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Also known as | Agle Janam Mujhe Betiya Hee Kijo, Laali Ki Kahani, Charanadasi (Zee Telugu), Agle Janam Betiya Haamar |
Created by | Swastik Pictures |
Written by |
Kamlesh Kunti Singh Virendra Shawhney Mrinal Jha Shanti Bhushan Anshuman Sinha Sharad tripathi Sonali Jaffar |
Directed by | Rajesh Ram Singh |
Starring | Ratan Rajput as Laali |
Composer(s) | Yogesh Vikrant |
Country of origin | India. |
Original language(s) | Hindi |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 429 |
Production | |
Producer(s) |
Siddharth Kumar Tewary Gayatri Gill Tewary |
Location(s) |
Panchgani Maharashtra |
Production company(s) | Swastik Pictures |
Release | |
Original network | Zee TV |
Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 16:9 |
Original release | 16 March 2009 – 14 February 2011 |
Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo (Hindi: अगले जनम मोहे बिटिया ही कीजो!, meaning "Reincarnate me as your daughter" (?)) (International Title:Laali) is an Indian television series. It premiered on 16 March 2009 on Zee TV.
The series was supposed to be produced by Film Farm Pvt. Ltd. and was called Gauna until the writer Kamlesh Kunti Singh rechristened it. It replaced the long-running soap opera Kasamh Se of Zee TV by shifting Saath Phere to the 9pm slot. The show was eventually produced by Siddharth Kumar Tewary of Swastik Pictures and won the Parivaar Award in 2010. The show ended February 2011 with Choti Bahu Season 2 taking over the time slot.
Laali, a very poor teenaged girl, lives in a small village in the Indian state of Bihar with her parents, two younger sisters, and a brother. They belong to the Musahar caste and live at the bottom of the social hierarchy. They go through many trials and tribulations. Laali and her father have to support the family with little or no money. Laali was married as a child and had not yet had her gauna (the ritual in which a married woman leaves her parents and goes to live with her husband). A strong-man named Balli goes around her village, offering money in return for poor girls. He tries to buy Laali and eventually succeeds. He sells her to a rich zamindar, Thakur Loha Singh. Laali's parents lie to her that she is being sent to her husband through a gauna ceremony.
Loha Singh intends to give Laali to a businessman in exchange for a business deal, which, however, falls through. Therefore, Laali is kept by Loha Singh. He wants to use her for getting a grandson to carry on his family name. Both his sons are married, but the elder one, Ranvijay, has daughters while the younger, Shekhar has a barren wife. Loha orders Shekhar to get intimate with Laali in order to produce a male heir. At first Shekhar dislikes the idea but, after a few days, starts to respect and care for her. He tells her to stop waiting for her husband Ganesiya, who will never come. From the beginning, Laali likes Shekhar but feels sad for Siddheshwari, his wife. Shekhar also tells Laali that Siddeshwari wants them to get intimate for the sake of having an heir. At that same time Shekhar, encouraged by his mother, fights his father's ill-treatment of Laali, whom he sometimes keeps tied in the cowshed, and other poor villagers, especially women.