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Anupama Starlife. A Devoted wife and mother’s get disheartened when she discovers her husband’s infidelity. Vexed, she seeks divorce and decides to live life on her own terms.

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The story is about Gujarati homemaker Anupamaa, who is a devoted wife, mother and daughter-in-law. She has a family-oriented and self-sacrificing nature. Time and again, she is humiliated for being a mere housewife and for having an incomplete degree and education.

Meanwhile, Anupamaa’s husband, Vanraj Shah has been having an affair with his colleague, Kavya Gandhi for the past 8 years. Despite being warned by her best friend, Devika and Kavya’s husband, Aniruddh, she refuses to believe it and expresses her faith in Vanraj. On her 25th Wedding Anniversary, when Anupamaa sees Vanraj and Kavya getting intimate, she is left shattered and breaks ties with Vanraj and decides to live her life on her own terms. Anupamaa’s younger son, Samar also breaks all ties with Vanraj after learning the same. Rakhi informs the Shahs about the affair leaving them shattered. Soon, Anupamaa’s elder son, Paritosh marries Kinjal while Samar and Nandini fall for each other after Samar learns about Nandini’s infertility.

Anupamaa takes care of Vanraj’s health after he meets with an accident. Vanraj develops a soft corner for Anupamaa. He tries to express his feelings to her, but Anupamaa rebukes him for it. Anupamaa decides to start afresh and tells Vanraj that she wants a divorce. Vanraj fears losing Anupamaa and his family and leaves the house. Anupamaa finds him in a wellness resort in Surat and confronts him.

Anupamaa gets diagnosed with Ovarian cancer and asks Vanraj to sign the divorce papers. Later, Kavya and Aniruddh gets divorced with Kavya preparing for her wedding with Vanraj. Vanraj goes missing on the wedding day and is confronted by Anupamaa for lacking courage as well as commitment. Kavya and Vanraj get married. After getting successfully treated by an emergency surgery, Hasmukh asks Anupamaa to continue staying with them as she will always remain a part of their family, to which she agrees.

Kavya continuously taunts Anupamaa, trying to humiliate her and failing in her attempts to turn the family against her. Anupamaa Dance Academy gets established with the help of Samar and Nandini and the family rejoices. Anupamaa advises Vanraj to open a café in her academy but Kavya instigates him against Anupamaa and instead of being grateful for her help, he taunts her.

Anuj Kapadia, a successful business tycoon returns to India from USA. He turns out to be Anupamaa’s college batchmate and one-sided lover. Seeing Anuj and Anupamaa spend time together, Vanraj seethes with jealousy. Anuj’s team likes Anupamaa’s business idea and he offers her a partnership deal in his restaurant. Vanraj fumes and asks her to refuse the offer. Anupamaa signs the contract and joins Anuj as a business partner.

Meanwhile, Rohan, Nandini’s obsessive former boyfriend returns to win her back and attempts Samar and Anupamaa’s murders but gets caught red-handed by Anuj and leaves their lives fearing to be jailed for his father’s scams

Tired of all the taunts and accusations, Anupamaa decides to move out of the Shah house while Samar leaves with her. Later they start living in a rented house. Kavya makes Vanraj, Dolly and Anupamaa sign the property papers. In his frustration over Anupamaa’s repeated character assassination by some family members, Anuj confesses his unrequited love for Anupamaa to the Shahs, unaware that she overheard him. Initially shattered by one-sided love of Anuj, Anupamaa and latter get consoled and convinced by Samar and Gopichandra respectively to continue their relationship as friends.

Later Kavya reveals about tricking everyone signing property papers on her name, which makes Vanraj vengeful. He handovers divorce papers to her shocking everyone. However the latter refuses to divorce him. Meanwhile, Anuj gets injured while fighting with some goons and Anupamaa starts realising her feelings for him. She decides to stay at his residence until he recovers completely. However Vanraj shocks everyone by starting his business venture Vanika Teamworks with a girl named Malvika. However Malvika turning out to be Anuj’s sister and Anuj being an adopted child to Kapadias comes as a huge shocker for everyone.

Later it is revealed that Malvika suffers from depression and a victim of Domestic Violence by her former husband. While Anupamaa helps her to overcome the trauma, Kavya’s exit leads to a major argument between Samar and Nandini fuelled by Vanraj. While they clear their misunderstandings soon after Kavya’s return, Anupamaa gets shocked to know about Vanraj trapping Malvika in his love trap to become rich overnight and employees Kavya in her project to keep an eye on Vanraj.

Later Vanraj instigates Malvika against Anuj leading Anuj to transfer whole Kapadia Empire to the former. Anuj and Anupamaa vows to start a new chapter by relaunching Anupamaa Dance Academy.

On the night of Valentine’s Day while Anupamaa proposes to Anuj, Nandini leaves Samar due to her insecurities regarding marriage and returns back to the USA. This leaves him heartbroken and he vows to never believe in love again and decides to focus on his dance career and dance academy for his mother. Later Shahs prepare to celebrate Anupamaa’s forty-fifth birthday and Kinjal reveals her pregnancy making everyone happy.

But Paritosh refuses to be responsible for the baby and calls her a bad omen ultimately facing the wrath of the whole family and Samar takes the fatherly responsibilities of the child. Soon Anupamaa announces her decision to marry Anuj much to Vanraj, Leela, Kavya, Paritosh, Pakhi, and Rakhi’s dismay. As the marriage rituals start, Malvika fires Vanraj, Kavya, and Paritosh for unprofessionalism and Samar convinces Pakhi and Paritosh to attend Anupamaa’s wedding wholeheartedly and Kavya also joins team Anupamaa.

As the wedding approaches Hasmukh is diagnosed with heart disease and decides to delay the surgery till marriage and it is publicly revealed. He promises to take care of himself and Vanraj’s ego is hurt by Samar, Pakhi, and Paritosh’s growing affection for Anuj. Anuj promises to remain a father figure and friend to them only till the time Vanraj won’t come between Anupamaa and her children. Malvika leaves back to the USA for some legal issues and Anuj asks Anupamaa’s children to call him their “Anuj Buddy”.

Later Anupamaa promises that no one can come between a mother and her children and takes a promise in return to understand her. Later Leela also joins the wedding wholeheartedly and Anupamaa and Anuj marry in a grand way. Later Anuj transfers the signing authority of Kapadia Empire to Anupamaa and the newlyweds decide to adopt an orphan Anu from Mumbai’s orphanage. Soon Anuj’s cousin Ankush arrives with his wife Barkha while their children Sara and Adhik meet Samar and Pakhi respectively. Later it is revealed that Barkha pressures Ankush to demand a share in the Kapadia Empire and uses Adhik as her puppet for this.

As Shahs and Kapadias meet at the new Kapadia Mansion for the housewarming party, differences arise due to their class dissimilarity between Vanraj, Barkha, and Ankush’s egos while Samar-Sara and Pakhi-Adhik start becoming friends with each other. At Kinjal’s baby shower, it is revealed that Pakhi and Adhik are having an affair and Vanraj tries to control Pakhi which makes her rebellious.

Meanwhile, Sara determines to expose Adhik to being a playboy and his past affairs in the USA in front of Anupamaa. Soon Anuj comes to know about Ankush and Barkha’s bankruptcy and their ploy to get the Kapadia Empire and gets qualified to foster Anu with Anupamaa. Samar, Pakhi initially feels jealous but eventually accepts her as their sister while Paritosh and Kinjal get worried about their unborn child. Later problems start increasing as Pakhi and Adhik keep meeting secretly by bunking college and Barkha turns Pakhi rebellious against her parents by offering her a luxurious lifestyle.

Anupamaa vows to never return to Shah’s house after Pakhi crosses all her limits to badly humiliate her while Sara moves back to the USA for her further studies. Soon Anupamaa and Anuj arrange a Mahamrityunjaya Paath for both families amidst which he and Vanraj meet with a deadly accident over a cliff and Vanraj is assumed to be responsible for it. Anuj falls into a coma and Kapadias start misbehaving with Anupamaa and slandering her for her soft nature towards Shahs and cleverly takes control over Kapadia Empire.

However, Anuj comes back to consciousness and clarifies that the cliff accident was just an accident only and Vanraj tried to save him but they both fell off the cliff and banish Kapadias from Kapadia’s business. Samar also reconciles with Vanraj after learning the truth and starts calling him “Papa” again. While Kapadia plots through hook and crook to regain Anuj’s trust Kinjal delivers a baby girl. Later Rakhi catches Paritosh having an extramarital affair with a girl named Sanjana. Soon Shahs organize a naming ceremony for Kinjal’s baby and names her “Aarya” while Anupamaa learns about Paritosh’s extra-marital affair.

Paritosh blackmails Anupamaa not to reveal his affair but she refuses to bend down recalling her own trauma and reveals it in front of the whole family post which Vanraj ousts Paritosh from Shah’s house while Kinjal suffers depression and moves to Kapadia Mansion with Aarya. Later Vanraj brings back Paritosh to Shah’s house in an intoxicated state after meeting Kinjal. Kinjal also returns to Shah’s house as she did not want to become a burden on Anupamaa and Anuj and decides to divorce Paritosh on the grounds of adultery and cheating and Rakhi reveals that Pramod too cheated upon her when she was pregnant with Kinjal which turned her into a ruthless woman. Later, Paritosh calls the Foster Care Officers to take back Anu and accuses Anupamaa and Anuj of not fulfilling their duties. However, seeing the parental love and care of Anupamaa and Anuj for Anu and vice-versa they leave while Anuj slaps Paritosh after coming to know about his deeds.

Seven days later, Shahs and Kapadias celebrate Kanya Puja at their respective homes while Samar decides to never get married owing to his trauma of failed relationship with Nandini and two divorces in the family and expresses his fear of ending up like Vanraj and Paritosh. Later both families come together to celebrate the Garba event while Paritosh turns a psychopath for Kinjal and Aarya and decides to take revenge upon Anupamaa.

Later Kinjal decides to give a second chance to Paritosh for Aarya’s sake and he goes to a rehabilitation center to control his anger issues. Soon women and men plan their separate day-out while Pakhi too goes on a secret trip with Adhik and coincidentally stays in the same resort where the women are staying and bumps into Anupamaa. While Leela and Vanraj become more strict on her making Pakhi more rebellious about her decision to marry Adhik, the latter reveals his true intentions to Anuj as he genuinely started loving Pakhi after seeing her love which made him reform himself. Later, Anuj gets Anupamaa enrolled in a three-month financial literacy diploma course while Pakhi and Adhik elope and marry leading to the former getting disowned by Vanraj.

Later Paritosh returns from rehab and everyone agrees to a proper ritual wedding for Pakhi and Adhik on Anuj’s insistence. Meanwhile Barkha continues to misuse Pakhi’s greedy nature by influencing her against Anupamaa to the extent that Anupamaa slaps and kicks Pakhi and Adhik out of Kapadia Mansion and urges them to start their life by themselves. As a revenge Pakhi shifts to Nandini’s house in Shah’s neighborhood to trouble them with her unnecessary demands. Frustrated by drama happened at Pakhi’s marriage Anupamaa goes on a vacation with Anuj and meet Nirmit and Dimple who eloped and married and were going to Nirmit’s home as his family accepted their marriage.

However some goons stalks the four people and rapes Dimple after knocking other three down. Fearing to face his family Nirmit leaves Dimple while the latter decides to fight for herself. Dimple’s culprits threatens both families for supporting her but she manages to get justice for herself while Pakhi starts throwing tantrums on Adhik causing Adhik deciding to divorce her. However she reforms herself and he gives a second chance to their marriage while Anupamaa juggles between her responsibilities towards Aarya and Anu.
Cast

Anupama Starlife Full Casts

• Rupali Ganguly as Anupamaa “Anu” Joshi (formerly Shah): A talented Kathak dancer; a devoted homemaker and businesswoman; Kanta’s daughter; Bhavesh’s sister; Vanraj’s former wife; Paritosh, Samar and Pakhi’s mother; Anuj’s business partner and love interest; co-owner of Anupamaa Dance Academy. She used to get insulted by some family members, but realised her own worth after Vanraj’s affair revealation and decided to stand on her own feet. Initially shattered by Anuj’s feelings towards her she decided to continue her friendship. (2020–present)
• Gaurav Khanna as Anuj “AK” Kapadia: A business tycoon; GK’s foster son; Malvika’s elder adoptive brother; Anupamaa’s college friend, business partner and love interest; Devika and Samar’s good friend; Pakhi’s school trustee. He loved Anupamaa since college days and remained unmarried for his unrequited love towards her. He considers Gopichandra as his family and likes Samar and other supporters of Anupamaa since their very first meet. (2021–present)
• Sudhanshu Pandey as Vanraj Shah: Leela and Hasmukh’s son; Dolly’s brother; Anupamaa’s former husband; Kavya’s husband; Paritosh, Samar and Pakhi’s father; Malvika’s business partner and one-sided love interest. He used to insult Anupamaa and started an extra-marital affair with Kavya, but realised her worth as divorce approached. However soon after Anuj’s entry in their lives he started humiliating Anupamaa again. After getting cheated by Kavya in signing house papers on her name, he started a new business venture with Malvika and in his passion to become rich overnight trapped Malvika in his love game by telling half truth of his married lives to her. (2020–present)
• Madalsa Sharma Chakraborty as Kavya Shah (formerly Gandhi): Nandini’s aunt; Aniruddh’s former wife; Vanraj’s wife. Post her break-up with Aniruddh, she started an extra-marital affair with Vanraj. Initially used to show her concerns towards Anupamaa being innocent, she started hating her after affair revealation. She’s a greedy and self-obsessive woman who’s obsessed to Vanraj and leaves no chance to humiliate Anupamaa and her supporters. (2020–present)
• Paras Kalnawat as Samar “Bakuda/Samu” Shah: An excellent tap dancer and choreographer; Anupamaa and Vanraj’s younger son; Paritosh and Pakhi’s brother; Nandini’s former love interest; co-owner of Anupamaa Dance Academy. His passion for dance was criticised by some family members but Anupamaa as well as Nandini and Kinjal supported him to follow his dreams. He hates Kavya and Vanraj for deceiving his mother, but loves and supports Anupamaa immensely that often goes against whole family for her and loved Nandini in the same way and respects Anuj and his love towards Anupamaa since their very first meet. He considers Kinjal as his elder sister. However after Nandini leaves him due to her insecurities regarding marriage, he gets heartbroken and vows to focus on his dance career. (2020–present)
  • Vidvaan Sharma as young Samar (2022) (in flashbacks)

• Nidhi Shah as Kinjal “Kinju” Dave Shah: Rakhi and Pramod’s daughter; Paritosh’s wife; Anupamaa and Vanraj’s daughter-in-law. She loves and supports Anupamaa like her own mother and often rebukes Rakhi and Paritosh for their rough behaviour. She supported Anupamaa in her divorce proceedings and respects Anuj’s love towards Anupamaa. She’s like an elder sister to Samar and Pakhi and considered Nandini as her sister also. (2020–present)
• Ashish Mehrotra as Paritosh “Toshu” Shah: Anupamaa and Vanraj’s elder son; Samar and Pakhi’s brother; Kinjal’s husband. He used to humiliate Anupamaa just like his father and even taunted Samar and Kinjal for supporting Anupamaa in her divorce proceedings but later realized her worth. But started showing his true colours again after Anuj’s arrival in their lives but realised his mistakes thus beginning his relationship with Kinjal and career with a fresh start. He considered Nandini as his sister. (2020–present)
  • Unknown as young Paritosh (2022) (in flashbacks)
• Muskaan Bamne as Pakhi “Sweety” Shah: Anupamaa and Vanraj’s daughter; Paritosh and Samar’s sister. She also used to humiliate Anupamaa just like her father. But realized her worth after Kavya caused her to suffer from depression. Now she supports Anupamaa and respects Anuj’s love towards her. She’s like younger sister to Kinjal and considered Nandini as her sister also. (2020–present)
• Alpana Buch as Leela Shah aka Baa: Jignesh’s sister; Hasmukh’s wife; Vanraj and Dolly’s mother; Paritosh, Samar, Pakhi and Meenali’s grandmother. She also used to humiliate Anupamaa just like her son. But realised her worth after affair got revealed and supported her in her divorce proceedings. She again tried to humiliate Anupamaa after Anuj’s arrival but mended her ways after a reality check given by Hasmukh. (2020–present)
• Arvind Vaidya as Hasmukh Shah aka Bapuji: Leela’s husband; Vanraj and Dolly’s father; Paritosh, Samar, Pakhi and Meenali’s grandfather. He loves and supports Anupamaa like his own daughter and rebukes Vanraj and Leela for their insensitive behaviour. He supported Anupamaa in her divorce proceedings and respects Anuj’s love towards her. (2020–present)
• Shekhar Shukla as Jignesh aka Mamaji: Leela’s brother; Vanraj and Dolly’s uncle. He also loves and supports Anupamaa like his own daughter and rebukes Vanraj and Leela for their rough behaviour. (2020–present)
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• Deepak Gheewala as Gopichand “GK” Karodia: Anuj and Malvika’s househelp and foster father. He is like family to Anuj and Malvika after their parents’ demise and always supports Anuj and Anupamaa. (2021–present)
• Ekta Saraiya as Dolly Shah Patel: Leela and Hasmukh’s daughter; Vanraj’s sister; Sanjay’s wife; Meenali’s mother. She is like a sister to Anupamaa and supports her often rebuking Leela and Vanraj for their rough behaviour. (2020–present)

• Deepak Gheewala as Gopichand “GK” Karodia: Anuj and Malvika’s househelp and foster father. He is like family to Anuj and Malvika after their parents’ demise and always supports Anuj and Anupamaa. (2021–present)
• Ekta Saraiya as Dolly Shah Patel: Leela and Hasmukh’s daughter; Vanraj’s sister; Sanjay’s wife; Meenali’s mother. She is like a sister to Anupamaa and supports her often rebuking Leela and Vanraj for their rough behaviour. (2020–present)
• Paresh Bhatt as Sanjay Patel: Dolly’s husband; Meenali’s father. He is like a brother to Anupamaa and supports her often rebuking Leela and Vanraj for their rough behaviour. (2020–present)
• Stuti Zakarde as Meenali “Meenu” Patel: Dolly and Sanjay’s daughter; Leela and Hasmukh’s youngest granddaughter; Paritosh, Samar and Pakhi’s cousin. She is like daughter to Anupamaa and loves her immensely. (2020–present)
• Jasveer Kaur as Devika Mehta: Anupamaa’s best friend; Anuj’s friend. She supports Anupamaa and respects Anuj’s love towards Anupamaa. (2020–present)
• Tasneem Sheikh as Rakhi Dave: Pramod’s wife; Kinjal’s mother. Owner of Dave’s Excellency Coaching Institute, an arrogant and money-minded lady who judges people on the basis of their educational qualifications and financial background. She often becomes an overprotective mother to Kinjal thus creating problems for Shahs. She exposed the affair between Kavya and Vanraj in front of Shahs. Kinjal and Pramod often rebukes her for her insensitive behaviour. (2020–present)
• Madhavi Gogate/Savita Prabhune as Kanta Joshi: Anupamaa and Bhavesh’s mother; Paritosh, Samar, Pakhi and Nihar’s grandmother. She forced Anupamaa to get married post her husband’s demise. But now supports her always and respects Anuj’s love towards her. (2020–2021)/(2021–present)
• Mehul Nisar as Bhavesh Joshi: Kanta’s son; Anupamaa’s brother; Nihar’s father. He supports his sister and respects Anuj’s love towards her. (2020–present)
• Anagha Bhosale as Nandini “Nandu” Iyer: An excellent classical dancer and choreographer; Kavya’s niece; Samar’s former love interest; former Co-owner of Anupamaa Dance Academy. She supported Anupamaa and loved her like her own mother. She even warned Kavya against deceiving Anupamaa. Initially reluctant due to her bitter past she accepted Samar’s love after he clarified that her past doesn’t affected his love. She respected Anuj’s love towards Anupamaa. She considered Paritosh as her elder brother and Kinjal and Pakhi as her sisters. However she left Samar out of her insecurities regarding marriage leaving him heartbroken. (2020–2022)
• Aneri Vajani as Malvika “Mukku” Kapadia: Anuj’s younger foster sister; GK’s foster daughter; Vanraj’s business partner and one-sided lover. She’s a sweet fun loving girl who started her business venture with Vanraj as Vanika Teamworks. She loves her brother immensely and likes Anupamaa and family. But deep down she’s possessive towards her brother and mentally unwell due to her traumatic and abusive marital life. After starting her business venture with Vanraj she got infatuated by him and trapped herself into his love trap by listening to the half truth about his married lives. Later she breaks her partnership with Vanraj after realising her mistake but give another chance on Anuj’s insistence for the sake of Shahs. (2021–2022)
• Unknown as Nihar Joshi: Bhavesh’s son; Kanta’s youngest grandson; Paritosh, Samar and Pakhi’s cousin. He’s like youngest son to Anupamaa and loves her immensely. (2020)
• Rushad Rana as Aniruddh Gandhi: Kavya’s former husband. He tried to warn Anupamaa about affair for her well-being and later tried to save his marriage but in vain. (2020-2021)
• Apurva Agnihotri as Dr. Advait “Adi” Khanna: Owner of Blissdom’s Wellness Resort, a spiritual and free-spirited person; Anupamaa’s doctor and mentor. He became a good friend to Anupamaa and Shahs during their resort stay and Anupamaa’s fight with cancer. (2021)

• Varun Sharma as Rohan: Nandini’s former boyfriend and obsessive lover. He left Nandini after coming to know about her infertility, but returned to win her back by trying to manipulate Samar against Nandini, trying to defame her and later attempting both Samar and Anupamaa’s murders but got caught red-handed by Anuj and left fearing to be jailed. (2021)
• Payal Nair as Parul Sharma: Devika’s former sister-in-law; Pakhi’s principal. She helped Anupamaa to stand on her feet again by giving her a job as cooking teacher due to her excellent culinary skills. (2020–2021)
• Parull Chaudhary as Dr. Mona Chopra: Pakhi’s psychiatrist. She helped Pakhi to come out of her depression caused by Kavya. (2021)
• Bhakti Chauhan as Jhilmil: Shah family’s former househelp. She was like a sister to Anupamaa and supported her. (2020)
• Vivan Singh Rajput as Siddharth “Sid” Desai: Pakhi’s psycho classmate who blackmailed her. He was exposed by Anupamaa when he tried to molest Pakhi. (2020)
• Farukh Saeed as Pramod Dave: Rakhi’s husband; Kinjal’s father. He likes Shahs and rebukes Rakhi for her rough behaviour. (2020)
• Sunita Rai as Mansi Jain: Food critic at Vanraj’s café. She visited Vanraj’s café to review it. But got irritated by Kavya’s self-obsessive behaviour thus cutting 3 stars and giving only 2 stars due to customer service and Anupamaa’s food. (2021)
• Kiara Khantwal as Kiara: Video blogger at Vanraj’s café. She visited Vanraj’s café as a random customer to review it. Though she was also irritated by Kavya’s
• Sunita Rai as Mansi Jain: Food critic at Vanraj’s café. She visited Vanraj’s café to review it. But got irritated by Kavya’s self-obsessive behaviour thus cutting 3 stars and giving only 2 stars due to customer service and Anupamaa’s food. (2021)
• Kiara Khantwal as Kiara: Video blogger at Vanraj’s café. She visited Vanraj’s café as a random customer to review it. Though she was also irritated by Kavya’s behaviour alike normal customers but gave 5 star ratings for customer service and Anupamaa’s food and hospitality. (2021)