Simar and Roli are two sisters in Vrindavan. Simar aspires to be a dancer. Her marriage is fixed with a wealthy businessman, Prem Bharadwaj. On wedding day, Simar participates in a dance competition and Roli is forced to marry Prem. This creates problems as Simar and Prem start loving each other. Prem's brother, Siddhant marries Roli. Eventually, both Simar and Roli are accepted to Bharadwaj house.
Khushi, who wants revenge for her sister's death, marries Prem's cousin, Sankalp. Simar has a miscarriage, which makes her to never conceive and become a mother. Khushi becomes surrogacy mother of Prem and Simar's child and blackmails Simar to sign the property papers. She gives birth to their daughter, Anjali and grabs Bharadwajs' property with her lover, Veeru. Roli tricks Veeru and manages to get back property papers. Enraged, Veeru shoots Roli who presumed dead. Eventually, Simar finds Roli alive, held captive by Veeru and brings her home. Siddhant and Roli are happily remarried.
Simar and Roli find their long-lost sister-in-law, Jhanvi. Jhanvi kills her husband, Shaurya and is later married to Dr. Anurag. Roli is kidnapped by a politician Jwala Devi. She escapes and unintentionally runs over a woman named Sunaina to die. Sunaina's husband, Vikrant Mehta, asks Simar to live with them as Sunaina, faking her death. Simar too agrees to save Roli.
2 years later
Simar, now Sunaina, raises Vikrant's daughter, Sanjana while Roli takes care of Anjali. Simar returns to Bharadwajs after meeting her sister coincidentally at the Summer Camp and meets Sunaina's spirit, who wants revenge from Mehtas', who were behind her death. Prem, Roli and Siddhant also join with Simar. Eventually, Sunaina and Surabhi are banished. Vikrant who tries to murder Prem for his love for Simar eventually is jailed after her kidnap. Sanjana gets adopted by Simar and Prem.
Later, the story revolves around Simar, Roli, Prem and Siddhant and how they protect Bharadwaj house from some supernatural creatures who want to destroy Bhardwaj Family. These supernatural creatures include shapeshifting female serpent Maya, Dayans Mohini and Indravati, Patali Devi-Gayatri, ghosts Maalti, Madhavi and Chhoti Dulhan, Shaitan (Kaal), Moon Jewel Princess Chandramani and another two Dayans Mahamaya and Kamya. While defeating Patali Devi-Gayatri and Shaitan, Simar's life falls in danger. Roli sacrifises her life to save Simar. After Roli's sad demise, a depressed Siddhant is remarried to her childhood friend Prerna despite Chandramni's evil plans and moves abroad with her. Due to Chandramani's notorious plan to get rid of Simar so that her lost powers are gained back from Siddhant , she makes Simar to search the Chandrakant at a jungle where Simar faces a curse from a Saint Baba to live her life in reincarnation of a housefly. Simultaneously, Prerna and Mataji bring about the truth of Fake Simar residing in the house and saves Simar on time back as a human leading to the end of Chandrakatha. After the gem Chandramani being buried at a misunderstood time by Simar, Mahamaya steals it so that the chudails' deity Kaal gains his powers back and return to the world. Mahamaya and Kamya (who resides inside the Bharadwaj house as Prem's childhood mate to assist her mother) casts a spell on Simar and impregnates her with a child possessing evil powers. Simar becomes aware of this mysterious plan and soon witnesses Kamya's real vintage. The family learns of this, too. Simar and Prem have a son, Piyush. Being in doubt of the baby's spookiness, the family asks Simar to donate away the child. Simar refuses and leaves her in-laws with Piyush.
15 years later
Simar and Piyush return to Bharadwaj house and reunite with their family. Anjali, brought up by Khushi, has grown up to be a spoilt fashionista and blames Simar for abandoning her. Simar and Prem together help their children in their lives. Anjali marries Vikram Agarwal and Piyush marries his best friend, Roshni Kapoor. Anjali eventually accepts Simar. Vikram marries Tanvi, divorcing Anjali. Sanjana returns and is about to marry her college friend, Sameer. Anjali discovers that Sameer conspires against Bharadwajs' and marries him to spare herself from the same fate. She falls into a coma, after being shooted by Simar.
Sameer's mother, Bhairavi is revealed to have shot Anjali. She turns into a daayan, absording supernatural powers and kills Simar. Mother GoddessDurga, deeply worshipped by the Bharadwaj family, enters their household in the form of Simar, to destroy Bhairavi and bring Simar back to life. Sameer repents for his mistakes and the Bharadwajs forgive him.
Anjali recovers and sets Bharadwaj Mansion on fire, and she is arrested. Simar and others disown her. Roshni is shot to death by Aliya, who wants revenge for her father's death. Piyush turns mad due to Roshni's demise and goes missing.
6 months later
Simar brings Piyush back with Avni and her mother, Hema, who took care of him. Bhairavi has returned from jail and Sanjana miscarries. Piyush regains his memory.
In the end, Simar kills Bhairavi and Piyush marries Avni. The Bharadwajs worship the Mother Goddess and celebrate togetherness. Pari apologises to Simar for her past mistakes. Simar misses Roli and Nirmala says that the Bharadwaj family is not only a family but a thought. With this, the show completes.
Cast
Main
Dipika Kakar / Keerti Gaekwad Kelkar as Simar Dwivedi Bharadwaj: Meena and Jamnalal's elder daughter; Roli and Gautam's sister; Prem's wife; Anjali and Piyush's mother; Sanjana's adoptive mother (2011–2017) / (2017–2018)
Shoaib Ibrahim / Dheeraj Dhoopar / Mazher Sayed as Prem Bharadwaj: Sujata and Rajendra's youngest son; Satyendra, Shailendra, Siddhant and Jhanvi's brother; Simar's husband; Anjali and Piyush's father; Sanjana's adoptive father. (2011–2013) / (2013–2017) / (2017–2018)
A sequel of the show, named Sasural Simar Ka 2, also known as SSK2 is being telecast on the same channel Colours tv since 26 April 2021, ten years after the first season started airing.
Production
Casting
It first starred Dipika Kakar, Shoaib Ibrahim, Avika Gor and Manish Raisinghan as Simar, Prem, Roli and Siddhant respectively Jayati Bhatia played the role of Mataji in the Show. Shoaib Ibrahim left the show in 2013 as makers weren't giving his character much screen space disappointment with the creative independence of the character.[4] He was replaced by Dheeraj Dhoopar who played the role of Prem after Shoaib's exit from the show. In April 2016, Avika Gor left the show as she wanted a break after working non-stop for 5 years.[5] Thus, her character Roli was shown to have died in the show. Mansi Srivastava entered in the Show as Prerna as Simar childhood friend. In July 2016, Mansi Srivastava and Manish Raisinghan also left the show. So, their respective characters of Prerna and Siddhant were shown to have shifted abroad. In August 2016, Vaishali Takkar and Varun Sharma entered the show as Anjali and Piyush, respectively. In February 2017, Dipika Kakar and Dheeraj Dhoopar left the Show, so their respective characters of Simar and Prem have shown to went for business trip.[6][7] In March 2017, Keerti Gaekwad Kelkar Entered in the Show in the role of Simar . In May 2017, Krissann Barretto entered the show as Sanjana. At the end of May 2017 Mazher Sayed entered in the Show in the role of Prem. In July 2017, Vaishali Takkar left the show. So her character of Anjali was shown to have arrested in the show. In January 2018, Nikki Sharma also left the show. So her character of Roshni was shown to have died in the show. In the same month, Monica Sharma entered the show in the role of Avni.[citation needed]
The series was confirmed going off air on 2 March 2018 owing its declining ratings and the climax was decided but days before the shooting was about to complete, it received an extension on last minute discussions between the channel and production house and the script was reworked.[11] In February 2021, the series was confirmed returning with a new season titled, Sasural Simar Ka 2, featuring Dipika Kakar and Jayati Bhatia from the former season and Radhika Muthukumar, Tanya Sharma, Avinash Mukherjee and Karan Sharma as the new leads of the show.[12]
Location
Based on Delhi as backdrop, Sasural Simar Ka was mainly filmed at the sets in Cine Classic Studios at Mira Road. Some episodes are shot in Hong Kong for their 1000th episodes celebration.
Ragini calls Mohini to do black magic on Swara to break her marriage with Laksh. She takes Prem with her. Prem is saved by Swara and she herself, is saved by Sanskar.
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30 November & 1 December 2015
Simar goes to Kolkata to tells Swara as Ragini had married to Laksh. Devika who is possessed by Patali Devi tries to kill Simar, Swara and Sanskar but fails.
Swara comes to celebrate Baisakhi with Simar. Everyone suddenly goes missing. Swara buries Chandarmaani in sand famous for melting bad powers.
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2 October 2016
Anjali asks Simar and Prem to go Kolkata. They go to Swara's house. Swara tries to take the videotape from Khushi and Anjali but fails. Simar succeeds in taking keys from Parvati and gives it to Swara.
Piyush who is possessed by Kaal goes missing and Roshni tries to find her but fails but succeeds when Naina helps her. Simar motivates her when she tells her that she is going to compete against her sister.
Piyush who is possessed by Kaal takes Aditya with him. Harman follows him but he is proved innocent. Aditya is found but taken by Mr. Chadda. Simar gives them money but they refuse as they had arranged it earlier.
Reception
The series became one of the most watched Hindi GECs during its run time.[13] In week 52 of 2015 it was at fifth position garnering 12.33 million impressions.[14] In week 2 of 2016, it was at third position with 13.46 million impressions.[15]
