Doli Armaano Ki
Genre	Indian soap opera Drama
Created by	Spellbound Productions
Written by	Pearl Grey Shanti Bhushan
Directed by	Sandeep Vijay Niraj Pandey Inder Das
Starring	See below
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of episodes	482
Production
Producers	Pearl Grey Rajeev Singh
Production locations	Jhansi Mumbai
Running time	25 mins approx
Production companies	Spellbound Productions Ideaz Pictures Pvt Ltd
Original release
Network	ZEE TV
Release	2 December 2013 (2013-12-02) – 25 September 2015 (2015-09-25)

Doli Armaanon Ki, (transl. Palanquin of dreams) (International title: Lies of the Heart), was an Indian television drama series^[1][2] It premiered on 2 December 2013,^[3][4] and ran until 25 September 2015.^[5] that aired on ZEE TV Monday through Friday.^[6] It stars Neha Marda and Mohit Malik in the lead roles.

Plot

Urmi Singh, a girl in Jhansi, dreams of marrying 'the perfect' man who might be her 'prince charming'. Her marriage is arranged with a wealthy businessman, Samrat Singh Rathore, who is selfish, arrogant, and short-tempered, unbeknownst to Urmi, as she was told by Samrat's best friend, Ishaan Sinha, that he is a gentleman. During the wedding preparations, Urmi's cousin, Trisha, sees many red flags in Samrat, but Urmi ignores her and marries Samrat.

On their wedding night, Samrat shows his true colours and Urmi is devastated. He begins abusing Urmi, as no one in Samrat's family is willing to stand up to him for her because even they fear his temper. His father, Rudra Singh Rathore and his brother, Dewaker, try to help Urmi, but he ignores them and loses his temper. Ishaan discovers he is deceiving Urmi by abusing and cheating on her, so he breaks ties with Urmi and flees abroad. Urmi leaves Samrat's house on the day of Holi and returns to her parents' house, but soon returns after finding out that she is pregnant with Samrat's child.

5 years later

Urmi and Samrat have a son, Shaurya. On Shaurya's birthday, Urmi has an argument with an old man and is surprised to know that he is Samrat's uncle. He helps Urmi to stand up for herself but it angers Samrat. Samrat beats up urmi Badly. Urmi files a case against Samrat acussing domestic Violence finds him cheating on her and leaves with Shaurya. Ishaan returns to India and helps Urmi to get a divorce. Samrat is sentenced to six years in prison.

6 years later

Urmi owns a restaurant with Ishaan's help. Ishaan proposes to Urmi. Samrat returns to take revenge on Urmi and Ishaan. He marries Ishaan's sister, Taani to get closer to them. Urmi is revealed to be pregnant. Samrat tries to kill her but Ishaan dies while saving Samrat. Overcome by guilt, Samrat kills himself. Ishaan's mother, Damini blames Urmi for Ishaan's death.

20 years later

Urmi's children, Shaurya and Ishaani are grown up. Manipulated by Damini, Ishaani hates Urmi believing she killed Ishaan. Shaurya falls in love with Diya and they marry. Ishaani realizes Damini's reality and reconciles with Urmi. Damini is imprisoned. She returns and tries to kill the entire family, but Urmi shoots Damini and the family is reunited.

Cast

Main

• Neha Marda (2013-2015) as Urmi Ishaan Sinha (formerly Singh Rathore) – Samrat's ex-wife; Ishaan's widow; Shaurya and Ishaani's mother
  • Manasi Salvi as Urmi Ishaan Sinha (2015)
• Mohit Malik as Samrat Singh Rathore – Shashikala's son; Dirwakar and Aditi's brother; Ishaan's ex-best friend; Urmi's ex-husband; Taani's husband; Shaurya's father (2013–15) (Dead)
• Siddharth Arora (2013-2014) / Vibhav Roy (2014-2015) as Ishaan Sinha – Anirudh and Damini's son; Taani and Ratti's brother; Rohit's half brother ; Samrat's ex-best friend; Urmi's second husband; Ishaani's father; Shaurya's adoptive father (Dead)

Recurring

• Kunal Karan Kapoor as Shaurya Sinha – Urmi and Samrat's son; Ishaan's adoptive son; Ishaani's half-brother; Diya's husband (2015)
  • Yash Pandey as Teenge Shaurya Sinha (2015)
  • Mitansh Gera as Child Shaurya (2014)
• Neha Sargam as Diya Sinha/Diya Tiwari – Shaurya's wife; Urmi's daughter-in-law (2015)
• Parvati Sehgal as Taani Samrat Singh Rathore/Sinha – Anirudh and Damini's elder daughter; Ishaan's younger sister Ratti's elder sister;Rohit's first half sister; Samrat's second wife (2015)
• Geeta Tyagi as Shashikala Singh Rathore – Diwakar, Samrat and Aditi's mother; Shaurya's biological grandmother (2013-2015)
• Hemant Thatte as Gaurav Devi Singh (2013-2015?
• Anjali Mukhi as Saroj Devi Singh (2013-2015)
• Sameeksha Sud as Asha Gaurav Singh (2014-2015))
• Jayant Rawal as Devi Shankar Singh (2013-2015)
• Gaurav Rana as Diwakar Singh Rathore(2013-2015)
• Vibhuti Thakur as Kanchan Diwakar Singh Rathore(2013-2015)
• Saachi Tiwari as Mandira Diwakar Singh Rathore: Diwakar and Kanchan's daughter(2014)
• Jeetendra Trehan as Rudrapratap Singh Rathore
• Ragini Gakhar as Aditi Singh Rathore Chauhan – Shashikala's daughter; Samrat's sister; Amrit's wife (2013-2014)
• Aadesh Chaudhary(2013-2014) / Harsh Vashisht (2014)as Amrit Singh Chauhan – Aditi's husband
• Anupam Shyam as Garjan Singh Rathore – Samrat , Diwarkar and Aditi's uncle (2014)
• Amita Udgata as Gayatri Singh – Devi's mother; Urmi , Gaurav and Anushka's grandmother(2013-2015)
• Guddi Maruti as Snidhu Bua (Urmi's Bua)(2013-2014)
• Snigdha Srivastava as Trisha Singh – Urmi, Gaurav and Anushka's cousin (2013-2014)
• Massheuddin Qureshi as Mr. Singh -Trisha's father (2013-2014)
• Manisha Thakkar as Rashmi Singh Rathore / Rashmi Gaurav Singh (Samrat's cousin)(2013-2014)
• Mehendi Jain as Anushka "Anu" Devi Singh – Devi's younger daughter; Urmi's sister(2013-2014)
• Shaji Chaudhary as Inspector Anshuman Singh(2014)
• Varun Sharma as Karan (Anushka's ex-fiancé and friend)(2014)
• Priya Shinde as Urmi 's NRI friend Natasha(2014)
• Vertika Verma as Payal (Urmi's friend)(2014)
• Deepali Saini as Meena (Urmi's hostel friend)(2014)
• Ayush Mehra as Ravi Darshan Tiwari(2014)
• Himani Shivpuri as Sushma Tiwari(2014)
• Raju Kher as Darshan Tiwari(2014)
• Vishal Puri as Niranjan Khanna(2014-2015)
• Nidhi Jha as Nidhi Khanna (2014)
• Shalini Kapoor Sagar as Anita Sinha- Anirudh's late wife Rohit's mother (2015)
• Shruti Kanwar as Radha, Kanchan's cousin sister(2014)
• Avinash Wadhawan as Anirudh Sinha – Anita's widower Damini's husband;, Rohit ,Ishaan ,Taani and Ratti's father(2015)
• Kamya Panjabi as Damini Sinha – Anirudh's wife; Ishaan Taani and Ratti's mother(2015)
• Swati Nanda as Sanaya Seth (Urmi's Mumbai friend, Samrat's former lover)(2015)
• Rajat Tokas/Jiten Lalwani as Rohit Sinha (Anirudh and Anita's son; Ishaan Taani and Ratti's half brother; Pooja's husband; Arjun and Niyati's father)(2015)
• Falaq Naaz as Pooja Sinha (Rohit's wife; Arjun and Niyati's mother)(2015)
• Rohit Khurana as Arjun Sinha (Rohit and Pooja's son; Niyati's brother; Shaurya's half cousin; Ishaani's cousin; Amrita's husband)(2015)
• Aishwarya Sharma as Amrita Sinha (Arjun's wife Rohit and Pooja's Daughter in Law)(2015)
• Shilpa Raizada as Niyati Sinha (Rohit and Pooja's daughter ;Arjun's sister;Shaurya's half cousin; Ishaani's cousin)(2015)
  • Roshni Walia as Teenage Niyati Sinha (2015)
• Ayesha Singh as Ratti Sinha (Anirudh and Damini's younger Daughter Ishaan and Taani's youngest sister Rohit's second half sister)(2015)
• Shashwita Sharma as Sandhiya Sinha(2015)
• Rajesh Balwani as Alok Sinha(2015)
• Mehul Kajaria as Sundar Sinha – Ishaan's cousin(2015)
• Keith Sequeira as James (blackmailer)(2015)
• Neetha Shetty as Kiran, Samrat's love interest(2015)
• Vikram Chatterjee as Yash Singhania(2015)
• Nalini Negi as Ishaani Ishaan Sinha – Urmi and Ishaan's daughter; Shaurya's half-sister (2015)
• Kunal Jaisingh/Shashank Sethi as Chiku Gaurav Singh (Asha and Gaurav's son)(2015)
• Kapil Arya as Karan Tripathi(2015)
• Pankaj Dheer as Mr. Jaamdar(2015)
• Gaurav Chopra as Akash Kumar(2015)
• Pallavi Dutt as Sheeba Kumar; Mrs. Akash Kumar (2015)^[7]
• Mohit Shrivastava as Prathanesh Sharma(2015)
• Shahab Khan as Mr Tiwari (Diya's father)(2015)
• Sunayana Fozdar as Simran (Mr Akash Kumar's fashion designer)(2015) ^[8]
• Krishnam Sharma as Rahul(2015)
• Karan Mishra as Deepak (2015)

Guest

• Shabir Ahluwalia as Abhishek "Abhi" Prem Mehra from "Kumkum Bhagya"
• Sriti Jha as Pragya Arora Mehra from "Kumkum Bhagya"
• Shikha Singh as Aaliya Mehra from "Kumkum Bhagya"
• Karan Patel as Raman Bhalla from "Yeh Hai Mohabbatein"
• Divyanka Tripathi as Ishita Bhalla from "Yeh Hai Mohabbatein"
• Avinash Sachdev as Shlok Agnigotri from "Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? Ek Baar Phir"
• Shrenu Parikh as Astha Shlok Agnigotri from "Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? Ek Baar Phir"
• Shakti Arora as Ranveer Raghvela from "Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi"
• Radhika Madan as Ishani Ranveer Raghvela from "Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi"
• Ronit Roy as Dr. Nachiket from "Itna Karo Na Mujhe Pyaar"
• Pallavi Kulkarni as Ragini from "Itna Karo Na Mujhe Pyaar"
• Karan Veer Mehra as Naren Karmarkar from "Pavitra Rishta"
• Ankita Lokhande as Ankita Naren Karmarkar from "Pavitra Rishta"
• Karanvir Bohra as Aahil from "Qubool Hai"
• Surbhi Jyoti as Sanam from "Qubool Hai"
• Dheeraj Dhoopar as Prem Bharadwaj from "Sasural Simar Ka"
• Dipika Kakar as Simar Bharadwaj from "Sasural Simar Ka"
• Manish Raisinghan as Siddhant Bharadwaj from "Sasural Simar Ka"
• Avika Gor as Roli Bharadwaj from "Sasural Simar Ka"
• Falaq Naaz as Jhanvi Bharadwaj from "Sasural Simar Ka"
• Mrunal Jain as Akash from "Uttaran"
• Tina Datta as Meethi from "Uttaran"
• Ashish Sharma as Rudra Pratap Ranawat from "Rangrasiya"
• Sanaya Irani as Paro from "Rangrasiya"
• Harshad Arora as Zain Abdullah from "Beintehaa"
• Preetika Rao as Aaliya Zain Abdullah from "Beintehaa"
• Sidharth Shukla as Shiv from "Balika Vadhu"
• Toral Rasputra as Anandi from "Balika Vadhu"
• Shashank Vyas as Jagdish "Jagu" from "Balika Vadhu"
• Sargun Mehta as Ganga from "Balika Vadhu"

Series overview

Production

Initially Mohit Malik rejected the role then Rahil Azam was signed for the show but was eventually replaced by Mohit Malik.

Chhavi Pandey auditioned for Parvati Sehgal's role but was rejected by the makers.

Karan Tacker was approached for Ishaan's role before finalizing Vibhav Roy in it but Karan rejected the role because of some personal issues.

Nikita Sharma was offered a role in the show which was earlier played by Priya Shinde in the show.

Falaq Naaz was chosen for playing the elder Anushka in the show after the five-year leap replacing Mehendi Jain as the younger one which was a strong character of an IPS Officer in the show but the makers scrapped her role because of excess characters in the six-year leap.

Mohit Malik was to play the role of adult Shaurya after leap but he quit the show because of Jhalak Dikhla Jaa.

Saurabh Raaj Jain was offered Shaurya's role which was later played by Kunal Karan Kapoor in the show.

Kanchi Singh was offered Nalini Negi's role but declined it as she thought it was a negative character.

Rajat Tokas was approached for the show but declined the part Gaurav Chopra played the part later.

Awards and nominations