

Hence, everyone was left surprised when she took up Hitler Didi, a show that required her to play a strict person. Her popularity saw a rise after playing the bubbly Nupur in Miley Jab Hum Tum. After appearing in a few episodes, she bagged her first lead in Deepti Bhatnagar’s Shaadi Street, and then went on to star in Har Ghar Kuch Kehta Hai. She started her career as a participant in Cinestars Ki Khoj. The first season ended on a sad note, with Nupur being killed in an accident but with fans pressuring the makers, she soon made a comeback.īorn in Assam, Rati Pandey did her schooling in Patna before moving to Delhi. They even get married against her parents’ wishes. After Mayank saves her from ragging, the two strike a friendship, and soon fall in love. However, her effort to impress her college mates by dressing up cool led to her being ragged. When the family shifted to Mumbai, Nupur’s excitement knew no bounds. A believer in love, she’d keep talking about her dream man. Rati Pandey played Nupur, the elder sister, who is outgoing and carefree. Not to mention the wholesome friendships which the characters ended up having with one another.Rati Pandey was born in Assam and did her schooling in Patna. It was lifting them up in a way that was ahead of its time on Indian television. It was telling stories about characters compassionately. Miley Jab Hum Tum proved early on that it was not simply telling stories about fictional characters getting into college shenanigans.

Yet, Gunjan and her self-actualisation was a big part of the show's storyline. Where Nupur was larger than life, her sister Gunjan was shy and demure.

She was given depth, and her eventual romance with Mayank occupied a larger part of the show. Nupur, who was endlessly melodramatic, was never disregarded for her personality or used as a comic relief. Especially considering how humanising their portrayals were of the two main female leads. It was telling stories about characters that could very well be people around us. The show was not meant to be another college drama about a romanticised campus life. He was a character who added his own value to the show. In a similar way, the school diva Dia was not another cruel recreation of Regina George, but someone who got her own fulfilling redemption arc, and the comedian Uday was more than a funny guy.
