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www.tellyupdates.com/mere-angne-mein-review-clash-of-ideologies-with-orderly-mix-of-precise-romance-and-humor/ Mere Angne Mein Review: Clash of
ideologies with orderly mix of precise
romance and humor
Every person has some beliefs and principles which they
can't mend for anyone else. Shanti Devi heads the
Shrivastav family and has her strict rules for her
daughter in law Kashaulya and grand children. She turns
sweet and humble towards her daughter Sarla, thinking
Sarla is in need of money and support from her. Shanti
controls her entire family by holding house finance and
run in her hands. She believes losing life is better than
losing control. She dominates the family by her obedient
son Raghav trusting her blindly. Raghav idolizes his
mother and asks his children never to go against their
grandmum.
Raghav's wife Kaushalya obeys Shanti round the clock
and is still disliked by Shanti and Sarla. Kaushalya tries
hard to please Shanti and gave good values to her
children. A modern mindset girl Riya falls in love with
Shanti's grandson Shivam. Riya and Shanti meet by
coincidences and end up disliking each other and their
mindsets. Riya tries to win Shivam's heart and is unaware
of Shivam's family background. Riya's turning into
Shanti's grand daughter-in-law forms the rest of the
story, which shows the clash between their principles
and how Riya ends Shanti's domination over everyone.
Riya wants everyone to live independent life and get their
rights.
Main Characters:
Shanti:
Shanti Shrivastav is a strict, mean, dominating, irritating,
nagging and narrow minded woman. She just sees her
daughter Sarla and her children's happiness and controls
her daughter-in-law Kaushalya and grandchildren. She is
biased towards them. She blames Kaushalya to eye Sarla's
fate. She does drama every day to show her son Raghav
and turns the tables on her side by bringing Kaushalya in
bad light. Shanti is clever and values the people having
money. Shanti meets Riya accidentally and starts hating
her. When Shanti sees family going out of control, she
does suicide and hunger strike drama to get them under
her feet again.
Riya:
Riya is a happy, bold, fun loving and board minded girl,
who believes in love at first sight. She bumps into Shivam
and believes he is made for her. Riya finds all the love
signs when she meets Shivam, and tries hard to win his
heart. Riya and Shivam get job in same office and she
tries getting closer to him. Riya has smartness and does
not fall prey to Shanti's forced scoldings and arguments.
Riya makes her strong stand against Shanti and calmly
wins over her. Riya wishes she does not meet Shanti ever
in her life.
Raghav:
Raghav Shrivastav is Shanti's obedient son, who can
never raise a voice even if Shanti is wrong. He is honest
and hardworking man, doing duty in railway office. He
blindly trusts her and asks his wife and children to obey
Shanti. He believes Shanti's dominance is for their welfare
as times are changing and giving liberty to kids is not
right. Raghav often goes against his wife to side with
Shanti and Sarla. He loves his wife Kaushalya a lot.
Shivam: Shivam is smart,
helpful, focused and good son
of Kaushalya. He knows
Shanti's game plan seeing her
drama every morning. Shanti
taunts him for not earning.
Shivam gets a good salesman
job and does not let anyone
know at home, as Shanti
snatches everyone's earnings
every month. He wants to save
money and hand it over to his
mum Kaushalya. Shivam likes Riya, but does not want to
include her in family after thinking that Shanti and Riya
won't get along well. His sisters advice him to marry Riya,
as Shanti needs a lesson to be taught for all te injustice
she has done to them.
Sarla: Sarla is clever, greedy
and a super drama queen.
She can't see anyone happy
and finds hard to bear
Kaushalya's fate better than
her. Sarla is married to
Ashok Agarwal, a honest and
simple person who runs a
canteen to earn decent
income. Ashok tries hard to
keep her happy, but Sarla is
a gold digger. She always
fools her brother Raghav and extracts money from him,
by showing her helplessness and seeking his help to pay
her children's fees. Sarla asks Shanti for gold gifts and
does not focus on good upbringing of her children. Her
children Amit and Parineeta are mean and selfish,
whereas Sonal is simple and good nature one like her dad
Ashok.
Kaushalya: Kaushalya is a
simple woman who finds
happiness in small bits. She
finds satisfaction in her life,
even when she bears Shanti's
taunts and anger all day. She is
glad to have three children
who love her a lot. Raghav is
Kaushalya's strength. Shivam,
Preeti and Nimmi are her
children, who always take a
stand for her against Shanti.
Though Kaushalya does not want them to misbehave or
argue with Shanti, the children can't bear a word against
their mum. Nimmi and Preeti see Shanti and Sarla's all
day taunts and ask Kaushalya not to bear any taunts or
humiliation by them. The girls realize Shanti's
manipulations well and bring solutions to safeguard
Kaushalya from Shanti's plans.
Cast:
Karam Rajpal as Shivam Shrivastav
Ekta Kaul as Riya Mathur
Krutika Desai as Shanti Devi Shrivastav
Varun Badola as Raghav Shrivastav
Suchita Trivedi as Kaushalya Shrivastav
Ananya Khare as Sarla Agarwal
Ashiesh Roy as Ashok Agarwal
Neeraj Malviya as Amit Agarwal
Charu Asopa as Preeti Shrivastav
Pallavi Gupta as Parineeta Agarwal
Story So Far:
The start has shown Shanti's over the edge domination at
home and how she is partial towards Kaushalya. Shanti
does superb drama every time and the family gets fed up
of her. Kaushalya's children often try to end Shanti's
drama, but Kaushalya and Raghav make them obey
Shanti. Riya is shown as an independent, honest, bold
and working girl who stays with her dad Anupam. She
meets Shivam and gets signs of love in her heart. She falls
for him and gets job in the same company. They start
working together and Riya finds ways to impress him.
Shivam stays quiet all the time and observes the things
going around him. He likes Riya and does not show her.
Riya has her best friend Bunty who gives her tips to win
Shivam's heart. Shivam is helpful to Riya and drops her
home. Anupam likes Shivam.
Shanti has extreme
love for Sarla. Both
the mum and
daughter are expert
in drama and they
ease out money from
Raghav on context of
fees, birthdays, small
occasions and also
shedding tears to gain
his sympathy. Shanti
regrets to get Sarla married to Ashok, who earns little and
can't keep Sarla happy. Shanti does drama of suicide, and
makes Raghav against his family. Nimmi exposes her that
she took vitamin tablet instead sleeping pills. Shanti gets
angry and stops Nimmi from attending college. Shivam
supports his sisters and asks them to see good things by
Shanti's biased moves. Shanti meets Riya and they get up
arguing every time. Shanti scolds Riya and blames her
wrong upbringing for her modern mindset. She develops
hatred for Riya.
Riya bonds with Shivam in office and tries to know if he is
single. She follows him in a marriage function and Sarla's
son Amit likes Riya. He takes her photo in his phone and
shows Sarla. He finds out about Riya's rich status and her
short family of just her dad and a cousin Sahil. Sarla
meets Anupam and talks about Riya and Amit's proposal.
Anupam says he will talk to Riya and later Riya dismisses
the proposal. Shanti does Sarla's birthday in grand way
and also gifts gold necklace, telling everyone that its gold
plated. Sarla shows Riya's pic to her and Shanti refuses
for Riya and Amit's proposal.
Riya spends time with
Shivam as they
become sales
partners and have a
simple kulfi date. Riya
likes his nature and
tries knowing his
family background.
Amit gets against
Shanti for the first time, as he wants to marry Riya for his
better future. Riya decides to get her love and does step
by step planning. She signs Shivam that she loves him,
but he does not get the rose from her side. She turns up
at his home, and Shivam worries that family may get to
know about his job. He does not let her enter his home
and sends her. Shanti convinces annoyed Sarla and Amit
gets against Sarla for not letting him marry Riya.
Our Take:
The show has one hour run and audience can get enough
by the multiple tracks. The scenes get often repetitive by
same dose of Shanti's drama and Sarla's taunts. One can
feel pity for Kaushalya and Ashok, who are the main
suffering people in the show. It turns humorous to see
Shanti and Sarla's high drama. The show fills romance by
Riya and Shivam's track. Riya is totally romantic and
brings freshness in the show, after some heavy emotional
blackmailing scenes by Shanti. The music track has a
filmy song. One can watch the show in leisure and can
enjoy the family drama. The show does not have any USP
to make viewers addicted to it. Viewers can like it by
watching more of it, but the show does not have
anything extravagant to attract eyeballs. Karam Rajpal
and Ekta Kaul are the fans pullers for this show. Varun
Badola and Suchitra Trivedi are good in their roles.
Krutika Desai is superb as the dominating Shanti. The
young cast is fresh and interesting to watch.
Overall:
The show is light
entertaining one. The
actors are good and
justify their roles. The
show blends some
senior talented actors
with bit of new fresh
cast. It is a good
attempt to try the
family concept
drama for one hour slot. The show gets a plus point as it
airs on Star Plus. One can like to watch the show to see
how generation difference has set two different
ideologies and also find similarities with few characters
of the show. The show has clean romance and is good
watch for the entire family.
Our Rating:
3 out of 5

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Posted: 10 years ago
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Wow! That is a review! It is much more than a review !
They have some future story in there too, not just the story so far!

Anyway 3/5 is not a bad rating.
Accepted there is no USP, but different people have different things that interests them and may make them watch for that sake.

There is subtle difference in the way things are presented from the other similar shows & that sets this show apart if someone cares to pay attention to that. Otherwise on a broader perspective there were and are several such shows.

The love track definitely brings the solace from the high intensity Shanti/Salra track, however tiny they are. The writers need to balance out if they don't want to lose out viewers like me. We don't need more people like Shanti in this world and hence there is no need to highlight and dedicate the entire show for her & people like her.

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Posted: 10 years ago
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thank u for sharing it,
i tihnk raghav character should get more screen time..
1 min per episode of 1 hr is not fare :(
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Posted: 10 years ago
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Shanti Devi embodies many sasumas of the past six decades.
Edited by MERARAI - 10 years ago

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