1. Plot

2. Soundtrack

3. Cast
    Main  Recurring  Voiceover 

4. Reception

5. Awards and nominations

6. References

7. External links

Nageen Mirza

The show has been critically acclaimed for its performances and script. Critics have also praised its setting that correctly shows the viewers how the 1990s were.^[5][6]

Plot

The story is narrated by the adult versions of the main characters, Naina and Sameer. The story starts in 1990, in Ahmedabad, India. Naina Aggarwal, a 16 year old, studious student of Pragati Vidya Ka Mandir lives with her Chacha-Chachi Anand and Bela, their daughters and her cousins Pooja and Preeti, and her father Rakesh, elder brother Arjun, Taiji-tauji Beena and Naresh and their son Pralay.

Sameer Maheshwari, a 16 year old, living in a hostel in Nainital. He is a happy-go-lucky, good looking boy and shifts to Naina's school. She instantly falls for him and constantly tries to gain his attention. But Naina ends up in situations where she has to stand against Sameer. one such situation it is found that someone stole the exam papers for the Head boy contest. Arjun and Sameer are therefore thoroughly checked as they are the only two who contest, here, Naina proves Sameer guilty due to a misunderstanding Whereas he is actually innocent and it is Naina's brother who has actually stolen the papers due to much pressure from his father. Sameer is therefore slapped by Naina's father and Naina's father questions Sameer's upbringing. Sameer thus develops hatred for Naina and decides to take revenge by engaging in a bet, wherein he has to make Naina say "I love you" to him and make her hug him so that he can question Naina's upbringing.Sameer tries his best to win the bet.

After a few months, Naina's school goes for a trip to Mount Abu, where Sameer pretends to be in love with her and later is confused about his own feelings after experiencing Naina's caring side and her love for him. Naina, thinking his intentions to be true, confesses her love. At that moment, she learns of the bet and that Sameer pretending to be in love. This leaves Naina completely heartbroken and depressed, and starts hating Sameer.

Sameer, now realises that he too has fallen for her. So to gain her back, Sameer tries different ways of apologizing.Meanwhile, Naina's brother gets to know about the bet and starts to beat Sameer for playing with Naina's feelings.But durung the fight Arjun falls off the stairs and hurts his leg. Naina's father holds Sameer responsible for this and asks hi to serve Arjun until he is alright.During this punishment Sameer helps Naina's family at various problems and eventually wins Naina's heart atlast. Naina, at first is stubborn and refuses to forgive but later on forgives Sameer and starts their relationship afresh.

Sameer shares about his relation to his grandpa, who likes Naina very much. He asks to give his wife's saree to Naina to be worn on farewell day. But unfortunately, Sameer's grandpa passes away. He becomes depressed. So, he is taken to Delhi to overcome depression. Sameer faces a lot of problems in Delhi due to his step-dadi (Kitu Giddwani) who doesn't like his presence. Sameer bonds with his Step-brother Rohan and his step-sister Deepika. Naina and Sameer, though separated for almost a year, love each other very much and their relation goes strong. Sameer returns to Ahmedabad within a year and the couple reunite.

After schooling, both the lovebirds enroll to same college, VJN college. The relation is going strong and deepens day by day. But one day, Sameer takes Naina on a trip to celebrate her birthday, things are going well, but due to a series of unfortunate circumstances, Naina reaches home very late. While she is scared about facing her family's wrath, her family is busy questioning Arjun and Shefali, who is their neighbour, about their relationship. Shefali confesses that they are in love but Arjun denies as he is scared, this leads to their break-up and a humiliated Shefali is forced to leave the town. Naina now decides to break up with Sameer as she doesn't want to go through what Arjun went and does not want Sameer's heart to break. Thus, Naina and Sameer break-up, which results in Sameer becoming a sage.

Beena decides to get Naina married to a CA, Sharad, who is very arrogant and narrow minded. Against the will, Naina has to agree to the alliance, depressing Sameer. To woo Naina, Sameer proposes to Sunaina, which Sunaina takes seriously. After Sharad misbehaves with Anand, Naina breaks off the alliance, to which the family agree.

One day Anand gets to know of their relation. On seeing Sameer's true love, dedication and loyalty towards Naina, he approves of their relationship. Thus, Sameer and Naina reunite as Naina now has someone from her family supporting her. Sunaina gets jealous and constantly tries to separate the two, meanwhile breaking Swati (Naina's best friend) and Naina's friendship.

Naina later becomes the General Secretary of the college. So, Sameer and Naina's relationship undergoes many trials and tribulations, which just makes their love stronger. Soon, there is a drama taking place at college and Naina and Kartik, who is their rival are selected as lead characters. Kartik hugs Naina on stage purposely and this angers Sameer. While trying to explain to Sameer, Naina is spotted by Taiji while saying "I love you", soon Taiji starts suspecting Naina and follows her everywhere to find who the boy is.

Anand, meanwhile travels to America. In his absence, Naina goes for a bike ride with Sameer. This is spotted by Taiji and Rakesh and are very much angry with Naina for having a relation with a 'Maheshwari' and also, Rakesh hates him. To hide the shame, Taiji decides to get Naina married to Sharad on the same day. Naina, feared, elopes with Sameer which creates a huge ruckus in the family. Naina and Sameer hide at a temple with their friends until Anand returns.

Naina and Sameer return home as soon as Anand returns. Naina, who thought Anand will support her, slaps her instead, leaving her shocked. Bela then clears the air saying she inly gave Naina permission to elope and how she was forced to marry Sharad. Anand apologises, and promises to get her married to Sameer.

After many problems, Naina's family agrees for the marriage. Hence, they get engaged. But at night function, the Maheshwaris insult the Aggarwals. This leads the familiies to break the engagement, much to the dismay of Naina and Sameer. But, after a few days, both of them get to know of the hatched plan of mamaji and tauji to break the marriage. Hence, tauji and Taiji refuse to attend any of the functions of Naina and Sameer. But Anand assures the couple that he will conduct the marriage. Rakesh reluctantly helps in the marriage preparations.

Sameer, heartbroken of his Mamaji's evil actions, leaves his home and decides to stay in Munna's home. However, he never leaves the idea of marrying Naina. Munna and Pandit help Sameer in his marriage preparation.

Due to a mistake made by Munna in the marriage card, Rakesh gets angry and decides to not attend the marriage, making Naina very sad.

But due to Principal sir's intervention, Rakesh decides to attend the marriage.

Thus, happily all wedding rituals take place. Haldi and Sangeet ceremony commences smoothly eventhough tauji and Taiji create many problems.

And finally, Naina and Sameer get happily married. But Naina now faces humiliation due to her own mistakes, like that she doesn't perform a post-marital ritual properly. She then drapes a saree in a wrong way, making Mamiji and other guests making fun of her. Her permed hair also gets exposed, which makes Naina red faced. She also makes halwa as a ritual, making it too sweet, again an embarrassing moment for her. Vivek also makes Vishakha leave her son and return to Delhi, which makes both Sameer and Naina sad.

Now, the newly married couple travels to Ooty for a honeymoon, where Naina misplaces her mangalsutra, another problem in the life of the couple. Meanwhile Juhi and Arjun marriage is fixed.

Soundtrack

The opening theme of Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai is composed by Anu Malik. The lyrics are written by Sanjay Chhel and it comprises the voices of legendary singers Kumar Sanu and Sadhana Sargam. The song has been praised for its melodious lyrics which refreshes the happenings in 1990's.^[5][6]

Cast

Main

• Ashi Singh as Naina Agarwal
• Randeep Rai as Sameer Maheshwari

Recurring

• Sanjay Choudhary as Munna aka Manoj, Sameer's bestfriend/cousin, Swati’s boyfriend
• Raghav Dhir as Pandit, Sameer's bestfriend
• Ayesha Kaduskar as Preeti Agarwal, Naina's sister/cousin
• Kristina Patel as Swati, Naina's bestfriend, Munna's girlfriend
• Somendra Solanki/Vivaan Singh Rajput as Arjun Agarwal, Naina's elder brother, Shefali's love interest.
• Madhusree Sharma as Bela Agarwal, Naina's aunt
• Sachin Khurana as Anand Agarwal, Naina's uncle
• Chandresh Singh as Rakesh Agarwal, Naina's father
• Abha Parmar as Beena Agarwal, Naina's aunt
• Sanjay Batra as Jagdish Agarwal, Naina's uncle
• Jayshree T. as Phulla Bua, Naina's bua dadi
• Manika Mehrotra as Rinky Agarwal, Naina's cousin
• Nidhi Bhavsar as Juhi
• Aditya as Pralay Agarwal, Naina's cousin
• Shwetha Rajput as Pooja Agarwal, Naina's cousin, Preeti's sister and Varun's wife
• Love Joshi as Varun Mittal, Pooja's husband
• Kiran Kumar as Jaiprakash Maheshwari, Sameer's grandfather
• Vaishnavi Mahant as Vishakha Somani , Sameer's mother
• Subuhi Joshi as Poonam Maheshwari, Sameer's sister-in-law
• Atul Verma as Devang Maheshwari, Sameer's cousin
• Melanie Nazareth as Prabha Maheshwari, Sameer's aunt
• Rajendra Chawla as Kamlesh Maheshwari, Sameer's uncle
• Riddhima Taneja as Deepika Somani, Sameer's half-sister
• Rohit Chandel as Rohan Somani, Sameer's stepbrother
• Sandeep Rajora as Bobby aka Vivek Somani, Sameer's stepfather
• Kitu Gidwani as Mrs. Somani aka Dadi, Sameer's stepgrandmother
• Hema Sood as Shefali Victor, Naina's pen friend, Arjun's love interest
• Simran Lulla as Amrita, Sameer's neighbour and friend
• Rishina Kandhari as Shanti Ma'am
• Rushad Rana as Lochan Sir
• Malina Kumra as Kamya, Naina's friend
• Hema Sai as Hema, Naina's friend
• Guddi Maruti as Principal of VJN College
• Vishnu Sharma as Jayesh Bhoummik Raval
• Arjun Aneja as Farhan Poonawala, Drama teacher
• Nirbhay Shukla as Vicky
• Nishi Singh as Sunaina Parekh
• Hitesh Sharma as Kartik Dholakia
• Vaibhav Shrivastav as Priyank
• Charu Trikha as Mitali
• Sejal Sharma as Dimple

Voiceover

• Sadiya Siddiqui as Naina's Voiceover
• Jiten Lalwani as Sameer's Voiceover

Reception

The show has received positive reviews. It was particularly hailed for a fresh outlook and for bringing out the nostalgia and the flavours of the 90s well.^[7] It topped Sony TV shows by gaining a TRP of 1.5 in its first week.^[8][9]

This show has also earned compliments from various television as well as film actors.^[12]

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• {{Imdb title|7383658}}
• [https://www.sonyliv.com/details/show/5565006864001/Yeh-Un-Dino-Ki-Baat-Hai Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai] on Sony LIV
• [https://www.setindia.com/ae-en/shows/yeh-un-dino-ki-baat-hai/34 Official website] on SET India

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