*Farewell Ek Hasina Thi* - Team responds to our stuff Pg 7

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March 2014, promos of Ek Hasina Thi went on air and instantly caught attention with their unique feel, grandeur and aura of suspense. 

From April 2014, the TV audiences across India and viewers of Indian TV abroad were introduced to a tale of mystery, revenge, love, betrayal...twists and turns at every end...

Ek Hasina Thi is a tale of extreme side of human emotions...


...a tale of journey of one woman to get justice for her ravaged family...
...a tale of a woman out there to protect her son and retain her power at any cost...
...a tale of two men who will do anything for their power and pleasure...
...a tale of one man out there to unravel truth and find his love...
...a tale of secrets, manipulation, unholy nexus of power circles...
...an expose of the darkness behind the glitter...
...a clash of ideologies, a clash of rivals...
...a battle of good and evil...
...a tale of despair and hope...
...a tale unlike any other tale ever told on Indian Television!


Cast - Sanjeeda Sheikh, Simone Singh, Ayub Khan, Vatsal Sheth, Bhupinder Singh, Bhuvnesh Maan, Teena Chopra, Aditi Sajwan, Kishwer Merchant, Mihir Mishra, Amit  Behl, Jyoti Gauba, Vicky Arora, Vikram Singh Chauhan, Poonam Preet

Creative director - Siddharth Malhotra

Producer - Prem Krishen (Cinevistaas)

Writer - Sammeer Arora



Crew:


    Art Director
  • Amit Mishra
    Sound
  • Kanwal Mehra
    Production Team
  • Moazzam Ali, Shakeel Shah, Arvind Sharma
    Post Production
  • Milind V. Salvi, Sanjay S. More
    Project Head
  • Vishal Pasrija
    Set Design
  • Salim Shah
    Theme and Background Music
  • Raju Singh
    Operations Head
  • Munir Lone
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Durga Thakur comes to Kolkata from US. She is the daughter of Dr Dayal Thakur. During the Durga Pooja she meets the Goenka's who own the mighty Goenka empire of Kolkata.

There is a mystery around Durga as she vows to get back at Shaurya Goenka the son of Rajnath and Sakshi Goenka. She makes Shaurya smitten by her beauty, but Sakshi Goenka rightfully guesses something mysterious about her.

Then it is shown that Durga support NGOs and she takes care of a girl called Payal. Payal is a rape victim and at that point is mentally unstable. She draws pictures of Shaurya and gets fits whenever she sees the pic.

The Thakurs enter into a Cancer Research Project deal with Goenka's and slowly the viewer's are shown the real motives of Durga Thakur.

Durga Thakur is actually Nithya Mitra elder sister of rape victim Payal Mitra. Shaurya and his 3 friends had gang raped Payal. Goenka's with their might have changed the statement of all witnesses in favour of Shaurya. Sakshi Goenka blackmailed Payal into accepting a marriage offer and change the statement.Shaurya and friends escaped punishment as Payal retraced the statement that Shaurya didn't rape her.

Nithya while trying to escape from the goons who were going to kill her was accidently hit by the car of Dr Dayal Thakur and her face was damaged. Dayal Thakur adopted her, gave her the face of his dead daughter Durga. Now the only mission of Durga is to destroy Goenka's to avenge the injustice done to her sister.

She uses Shaurya and his womanizing habit to her advantage to get at each victims. She at first gets at Naveen Mathur who is the gate keeper of Goenka empire. She manipulates the clues in such a way that it looks like Mathur is the one who has been trying to revive the rape case and finally oust Mathur by the Goenka's themselves and land him up in jail.

Next she understands that Shaurya is running an affair with the daughter of the commissioner who had buried the DNA report of the rape case. She instigates the girl with Shaurya trying to get married and the girl forces her dad to propose marriage to Shaurya. Obviously Goenka's turn down the proposal. Commissioner tells the truth of the rape to his daughter and wife. Goenka's anyways transfer the commissioner.

Meanwhile Sakshi is not at all comfortable with Durga and her discomfort increases when she comes to know that Durga had made Shaurya give eyesight to a person called Madhusoodhan Bagchi. Modhushoodhan Bagchi is actually the dad of Divya Bagchi who is the sole witness of Payal rape case whom the Goenka's prevented from coming to court.

Sakshi visits Bagchi in the hospital and assures him that wherever his daughter is within 24 hrs Sakshi will find her. Durga is tensed. She wants to find Divya before Sakshi as she know if Sakshi reaches Divya she would kill her.

Sakshi paste the photo of Divya and put a prize money of 10 lac on her. In addition to that she uses Aakash her aide to get all info on Nithya and Payal. She gets Nithya's death certificate from hospital and also reports that Payal can never be cured. But Sakshi goes with a vengeance for Divya. Finally some goons see Divya and catch her to get the prize money.

Durga gets info that Sakshi has got Divya. Sakshi brings Mr Bagchi to the place where the goons bring Divya. Aakash also accompanies Sakshi. Sakshi questions Mr Bagchi and Divya about Durga. Divya says she doesn't know. Mr Bagchi says he met her in the rehab centre and she tried giving eye sight to him. He doesn't know anything more. Sakshi is not convinced and orders her men to kill them.

They tie Mr Bagchi and Divya in the garage and put fire to it. Meanwhile Durga reaches there and sees the scene. Aakash asks Sakshi to go. But she says till she is sure of Divya's and her father's death she wont go. Durga makes the noise of the police siren from her mobile which forces Sakshi to go. Durga rushes to save Divya and her father. In this mission of hers it is revealed that she gets the support of Aakash. Aakash actually turns out to be the mole planted by Durga.

They save Divya and her father and Durga makes them go away from Kolkata to a safer place.

In the meantime Dev comes from US. Dev is the son of Arnab Goenka and Suchitra Goenka. Dev has been the friend of Nithya since childhood and all the rape happened when he was in US. He was unable to be with Nithya during the trial time and after 2 years he comes back to know the truth.

Durga meets Dev and she is angry meeting him. Reason when she asked him help she got a reply that Dev will only be with his family. Dr Dayal meanwhile has a good opinion of Dev. Dev tries to know the truth. No one at home interested to tell him the truth. He gets the case files through his friend Gautham's wife Sonali.

Meanwhile Shaurya attack the architect of the Cancer Project and becomes the architect himself. Actually his profession Ganguly recommends him for that. Ganguly tells Shaurya is Gold medallist.

Durga remembers Ganguly as the man who tried to molest Payal when she asked him to speak in favour of her and gave testimonial for Goenka's.She decides to bring him down. With Aakash's help she bugs Ganguly's room. Durga gets the evidence that Ganguly runs affair with a student Nandini blackmailing her. She uses Sagarika Ganguly's daughter to expose him. Sagarika questions Ganguly but Ganguly slaps his wife and shut down Sagarika.

However for the anniversary party Durga switches the CD made by Shaurya and places the CD of Ganguly's domestic violence and affair and expose him. In the party even his daughter and wife turn against Ganguly.

Then the news come out that Ganguly has been giving fake degrees and Shaurya's degree is fake.  Goenka's buries the news.However Shaurya confesses the truth to Durga. Durga uses this info and replace Shaurya from the architect post and recommend Dev for the same.

Dev joins the post as he wants to meet Payal and need Nithya's diary both of which he learns that Durga has access. Durga uses this aspect of him to create rift between Dev and Shaurya. Shaurya gets jealous of Dev's closeness to Durga and plans to kill him. He first attempts to run him over with a truck which fails. Dev feels the threat is because of he is trying to find about Payal rape case. So he gives the RTI files to Shaurya and also shifts his friends Gautham and Sonali so as to avoid any risk to their life.

Durga wants to know why Dev went to the place where the accident happened. She goes to meet Dev and in the process ends up knowing that Dev values the locket given to him by Nithya very dearly. She also comes to know from Gautham that Dev loves Nithya. Dr Dayal ask her to reconsider her opinion about Dev. But she remains adamant.

Meanwhile Sakshi tries to use Sekhar a friend of real Durga to expose her. Shekar comes with the evidence of Durga's birthmark during the pooja in Goenka mansion. Durga shows everyone the birth mark and oust Shekhar. She pledges that she will not enter Goenka mansion.

However Dev goes to her and apologizes. Durga remembers Payal recalling Dev as Sunshine the nickname he had given to Payal. She accepts his apology and comes back to Goenka mansion much to Sakshi's displeasure.

Shaurya plans a second attack on Dev with a Russian sharp shooter. He makes calls as if a exhortinist calling and lure Dev. Durga feels something amiss in the call and she along with Dr Dayal follows Dev and find him in a pool of blood.

Dev survives the attack and Durga comes to know the truth of Dev's absence. Her MU about Dev is cleared. Dr Dayal asks her to start a life afresh with Dev. Meanwhile Sakshi knows that Shaurya is behind the attack on Dev. She threatens him with CBI and ask him to stay away from Shaurya.

Durga learns this and decides to get engaged to Shaurya much to the chargin of Dr Dayal. However she takes Dev to Payal and also gives him Nithya's diary. A warm friendship starts between Dev and Durga. Durga hears the tender feelings Dev has for Nithya and Dev is able to open up to Durga which he has not been able with Nithya.

Durga plans a fake engagement with Neil to lure Shaurya and Shaurya walks into her trap much to the chargin of Sakshi and does a suicide attempt

 

In the hospital it turns out that Shaurya has done a fake suicide attempt. However family is unaware of it and Sakshi places the entire blame on Durga. Durga tells she will reply to Sakshi once Shaurya regains conscious. When the doctor tells family can meet Shaurya , Durga goes to him and confess her feelings to him and put the engagement ring in his finger.

 

Everyone is surprised. Both Sakshi and Dev feel something amiss. Even Aakash not happy with this. Dev questions Durga on the motive but she rebukes him. Anyways Sakshi goes to Thakur's place and put the proposal for Durga-Shaurya marriage which Dr Thakur agrees.  They get engaged and on the day of engagement Sakshi takes Durga to a remote place and tell her something about herself. She tells about the orphan girl who snatched the food from a street dog and the hard way she became Mrs Goenka. Durga smiles

 

Sakshi wants to sabotage the marriage and Dev tries to find clues about Payal rape case. He goes to the medical centre shows Payal's pic and asks for her treatment report. News reaches Sakshi and Sakshi knows it is Dev who knows Payal's location. She decides she will use the info if her first attempt to sabotage marriage doesn't work. She calls a Pandit and makes it look like Durga's kundali has dosh. Durga breaks engagement. But Shaurya takes care of the pandit getting him arrested for jewellery theft of the Goddess. Durga feels happy as the Pandit is the one who had given fake character certificate to Shaurya during Payal rape case.

 

Now Sakshi uses Dev as a bait by providing him original medical report and reaches Payal location. On one side Dev is appalled at the cruelty shown to Payal, Sakshi does an emotional rape on Payal to stop Durga. Payal suffers a mental relapse but with Dr Thakur's support Durga bounces back and does not cancel the marriage.

 

Sakshi is shocked. Durga and Shaurya decide to go to Vaishno Devi temple. Meanwhile Dev get suspicious of Durga's actions and he feels Durga is actually hiding Nithya. He questions her and she evades. Their relation detoriates.

 

On the trip to VaishnoDevi Durga brings goons and they end up in an argument with Shaurya and leave him paralyzed. Still Durga does not call of the marriage making Sakshi highly suspicious of her.

Sakshi makes Shaurya aware of his medical condition and strikes a deal with Karan so that Shaurya rejects Durga in mandap.

On other hand Durga goes ahead with marriage plans and as she proceeds towards it her relation with Dev reaches the nadir as Dev doesn't want to meet eye with her.

However on the day of the wedding Sakshi's plan works and Shaurya rejects Durga. Sakshi proposes Dev's name for the marriage. Both Dev and Durga disagree. But Dr Thakur make use of the opportunity and strike a deal with Dev. He tells Dev that if he marries Durga that day he will see Nithya on Nithya's b'day. Dev agrees to marry Durga.

 

Post marriage the couple never meet eye to eye. Dev simply hate Durga and goes on with his search of Nithya, while Durga decide to expose Raima- Raj affair to Sakshi through Jatin Raima's husband.

 

While Dev pursues Advocate Agnihotri who was Payal's lawyer for the proof, Sakshi get suspicious of Aakash. She along with Shaurya decide to test Aakash. Aakash fails in the test as he didn't want to risk Durga's life. But Durga reaches the spot to save Aakash. Thus a new level of trust is formed between them.

 

Aakash reveals himself to be Akram Khan who is actually Sakshi's step son. He tells Sakshi had killed his father Akram Khan and he is trying to find the reason for the same. Durga promises she will find that and Aakash goes underground.

 

Dev gets hold of Agnihotri in Rajnath's name and the lawyer demands 15crore for the proof he has with him. Dev decide to get that and to raise money he sells shares. But Rajnath comes to know of this and he kills Agnihotri and get the video which shows Shaurya raping Payal.

 

Durga is perturbed Sakshi is unaffected by the tape and plan to create a show down. She invites Raima for the KC party. But things go awry when Raima blurts out about Payal and Dev ends up questioning her. Though Rajnath saves the situation Dev gets angry and tells he will meet Raima next day.

 

Durga writes a letter in Nithya's name and gives to Dev asking him to keep away from Payal rape case. Meanwhile Sakshi goes to Raima's place, send a sms to Dev and shoots Raima. Dev seeing Raima's sms goes to her home only to see her in blood which Raima's maid sees and accuse him of murder.

 

Based on Nithya's letter to treat Durga as his friend Dev calls Durga and takes Raima to the hospital. Raima survives the attack but goes into coma. Dev is arrested for her attempted murder.

Durga understand it is Sakshi's plot and vows to get him out in 7 days. While Durga struggles for clues to free Dev, Dev meets Navin Mathur in jail.

 

Though they fight initially Mathur understand Dev wants to avenge Shaurya for Payal's rape he tells everything to Dev including the bet kept on Nithya, its aftermath , how Goenka's manipulated the evidence and how Nithya ended up in a car accident.

 

While in prison Dev and Durga rekindle their friendship. Dev sees many similarities between her and Nithya. He also understands Durga is taking down people who have given false testimony during Payal rape case. He is intrigued and tries to understand the puzzle.

 

Durga finally manage to trick Sakshi telling Raima gained consciousness. When Sakshis' appointed nurse try to kill Raima she is caught red handed. Though Sakshi manages to make the nurse go away with the video recording Durga manages to get the release of Dev. Dev feels close to her

 

He goes back to prison, ask Mathur about the details of car accident. With the details he manages to get Nithya's death certificate and also the details of the car that hit her. To his surprise he finds out the car that hit Nithya was driven by Dr Dayal. He accuses Dr Dayal of Nithya's murder to which Dr Dayal tells Nithya is not dead. With all the clues so far he has got Dev realizes Durga is actually Nithya and he thanks Dr Dayal for saving her. He feels very happy to have his Nithya with him. However he decides not to tell this to Durga and as he wants her to reveal herself.

 

Rajnath starts blackmailing Sakshi for the video tape with which she blackmailed Rajnath for the marriage. He blackmails her as Akram Khan and sends her the video of Shaurya's rape and demands the tape in return for Shaurya's safety. Sakshi shifts Shaurya to a physiotherapy centre for treatment.

 

Not seeing Shaurya in house and Sakshi distracted Durga turns her attention towards Shaurya's friend Karan. She uses Divya as a ghost to terrify Karan. Dev decide to claim his position as chairman of Goenka group having majority shares with him. To stop him Rajnath announces Dev-Kangana wedding. But Dev wins vote of confidence and becomes chairman. Dev-Durga share a tender moment post his winning.

 

Durga succeeds in taking Kangana to Karan's farmhouse where he confesses his crime seeing Divya as ghost. A shocked and remorseful Kangana decide to support Durga.

 

Kangana finds about Karan's mother who is living a secluded life post giving a false testimony in Payal rape case.  Durga goes to her with Kangana and asks Anuradha Basu to save Kangana. Anuradha agrees.

Meanwhile Durga also come to know about Akram Khan blackmailing Sakshi about some tape. She is shocked and asks Dayal to check about Aakash whether he has any clue. Dr Dayal agrees.

 

 

Shaurya actually gets cured of his paralysis but he continues in his wheel chair. His doctor Samjjhukta tells him he has been attacked by Martial arts experts. Using Mukherjee Shaurya find out the people and he decides to take revenge.

 

He plans a dinner date for Dev-Durga and at the same time goes to Dr Dayal's house and murders him. Durga is rattled with emotions when during the dinner date she is asked to dance with Dev and Dev opens  up his feelings for Nithya. She feels sad she cannot reveal her true feelings for him and decide to visit Dr Dayal. But when Dev and Durga reaches they find Dayal in a pool of blood. Though he is taken to hospital Dayal gives Durga's hand in Dev and dies.

 

Durga feels more determined to avenge the Goenka's. However she refuses Dev's help. Dev feels sad at this. Shaurya comes home after frightening Samjhukta who discovers he has recovered. Dev also feels suspicious of Shaurya after he learns dinner date was planned.

 

Meanwhile Durga and Aakash manage to find out Rajnath is blackmailing Sakshi for the tape. They get hold of the tape from the orphanage where Sakshi kept it. The tape shows Rajnath killing Arnab Dev's father. Unknown to them Dev sees it and goes to murder Raj. Durga stops him taking Suchitra's name and includes him in her battle.

 

Basu Karan's father is forced to withdraw election nomination as his wife have sent a video to his party office telling them if Basu doesn't withdraw she will go public with information on Payal rape case. Goenka's are shocked by this. Both Sakshi and Shaurya decide to target Payal.

 

However Rishi takes Payal to safety as he is unable to see Payal again tortured. Durga comes to know Payal missing and she goes questioning Sakshi. Sakshi strikes a deal with her if she brings Nithya she will give Payal. Durga is shocked. She shares it with Dev. Dev decide to observe Shaurya. Shaurya decide to murder Dev. He plans with Tarun and give fake clue to Dev. Dev follows it.

 

In the meantime it is shown that Rishi didn't rape Payal. Infact on that fateful day he allowed Payal to escape extracting a promise from her she will tell no one. Payal asks Rishi to inform Durga and Dev. Rishi calls Durga and tells about Payal's whereabouts.

 

Shaurya is aiming at Dev and Durga calls. Dev takes the call and Durga tells about Rishi's call. Dev talks about Tarun's call. They are confused on who is right. Durga calls Aakash and checks on Payal. Aakash confirms Payal safe. Durga rushes for Dev. In the shootout that follows Durga gets hurt trying to save Dev and Dev shouts Nithya.

 

Durga knows Dev has known her real identity but she asks him to keep away from her if he is gonna call her Nithya. Doctor tells Durga that she has a clot if not operated she can die. Even operation have risk.

 

Durga asks doctor not to tell about this to anyone and she decides to get justice for her sister in 3 days.


Sakshi Goenka tries to protect Shaurya one last time by faking his death and sending him to New Zealand. She and Rajnath then devise a plan to implicate Durga in a case of Dr Dayal's murder. 


But Shaurya does not follow their instructions and takes matters in his own hands. He decides to take revenge on Durga by tracking her to find Payal and hopes to attack her. He reaches Payal's hideout and tries to scare her after shooting Rishi and Akash who were there for Payal's safety. In his bid to scare her he confesses all his crimes as he threatens to make Payal go through same suffering again and handle Durga the way he handled Dayal. 


This turns out to be a set up by Durga who knew Shaurya was faking his death and she records all confessions of Shaurya. Akash and Rishi also turn out to be alive as they got saved through bullet proof vests. Shaurya is given an injection to make him unconscious.


Goenkas are shocked to find Shaurya lying at home. Durga then reaches the place along with Dev, Payal, Suchitra and Aakash and tells them their game was now over.


It turns out that Durga had exposed all incriminating proofs of crimes committed by Goenkas on national television and given an interview to TV channels exposing real face of Goenkas. This leads to public outrage and Goenkas are shocked to find mob outside their house chanting slogans against them.

Durga tells Sakshi that she is Nitya and she fulifilled her oath of getting justice and destroying the Goenka trio. Sakshi admits she underestimated Durga and says she got a rival like her for the first time in life.

Sakshi, Shaurya and Rajnath Goenka get arrested and are produced in court. Their former victims and allies like Mathur, Payal and Rishi testify against them in court and the court orders lifetime imprisonment for Shaurya Goenka. Court also orders separate trial for Rajnath and Sakshi for killing Arnab Goenka, Agnihotri and Rehmat Khan respectively. Shaurya goes livid and accuses hismother Sakshi of being the cause of his crimes and tries to play innocent, putting all blame on her. 

Sakshi cannot take it and is in denial. She begins to lose mental balance in the court after seeing her own son go against her. he court orders a mental health check up for her.

Durga and Payal make a powerful statement in court on discrimination against rape victims and corruption in system which favours the rich. Durga says Payal is a rape survivor and not a rape victim. 

The court apologises to Durga and Payal for injustice meted out to them in past.

Sakshi, Rajnath and Shaurya get taken out. Shaurya is lynched by the mob and one woman spits at him for even blaming his mother who always protected him. A man blames him for bringing shame to males.

Durga faints due to the blood clot in her head and is rushed to the hospital. Her operation to remove the clot is successful and she returns home to Goenka mansion. Dev, Durga, Suchitra, Payal and Aakash have a puja at home to mark beginning of a new dawn. 

Durga confesses to Dev that she loves him and would like to be called Durga only as Nitya was just a friend while Durga truly loved Dev. They hug.

Just then Durga gets a mysterious phone call and hears Shaurya's whistle at the other end of the line. She gets shocked and episode ends.


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Durga Thakur/Nitya Mitra - 

Nitya Mitra (Aditi Sajwan) was the daughter of the driver of Goenka clan. She took them to court after their son Shaurya and his friends raped her sister Payal. She was injured in an attempt to murder her. She lost her face but returned with a new identity as Durga Thakur (Sanjeeda Sheikh) to take revenge from Goenkas for injustice meted out to her family.
She was a feisty, righteous girl and later worked at an NGO as Durga Thakur.

Sakshi Goenka/Sakshi Rehmat Khan (Simone Singh):

Sakshi Goenka (or Sakshi Rehmat Khan) was the matriarch of the powerful Goenka clan of Kolkata, wife of Rajnath Goenka and mother of Shaurya Goenka and Kangana. She was a woman with a complex personality and a dark, deprived past. She was formerly married to Rehmat Khan who she killed.
She was extremely protective of her children and could do anything to save them. In this battle she became chief adversary of Durga in a bid to protect her son Shaurya.

Shaurya Goenka (Vatsal Sheth):

Shaurya Goenka was a typical rich, spoilt brat and enjoyed unlimited power and protection being the son of Sakshi and Rajnath Goenka. He was a womaniser and liked to bet on getting women to his bed. In one such failed bet on Nitya he raped her sister Payal as revenge, along with his friends. He cared for nobody and committed many crimes besides the rape. He was obsessed with Durga Thakur over a similar bet.

Rajnath Goenka (Ayub Khan):

Rajnath Goenka was the most powerful businessman in Kolkata. He was influential yet had many dark secrets. Business, power and wealth meant most to him. He killed his elder brother Arnab Goenka, a secret over which Sakshi blackmailed and married him. He too led a complicated life as he could do anything to save his power and reputation.

Dr Dayal Thakur (Bhupinder P Singh):

Dr Dayal Thakur was a doctor, originally from the US. Nitya had an accident due to his car. He saved her life, did plastic surgery on her in the US and gave her a new identity as Durga after his own deceased daughter. He helped her plan revenge against the Goenkas and also rehabilitated Payal. He started the Cancer research project deal with Rajnath Goenka to get in contact with the Goenka clan. He was murdered by Shaurya Goenka towards the end of the show.

Payal Mitra (Teena Chopra):

Payal was the younger sister of Nitya. She was gangraped by Shaurya and his friends as their revenge on Nitya. She was blackmailed to take back her statement in the court, by Sakshi Goenka and falsely declared mentally unstable after which she was sent to an asylum and given wrong medicines and electric shocks to make her a vegetable.

The parents of Payal and Nitya committed suicide after the rape case.

Dev Goenka (Bhuvnesh Mam):

Dev was the son of Arnab and Suchitra Goenka, elder cousin brother of Shaurya. He was best friends with Nitya and her family was like his own family to him. He was studying in the USA when the rape happened. He had guilt of not being there to help his bestie Nitya who he secretly loved. He returned to find truth of the case and also find Nitya as he refused to believe she was dead. He was married to Durga at behest of Sakshi Goenka and Dr Dayal Thakur and helped her seek revenge as he learnt Durga was Nitya.

Suchitra Goenka (Jyoti Gauba):

Suchitra was the elder daughter in law of Goenka clan, widow of Arnab Goenka, mother of Dev. She was supportive of her family and initially tried to stop Dev from going against his family but later supported him and daughter in law Durga as she discovered the true nature of her family members.

Kangana Goenka (Poonam Preet):

Younger child and daughter of Sakshi and Rajnath Goenka. She was also spoilt and overprotected by parents and brother Shaurya. She was sent to US for higher studies and remained oblivious to true nature of her family. She believed her brother and his friend Karan were innocent till Durga exposed their truth to her. She later supported Durga in getting revenge on Karan who also raped Payal.

Raima Maheshwari (Kishwer Merchant):

Raima was love of Rajnath but had to be his mistress and pose as best friend of his wife Sakshi Goenka for years, due to secrets of Raj that Sakshi held. She was closest to Goenka trio and knew almost all their secrets. She helped cover up the evidence in Payal rape case. She was divorced from Jatin Maheshwari as she carried on affair with Rajnath. Durga exposed this affair to Sakshi after which Sakshi tried to kill Raima. But Raima did not die though went in coma.

Akash Roy aka Akram Khan (Mihir Mishra):

Akash's real name was Akram Khan. He was step son of Sakshi and had come back to Kolkata to take revenge of his father Rehmat Khan's murder by Sakshi. He got a job with Goenkas as new CEO and legal advisor after Mathur left. He worked as a spy for Durga.

Arnab Goenka:

The elder brother of Rajnath. He was killed by Rajnath after he threatened to expose his scandals in business. He was an honest businessman while Raj was manipulative, the clash of ideology took his life.

Navin Mathur (Amit Behl):

Navin Mathur was the right hand man of Goenka trio. He was the CEO and legal advisor of Goenka Industries. He knew all secrets of Goenkas and was instrumental in cover up of Payal rape case and eliminating the Mitra family at the behest of Sakshi, Rajnath and Shaurya Goenka. He was framed by Durga and Goenkas sent him to jail. He too swore revenge on Goenkas and later told their secrets to Dev.

Karan Basu (Vicky Arora):

Karan was the only son of powerful politician Girish Basu. He was friends with Shaurya and started the game of betting on women to get money from Shaurya. He was also a typical spoilt brat and a womaniser. He initiated the bet on Nitya and instigated Shaurya to take revenge through rape. He had distant relationship with his parents and was mostly with friends and feeding off them.
He also had relationship with Kangana. He was finally exposed by Durga with help of Divya Bagchi and Kangana.

Tarun Verma 

One of Shaurya's friends, Tarun was son of a flop filmmaker and latched on to Shaurya over financial benefits. He was also involved in bets, boozing, crimes as well as the rape of Payal. Shaurya got him killed in the end of the show as a part of his plan to fake his own death.

Rishi (Vikram Singh Chauhan):

Another one of Shaurya's friends, Rishi was from a modest background and stuck to Shaurya because he had helped his family out of a financial crisis. He was silent witness to Shaurya's sinister plans. He did participate in bets on women but he did not rape Payal and let her escape instead. He later joined Durga to protect Payal and expose Shaurya.

Girish Basu:

Mr Basu was a powerful politician, father of Karan. Goenkas gave him financial help in politics while he gave them benefits in business due to his power. He was a Minister when the rape case happened. He also helped cover up the case and was instrumental along with Rajnath in keeping Dev stuck in US with a visa problem. He fell out with Goenkas later due to rift fuelled by Durga through Kangana.


Robindro Ganguly: 

Ganguly was the principal of college where Payal studied. He used to molest female students and forced them to exchange sex for grades. He testified against Payal in rape case trial, giving her wrong character certificate thus helping Goenkas prove Shaurya's innocence and hide his crime. He was exposed by Durga through his wife and daughter Sagorika, for sexually harassment and for awarding fake degrees to students.

Sagorika Ganguly:

Sagorika was daughter of Robindro Ganguly and helped expose her father in public after Durga showed her father's reality to her and after she and her mother suffered physical abuse at hands of Mr Ganguly. 

Commissioner Sahani:

Mr Sahani was the police commissioner at time of Payal rape case and helped destroy DNA report and other evidence that confirmed Shaurya had raped Payal. He was benefitting from Goenkas in return till they fell out after Shaurya refused to marry his daughter Avantika. Goenkas got him transferred elsewhere.

Avantika Sahani:

Daughter of Commissioner, she was one of Shaurya's girlfriends and used by her as one of his exploits. But she fell in love with him and hoped to marry him. She was crushed after Shaurya refused to marry her. Later she was exposed to truth of Shaurya and rape case by Durga and she confronted her father on the same, due to which he confessed to cover up.

Shekhar:

Shekhar was classmate of real Durga Thakur from the USA. He tried to prove to Sakshi Goenka that Durga was not real Durga but failed and Durga and Dayal tricked him.

Neil Bhattacharya (Aamir Ali):

Dr Neil was a student of Dr Dayal Thakur in the US. He was invited to India for a while as a part of Durga's plan for a fake engagement with him. 

inspector Mukherjee:

Inspector Mukherjee was another one of Goenkas' right hand men and knew of their crimes. He used to take money from each of them to cover their crimes. Besides other crimes of Goenka trio, he was also involved in cover up of Payal rape case.

Inspector Mandal:

Inspector Mandal had come for a while in place of Mukherjee when the latter was on a leave. He had helped Sakshi Goenka to cover up Raima's murder and help frame Dev Goenka on charges of murdering her.

Lawyer Agnihotri:

Mr Agnihotri was a poor guy with failed law practice. He was hired by Nitya as lawyer for Payal rape case but he took evidence from her, deceived her and blackmailed Goenkas instead for money to keep quiet. He deliberately lost the case for Mitras after getting money from Goenkas. He was later killed by Rajnath who finally got tape of Shaurya raping Payal, from him.

Mrs Basu:

Wife of Girish Basu and mother of Karan, she was a counsellor and gave fake testimony in court to save her son and got Payal sent to an asylum. She separated from her family in guilt. Later she helped Durga to help get Mr Basu out of his political party after she threatened to expose the details of rape case.

Sanjukta:

Sanjukta was Shaurya's physiotherapist. She treated him for paralysis. She was threatened by Shaurya and made to leave town after she found he could walk and was faking paralysis.

Madhusudan Bagchi:

Bagchi was a cook at Goenka mansion. He knew about Payal rape case and bid to kill her family. Goenkas got him beaten up and blinded and made him flee for life. Durga and Dayal Thakur helped him regain vision after an operation and helped to resettle him and his daughter abroad.

Divya Bagchi:

Divya was daughter of the cook of Goenkas, best friend of Payal and only eyewitness of Payal rape case. She somehow escaped Goenkas' bid to kill her and lived in anonymity till Durga rescued her with help of Dayal. Later she partnered with Durga and helped expose truth of Karan as a rapist to Kangana.

Rehmat Khan:

Rehmat Khan was a journalist, a widower with a son Akram. He married Sakshi and they worked together at his press. Sakshi killed him after he forbade her from using tape of Rajnath killing Arnab, to blackmail him. He wanted to expose the truth while she wanted to blackmail for money. Sakshi also set his press on fire.

Jatin Maheshwari:

Jatin was husband of Raima. They had an abusive relationship and were headed for divorce as Jatin suspected Raima of having affair with Rajnath. He was the one who told Rajnath that Sakshi knew of his affair with Raima and could have tried to kill her. Durga revealed Rajnath and Raima affair to Sakshi Goenka by sending tape through Akash to Jatin who in turn showed it to Sakshi.

Pandit:

The pandit of Kolkata's well known temple had testified against Payal in rape case trial and upheld Shaurya's character. He was getting favours from Goenkas for this cover up. Durga exposed him by manipulating Shaurya who in turn used Karan as a bait to trap and expose Pandit.

Ketaki:

Ketaki was Raima's maid who thought Dev had killed Raima after seeing him with an unconscious and bleeding Raima. Sakshi and Mandal were hoping to use her statement to frame Dev in murder case but Durga got her to tell the truth which is how Dev got freed from jail.

Alina:

Alina was a Russian sharp shooter hired by Shaurya Goenka to kill Dev. She seriously injured him but her attacks were not fatal.

The Real Durga Thakur (Sanjeeda Sheikh):

Durga was the only daughter of Dr Dayal Thakur who was a widower. They had a fallout over something due to which she left her home. She died under circumstances which were not revealed. Dayal used to feel guilty over her death and felt he was not a good father to her. 





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Ek Hasina Thi was in many ways a clutter breaker, different and one of a kind show. 

- A rare drama that was a finite series.

- It was dubbed in Telugu and telecast on Zee Telugu, rare to be shown on a rival network. 

- It was also dubbed in Bengali and English.

- It boasted of a brilliant star cast and also marked comeback of actors like Simone Singh and Vatsal Sheth who were famous in the 1990s for shows like Heena and Just Mohabbat respectively.

- It was the first time Simone Singh and Vatsal Sheth were playing villainous roles.


- Ek Hasina Thi generally got positive reviews from media and performances of Simone Singh as Sakshi Goenka and Sanjeeda Sheikh as Durga Thakur were appreciated. The show was lauded for creating historic villains by websites like The Daily Eye, Just Showbiz, DNA, India Opines etc, in form of Goenkas.


- Ek Hasina Thi gradually made a mark in TRPs also as it entered top 5 shows on Star Plus and top 10 shows on Hindi GECs overall. In week leading up to its finale it entered top 6 shows and became the slot leader at 8 PM beating rivals Jodha Akbar and Balika Vadhu. 

-EHT was the second show in history of Star Plus to become slot leader at 8 PM (IST).

- Ek Hasina Thi was constantly the Top Most Watched show in the UK, beating even Bigg Boss and Comedy Nights with Kapil on weekends on UK Television towards its finale week.


- It won 7 Awards within 7 Months of its launch, including prestigious awards as ITA Awards, Indian Telly Awards and Star Parivar Awards.

- It's reportedly one of the most lavishly made and expensive shows of recent times on Indian Television.


- The characters' style became famous. Sakshi Goenka jewellery and outfits, her piano tune, Shaurya Goenka whistle, style of answering mobile phone became popular.

- Ek Hasina Thi was a show with such unique characters, each with a distinct style of his/her own, that it spawned fan clubs, memes and parodies on almost all its characters. 

- The dialogues of Ek Hasina Thi were its highlight and one liners of Sakshi Goenka, Rajnath, Shaurya Goenka and repartees of Durga Thakur in clash with Sakshi Goenka became popular.


- The show was one of the most popular shows online and the team of Ek Hasina Thi also engaged fans very well as they shared offscreen pics, discussed show with fans and even shared write ups and artwork on the show made by fans. The Ek Hasina Thi team has been truly humble and nurtured the fandom till the end! 


- Vatsal Sheth and Simone Singh were named among Top Actors who left a mark on Indian TV in 2014 by Fuzion Productions

- Vatsal Sheth, Simone Singh and Ayub Khan were named the Best Villains of the year on TV by Fuzion Productions

- Sanjeeda Sheikh was listed among Top 10 TV Actresses by Rediff

- Sanjeeda Sheikh and Kishwer Merchant were listed among Most Popular TV Stars online by GlamCaptureTV.

- Sanjeeda Sheikh was listed among Top leading ladies on TV for 2014 by Telly Tadka

- Sanjeeda Sheikh and Bhuvnesh Mam were listed among top jodis of the year by Fuzion Productions

- Simone Singh was named #1 Best Actress of the Year by Television World and Indian Tellywood Forum 

- Simone Singh and Sanjeeda Sheikh were also signed up together by popular clothing brand Meena Bazaar which brought out their special Ek Hasina Thi Collection, featuring these two as brand ambassadors.

- Ek Hasina Thi was listed among Defining Moments of the year 2014 by Fuzion Productions for sweeping all awards this year.

- Ek Hasina Thi was named the Best TV Show of 2014 by Bollywood Life website

- Ek Hasina Thi was listed among Top 10 Hit Shows of 2014 by IBNLive and Indian Tellywood Forum


In its short journey, Ek Hasina Thi still made a mark for itself, getting good reviews, notching up dedicated fan following, winning polls, making it to best of lists and winning the prestigious awards of the year - something which many shows don't manage even despite running for years at a stretch! Kudos Team EHT!


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Indian Telly Awards 2014:

Best Actress in a Negative Role (Popular) - Simone Singh - Sakshi Goenka 


Indian Television Academy Awards 2014

Gr8! Performer of the Year - Sanjeeda Sheikh - Durga

Best Actress in a Negative Role - Simone Singh - Sakshi Goenka

Best Actor in a Negative Role - Ayub Khan - Rajnath Goenka

Best Drama series (Jury) - Ek Hasina Thi - Siddharth P Malhotra, Cinevistaas


Star Parivaar Awards 2014:

Most Stylish Sadasya (male) - Shaurya Goenka - Vatsal Sheth

Most Stylish Sadasya (female) - Durga Thakur - Sanjeeda Sheikh


Star Guild Awards 2015:

Best Director (Television) - Rohit Jugraj - Ek Hasina Thi



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Siddharth P Malhotra (Producer, Cinevistaas):

Last episode today thank you to the entire team and fans. This show has given & taken a lot. Thanks for all the love you all have given us.

Sanjeeda Sheikh (Durga Goenka/Durga Thakur):

It's been such a smooth journey. I've never received such a response for any show the way I've received for Ek Hasina Thi.

Ayub Khan (Rajnath Goenka):

Truly humbled with all the love and appreciation from all fans. 

Simone Singh (Sakshi Goenka):

"It's been a great journey."

Bhuvnesh Mam (Dev Goenka):

Thank you for making me a part of Ek Hasina Thi as Dev Goenka. Thanks to all fans for all the love and support and making it a hit show.

Poonam Preet (Kangana Goenka):

Thank you for believing I could play Kangana. It was an honour to be a part of a hit show.







Tweets of Ek Hasina Thi team on end of Ek Hasina Thi on page 5 of this thread!

Video messages for fans from Simone Singh and Vatsal Sheth on page 4 and from Sanjeeda Sheikh, Ayub Khan, Bhuvnesh Mann on page 5 of this thread! Click on the links to view them!




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Fans Wish the Team of Ek Hasina Thi! Click here to see the card with wishes and signatures of fans from around the world! Please also sign the card yourself if you have signed yet!😊

LINK to card - http://www.groupcard.com/c/HeCOgGIpvwi



LINK - http://www.groupcard.com/c/HeCOgGIpvwi



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Thread created, information collated and collection of fan gifts by - Atominis

Group card created for Ek Hasina Thi farewell as part of Fan Messages, signatures of fans collected by - Atominis

Story of the show summarised by - Shrutiravi and Atominis

Write ups on Introduction, Cast and Characters of the show, Success Story, Awards, Ek Hasina Thi Team Speak by - Atominis

Glitter text in thread, slideshow in first post, collages in Characters, Awards, Team Speak sections by - Atominis

Collage in The Story section by - Ruby_07

Creation in Introduction & second creation in The Story section by - AryaDrayCoByrne

Banner in Success Story Section -  from Star Plus official Facebook page

Fan gifts creations by - Atominis, Ruby_07, Dabhlover,Rainbowcatxo, Nidhirohan, AryaDrayCoByrne

Permission for this thread taken from - Aahaana (global moderator)

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Special thanks to the DT of Ek Hasina Thi forum - lilindiangurl13 , *Resham* , Dhruvie! Their hardwork in maintaining the forum is greatly appreciated!😊

Thanks to all written updaters - -Ritu567-, appy_indy-KD, PrincessN, Super.Psycho_, ...sandhureet.., PristineSoul, 
ifians, 
CrazyBoy-.Hd.-, -Araina-, Anvijanya, QH_DDEJ_Fan. 😊


Above all, MANY thanks to all active members of Ek Hasina Thi forum who kept the forum buzzing with interesting discussions and all the artistes who made fabulous creations!👍🏼


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