Saaya (Indian TV series)

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Saaya (transl. Shadow) is an Indian soap opera aired on Sony TV in 1998.^[1][2] The series was produced by popular production house, UTV Software Communications and revolved around two very different girls – Sudha (Manasi Joshi Roy) and Kamiya (Achint Kaur) who become friends.

Saaya
Written by	Vinod Ranganathan Praveen Raj Abhiram Bhadkamkar
Directed by	Sanjay Upadhyay
Starring	see below
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	130
Production
Running time	24 minutes
Original release
Network	Sony Entertainment Television
Release	17 August 1998 (1998-08-17) – 7 February 2001 (2001-02-07)

Premise

Sudha is a quiet, fragile and an incredibly shy girl who comes from an orthodox family where her father Jagat Narayan has the final say. Kamiya, on the other hand, is bursting with a vibrant zest for life and is an extroverted, confident young girl from a modern family.

Sudha and Kamiya meet in college and become best friends always there to support each other through the rough times until things change between them.

Cast

• Manasi Joshi Roy as Sudha^[3]
• Achint Kaur as Kamiya
• R. Madhavan as Shekhar^[4]
• Amar Talwar as Mr Mehra, Tanya father
• Manju Vyas as Mrs Mehra, Tanya mother
• Karan Oberoi (singer) as Karan Mehra
• Nitesh Pandey as Manoj
• Prakash Ramchandani
• Harsh Chhaya as Bhaskar Sir
• Mandeep Bhandar as Bhaskar wife
• Rajendra Gupta as Jagat Narayan, Sudha's father
• Savita Prabhune as Sudha's mother
• Pamela Mukherjee as Sudha's sister
• Anup Soni as Prakash, Sudha's brother
• Loveleen Mishra as Prakash wife
• Shrivallabh Vyas as Sinha, Shekhar's father
• Shreechand Makhija as college principal
• Lalit Parimoo as Police Inspector Makhija
• Shishir Sharma as Chief Editor Krishnamurthi
• Daya Shankar Pandey as Assistant Editor Pandey
• Rajesh Khera as Ranvir Rastogi
• Varun Vardhan as ad agency owner of Eazyclean washing powder (Episodes 20 to 25)
• Vaquar Shaikh as Arnav Nanda
• Dinesh Kaushik as Ranvir Rastogi promoting partner. (Special Appearance) Episodes No 41 to 45
• Murli Sharma as Malik (Special Appearance Episode 114,115)