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'Maayke Se Bandhi Dor', is a soap opera currently on-air on Star Plus. This show is produced by UTV and is a remake of a popular Tamil show ‘Kolangal’. Dor is produced by Santosh Nayar, Shrinivash B., Jarina Mehta and Radhika S and directed by Anshuman Kishor. Dor premiered on Star Plus on February 14, 2011



Synopsis:

Dor voices the Star Plus thought “Rishta Wahi, Soch Nayi”. The ‘Nayi Soch’- a girl who decides to own the responsibility of her family even after her marriage. The show challenges the social convention that a woman should give-up her responsibilities towards her ‘Maayka’ after marriage. It is the story of an ordinary girl, who decides to continue taking the full responsibility of her maiden family even after her marriage as it is on her earnings, that the whole family survives. She is reluctant to leave her maternal nest before she manages to settle her two sisters and brother. But, her mother, under social pressures decides to get her married as soon as possible. It is a story of a girl trying to strike a balance between her aspirations and her mother’s concerns. The story is about the trial and tribulations of Avani.


Plot

Set against a Maharashtrian backdrop, Maike Se Bandhi Dor is the tale of Avani, struggling against the age old conventions of our society. The show brings out a woman’s power of forgiveness and pliability. Avani is the sole bread-winner of her family and has the responsibility of her mother, two sisters and a brother on her shoulders. Avani’s mother is desperate to get her married but Avani has other plans. She wishes to settle her brother and two sisters first. On repeated insistence by her mother Avani gives-up and decides to give marriage a chance, but not before laying down two conditions before the boy’s family. First, she wishes to continue working even after her marriage and second, she wants to hand-over her salary to Kaveri even after marriage, to sustain her family. Avani finally meets Bhaskar who agrees to her conditions and the marriage alliance is fixed. The festivities begin but Bhaskar and his family have different plans. Bhaskar and his family dreams to grow big on Avani’s salary and her relatives (kaka and boss) as they are rich and affluent people.


Cast and characters

Character	Portrayed by	Relevance	Description
Avani Patil	Shweta Munshi	Female protagonist	Avani works as an assistant in a construction company. She is sincere, hard-working and dedicated, which makes her popular at work. She desires to fight the male-dominated society by owning the responsibility of her ‘Maayaka’ even after her marriage. She shoulders the responsibility of her mother, two sisters and a brother.
Kaveri Patil	Aishwarya Narkar	Avani’s mother	Kaveri’s biggest desire is to see Avani married and well settled in her life. She still holds on to the age old conventions that the bride’s family needs to be mellow to sustain the relationship.
Abha Patil		Avani’s younger sister	Abha is shown to be protective about her family, in particular, Aditi. She is quite intelligent and is a visionary. She wishes to take-up Avani’s position in the family once Avani is married.
Aditi Patil		Avani’s youngest sister	A gullible young girl, she is attracted by the thought of a luxurious life style. She is talkative.
Manohar Patil		Avani’s younger brother	He is shown to be lazy and wants to live his life on the easy money of his sister.
Bhaskar Pawar	Rohit Khurana	Male Protagonist	Bhaskar is an ambitious and voracious man. He wants to marry Avani only for the sake of her money-her salary. Bhaskar is clever, smart and a smooth operator. He’s a charmer and uses it to his advantage. He cajoles people to do things for him without the other person realizing so. He works as a junior officer but dreams to live a king-size life.
Lata Pawar	Rohini Hattangadi	Bhaskar’s mother	She eyes Avani’s wealth and is shown to be gluttonous. She believes that the groom’s side must always have the last word.
Bhaskar's father	Anjan Srivastava	Bhasker’s father	He is a man of wisdom and rationality.
Anju		Bhasker’s elder sister	She is gluttonous and loud-mouthed like her mother
Prabhu	Anand Goradia	Bhasker’s Brother-in-law	He is a government employee and very stingy. He deliberately picks up a fight with his wife every morning and drops her to her home to save the food expenses.
Neeta Pawar		Bhaskar’s younger sister	She is very mischievous. She likes her neighbour and often flirts with him.
Usha		Avani’s friend	Her actions are guided by both head and heart. She guides Avani time-to-time to ensure her well-being. She is chirpy and has a zest for life.
Maskeran		Avani’s colleague	Maskeran works in Avani’s office and loves her a lot but never has the courage to tell her.
Rajesh	Ankur Moondhra	Aditi’s friend	Rajesh falls for Aditi in their first meeting. He poses to be a rich guy with lot of cars. Aditi immediately falls for his richness.

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Dor is the story of Avani. Avani is the eldest child in her family that comprises of her mother, two younger sisters and a younger brother. Her mother Kaveri has been deserted by her father, who is not traceable. Speaking about Avani’s father in house is a taboo. Further, Avani is also the only earning member in the family and the house runs on her meager income from her employment in a construction company. Her younger sister Abha is about to finish college and is mature and responsible.

Subsequently, there is Manohar, her younger brother, who is a dimwitted unemployed laggard and a good for nothing fellow. Lastly there is the youngest sister Aditi, a college student, who is a gullible child at heart and yet to come of age. Avani is running her household and even living her life to support her family.

The series deals with the trials and tribulations of Avani and her struggles. The story is about the urge to survive and persevere, the womanly resilience and forgiveness, audacity in adversity, and victory of human spirit are the predominant emotions in Avani’s tale.

Maayke Se Bandhi Dor
Format	Indian soap opera and Drama
Created by	UTV Software Communications
Written by	Screenplay Rajesh Beri Dialogues Sharad Tripathi
Directed by	Anshuman Singh Kishore
Country of origin	India
Language(s)	Hindi
No. of episodes	51+
Production
Producer(s)	Zarina Mehta
Running time	24 minutes
Production company(s)	UTV Software Communications
Broadcast
Original channel	STAR Plus
Original run	Feb 14, 2011 – Present
External links
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Avani is the protagonist of the story who is a sincere assistant to her boss. She is hard working, honest and a responsible girl. She is the sole breadwinner for her family. She displays her vulnerability at times, though mostly she is calm and composed, fighting this male dominated world against all odds. She is feminine yet has adapted to the circumstances befallen her family and is functioning as good as, or even better than, the eldest son in the family.

She has no time for romance in her life forever since her father deserted them; she has been toiling to save the family, first studies and now the job. She is honest and straightforward with values, and at the same time is gullible. Hence she is vulnerable to traps laid by crooked and treacherous people.

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Kaveri is a doting mother who has struggled to bring up her family after her husband deserted her. Through her hard work and pains, Avani has started earning now and has also come of age. She is a traditional woman who believes in values often termed ‘old fashioned’ in modern world, such as a woman needs to play a second fiddle to her husband, or the bride’s side always need to be mellowed and subdued. Consequently she even has excess affection for her good for nothing son Manohar, just because he is the only male progeny.

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Abha is a mature girl, comparatively better than Avani in terms of being worldly wise. She is very protective of her family, Aditi in particular so that the struggle of her mother and hard work of Avani doesn’t go futile. Her protective instinct gets the better of her on quite a few occasions when she comes across as a short-tempered girl. She is intelligent and always supports well-informed decision-making.

Further, her sense of responsibility is only second to that of Avani’s. In fact, she is taking up a part time job in order to support the family when Avani gets married, in spite of Avani’s conditions to support her family even after marriage. She is the one who maintains vigil over Aditi’s activities and is also sensitive enough to notice and infer from the reactions of Avani’s prospective in-laws to her conditions.