Naamkarann - Wikipedia Naamkarann This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( December 2017 ) Naamkarann Genre Family Drama Romance Created by Dhaval and Guroudev Productions Pvt. Ltd Based on Zakhm Written by Sanjay Kumar Shipra Arora Directed by Mahesh Bhatt Loknath Pandey Sandeep Vijay Starring Aditi Rathore Zain Imam Sayantani Ghosh Sana Amin Sheikh Country of origin India Original language ( s ) Hindi No. of seasons No. of episodes 356 as of 20 December 2017 Production Producer ( s ) Guroudev Bhalla Dhaval Gada Cinematography Santosh Suryavanshi Raj panth Shivankar Arora Editor ( s ) Sudhir Camera setup Multi-camera Running time 21 min Production company ( s ) Dhaval and Guroudev Productions Pvt. Ltd Distributor Star India Release Original network Star Plus Picture format 576i HDTV 1080i Original release 12 September 2016 ( 2016 - 09 - 12 ) External links Hotstar www.hotstar.com/tv/naamkarann/10655 Naamkarann ( English : Naming ) is an Indian Hindi romantic drama television series, which premiered on 12 September 2016 and is being broadcast on Star Plus. It is inspired by the 1998 Bollywood film Zakhm which was based on filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt 's life. The serial is dubbed into Malayalam as Vezhambal and is being broadcast on Asianet. Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Cast 2.1 Main cast 2.1. 1 Original 2.1. 2 After leap 2.2 Recurring cast 2.2. 1 Original 2.2. 2 After leap 3 Soundtrack 4 See also 5 References 6 External links Synopsis Naamkaran starts off about the painful life of 12 year old Avni Ayesha, an illegitimate child who lives alone with her mother Ayesha Haider, maternal grandmother Nanno or Fatima and unborn brother, denied her father 's last name. Her father is the famous film director Ashish Mehta who lives seperately from them and meets them in secret due to society and his mother, Dayawanti Mehta - a deeply religious woman who has enimity with Muslims due to her husband being killed in a conflict between Muslims and Hindus. Avni desires her family to be like a `` normal '' one and she confronts her father about this. Her father gathers the courage to tell his mother about Ayesha, a muslim woman whom he loves unconditionally and with whom he has a twelve year old daughter and an unborn son. The story then revolves around Dayawanti not accepting a Muslim woman for her son nor his illegitimate daughter. Little Avni sets out to fight for her identity rights but gets interrupted every time by her grandmother, who emotionally blackmailed Ashish thus distancing him from Avni and Ayesha. Avni becomes best friends with Neela, the kind - hearted daughter of a rich businessman whom Dayawanti originally wanted Ashish to marry and who was in love with Ashish since childhood. Sidelining her love for Ashish after seeing his love for Ayesha, she helps Avni, whom she had started to consider as her own daughter, in her battle for justice. Avni at one point tries to make her heartbreaking story public, thinking it would help her in some way, by making a movie out of her life. Just after the movie 's launch, Ayesha has an accident staged by Dayawanti to get revenge from Avni. Ayesha gives birth to Aman, Avni 's brother, in the hospital where she promises Avni she will never leave her. During Avni 's absence in the room, Dayawanti suffocates Ayesha to death and takes baby Aman in as her family heir, renaming him Amol and snatches him away from Avni. Avni has no choice but to live in the Mehta house for Aman, whom she loves more than anything. Dayawanti tortures Avni in Mehta house, Avni 's only happiness there being Neela ( married to Ashish for taking revenge from Dayawanti on behalf of Avni ), her brother Aman and her best friend, Ali. Soon, she starts to pick up clues that her mother did n't die of an accident but was murdered. She gets evidence and puts Dayawanti behind bars, suspecting from the start that she was the one who killed Ayesha. In jail, Dayawanti manipulates her son into believing that Avni killed her own mother. Ashish, blindly believing his mother, sends Avni behind bars. Dayawanti sends goons to kill Avni. Neela gets her out of prison and gets ready to leave with Avni for New York, promising Avni she will give her a mother 's love and will never leave her. Dayawanti, not wanting to take any chances, tricks Avni into meeting her alone at a clifftop telling her to meet her brother one last time before she leaves for New York. Dayawanti never brought Aman to meet Avni and instead shoots her with a gun in her left side. Avni falls to the water from the cliff and then we do n't see her anymore. 15 years leap. Avni is now a grown woman, renaming herself Ananya Verma for a fake identity, and we get to know that she survived from the gunshot because her heart is on the right side of her body, not her left where Dayawanti shot her. She lives with Neela and together, they both plot Dayawanti 's ruination and getting Aman back from him. She is a generous thief who steals money from rich people for donating them to hospitals. And she is the same thief Neil Khanna, an ACP officer, is looking for with an obsession as he had not been able to solve this particular case for many days. Ananya goes to the same cliff where Dayawanti shot her and plans her destruction. Neil, while looking for Case 123 - that is Ananya - ends up at that same cliff at the same time. He, thinking Ananya was there to commit suicide, tries to save her but instead they both bump into each other and fall of the cliff. They land on an island and constantly bicker with each other. Their fights show their opposing personalities - Neil is a fun loving guy who believes in love, is very positive and thinks life as being very simple - while Ananya is his inverse. Ananya 's suspicious behaviour on the island leads Neil to suspect her identity, and after they are rescued from the island, he tells his best friend / colleague DD to investigate her. Ali is also Neil 's best friend, who still believes that Avni is alive and is still waiting for her for 15 years as he is in love with her. Ananya finds out that Dayawanti is planning to get her second granddaughter Riya ( Ketan 's daughter ) to the son of a rich businessman Prakash. This is because Dayawanti is drowning in debts and loans - Mehta house will be auctioned if the money is not repaid on time. Dayawanti believes Prakash 's wealth is the only thing which will keep her from going homeless. She wins Dayawanti over and befriends Riya to enter her life and break the engagement. We find that Riya 's fiance is none other than Neil. Ananya tries all that she can to break Neil and Riya 's engagement but remains unsuccessful. Neil 's mother Shweta is a very selfish woman with major ego problems. She repeatedly tries to break Riya and Neil 's relationship as well. But Prakash had promised Dayawanti that he 'd get Neil married to Riya - and Neil, being a man of his word, reminds his parents of the promise and gets engaged to Riya. By this time, Neil knows that every bad incident happening is a ploy to break the engagement, and he knows Ananya is somehow behind this. He also suspects her to be case 123 as she was wearing the locket case 123 had supposedly dropped at the crime scene. He also starts to feel something for her, not admitting it even to himself. Ananya is confused now and compares Neil with Ashish ; Ashish had left Ayesha despite his promise of loving and supporting her forever whereas Neil is fighting against his family for someone he did n't even love just because he made a promise. She starts feeling something for him as well. A series of events follow - portraying Ananya and Neil 's growing closeness, Aman 's evilness due to his grandmother 's upbringing and Neil - Ananya 's constant clash to know Ananya 's secret. He fakes befriending her to keep an eye on her more often, but after a while, he genuinely starts caring about her. Riya, seeing Neil and Ananya 's growing closeness, tries to create rifts between them but of no use. Avni wants to trust Neil with her secret but fears that as Neil is a policeman, he will betray her the way law betrayed her when she was a child and begged people to listen to her problems. Neil saves Avni 's life many a times when Dayawanti and Amol repeatedly tried to kill her. He admits his feelings for Ananya, telling himself Ananya is a criminal and that his feelings are wrong. Ali suspected from the start that Ananya is Avni and he finds out about this. At that point only Neela and Ali know of Ananya 's secret. Ananya keeps on trying to convince Neil to not marry someone he does n't love and Neil almost buys her words. Shweta repeatedly insults Avni and Neil stands up for her. Annoyed by this, Shweta repeatedly tries to harm Avni and Neil repeatedly comes to her rescue. Neil and Riya complete all the pre-marriage rituals successfully. Nanno, Ayesha 's mother, cries to Neil that the Mehtas took her granddaughter Avni away from her with a bullet 15 years ago. Neil promises Nanno to give Avni justice. He starts to believe that Ananya is Avni because he saw the bullet mark at her chest. He tries to get clues about her identity but comes to a dead end every time. Finally on the wedding day, Neil finds out about Ananya being Avni from her and Nanno 's DNA results but does n't let Ananya know. Ananya tries to convince Riya to not marry a person she does n't love and Riya runs away, but comes back to marry Neil when Dayawanti threatens her. After receiving the money from Prakash 's company after the wedding, Dayawati plans to run away with her beloved grandson Amol. Neela convinces Avni that the only way to stop this wedding is by sitting in place of Riya and marry Neil. Neela locks Riya up in a room while Avni gets married to Neil. Neil confronts Neela and tell him that he knows about Avni. We see that earlier, he had bribed the priest to conduct a fake marriage for him and Riya because he did n't want to do injustice with Riya and trap her in a marriage neither of them wants. He thus declares that Avni 's marriage with him is a fake one. But Neela had bribed the same priest telling him to conduct all marriage rituals properly and informs Neil that Avni is indeed his wife, and that she did all this because she believes that Neil loves Avni and can make her complete again, though he denies this. Neil denies Avni a place in his home but Prakash brings her back. After a few twists and turns Avni tries to kill Dayawanti but Neil arrests Dayawanti. the shows later focuses the triangle love story between Avni, Neil and Ali. the show also focuses the entry of Juhi, Neil 's long lost first love who was missing for 5 years.it is revealed that she was trapped by Ragini Pandit. Neil arrests Ragini pandit who shakes hand with Dayawantii and Dayawanti helps her in trappping Avni. At last Avni manages to save Juhi and Amol kills Dayawanti. Ragini Pandit is injured while Juhi asks her about her daughter, Misty. Presently, Juhi is killed by Vidyut ( Ragini pandit 's son, her husband and Misty 's father ). Avni is in jail as Vidhyut ( who is in love with her ) pushes Juhi 's murder charges on her. Neil acts like he hates Avni. Cast This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia 's quality standards. The specific problem is : Per WP : TVCAST, we organise cast per their introduction into the series, with new members of the cast being added to the bottom of each section, Main and Recurring. Please help to ensure that our community expectations are being met. Please help improve this section if you can. ( December 2017 ) Main cast Original Arsheen Namdaar as Young Avni Ayesha Barkha Bisht Sengupta as Asha Mehta ( Ayesha Haider ) Ashish 's wife, Avni and Aman 's mother ( Dead ) Viraf Patel as Ashish Mehta, Dayawanti 's son, Asha 's Husband, Neela 's ex-husband, Avni and Aman 's father ( Dead ) After leap Aditi Rathore as Avni Neil Khanna / Avni Ayesha / Ananya Verma ( fake identity ) Neil 's wife, Asha & Ashish 's daughter, Neela 's adopted daughter, an illegitimate child whose father Ashish and her mother Asha / Ayesha are not married but considered themselves as husband and wife Zain Imam as Neil Khanna, Avni 's husband, Shweta - Prakash 's son, IPS Officer ( ACP ) Recurring cast Original Shubh Kalra as Young Ali Kunwar Amarjee Singh as Aladdin / Kabir Pooja Verma as Hetal Mehta ( replaced ) Palak Dey as Young Riya Vivek Madan as Hansmukh, Diksha 's ex-husband Rajesh Singh as Tiku, Fatima 's nephew After leap Sayantani Ghosh as Neela Parikh, Ashish ex-wife and Avni 's adoptive or stepmother Gautam Vig as Ali, Avni 's childhood best friend, a coffee cafe owner Sushant Mohindru as Aman / Amol Mehta, Asha & Ashish 's son, Avni 's brother Karam Rajpal as Vidyut R, Ragini Pandit 's Son Gulfam Khan as Fatima Banu / Nanno, Avni 's maternal grandmother, Ayesha 's mother Sanjay Swaraj as Prakash Khanna, Shweta 's husband, Neil 's father Shruti Ulfat as Shweta Prakash Khanna, Prakash 's wife, Neil 's mother Neelu Kohli as Harleen Khanna / Bebe, Neil 's grandmother, Prakash 's mother Jahaan Arora as DD, Neil 's close friend and colleague, a police officer Manini Mishra as Gurumaa / Raghu / Ragini Pandit, Vidyut 's mother, leader of a human trafficking racket Puru Chibber as Ketan Mehta, Dayawanti 's son, Ashish 's younger brother, Avni and Aman 's uncle Anaya Soni as Hetal Mehta, Ketan 's wife, Riya 's mother, Avni 's aunt Neelam Sivia as Diksha, Dayawanti 's daughter, Ashish and Ketan 's younger sister, Avni and Aman 's aunt Nalini Negi as Riya Mehta, Avni and Amol 's cousin, Ketan 's daughter, Dayawanti 's granddaughter Ragini Shah as Dayawanti Mehta ( replaced Reema Lagoo due to her death ) Avni, Riya and Amol or Aman 's grandmother ( Dead ) Poonam Preet Juhi / Meher, Neil 's ex-girlfriend Soundtrack Track list ( s ) Title Singer ( s ) Lyricist Music Composer ( s ) `` Naamkarann Title Track '' Shreya Ghoshal Version Kausar Munir Anu Malik `` Naamkarann Title Track '' Monali Thakur Version Kausar Munir Anu Malik `` Aaj Jaane Ki Zid '' Arijit Singh E.M.I. Pakistan Punsurjan Aaryan `` Aa Leke Chalu Tujhko '' Palak Muchhal, Sneha Shankar Vijay Vijawatt Jeet Gannguli 5 `` Chal Meri Jaan '' Aryan Aryan Aryan 6 `` Chal Meri Jaan '' Unpluged Version Palak Muchhal Aryan Aryan 7 `` Dhal Gaya Chand '' Asho Ghosala Katil Shuphaie Aaryan 8 `` Dhoop Ka Ek Tukda '' Anuradha Paudwal, Kumar Sanu Vijay Vijawatt Samidh See also Vishesh Films Zakhm References Jump up ^ `` Viraf Patel and Barkha Bisht to star in Mahesh Bhatt 's show ' Naamkarann ' ''. Mid Day. 28 July 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016. Jump up ^ `` Naamkaraan is the upcoming TV serial at Star Plus ''. 28 July 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016. Jump up ^ `` Reema Lagoo returns to TV after a 9 year gap with Mahesh Bhatt 's Namkaran ''. bollywoodlife.com. Soumyata Chauhan. Retrieved August 1, 2016. Jump up ^ `` After Reema Lagoo 's death, this actress replaced her in Naamkaran ''. india.com. Manisha Mandal. Retrieved May 20, 2017. External links Naamkarann Steaming on Hotstar Naamkarann on IMDb Current broadcasts on Star Plus Currently broadcast Primetime soap opera Dil Sambhal Jaa Zara Ikyawann Ishqbaaaz Rishton Ka Chakravyuh Meri Durga Naamkarann Tu Sooraj, Main Saanjh Piyaji Yeh Hai Mohabbatein Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai Weekend Dance Champions The Great Indian Laughter Challenge Films and television series by Mahesh Bhatt Director Manzilein Aur Bhi Hain ( 1974 ) Naya Daur ( 1978 ) Lahu Ke Do Rang ( 1979 ) Abhimanyu ( 1980 ) Arth ( 1982 ) Saaransh ( 1984 ) Janam ( 1985 ) Aashiana ( 1986 ) Naam ( 1986 ) Aaj ( 1987 ) Kaash ( 1987 ) Thikana ( 1987 ) Siyasat ( 1988 ) Kabzaa ( 1988 ) Daddy ( 1989 ) Awaargi ( 1990 ) Jurm ( 1990 ) Aashiqui ( 1990 ) Swayam ( 1991 ) Saathi ( 1991 ) Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin ( 1991 ) Sadak ( 1991 ) Saatwan Aasman ( 1992 ) Junoon ( 1992 ) Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayee ( 1993 ) Gunaah ( 1993 ) Sir ( 1993 ) Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke ( 1993 ) Gumrah ( 1993 ) Tadipaar ( 1993 ) The Gentleman ( 1994 ) Naaraaz ( 1994 ) Milan ( 1995 ) Naajayaz ( 1995 ) Criminal ( 1995 ) Papa Kehte Hai ( 1996 ) Chaahat ( 1996 ) Dastak ( 1996 ) Tamanna ( 1997 ) Duplicate ( 1998 ) Angaaray ( 1998 ) Zakhm ( 1998 ) Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan ( 1999 ) Kartoos ( 1999 ) Writer only Dushman ( 1998 ) Sangharsh ( 1999 ) Kasoor ( 2001 ) Yeh Zindagi Ka Safar ( 2001 ) Raaz ( 2002 ) Gunaah ( 2002 ) Saaya ( 2003 ) Footpath ( 2003 ) Jism ( 2003 ) Inteha ( 2003 ) Murder ( 2004 ) Rog ( 2005 ) Zeher ( 2005 ) Nazar ( 2005 ) Kalyug ( 2006 ) Woh Lamhe ( 2006 ) Murder 2 ( 2011 ) Jism 2 ( 2012 ) Murder 3 ( 2013 ) Hamari Adhuri Kahani ( 2015 ) Television Swabhimaan ( 1995 ) A Mouthful of Sky ( 1995 ) Kabhie Kabhie ( 1997 ) Naamkarann ( 2016 ) Tu Aashiqui ( 2017 ) This Indian television - related article is a stub. 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Question: who is playing the role of juhi in naamkaran
Answer: Poonam Preet