Written Weekly Summary
Bidaai Ab Tak Ka Safar
From epi 1 to the week of Oct 20th 07
17
years ago Sadhna's father left her in her mama's care and went to
America to make a decent life for her. Sadhna grows up with the love of
her mama and her inseparable cousin, Ragini and with the hatred of her
mami, who hates her for being more beautiful than her daughter, Ragini.
Both the girls pass college with good results. Sadhna's dad gives them
the good news that he will be coming to India soon, and both he and
sadhna will then move in to their house at Udaipur. The girls decide to
go together to Udaipur, but their excitement is shortlived when Mami
adamantly tells Ragini that she cannot go. Ragini's Nani comes to
visit and further poisons Ragini's mom, Kaushalya, against Sadhna.
Ragi's bhabhi, Malti, doesn't miss any opportunity to add fuel to the
fire and instigates Kaushi against Sadhna. She and Vinu keeping lying
to his parents that he doesn't earn well so that he doesn't have to
pitch in the responsibilities of the family. Later Kaushi urges her husband to use Sadhana's money for Ragi's future, which he sternly refuses to do. After a lot of persuasion, Kaushi agrees
to let her go to Udaipur with Sadhna. The girls are excited abt their
trip, and Sadhna is overjoyed at the thought of meeting her father
soon. On the day of her father's arrival, she decides to stay back and
cook his favorite food for him, while mamaji and Ragi leave for the
airport to pick Sadhna's father up. While at the airport they hear the
devastating news that the plane crashed. Mamaji and Ragi return home to
an eagerly awaiting Sadhana who stands at the doorstep... waiting to
see her father after so many yrs. Mamaji breaks to Sadhna, the news of
her father's death. Sadhna and the whole family are in shock.
Week of Oct 27th 07
Sadhana
is devastated to hear the news of her father's death. Mamiji is unhappy
as she realises that now Sadhna will have to live with them forever.
The next day, a person comes from Della airlines with a compensation of
Rs.10 lacs for Sadhna. Malti eyes the money and decides to do something
to get all the money for herself. At the final rites puja, Sadhna's
bua, chacha and chachi come and express that they want to take Sadhna
with them to Udaipur. Seeing sadhna's discontent in going, Mamaji
stalls the situation by telling them that he will take a decision after
he returns back from immersing the ashes. Sadhna's relatives are upset
abt this, as they wanted to take her right away, as they are eyeing her
money, and think that mamaji will never let her go. In mamaji's
absence, they try their best to impress Sadhna, and they even work on
making Mamiji agree with their decision. But they see that Malti
doesn't want Sadhna to leave, as she too is set her eyes on Sadhna's
money. When nothing works, they realise they have to use plan B. Mamiji
prepares Sadhna for leaving to Udaipur, and advises her to get used to
be away from Ragi. Sadhna respects her mami's wishes. Ragini senses
Sadhna's distance and feels hurt. She and Sadhna promise each other
that they will never be apart ever.
Week of Nov 2nd 07
Sadhna is
pampered by Malti who is trying her best, for her own selfish
purposes, to keep Sadhna from going to Udaipur. And on the other hand,
Chachi, chacha and bua are trying to persuade her to come with them to
Udaipur b4 Mamaji arrives. Naniji convinces her further to go with her
relatives saying she's a burden to her mama and by her gone, they can
focus more on Ragini.. and for Ragini's well being, Sadhna decides to
go. Mamaji is in Banaras and misses his bus to Agra which delays his
arrival home. Sadhna's relatives use this chance and hurry their trip
to Udaipur with Sadhna with Mamiji's consent. They leave with Sadhna to
the railway station just as Mamaji arrives home. When he learns what
happened in his absence, he rushes to the railway station just in time
to stop Sadhna from going. There, he finds out of Sadhna's relative's
evil intentions and makes it clear to them that Sadhna will be living
with him as his daughter... thus spoiling their plans. Mamaji returns
home with Sadhna to a disappointed Mami n Nani and an ecstatic Malti n
overjoyed Ragini.
Week of Nov 10th 07
Mamiji and Nani
arn't happy with the turn of events and makes it clearly obvious to
all. Sadhna and Ragini almost meet with an accident, Saket sees them
and offers them a lift home in his car. Ragini is completely smitten by
Saket. But we see later that the only girl Saket thinks about day and
night is not Ragini but Sadhna. But Sadhna is unaware of it. She is
happy to see that Ragini is in love with Saket. Malti senses something
fishy going on b/w the girls and Saket. On Karva Chauth pooja, Saket
arrives to give Ragini's purse back to her, thinking that it was
Sadhna's. Saket later points Sadhna to his mom telling her that he is
madly in love with her. His mother sees Sadhna and is happy that her
son has found himself such a beautiful girl. But confusion arises when
she hears only a part of Sakets convo telling her abt Sadhna's family
and she mistakenly thinks Sadhna is Prakash Chandra's daughter. Saket's
parents send a marriage broker to Prakash Chandra's house, to ask his
daughter's hand in marriage for their son. Prakash Chandra and his wife
mistakenly thinks that the marriage proposal is for Ragini. The whole
family is excited with the happenings, but Malti is suspicious abt why
would Saket choose Ragini, over a beautiful girl as Sadhna. When Saket
calls and asks for Sadhna, Malti realizes the misunderstanding. Saket
and his family arrive and Ragini is abt to go with the tray of tea
cups. But when Malti sees her hands trembling she takes that
opportunity to create more misunderstandings and tells Sadhna to take
the tray out for her.
Week of Nov 16th 07
Saket and his
family are confused when they realise that Sadhna's family thinks that
Saket wants to marry Ragini. All hell breaks loose when they clear up
the confusion. Kaushi insults them and kicks them out of the house,
and she blames Sadhna for all this. But Ragini doesn't hold her
responsible. Seeing Kaushi worried abt how united the girls are even
after all this, Naniji comes up with a plan to split them up and get
Sadhna married to Saket. She manipulates Sadhna's emotions and love for
Ragini and persuades her to meet Saket.. and then turns around and
informs Ragini abt it and makes her feel as if Sadhna is betraying her.
Malti too fans the fire, seeing that it could be beneficial to her as
well. Ragini sees Sadhna talk to Saket and is devastated and believes
her nani's allegations. When Saket proposes to her, Sadhna point
blankly refuses to marry him. Naniji further manipulates Sadhna and
pushes her into agreeing to marry Saket. Ragini is happy that Sadhna is
marrying the guy she loves. But Sadhna silently hurts within,
because she agreed to marry Saket only because of Naniji and not cuz
she loves him. Her mama senses that Sadhna's decision could have been a
forced one, and secretly calls up Saket b4 the roka. When Saket and his
family arrive for the roka, Saket demands Sadhna tell him why she
agreed to marry him. Sadhna is nervous, and Saket tells everyone the
truth, that Sadhna had refused his proposal earlier and now she has
agreed to marry him against her own will. The family is shocked,
especially Ragini. But Naniji and Mamiji are dissappointed at how
things turned out.
Week of Nov 23rd 07
Malti is in a tough spot when a guy from the jewelers arrive at the house asking for Rs. 1 lac she owes them and they give her a day's time to pay it off. In her worried state she messes up the kheer she was making on Diwali and Naniji explodes on her for it. She gets mad at nani and blurts out that what nani did was worse than what she did and accuses nani for trying to split up the girls. A humiliated nani leaves the house and goes back to her house and vows never to come back. Malti uses every trick in the book to get the 10lacs to pay off her loan.. until she overhears that Mamaji has brought Sadhna's 3 lacs home from the bank. She decides to somehow get the money and manipulates Sadhna into making mamaji agree to give the money to Vinu for business. But when Mamaji agrees to it on the condition that Sadhna will be the one to take care of how the money is used..it messes up things for Malti and she decides to try something else to get the money. She manages to send Ragini and Sadhna to Nani's place to bring her back home. In thier absence Malti steals the money. Later when Sadhna realises all the money gone.. Malti turns around and begins to blame Sadhna, and when that didn't work she blames Gujri for it. Gujri is hurt and the family apologise to her. Nani comes home and suggests to get the cops to catch the theif.
Week of Nov 30th 07
Mamaji decides to call the cops to find the thief, but Sadhna stops him. Vinu later finds the money in his closet, and Malti lies to cover it up. She's all set 2 pay the cash to the jeweler, when punditji comes in with an alliance for Ragini. The family is ecstatic with this news and Malti couldn't leave. Ragini is upset that she could be rejected again, but mama and sadhna calm her down and assure her that everything will be fine. Mami shatters Sad's joy when she tells her to stay away when the boy's family arrive to see Ragi. Sadh agrees and stays in the kitchen when the boy's family arrives. Amidst all this Malti tries to go out of the house with the money, but couldn't. Puneet (prospective groom) and Sulakshana (his mom) seem least interested in Ragini and is more interested to find out if Prakash Chandra is rich. When they realise that he isn't, they are on the verge of rejecting Ragini, when bundles of cash come flying down, as Malti was trying to sneak out of the house and stumbles against Gujri... thus tripping and letting the money fly off her hands in front of the guests. Seeing all this, the groom's mother becomes greedy and is assured that Mamaji is rich and immediately agrees to the proposal. Later the family confront Malti abt the $$ and Sadhna saves her by saying that she misplaced the money herself. But Mama realizes Sadh is lying to save Malti and he later confronts Malti in her room and tells her that he's aware that she stole the money.
Week of Dec 8th 07
Malti secretly visits Puneets' mom and tells her that she will can make it possible that Ragini's family gives them 10lacs but in return she asks for 3 lacs from it. Sulakshana agrees. At the temple, the pundit tells mama that an auspicious day for the wedding is coming up soon and they all decide to have the engagement done ASAP. Mama and vinu are upset that Puneet's family has asked them to give Puneet and his dad garlands containing Rs.20,000 each just for the engagement. But they decide to do it anyway. Mami as usual keeps Sadhna away during the engagement and lies to mama that she is sick. After the engagement, Vinu overhears Malti scheming with Puneet's mom and he warns Malti not to mess up Rag's wedding. Malti promises to do as he wants. Nani sends a fake letter as if written by Sadhna's chachiji from udaipur asking Sadhna to comes visit her dying chacha.. and on the pretext of going to Udaipur, Sadhna will be staying at Naniji's house. Malti finds out that the letter hasn't been sent from Udaipur, but from Agra itself. As Sadhna was about to leave the house for 'Udaipur', Malti calls up Sadhna's chachiji and reveals to all that the letter was fake.
Week of Dec 15th 07
Mamaji decides to probe into the matter, but Nani advices him otherwise, saying it must've been some prank. Nani comes up with a plan where the family believes Sadh will be going to work, but theyre unaware tht she will be staying at Nani's house during the rasms. Mamaji blesses her and Nani offers to drop her at her work. Malti tags along with them. She spots Nani take Sadhna to her house, and is sure that nani is upto something. When alone in Nani's house, Sadhna gets a visitor, Shailendra, who is nani's neighbor and is a loose character himself. Sadhna is scared of him and wishes she wasnt there. When she comes back home, Mamaji notices her tense and she lies to him that it is becuz she missed him. The whole family get ready for Ragini's sangeet function and Sadhna is excited cuz she's allowed to attend. Vinu gets into trouble when his old friend, Bittu persuades him into gambling. In gambling, Vinu loses a lot of money that mamiji had given him for Ragini's wedding expenses, but keeps the fact hidden from his family. Wondering how to pay off his debt, Vinu gambles away Malti's necklace and loses yet again.
Week of Dec 21st 07
Vinu is threatened by Bittu's guys to return the money asap. All leave for the pooja organised by Puneet's family. At Nani's house, when Sadhna gets out of the house to return home, she has a scary encounter with Shailu and his friends who stop her path. She manages to escape from Shailu and lands in a strange house where she sees 2 kids playing. An olderly lady comes there and tells her to leave, but b4 she cud she hears someone playing a harmonica in an outhouse. Sadhna reaches the pooja and Mami and Nani are nervous seeing Sadhna there. At the temple, mama witnesses Bittu's men threatening Vinu, but Vinu covers yet again. Mamaji is troubled by Puneet's family's endless desires. Ragini too is uneasy by their attitude towards her and wonders if they really like her. Vinu confides in Malti she uses that to convince him to support her in her plan with Sulakshana. Mamaji is surprised to see Sadhna going to work even on the day of Ragini's haldi, but she gives some excuse and Nani supports her. There while alone in the house, she sees Shailu circling the house. She hears someone crying in pain and wanders behind the house following the voice, and she ends up in the yard of the same house she ended up the previous day, while running away from Shailu's friends. She notices crashing sounds coming from inside but is stopped by a lady.
Edited by pinkykhan - 15 years ago
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