afsar Bitiya is an
Indian soap opera broadcast on
Zee TV. Set in
Bhagalpur,
Bihar, it is the story of Krishna, played by
Mitali Nag, who rises from modest beginnings to a successful career.
Along with Punar Vivah, the new show on Zee TV, Afsar Bitiya managed
to topple Colors TV to 4th place with Zee TV regaining its 3rd spot in
the TRP race.
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The series also stars
Mitali Nag,
Virendra Saxena,
Shahbaz Khan,
Kinshuk Mahajan,
Yash Sinha, and
Shivshakti Sachdev.
story
Krishna Raj dreams of becoming a Block Development Officer (BDO).
However, her financial status makes it difficult for her to afford a
decent education. Her father, Vidyapati Raj and family have sacrficied
to make sure that Krishna receives the education necessary to achieve
her goal. The story opens with Krishna rushing to take her first exam
towards becoming a BDO. The Tempo gets into an accident, and she is
nearly run over by Pintu Singh, the son of the affluent landlord Tun
Tun Singh, for whom her father works. Fortunately, she makes it there
and passes with flying colors. Thanks to Babloo Singh, the elder son of
Tun Tun Singh, Krishna receives free tuition and training at his
Coaching Center. However, luck will not be in her favor, as her mother
and brother do not support her efforts to achieve her education.
Moreoever, her father's brother, Bihari and his wife Dhahati want their
daughter Pinky to become BDO and have resorted to bribes and other
illegal activties to make it possible. The family taunt Vidyapati and
his family and the mother and daugther mock Krishna's appearance and
call her Koyla Khadaan (Coal Quarry) because of her dark complexion.
Pintu Singh admires Krishna's courage and perseverance and becomes her
advocate; he makes sure she gets the material she needs to study for
her MAINS exam and later in the story assists his brother Babloo Singh
and Krishna's father in kidnapping Krishna to take her MAINS exam.
Krishna's mother worries about Swati, Krishna's elder sister, who is
not getting married. The family were able to marry off the eldest
sister, Manisha, but never fully paid off the dowry and have hardly any
to give towards Swati's marriage. A proposal is offered and Bihari
takes the opportunity to sabotage Krishna's studies of becoming a BDO
and arranges for Swati to get married without a dowry with the offer of
Krishna's hand in marriage to the elder widowed brother. The mother
reluctantly agrees much to the anger of the father who was not present
at the proposal as he is called away on business by Tun Tun Singh. The
father's dreams are shattered as Krishna reluctantly agrees to a
marriage she doesn't want. Fortunately, Babloo Singh comes up with a
plan to kidnap Krishna with the help of younger brother Pintu, who gets
her to take her exams in Patna. While at the testing center a horrifed
Pinky and Dhahati watch as Pinto takes Krishna's hand and drags her to
take the exam. Her sister's engagement is subsequently called off and
the mother is devasted. Together, with the help of Babloo and Pintu,
Krishna convinces the elder widowed brother to get his father to accept
Swati without the dowry for his younger brother. The mother and brother
are overjoyed and they eventually move towards encouraging and
supporting her in her dreams to become a BDO. In the meantime, Bihari
decides to offer his daughter's (Pinky) hand in marriage to Pintu (of
course through the father, Tun Tun Singh). Tun Tun Singh sees this as a
good opportuntiy to have a BDO for a daughter-in-law and tricks Pintu
into accepting the marriage. Pintu unwillingily agrees.
At Swati's wedding, Pintu starts to see Krishna in a new light and a
fondness for her is developed but this does not go unnoticed and
Dhahati and Bihari poison Tun Tun Singh's mind. They insinuate that
Krishna is trying to entice Pintu and her father is behind it. Tun Tun
Singh humiliates the family in front of the guests at the wedding.
Vidyapati pleads that Tun Tun Singh stop and when he refuses, he drags
him (Tun Tun Singh) out of the wedding. Pintu is angry not realizing
the circumstances behind the incident. Babloo takes the side of
Vidyapati. Vidyapati realizes that standing up to Tun Tun Singh has
cost him his job and his wife begs that he go and apologize but Tun Tun
Singh degrades Vidyapati and he leaves in shame. Despite the efforts of
his wife, Saraswati, to get Tun Tun Singh to rehire her husband,
Vidyapati graciously rejects the offer to return to work for Tun Tun
Singh because of the degradation he has given towards him and most of
all his daughter is too much to bear. Tun Tun Singh vows to ruin
Vidyapati's pride by destroying Krishna, his hope and aspiration.
Krishna passes the MAINS exam and Babloo arranges for her to get
some training with the Deputy Collector, but Tun Tun Singh and Bihari
set her up in the act of bribing him and Vidyapati gets arrested. Tun
Tun Singh comes to bail him out but Vidyapati knows what has happened
and rejects his false offer of support. Krishna pleads with the clerk
who set them up to tell the truth but to no avail. Desperate to get her
father released, Krishna protests outside the jail and refuses to bribe
the police to release her father. The police head's daughter is a
student at the school where Krishna studies and she helps her father
realize that Krishna is a studious person and one of great principle
and character. He releases Vidyapati after she pays for his release, a
much smaller amount than the bribe. He reveals the truth about it after
admiring Krishna's perserverance and determination to follow the path
of the law and not cave into bribery. Overjoyed, Krishna starts to
prepare for her final exam with the help of her family. In the
meantime, her brother Ravi, takes up a job as a laborer to support the
family and the father finds another job. Financially secure, Krishna
focuses on her education but she has to reject help from Babloo as she
realizes that his father, Tun Tun Singh, has only her destruction in
mind. Babloo is saddened that he cannot be there for his favorite
student and Krishna is heartbroken at losing the guidance of her
mentor. With all the recent events, Tun Tun Singh is now further
angered and determined to punish Vidyapati for disgracing him, refusing
his job offer and humiliating him at the jail by making sure Krishna
never becomes a BDO.
In the meantime, Pintu and Krishna's chances of a romance are
strained. While in jail, he demeans Vidyapati in his attempts to defend
his father and Krishna refuses to tolerate it and speaks out. Later
their encounters are faced with silence. However, an incident at the
movie theater where Krishna speaks out in his defence suddenly reminds
him again of her strong principles and character. A sound talk from
Sargum, Babloo's wife and Pintu's sister-in-law, helps remind him that
Krishna is a far better person than is wife-to-be (Pinky) who stood
there quietly and said nothing in his defence.
Pintu is now pressured to meet with Pinky who is totally besotted by
him. He cannot stand her or her family and is forced to escort them to
Patna for the final examination. Pinky's father has "prepared" her by
inviting the Deputy Collector to train her. Krishna, with the help of
her younger sister Chanchal, evasdrop outside the window to hear the
training techniques. It is evident that Pinky has not prepared or is
ready to sit the exam. She is a spoilt brat and is relying on her
father's bribes to become a BDO. Feeling that she is doing something
wrong and against her own principles, Krishna opens up to the Deputy
Collector and apologizes to him for listening in on the lessons without
his permission.
Krisha and her father travel to Patna for the final stage of the
exam. However, unbeknownest to her, Tun Tun Singh and Bihari have
bribed two of the examiners to make sure that Krishna fails and Pinky
passes. While waiting in the Waiting Room at the bus station, Krishna's
bag containing her admission card is stolen. Krishna eventually finds
the person who stole her bag and the admission card. She makes it to
the center just in time to sit the exam. Fortunately for her, Pintu has
bribed the name-caller to bump her name up so that she is last to be
called and won't miss her interivew. When she gets there, at Babloo's
insistence, Pintu gives her his handkerchief to wipe her face. This
horrifies Pinky, whose interview was a disaster but seems unaffected by
it. The exam panel includes the Deputy collector who had VidyaPati
arrested. Krishna passes the exam and impresses the panel including the
two examiners who have been bribed. They realize that it is going to be
tough to fail Krishna. One of the examiners praises Krishna in front of
everyone. Everyone applauds, including Pintu, much to Pinky's anger.
Krishna also learns what Pintu did for her so she could sit the exam.
Babloo gives Krishna and her father a ride back to their hometown while
Pinky and her family are taken home by a driver of the family. At the
house she sees Pintu accidentalily holds Krishna's hand when he tries
to help her catch a falling file. Pinky and her family watch in shock.
Devasted at the outcome of her interview, the fact Pintu rejects her
and that Krishna is getting all the attention, she attempts suicide
(superficial cuts to the wrist). Krishna gets her the medical attention
she needs(as seen by Pintu admires her even more) when the doctors
refuse to end to her. However, Dhahati does not recognize her efforts
and instead degrades and insults Krishna in front of everyone. Pintu
explodes and drags her away from the abuse. His family and both Krisha
and Pinky's families watch, speechless. Bihari pressures Tun Tun to
move the engagement forward and the next day Pintu and Pinky are
engaged. To rub salt in Krishna's wound, who has now come to realize
her feelings for Pintu, Dhahati and Pinky make her dress Pinky and
embarrass and humiliate her.
The day after the engagement, Krishna, Chanchal and Ravi run into
Pintu and his nephew and meet up at a restaurant by chance, but Pinky
comes to hear that they are together and storms in and insults Krishna.
Pintu cannot stand it and speaks up in her defence. At the restaurant
Pintu confides in Krishna that he does not want to go through with the
marriage but is under pressure from his father. It appears that it is
in part to stop the accusations Krishna has had to endure.
The BDO final results are made public and to Krishna's shock, Pinky
becomes BDO. Everyone is horrifed and Tun Tun and Bihari are overjoyed
that their bribery has worked, Pinky is now going to be the bahu of Tun
Tun Singh's home and Tun Tun will use her position as BDO to abuse his
own power. Pintu is further pressured to go ahead with the marriage
with Pinky and he must be married before she becomes BDO. Babloo,
Sargum and Pintu's mother are all aware that Pintu is forced into the
marriage and none of them know how to stand up against the tyrant Tun
Tun Singh without any serious repurcussions falling upon them. However,
they are not going to give up and are determined to find a way out for
Pintu. Meanwhile, Krishna decides to protest her results and goes to
Patna to request that an investigation take place regarding her
results...
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