Diya Aur Baati Hum

***Diya Aur Baati Hum*** () is an Indian television soap opera. It aired on Star Plus from 29 August 2011 to 10 September 2016 completing 1,487 episodes. Produced under Shashi Sumeet Productions, it starred Anas Rashid and Deepika Singh.

Set against the backdrop of Pushkar, Rajasthan, *Diya Aur Baati Hum* is about breaking the stereotypical image of women in rural India, by showing the journey of Sandhya Rathi  (Deepika Singh G.) who wants to become an IPS officer and achieves it with the help of her husband Sooraj (Anas Rashid).

A sequel series, *Tu Sooraj Main, Saanjh Piyaji* starring Rhea Sharma and Avinesh Rekhi began airing on 3 April 2017 and ended on 1 June 2018.

## Cast 
### Main 
* Deepika Singh as IPS Sandhya Rathi (Dead)
* Anas Rashid as Sooraj Rathi (Dead)

### Recurring 
* Neelu Vaghela as Santosh Rathi (Bhabo)
* Ashok Lokhande as Arun Rathi (Bhabasa)
* Gautam Gulati/Karan Goddwani as Vikram Rathi
* Kanika Maheshwari as Meenakshi Rathi (Meena)
* Varun Jain as Mohit Arun Rathi
* Sehrish Ali as Chhavi Arun Rathi
* Aryan Sharma as Young Aryan Rath
* Rashmi Pitre as Chaturi
* Varun Khandelwal as Ankur Arvind Kothari
* Urmila Nimbalkar/Shubha Uplopwar/Unknown as Ankita Ankur Kothari
* Rakesh Kukreti as Arvind Kothari (Dead)
* Surbhi Tiwari as Kanchan Arvind Kothari (Dead)
* Urmila Sharma as Daisaa
* Kanishka soni as Kavita
* Ruchi Savarn as Preeti 
* Nupur Alankar as Kisna 
* Helly Shah as Shruti
* Unknown as Sudha
* Ragini Shah as Maa Sa
* Deepak Gheewala as Dado Sa
* Gaurav Sharma as Rajkumar (Dead)
* Satyam Seth as Dilip
* Pooja Singh as Emily Mohit/Om Rathi
* Pallavi Rao as Kajri
* Eijaz Khan as Abhimanyu Singh 
* Preeti Chaudhary as Kavita Sharma 
* Charu Asopa as Roma Reddy (Dead)
* Alan Kapoor as IPS Rahul Kapoor 
* Keith Sequeira as Officer Roy 
* Vindhya Tiwari as Prema (Dead)
* Jyoti Sharma as Disha (Dead)
* Gurdeep Kohli as Maya/Baijii (Dead)
* Arjun Punj as IPS Arjun Chaudhary
* Sonam Lamba as Shalu
* Manini Mishra as Officer Agrima Singh
* Neil Bhatt as IPS Zakir Siddiqui
* Lavneet Rajput as Young Bulbul Kothari.
* Devyansh Tapuriah as Ved Rathi
* Ricky Patel as Vansh Ankur Kothari / Vansh Sooraj Rathi
* Reem Sheikh as Mishri Vikram Rathi
* Sadhil Kapoor/Kiran Mohnani as Golu Rathi
* Drisha Kalyani as Pari Rathi
* Randeep Rai/Kunal Khosla as Adult Aryan Rathi
* Shivshakti Sachdev as Bulbul Kothari
* Rituraj Singh as Mahendra Singh: Kabaddi Coach of Sooraj and his team 
* Ridhi Dogra as Kabaddi Coach Aditi 
* Jignesh Mehta as Avinash: One of the players in Sooraj's Kabbadi team 
* Vicky Arora as Ratan: One of the players in Sooraj's Kabaddi team
* Banty Chopra as Lakhan: One of the players in Sooraj's Kabaddi team 
* Sandeep Nahar as Babban: One of the players in Sooraj's Kabaddi team
* Arun Singh Rana as Prem: Sooraj's Kabaddi Team Captain 
* Aadesh Chaudhary as Chandrashekhar (Dead)
* Bharat Singh Jadon as Ashok (2015–2016)
* Amit Dolawat as Himanshu Dubey Dead
* Ekta Tiwari as Devi Narayani (2015)
* Vaishali Thakkar as Manjari Dead
* Shalini Arora as Yashoda (2015)
* Shefali Sharma as Laalima Agarwal
* Akshay Batchu as Lokesh Agarwal
* Sarwar Ahuja as IPS Satyadev Tripathi
* Prachi Tehlan as Arzoo Rathi
* Joyoshree Arora as Resham
* Rukhsar Rehman as Mehak
* Deepraj Rana as Gul Mohammad 
* Abhinav Shukla as Om Rathi
* Pooja Sharma as Poorvi Om Rathi
* Rishina Kandhari as Arpita Khanna
* Anshul Trivedi as Amit 
* Vishal Jethwa as Chhota Packet
* Akhil Kataria as PP 
* Ashish Chowdary as Jimmy 
* Unknown as Rocky 

### Guest stars 
* Hina Khan as Akshara Singhania from *Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai* (2015).
* Ashnoor Kaur as Naira Singhania from *Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai* (2015)
* Devoleena Bhattacharjee for Dance Performance: as Gopi Modi from *Saath Nibhaana Saathiya* (2016)
* Gurmeet Choudhary and Debina Bonnerjee for Dance Performance during Holi (2016)
* Ragini Khanna as herself (2014)
* Aamir Khan to promote his show *Satyamev Jayate* (2012)
* Salman Khan and Sonakshi Sinha to promote their film *Dabangg 2* (2012)
* Shahrukh Khan as Quizmaster to promote *Chennai Express* (2013)

## Awards and nominations 
## Adaptations 
## References 
## Other websites 
* View Episodes  on hotstar