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The Journey Down The Memory Lane
As our beloved show Thapki...Pyaar Ki has finally completed one year, it is time to remind us of this beautiful journey. So, are you guys ready to take this journey down the memory lane? Let's begin!!
The story and the concept behind Thapki...Pyaar Ki is an unique and inspirational one. The show try to give us the message that nobody is perfect in this world but some people take their imperfections as their best drawbacks whereas someone gets motivated by it and try to march forward. Those people can do wonders and the thing is that all they need is just a pat of love.
It is the story of Thapki, a girl who is humiliated on daily basis due to her stammering. It is the story of this girl, who even after all the obstacle managed to get the happiness and love. The serial starts with her marriage alliance with a mean man Diwakar. Everyone accepts the alliance of Thapki and Diwakar. However, he is not happy with the fact that he is marrying a girl with a stutter. On their wedding day, he insults Thapki and her family. Thapki refused to bow down to his demands and insults and she broke the alliance. A heartbroken Thapki feels dejected but tries to keep this away from the family. She ends up breaking down with her family as everyone feels sympathetic towards her for her relation breaking. Her youngest brother filled out a job application for Thapki. A letter comes with states that she has a job interview at 360 news channel. She rejects at first but due to the words of Dhruv on the news channel, she decides that change is good. So with her mother, they decide to go for the interview. She ends up getting a job due to the famous Dhruv Pandey as she correctly calculates a meter fare. Thapki was subjected to lots of humiliation even at the workplace but she never deterred in front of the situation and took her chance. Circumstances brought her closer to her employer and he fell in love. Dhruv's family is one of the influential families in Noida and his mother chose Thapki for her son. Vasunadhara Pandey, Dhruv's mother is obsesses with perfection and she didn't come to know about Thapki's stammering till the last moment.
Preparations of the marriage were done and everyone in both the families was happy, except Vasu. She did not want Thapki to get married to Dhruv and did her best to break the marriage. Here comes the main and central twist in the story. Balwinder Pandey, Dhruv's father adopted a boy long time back and everyone in the family loves him equally. But the thing Bihaan Pandey, Dhruv's adopted brother, always craved was his mother's love. Vasu never starved or neglected him but she didn't care for him either. But during her endless trials to broke Dhruv's marriage, Bihaan came to know about it and he confronted her. Vasu took this golden chance and asked him to break the marriage. He was unwilling at first but Vasu blackmailed him emotionally to get the thing done. When every effort was failed, Bihaan tried to stop Dhruv from going to the marriage aisle for the last time. He hit his brother on the head and Dhruv became unconscious. Vasu forcefully sent Bihaan in Dhruv's place and Thapki got married to Bihaan instead of Dhruv.
Bihaan and Thapki never saw eye to eye before the marriage. They shared a cat-mouse relation and it was degraded once the marriage truth came to light. Thapki did not accept this stroke of her fate and did declare that she didn't accept this marriage. But as this is a Hindi daily soap, she had to come back to pandey nivas and stay with Bihaan. Here comes the beauty of the story that like other FLs, Thapki did stand against the injustice done to her. She fought for her justice and it was decided that they will be divorced after a three months period. Days passed and under different conditions, Thapki and Bihaan came closer to each other. Vasu tried to get Thapki out but everytime Thapki came closer to the family and Bihaan. They stand for each other at the time of crisis and fought for the family's honour. Vasu and Shadz kept on plotting against Thapki to try and drive her out of the house. They made Preeti and Suman turn against Thapki by ruining their anniversary party, shadz put hair removal cream in Babuji's beard product and other stuff which turned the whole family against Thapki.
They were forced to live in the cowshed but Bihaan stood for her like a rock to prove Thapki's innocence in front of the family. They bonded over pain, sadness but the moments they share were full of love and care unknown to both of them.
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Thapki's biggest hurdle was when she had to bargain her marriage for Bihaan's love. He was shot while trying to save Thapki from humiliation in a hotel. Vasu gave Bihaan her blood on the clause that she will divorce him on holi. At that time, Thapki agreed and she did her best to save Bihaan from everything. In the mean time, Bihaan fall in love with her. But his dreams were shattered when Thapki asked for divorce. He asked her for another chance but when she did not answer him, Bihaan, with immense pain, signed the divorce papers. But to his and the family's astonishment, Thapki refused to sign the divorce papers and agreed to give Bihaan a new chance. Bihaan was overjoyed and he started to love her deeply. On his father's insist, Bihaan tried to propose Thapki but all his dreams and his heart broke when he came to know that Thapki lied to know the truth behind their marriage. Bihaan was enraged and he told Thapki that he hates her.
In the meantime, Thapki asked Vasu to examine her and Shradha, Dhruv's wife whom he married on impulse, a fair chance to prove themselves. Vasu agreed and Thapki showed her that stammering is not Thapki's drawback but her qualities are her strength. Vasu understood that she did a great mistake by undermining Thapki's qualities. She started loving Thapki. But the biggest shock came in guise of Shrdha. Vasu thought that she bought the best girl for her son but when she came to know that Shradha is very evil, she tried to throw her out of the house. But cunning Shradha faked her pregnancy and remained in the house.
Bihaan was angry at Thapki and he started to misbehave with her. He did exactly what Thapki asked him not to do. But Thapki tried to win his trust back. But she failed miserably and at her last attempt to say sorry to Bihaan, the family got engaged with the affair. Bihaan fought with the whole family, blamed Thapki for his condition and at the end, Balwinder Pandey got stabbed. Everyone blamed Bihaan as he was last seen with him with a knife. But Thapki believed him and stood against the family to save Bihaan. Finally, Thapki was able to prove that Bihaan was innocent and it was another person who stabbed bauji.
Happiness has started to fill Thapki and Bihaan's lives. Bihaan is trying to confess his love to Thapki and Thapki has started to realise that she has fallen in love with her husband.
Though the story revolves around Thapki's struggle but it is not only the story of Thapki only as the message before every episode says that this serial is inspired by the people who know how to walk forward in spite of many obstacles in their life. It is the story of that pat of love that pushes people like Thapki forward. And in Thapki's life, that pat of love is Bihaan. That clearly indicates that it is also the story of Bihaan. It is the story of that orphan, who to save his family's honour, lost his own chance of love and happiness by marrying Thapki. He was emotionally blackmailed by his mother into marrying Thapki and even after facing constant humiliation; he did everything for Thapki and his family.
It is the story of two different people, who under circumstances became husband wife and hated each other, but gradually began to help each other in different situation. It is the story of two people who are ill treated by the society and family equally, but still are doing their best to make everyone happy. Stammering does not make you imperfect nor does illiteracy. The perfectness lies in your heart and both Thapki and Bihaan have good hearts.
Bihaan is in love and Thapki is about to realise her love for Bihaan. Happiness has started coming in their way and their journey has just began. Are you with them in all those time?
My answer is...always!!!!
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Vaani Chaturvedi/Thapki Bihaan Pandey: Vaani Chaturvedi is the elder daughter of Poonam and Krishnakant Chaturvedi. She has one older brother Varun, a little sister Aditi and a little brother Shubh. Her family is very loving, looks after each other, she's very tactful, selfless and giving by nature. Despite being intelligent and kind hearted, Vaani has faced many struggles due to her speech impediment. Whenever her stammering got worse, her family used to give her a pat on her shoulder in order to help her speak and that's how she earned the nick name Thapki which means "Pat of Love". After a twist in tale, she became wife of Bihaan Pandey, who is the most beloved youngest son of Pandey Family.
Krishnakant Chaturvedi: Head of Chaturvedi family, married to Poonam Chaturvedi and father of four. Humble, honest and loving, he shares an emotionally strong bond with Thapki and will do anything to keep his children safe and loved.
Poonam Chaturvedi: A kind and loving mother, willing to do anything for her children. She is there to give Thapki advice and always support her decisions. Her children's happiness is her priority.
Varun Chaturvedi: The elder child of Poonam and Krishnakant, unmarried, he worked in Dubai in order to help his father and provide his family. He came back to India during Thapki's wedding arrangements to support his family. He is willing to spend all his earnings for his family and his sisters' happiness.
Aditi Chaturvedi/ Aditi Diwaker Mishra: The second daughter of the Chaturvedi, she is kind, funny and bold. She is a very frank spoken person and stand for herself. Due to Diwakar's blackmail, she was forced to marry him, but she doesn't let him get the upper hand and fights for her and her family's dignity. Her Thapki Di is more like a friend and a confident for her.
Shubh Chaturvedi: He is the last one of the family, still at school. He loves Cricket so much but waited so long to get a set to play as his family had finance problems. Even at such a young age, he understands his family's problems and behaves accordingly.
Diwakar Mishra: Aditi's husband. Just like his short height he is a very short sighted person. Greedy, mean and self-centred by nature, he and his parents love money. He married Aditi by blackmailing her.He loves troubling and mistreating the Chaturvedi family in order to get their money and property.
PANDEY FAMILY
Dadi Maa: Eldest member of Pandey family. She is a very sweet, loving and down to earth person and loves her family a lot. Bihaan and Kiran are her most favourite out of all of her grandkids and she loves Thapki dearly out of all daughters-in-laws of Pandey Family. She considers Thapki as her own and wishes to see Thapki and Bihaan together living a happy life.
Balwinder Pandey: Head of Pandey Family, married to Vasundhra Pandey and father of three. He is a very daring, strong and loving person, despite his profession. He is devoted to his family and hold Bihaan dear to his heart as he saved his life, when he was caught in fight with his old enemies and that's how he adopted him and gave him his name. He is always in conflicts with his elder son Dhruv, who doesn't approve of his illegal business.
Vasundhra Pandey: Third eldest member of Pandey family. She's like the two sides of a coin: loving yet diplomatic and manipulative and she knows how to take advantage of the situations. Her motherly love can make her do anything for his beloved son Dhruv, even if she accepted Bihaan in the family, she never considered him as her own and always gives importance to Dhruv and his happiness. Her wish to give her son a perfect and happy life lead her to manipulate Bihaan into marrying Thapki as she has a speech problem. She is always keen into misjudging Bihaan's intensions but doesn't hesitate before asking him to achieve her wishes. Also the extremely strong father-son bond between Balwinder and Bihaan makes Vasundhra despise Bihaan even more.
Kiran Pandey: Youngest daughter of Vasundhra and Balwinder Pandey, she studies abroad and came to India for her brother's wedding. Always cheerful and chirpy, she knows how to entertain her family and she is the apple of her father's eyes. Giving equal love to all the members of her family, she is the Princess of the house.
Dhruv Pandey: Eldest son of Vasundhra and Balwinder Pandey and married to Shraddha Dhruv Pandey. Very ambitious and reserved, he is the proud owner of the famous and successfully running Tv Channel News365.His relationship with his father is complicated as he doesn't approve of his father's illegal business and Bauji doesn't approve of Dhruv's career choice. Fallen in love with his employee Thapki, he went till the marriage but fate played its cards and Thapki was married to Bihaan. Devastated and holding Bihaan responsible as he didn't know the truth, he accepted to marry Shraddha to make Thapki jealous and to make his mother happy. Currently, he is now trying to move on.
Shraddha Dhruv Pandey: Eldest daughter-in-law of Vasundhra Pandey and married to Dhruv Pandey. Selfish, clever, cunning and devious minded, she wanted to marry Dhruv for his money and fame and hated Thapki when she saw that Dhruv was unable to move on. She hates losing and loves plotting against the people who get in her way and knows how to get what she desires. She strives really hard to get Dhruv's attention and blames Thapki for his lack of interest in his wife.
Ashwin Pandey : Eldest son of Pandey family and happily married to Preeti Ashwin Pandey. He is a very loving person and loves his wife a lot and like any other son his family is his first priority. He always tries to fulfill his wife's wishes as a doting and loving husband.
Preeti Ashwin Pandey: Eldest daughter in law of Pandey family and married to Ashwin Pandey. She's quite fashionable and knows about all the on going trends. Bubbly and jolly by nature, she is quite absent-minded and quickly jumps to conclusions, thus getting many puishments from her mother-in-law.
Sanjay Pandey: Second eldest son of Pandey family and happily married to Suman Pandey. He is a very caring person and loves his wife to bits and is always there to support his family. He has always been jealous of Bihaan for being the most beloved by Bauji and being his right hand in his business.
Suman Sanjay Pandey: Second eldest daughter in law of Pandey family and a smart wife of Sanjay Pandey. She's very generous and unlike Preeti she's very intelligent by nature even if not much educated. She is very kind and is ready to help anyone in need.
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