UTV Software Communications created an interesting TV series in India called Sarhadein. Broadcasted for the first time on Zee TV in 26th September 2001 with only 91 episodes it finished the run on 18th June 2003. Produced by
Deven Khote
,
Ronnie Screwvala
and
Zarina Mehta
they made this TV series to run in another countries than India. Starring Smita Bansal, Govind Namdeo,
Aamir Bashir
,
Homi Wadia
,
Surendra Pal
,
Hussain Kuwajerwala
,
Ravi Gossain
and other stars they won The Indian Telly Awards in the year of 2002 and the actor Govind Namdeo won the Best Actor in a Negative Role interpreting Kedar Nath in series. Sarhadein series explains how two families, Indian and Pakistani can successfully share same family values, parental aspirations and most important, traditions, even they live in separate countries.
Sarhadein TV series presents a love story between an Indian young girl and a Pakistani boy when both falling in love in college where the meet at studies in Kuala Lumpur. During the love story they meet many obstacles and restrictions because of their different religion, also they try to convince the parents to accept the relationship between them when they will go back in India and Pakistani. The show challenges the society to accept the couples with different religion and pass the everyday stereotypes.