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Dream Girl – Ek Ladki Deewani Si

Indian television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ19627417 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dream Girl – Ek Ladki Deewani Si is an Indian television drama series, which premiered on Life OK. The show was produced by Shashi Mittal and Sumeet Mittal, under Shashi Sumeet Mittal Productions. It stars Shraddha Arya and Nikita Dutta, Mohsin Khan and Sudeep Sahir, Kunal Verma and Khalid Siddiqui. The show went off air on 4 March 2016.

Plot

Navrang Studios is owned by Sareens, a prestigious film family of Mumbai. Lakshmi Mathur, an aspiring Jodhpur based Dream girl visits Mumbai to fulfil her dreams and falls in love with Sareen family's younger son, Samar.

Samar's cunning and ambitious older sister-in-law, Ayesha Roy is overprotective of her power and title, wanting to be irreplaceable and India's only Dream girl. However, Lakshmi has a talent and spark like her to become a Dream girl.

Lakshmi tries to prove her skills, angering Ayesha; who finds out that Samar and Lakshmi love each other. Lakshmi passes all the challenges threw by Ayesha; making her insecure. Ayesha misleads her brother, Karan (who has feelings for Lakshmi) that Lakshmi loves him.

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The public source identifies “Dream Girl – Ek Ladki Deewani Si” as indian television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Dream, Girl and Ladki.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Dream, Girl and Ladki providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Dream Girl – Ek Ladki Deewani Si” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.