Sapna Babul Ka... Bidaai is an Indian soap drama that aired from 8 October 2007 to 13 November 2010 on STAR Plus during weekdays. It tells the story of a father and his two daughters and explores the social impacts of skin colour. The series was replaced by Gulaal. In August 2022, rerun of the series started on StarPlus's sister channel Star Bharat.
Plot Ragini and Sadhna are cousins where Sadhna’s mother dies due to her illness in the first few episodes, and Sadhna’s father is unable to save her owing to a lack of funds. Sadhana's father promises to fly to the USA in order to accumulate more wealth, and she is left with her maternal uncle, Prakashchand Sharma. Sadhana is now residing in Agra and her father is in California. Sadhana's father's greatest wish is to see her as a bride. Sadhana, on the other hand, is desperate to see her father. She succeeds to win Ragini's and Prakashchand’s hearts while living with the Sharmas. However, Ragini's mother, Kaushalya, is concerned because her daughter, Ragini, and Sadhana have different complexions. Eventually, Sadhana’s father decides to return from California and take her back to Udaipur. Everyone is ecstatic. However, a tragic twist of fate puts an end to all hope. Sadhana's father's plane crashes due to bad weather and he dies. Sadhana is devastated by the news. She eventually ends up staying with the Sharmas.
Meanwhile, efforts to find Ragini a groom are on. Ragini is having difficulty finding a suitable match given her dark complexion, as she is always rejected in favour of the lighter-skinned Sadhana. One proposal is eventually finalised, and Kaushalya and Ragini's maternal grandmother decide to keep Sadhana hidden. Sadhana eventually arrives at Ragini's wedding venue owing to unforeseen circumstances, and the boy's family rejects Ragini once more in favour of Sadhana, causing Kaushalya to attempt suicide, but Prakashchand saves her. Everything returns to normal slowly, as Ragini takes dancing lessons and Sadhana gets a job.
Sadhana begins working as a tutor at the Rajvansh family. Ranveer is one of the Rajvansh sons who studies in the USA and has returned for the time being. He has a mentally ill brother named Alekh. Vasundhara, Alekh's mother, believes that marriage will help Alekh improve. She decides on Sadhana as a bride and puts the proposal to her. But, Sadhana rejects the proposal citing the fact that Ragini, who is elder to her, has not been married yet. In the backdrop of all this, the Sharmas are facing serious financial difficulties and the possibility of losing their home. Vasundhara offers to help them out. Sadhana eventually agrees to marry Alekh, however, Sadhana also puts forth a demand of her own.
Sadhana demands that Vasundhara get Ranveer married to Ragini in exchange. She does so after witnessing Ranveer protecting Ragini's honour after few hooligans make fun of her dark complexion, and she believes that he will make a wonderful life partner for Ragini, and she for him.
At first, Vasundhara is affronted and rejects this demand right away. Then, Vasundhara deceives Sadhana by seemingly agreeing to her demand, but this was just a sham. She sends Ranveer back to the USA while Sadhana marries Alekh. Vasundhara offers to marry Ranveer and Ragini when the former returns. Sadhana marries Alekh, but Ragini and Ranveer's marriage does not work out as Ranveer falls in love with Sonia. Sonia, on the other hand, is revealed to be a gold digger who is just interested in Ranveer's money. Ranveer is devastated by this news and begins to stat depressed. In a strange twist of destiny, Ragini is the one who saves him when she dials his number by accident and tells him to move on with his life in wonderful words. Ranveer is completely charmed by her perspective, and the two gradually begin conversing on the phone on a regular basis, oblivious of each other's identities. They go by the names, Anmol, and Anamika. Sadhana eventually figures it out, but she does not reveal them and instead trusts God to decide the fate of their phone friendship. She, however, lets Alekh in on the secret.
Ranveer and Ragini slowly develop feelings for each other and resolve to meet. However, when they meet, they are both taken aback, and due to Vasundhara's interference (who always refused to accept Ragini as her daughter-in-law owing to her dark complexion), Ranveer believes Ragini was aware of his true identity all along, but chose to deceive him in order to marry into a wealthy family. Meanwhile, Ragini is taken aback when she learns that Ranveer is Anmol, and she is distraught when he seemingly appears to reject her. Sadhana knew about their true identities all along, and both, Ranveer, and Ragini, are disappointed in her for keeping it hidden from them.
However, misunderstandings eventually get cleared up after Ranveer realises that he truly loves Ragini when he learns that very much like him, she had no idea of his real identity and had truly loved him all along as well. He decides that his life is not complete without her and fights tooth and nail to win her love after leaving her heartbroken. Slowly but surely, their love wins over their families, especially their opposing mothers, and they eventually marry. After their marriage, they decide to help Sadhana cure Alekh so that she can experience a fulfilling marital life as well. They hire a therapist for Alekh, Shlok, who happens to have been an old friend of his, and improvements begin to show in Alekh's health until Alekh begins to think Sadhana and Shlok have feelings for each other. This manifests itself when Sadhana is shot in the streets and is attended to by Shlok. Meanwhile, Alekh and Sadhana’s families are planning a formal wedding for the two now that Alekh is showing improvement. However, at the wedding, Alekh tells Shlok that he would be a better husband for Sadhana and dresses him up as himself and tries to get him married to Sadhana. However, Shlok, wanting the best for Alekh, ends up revealing himself in the end and reunites him with Sadhana and they have a happy marriage. Ranveer starts investigating what happened with him a fateful Diwali night so he, Ragini, and Sadhana plan to recreate that Diwali night once again. Alekh relives it and remembers that Ambika killed his grandfather and was told by Ambika that his grandfather was killed by Vasundhara. Alekh feels very humiliated and apologizes to Vasundhra. The next day Ambika and Sathyen leave the Rajvansh house and Ambika curses that history will repeat itself and this time it will be Ragini and Sadhana. Slowly, Alekh starts living a normal life. So, they are successful in their quest. Misunderstandings develop between Sadhana and Alekh after his recovery, however, they get cleared up as it becomes clear that much like Ranveer and Ragini, Alekh and Sadhana are also made for one another. They all live happily together for a while. Ragini and Sadhana soon become pregnant and the whole family is overjoyed. However, nine months later, tragedy strikes as Sadhana dies in a bomb blast. The whole family is devastated by Sadhana's death. Ragini decides to raise Sadhana's daughter up as well along with hers.
7 years later
Ragini is shown bringing her daughter Tamanna up along with Khushi, who is Sadhana's daughter. Ragini and the family commemorate the seventh anniversary of Sadhana's death. It is revealed that Ranveer died, too, in a rock avalanche while saving his friend Anmol's life. Anmol promised Ranveer to look after his family, therefore, he lives in the Rajvansh household as Ragini’s husband and Tamanna's father. After Sadhana and Ranveer's deaths, Alekh also loses his mental balance once again, but eventually recovers with the help of Shlok, and especially for his daughter. He also becomes close to a girl named Sakshi. The show ends with Anmol and Ragini, and Alekh and Sakshi, getting married. Both couples take deceased Ranveer and Sadhana’s blessings and perform the Bidaai (farewell) ritual.
Cast Main Parul Chauhan as Ragini Rajvansh: Kaushalya and Prakash's daughter; Vineet and Sadhana’s sister; Ranveer's widow; Anmol's wife; Tamanna's mother (2007–2010) Sara Khan as Sadhana Awasthy Rajvansh: Sulekha and Kishan's daughter; Ragini and Vineet’s sister. Alekh's first wife; Khushi's mother (2007–2010) (Dead) Kinshuk Mahajan as Ranveer Rajvansh: Vasundhara and Inderjit's younger son; Alekh's brother; Ragini's first husband; Tamanna's father (2008–2010) (dead) Angad Hasija as Alekh Rajvansh: Vasundhara and Inderjit's elder son; Ranveer's brother; Sadhana's widower; Sakshi's husband; Khushi's father (2008–2010) Apurva Agnihotri as Anmol Sareen: Ranveer's friend; Ragini's second husband; Tamanna's adoptive father (2010) Sulagna Panigrahi as Sakshi Narang Rajvansh: Alekh's second wife; Khushi's adoptive mother (2010)
Recurring Nirali Desai as Tamanna Rajvansh: Ragini and Ranveer's daughter; Anmol's adoptive daughter; Khushi and Kavyansh's cousin (2010) Divya Naaz as Khushi Rajvansh: Sadhana and Alekh's daughter; Sakshi's adoptive daughter; Tamanna and Kavyansh's cousin (2010) Amardeep Jha as Sumitra Bajpai: Kaushalya's mother; Ragini and Vineet's grandmother; Kavyansh and Tamanna's great-grandmother (2007–2010) Mahesh Thakur as Kishan Chand Awasthy: Sulekha’s husband; Sadhana's father; Khushi's grandfather (2007) Alok Nath as Prakash Chandra Sharma: Sulekha’s brother; Kaushalya's husband; Ragini and Vineet's father; Sadhna’s maternal uncle; Kavyansh and Tamanna's grandfather (2007–2010) Vibha Chibber as Kaushalya Sharma: Prakash's wife; Ragini and Vineet's mother; Kavyansh and Tamanna's grandmother (2007–2010) Ashita Dhawan as Malti Sharma: Vineet's wife; Kaushalya and Prakash’s daughter in law; Ragini and Sadhana’s sister in law; Kavyansh's mother (2007–2010) Naveen Saini as Vineet Sharma: Kaushalya and Prakash's son; Ragini's brother; Sadhana's cousin; Malti's husband; Kavyansh's father (2007–2010) Siddharth Kumar as Kavyansh "Kavya" Sharma: Malti and Vineet's son; Tamanna and Khushi's cousin (2010) Shambhavi Sharma as Gujri: Servant at Kaushalya Nivas (2007–2008) Seema Kapoor as Vasundhara Rajvansh: Indrajeet's wife; Ranveer, Alekh and Dolly’s mother; Ambika’s younger sister; Tamanna and Khushi's grandmother (2008–2010) Avinash Wadhawan as Indrajeet Rajvansh: Vasundhara's husband; Ranveer, Alekh and Dolly’s father; Tamanna and Khushi's grandfather (2008–2010) Natasha Rana as Ambika Rajvansh: Satyen's wife; Naveen’s mother; Vasundhara’s elder sister (2008–2009) Aliraza Namdar as Satyendra (Satyen) Rajvansh: Indrajeet’s younger brother; Naveen’s father(2008–2009) Vimarsh Roshan as Naveen Rajvansh: Satyen and Ambika’s son; Guni and Pratham’s father; Avni’s husband (2008–2010) Preeti Puri as Avni Naveen Rajvansh (2008–2010) Rajeev Verma as Harshvardhan Rajvansh (Dadaji), Father of Inderjit and Satyen (2009) Sulakshana Khatri as Gayatri Devi (Bua Dadi), Harshvardhan's younger sister (2009) Sunita Shirole as the lady in Gayatri Devi's old age home (2009) Rahul Lohani as Karan Rajvansh, Inderjit and Kusum’s son (2010) Farida Dadi as Karan’s grandmother (2010) Navina Bole as Dolly Rajvansh (2009–10) Shafaq Naaz as Guni Rajvansh (2010) Shabana Mullani as Dolly Rajvansh: Vasundhara and Indrajeet’s daughter; Ranveer and Alekh’s sister (2008) Manish Raisinghan as Saket (2007) Utkarsha Naik as Sulakshana (2007) Kartik Sabharwal as Shailendra (2007) Rajendra Chawla as Kamlesh Awasthy, Sadhna's uncle, Kishanchand's brother (2007) Pragati Mehra as Sadhna's aunt, Kamlesh's wife (2007) Sheela Sharma as Sadhna’s aunt, Kamlesh’s sister (2007) Sadiya Siddiqui as Aradhana, Ragini's dance teacher (2007) Vishal Singh as Rajveer (2007) Rucha Gujarathi as Sonia (2007) Madhura Naik as Sonia Singh/ Sonia Chopra: Ranveer’s ex girlfriend (2008) Manish Naggdev as Shishir Tripathi (2008) Eva Grover as Sheetal Rai Singhania: Vasundhara’s best friend from Canada (2009) Payal Nair as Gayathri (2009)