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Shruti

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Posted: 17 years ago

This is the story of Rani, a young village girl, whose only dream is to make her family proud and happy. She is innocent, shy and a simple girl. Her mother is the bread-earner of the family after Rani's father passed away. Rani has a younger brother and a dadi who are loving. Like every other girl of her age, Rani has also woven her dream world where her prince charming would arrive one day and take her to his kingdom.

Rani has seen her mother slogging to give them good education and a better life. Rani's uncle, who is eyeing her family's small piece of land. Rani's uncle and the Munshi of the village would have acquired the land easily, only if Rani not been educated, as she goes through every details before she signs any paper related to their land. Seeing all their plans falling apart, uncle and the munshi come up with a more devious plan.

Once, Rajmata visits the village along with the Prince. He falls in love with Rani's voice, when he hears her sing in the temple, but he won't be able to see her. Eventually Rajmata takes Rani with her, on Munshi's request, to be one of the maid in the palace.

For Rani life in the city becomes a complete contrast to her village existence. She finds it hard to cope up with the etiquettes and mannerisms of urban living. The servants senior to her take advantage of her ignorance, alienating her emotionally.

Rajyabhishek ceremony is being held for the elder son of the Royal Family. Rani is taken aback by the Royal aura of the ceremony and the first glimpse of the young prince during the Rajyabhishek. In the huge brigade of servants, cooks and personal assistants, the Prince doesn't notice Rani and is not even aware that she exists in his Palace. But Rani starts seeing in the young prince her own prince charming she used to dream about when she was in village.

One day, egged on by another maid-friend, she's trying on a princess' costume, when the young Prince sees her and mistakes her to a princess he's going to be engaged to. Rani is scared of the consequences and therefore she runs away. When the prince meets the actual princess, with whom he is set to marry, he realises it isn't the same girl he had seen earlier. He finally realises that he loves Rani.

This story is about Rani's journey from nobody to winning the heart of the young prince and her acceptance as the Bahu of the Royal Family, for whom she worked for as a servant.

Edited by *Shruti* - 17 years ago

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Characters:

Sumitra Devi - Rani's widowed mother

Dadi – Rani's paternal grandmother who lives with them and is wordly wise and adores rani's family and is not particularly fond of her younger son's family for obvious reasons.

Rani - Young, sweet, perfect girl who comes first in school, helps around etc., etc.

Gita - Rani's friend

Munna - Rani's young cute & naughty brother.

Chachaji – Sumitra devi's devar (younger brother in law) who is after sumitra devi's property

Chandrakala - Devar's wife/Chachi - Bossy rich lady who absolutely loves their kids and makes the life miserable for the servants and is not particularly fond of rani's family and helps her hubby in his evil schemes.

Champa, Chameli, Chandu - The above couple's kids - Daughters who are snob and have an over rated view of their beauty and Chandu seems like a GFN (good for nothing guy) who hangs around with his sisters. Their mission in life so far seems to be creating trouble for rani & her family

Munshi - An accountant of the family possibly who is loyal to the devar and ofcourse looks after his own self interests.

Panditji - More like an astrologer who seems to be a nice guy.

Naukar - No name was mentioned and works in Chachaji's

Raja – The King

Rajmata - The Queen/Choti maa

Yudhishtir Shishodaya - The prince

Bhavyata Shishodaya - The princess.

Brief update of the story based on the episodes shown so far:

Rani lives with her widowed mother, paternal grandmother and brother Munna. They own some property, land etc. which the rani's Chacha, Chachi want to grab by deceit. They are helped in this matter by Munshiji (Accountant of sorts of the village)

She is the only one apart from munna who is literate. So as long as she is around, Chacha, Chachi's plan of getting rani's mom to sign the land papers will not materialise cos dadiji insists that whatever rani's mom signs be first read out by rani first.

Hence they create situations where by rani is sent out of the town as the royal family's maid by her mom who has been lied to in believing that she is being sent for higher studies.

The prince and rani have not met face to face yet, though there was couple of opportunities and they both have looked everywhere except at each other's face.

The stage is set for rani to be sent to the city as a maid and from there as the articles suggest the love story might take off.

Edited by sp79 - 17 years ago