongs to a different caste, and is also angry at his family members since they allowed this marriage to happen. He blames Pratigya for most of the changes happening in his house and looks for a tactic that he can get rid of her without the blame coming on him.
On the roof, he finds a place which can allow him to get this done. He sees a weak portion that would collapse and keeps her sari over that portion and also applies oil on the metal so that when she would try to catch the metal, her hands would slip and she would fall down. On the other hand, however, his own son Samar goes to the roof and falls for this trap and falls down, and is then rushed to hospital. Shakti realizes that his own plotting almost caused his own son to die and Sajjan Singh also blames him for the same.
At the same time, Pratigya and Krishna have gone to a village since they believe that the Pandit's wife is actually their Amma, but the lady does not recognize them even when try hard; even when Sajjan Singh is there, Amma does not recognize any of them and sends them back. 

Hindi TV Serials - Bade Acche lagte Hain - Pihu brings Ram and Priya closer together

Ever since Ram found out that Priya was alive and had been away from him for 5+ years and also had a daughter (his daughter) in that period, he was very angry with her for keeping his daughter away from him and had told Priya that he wanted custody of Pihu, that he did not consider that there was a valid marriage between them, and he wanted to punish Priya for keeping Pihu away from him for 5 years. Whenever he would meet Piya, he would taunt her, tell her that she lied to him, and that he would take custody of Pihu no matter what he did.
However, this did not extend to anybody else criticizing Priya. So if Ayesha tried to make a mark for herself by criticizing the behavior of Priya, Ram had scolded her on more than one occasion and told her to keep her comments to herself. Ayesha was very worried that eventually Priya would take Ram away from her, and from the lavish lifestyle that she was leading as a result of being Mrs. Ram Kapoor.
But it turns out that Pihu is bringing Ram and Priya closer again. They need to go for a school admission for Pihu, and for this purpose, they need to work together. At the school that Priya wanted Pihu to go, Ram raises a number of questions and they step out of the school for now. And then in the parking lot, Pihu tells Priya that she wanted to go back to Dubai since Ram was so nice and happy, and now in Mumbai he is forever angry. Ram is very shocked by this and both of them decide that in front of Pihu, they will not argue or do something like that.

Hindi TV Serial - Kya Hua Tera Vaada - Seamier side of Anu revealed

Things are getting more complicated. As if the broken relationship between Pradeep and Mona was not enough, there was the planning going on for 2 marriages, the marriage between Pradeep and Anuska, and the marriage between Mona and Vineet. For quite some time, Mona was shown as very unenthusiastic about marriage between her and Vineet, but both Vineet and her father-in-law, Alok, were very keen. Vineet's parents were not enthusiastic about their son marrying a divorcee who has 3 children, but finally they are also agreed. Others in the household such as Mallika, the sister-in-law is trying to intervene but nobody is really listening to her.
Till now they have shown Anushka as an arrogant and strong willed person, who will do whatever she has to do; but now they are showing more details about her, such as the fact that she is already married and actually had done fraud in a previous company. They do all this by introducing a new character, Shaurya, who scares Anushka whenever she hears his voice on the phone; and then he lands there and starts threatening Anushka by saying that he will reveal the truth about her to everybody unless she gives him a lot of money. She does not have that kind of money, and starts looking for money, primarily to see where she can steal this much money.
Things get interesting, since Mona finds out about his background and tells everybody in the house to beware of him, but then Anushka slaps Mona but before something else can happen, Suhasi tells her that Anushka is the daughter of the house while Mona is moving out and hence should listen to Anushka. Mona is not very happy about this, but accepts it and also persuades Alok about this. The next item of discussion is about whose marriage will Alok and Suhasi attend, if both of them fall on the same date.

Hindi TV Serial - Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hain - Jeevika runs away, but Viraat brings her back

Ever since Jeevika did the donation which saved the life of her sister, Maanvi, there was a lot of drama in the family. Because of this decision, she took the decision to abort her pregnancy, without informing anybody except Viren. Once this was known, Buaji did not like this decision and made her displeasure known to Jeevika. Jeevika was very guilty over what had happened and told Buaji that she will pay her punishment for this action.
Now, the marriage of Maanvi and Virat was going to happen and this was the time that Jeevika decided to exercise her punishment, and decided that she will not attend the marriage and will infact leave the family at that point of time. And so it happens, when the marriage was happening, Buaji could see that Jeevika was making her way out and even though Buaji was pushing for the punishment, she was still shocked when she heard what was being planned. She tried to stop Jeevika but Jeevika did not stop.
Jeevika had left a message on Viren's phone, but he was very busy and was not able to listen to the message till the time that she had actually left; after that it was a matter of trying to locate her and finally Virat was able to find her (he refused to go on with the marriage till she was found and came back to the house). Only after that was the marriage resumed.

Hindi TV Serial - Pavita Rishta - Finally catching up with Soham

After other matters in the serial have been resolved, it was the turn of Varsha and Soham to be found. Ever since some photos were seen which showed Varsha alive and present at the engagement of Arjun, there was a quest to actually find them. Archana was very anxious to find Soham, since she had always thought that Soham and Varsha was dead, and she had already got her other children back to her after the expose of Savita revealed that the separation of Archana from Manav was actually caused by Savita.
Finally they manage to catch up with Varsha, but she refuses to tell them anything about Soham or what has become of him. Then Varsha is tailed till she goes back to Bihar where Soham (now Vishnu) is revealed to have become a bahubali and is celebrating this. There Varsha and Balam claim that Soham was actually dead  when Varsha came there, and he has been dead for 18 years. However, Manav and Archana do not really believe this and talk to the neighbors who reveal that the photo of Soham that they are having is actually Vishnu (rather, only Archana knows this, not Manav).
Archana immediately goes to the stage where Soham is present, but he is scared to see her and wonders whether she has come there to arrest him, and puts a gun to her head and takes her off to the jungle. Manav chases them and when he sees an opportunity, he shoots Soham; Archana is distraught and tells Manav that Vishnu is actually their long lost son Soham. Manav is horrified and surrenders to the police.

Hindi TV Serial - Pyaar Ka Dard Hai...Meetha Meetha - High drama at the wedding, Adi calls of the wedding

A few episodes back, the serial revealed the reason for the anger that Avantika felt for her ex-husband Harish. She had seen a document related to an abortion, and because of that, she left him because he was having an affair with somebody else, and this is the tension that continued between them, and which probably made her so bitter for such a long time. And this news will come out a time that is most inopportune, and so it did, at the occasion of the festivites related to the marriage of their son, Aditya, with Latika.
At the mehendi ceremony where Pankhuri had tried to get the family together, including even getting Avantika and Harish to do a dance together, tempers flared between them, with an angry Harish telling Avantika about how she always felt that she was right, and that she was the one who moved away from him, which led to the separation. Eventually, this provoked Avantika enough that she revealed the secret about why she had moved out, because Harish had an affair. Before Harish could say too much more about this further, Adi had got angry enough about the fight between them that he declared that he did not want to get married because if this how a marriage is like, he did not want to get married.
This shocked everybody, but the ceremony was now over. After some time, Adi decided that he wanted to know the truth, and went to Harish's house to find out the truth, but Harish refused to provide any more details. If there was indeed not an affair, then one probable reason was that Harish was covering up for somebody else who was close, and even now, after so many years, he would not want to reveal any more details of what had happened.

Hindi TV Serial - Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon - Shyaam finally exposed to Anjali

The serial just ended up one of its mechanisms for showing villains and drama. Till now, the serial used to be able to spend a significant amount of time showing something or the other that Shyaam used to do and the impact of those actions. So, Shyaam was the one who was trying different methods of killing Anjali earlier, he was the one who was trying to get married to Khushi while married to Anjali, he was the one who had kidnapped Arnav, he was the one who came back into the house through the method of creating a drama by harming Anjali and then pretending that he was the one who could support Anjali.
The biggest mistake he did was to allow Arnav to see that there were cameras hidden inside the house, and towards that end, Arnav and Khushi were then able to see inside Shyam's laptop while keeping Shyam busy elsewhere, and there they were able to see something that made them very angry. They knew that Shyam could do anything, but in the videos, they were able to see that Shyaam was the one who did a sequence of steps that lead to Anjali falling down and losing her baby, and this knowledge horrified them. They could not leave Anjali in the company of Shyam after that and it was necessary that Anjali got to know the truth.
So, they found a occasion and decided to do a drama, and in the middle of the drama, started indicating what had happened and then showed the video clips that proved that there was a lot done to harm Anjali and her baby; and this together with the overall drama somehow caused Shyam to burst out the truth about what he had done. And this finally led Anjali to believe that Shyam was the main culprit and she slapped him.

Hindi TV Serial - Bade Acche Lagte Hain - Divorce between Vikram and Neha becomes known at birthday party

For quite some time now, the serial has been showing a pending divorce between Vikram and Neha, and this was surprising for viewers since there was no background given as to why this was happening. After all, after the 5 year break, suddenly this came into the picture and the serial kept on showing this without providing any reason. Even when Ram got involved in this discussion, he was unable to do anything much about this, since they told him that this divorce was something that was going to happen and he would not be able to do anything about this.
Soon after, this got over-shadowed with the time when Ram and Priya met, and Ram went into shock. Once he came out of hospital, instead of the reunion that a number of viewers were expecting, they showed Ram very angry over what has happened and about Priya not telling him about her being alive for 5 years in the past. He wants custody of Pihu and now, in his anger, proclaims that Ayesha is his wife.
And then the birthday party for Rahul was the biggest problem. The cake that was unveiled occasion blew everybody away, since it disclosed that the divorce was going to happen, leaving everybody shocked. Their children were shocked the most, especially Rahul, since he could not believe that his parents had not told him that they were going to be divorced. As also the reason for the divorce, the truth that Vikram had another child long back. Will the effort to prevent this divorce break the anger that Ram has in him, since he feels that he will need the support of Priya to convince them to re-consider their divorce ?

Hindi TV Serial - Pyaar Ka Dard Hai...Meetha Meetha Pyaara Pyaara...- Marriage preparations are on, but ..

The serial is a fast moving serial, not like many other serials which take a lot of time to move from one point to point. The serial is primarily the story of Aditya, whose parents Avantika and Harish separated a long time back bitterly and who are not exactly the best of friends now. Over this, Adi no longer really believes that a marriage is a relationship that is meant for him, and lives life as per his terms. Because of the history of his family, where his mother Avantika is also a businesswoman and far richer than his father, he also does not have exposure to many customs and rituals. His mother's father, played by Mukesh Khanna is far more traditional in terms of believing in relationships, and such, but is not able to make the impression he would like. Since Adi stays with Avantika, he is not so very close to his dad, but otherwise respects him.
Adi goes to Kullu and meets Pankhuri, who is a well mannered girl. His grandfather and her family want this relationship to happen, but there are misunderstandings because of which Adi takes the whole thing negatively. But by the end of his trip, he does not carry negative feelings and becomes friends with Pankhuri. However, this would have stopped there, but Pankhuri's studies causes her to come to Mumbai for internship and after some disturbances, she starts staying in Adi's house at the instance of his grandfather. Avantika really does not like this, and does not speak nicely to her most times.
Avantika also does not like any closeness between Adi and Pankhuri and wants Adi to marry Latika, and after some taunts and the like, Pankhuri pushes him for this marriage and the marriage is set. However, Adi really does not have any kind of love for Latika, and both of them feel that they are close to each other (Adi and Pankhuri) in some way. Adi's Mama and Mami also try to play a negative role overall, with his Mami wanting to get back at Avantika in some way or the other.

Hindi TV Serial - Pavitra Rishta - Finally Varsha is back

The serial, many months back, split the multiple characters into different directions, and is slowly bringing them back. Before the time lapse, Varsha had run off with Soham causing huge tensions between Manav and Archana, and then Manav decided to go to Canada and Savita twisted things around so that there was a long separation between the two, with the children going up without their mother and Savita telling them bad things about Archana. Soham also got into the wrong hands, and became Vishnu, the son of a small time gang.
First the story slowly weaved back the story of Manav and Archana. First, the good nature of Achana slowly got people to shed their hostility towards her, but this would not have been enough. It was Teju who overheard a conversation between Savita and Sachin, which helped to resolve all the issues and reconciled Archana and Manav and also caused everybody to know that it was Savita who was responsible for creating their differences.
So, one end of the thread was resolved. Now remains the story of Varsha and Soham (now known as Varsha). Varsha landed up in the city after Soham, and once Manav got to know that Varsha was still alive, he went after her, even publishing posters and others and putting people on the lookout for her. And finally Varsha has been caught, but is not disclosing the current whereabouts of Soham.

Hindi TV Serial - Pratigya - Bitter rivalry between Krishna and Shakti

The serial shows an on and off rivalry between the brothers, and most of the time, there is always tension between Krishna and Shakti, with Shakti feeling that his younger brother getting the attention of their father Sajjan Singh and would eventually get the benefit of the wealth that Sajjan Singh already has. In fact, the regular tension between them and the actions that they take against each other means that they would typically not need any enemy. In fact, one enemy that they face who almost traps them is Abhimanyu, the illegitimate son of Sajjan Singh who tries everything possible to trap them and also create problems within the family. In the end, Abhimanyu is on the verge of carrying out his mission when he finally gets trapped, and almost shop by Sajjan Singh before Pratigya stops Sajjan Singh from killing him.
On the other hand, there is a lot of happiness in store for Pratigya and Krishna. Due to medical treatment, the sperm count increased till the point where the doctor now said that there was hope (which is also an indicator to viewers that if they are not having a child, there are a number of medical treatments). Finally, Pratigya learnt that she was pregnant, something which brought a lot of happiness for everybody in the family, except for Shakti and Kesar. In the case of Kesar, it was a clear case of betrayal, since it was Pratigya who brought her back into the house from the mental asylum, and who eventually caused Shakti to accept her. For Kesar now to feel so jealous of the new incoming child, and to feel that this new arrival would be to cause detriment to her own child Samar was incredible, but the fact that she tried to poison Pratigya so that the child would die was incredible.

Hindi TV Serial - Diya Aur Bati Hum - Bhabho concerned over praise to Sandhya

The serial continues to show the social situation in small town India, which is conservative and where woman have to face the brunt of not being treated equally. Woman are supposed to be eventually married off and sent off to their husband's house to live, and take care of his family members. This had led to a condition where they are not treated equally, not provided the same amount of education and other such benefits as the male members of the family. While this may seem unfair and something that the Government and society needs to continue to do to make fair, this is a reality that is depicted in a number of serials that are now showing up more and more in current serials.
In the current case, there is an unstated fear that Sandhya, even though she was married and had not mentioned her education again, would again want to move ahead with her education. Bhabho has a big fear that Sandhya will get awakened again some time about her ambitions, and with suraj also supporting her, she will want to start working again towards her education as well as joining the IPS. With the actions taken by Sandhya to prevent a terrorist attack in the city, there is a lot of recognition and commendations coming her way, which makes the family happen; but Bhabho is concerned. She also tells Sandhya that she wanted Lakshmi, not Durga or Kali in her home. Which means that she wanted a home maker in her family, not somebody who will play a public profile.
So, there is some amount of tension in the house, with Bhabho not comfortable with the public functions that are being organized in favor of Sandhya, although Bhabhasa and Suraj are very comfortable with this. Also, Sandhya gets some very good news in terms of her brother and sister-in-law having a daughter (something which Bhabho mentions as not being as good as having a son), and leaves for sometime to take care of them.

Hindi TV Serial - Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon - Arnav comes to the mandap and goes ahead with the marriage

This episode suddenly became one of the most decisive ones of the relationship, where Arnav had already come to know the role of Garima in making him an orphan, with Dadi telling him the truth so that he would not go ahead with the relationship. This made him very angry and you could see him taking out his frustration in a garden, breaking a few things. He finally reaches the mandap where the previous episode left it like that, leaving it undecided as to whether he would go ahead with the marriage.
The serial takes the logical step, where Arnav has already remembered his mother's advice where she asked him always to be sure of what is wrong and not to blame where there is no blame, and that is what Arnav does. He says that Khushi is not to blame, and the marriage will happen. When Dadi steps in, he tells her that the blame was actually his father's and Garima was not to blame; and also tells Dadi that if she does not accept this, she can also leave. And so Dadi leaves.
There is happiness everywhere, with Anjali also blessing the marriage even though Shyam expresses feelings against the marriage, but Anjali does not listen and continues with her blessings for the marriage. During the marriage there are some flashbacks as well, and then the serial moves to Arnav's house where Khushi is welcomed in the traditional manner. However, there is still Shyaam, and he will do something, including using a webcam to do spying on their suhagraat.