Ek Hasina Thi | |
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Title sequence intertitle of the series
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Genre |
Suspense thriller Crime drama Mystery |
Created by | Cinevistaas Limited |
Written by | Sameer Arora |
Creative director(s) | Siddharth Malhotra |
Starring |
Sanjeeda Sheikh Vatsal Sheth Simone Singh Ayub Khan |
Opening theme | "Ek Hasina Thi" by Sunidhi Chauhan |
Country of origin | India |
Original language(s) |
Hindi (primary) Bengali and English (minor) |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 216 |
Production | |
Producer(s) | Prem Krishen |
Location(s) |
Kolkata (setting) Mumbai (filming) |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 20 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | Star Plus Urdu 1 |
Picture format |
576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
Original release | April 14 | – December 20, 2014
External links | |
Website | www |
Ek Hasina Thi (English: There was a beautiful woman) is a Crime thriller television series created by Cinevistaas Limited for the channel Star Plus from 14 April 2014 to 20 December 2014. Produced by Prem Krishen, Ek Hasina Thi is loosely based on the American series Revenge. The series has Sanjeeda Sheikh and Vatsal Sheth as leads, and, Simone Singh and Ayub Khan in supportive roles. The show is set in Kolkata, but is filmed in Mumbai. The series was earlier titled Daag.The show was acclaimed by critics and viewer and it was one of the most successful show of Star Plus at that time.Simone Singh's performance has been lauded.
It was dubbed into various languages: into Telugu as "Durga", into Malayalam as "Oru shishirathinte ormakku" and into Arabic as "Laheeb Al-Huqd / لهيب الحقد" (English: Flames of hatred) on MBC Bollywood.It was also dubbed into Sinhala as "Sulanga wage avidin".
The plot opens with Durga Thakur (Sanjeeda Sheikh), an ambitious and confident young woman who has recently returned from the United States and encounters with Goenka family who are the in Kolkata. Rajnath (Ayub Khan) and Sakshi Goenka (Simone Singh) are the parents of Shaurya Goenka (Vatsal Sheth), a very good-looking spoiled brat and a womanizer who is besotted by Durga. After talking with his friends, they decide that Shaurya has to win Durga for a bet for a one-night stand and he is willing to go to any extent for it. Durga, however, has some other plans and is the caretaker of Payal Mitra (Teena Chopra), a mental patient who has a mysterious past with Goenka family and loses her mental equilibrium whenever she sees Shaurya. Shaurya and Durga go on a series of dates and spends maximum of their time together upsetting Sakshi. Sakshi feels restless near Durga because Durga has a growing influence on Shaurya, who does not consciously realizes this fact. Also, Sakshi speculates that everytime Durga is near her son he gets in some kind of trouble.