Yeh meri life hai circles around Pooja a vivacious and spirited 17 year old teenager who comes from a conservative and low class gujrati background. Pooja is naturally brought up with middle class values and beliefs but exposed to the modern society; Pooja holds a life long dream to become a film director some day. But for Pooja this dream is not very easy as she is bond in her cultural values but then keeping her own dreams and aspirations and hoping to make them come true. Pooja is a portraying character who persistently endeavors to make the two worlds meet, sanskar her culture and vichar her thinking.
Her first step to fulfill her dream was to enter the posh and all snob college St Martins without telling her father. However she soon learnt that the dazzling world of St Martins was greatly different from her own___ glamour, style, culture and class. Plunged in this strange world Pooja along with her friend Mandy met some of the most awful, scratchy and self-obsessed people like Annie, Kushan, Ronnit( ok you can have some exceptions for him as he is not as hard hearted or openly arrogant as both the formers). But with her dreams unshakable and her trust in god unbreakable (Oh God ghuma do apna magic wand aur kr do mere problem ka end) Pooja accepts the new world and the challenges she has to face striving to achieve her dream.
However it?s not only her enemies in college but back at home there is more trouble for Pooja. She knows her solemn and strict father will never allow her to join her dream college (he expected Pooja to go to Runjunwala bah that tacky college) and then she had got a vitriolic bum for her bua (family bindo) who strolled down every day to their house waffling on and commenting that how much she cared for her brother and his family and saying bad about Pooja (who she complained was spoilt by her mother). The fee for her college is also great and she knows her father can hardly afford it. However un-raveled by the strains from her family and college Pooja crosses obstacle after obstacle weather its her ’Hitler papa’, devious Jaishree bua or snappy students of st martins.
Pooja and Mandy also befriend Reema and Akaash (exactly does she?) as her father has strictly ordered her ?NO BOY CALLS?. Pooja?s mom is really nice who is always with her daughter supporting her wishes and so are her brother and sister and her grand pa ___ maybe as I have never seen him doing anything else except floating in his newspaper telling the latest news aloud.
The main characters of the show are:-
Pooja: the protagonist stars Shamma Sikander; Pooja is a young, peppy girl from a middle class household. She always has a positive outlook on every thing, a warm and vibrant responsible young lady, a dreamer and a realist Pooja is not only the hero but a desirable role model.
Mandeep: proudly known as Mandy Mandeep is Pooja?s best friend and an eccentric character. she has a voracious appetite eating now and then.
Reema: - Simple Kaul starring as Reema is a nice girl at heart who does not get much attention from her family. She always stood up for Pooja when she befriended her.she swells like a child with a new toy when she is happy and always walks about with a dool in her hands.
Annie: a hopelessly vain, curvy sassy filthy aristocrat and Pooja?s worst enemy. Kushan:- all I can say about him is that I HATE him.his eys are prepetuallly drooping! Akaash: - Va va voom real babe magnet honest well meaning and very loyal. Ronnit: - he is sly unlike his sister and little bit less unlike his friend so it makes an awkward position for him. He loathes Pooja and Akaash and thinks Pooja is dull like her clothes.
Yeh meri life hai connects the viewers well as it has a nice setting and contrasts the traditions of a typical Gujarati family and the aggressive world of today?s youth. I think it?s a thought provoking show and tells that a woman has more to her than her beauty, husband and children. Aspirations, creativity and independence are not solely a domain of men but women have them too.