Hum Dono Hain Alag Alag

Hum Dono Hain Alag Alag is a teen romance drama that airs on STAR One since July 13, 200. It initially started airing from Monday to Thursday, at 10 pm, but Friday was soon added to the schedule affter two weeks at the same time slot. Hum Dono Hain Alag Alag is a story of two odd couples, how they come together, their conflicts and how they work around the strange situation they find themselves in.

Format Teen Drama
Written by Divy Nidhi Sharma
Directed by Dharmesh Shah
Opening theme "Hum Dono Hain Alag Alag" by Sachin Sanghvi
Country of origin India
No. of episodes 200+

Production
Producer(s) Paresh Rawal
Swaroop Rawal
Hemal Thakkar
Running time approx. 20 minutes

Broadcast
Original channel STAR One
Original run July 13, 2009 – Present

Plot

The show starts with the oldest son of the Kothari family, Varun "Tappu" (Yash Pandit), getting rejected by yet another girl (22nd) to be her groom. Meanwhile, Rajshree (Harsha Khandeparkar), their neighbour and their daughter's best friend, is introduced. At the same time, the younger Kothari son, Aditya "Adi" (Manish Raisinghania) celebrates with his girlfriend, Mallika, their first anniversary of their relationship in a restaurant. Whilst all this, Avantika (Dimple Jhangiani), at her house, describes her dream man to her friends and grandfather, Omkar.

Tappu sees Avantika at a restaurant and falls for her at first sight and Rajshree has feelings for Adi ever since childhood. Tappu tells about his love to Adi and they make plan of a sale in their saree store where Avantika is sure to come and they can know her name since Tappu couldn't make it out.

Adi sets on training Tappu to impress a girl with the help of Mallika, while making Rajshree weep at on occassion. Tappu is due to meet Mallika at a park but when she arrives Tappu, being nervous, walks away while Mallika follows her and Avantika takes notice of Tappu but couldn't make out his face.

Avantika visits the sale in the saree store but Tappu fails to talk to her. Avantika, who is still dreaming of that man, by chance visits is house but fails to see him though she meets his whole family and also gets his name, as Varun, and phone number.

Avantika calls upon Tappu and they plan to meet each other at a coffee shop but Tappu fails to get on time for the date.

The day after, Avantika calls Tappu and asks him to meet her at the same place. Tappu falls in mud en route, where he breaks his glasses, and buys clothes, without properly seeing, that are completely opposite to his avatar. His apparently new look impresses Avantika and she falls for him intimately.

Meanwhile, things don't work out between Rajshree and Adi as he is totally in love with Mallika. Rajshree doesn't confess but Adi doesn't seem to care but his mother, Anu, notices love in Rajshree's eyes and makes her confess to her. She proposes Rajshree as Adi's bride to his father, Mafatlal, and he agrees thinking Anu to be talking of Mallika. Rajshree is heart-broken when Adi declares Mallika as his life partner.

Meanwhile, Omkar decides to introduce Tappu to Avantika and she agrees after Tappu doesn't receive any of her phone calls. Tappu soon confesses his love but nothing can be done about it. But fate has something else for the two of them as they meet again when Omkar asks Tappu and his family to come to his home and see Avantika.

With their agreement, Mafatlal also agrees to wed Adi and Mallika on the same day as Tappu and Avantika.

Tappu realizes that Avantika loves a part of Tappu, his avatar at the date, which doesn't exist anymore and writes her a letter telling the truth but the letter gets in the hands of Omkar before Avantika.

Characters

Main Characters

Varun "Tappu" Kothari (Yash Pandit) - Varun is the eldest son of the Kotharis and he works in the family-run sari store. He is soft spoken and polite. In spite of being the elder son of the family, Varun does not have too much say in any of the family affairs and always finds himself at the back end. He is quiet by nature and is not too well versed inconversing with a woman unless he's selling her clothes. Varun is also extremely methodical and likes to stick to a routine. He hates trying anything new and his immediate reaction to anything is always a "no". Varun falls for Avantika at first sight when he sees her at a restaurant while she quarrels with her grandfather.

Avantika "Avi" Trivedi (Dimple Jhangiani) - Avantika lives with her grandfather since she lost her parents at a very young age. In spite of being brought up with a lot of care, she still yearns the love of a family. She always manages to get her way.She is an attractive girl; a livewire, who loves to dream, loves to dance and lives her life to the fullest. She is affable, very open-hearted, and gets a lot of good will and love form everyone around her. She wants to be in love, but doesn't quite have a clear image of the man of her dreams. But she does want a family that will love and accept her. Avantika gets that clear image in Varun but that Varun doesn't exist.

Aditya "Adi" Kothari (Manish Raisinghania) - Varun's younger brother, he is charming, flirtatious, outgoing, adventurous, loves parties, believes in trying everything at least once, and quite a fitness freak. At 24, he too helps his father in expanding the family business. Suave and street smart, Adi is the opposite of his meek brother. He knows how to extract money among other things from his miser dad. For Aditya, love has already happened and cannot happen again. Marriage thus is a necessity more to silence the pressures of his mother than his need for a life partner. So Aditya is ready to fulfill his responsibilities as a husband. Aditya has no hint of the feeling Rajshree has for him and never remembers her name, except that it has "shree" in it and has already called her by "Jayshree", "Bhageshree",

"Devashree" and even "Sridevi".
Rajshree Goradia (Harsha Khandeparkar) - She is Varun's best friend Gajendra's sister. She is the typical girl that would fit the bill of a matrimonial advertisement. She is a quiet, homely, girl who believes in putting others needs before hers. She has been brought up with the idea of marriage, the ideal kind, where the wife does everything she can to please not only her husband, but his entire family. She goes to the temple everyday. She loves Aditya and makes frequent trips to the Kothari household to get a glimpse of Adi and get noticed by him. In spite of doing everything right, all of Rajshree's attempts to get acknowledged by Adi end up futile.

Support Characters

Mafatlal Kothari - Mafatlal is the father of Varun, Aditya and Parvati. He is a miser, in a funny way, and hates expenses whether little or more and keeps blabbering at any expense his eyes can see. Mafatlal hates Varun because he reminds him of his own failures.

Anu Kothari - Anu is Mafatlal's wife. She is very caring and loves her family. She is opposite of her husband as she loves Varun the most amongst her children.

Dadaji - He is the father of Mafatlal. He is lazy and mostly keeps quiet. He loves sweets despite his diabetes and Anu used to secrectly give him sweets until, on his birthday, she learns that his sugar level risen too high.

Daadi - She is Mafatlal's mother. She is religious and very strict. It is only she who can keep Mafat's mouth shut when he starts his blabbering. She shows more affection towards Varun and Parvati than Aditya.

Parvati "Paro" Kothari - Paro is the younger sister of Varun and Aditya. She visits college and Rajshree is her best friend.

Gajendra "Gajju" Garodia - Gajju is Varun's best friend and Rajshree's older brother. If not Aditya, Gajju is the first person Varun asks for advice about anything. He does give advice but they rather rarely end up with good results. He also keeps asking weird questions to Mafatlal and, recently, Omkar.

Mallika - She is Aditya's girlfriend. They recently celebrated one year of their relationship. She doesn't really love Aditya but his money. She has, for a long time, been trying to persuade Aditya to get married but he has always put her down for he wants Varun to get married first. She has criticised Varun once and it had landed a short fight with Aditya, showing Aditya's love and responsibility towards his family.

Omkar/Daddu - Omkar is Avantika's grandfather. He has raised Avantika with a lot of love and care. He is in search for a groom for Avantika so that he can see her get married before he dies.
Ram and Leela - Ram and Leela are husband-wife maids in the Kothari household. Ram is very slow at his work and is easily fooled and has a bad, rather comic, relation with Mafatlal, who has reportedly not given Ram's salary for few moths as penalty of his action which are not bad but rather slow. Leela is quick at her work and also serious and likes to make fun of Ram.