Swaabhimaan (Hindi pronunciation: [sʋɑːbʱɪ.mɑːn]; transl. self-respect) is an Indian soap opera directed by Mahesh Bhatt and Debaloy Dey and was scripted by Shobha De and Vinod Ranganath.[1][2][3]
Swabhimaan | |
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Genre | Drama |
Created by | Amit Khanna |
Written by | Shobha De Vinod Ranganathan Surabhi Pandey (Dialogue writer) |
Starring | see below |
Opening theme | "Ek Pal" by Sunita Rao, "Kaise Unhein Bhool Jaye" by Shaan |
Country of origin | India |
Original language | Hindi |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 800 |
Production | |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 25 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | DD National |
Release | 6 April 1995 1 May 1998 | –
Swaabhimaan divulges the story of an attractive woman - Svetlana - who finds herself in a battle where there are no real winners. Insecurity, suspicion and fear threaten to erode her vivacious spirit as she struggles to come to terms with her position - that of a pampered mistress whose tycoon patron Keshav Malhotra dies leaving her to cope with the ugly aftermath of the tragedy: inheritance wars, succession rights, property entanglements, petty quarrels and above all, emotional turmoil that threatens to destroy her.[4]
Character | Actor |
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Svetlana | Kitu Gidwani |
Ronnie Banerjee | Abhimanyu Singh |
Ranjana Devi | Anju Mahendru |
Mahen Malhotra | Deepak Parashar |
Nishi Malhotra | Kunika |
Rishabh Malhotra | Rohit Roy[5] |
Medha Hegde | Channa Ruparel |
Abhijeet | Vinod Pandey |
Sheela | Prabha Sinha |
Ritu Malhotra | Sheetal Thakkar |
Tyagi | Ashutosh Rana[6] |
Sunil | Manoj Bajpayee |
Grover | Sharad Kapoor |
Neetu | Rinku Dhawan |
Bobby | Karan Oberoi |
Soha | Achint Kaur |
Babli | Tanaaz Currim |
Yuvraj | Anupam Bhattacharya |
Shivani | Sandhya Mridul |
Kunwar Singh | Arun Bali |
Karan | Harsh Chhaya |
Gayatri | Simone Singh[7] |
Devika | Mita Vashisht |
Rakshanda | Sagarika Soni |
Rakshanda's Husband Ranjeet | Rajesh Khera |
Dinesh Shah | Pankaj Berry |
Rashmi | Poonam Dasgupta |
Eknath | Kumud Mishra[8] |
Rajat | Mukesh Khanna |
KD | Shishir Sharma |
Walter | Rajeev Paul |
Maitri | Kiran Juneja |
Bansal | Vineet Kumar |
Daughter | Shana Sood |
Keshav Malhotra | Nasir Abdullah |
Tauji | R. S. Chopra |
Swabhimaan: The role was small, but prominent enough to get Simone Singh noticed. The petite actress who played Gaayatri (Harsh Chhaya's love interest) did justice to her role despite the ensemble cast in this Mahesh Bhatt serial.
Kumud Mishra played the character of Eknath in the 1995 Doordarshan drama Swabhimaan.