Tamanna

Synopsis

The story revolves around Dharaa who wants to become a cricketer and the sacrifices she has to make in order to achieve her dream. Dharaa is supported by her father and soon convinces her grandmother about playing cricket. She continues playing well and a promising future seemed to lie ahead. But the sudden deterioration of her father's health convinces her to agree to marry Mihir soon, a guy with whom her alliance was going to be fixed. She is initially happy and continues playing cricket, but soon realises her husband's chauvinistic side. He treats Dharaa like a prisoner and controls her. He even went to the extent of doubting her character, and feels that Shubhangi, his and Dharaa's daughter, is not his but Diwakar's, his boss and their neighbour. Fed up of Mihir's possessive nature and insulting behaviour, Dharaa divorces Mihir.

After that M.N.Roy gives Dharaa a job as a cricket coach in a school in Merut. Seeing the bitterness between the Hindu and Muslim students she decides to first make one single team and she succeeds in it but because of a little war between the two players Sanjay and Salamat causes riots again in Bulandganj. She decides to resign but the students apologize to her and then she starts to coach them again. Mihir arrives in Bulandganj and is gathering evidences to portray Dharaa as an irresponsible mother to gain Shubhangi's custody. But Dharaa convinces the judge of her capability of single-parenting alongside her coaching. Mihir then realises his mistake and walks away. Bhanu Pratap and Khan conspire to make riots and assault Bashir and kill Gafur but later get arrested. During this Sanjay and Salamat become friends, and Mridula gives birth to a baby boy at the same time. Dharaa's team gets selected in the tournament and they slog hard and win the trophy. Mihir comes back to Dharaa but Dharaa turns him down and returns to Jamnagar.

Cast

Anuja Sathe as Dharaa Solanki

Harshita Ojha as Young Dharaa

Deepak Wadhwa as Sanjay Pratap Singh

Ram Kapoor as Avinash Arora

Vishal Gandhi as Mihir Shukhadia: Dharaa's ex-husband

Ketki Dave as Baa

Kiran Karmarkar as Deepak Solanki: Dharaa's father

Ruchi Savarn as Mridula: Dharaa Friend, Sameer's wife

Sailesh Gulabani as Sameer: Mridula's husband

Rajlaxmi Solanki as Dharaa's mother

Ashish Vidyarthi as young Dharaa's coach

Harsh Chhaya as Coach Roy

Seema Deo as Roy's mother

Nimisha Vakharia as Mihir's mother

Hitesh Rawal as Vijay Agnihotri: Mihir's father

Sudhanshu Pandey as Diwakar Limaye: Mihir's New Boss

Anchal Sabharwal as Lavanya

Rajesh Khera as Advocate

Rohit Chandel as Imran

Pankaj Berry as Bhanu Pratap

Raju Kher as the school principal

Guests

Sonali Kulkarni as Dharaa's Advocate

Kiran More as himself

Production

The series was launched on 21 January 2016 in Mumbai.

Before its premiere, initially titled as Badal Pe Paun Hai, later was renamed as Tamanna due to astrological reason.

The story is set in Jamnagar, Gujarat. The series was filmed in Gujarat and Mumbai. It was a planned finite series which was expected to end on May, but popular demand paved way for its extension till June.

The title track was composed by Suhail Zargar.

Reception

In March 2016, Daily News and Analysis, in their list of 10 female characters of Indian television who stand out progressive, included the lead character Dhara among others stating her ambition as unique.

Hindustan Times stated the story as refreshing and criticised, "The narrative and pace of the show, which took a while to reach the crux of the story."