Dill Mill Gayye

Dill Mill Gayye.
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Genre	Medical drama, youth show, Romantic Comedy
Created by	Palki Malhotra
Directed by	Nissar Parvez, Amit Mallik, Aniruddh Rajderekar, and Rahul Agarwal
Starring	See Below
Opening theme	"Dill Mill Gayye" by Sonu Nigam & Prajakta Shukre
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi
Production
Producer(s)	Cinevistaas Limited
Running time	approx. 25 minutes
Release
Original network	STAR One
Picture format	576i (SDTV),
Original release	20 August 2007 – 3 October 2010
External links
Website

Dill Mill Gayye (translation: Hearts Have Met) is an Indian youth medical drama series that aired on STAR One. It was a sequel to the Star Plus series Sanjivani - A Medical Boon (2002-2005). The show was primarily based on the new generation of medical interns with a specific focus on Dr Armaan Malik's (played by Karan Singh Grover) and Dr Riddhima Gupta's love story.

Airing history

The show aired on STAR One on 20 August 2007, and ended on 29 October 2010. It aired on Monday to Thursday at 8:30pm. Later its timing was Mon to Fri at 8pm. It had two seasons.

Plot

Dill Mill Gayye follows the lives of surgical interns and resident doctors of Sanjeevani. Set in the backdrop of Sanjeevani Hospital, it deals with the pressures, drama, romance, inter personal relationships and humour in their lives.

Season 1 (2007–09)

The first season follows the lives of surgical interns and resident doctors of Sanjeevani. The show starts off with introduction of 5 interns Dr. Riddhima Gupta who also happens to be Dr. Shashank's daughter from the prequel, Dr. Armaan Malik, Dr. Anjali Gupta, Dr. Atul Joshi, and Dr. Sapna Shah. Dr. Shashank continues to play an important role in this sequel of Sanjivani as the head of the hospital and father of Riddhima and Anjali. Armaan and Riddhima start to fall in love after a rough start, Atul falls in love with Anjali who is Riddhima's sister. Dr. Sapna Shah Gets Married and leaves Sanjeevani. Three new Interns Enter: Dr. Rahul Garewal, Dr. Muskaan Chadda, and Dr Nikita Malhotra. Muskaan and Rahul's family decided their marriage but they didn't agree. Muskaan falls for Armaan and Rahul falls for Riddhima. Nikita turns out to be Armaan's and Rahul's college friend. Later on Muskaan and Rahul fall in love however they break up due to difficulties. Nikita falls for Dr. Abhimanyu Modi a senior doctor. Season one ended on a cliffhanger showing Riddhima and Armaan getting shot in a shootout right after they get engaged and Abhimanyu's estranged wife Jiah returns.

Season 2 (2009–10)

Season 2 starts off with 5 new interns Dr. Siddhant Modi, Dr. Yuvraj Oberoi, Dr. Naina Mehta, Dr. Tamanna Patil, Dr. Jitendra Prasad. Yuvraj and Naina fall for each other. Siddhant falls for Tammana, but Tammana makes Siddhant realize its nothing else than just a crush, and true love will come in his life. Tammana heads off to Canada with her fiance, Aniket. Dr Riddhima returns to Sanjeevani 9 months after the terrorist attack on Sanjeevani. Siddhant and Riddhima have a rough start but they gradually becomes acquaintances. Circumstances lead them to get Married where Riddhima tries to commit suicide but fails. Riddhima tries to forget her past and move on with her life. They gradually started to fall in love which also includes a rough beginning. But on the other hand Armaan returns to Sanjeevani after he is treated, to get back together with Riddihima. This again leads to misunderstandings between Siddhant and Riddhima. But Siddhant and Riddhima decide to save their marriage. Naina and Yuvraj have a breakup, led by Naina's father not letting Yuvraj and her get married. Yuvaraaj and Siddhant's younger sister, Suvarna go to the U S together, because Yuvraj was missing Naina.Suvarna goes to the U S as well to help fix fix Yuvraaj and Naina's relationship, and a new intern Shilpa Malhothra who is Riddhima's half sister joins Sanjeevani as well. Shilpa and Armaan clash but soon start to like each other. Siddhant tries to help Armaan move on with his life by uniting Shilpa and Armaan. Siddhant and Riddhima decide to remarry. Yuvraj has come back from the U S to participate in the wedding and so had Anjali(who unfortunately doesn't end up with Atul). After the marriage the couple goes on their honeymoon. There they meet Naina and a surprisingly unexpected visit from Yuvraj, DR.JP and Nurse Jiggy. Naina and Yuvraj talk where Naina tells Yuvraj that they can't be together but Yuvraj says that no matter who Naina marries she will never be able to love anyone like she did, Yuvraj. He also tells her that she will never be able to move on to someone else and forget him. They don't end up together as they decide to go their separate ways. Siddhant and Riddihima's marriage is not successful and Siddhant decides to divorce Riddhima so she can pursue Armaan, when he finds out that she still loves Armaan. Shilpa decides to leave when she learns that her feeling for Armaan are one-sided and that he stil loves Riddhima quite deeply, when Arman chases her she tells him that she loved him. Unfortunately Shlipa is unable to tell Riddhima that she is her sister and tells Sid to do it for her.Sid tells Armaan to tell Riddhima after the divorce. Riddhima decides to leave Sanjeevani when she realises that no would want to marry a divorcee. When Armaan and Riddhima confess their love for each other Siddhant shows up with Yuvraj who joke about getting their partners (Sid is tearing up). But in at the end Dr. Armaan gets his true love Riddhima. (At the end of the show Riddhima still doesn't know that she shares the same father as Shilpa)

Cast

Role	Actor	Season(s)	Description
Dr. Armaan Malik	Karan Singh Grover (2007–2010)	1, 2	Cool dude of Sanjeevani. Ridhima's love interest
Dr. Riddhima Gupta/ Dr. Riddhima Siddhant Modi	Shilpa Anand (2007–2008)	1	Armaan's love interest
	Sukirti Kandpal (2008)	1	Armaan's love interest
	Jennifer Winget (2008–2010)	1, 2	Armaan's love interest, get's engaged to Armaan in season 1
Dr. Shashank Gupta	Mohnish Behl (2007-2010)	1, 2	Head of Sanjeevani hospital. Father of Anjali and Ridhima
Dr. Atul Joshi	Pankit Thakker (2007–2010)	1, 2	Eco-friendly and lives with plants. Armaan's best friend and Anjali's love interest.
Dr. Anjali Gupta	Sunaina Gulia (2007–2010)	1, 2	Ridhima's sister. Atul's love interest.
Dr. Siddhant Modi	Karan Wahi (2009–2010)	2	Abhimanyu's younger brother.
Dr. Kirti Mehra Rai	Sonia Singh (2007–2010)	1, 2	Sanjeevani's senior doctor. Shubhankar's love interest.
Dr. Shubhankar Rai	Ayaz Khan (2007–2010)	1, 2	Sanjeevani's senior doctor. Kirti's love interest.
Dr. Sapna Shah	Muskaan Mihani (2007–2008)	1	Sanjeevani intern. Marries Amit.
Dr. Rahul Garewal	Mayank Anand (2008–2009)	1	Friends with Armaan and Muskaan's love interest.
Dr. Muskaan Chadda	Drashti Dhami (2008–2009)	1	Rahul's love interest.
Dr. Abhimanyu Modi	Amit Tandon (2008–2010)	1, 2	Senior doctor in Sanjeevani. Nikita's love interest.
Dr. Nikita Malhotra	Shweta Gulati (2008–2010)	1, 2	Loved Armaan since college days, but falls in love with Abhimanyu in Sanjeevani.
Dr. Tamanna Patil	Moulshree Sachdeva (2009)	2	Sidhant's love interest, but gets engaged to someone else.
Dr. Naina Mehta	Neha Jhulka (2009–2010)	2	Yuvraj's love interest.
Dr. Yuvraj Oberoi	Sehban Azim (2009–2010)	2	Naina's love interest.
Dr. Jitendra Prasad	Prasad Barve (2009–2010)	2	Intern in Sanjeevani.
Dr. Jiah Modi	Preeti Amin (2009)	2	Abhimanyu's first wife.
Dr. Shilpa Malhotra	Shilpa Anand (2010)	2	Ridhima's sister and loves Armaan but leaves him for Ridhima.
Dr. Suvarna Modi	Madhura Naik (2010)	2	Sidhant's and Abimanyu's sister.
Dr. Yuvraj Singh	Barun Sobti (2010)	2
Padma Bansal Gupta	Shilpa Tulaskar(2007–2008)	1	Head nurse in Sanjeevani. Shashank's wife.
	Ekta Sohini (2009–2010)	1, 2	Head nurse in Sanjeevani. Shashank's wife.
Nani	Vinita Malik (2007–2009)	1	Shashank's mom. Ridhima and Anjali's grandmother.
Ananya 'Annie' Mallik	Meher Acharia Dar (2009)	1	Armaan's mom.
Minnie	Swini Khara (2007, 2009)	1	Patient in Sanjeevani. Armaan's 'girl-friend'
Jignesh 'Jiggy'	Karan Paranjpe (2009–2010)	2	Nurse in Sanjeevani.
Balvinder 'Billy' Mallik	Aashif Sheikh (2009–2010)	2	Armaan's dad.
Bubbly	Roopal Tyagi (2009–2010)	1	Shubhankar's sister.
Patient Tamanna	Jannat Zubair (2010)	2	Patient in Sanjeevani.

Note: Dr. Riddhima Gupta was portrayed by three actresses. Shilpa Anand, who was the first one to portray Riddhima in season 1, returned in season 2 to play Dr. Shilpa Malhotra.

Soundtrack

• Dill Mill Gayye- Title Track Sung by Sonu Nigam (Indian singer) and Prajakta Shukre (Contestant of Indian Idol 1)
• Dill Mill Gayye- Sad Track Sung by Sonu Nigam
• Asmaani Rang Ho Composed by Pranit/(Female version )- Sung by Aishwarya Majumdar(Contestant and winner of SVOI Chhote Ustad)
• Asmaani Rang Ho Composed by Pranit (Male)- Sung by Ali Haider
• Asmaani Rang Ho Lyrics by Pranit
• Ishq Leta Hain Kaise Imtehaan (Armaan and Riddhima's tune)
• Dill Mill Gayye 'Kaisa Hain Yeh Khumar'
• Saajnaa (Armaan-Shilpa Tune)

Reception

Malini writing for the Times of India in November 2012 addressed the show as a "cult youth show" she also addressed the fact that the show went through turbulent times when Karan Singh Grover left. Somashukla Sinha Walunjkar also writing for the Times of India in June 2012 wrote that Karan Singh Grover became a huge teenage icon in 2007, and that the show had the best ratings on the channel STAR One, she also stated that there is a demand for season 2 even one and half year after the show going off air.

Awards

• 2008 - Best Promising Star - Karan Singh Grover - Kalakar Awards
• 2008 - Best Jodi - Karan Singh Grover and Shilpa Anand - New Talent Awards
• 2009 - Best Singer - Sonu Nigam - Indian Television Academy Awards
• 2010 - Best Youth Show - Indian Telly Awards

External links

• Official Website on hotstar
• Dill Mill Gayye at IMDb