Hindi TV Serial - Anamika - A new serial trying to mix paranormal and romance

If you have been watching Sony for some time, then you would have seen the ads for the serial called Anamika, a serial that talks about the presence of a chudail in the love life and how this scares the girl involved to a large degree. The serial has only recently started and has just had a couple of episodes, enough to establish that there is something scary, and yet combined this with the bubble life and romance of a young couple whose families are very close to each other. So it is with the family of Rano and Jeet. Rano's family is heading towards Vaishno Devi and they are at the train station, yet Rano has not yet gone since she wants to stay on in the town. Jeet has been assigned the task to bring her back from the railway station, and yet he runs into trouble while on the way. He is in a forest and his car has broken down, and then he hears the voice of a woman. He tries to find her, but is unable to do so. And then somebody helps him to get the car repaired and he is finally able to go to the railway station (by which time it is late in the day and is dark). Rano is getting scared at the isolated train station, and in the meantime Jeet's family has sent the driver also to get her, after being angry at Jeet for not reaching there in time and for not letting them know that he will not be there. He also loses his bracelet in the forest, and is yet surprised to see the bracelet in his car the next morning, with the serial showing a moving fog, and also the gate of the house having opened (even though nobody in the house had opened the gate of the house).
The show also introduces the family of Jeet, where his bebo is a very modern grandmother, his dad believes in strictness and that his son is not showing enough responsibility. His elder brother and bhabhi are normal people - overall a normal family. The families are very close, and there is some talk about trying to find a good match for Rano, although by this time Rano has accepted that marrying Jeet is one option that she would not mind.

Hindi TV Serial - Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani - The serial coming to an end

The serial finally coming to an end. It was an interesting serial, since if you think of a serial with vampires and werewolves, you would think of the serial to be a horror serial, and many people would ignore such a serial. However, given the story of the serial, focusing on vampires and werewolves who live along with humans without being recognized, things get more interesting. The story focused on the love story between a vampire (who is immortal, and is also recognized as a non-living being) and a human (who becomes aware that the other is a vampire).
Things get very complex near the end, with werewolves and vampires fighting for a treasured potion that gives powers to the owner of the potion, and with a renegade vampire who is much more powerful than most vampires and werewolves (although no reasons are given as to how Mythili became so powerful), with Alina being the werewolf who would have been the nature leader of the werewolves in the fight against vampires, but who wants peace between these 2 types of ancient creatures. Further, in another twist, Arnav, is called away by the vampires and made the head of the vampire clan, leaving his family unaware of his fate and causing them great distress.
The serial ends with the fighting Jay (who wants to kill Abhay, who is now weak because he is a human) capturing Abhay and trying to kill him, but instead being killed by Arnav. In addition, Chand and Haseena are freed by the vampires (although they are vampires themselves) along with arnav and Abhay. 2 sets of marriages happen, where Misha gets married to Kabir, and finally Piya is getting married to Abhay in a grand event.
The last few months of the serial was very confusing, but it is now over.

Hindi TV Serial - Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani - The deaths of Panchi and Mythili in a single episode

For some time now, the serial had been dragging the story around a magic potion. The potion was supposed to give a huge number of new powers, and only Alina had the power to find the potion and to use it. Alina also had a special power that came into use once when she was being threatened by her own brother Jay, which caused injury marks on her own brother.
For the recent few weeks, the serial has descended into chaos. Everybody is hunting for the potion, with the werewolves, the vampires, Mythili, and others all looking for the potion inside a graveyard. At the same time, Arnab was also hunting for vampires with a group of people using instruments which apparently are able to detect a blood hunting vampire (Mythili) - one is not sure what such an instrument would be like and how it would be made.
At the same time, there is an impending romance between Kabir, where Kabir has fallen in love with Misha, but is not able to tell her. It is only when Mythili starts attacking the 2 sisters (Misha and Panchi) when she is sent off by Arnab with these 2 (when Arnab thinks that this is actually Piya), and then Kabir gets injured, is when Misha realizes how Kabir feels about her.
Things get even more complicated when Abhay is almost killed, and then the potion is the only thing that can save his life. To the horror of Chand and Haseena, they find out that the rest of the vampires were only around Abhay in order to try and get his spirit, since that would give them a lot of power. It is then that Piya and Alina come there with the potion and finally manage to save him; but the use of the potion turns him into a human and he is no longer a vampire. In the fight, Mythili is killed by the rest of the vampires, and Jay just manages to get out of there by claiming peace (but he is determined to hunt down and kill Abhay). At around the same time, Panchi also dies in hospital, never recovering from the injuries she suffered at the hands of Mythili.
It is now 3 months after these incident, and Abhay and Piya have moved to Mumbai; while Jay is wondering how to attack Abhay.

Hindi TV Serial - Adalat - The first time that the serial has gone into the concept of reincarnation

Adalat is a serial that is based on the activities of a defense attorney who mostly defends people in murder investigations. The serial has a lot of drama, especially the way that the defense lawyer (known as KD Pathak, who refused to tell the full form of KD) works in court. He flouts many of the principles, goes to sites, finds evidence, and then presents these in court himself (which seems very strange, since how can a defense attorney, who is defending the convict, be trusted to actually present evidence that can exonerate his client). He can browbeat the prosecutor, and even the judge (and in one case, almost forced the judge to reverse his decision, or atleast delay the decision).
Till now the serial works on the basis that the serial does not support any kind of paranormal activity, always trying to dispel other people who talk about ghosts / spirits, and so on. However, in a 2 part episode, the serial, for the first time, actually propagated the concept that reincarnation works. So, there is a 20 year old from Goa who comes to KD and asks for getting his mother, convicted of murdering him 20 years back, off, since he does not believe that his mother was the guilty one.
KD for some time does not believe, and is very puzzled as to how to bring this case to court, since the judge will kick the case out of court if he figures out that the case was built on the basis of reincarnation; so he showcases facts as if he got them from a diary. Finally, when the information comes out, the judge is going to close the case, but KD gets him to listen to the young man for some time, and finally is able to prove that somebody else has done the murder.

Hindi TV Serial - Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani - Haseena getting into a dangerous mode, bites and kills T

The serial has been moving a bit slowly for the past several weeks (the confrontation between Jay and Abhay has not happened except for some verbal dialogues). In addition, Chand has told Abhay to focus on Alina, since she seems to be the weak element of the werewolf family, and Abhay has decided to follow this. Alina also got a makeover from the others such as Piya and Misha, and looks much better with a new look. Abhay is now spending far more time with Alina, and Piya knows the reason, but she does get jealous from time to time. Jay of course does not like that Abhay is spending so much with Alina, and considers Alina to be totally useless in terms of helping the werewolf family beat the vampires.
The other major twist in the story is about the change in Haseena. Recently, there have been several cases of humans being attacked and killed, and the culprit seems to be a vampire, and after some detection, it is found that Haseena is doing this. Haseena explains to Abhay that she is getting an uncontrollable urge for human blood, and it is difficult to stop this. She even attacks Chand once. As a part of these attacks, she apparently attacks and kills T, which would mean that this would be the end of the road for T's character. Haseena also tells Abhay that the only thing that can save her is a serum which can be provided by Alina.
However, this is still not clear as to what is happening to T's character, since after her death, T calls Misha, who is shocked to hear the voice of T, who is presumed to be dead. So Misha goes off to T's house to determine the truth.

Hindi TV Serial - Adalat / CID - Ensuring that there is always denial of the paranormal

Sony has a range of crime based serials that occur over the weekends. These can be pretty interesting for the viewers, although some of them seem comical for other viewers. A combination of Adalat, CID, and Crime Reporter all cover crime, with the first 2 being more about fiction, and the Crime Reporter being a dramatized version of real life events that are pretty horrible.
One fact that comes out in all the serials relates to the fact that even though they cover many different types of crime, all of them avoid in any way anything that justifies the paranormal or the concept of ghosts or spirits.
CID has taken many episodes where the scene is such that people believe that a murder has been committed by the spirits, and always, the officials in the serial refuse to believe that there are any kind of ghosts or spirits that exist. It's only Freddy who is shown as being afraid of ghosts or spirits. Even Freddie however takes part in these cases. So you can have these investigators running after ghosts in deserted buildings, or chasing a ghost in an old haveli, or many other such situations.
In many cases, the scene is such that there seems to be an obvious ghost in the scenario, yet they manage to do the investigation, and find that out that actually this is being done by somebody for a specific motive, and are able to break the chain and find out what really happened. The same thing happens in Adalat where people claim to use black magic or other similar items, and eventually KD discovers the reality and shows that there is no magic, no ghosts, and others.

Hindi TV Serial - Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani - Piya with a doctor, trying to get her memories back

The situation is very complex. Neil has been killed, and Abhay now knows that Chand and Haseena have killed him. When he confronts them, they tell him that he did not stop them from killing Neel, only from killing Dipannita. There is a confrontation between them where both of them tell him that they do not really trust him to take the right decision for the vampires, and when he states that he wants to give up being the leader of the clan, they are fine with that decision and tell him that this is the right decision (since he cannot think properly, being always concerned about Piya).
Arnav had seen the body of Neel, and seen bite marks on the neck, and after consulting books and all, realizes that these are vampire bite marks, and that this means that vampires are indeed there in the Dehra Doon area. He tells Jay that the vampires were behind the death of Neel, and that the police should be informed. Jay thinks about this, but then thinks that maybe this will cause the police to chase Abhay, and this is what he wants, and so the police come to Abhay. Abhay turns them out, accusing them of not having done any investigation on their own, and only when they have some proof should they come.
Piya has gone to meet a doctor in order to try and get some of her memory back, and slowly gets taken back to the time when she met Abhay, and then recalls the episode where she met Mythili, and Mythili was threatening her and Abhay and this causes her to become almost in a fit like condition. Abhay realizes this and rushes towards her, and by then the doctor has realized that she has committed a mistake. Now Abhay thinks of giving back her memory.

Hindi TV Serial - Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani - Confrontation between the families and people involved

The serial is moving towards another escalation point. The proceeding are moving away from the clan of werewolves. First Dipannita was trapped by Abhay and jailed, and then removed from the jail by the whole group of vampires who take her away in order to kill her. It is Jay along with Neel who kidnaps Piya (since they know how Abhay feels towards her) in order to force Abhay to release Dipannita. And Abhay does so, even though Chand and Haseena feel otherwise. Further, Jay forces Abhay to remove his mother from the accused tag, and Abhay presents himself to the police as the actual murderer. In the meantime, Misha and Panchi find out about the kidnapping of Piya, and know that Neel was behind all this, and along with Danish, manage to go and rescue Piya from Neel (and Piya then goes to the police station and gets Abhay out of there).
Jay is very angry at Alina for whatever she has done to help Piya, and attacks her, but Alina, using a previously unknown power, gets lighting to attack the werewolf (Jay in his animal form). Panchi's parents get to know everything about Neel and decide to break the engagement so that Panchi is liberated from such an engagement.
Jay, for some reason, tells Neel to leave from there so that he is safe from danger. it could be that Neel does not have the powers that others in his family have. However, soon after Neel leaves from there, the Dobriyals find his dead body in the road and are shocked (even more so since they are going to his house to break the engagement). The precap shows that it was Chand and Hasina who killed Neel.

Hindi TV Serial - Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani - Dipannita in jail and in danger

For some time now, there serial has been showing a deep conflict between the two families, the Khuranas (werewolves) and the Raichands (vampires), with the concept being that vampires and werewolves being traditional and historic enemies who cannot stand to see each other. By now, the Raichands are also aware that it is the Khuranas who are the werewolves, and the real danger to them. Both of them use another rich family, the Dobriyals, as their pawns (and the Dobriyals are always confused with what is going on, since they cannot make out what is happening - even though individually they suspect what is happening; so Arnav saw that Haseena does not have a reflection in the mirror and is now pretty sure that she is a vampire; then Piya saw Abhay drive a wooden stake into Dipannita in the jungle, but later Dipannita was alive and well).
The rivalry is getting more intense, with Dipannita attempting to kill Chand and Haseena in the jungle, after which Abhay tries to kill dipannita with a wooden stake, but she is saved by her children (although they have to give up any chances to resurrect their older brother gaurav, for which Dipannita is very angry). The business rivalry also intensifies, with both of them attempting to spy into each other's offices and see what is happening.
One of this spying is the next attempt by Dipannita, when one of her office employees is hired by Haseena; Dipannita goes to the employees house when no one else is there and kills the employee, blaming Haseena for the murder, and the police arrest Haseena. However, Abhay turns the tables on dipannita by getting a girl to claim that she knows that Dipannita is the killer, and when Dipannita attacks the girl, by trying to kill the girl. Abhay saves her, and then the police arrest Dipannita for the murder.

Hindi TV Serial - Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani - Confused situation with respect to fighting

The battle between Siddharth and Abhay was so simple. Siddharth was the elder vampire, fighting to defeat his brother and his parents (all of them vampires); they tried to manipulate situations against each other, and then more confusion about the re-emergence of Mythili in the form of a vampire after a couple of centuries, and the confused Piya in the midst of all this. Abhay finally defeated Siddharth, and then Mythili put Abhay in a deep sleep. What caused confusion was the presence of a werewolf who was supporting Siddharth, and in the end, Abhay manages to end both Siddharth and the werewolf.
However, then the serial took a turn where Abhay was finally brought out of the deep-freeze through the efforts of Piya (who was not sure about the connection between her and Abhay since Abhay had wiped out all her memories of an year); and there was the presence of the werewolves (the family of Gaurav, the one who Abhay had killed earlier). So, it was simple, that it was the confrontation between the werewolves (led by Dipannitas) vs. the vampires (the Raichands, where Abhay was leading the effort).
In the middle are the Dobriyals, with 3 daughters, who are all involved in some way or the other with these 2 sets of families, and who periodically are confused over what is happening all around them. Now, Arnab seems to have figured out that the Raichands are vampires, and wants to expose them (and they keep on arriving at his house for him to expose them); the next situation is that Dipannita wants to take revenge on Piya for whatever happened to her son Gaurav (who is not yet fully dead in some form - he is still present in a coffin, and Dipannita wants to bring him back).
Dipannita attacks Chand and Hasina, but Abhay comes in between and stakes her, with Piya thinking that Abhay has killed Dipannita, but Dipannita is saved through the combination of her daughter Alina and using the presence of the undead Gaurav (who because of being used for saving Dipannita cannot be brought back to life); and then Jah also does not really like targeting Piya (but is possessed by Gaurav when he attacks Piya). It really is getting very confusing.

Hindi TV Serial - Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani - Fight between Abhay and Dipannita after Dipannita attacks Haseena

There is a huge amount of rivalry between the Khuranas and the Raichands, which is also because they are two of the most prominent families in Dehra Dun, but this is actually more so because of their true nature. Dipannita and family are werewolves, humans who can turn into wolves (more so when the moon is high), while the Raichands are vampires, who are dead humans who are immortal and very powerful. They realize the true nature of each other, and hence are very apprehensive about each other; more so because Abhay had killed the head of the werewolf family in his battle with Siddharth.
All this is very confusing for people who are not in the secret, since there is so much tension going around, and so much paranormal activity ongoing that people are not sure about what is happening. So, Abhay is a Raichand, while Neel and Jeh are Khuranas. They are all in the same area, and intricately connected to the Dobriyal sisters. Piya was in love with Abhay, until Abhay made her forget everything which had happened for 1 year, and she has only glimpses of these memories. Panchi is engaged to Neel, but has fallen in love with Abhay (although he is not in love with her, since Piya is his one and only love).
Now, at a dinner in the Dobriyal house, there is tension between these 2 households, and when Haseena makes the error of coming out of her house without protection, Dipannita sees a chance to attack and finish this enmity once and for all. Chaand is also weak and is not able to fight as well as he would like. It is then that Abhay comes into the scene and kills Dipannita by sticking a piece of wood into her. Piya calls Jeh, who turns into a werewolf, but when Piya calls the police, they cannot find Dipannita, and Jeh denies that anything happened to her. Piya as usual cannot understand what is happening around her.

Hindi TV Serial - Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahani - Abhay decides to stay away from Piya after seeing her with Jay

The serial keeps on moving fast, which is one of the parts that I like about this serial. Unlike some other serials, this serial moves with a lot of speed and gets its mini-stories over fairly quickly.
The story had come to a significant point after the 1 year in which Abhay had spent in the ice after being entombed by Mythili, but there was a loophole, that the true love of somebody could liberate him from the ice, and after that, it was a just a question of when Piya would come and set him free. And with Abhay communicating with her from below the ice prison, it was pretty clear that the moment would come soon, and so, Pia did manage to get Abhay free from the ice. Abhay still managed to keep himself away from Piya, since he wanted her to lead a normal lie and not get stuck with a vampire (Abhay) again. But he had promised that he would do whatever it takes to ensure that Piya remains safe and that he would protect her at all times.
The story is also taking along 2 budding love stories. Neel was in love with Panchi, but got offended when she rebuffed him, and decides to take revenge by actually carrying out an engagement with her and then dumping her. She is shocked when he tells her this, and maybe this changes her outlook a bit, since they her softening in terms of attitude towards Neel. Jay also hated Pia, but they show him softening towards Piya, and her also softening towards him.
This gets amplified when all of them go for a bike ride, and where Pia falls down from the bike after an accident and gets lost. Abhay leaves his house (after arguing with Chand) and finds her, and after he hands her over to Jay (without revealing himself), finds himself surrounded by werewolves who have gathered to kill him. It is at this time that Chand and Haseena arrive and together the 3 of them scare the werewolves away, but this will not be the last confrontation between these vampires and the werewolves; also because the mother of Jay and Neel is shown to be a werewolf herself.

Hindi TV Serial - Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani - Piya starting to get some of her memory back

Pyaar Ki Ye Ek Kahanii is going through some strange times, just like the serial always has. There has never been anything normal about this serial, and seems like things will not be. It has been a year since Abhay wiped Pia's memory clean, and now she is trying to get her memory back - she gets fleeting traces, but not her memory. On the other other hand, Abhay is encased in ice as per a curse from Mythili, and he will only be able to come out when somebody who really loves him is able to do this, and you know that it will be Pia who can do that.
Now, the situation is that Pia is starting to hear things in her head, and it seems that Abhay can now communicate with her even though he is under ice and is able to get her to come to where he is. She can see that there is somebody under the ice, and that voice helps her.
Ti hates Pia and her sisters, and tries to take the help of Neel, who loves Panchi desperately (and Panchi does not reciprocate those feelings, since she considers Neel a loser); so Neel comes in front of Pia's vehicle, and Ti tries to get Neel to implicate Pia since that would make Panchi come to Neel asking for his help. However, Pia manages to get out, and could actually have sent Ti to jail for a wrongful testimony. At the same time, Neel also is using his parents to try and do an official arranged marriage with Panchi, which is not something that Panchi is happy about, but her parents feel that it is best for her.
The complication for Pia now is that Neel's parents are trying to setup a studio on the same location where Abhay is buried, and Pia wants to prevent that (further, Hasina is still there and makes on attempt already to push away the workers who started trying to remove the block of ice in which Abhay is entombed); the workers get scared and run away.

Hindi TV Serial - Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani - The end of the game between Piya and Abhay, Siddharth killed in the final battle

The serial comes up with some interesting twists and turns, and so has happened in the last few days. The serial has now gone in for a 1 year leap (as it was promising to do so for the past few promos), and the storyline continues to hold the interest. The concept of vampires (with good and bad vampires) continues to hold everybody's attention, and the presence of Siddharth as the evil vampire made the show pretty interesting.
So, the last few episodes had the storyline coming to a logical end. Siddharth has managed to keep Maithili alive as a vampire ever since the fire that consumed her, Siddharth and Abhay, and after which all of them became vampires, the living dead. Siddharth was consumed with a passion to beat Abhay, and he was in the form of Pia a presence who could be used for this purpose, and Abhay was unwilling to tell Pia about the truth of Siddharth.
But, in the end, Pia did go along with Siddharth into his trap where she finally met with the other person who shared her face, Maithili, but this was no nice and polite Mythili. Mythili had become a vampire, who would stop at nothing to finally kill Pia, because she blamed Pia for Abhay falling in love with her; and because she and Siddharth believed that drinking the blood of Pia would give them a super-power that would make them much more powerful than other vampires.
In the midst of all this wandered in the other Dobriyal girls, wandered in Abhay's parents Chaand and Hasina, and also came the vampire hunter, who could disable a vampire and also kill them using a wooden stake. After a lot of fighting, Siddharth was finally killed, but Abhay was also cursed by Mythili to go back to a long sleep and before he went, he made Pia forget all about the past 1 year.

Hindi TV Serials - Pyaar Ki Ye Ek Kahaani - Lot of drama, Siddharth trying to make several moves, being foiled

The serial seems to be moving at a fairly fast speed, with the interactions between the 2 main competing characters deciding a lot of the action that is happening in the serial. The 2 main characters on the serial are Abhay and Siddharth, who were originally brothers when they were human, and both of them died in the conflict over the same princess centuries back, and both of them became vampires. So, while Abhay is the more good vampire, and always ready to help Piya, and those close to her, Siddharth fits the normal caricature of the vampire, pure evil, always ready to attack anyone and use anyone. They already show him attacking people who are alone in the forest at night. He is now after Piya, since he lost the original fight over the princess, and for this purpose, is feigning a romance with Panchi who has totally lost herself over Sid.
Abhay was constantly warning Piya against Siddhart, without telling her that he was a vampire, and in the end, when he saw that Siddharth was going to bite Piya, Abhay bit her first to prevent Siddharth from doing this. For some time, Piya would be like a vampire, but only till the next full moon after which she would become normal. In the meantime, Siddharth kidnapped Arnaab when he saw that Arnaab was learning the truth about him (because of the efforts of the former fiancee of Panchi, Danish); Siddharth scared Arnab that he would harm Panchi unless Arnab kept quiet. Sid had also tried to keep Hasina on his side by applying to her maternal instincts - this finally broke when a landslide happened where Chaand was caught and Sid tried to expose Chand by getting the doctors to do a number of tests on him. Piya managed to save the reports of Chand at this time and everybody was very grateful to her.
However, Siddharth did tell Piya that she must have been bitten by Abhay since she seems to be exhibiting the signs of a vampire, and she confronted Abhay, who finally admitted it; Piya has been very angry with Abhay over this.

Hindi TV Serial - Pyaar Ki Ye Ek Kahaani - The strange going on in the serial, between Piya and Abhay

This is a very different serial, different from all those family serials that showcase the difference between family members, and so on. The serial takes on the paranormal, getting into the concept of creatures such as werewolves and vampires (or atleast people who are not humans), and who are trying to be part of normal society. The show does not try to be a horror show, instead a love story is being shown between a human being and a creature.
So Abhay and his parents are shown as people with super-human properties, who can move faster than speeding cars, who have super-human strength, and so on. His parents are quite clear, they have to integrate in society and hence need to hide their powers so that they are not found out. Abhay on the other hand is more comfortable with his powers but still takes the effort not to be found out. The complication comes when Abhay comes in contact with Piya (who is actually the daughter of Arnav, who is also the father of 2 of Piya's best friends; Arnav does not know about this).
For Abhay, Piya resembles a much older companion of his, and he is drawn to her; at the same time, he is also aware of his powers and how easily he could be found out, so he has been making an effort to ensure that nobody in college comes close to him, and if possible, hate him. But, he is shown as a person with a good heart. Together, they are drawn into a series of adventures, such as exposing Danish for the fraud that he is (so Piya along with Abhay, and Maya (who was carrying Abhay's child) expose Danish before he can succeed in his ambitions of marrying into Panchi Dobriyal, a rich family). Danish has sworn to attack Piya, but Abhay comes in between every time.
Now, Piya is slowly some evidence of the amazing abilities of Abhay, such as when he is able to move faster than a jeep to stop some rowdies who were trying to rape her. How will she find out his reality ?