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Taken from Colours Channel website... for background of the show
"Havan is a story about a devotee and the God. It is true that one unites with God
only after one's life, but what if a devotee meets her God in her real life? Not
only that, what if she is connected to him through a relationship? Havan tries to
deal with such relationship and tries to explore relationships built around this
premise. When it comes to belief and faith, logic hardly prevails. Havan has a lot
of situations which can only be understood and accepted through faith and not
logic. What if one day this very faith is challenged? Especially when this faith is
in a human being who has been given the position of God in the hearts of his
Devotees. How will a devotee, whose life's very base is this faith, react to such
situation? Havan tries to deal with such questions. Havan, although is a story of
God and Devotee, but it is not a religious show. Instead, it tries to understand
the human side of the whole set up, the interrelationships, the conflicts within,
the idea of faith and belief and the power of love. It deals with a gamut of human
emotions that exist in our society, without getting judgmental about the society or
a person in particular. Successfully treading on this thin line is the biggest USP
of the show. Havan is a very contemporary show, whose relevance could not be denied
years ago, and cannot still be denied in the years to come. The idea of Faith has
always had relevance especially in Indian society. But in today's modern world of
power ambitious people, media, PR, a camera peeping more and more into our personal
lives and the lives of people whom we have made to sit on the chair of God, how
this innocent faith is affected and how it manages to sustain and maintain itself,
is what Havan tries to explore."
This is first show of havan where we can see house of a poor potter in very small
Janakpur village...four members of family are shown Madhav prasaad (potter), his wife
and their two daughters astha and choti bitto...potter making claypots and her
daughter Astha (main character) is praying in front of Baapji poster along with other
gods...gives aarti and prasaad to his father and he blesses her saying " baapji ki
kripa se humaari bitto (daughter) humesha khush rahe"
Madhav disscussing about his wish of sending Astha in 13th class in college of baapji
but his wife is interested in marrying her in samuhik vivah (collective wedding)
organized by baapji every year..
Astha is shown very simple, homely and domestic girl she brings tea for his mother and
father and father asks her to go and buy toast from market for her mother as she doent
like tea without toast. Astha goes to kiraana store who is asking for wrong money from
lady...calculation error...and astha corrects it...while coming she gets
poster of baapjis camp from people who are announcing on loudspeaker about baapjis
camp in hari om ashram after 4 days...Astha is super excited and announces to her
mother and father about camp after 4 days...mother is not very much pleased about the
news becoz last year also they didnt get chance to enter in the camp... but astha
wants to go early this year so that they get seat..
Dubey (some creditor) comes to their house with customer who wants to order for 200
clay pots before monday but madhav says that he cannot deliver it by monday becoz they
have to go in baapji's shivir. Dubey gets angry and asks for money which he has given
as credit back...and shouting he goes that he bring crowd with him for collection of
money... Madhavs wife is also not pleased by madhav's decision as if they will not
have money then how they will get their both the daughjters married. And MAdhav says
baapji sab karwa denge...
Krishna eldest bahu of baapji is shown who runs hari om Ashram of baapji and Krishna
is selecting place for annual camp (shivir) with asistants who is telling her about
updates of media promotion, webpages, chat shows...
Krishna wants to know whether they have recived confirmation from chief
minister...asistant hesitates says that Secretary ...krishna intervines forget
Secretary contact chief minister directly chief minister cannot deny as he sits in
legs (charano) of Baapji... and continues her dicussion about shivir theme
decoration...and Krishna wants to decorate ashram with 'diyas' becoz she belives
baapji brings light in lives of humans and ask assistants to arrange for diyas from
nearby villages in double the cost before shivir...
Ashram people also comes to Asthas house and Astha agrees for 10 thousand diyas free
of cost but asks for place to sit in camp so that she can witness baapji, her god
andashram people agrees to it. Her Mother is not very much pleased by her decision as
she denied for money. Working day and night they make beautiful red and golden diyas..
Camp is shown with thousands of people and big crowd where Astha and her family are
not allowed to go inside...Astha make her parents and sister sit under tree and with
permission of her father goes to search asharm people who assured them to give place
in camp... Finally after lot of requests only she is allowed to enter the camp on
orders of krishna who was nearby
In Camp when Astha sees baapji she becomes stunned. In Camp baapji asks questions
related to faith and believe.
He asks everyone where does god lives...and finally asks Astha...Astha replies to all
questions asked by him very politely..impressed baapji calls her near him for
blessings. After touching his feet she tells softly that we have made these diyas from
our own hands...and baapji aknowledge that i know that...that is why you look so
bright in these diyas light...you have worked hard for these diyas by waking whole
night for thousands of diyas and didnt asked for nothing...
but astha just wants baapjis aashirwad nothing else...baapji closes his eyes and joins
his hands in prayer mode but instead of "bhabhoot"
(ash) sindoor comes in his hand and baapji announces (mai iss kanya ko nahi jaanta par
vidhi ka vidhaan dekhiye upar wale ka aadesh aa gaya...ye kanya bahut jald meri bahu
banegi mera sabse chota beta isski maang mein ye sindoor bharega) that its gods order
that this girl will soon become his youngest bahu and all are stunned hearing this.
Pati Patni Aur Panga
