| Runtime: | approx. 24 minutes |
| Creator: | Prayas Productions, now named Chitrayug Productions |
| Director: | Raja Bundela |
| Producer: | Satish Kaushik |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Hindi |
| Network: | Zee TV |
| Num Episodes: | Total 68 |
Mujhe Chaand Chahiye is a television series that aired on Zee TV channel in 1998–1999. The series was shot in a town called Chanderi in Madhya Pradesh, starring Tejaswini Kolhapure, who started her acting career with this series.[1] The series is based on the eponymous Hindi novel by Surendra Verma.
The story revolves around the life of a girl named Varsha and her journey towards the big world. Despite being raised in a small town (Shajahanpur), Varsha's confidence in achieving her aim is very high. She wants to be a professional stage actor and, being ahead of her time, her thoughts are too evolved to be appreciated by her family. She wants to accomplish her goal. Urged by her teacher one day, she goes to Lucknow, learns stage acting and gets admitted into the National School of Drama, which becomes the launchpad for her career.
Not only does she become successful, she becomes a superstar. But in her attempt to become the queen of glamour, she realises how shallow the glamor world is. At this point, she starts to realise that her family values, though old, were fulfilling. Now she is afraid to go back home, because she believes that her family might not accept her. The question remains: Will she be able to leave the world of glamour?