Dishayen
television series
Dishayen is an Indian television series produced by Time Magnetics and broadcast on DD National. The series premiered on 8 October 2001 and ended on 18 January 2005.
Episodes
Cast
Purbi Joshi / Pooja Ghai as identical twins Neha & Nikita
Karan Oberoi (singer) as Rajeev Gupta
Sudhanshu Pandey as Sameer Gupta/Baba/Jagmohan Sharma
Reena Kapoor as Sonia
Shagufta Ali as Vidya, Sonia's mother
Narendra Jha as Veer Pratap Singh
Rajeev Verma as Rajat Sharma
Smita Hai as Savitri Rajat Sharma
Vineeta Malik as Gayatri
Jaya Mathur as Shalini
Dharmesh Vyas as Deepak
Lata Sabharwal as Reema
Plot
Neha and Nikita are twins. Nikita dreams about Bollywood stardom while Neha is the simpler one. Their father wants Nikita to marry Rajeev. In desperation, Nikita tells her twin that she will commit suicide unless Neha pretends to be her and marry Rajeev. After all, Nikita reasons, it is Neha who always wanted the quiet family life. On their wedding night, Neha admits to Rajeev that she is not Nikita. Rajeev knew about the substitution; he agreed because he wanted a wife like Neha. The sisters’ aunt learns about the switch and tells the bridegroom's mother Mrs.
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