Hindi Tv Serial Shastri Sisters - Cast & Crew

Kalpana Khurana is an Indian Creative Director and a freelance Content creator for TV and web platforms. Kalpana is self-employed and has written and directed a few Indian TV shows.

Kalpana has written the script of Shastri Sisters: Chaar Dil Ek Dhadkan along with Neelima Bajpai, Damini Kanwal Shetty, Rajita Sharma, Nidhi Singh, and Amit Babbar. The serial premiered on 21 July 2014 and ended on 8 August 2015, and was  created by Shakuntalam Telefilms. The show revolved around Narayan Shastri and his daughters- Alka, Anoushka, Devyani, and Piya, who lived together with their father in Kanpur. The Narayan family decided to relocate from the small town of Kanpur to the relatively bigger city of Delhi. Having spent their entire life in Kanpur, they experience cultural differences in their n...

Swati Kumar is an Indian TV actress, popular amongst the regional audience for her work in TV shows like Tamanna, Shastri Sisters, etc. Mostly known for her critical involvement in Hindi short films, theatres, and daily soaps, she has often been admired by the local critics and spectator for her exceptional performances so far as an on-screen artist.

Born and brought up in Rajasthan, Swati completed her schooling from Jaipur and moved to Delhi for further studies. Soon enough, she found herself in Mumbai, pursuing her dream of becoming an actress. After struggling for a few years, she got a break in the renowned TV show Shastri sisters. 

Nidhi Singh was born in 6 in Allahabad, in Uttar Pradesh. She was raised in Allahabad and completed her schooling from there. Her first film debut was “The Drama of the Dagger” in 2013. Nidhi’s hobbies include traveling. Her father, Birendra Singh is a doctor, and her mother a teacher by profession. She also has two elder brothers, one of whom is a singer.

Nidhi never sensed that she wanted to act, but she discovered it at quite an early age when she was in class 9. Nidhi Singh is popularly known for her role as Tanya in TVF web series Permanent Roommates. She made her Bollywood Debut in Dil Juunglee, starring Taapsee Pannu and Saqib Saleem. Nidhi also faced the film camera with Ranbir Kapoor which was edited out.

She had been currently shooting for two Bollywood feature films. She had also worked in a...

Priyanka Khera made her entry into the Television world with a Colors popular TV serial Shastri Sisters. Her attractive personality and powerful depictions have made her an admired persona within a short period. Priyanka is portraying the character of a22-year-old girl Channi. Channi left alone at a very early age, grows up with her bhaiya and bhabhi while fantasizing and hoping to have her own family one fateful day. In the story, she is married to Varinder(Viren), which is an absolute fairy tale story worth listening. This marriage has been a massive boost of confidence to her life and also brought out her perceptive personality that was unfamiliar to her family so far. Channi’s life story takes a melodramatic turn when she gets to know the truth about Viren’s and Jassi (Sonali Nikam) relationship.

In a recent int...

Ms. Neelima Bajpai is a creative brain behind the run of Shakuntalam Telefilms, since the day of its launch in the year 2004. She along with Shyamashis Bhattacharya led this vision of entertainment business and started the production house in Mumbai. Both Shyamashis and Neelima had first produced a documentary for Doordarshan.

The documentary was inspired by a book written by IPS officer Kiran Bedi. The title of the show was ‘Galti Kiski’ and was aired on DD in 2003. After this programmer, they had never looked back. Neelima has a background of being associated with the core team of TV 18 from 1996 to 2001 and even has written and directed shows like ‘Bhanwar’ and ’Haadas’.

In addition, she proved her mettle in direction award-winning shows like ‘Crime Patrol’ and ‘K...

Rajita Sharma is the author of ground-breaking displays Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai and Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin. A lady with originality and an eye for aptitude, Rajita started her creation house Magic Lantern in connotation with producer and director Vivek Budakoti in 2011. The original show under their poster was Ram Milaayi Jodi which afterward became one of the most popular movies she created and also gave the realm of Indian tv two gifted performers, Priyal Gor and Nishant Malkani. Now, Magic Lantern is all set to generate impressions with their newest contribution to Life OK, Tum Dena Saath Mera. In an exclusive chat with Rajita, she explains about her demonstrations, the business of TV production and more. How did she initially come up with the idea of Tum Dena Saath Mera? One day the team was free-associating with the network admi...

Poonam Bhatia is an Indian TV serial actress. She mainly acted in Hindi serials. She has brought freshness in all her shows. She is an old hand at TV serials having done serials namely Kairi, Bani, Sasural Simar Ka. She also has a good working relationship with the Color TV as all of her serials are aired on the channel.

Recently, she was roped in to play the role of Leela Massi in the popular Colors TV show Shastri Sisters. She also essayed to the same role for the Tamil remake of this serial in the name of Kaanchana.

Chaitrali Gupte is an actress on Indian television. She established her identity as an actress with her hard work and talent in the industry. She is the sister of Bhargavi Chirmule, who has acted in many shows and movies and currently playing the role of Sita's mother in Siya Ke Ram which is telecasted on Star Plus. Chaitrali was always interested in dramatics since childhood and took an active part in it. She pursued it eventually when she got opportunities. Vinay Apte was the person who spotted her talent. She praises him as an intelligent and creative director.

Vinay Apte directed her Marathi play ‘Sattadish’ which was a political satire where she played the role of the wife of Amol Kolhe, who was the lead actor. The play also featured Sheetal Kshirsag...

Sonal Vengurlekar is an Indian model turned television actress. She was born on June 12, 1993 at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She studied at Mumbai University and pursued a degree in Bachelor of Arts. But when she’s about to finish her degree, she left school to pursue her acting career. Initially, she did small roles and sometimes appeared in cameo roles. Sonal then juggled her career and studies at the same time.

Sonal appeared in the Season 2 of the teen sitcom, The Buddy Project which was aired on Channel V India. She essayed the role of Rukmini Sharma who has some difficulties in college since she doesn’t know how to speak in English. Sonal also made an appearance in the horror fiction show, Haunted Nights on Sahara One. She did 5 episodes entitled, Honour Killing from December 24 to December 28, 2012. Sh...

Smita Singh is an Indian television actress who has appeared in several widely acclaimed television soaps. She has been associated with some very popular shows like “Kkusum”(2001), “Woh Rehne Waali Mehlon Ki”(2005) and the most popular of all “Bhagyavidhaata”(2009) wherein she portrayed the role of leading vamp character Punpunwali.

The show addressed the issue of "Pakadua Phaadi" prevalent in some regions of Bihar. Eligible boys from decent families are kidnapped by girls' relatives and made to wed at gun point. Smita plays the role of a mean sister-in-law of the protagonist in the show Bindiya, a middle class girl who is very innocent and suffers neglect and ill-treatment in the family after marriage. The show is based on Bindiya’s struggle to sustain he...

Shraddha Jaiswal is an extremely talented actor of the Hindi Television Industry. She was a regular girl from Kolkata, who visited the city of dreams, Mumbai, to pursue her dreams. Shraddha did her schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Salt Lake, and graduated from Calcutta University. In Mumbai, she was spotted by director Rajeev Ojha who gave launched her debut via popular daily soap, ‘Gustakh Dil’. Shraddha played the role of Aayesha here. ‘Gustakh Dil’ is a romantic drama depicting about two lovers who meet, drift away and eventually meet once again. Shraddha’s role of Aayesha in this serial, has been praised by many.

Right after coming under limelight, she was also casted in the popular tele-serial Madhubala aired on Co...

Sara Khan is a popular Indian TV actress. She won the Miss Madhya Pradesh Title in 2007 and did anchoring for Doordarshan and ETV. She made her television debut as Sadhna in the popular Star Plus show Sapna Babul Ka...Bidaai. She later starred in Bigg Boss Season 4, Ram Milaayi Jodi, Welcome- Baazi Mehmaan-Nawaazi among others.

Sara Khan was born on August 6, 1989 in Bhopal, India. She did her schooling from Bhopal itself before moving to Mumbai, where she did her graduation from Mumbai University. She made her television debut in Sapna Babul Ka...Bidaai. She also worked as an anchor in the Sony TV dance show, Dance Premier League. She has acted in two films till date, Payback (2010) and M3-Midsummer Midnight Mumbai (2014). Her acting skills won her many awards such as The Best New Talent Award in 2008 ...

Damini Kanwal Shetty was interested in acting since her childhood and started acting in plays at a very young age. She joined a theater group named ' Drikshravan' and acted in some plays for the group under the direction of Jairoop Jivan. In a few years the group was dissolved and she joined 'Yatri' group of Om Katare. She did many plays for Yatri but her performance in Bhaag Chalein and Woh Tum Hi Ho were noted and she was established as an actor in professional theater in Mumbai. Some of her plays were also directed by Shekhar Suman. 

Later on in life, she got married to raj Shetty, producer  and started her own production house. Her acting had to be shelved for the time being when she gave birth to his daughter. She being a creative could not hold back for long and started i...

Neha Pednekar was born in 1989, in Mumbai. She has done her schooling in Mumbai but she has not gone to College as she  had to start working very early in her life in order to become an independent person. She completed her higher secondary and started working at a tender age of 16 years. 

She took up her work as a hair stylist and started working under a beauty expert. Slowly she developed a passion for the job and even got a tattoo of a scissors on the back of her palm so that the scissors move with her fingers when she worked her fingers for hair styling. 

She was interesting in acting since her childhood and always wanted to act in TV serials. She omitted it for some time when she started in her career as hair stylist but it did not much tiem for the acting bug to c...

Neelu Kohli is an Indian TV actress who hails from Punjab but now settled in Mumbai. She is working in TV serial s since long and by her excellent performances, has created a niche for herself. 

She was first noticed in the TV serial Bhabhi which was telecast on Star Plus during 2002-03 in the role of Nanda Chachi. The serial was produced by Ronnie Screwwalla and Zarina Mehta for  UTV Software Communications. It was the story of a girl who after getting married to Dr. Prakash loses track of her husband due to being in a veil and lands up being in another family and a person who has never seen as her husband. A severe crisis arises in her life due to mistaken identities for her as well as her husband and she spends her life sorting out the issues. The role played by Neelu in the serial was small but ...

Navneet Nishan was born on October 25, 1965. her father was an Army officer. Most of her childhood was spent in Patiala and Chandigarh. She joined National School of Drama after completion of her education in Delhi and soon established herself as a devout theatre artist. Like all other artists her relocation to Mumbai was just a matter of time and in Mumbai also she soon established herself as an artist with great acting mettle. 

She has worked in a number of movies with great success some of which are Waaris in which she debuted, Dilwale, Khuddar, Raja Hindustani, Achanak, Janam Samjha Karo, Salaam-e-Ishq and many more. She was also seen in 2010 movie 'My Name Is Khan'. She also acted in a number of successful Punjabi movies and some of them are Ik Kudi Punjab Di in 2010, R.S.V.P. In 2013 and Aa Gaye Mu...

A lot more serials,drams are about to come in upcoming year from her. She is determined enough to make her career bright. Pragati Chourasiya is being a top celebrity in India day by day. Studying about the Independence Day in school has made her feel very patriotic about the country. The revolt of 1857 has especially made her put our country up on a pedestal. H...

Ishita Ganguly is an Indian television actress known for her role in 2014 television series Shastri Sisters. Ishita Ganguly was born in 1995 in Kolkata, West Bengal. Before venturing into Hindi television serials, she was featured in Bengali serials like Achena Manus and Ekti Chotto Meyer. Ishita Meyer has been acting on the television serials very early on from the age of thirteen.

According to media reports, Ishita Menon landed her first break in Indian serial via social networking site Facebook. Producers of Shastri Sisters made a contact via Facebook and requested for her video portfolio. Impressed by her body of work and screen presence, the produced requested her for final screen test. She went to Mumbai and impressed the producers and landed the role in the serial.

In Shastri Sisters, s...

Here is a girl who met with a major accident while she was travelling near Trichy in Tamil Nadu, lost one of her legs but never gave that as an excuse to stop her dancing rather attached a prosthetic Jaipur leg and came back with a josh and acted as dancer in a film called Mayuri. Isn’t that a wonderful story which boosts one’s confidence level. That’s Sudha Chandran, a sysnonym for WILL POWER.

Born in Kerala, to Mr Chandran and Mrs. Thangam, on September 27 1965, Sudha did her schooling and degree and PG in Mumbai. Meanwhile she learnt Bharathanatyam and Kathak also. She is such an ace dancer that she has her own dance school Natya Mayuri Sudha Chandran Dance Academy in Mumbai.