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AVATARS OF GEET ( DRASHTI DHAMI )

Basic Information

Drashti Dhami is an Indian Television Actress who currently plays the Lead role in Star One’s prime time No.1 show ‘GEET-Hui Sabse Parayi’. Her portrayal of Geet has won her a lot of appreciation and a huge fan following, not only in India but also abroad. Prior to this she played the role of Dr.Muskaan Chaddha in the serial called ‘Dill Mill Gayye’ which again is a Star One show.

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Birth and Life

Born and brought up in Mumbai, Drashti is known by many for her bubbly and vivacious nature. She was born on the 10th of January, 1985 in a Sikh Punjabi family. After schooling at Mary Immaculate Girl’s High School, Borivili(West) she joined Mithibai college to pursue an Arts degree and majored in Sociology. Drashti presently lives in Borivili with her Parents, elder brother and sister-in-law..

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Other Interests

Apart from her wonderful acting skills, Drashti is also known for her modelling, her many lovely ads and her amazing dancing. befor her debut in Dill Mill Gayye, Drashti used to model, act in many ads of which Lion Honey, Chevrolet Spark, VIP bags and Reliance Mobile are just a few. She has also been a part of many music videos like ‘Saiyyan Dil Mein Aana Re’ which was her debut in music videos. Having been a Dance Instructor earlier on in life, Drashti excells in the field of Bollywood dance.

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Favorites

Color: White

Song: With or Without You (-by U2), Romeo and Juliet, I gotta Feeling (-by Black Eyed Peas)

Food: Paani Puri

Cuisine: Indian

Perfume: Estee Lauder’s Pleasure

Things to shop for: Anything and Everything

Music: Rock

Bollywood Actor: Shah Rukh Khan

Dream Date: Hrithik Roshan

Breakfast: Cornflakes, A Cheese Sandwich

Zodiac: Capricon

Drashti’s Perfect Man

The actress describes her perfect man as: “My soul-mate should be handsome, but at the same time have a good sense of humour. He must be a very family oriented person and should give me freedom to express myself. Most importantly he should give me money for shopping whenever I want.”

As Dr. Muskaan

The character of Dr. Muskaan was Drashti Dhami’s first real role. Dr. Muskaan is a friendly, vivacious, chatterbox, extrovert; happy go lucky person. She entered the show,upon her transfer to Sanjeevani Mumbai from Sanjeevani Amritsar. She transferred to escape the pressures of getting married, and to gain some independence. Her family and Rahul’s family knew each other well, and at one point had even wanted them to get married, but it didn’t work out. Known for her fun loving personality, punjabi pride, and well known laugh; she could make anyone smile. She had a zest for life, and when she got mad, she was mad. She was also known for fighting imfamously with Dr. Rahul, using any gaali one could imagine, and they even had the famous store room fight! She had an infatuation for Dr.Armaan but slow started to develop feelings for Dr. Rahul later on. After falling in love with Rahul who reciprocates, due to certain problems, their love story is left hanging with their exit from the show.

As Geet

The news of Drashti Dhami being chosen as the main lead for this show, brought the lost smiles back on the faces of all thse fans who were extremely dejected at the way Drashti (or more precisely Rahul-Muskaan’s) track came to an end in DMG. Geet is a happy, lively, fun loving girl who hails from a small town, Hoshiarpur in Punjab. She belongs to a close-knit, traditionalist family which upholds honor, respect and dignity above all else. The story begins with Geet’s wedding. Her family is ecstatic as they have found the perfect match for their daughter – a young, successful NRI (Dev), who brings with him the promise of a bright and happy future. The highlights of the show are the NRI marriage related problems which are prevalent in India. how she faces the challenges and stands for the rights and values she believes in.

The central character – Geet is played by Drashti Dhami, has acted beautifully in this show. The audience loved Geet’s innocence and her shyness as much as they love her more recent mindblowing comic timing as well. The characterization of the show has been done perfectly and this can be identified with the present Punjabi traditional family that stays in the villages of Punjab.

The entry of Dev, the main lead of the show played by Abhinav Shukla wass perfect. He has done a good job of playing an NRI from Canada and has his accent in place as well. All other actors have portrayed their characters very well and the true essence of the show is the Punjabi village set up which looks pretty authentic on screen, like the haveli (mansion) where Geet stays, which has the taste and blend of Punjabi culture. The music, with the title song sung by Daler Mehendi, is Punjabi in flavour.

Geet Handa is an 18 year old girl, full of life and yet repressed by her Darji and elder brother Brij who do not approve of her going to college. Both men believe that she is a burden who must be married of quickly and any antics from her side are punished severely.Brij is also responsible for the death of Channi, a friend of Geet’s, who had fallen in love with a boy before marriage (thus disgracing the family in Brij’s estimation). This drives Channi’s mother crazy who makes several appearances in front of the Handa’s and curses them.

One day Geet secretly takes her younger brother, Titu, riding on a scooty where she loses her chunni and they get in to a small accident. This is the first meeting point of Dev and Geet who tries to give Geet back her chunni, only for a terrified Geet to bolt. However, when a Canadian rishta arrives, Geet is shocked to find that the prospective groom is none other than Dev, accompanied by his mother, elder bhabi (Naintara) and sister.

Whilst Geet does not wish to go to Canada, the alliance is fixed and Dev quickly wins over her trust. However he informs the family that due to some problems back in Canada, they must get married in the next few days, and that too from Dev’s house as that is their tradition. Geet’s family reluctantly agrees and heads towards the wedding point.

En route they stop at a mela where Geet is given a taveez by a palm reader who tells her that she will meet her life partner very soon. Geet is separated from her family and chased by goons when she bumps in to Maan Singh Khurana. She begs him for help but he walks away. However when Geet falls in to the sea, he saves her and despite wanting to be rid of her, drives her to where her family is in an attempt to get rid of her. However he quickly becomes annoyed with Geet and leaves her in the middle of the road where she is found by her family. Unbeknown to both of them, Geet’s taveez is left with Maan.

Naintara informs Geet that her signature is requested on a blank piece of paper for the Canadian Embassy. Dev’s family also receive many gifts and Geet’s share of the Handa land as Dahej. The wedding takes place and both Dev and Geet consummate their marriage. However it is revealed that Naintara is Dev’s real wife, the wedding was a fake in order to get money from the Handas and Dev’s family have no intention of taking Geet with them to Canada. This is proven when they drug her and leave her at the airport.

The Handa family on learning the truth are devastated but Geet refuses to believe that Dev has left her. She runs away from the family in order to find Geet but is chased by her brother Brij. Geet hides in a jeep which turns out to be Maan’s. She learns that her land has been sold and realises that Dev has betrayed her.

Maan returns Geet to her house and demands that she signs some papers finalising the sale of the land. Geet refuses, adamantly insisting that the land is hers. Maan, under the impression that the Handas have taken his money and are trying to trick him, is furious and tries to force the signature. Brij sees the opportunity to get rid of Geet and proposes that Maan marry Geet and the land will automatically be his.Maan in reply humiliates the Handas in front of the village.

Geet learns that she is pregnant and tries to contact Dev with the news only for Naintara to hear it instead. She hurries back to India and makes arrangements to meet Geet in Amritsar under the guise of being Dev. Geet tells Maan that she will go with him to Amritsar to sign the papers.However on arriving in Amritsar she faces Naintara who tells Geet that she (Naintara) is Dev’s real life and that Geet should get an abortion. Geet is devastated but Maan believes that she has run away from home to meet her boyfriend.

Geet’s family learn that she is pregnant (through a phone call by Naintara) and insist that she abort the baby. Geet refuses and an enraged Brij chases Geet to kill her (approved by Darji despite the rest of the family pleading otherwise). Geet is attacked by Brij and his goons only to be saved by Maan on his way to Delhi. He dresses her wounds and tells her to report Brij to the police, under the impression that Brij has learnt of Geet and Gurvinder. Geet refuses resulting in an angry Maan leaving her to her fate. Instead Geet returns home and reveals the entire truth of the Handa family in front of the village.

Brij is arrested and Geet breaks all ties with her family, leaving for Delhi.

In Delhi, Geet’s father (unbeknown to Geet) has made arrangements for Geet to stay with his friend and his daughter Pinky. Pinky works at Maan’s company along with Adi (who is sympathetic to Geet) and Sasha (who is Maan’s right-hand in the Delhi office and has grey shades). Through miscommunication, Geet ends up interviewing for the job of Maan’s personal secretary. Whilst Sasha is not happy about giving her the job, Adi convinces Maan that she is the right choice. Maan agrees, not knowing that this is, in fact, Geet. Pinky convinces Geet not to turn down the job. Geet heads to the Canadian Embassy to find out about Dev but is turned away. On the day of her new job, both Maan and Geet are shocked to come face to face again. Maan challenges Geet as wishes to see how long her self-respect will allow her to keep working for him whilst Geet realises that she needs the job to make her way in the city. It’s revealed later that Dev is Maan’s younger brother Naintara hatches a plan to get Dev back in to the Khurana house as she believes that being around his family will make him forget Geet. She approaches Dev and Maan’s Dadi – a genuinely good woman who is upset to see her family broken.Dadi convinces Maan to get Dev back home and he arranges for Dev’s return. Sasha is hell-bent on destroying Geet’s career at the office. Maan, meanwhile has started developing feelings for Geet. Dev arrives at the office and notices a change in his brother. He asks Maan if he is in love but in his usual brusque way, Maan refuses but at the same time refuses to acknowledge the feelings he has for Geet. Naintara is furious at the fact that Dev has cheated on her. Meanwhile Dadi is pleased to see Geet and Maan together and begins to envision Geet as her bahu. She pretends to be seriously ill and tells Maan that only when he agrees to get married will she feel better and recover. Maan therefore decides to ask geet to help him out by pretending to be his fiance, just so that he can keep dadi happy. At first Geet refuses but when he emotionally blackmails her, she feels indebted to him for saving her life and thus agrees. By now Maan has realised that he loves Geet dearly and knows that she has feelings for him too, but wants her to admit it. Geet tries her best to stay away from him, but is unable to hide her feelings. However, she decides to tell him the truth about her past. On hearing that she is pregnant, Maan is heartbrokken and does not listen to her full story. Later Geet who was hellbent on telling him her entire story, corners him in the conference room and cries out about her past. Maan then realizes his mistake and promises to look after her always.