| Runtime: | 27 minutes |
| Creator: | Monish Sekhri / Drishtant Media pvt ltd |
| Director: | Sanjay Surkar Dharam Dhiman |
| Producer: | Monish Sekhri |
| Opentheme: | Mahalakshmi Iyer |
| Starring: | Zaynah Vastani Darshan Pandya Prabhleen Sandhu |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Hindi |
| Network: | Zee TV |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 175 |
Aapki Antara (International title: Antara), produced by Drishtant Media, is a soap opera which ran on Zee TV from 1 June 2009 through 18 February 2010 as a social problem drama focusing on the issue of autism.[1] [2]
Initially scheduled to premiere on 25 May 2009, it was postponed and premiered on 1 June 2009.[3]
Aapki Antara is the story of a five-year-old girl named Antara. She is born to Anuradha, who had a relationship out of wedlock with Aditya Verma. When Anuradha dies in a car accident, Antara is orphaned, leaving Aditya with the responsibility of taking his illegitimate daughter home to his wife, Vidya, and son, Abhishek, and raising her as a part of his family.
With Antara in their life, things are not the same again for the Verma family. Antara does not behave like a normal child, being unable to express her emotions and living in her own world. To the outside world, she is a daydreamer and slow child. Eventually, Antara is revealed to have autism. Both she and her family are faced with the journey of navigating the world and being accepted by the society Antara is brought up in. Through her story, the show guides people to understand the needs of those with autism and handle them with sensitivity.