Faltu (TV series)

The story revolves around an unwanted girl, Faltu, named useless[4] after her parents' frustration at the birth of a third girl and a stillborn twin son.

She grew up in a feudal family in rural Rajasthan, being ill-treated and disregarded by everyone except her father and cousin Pratap for her gender, birth order, and passions. Rejecting the traditional role of a meek and homemaking woman, Faltu harbors a love for cricket, playing with various improvised bats like sticks and brooms, further drawing the mockery of the village while she fights against the stigma trying to make her family proud.

Things change when she crosses paths with Ayaan Mittal, who is the son of a wealthy CEO and a proficient cricketer despite swearing off the sport. He is visiting her village with his cousin Suhana for business. He notices her talent despite bad first impressions, and his offer of coaching her begins a new journey in her unacknowledged life.

Complications in their budding relationship loom as Ayaan is engaged to Tanisha in an arranged marriage among family friends back in Mumbai. Faltu must also fight against an arranged marriage with an older man and many other social ills along the way. Ayaan comes and takes Faltu with him to Mumbai and takes her to his Paternal Aunt Rijwala. Pappi (Faltu's fianće) comes behind Faltu till Mumbai. Soon Ayaan's Family invites Rijwala and her husband to Ayaan's Wedding and Faltu also comes with them. Ayaan helps Faltu achieve her Dreams in Mumbai and sends her to Mumbai Women's National Cricket Academy. But unfortunately, one day when Faltu visits the doctor is informed that she has an illness that can cause her to become blind and she has only three months to see. She doesn't want Ayaan to know the truth and increase his troubles. Suddenly one day everybody learns the truth that Ayaan eloped Faltu from her wedding and that he had gone mia from his pre-wedding rituals multiple times trying to help Faltu. They disapprove of Faltu staying with them. Faltu leaves the house and starts living on the streets & faces many harsh circumstances. On Ayaan's wedding day with Tanisha, Pappi discovers Faltu's whereabouts and kidnaps her. Pappi tries to forcefully marry Faltu but Ayaan learns that Faltu has been kidnapped and comes to save Faltu, but only after taking permission from Tanisha this time. Ayaan gets injured, accidentally fills Faltu's hairline with vermillion, and falls unconscious. Soon Faltu also gets blind and cannot see anything. The police arrive and take Ayaan with them but Faltu runs away and hides in a jungle. Ayaan still asks the police for Faltu but they do not tell him anything. Ayaan arrives home and starts the rituals for getting married to Tanisha. Tanisha also chooses to trust him and asks the police to locate Faltu seeing Ayaan worried, making him happy. Faltu meanwhile escapes the police as she wants to go away from Ayaan's life to not make his life difficult, but starts wearing vermillion and mangalsutra of Ayaan's name.

Tanisha soon learns about the truth with the help of Siddharth, Ayaan’s brother, who is insanely in love with the former. Suspecting and eventually growing envious, Tanisha begins plotting against Faltu, including creating distances and misunderstandings between her and Ayaan. During this, she gets framed for using unfair means to achieve her dreams and Ayaan gets to know about his marriage with Faltu. He then secretly tries to locate Faltu who disappeared and was nowhere to be found. Faltu then enters the Mittal mansion as Rocky to find out who framed her. However, the truths soon get revealed and Tanisha gets exposed in front of the family.

Ayaan too soon realizes he is not happy with his marriage with Tanisha, and that he is in love with Faltu. Once the family gets to know of the same, they disapprove of it. However, a series of events then lead to Tanisha and Ayaan divorcing.

On an event, Janardhan, Ayaan’s father brutally humiliated Faltu for her status. Upon seeing the same, Ayaan takes a big decision and marries Faltu publicly with all rituals and legality. Facing unacceptance from the family, Ayaan stands by Faltu at all odds and begins her cricket training.

To take revenge, Tanisha then marries Siddharth thus re-entering the Mittal Mansion as Faltu’s sister-in-law. Bringing a shocker to Ayaan, Faltu, and the family, Tanisha vows to ruin their lives for the insult she has faced.

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