Navya Cast...

19-year-old Navya lives in a middle class family in Mumbai. She is born and brought up in a small family with her banker father, housewife mother, bratty younger brother and a quick-tongued grandmother. She has a married and pregnant elder sister. Navya is quite traditional in her ways and lifestyle. She maintains a distance from boys and finds great comfort in her childhood friends Ritz and Appy. This allows her parents to trust her implicitly, unlike her Dadi who keeps questioning her morals and behaviors. Innocent and sweet, she dreams wistfully of a fairytale romance, especially when Ritz falls in love. However, love comes to her in the most unexpected way as she meets Anant.

Anant is a 19-year old college boy who, on the surface, looks like any other urban boy. He has the latest clothes, car, and looks which any girl would fall for. But, deep down he is a traditionalist, a conformist who believes in the old-world values of joint families and arranged marriages. Unlike most of the teenagers of today's times, he reveres his grandfather and seems to have been brought up to respect his family's traditions and to live by the rule book. His life before meeting Navya included following the path chalked out by his family. He did not think, even for a second, that he could fall in love.

Ritika, aka Ritz, is one of Navya's childhood buddies, who lives in the same colony with her. They are quite unlike their fathers, who were separated by their difference in opinion and ambitions. While Navya's father maintained a principled lifestyle, Ritika's father moved ahead for the most extravagant lifestyle. Ritz and Navya, however, are inseparable. Almost a sibling to Navya, this 19-year-old acts as a mentor to her on most occasions. She does not make sly attempts to hide her lifestyle and choices from her family. However, she likes to experiment and has a creative side to her.

Deepak is Navya's father. He is quite loving and caring but with a distinct set of rules to keep his daughter away from the big bad world. Not too fond of Navya's friends, especially Ritz, his only expectation from his daughter, Navya, is to get a degree followed by a happy married life. Though he sends his daughter to a co-ed college, he remains wary of the city and the society at large. He has a regular 9-5 job, and is a middle-class father who is hard working. He works under great pressure constantly to save enough money to get his second daughter married and ensure his son gets a proper education. Meeta, his wife, constantly worries about his work hours and the stress he takes. But he shrugs her off as he feels he can't afford the luxury of a holiday or lighter working hours.

The quintessential "ditzy Housewife", Meeta gets flustered easily and is extremely scared of Dadi. She has complete faith in her children to be good and believes that her husband can solve any problem with ease. Sometimes, she gets overwhelmed by the modern teenage world and turns to her elder daughter for reassurance. She is talkative and friendly and extremely lovable. Though she may not be the best at household chores, as she sometimes burns the rice and adds extra salt in the dal, her family loves her for who she is. Been a full-time homemaker for years now, she shares an extreme comfort level with her husband. Unlike some of the women in the contemporary world, she firmly believes that women should make compromises if required, for the larger happiness of the family. She has a very quiet countenance and does not get upset or angry easily.

Shankar is the patriarch of the Bajpai family. As someone who has seen the carnage of the partition, and firmly believes that families should stick together, he is the reason his family lives jointly even in today's metropolitan Mumbai. He has managed to keep the family values intact too. All the men in his house are involved in the family business of printing, called Geeta Press. He is a noted religious and cultural speaker. In every sense of the word, he is a self-made man and highly respected by everyone, including his near and dear ones.

Om is the one actively running the publishing house, Geeta Press. His father, Shankar Dayal, overlooks the business and is mostly involved in his lectures. However, Om follows his father's ideals. He is as stern as his father, and can even be harsh with his words. He respects and loves his father the most and wants to make him proud with whatever he does.

Anant's mother, Sugandha, is a conformist - the kind of bahu every traditional family would want and like. She has forever lived by the dictum that being a silent wife and daughter-in-law is the way of life for a woman. Being the eldestbahu of the house, she looks after the entire household. She knows the hierarchy and rules of the house, and makes sure that she follows it to the T. To Anant, she is a loving mother, someone who understands his teen troubles. She is completely confident that he will grow up to conform to the family's traditions and practices.

He is a very caring and supportive older brother to Anant and an obedient son to the family. He respects his father and grandfather and doesn't oppose their word, which irks his wife, Rama. He is aware of Anant and Navya's relationship and often helps Anant. He also knows of Rama's nature and always tries to protect his family, especially Anant, from her.

Hailing from Benaras, Rama is married to Mohan. Impressed by the Bajpais, she tries to get Anant married with her sister, Shagun, and hatches a plan to this end. But unfortunately, her plans are foiled. Rama is very cunning and knows how to manipulate the family members to get her way. She is aware of Anant and Navya's relationship and tries her best to get them in trouble. She is scheming, unapologetic and shrewd.