Rang Maza Vegla (2019 TV series)

Beauty is a not in the face, it is a light in the heart. A story of love conquering prejudices, Dr. Kartik Inamdar, a cardiologist, and Deepa, a dark-complexioned girl, discover real beauty and form an eternal bond despite forces trying to keep them apart.

8 Years Later

Kartik and Deepa are separated by a misunderstanding but are yet in love.

14 Years Later

Time heals everything but not familial wounds! Kartik returns from jail with a vengeance against Deepa with Shweta being his pawn in the game of revenge.

It is the love story of a girl named Deepa. Soundarya Inamdar is the owner of 'Satej Kanti' beauty business. For Soundarya, looks are the most important feature of a person due to her past incident. That's why she hates dark skinned people. Deepa's mother died in an accident while saving childhood Kartik when she was a nurse then her father Shridhar marries Radha. They have a daughter named Shweta, who hates Deepa because of her dark complexion. Shweta is 'Wheatish' in the house. On the other hand, Kartik is the son of Soundarya who is sensible and intelligent, according to him, looking beautiful is not the only thing that should matter.

Kartik meets Deepa and falls in love because of her kind behaviour towards people. Deepa helps a man on road suffering from acidity but she took it as a heart problem and took him to Aditya Hospital with the help of Kartik. Deepa donates blood in Kartik's hospital due to lack of blood in the blood bank and it was urgently needed for the patient. Deepa signed a form of eye donation after listening to the Kartik advising to the people during a camp. Kartik praises Deepa and comments that her eyes are beautiful.

Kartik and Deepa frequently encounter each other and Kartik is impressed by Deepa's kindness and generosity. Soundarya arranges 'Mrs Dombivali ' competition only for fairer girls because she decides to marry the winner girl to Kartik. Shweta wins the competition, and Soundarya fixed Kartik's marriage with Shweta. But Kartik refused to marry Shweta. Aditya loves Shweta so Soundarya fixed Aditya and Shweta's marriage. Shweta thinks her marriage is fixed with Kartik and continuously flirt with him, but Kartik only loves Deepa. Then Deepa introduced the maid of Devkule house by Radha behind Deepa's father, and Deepa also accepts it because of Shweta's happiness.

At Shweta Aditya's engagement Soundarya knows Deepa's reality that she is Shweta's sister then she called off the engagement. After a series of event Kartik marries Deepa at a temple. Soundarya refused to accept the marriage. She then accepts it because she doesn't want Kartik to leave the house and plots to marry Shweta with Kartik instead of Deepa at the altar. But Lavanya, Saundarya's daughter, stops this from happening and gets Kartik married with Deepa, surprising Saundarya, Radha and Shweta. Shweta vows to break off the marriage. When Deepa and Kartik knows that Soundarya doesn't accept Deepa as her daughter -in-law, they planned to find Soundarya's past.

They go to Nashik, Soundarya's hometown and discover that in Saundarya's teenage, a man named 'Leeladhar Kale' who was dark skinned, cheated in business on Soundarya's father. Soundarya's parents leave a letter stating "A beautiful mind matter more" before surrendering to the police but before that Leeladhar hanged then. Mai gives the letter to Soundarya but due to a series of event Soundarya misinterprets to message as "Beauty matters the most." After that incident she hates dark skinned people. Deepa and Kartik finds Leeladhar but he attacks Kartik. Kartik get injured and admitted in hospital.

Dr. Tanuja Mantri, Kartik's college friend, operates on Kartik. When Saundarya learns the truth she slaps Deepa and separates her from Kartik. But, because of Kartik's happiness, she permitted Deepa in house. Soundarya likes Tanuja as she is fair-skinned. Radha manipulates Saundarya about Deepa's mother Shalini that she is the main culprit behind younger Kartik's accident and Mai's condition and also the helper of Leeladhar in his bad deeds, but in reality she saves Kartik and Mai. In all this car hits her and she dies. Soundarya decides Shweta and Aditya's marriage, at their marriage Soundarya blames Deepa and her mother. Then Deepa leaves house to prove her mother innocent. She meets Leeladhar and wants him to tell Saundarya the truth. But Leeladhar attacks Saundarya. Then Saundarya hates Deepa more.

Tanuja gets angry when she learns that Kartik is married with Deepa. With the help of Saundarya, Tanuja tries to create a rift between Deepa and Kartik. She also tries to make Kartik's suspect that Deepa is having an affair with her childhood friend Sujay. She pushes Mai from the stairs and makes everyone accuse Deepa of it. Kartik also blames Deepa. Soundarya expels her from the house. Later Deepa proves she is innocent and Tanuja is behind all of this. Kartik expels Tanuja from the house.

Shweta wants to become a model but Saundarya wants her an ideal daughter-in-law first then she helps in her modeling career. But in any circumstances she will become a model and provoke Aditya against his family but Saundarya knows her bad deeds and expels her from the house. Deepa brings her back into the house because of her feigned pregnancy. Later Deepa is expecting twins, but Soundarya doesn't want Deepa becomes a mother. Because she thought that her babies born in black colour. But later she agrees with Sujay's help. But she wants Deepa's babies born like Kartik not like Deepa. Then Shweta ends her fake pregnancy and tells everyone that she had a miscarriage because of Deepa.

Later Deepa hosts a programme Sawale Sundar (transl. Balck is beautiful) where dark-skinned people share their story to the other about how society behaves with them because of their dark complexion. Soundarya knows about this and she insults Deepa in ongoing programme but Deepa gives befitting reply to her about real beauty. Soundarya takes it's her insult. Shweta tries to harm Deepa's unborn child but Deepa retaliates and lock her in room. There she finds a Kartik's fake file made by Tanuja that states Kartik is infertile. On the other hand, Mai tells Soundarya that Shalini is actually the saviour of Kartik. Soundarya has a change of heart. She arranges Deepa's baby shower. On the other side, Kartik learns of his infertility and doubts on Deepa and Sujay' relationship. At the baby shower, he tells everyone that Deepa is carrying Sujay's child. He wants Deepa to do a DNA test but Deepa refuses. Kartik tells her to leave the house and she does.

Deepa then is given shelter by Mr & Mrs Athavale, where she starts a tiffin service in their earlier space to earn money. A new girl enters in Kartik's life named Ayesha. She and her mother Mrs Deshmukh plot a revenge from Soundarya because she rejected Ayesha's sister, Richa's, proposal for Kartik due to her dark skin. Soundarya tries her hard to reunite Deepa and Kartik together with Lavanya's help but she fails. With the help of Sujay, Soundarya plans Deepa and Kartik's mutual divorce, so they starts living together for one month and then she can clear their misunderstandings. Shweta hires a goon, Sunny, to poison Deepa but she is run out from there.

Due to the obstetrician being late because of Radha and Sweta's antics, Kartik delivers the first child who is of fair complexion and leaves when the obstetrician arrives. Deepa delivers another girl who is dark skinned. Soundarya takes a dark skinned baby with her in house. Savita nurse tells Deepa that her other baby died in her womb because Soundarya force her to lie Deepa about it. Soundarya then realizes that it the wrong but before she could return the baby to Deepa, Deepa runs away with the other child. She with her daughter lives with Ashwini, a nurse. Soundarya promises to protect the baby at any cost to herself. She brings the baby home and tells everyone she has adopted the baby and Kartik would be her father. Initially Kartik denies but later he accept the baby with his heart. Deepa names her daughter Kartiki while Saundarya names the other daughter as Deepika. Kartik plans to marry Ayesha in temple but Deepa stops the marriage and their marriage is cancelled. Kartik insults Deepa and tells her to leave. She, along with Kartiki, leaves for Ganeshpur.

8 years later

Kartiki and Deepika are grown up. Kartiki lives a simple life in a village with Deepa while Deepika lives a rich life in Mumbai with all Inamdar family. Deepa comes to Mumbai for her treatment of lungs disease on Kartiki's insistence. Kartiki enrolls to the school where Deepika studies and they both become friends. Ayesha and Kartik plan to engage the day after Deepika's school trip. Meanwhile, Deepa and Kartik run over upon each other without knowing. Circumstances lead Kartik running late for the enagagement. Deepa and Kartik appear in court where Deepa stops their divorce, but Ayesha kidnaps Kartiki so Deepa can agree to divorce. Kartik and Deepa has their divorce filed in the court.

This show was announced by Right Click Media Solutions on Star Pravah as an official adaptation of Malayalam TV series Karuthamuthu. Reshma Shinde and Ashutosh Gokhale were signed as the leads. Pudhcha Paaul fame Harshada Khanvilkar was roped to play the lead antagonist Saundarya Inamdar. Actress Anagha Bhagare, Ambar Ganpule, Pournima Talwalkar, Abhidnya Bhave were roped in for prominent roles. Actress Vidisha Mhaskar was roped in to play the negative lead Ayesha.

As the series progressed, Harshada Khanvilkar's character became positive while Ashutosh Gokhale's character turned negative. Saisha Bhoir and Spruha Dali were introduced as Kartik and Deepa's twin daughter Kartiki and Deepika. Soon, Saisha was replaced by Maitreyi Date.

A 14 years generation leap was introduced on 5 March 2023 when Maitreyi Date was replaced by Anushka Pimputkar as elder Kartiki and Spruha Dali was replaced by Tanishka Vishe as elder Deepika. Since 30 January 2023, the series is being produced by Shashi Mittal and Sumeet Mittal under their production house Shashi Sumeet Productions. This show is popular amongst its audience. The show maintain its TRP in Top 5 Marathi TV shows.[7]

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