Saaya (Indian TV series) explained

Runtime:	24 minutes
Director:	Sanjay Upadhyay
Starring:	see below
Country:	India
Language:	Hindi
Network:	Sony Entertainment Television
Num Seasons:	1
Num Episodes:	130

Saaya is an Indian soap opera aired on Sony TV in 1998.^{[1] [2]} The series was produced by popular production house, UTV Software Communications and revolved around two very different girls – Sudha (Manasi Joshi Roy) and Kamiya (Achint Kaur) who become friends.

Premise

Sudha is a quiet, fragile and an incredibly shy girl who comes from an orthodox family where her father Jagat Narayan has the final say. Kamiya, on the other hand, is bursting with a vibrant zest for life and is an extroverted, confident young girl from a modern family.

Sudha and Kamiya meet in college and become best friends always there to support each other through the rough times until things change between them.

Cast

• Manasi Joshi Roy as Sudha^[3]
• Achint Kaur as Kamiya
• R. Madhavan as Shekhar^[4]
• Amar Talwar as Mr Mehra, Tanya father
• Manju Vyas as Mrs Mehra, Tanya mother
• Karan Oberoi as Karan Mehra
• Nitesh Pandey as Manoj
• Prakash Ramchandani
• Harsh Chhaya as Bhaskar Sir
• Mandeep Bhandar as Bhaskar wife
• Rajendra Gupta as Jagat Narayan, Sudha's father
• Savita Prabhune as Sudha's mother
• Pamela Mukherjee as Sudha's sister
• Anup Soni as Prakash, Sudha's brother
• Loveleen Mishra as Prakash wife
• Shrivallabh Vyas as Sinha, Shekhar,s father
• Shreechand Makhija as college principal
• Lalit Parimoo as Police Inspector Makhija
• Shishir Sharma as Chief Editor Krishnamurthi
• Daya Shankar Pandey as Assistant Editor Pandey
• Rajesh Khera as Ranvir Rastogi
• Varun Vardhan as ad agency owner of Eazyclean washing powder (Episodes 20 to 25)
• Vaquar Shaikh as Arnav Nanda
• Dinesh Kaushik as Ranvir Rastogi promoting partner. (Special Appearance) Episodes No 41 to 45
• Murli Sharma as Malik (Special Appearance Episode 114,115)

External links

• Saaya Official Site on Sony TV
• Watch Saaya on YouTube

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20150715184106/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Television/Man-uninterrupted/Article1-387067.aspx Hindustan Times
2. http://www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98dec13/sunday/filmtv.htm Saaya News Article on Tribune India
3. News: Actors gone missing. The Times of India . 16 February 2013 . 2016-07-12.
4. Web site: This film could change the perception of me being a chocolate hero: R Madhavan. 2016-01-29. 2016-07-12.