Miillee starts of with the introduction of the various occupants of Rastogi Mansion in Shimla. First there is dadi played by sushma seth. She has locked herself in her room for the past 17-18 years and cut relationship with everyone and become a recluse. There is something which has made her sad and bitter for years. There is Kiran Kumar's character Vishal Rastogi who is dadi's son. Both mother and son are very cold to one another. Kiran Kumar's wife Mrs. Rastogi is played by Mahru Sheikh(Armaan's mom Ila in JJKN, she also played Abhay Deol's girlfriend's mom in the movie Socha Na Tha). She has this habit of always making keeping tidy. Its now become an obsession with her. Kiran's son Rahul is played by Ajay Gehi. Mrs. and Mr. Rastogi always quarrel with one another over minor issues. This troubles their son Rahul. To take out his frustrations he plays drums when he is angry. We are hinted at something Mrs. Rastogi had told Vishal on their suhaag-raat which caused a rift b/w them. The rift is yet to heal.
Then there is Madhubala(Shagufta Ali) who is the Queen of the kitchen. The other characters are the Mali(Gardener) who tries to Patao our kitchen Queen all the time. There are two maids in this mad house… one of them is played by Shabnam(Maria of JJKN and Ramya of Goonj Ateet Ki). These two maids are forever at loggerheads at each other. There is also the butler a-la- Jeeves who is always around to smooth things over (the sanest in the mad house).
Dadi and the Butler – Prabhakar (I think) discuss Parvathi his sister, who was in love with Vishal but was later on dumped by Vishal. We are shown flashbacks (at the first episode… can you beat that?) of Vishal and his father where Vishal insists that he wants to marry Parvathi and his dad refuses. The Butler tells Dadi to forgive Vishal and says that his sister shouldn't have dreamt beyond her haisiyat. Daadi however says that the only way she can atone for her sins is to find her grandchild… Meaning Vishal and Parvathi had a child. Dadi remembers the locket that she had given Parvathi, and hopes that she can recognize the child by the locket. We are also told that Parvathi expired soon after giving birth and that they have no idea where the baby is right now. Also, we are told that Daadi has a similar locket around her neck. The butler reminds her that she has another grandchild, but Daadi says that she craves for the grandchild that she doesn't have with her (typical human mentality… crave for something that you don't have with you right now)
We are then shown Miilee, a complete tomboy playing football with the boys. Mrs Rastogi is speaking to Father (Played by The guy who played Salman's dad in MPK and Rahul's dad in Sanjeevani and Tabu's dad in Hum Saath Saath Hain), he tells her that their family has always been kind to his orphanage. Mrs Rastogi notices Miilee playing. She asks Father about her and Father calls Miilee there. Miilee ignores him and continues playing and tells him that she is busy and she wants to play. Father leaves the room(Presumably to call Miilee). Meanwhile Miilee notices Mrs Rastogi looking at her. She asks Mrs Rastogi 'Kya dekh rahi ho? Madhuri ka ek do teen chal raha hain kya?' Mrs Rastogi gets irriated at that and moves away. Father comes back and not seeing Mrs Rastogi where he left her, wonders where she might have gone.
My apologies that I cudnt get the names of most of the characters. Gimme a week's time.
This Update is by my very good friend Shreya.
- Abhita
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