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Navya

19 year old Navya lives in a middle-class family in Mumbai. She is born and brought up in a nuclear family with her banker father, housewife mother, a 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. Navya 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. From the moment she sees him, Navya feels a strange pull towards him. And every incident seems to draw them together, and finally they fall in love.

Anant

Anant is a 19-year old college going boy who, on the surface, looks like any other urban college boy of today with the latest clothes, car, and looks like the kind of guy any girl would want to date. 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 and did not think even for a second that he could fall in love.

Ritika Joshi

Ritika aka Ritz, is one of Navya’s childhood buddies from the same colony quite unlike their fathers who were separated by their difference in opinion and ambitions. While Navya’s father maintained his lifestyle from the very beginning, Ritika’s father moved ahead for a better and the most extravagant living.

Almost a sibling to Navya, this 19-year-old Ritika acts as a mentor to her on most of the 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 Mishra

Deepak is a typical Indian father who is quite loving and caring but with a distinct set of rules set to keep his daughter away from the big bad world. He does not seem to be too fond of her friends especially Ritz who seems to be too modern in her lifestyle. His only expectation from his daughter, Navya, is to get a degree followed by a happy married life. Though he manages to send his daughter to a co-ed college, he remains wary of the city he is in and society at large.

He earns a nominal income, and is living in a company flat in Malad. He has a regular 9-5 job, and is a upper 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, is constantly worrying about his 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.

Neeta Mishra

The quintessential “Ditzy Housewife” who gets flustered easily and is extremely scared of Dadi despite her husband constantly assuring her not to take dadi’s words seriously. 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 comfort and reassurance. She is talkative and friendly and extremely lovable. Though not the best at household chores as she sometimes burns the rice and adds extra salt in the dal but the 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 that is required for the larger happiness of the family. She has a very quiet countenance and does not get upset or angry easily.

Shankar Dayal Bajpai

Shankar Dayal Bajpai is the patriarch of the Bajpai family. He is someone who has seen the carnage of the partition, and firmly believes that families should stick together, because anything can happen anytime. That is just one of the reasons his family lives jointly even in today’s metropolitan Mumbai. He has managed to keep the family values intact and all the men are involved in his family business of printing press called Geeta Press. He is a noted religious and cultural speaker. In all senses, he is a self-made man, and it is for this reason that he is highly respected by everyone, including his near and dear ones.

Om Prakash Bajpai

Om Prakash is the one actively running the publishing house, Geeta Press. Shankar Dayal just overlooks the business and is mostly involved in his lectures. Om follows his father’s ideals. He is as stern as his father and can be harsh with his words. He respects and loves his father more than anyone in the world and wants to make him proud and happy in whatever he does.





Sugandha

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 eldest bahu of the house, she takes care of every section of household-running that is allotted to her. She knows the hierarchy and rules of the house, and makes sure that she will follow it to the T.

To Anant, she is a loving mother, someone who understands that his troubles are a result of the adolescent phase he is going through and that her son is merely growing up. However, she does not think even for a minute that he will not grow to conform to the family’s traditions and practices.

Mohan

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





Rama

Hailing from Banaras, Rama is married to Mohan. Impressed by the Bajpai’s family, she tries to get Anant married with her sister, Shagun, and hatches a plan to achieve this end. But unfortunately her plans are foiled. By nature, 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.

Will Anant-Navya survive separation?

Navya and Anant are going through the pangs of separation in STAR Plus’ Navya. Meeta has forced Navya to go to Kanpur for six weeks of her vacation in hopes that Navya will forget Anant.

The obedient Navya will ask Anant not to contact her, and even have a small tiff with him regarding the same. Will this fight drive a wedge between Navya and Anant?

A STAR Plus.in source reveals, “After Anant’s attempt to call Navya in Kanpur, Navya will call him instead to ask him not to call her. Anant will be furious about the same and say her mother can’t dictate such terms. They should talk every day even though they are away from each other. But this will lead to an argument. Anant will be angry when Navya sticks to her decision. Later Anant will get into another argument with his friends when they too support Navya's decision not to talk. At Anant's house, Anant will be shocked to know that Nimisha isn’t at home and no one knows where she is.”

Talking with a heavy heart Navya says, “I know it is tough but I am going to do it. I was very sad to leave Anant but I didn’t want to lie to my mother or hurt her anymore. Ma made me promise I won’t talk to Anant during my stay in Kanpur and I intend to live up to the promise even if it hurts me. When I told Anant, he too took time to accept this decision. I am miserable and I know he must be too. I feel like crying all the time but I am trying to control myself as I don’t want to explain my predicament to my cousins. I told ma before leaving not to force me to leave and make me stay away from him as we had done nothing wrong, but she didn’t listen to me. If ma feels staying away from Anant and not talking to him for six weeks will make me forget him, she is wrong.”

Anant was quite agitated to hear from Navya about no communication. "Does her mom think that if we don’t meet, we will forget each other- I don’t think so. This will never happen. I can never forget Navya. I don’t understand how could Navya agree to such demands? It is very tough for me to be away from Navya. This punishment is for nothing as we have not done anything wrong. I hope I can survive the next six weeks.”

Will Anant keep his promise and not call Navya? Will the two survive the separation? Don’t forget to watch Navya every Monday to Friday at 10 pm only on STAR Plus.

Meeta to separate Navya-Anant

Times are tough for Navya and Anant who have been forced to stay away from each other due to Navya’s mother Meeta’s objection to their relationship. A livid Meeta feels her trust was violated and now she has decided to send Navya away to Kanpur. Navya will be stunned to find out.

“Meeta has kept her hurt and anger aside and has been thinking rationally on how to deal with Navya and her relationship with Anant without letting anyone else know about it in the family. The mother in her wants to hold Navya back while protecting her from the ire of her father. Meeta has ensured that Navya does not talk to Anant and even sternly warned him. Anant too has tried to meet Navya with the help of Ritz and Appy but in tonight’s episode, Meeta will refuse to send Navya out even with the girls. Navya and Anant will suffer in silence and are unable to meet as they will be studying for their upcoming exams. Their separation will be hard for both of them. On the other hand, Rama’s pregnancy pretense will come to an end as Mohan will learn from the test results that she is not pregnant but he will wonder how to break the news to the women of the house who are happy about the supposed pregnancy.”

Meeta is still feeling bad for slapping Navya in the heat of the moment but is equally hurt and angry too. Meeta explains, “Yes I decided to do something to keep Navya and Anant away from each other and sending her away is the best way. If she stays away from him for over a month or two, she will forget him. She can come back and start afresh. I want her to overcome this madness and behave herself. Young minds are impressionable and without contact with him, Navya will forget him totally, I am sure. I don’t want her father to know about Anant or else the repercussions will be severe. I know she will be upset when she finds out that she is being sent away but I hope later she realises it is for her own good. This is the right decision for Navya.

Navya says, “I am grappling with the situation and it is very hard for me. On one hand I am worried about Anant and how he is taking this separation while on the other hand, I am scared of what Ma will do next. She is keeping tabs on me, my phone, my conversations – basically everything. I am overwhelmed, overloaded with all kinds of emotions - anger, hurt, guilt, sadness, emptiness. I don’t know what to do, how to convince Ma that I didn’t mean to do anything wrong and that Anant and I love each other. I don’t know what she has planned for me but I have an inkling that she is thinking of something. I hope she gives me a chance to explain and understands me. I want everything to work out.”

What will happen when Anant finds out that Navya will be sent away? Will Navya obey her mother quietly? Don’t forget to watch Navya every Monday to Friday at 10 pm only on STAR Plus.

Navya Story and Synopsis

Navya is a story of a girl who is torn between traditional ideals and rules of the modern world

Navya symbolises the new young generation of India. A 19-year old college goer, Navya is an extremely identifiable and average girl-next-door, who is confused about her life like a lot of young India is. Navya naturally balances modernity & traditionalism in her day-to-day life without even consciously thinking about it. Like most youngsters today, Navya has middle class parents, who constantly struggle between being parents and friends to their children.



Her friends enjoy better freedom at home - one of them also has a boyfriend and Navya secretly wishes for one who would do mushy things for her, yet she is happy in her own world. As luck would have it, Navya falls in love with Anant, a boy hailing from a traditional and conservative family. Over time, the story beautifully captures Navya and Anant’s journey of love and their trials and tribulations in trying to stay uniquely Indian and yet moving ahead with the