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Gangaa (also known as Sagar Ki Ganga) is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language soap opera that airs daily Monday to Friday at 8:00 pm in the UK and at 8:30pm on &TV. It premiered on March 2, 2015. In 2015, the show won the award for "Best Programme with a Social Message" at the Indian Telly Awards, as well as a "Best Child Actress" award for Ruhana Khanna as young Ganga. In November 2016, Ruhana bags an award again for Desh Ki Ladli- Most Promising Child Star as Krishna at the Indian Telly Awards On August 29 on Jamnashtami, Ruhana Khanna, who played child Ganga, made her comeback as Ganga and Sagar's daughter Krishna, 8 months after being replaced by Aditi Sharma as grown up Ganga.
Plot
The show centres around a young girl named Ganga (Ruhana Khanna) who becomes a widow on the same day as her marriage when her husband and her father, with whom she was very close, are killed in a riot on the bank of the River Ganges in Varanasi. The show follows her struggle for her right to live happily, opposing all the restrictions placed upon widows by society. The show goes on to follow her life in the Chaturvedi house when Niranjan a well known lawyer in Banaras , brings her to his house and her friendship with Sagar (Swar Hingonia).
10 years later, the show documents the pure love Ganga has for her soulmate Sagar (played as grown ups by Aditi Sharma and Vishal Vashishtha), who returns from London and their fight to stay together despite the many consequences of their love and their fight for Ganga's rights.
As 7 years pass,Ganga is seen bringing up her and Sagar's daughter Krishna (Ruhana Khanna) alone. Sagar who is aware of the truth that Krishna is his daughter is trying to win Ganga's love and trust back to live happily again.
Then the journey takes a turn when Ganga and Sagar get married because Sagar's father has blood cancer.
Cast
Main cast
- Aditi Sharma as Ganga Sagar Chaturvedi/Shukla
- Vishal Vashishtha as Sagar Niranjan Chaturvedi
- Ruhana Khanna as Krishna Sagar Chaturvedi
- Hiten Tejwani as Judge Niranjan Chaturvedi
- Gungun Uprari as Madhvi Niranjan Chaturvedi
- Sushmita Mukherjee as Kanta Chaturvedi "Ammaji"
- Abhishek Tiwari as Pulkit Niranjan Chaturvedi
- Roop Durgapal as Supriya Pulkit Chaturvedi
- Puja Sharma as Kashish Sameer Mirza
- Akash Gill as Yash (Antagonist)(dead)
- Rakhee Tandon as Prabha (Antagonist)(dead)
- Sunil Jetly as Maharaji (chef)
Former cast
- Rucha Gujarati as Zoya Niranjan Chaturvedi / Zoya Sameer Mirza (antagonist)
- Jaya Bhattacharya as Sudha
- Nivedita Tiwari as Supriya Pulkit Chaturvedi
- Romanch Mehtha as Ratan (Dead)
- Nausheen Ali Sardar as Rahat Sameer Mirza (Dead)
- Panchi Bora as Jhanvi Sagar Chaturdevi (Dead)
- Gaurav Deshmukh as Sahil
- Sarwar Ahuja as Palash Banerjee
- Rizwana Shaikh as Mehri
- Mohit Abrol as Rudra
- Divyangana Jain as Ragini
- Ahsaas Channa as Saloni
Previous Main Cast (before 10 year leap)
- Ruhana Khanna as Child Ganga Shukla
- Swar Hingonia as Child Sagar Niranjan Chaturvedi
- Vedant Sawant as Child Pulkit Niranjan Chaturvedi
- Suman Shashi Kant as Chief Minister
- Pooja Sethi as Drishti
- Sanjay Gandhi as Omkar
- Priya Wal / Gunjan Vijaya as Barkha (Dead)
- Samir Sharma as Raj
- Samridh Bawa as Bal Mahant Gautam
- Mukul Nag as Kanta's Husband (Dead)
- Raj Singh Verma as Ganga's Bappa - Father (Dead)