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Dr.Ashutosh, 37, is one of the brightest Surgeon of the country and runs Dr.Kotnis General Hospital in the outskirts of Bhopal, catering not only to the town but to the villages nearby. Dr.Ashutosh is married to his duty and is often called ‘Father Hard Stone’ behind his back because of his strict discipline and an unforgiving attitude towards negligence and lack of responsibility and commitment. He lives with his caretaker Hiraman, 55, who had been taking care of him since he was brought home by Dr.Mathur as an 8-year old orphan.
Nidhi NRI cousin
Rohan is a cheerful and kind person who brings happiness to other people''s life. He is a relative of Nidhi''s DadiBua. He falls in one sided love with Nidhi, but when he comes to know that Nidhi has affections only for Ashutosh, he will be in a state of mind whether to help her or not.
Grandfather of Nidhi. Baba of Ashutosh. DEAD[Only showed in flashbacks]
55, a short, heavy-set matronly woman, nurse D''Souza is thye senior m,ost nurse at the Dr.Kotnis general Hospital and knows more about medicine and medical care than most doctors and interns. She is very strict with the hospital staff and patients. Even doctors are scared of her. But her harsh nature hides a very soft person.
Dr.Ashutosh, 37, is one of the brightest Surgeon of the country and runs Dr.Kotnis General Hospital in the outskirts of Bhopal, catering not only to the town but to the villages nearby. Dr.Ashutosh is married to his duty and is often called ‘Father Hard Stone’ behind his back because of his strict discipline and an unforgiving attitude towards negligence and lack of responsibility and commitment. He lives with his caretaker Hiraman, 55, who had been taking care of him since he was brought home by Dr.Mathur as an 8-year old orphan.
Rangnath, 32, the Administrator at the Dr.Kotnis General Hospital, is an incurable flirt and wears his heart on his sleeve for any girl who happens to be in his proximity, be it Dr.Mallika, Nidhi or other female staff of the hospital. Only when he meets Preiti does he realizes that he has seriously fallen in love with her. The female staff doesn’t mind his flirting because Ranganth is actually a very good administrator and Dr.Ashutosh’s right arm in managing the hospital emergencies. Though he himself is a qualified doctor, he chose to be an administrator because he was honest enough to recognize by his modest performance in M.B.B.S. that he will never be an excellent doctor.
PHOOLAN 28,a tall Hariyanavi woman, well-built and fair, Phoolan combines the attributes of a female boxer from Bhivani and her namesake the Late Bandit Queen. Her parents actually named her in the memory of Phoolan Devi. With her Amazonian body, she is no less sexy than a Baywatch babe. But with her arms no less than a hammer, her pats to Chhote Sarkaar on his good performance in driving almost break his back. Worse comes when she falls in love with Chhote Sarkar and starts spouting Urdu love poetry in a harsh Haryanavi accent.
Dr.Mallika's Brother
Dr.Mallika, 33, the other senior surgeon at Dr.Kotnis General Hospital,was Ashutosh’s junior in the medical college and has been secretly in love with him since. But some incidents in Ashutosh’s life had hardened him so much that he had built an impregnable fort around himself through which he won’t allow anyone. They had made him distrust all relationships and commitment. Even the man who has picked him up as an orphan and had raised him and was more than a father to him, had ultimately let him down. And then there was this girl who gifted him a bunch of scars that will never heal. His only relationship with and commitment to was with his job as a surgeon and the only feeling and concern he had were for his patients. There was no place for Dr.Mallika or any other woman in his life. This had turned Mallika, a brilliant surgeon otherwise, into a frustrated, bitter, lonely woman who claimed to be Ashutosh’s only friend but knew very well that she cannot have him.
Nidhi Verma,24, is a fresh MBBS graduate who hated to be a doctor but was forced by her retired army officer Col.Yograj Verma into the profession because her late mother had wanted it as her last wish. Preiti, Nidhi’s neighbor, is her childhood friend, confidante, guide, philosopher all rolled into one. Preiti has her own dilemma because her lawyer father Kapil Solanki would like her to be a lawyer like him and his wife Shyama Solanki while Preiti herself wants to be a fashion designer. Both friends often come each other’s rescue when in trouble. Dadi Bua, Yograj’s aunt, had taken care of Nidhi since her mother’s death and dotes on her. Chhote Sarkar, her domestic help, has a running battle with Dadi Bua who rules the Verma household with an iron hand. Chhote Sarkar has a tough time surviving the daily trauma under Dadi Bua as well as under his driving instructor Phoolan, a Hariyanvi who could have been a boxer if she had not been a driving instructor.
COL. YOGRAJ Verma 45, ex-army man father of Nidhi, has retained the personality and the sense of humour of a soldier even after retirement. No very tall, but handsome ,well-built and fair. His once fit body has begun to show the consequences of a sedate, confortable lifestyle—he is slightly paunchy which makes him look more imposing instead of fat.He has a unique relationship with Nidhi—father and daughter often fight and tease each other like good friends but at the same time, when Nidhi needs his loving care, he is there for her. He pampers Nidhi when he wants to, not when she needs to be pampered. He believes that to mature, Nidhi needs to take some tough knocks from life which is why he insists on Nidhi becoming a doctor even though she hates it.