
A journey from 1st Dec'09 to 16th Jan'15
Uttaran is the story of two friends Ichcha and Tapasya with diametrically opposite backgrounds.Tapasya is the daughter of a wealthy couple, Divya and Jogi Thakur while Ichcha is the daughter of their poor, live-in domestic help, Damini Bharati.Ichcha uses clothes and other possessions that are cast-off by Tapasya. In spite of the vast difference in status, the little girls become best friends.



Jogi Thakur discovers that he had accidentally caused the death of Ichcha's father long ago. He feels guilt-stricken and decides to become Ichcha's foster father, giving her the best possible upbringing. However, jealousy creeps into the girls relationship as Ichcha wins over Tapasya's family with her simple nature and good character. Divya's aunt Sumitra Devi (Nani), being resentful of Damini and Ichcha, poisons Tapasya's mind against her friend. Sumitra spreads rumors about Ichcha and Damini to Tapasya and she begins to hate her from that moment.
Uttaran story takes 10 years leap.

They eventually grow up. A rich and extremely handsome guy named Veer Singh Bundela enters in their life, Jogi Thakur expects Tapasya to marry Veer but Tapasya already has a boyfriend, Sidharth a.k.a Sid. Tapasya tells Ichcha to marry Veer and tells her everything about Sid. After some time Veer falls for sweet and simple Ichcha.


Veer asks Jogi Thakur in hand of Ichcha and he accepts. Then Tapasya gets jealous because Ichcha got a very rich and handsome guy and Ichcha is very happy with Veer, and both love each other truly and deeply. They get engaged. On the day of Veer and Ichcha's wedding Tapasya cuts her wrist with a knife to marry Veer. Seeing Tapasya in this situation Ichcha gives her dress, her sindoor, her wonderful engagement ring she got from her Veer and everything to Tapasya and offers her to marry Veer and Damini never agrees wholeheartedly with Ichcha and tells that Veer is Ichcha 's Uttaran to Tapasya, thus completing the cycle of all the Uttaran Tapasya gave Ichcha from childhood. No one recognizes Tapasya in the wedding dress because of the veil covering her face and when they go home and Veer takes off the veil, he gets so angry. Tapasya falsely explains that Ichcha didn't want to marry Veer. But Veer denies the fact and goes out of the house to Jogi Thakur's house and reveals the truth. Ichcha also accepts her doing. Veer's grandfather and Gunwanti accepts Tapasya as the daughter-in-law of the house, but Veer never accepted Tapasya as his wedded wife.


Jogi Thakur also gets mad at Tapasya. It is soon revealed that Veer has an elder brother, Vansh Singh Bundela, a drug addict- spoiled by Tej Singh, Baldev Singh's illegal son. Meanwhile, Damini decides to leave the Thakur house with Ichcha, which bothers Jogi so much that he gets a heart attack. This prompts Damini to change her decision. After Jogi is discharged from the hospital, he goes to recuperate at a hill resort, with Divya and Damini in attendance. Meanwhile, Tapasya, frustrated with Veer returns to her parents house and humiliates Ichcha as much as she can. Meanwhile, Veer's widowed cousin sister steps into the Bundela house as a simple nature lady, but came into the house just to create misunderstandings between people. One day, Veer gives divorce papers to Tapasya and asks her to sign them. He says that after divorcing Tapasya, he will marry Ichcha. Ichcha angrily slaps him and says she'll never marry him because he is Tapasya's husband now. Paras, one of the slum children taught by Ichcha in her school, becomes a drug addict. Ichcha admits Paras to a rehabilitation center, and, unknowingly, Veer also admits Vansh into the same center. Vansh meets Ichcha at the rehabilitation center and takes a liking to her. Meanwhile, Tapasya somehow convinces her ex-flame Sid to gun down Ichha. Luckily, Veer finds it out and beats up Sid. Accidentally, Ichcha is shot. Veer immediately hospitalizes heavily injured Ichcha. Sid is arrested and produced before Ichcha for identification. Tapasya gets panicky. Ichcha says that she does not recognize him. In fact, she knows him as Tapasya's boyfriend but wants to shield her friend from the consequences of the crime. Meanwhile Vansh falls in love with Ichcha. Veer's mother Gunwanti gets tense; because now both her sons love the same girl and starts to hate Ichcha. Vansh asks Ichcha's family for her hand in marriage, but Jogi Thakur flatly refuses to let her marry a recovering drug addict.

However, Ichcha accepts Vansh's proposal in order that Veer may forget about her and move on with Tapasya and convinces her family. When Veer comes to know about this, he is shocked and frustrated with everyone but sacrifices his love for his brother's life.

Tapasya, who can't stand seeing Ichcha happy, tells Vansh about his bride's and younger brother's romance in the past. Vansh is deeply disturbed but goes through the marriage rituals with Ichcha for the name and status of Jogi Thakur. After the wedding, he sets about wrecking his own and his wife's lives. Meanwhile, a girl names Masoom enters the Thakur house, saying that she is his daughter. This creates misunderstandings between Divya and Jogi. Vansh starts suspecting that Ichcha is secretly still involved with Veer and harasses her. Veer and Tapasya move out of the household to give some space to Vansh and Ichcha. Vansh's condition worsens as he begins to suspect Ichcha all the time with Veer or with other men. Ichcha and Veer meet each other for Vansh's medicines, and Vansh finds it out. Further investigation leads him to Tapasya, where in a dramatic scene; reveals how she was the one who brought about all misunderstandings to Sid. Vansh gets furious and threatens to kill her. But Tapasya twists his words around and tells him that he is more to blame then her, having suspected his own wife and brother. Unable to face this truth, Vansh kills himself,Tapasya runs away.
Ghosts of sadness close in on Ichcha once again. Having seen Veer with Vansh killed, Ichcha misunderstands Veer for killing his own brother to gain Ichcha for himself and blames him in front of everybody. But nobody believe her and Gunwanti slaps her. Veer is arrested by the police but is set free by Tapasya, who reveals the truth that Vansh committed suicide. Veer starts suspecting Tapasya to be at the spot of Vansh's death seeing her dupatta in the police station as evidence at spot. Tapasya gets fearful and has nightmares of getting caught by the police for abetting a suicide. Her fear gets realized when Sid threatens to reveal her role in Vansh's death. Even though Tapasya bribes Sid, he reveals the truth to Veer. Veer gets Sid arrested and exposes Tapasya in front of everybody. Ichcha realizes her mistake and apologises. Veer throws Tapasya down and pushes her out of the house. Jogi Thakur banishes Tapasya from his house. Tapasya is no abandoned. Tapasya moves to a hotel and meets a wealthy man named Raghuvendra Pratap Rathore. She becomes his lucky mascot in games of cards. He is attracted to her but also realizes the selfish and calculating nature behind her beautiful face. Later, Tapasya completely runs out of money. She is forced to stay in a slum and wear second-hand clothes cast off by rich women and once even Ichcha's saree. Tapasya gets a taste of the life once led by Ichcha. Veer tries to help Ichcha as a good friend, but Ichcha misunderstands and humiliates Veer and tells him to leave her alone. Veer does as she asks but then she realizes her mistake and tries reuniting with him, but Veer flatly refuses. Meanwhile it has come into light that Masoom is actually set by Pushkar to gain all the wealth. They are exposed and thrown out of the house. Ichcha goes to Vrindavan.Meanwhile,Gunwanti chooses Veer's childhood friend, Khinjal, as his new fiancee. On the day of their engagement, Veer receives the news that a fire has broken out in the spiritual retreat where Ichcha is staying. He drops the ring and immediately goes to the rescue. Kinjal goes away with a satisfaction that Veer will be happy. Veer proposes to Ichcha in hand, who accepts.

Their marriage brings happiness to them but not to Veer's mother and grandfather, who are furious with the couple for violating family traditions. Ichcha becomes hurt but Veer cheers her up. Misunderstandings occur between Veer and his grandfather, and Veer too becomes frustrated. Tapasya, having faced many hardships and grown somewhat wiser, is accepted back by Jogi. She returns to her parents house but has a plan for revenge against those who hurt her. She begins by re-entering the Bundela house, pretending that she is expecting Veer's child. Gunwanti accepts her just because she believes that the child is Vansh.Tapasya tries to create a rift between Veer and Ichcha but the plan fails.

In a dramatic scene, then, it is revealed that Tapasya is really pregnant, a fact of which even she has remained unaware so far. She is overjoyed and thinks that now Veer will come back to her. The Thakur household also faces problems when Sumitra Devi and her son create misunderstandings between Divya and Jogi. Tapasya receives a phone call from a stranger, saying that he knows a secret about her. Tapasya brushes it aside, but she actually has a secret which is related to her unborn child. The baby she is expecting is actually not of Veer but of Rathore. In the past, Tapasya and Rathore had a one-night stand, but she was intoxicated, not fully in her senses, at the time. Ichcha discovers that Tapasya's baby could not have been fathered by Veer, as he is impotent. She gives Tapasya 15 days to tell the truth and leave the Bundela house. Later, Tapasya also finds out about Veer's impotency. She threatens to reveal Veer's secret and embarrass him if Ichcha tells the truth about the father of the unborn baby. A brother-sister duo, Satyaveer and Sanchi, tries to ruin Veer and his family because of some old grievances. Temporarily, Ichcha and Tapasya join forces to save Veer and their friendship is re-kindled. Satya and Sanchi are exposed by Ichcha. Sanchi traps Veer in a false case of molestation. He is arrested but Rathore offers to get him released. In return, Rathore wants to marry Tapasya and even comes to Bundela house with a wedding procession. But Tapasya refuses him. Rathore convinces Satya and Sanchi to drop their verdict and flee the country. The case against Veer collapses. Veer returns from jail, and Ichcha urges Tapasya to tell him the truth. Tapasya refuses.
Edited by Jayshree - 3 years ago