Amanat is the emotional story of Lala Lahori Ram and his seven beautiful and dutiful daughters. Fleeing as a young boy in the wake of the partition, he has made his home in India. The world has progressed or grown corrupt depending on how you look at it, but Lahori Ram’s values and traditions have not changed with the advent of modern times.
Having lost his wife early in life, he has been both father and mother to his girls. He has lavished on them all love and affection, but kept them within the constraints of a stern middle class morality. The serial with its emotional twists and turns should definitely find easy identification with viewers anywhere and everywhere.
The bond between the sisters is extremely close. Not having a mother in their formative years has forged not merely a strong comradeship with each other but an almost telepathic communication. Their shared moments of happiness and grief, their love and admiration for their father and the desire never to hurt him, are their common ground.
It is only when they get married and go into different families with varied backgrounds and cultural environs, some rich, some poor, others real conflicts actually start. It is a struggle between fealty to the family of the husband and the love they have for their sisters. Lahori Ram is supportive like a rock and compassionate as a parent can be without hurting one for the sake of the other but it is a tricky tight-rope which he treads with skill.
Like the tributaries of a mighty river, the lives of each girl break free from the confines of family and flow to distant places, while still being a part of the older stream. So Lahori Ram too follows the happiness and heartaches of his daughters with fond indulgence and parental concern. They are his “AMANAT” reared with love and bestowed one by one like a bounty on someone else. Each parent in turn goes through these profound experiences sooner or later when daughters come of age, and depart as brides leaving behind for the parents only sweet memories.
Amanat has a strong star cast of SUDHIR PANDEY, BHARAT KAPOOR, POOJA MADAN, GRACY, SMITA BANSAL and a host of others.
An Eulogy - The original Director of Amanat, Mr. Sanjiv Bhattacharya, passed away, weeks after his brilliant and highest TRP grossing AMANAT made waves, across the globe.
Talent - he had plenty of it. Ideas - he was brimming with them. Enthusiasm - he spread it to everyone around him. Such was the vibrant personality of Sanjeev Bhattacharya the sensitive and talented director of Zee TV’s no.1 show Amanat.
His directorial genius was first seen in his serial Chunauti and later in Campus which became one of the biggest hits. With Amanat, Sanjiv graduated from university grounds to wholesome family serials. Sanjiv was at the peak of his career and has left behind an unfulfilled legacy.
They say: The good die young ;
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