Junooniyatt
Junooniyatt () is an Indian Hindi language musical romantic drama television series that premiered on 13 February 2023 on Colors TV. Produced by Sargun Mehta and Ravi Dubey under the banner of Dreamiyata Entertainment, it stars Ankit Gupta, Gautam Singh Vig and Neha Rana.

Plot
Ilahi, Jahaan and Jordan, are three aspiring musicians, that want to take part in The Great Indian Voice competition to show off their talents. Fate interconnects these three's paths and what happens afterwards forms the crux of the story. 

Ilahi was abandoned by her mother Diljot as a child and was raised by her father. Her singing is an ode to her mother, who used to sing as a duo with her husband Amar. Her grandmother (Biji) is against her singing and will do anything to stop Ilahi from singing. However, it was known that Ilahi's mother was mentally forced to abandon her as Biji left no stones unturned to destroy Diljot's singing passion and career with her evil tricks. Jahaan lives in Canada with his parents. However, his parents were forced out of India after being accused of a fraud in their own family business. Jahaan wants to become a huge singer to give back honour to his parents' name. Jordan, on the other hand, comes from a rich family. He is a self-obsessed, spoilt brat who thinks he can get anything in the world. He wants to become a superstar through his rapping skills. His mother, Maheeb, is the true villain of the story, as she pulls strings to get what she wants. 

Jahaan and Ilahi end up falling in love. Jordan has one-sided obsession with Ilahi and wants her no matter what. On Jahaan's wedding day, Maheeb falsely accuses Jahaan of ruining Jordan's life. She also brings up the past as to how Jahaan's parents were thieves and ruined their own family's name. Ilahi's father, Amar, breaks the marriage as he doesn't want his daughter to suffer by living with a liar. On the other hand, Maheeb also planned Baljeet and Dolly's accident so Jahaan has to leave for Canada. 

Ilahi is heartbroken, thinking that Jahaan did betray her and left for Canada without saying anything. In reality, Jahaan had called her but Ilahi's grandmother disconnected the call. Under her father's pressure, Ilahi ends up marrying Jordan. Ilahi and Jordan become partners for the competition and end up winning the competition.

In Canada, Jahaan is heartbroken as his mother is in coma and he lost his true love. Seerat, Ilahi's sister, cheers him up and tries to reignite his passion. She helps him recover and gets him to sing again but she eventually falls in love with him secretly while spending time with him. Jahaan makes up his mind to seek revenge from Maheeb for what she did to him and his parents. Jahaan goes back to India with Seerat and his parents. 

In India, Ilahi is kept in the dark about how she is getting proposals from record labels. Maheeb manipulates Jordan into thinking that Ilahi will leave him in the dust if she becomes famous. Jordan starts mistreating Ilahi and even leaves her to die. Jahaan ends up saving her and takes her to the hospital. Ilahi's father makes Jahaan promise that he will never come in front of Ilahi. 

After Ilahi gains consciousness, she is scared of Jordan. She doesn't wanna go back with him, but Amar forces her to go back, as he thinks it's a minor misunderstanding. Jordan pretends to have changed his way in front of Ilahi. On the other hand, Jahaan becomes a sensational superstar under the masked identity of Sultan. Ilahi decides to take a chance and make her dreams a reality and goes to audition for Sultaan. Jordan, who is also unaware of Sultaan's identity, sends in his audition clip. Jahaan rejects him and Jordan can't accept the rejection. When he finds out Ilahi is going to audition as well, he slaps Ilahi in front of everyone. 

Fortunately, Amar was there too and sees Jordan's true face. He apologizes to Ilahi for not  trusting her. Ilahi ends up exposing Jordan's behavior to the Mehta family and asks Jordan for divorce. Jordan refuses to give Ilahi divorce. Jordan and Maheeb use Dosanjh family's proerty papers to blackmail Ilahi into coming back. Amidst all this, Ilahi finds out why Jahaan had left for Canada. Jahaan tells her to not worry about his problems and focus on hers as she has a battle to fight. Jahaan is also working on his plan to expose Maheeb's reality to the world. Eventually he gets successful in making Maheeb confess about her cunning plan along with Inder (who was brainwashed by Maheeb) that they made in the past to frame Baljeet and Dolly and made them apologize to them and Bebe and Bauji as well. The entire Mehta family reunites much to the dismay of Maheeb and Jordan.

Later, there was a Pooja in the Mehta House to keep their house in peace. Ilahi arrives there too with Amar, worrying about Bauji's health. She sees Jahaan, Baljeet, and Dolly too. Dolly's wheelchair started to move by itself and then falls down but Ilahi saves her. Due to Ilahi's touch, Dolly emerges from coma but mistakenly believes that Ilahi is her daughter-in-law and believes that Jahaan and Ilahi's marriage has been done. The truth was exposed to Ilahi and Amar why Jahaan left the wedding without telling anyone and believes him guilty. Jordan gets angry and bursts out, causing Dolly to faint. The doctor warns that Dolly's condition is delicate and any stress could be fatal. Jahaan requests Ilahi to pretend to be his wife until Dolly gets well. Ilahi agrees and enters Mehta House as Jahaan's wife, hiding all the truth.

Later, Jordan finds out that Jahaan is Sultan and tells him that if Jahaan wants Dolly to get well and not let Jordan tell anything to her, Jahaan has to give Sultan's identity to Jordan, meaning when Sultan shows his identity to everyone, it should be Jordan not Jahaan. In return, Jahaan tells Jordan to stop torturing Ilahi and sign the divorce papers. Jahaan and Jordan both agree to each-other's bets. It is revealed that Jordan was just blackmailing Jahaan. Jordan just want to be famous and he will not give Ilahi divorce.

Cast

Main
 Ankit Gupta as Jahaan Mehta / Sultan (second identity): Baljeet and Dolly's son; Jordan, Varun and Tina's cousin; Ilahi’s ex-fiancé and love-interest; Seerat's friend (2023–present)
 Gautam Singh Vig as Jordan "Jordy" Mehta: Inder and Maheep’s younger son; Varun's younger and Tina's elder brother; Jahaan's cousin; Ilahi's husband (2023–present)
 Neha Rana as Ilahi Dosanjh Mehta: Amar and Diljot's elder daughter; Seerat's elder sister; Jahaan’s ex-fiancé and love-interest; Jordan's wife (2023–present)

Recurring
 Manasi Salvi / Rinku Ghosh as Maheep Mehta: Inder’s wife; Varun, Jordan and Tina's mother; college trustee (2023–present)
 Ram Aujla / Raaj Sunger / Rishi Khurana as Inderjeet "Inder" Singh Mehta: Rajpratap and Prakash's elder son; Maheep's husband; Baljeet's elder brother; Varun, Jordan and Tina's father (2023-present)
 Vishal Sharma as Baljeet Singh Mehta: Rajpratap and Prakash's younger son; Inder's younger brother; Dolly's husband; Jahaan's father (2023–present)
 Gurvinder Kaur as Dolly Mehta: Baljeet's wife; Jahaan's mother (2023–present)
 Paras Randhawa as Varun Mehta: Inder and Maheep’s elder son; Jordan and Tina's elder brother; Jahaan's cousin; Rasika's husband (2023–present)
 Mansi Sharma as Rasika Mehta: Varun's wife (2023–present)
 Aarchi Sachdeva as Tina Mehta: Inder and Maheep's daughter; Varun and Jordan's younger sister; Jahaan's cousin sister (2023–present)
 Balwinder Kaur as Prakash Kaur Mehta “Bebe”: Rajpratap's wife; Inder and Baljeet's mother; Jordan, Tina, Varun and Jahaan's grandmother (2023–present)
 Manoj Bhatia as Rajpratap Singh Mehta "Bauji": Prakash's husband; Inder and Baljeet's father; Jordan, Tina, Varun and Jahaan's grandfather (2023–present)
 Abhishek Sharma as Sunny: Jordan’s friend (2023–present)
 Vishwas Saraf as Karan: Jordan’s friend (2023–present)
 Palak Jain as Seerat Dosanjh: Amar and Diljot's younger daughter; Ilahi's younger sister; Jahaan's friend and Sultan’s manager (2023-present)
 Mamata Rana as Diljot "DJ" Dosanjh: Amar’s wife; Ilahi and Seerat's mother (2023–present)
 Aman Sutdhar as Amardeep "Amar" Dosanjh: Charan's son; Diljot's husband; Ilahi and Seerat's father (2023–present)
 Sushma Prashant as Charan Kaur Dosanjh "Biji": Amar and Kimmi's mother; Ilahi, Seerat and Lucky's grandmother (2023–present)
 Poonam Walia as Kimmi: Charan's daughter; Happy's wife; Lucky's mother (2023–present)
 Pali Geetan Wala as Happy: Kimmi's husband; Lucky's father (2023–present)
 Shriaansh Sharma as Lucky: Happy & Kimmi’s son (2023–present) 
 Priya Bharadwaj as Husna: Ilahi’s best friend (2023–present)
 Kawalpreet Singh as Dharmendra: Ilahi's friend; Jahaan's former landlord and elder brother figure (2023–present)
 Onika Maan as Monica: Jordan’s friend (2023)
 Tanya Mahajan as Shikha Mann: Ranjeet’s legal wife (2023)
 Abhianshu Vohra as Ranjeet Mann: Ilahi's former obsessive lover; Shikha's legal husband (2023)
 Aishwarya Sakhuja as Dr. Pari: Jahaan's voice therapist (2023)

Guest appearances
 Twinkle Arora as Nehmat Kaur Virk from Udaariyaan (2023)
 Hitesh Bharadwaj as Ekampreet "Ekam" Singh Randhawa from Udaariyaan (2023)
 Isha Malviya as Jasmine "Jassu" Kaur Sandhu Ahluwalia / Harleen Kaur Ahluwalia from Udaariyaan (2023)
 Sachet Tandon & Parampara Tandon as themselves; judges of The Great Indian Voice Competition 1st Round (2023)

Production

Casting
Ankit Gupta as Jahaan, Neha Rana as Ilahi, Gautam Singh Vig as Jordan and Manasi Salvi as Maheep Mehta (later replaced by Rinku Ghosh) were signed as the leads. In early May 2023, Aishwarya Sakhuja entered the show as Dr. Pari. Her role lasted very briefly and ended mid-May 2023. During later half of June 2023, Palak Jain was cast to play Seerat's role who is Ilahi's younger sister.

Development
The series was announced by Dreamiyata Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. for Colors TV in January 2023.

Filming
In January 2023, principal photography commenced in Chandigarh, the series is set in Punjab.

Crossover
 Junooniyatt had crossover episodes with Udaariyaan on 22 and 23 March 2023.

Reception

India Today noted, "The true essence of Punjab, including the dialect and aesthetics, has been kept completely intact. Viewers will find the characters relatable as they are following their dreams while love is around the corner."

See also
 List of programmes broadcast by Colors TV

References

External links
 Junooniyatt on Colors TV
 
 Junooniyatt on Voot

2023 Indian television series debuts
2020s Indian television series
Hindi-language television shows
Colors TV original programming
Television shows set in Punjab, India