Divya Drishti

Divya Drishti(Trans.Divine Sight) is an Indian supernatural drama television series which aired from 23 February 2019 to 23 February 2020 on Star Plus. Produced under Fireworks Productions, it starred Sana Sayyad, Nyra Banerjee, Sangita Ghosh, Adhvik Mahajan and Mishkat Varma.

Plot

The story starts with a pregnant woman, Vidya, meeting with her Guruji. They talk about Pishaachini , an evil pishaachini and a former disciple of Guruji, who is going after three magical gems. If she gets all three of the gems, he will become so powerful no one will be able to stop her. Guruji has given two of the gems, the Tatva Ratna, with the power to control the elements, and the Mayavi Ratna, with the power of illusions and mind control, to two of his disciples for safekeeping. Pishaachini, however, killed these disciples with her magic and acquired both the gems, which she wears on a pendant, and their powers. Shee is now after the third and the most powerful of the three gems, the Kaal Vijay Ratna, which has the power to give visions of the future and the power to change the future, which is with Guruji himself. Vidya and Guruji go to his cave, where Pishaachini appears and asks Guruji for the Kaal Vijay Ratna. Guruji uses magic and pushes Pishaachini to the side while he throws the gem at Vidya . Pishaachini, recovers and moved in front of the incoming gem to catch it. The Kaal Vijay Ratna then enters her right eye, destroying it and revealing a glowing red light inside it. The gem then goes inside Vidya's womb. Guruji then tells her that her unborn twin children will get the powers of the gem and warns her to beware the dark forces that will come after her and to beware the full moon. He then tells Vidya to run away.

Vidya has two daughters, Drishti and Divya. Gifted with superpowers, Drishti has the ability to see the future while Divya has the power to change it. Vidya and Sarthak are worried as Pishaachini is hunting them down to steal their powers. They manage to save Divya and Drishti but end up sacrificing themselves. The sisters run away but ultimately get separated and adopted by different families.

20 years later

Divya and Drishti have grown up. Drishti is mature, and caring while Divya is carefree and free-spirited. They constantly try to find each other, feeling each other's presence at times yet are unable to identify each other. Drishti is hired as the assistant of Rakshit Shergill. Love blossoms between Rakshit and Drishti. Through a series of events, Divya marries Shikhar (Rakshit's cousin) while Drishti marries Rakshit. Divya and Drishti discover the truth about each other and reunite. They decide to find their parents' murderer. Mahima is revealed to be the daughter of the Guruji. Shikhar is revealed to know everything about Pishaachini.

Drishti, Divya, Romi(brother of Drishti) and Shikhar join hands to destroy Pishachini and manage to kill her but her soul enters Divya's body, turning her into Divyachini. Drishti manages to separate Divya and Pishaachini with the help of a powerful and mysterious man named Anjaan and but Pishaachini reenters her previous body, this time becoming even more powerful. Later, Rakshit is revealed to be Anjaan who possesses powers and is trying destroy Pishaachini.

After some days, everyone come to know that the doors of the hell are opening and many evil power are coming out from hell who will try to get the kal Vijay ratna. Divya, Drishti, Rakshit, Shikhar and Romi take the responsibility protect the Ratna. Pishaachini teams with the evil from hell in order to get the Kaal Vijay ratna for himself. Divya drishti and others manage to kill the evil powers from hell but Pishaachini becomes successful in taking the ratna and flies away. With all the ratnas in hand she tries to merge the power of all Ratnas but fails. Later, she asks for help from Kal Devta the evil Lord of hell to help her in merging the powers. He tells her that she needs to activate the true power of each of the ratnas. He does so with the Tatva and Mayavi Ratna. On Independence Day, Shikhar is revealed to be not the real son of the family, it was Shikhar's imposter who was helping Pishachini in order to gain powers. Divya kills the imposter. Pishachini successfully activates the Kaal Vijay Ratna, but Divya Drishti blow up the building with a bomb Pishachini placed. The resulting explosion causes Pishaachini to drop all the ratnas while fleeing and kills Divya Drishti.

Thirteen days later, Pishachini lives in the Shergill manor and is controlling the family mysteriously. Divya-Drishti reincarnate and gain new powers to stop Pishachini once and for all they get all powers of the three ratan. They re-enter the house to find Pishaachini claiming to be Rakshit's wife. Rakshit has lost all his memories due to the blast. Pishaachini gives birth to Patali, her and Kaal Devta's daughter who poses to be Rakshit's daughter. Rakshit regains his memories and along with Divya-Drishti, defeats Patali.

A few days later, a cunning prisoner escapes from hell fooling the Kaal Devta. He comes through Pisachini's den which leads to the Shergill house and realises that they are a very rich family and decides to rob them. Rakshit traces out the real Shikhar through some detectives using his childhood pictures. The prisoner who has now named himself as Murari, is brought to the Shergill family as the real Shikhar. Pishaachini kills Patali and puts the blame on Divya, sending her to hell. Drishti, Rakshit, Romi and Murari rescue her. Murari has flashbacks of his forgotten childhood and realises that he is real Shikhar. The Shergill family then find out that Shikhar is from hell, putting a strain on Divya and Shikhar's newly budding feelings. Now, the mysterious Ostrich, an old disciple of Guruji, enters. Ostrich attacks Rashi, killing her to the chagrin of the Shergill family. To find out ostrich's secret, Divya-Drishti decide to go into the cave, where many years ago the kaal vijay ratna was given to Vidya(Divya-Drishti's mother). They find the cave locked and the only way to open it is with their and their husbands hands on four handprints. Divya marries Shikhar since his hand fits the last handprint.

After many tries, Divya and Drishti find an oyster, which holds the secret of the cave. Drishti finds out she is pregnant with twins after a sudden vision. During the Shergill family reunion where Rakshit's cousins arrive, Pishaachini casts a spell, barring every exit with walls that form back when they are broken down. To make matters worse, Ostrich is attacking members of the Shergill family, killing everyone except Divya-Drishti, Rakshit and Shikhar, who escaped using a magic chest Divya-Drishti encountered in the cave. After escaping, they make a plan to lure Ostrich and Pishaachini to Divya-Drishti's old house by leaving a note in the Shergill house. A fight ensues between the heroes and the two villains. In a dramatic twist, Ostrich is revealed to be Mahima, Rakshit's mother, leaving everyone, especially Rakshit, devastated.

Mahima reveals that she was jealous of Vidya because she was given the Kaal Vijay Ratna by Guruji, rather than Mahima, his greatest pupil. Mahima vowed revenge and allied with Pishaachini to kill Vidya and get the gems. Mahima says she can bring back the dead family members with some magic water which she will give to them only if Divya-Drishti kill themselves. Divya-Drishti do so, releasing the Tatva Ratna, which Pishaachini takes and the Mayavi Ratna, which Mahima takes. The Kaal Vijay Ratna also came out but disappeared when Divya and Drishti touched hands. Divya and Drishti are resurrected once more, with the help of the two pearls inside the oyster. This came with news that both of them lost their new powers so Drishti can only see the future and Divya only has the power to change it. Also, Drishti's children were due in 2 hours. They return to the Shergill house, where the family is tricking Mahima and Pishaachini into thinking that Divya-Drishti's soul are alive. During this Shikhar and Divya fall in river and accept their marriage.

Guruji is revealed to be alive, having faked his death and being trapped in the cave by Mahima since then. He allies with Divya-Drishti, who are plotting to destroy Pishaachini and Mahima by turning them on one another. But later he reveals that the Kaal Vijay Ratna was cursed in the first place and he being greedy for powers could not join the three gems and hence approached Vidya, a pure soul who could possibly remove the curse but due to the chaos created by Pishaachini before Vidya touched it led the powers to be split to her children. He later disguised himself as Kaal Devta by killing the real Kaal Devta. Drishti gives birth to her twin children shortly after which Ostrich and Kaal Devta are killed by Rakshit. Pishaachini then acquires all three ratnas which she combines to form the blue Maha Ratna. She transforms into Maha Pishaachini and tries to kill Divya and Drishti but Lord Shiva ends him once and for all. Divya-Drishti are later revealed to have lost their powers which they are okay with. Drishti's twins are later shown to have Divya-Drishti's powers, while the Maha Ratna, thought to have gone back to Lord Shiva, is revealed to still be on Pluto.

Cast

Main

• Sana Sayyad as Drishti Sharma Shergill
• Nyra Banerjee as Divya Sharma Shergill
• Sangita Ghosh as Pisachini / Sachini
• Adhvik Mahajan as Rakshit Shergill aka Amjaan
• Mishkat Varma as Shikar Shergill / Murari

Recurring

• Karan Khanna as Fake Shikhar Shergill / Daitya Vanar
• Kushagre Dua as Romi Sood
• Raj Zutshi as Guruji
• Vaishnavi Mahant as Mahima Shergill aka Laal Chakor
• Gireesh Sahdev as Chetan Shergill
• Parull Chaudhary as Ashlesha "Ash" Shergill
• Ridheema Tiwari as Ojaswini "Ojas" Shergill
• Imran Khan as Bharat "Barry" Shergill "Barry"
• Richa Rathore as Patali
• Prakriti Nautiyal as Rashi Shergill
• Mansi Srivastava as Lavanya: An evil Lizard
• Ankit Narang as Sunny Shergill
• Shrishti Maheshwari as Simran Shergill
• Amika Shail as Aryan Shregill
• Paaras Madaan as Bicchu
• Eva Ahuja as Garima Walia
• Priyank Tatariya as Brij Walia
• Ritu Vashisht as Nadika Sood
• Hetal Puniwala as Sarvesh Sood
• Antara Banerjee as Chikki
• Rohit Chaudhary as Vicky / Vicky Malhotra

Guests

• Rati Pandey as Vidhya Sharma
• Amit Dolawat as Sarthak Sharma
• Antara Biswas as Mohana Rathod: An Ekaayan Dayan

Production

The first promo of the series was released on 24 January 2019 where Sana Sayyad and Sangita Ghosh were introduced.

Reception

Critical reception

Originally, the series was planned for 52 episodes and to end in July 2019. But, a good response for it gave an extension and it ended on 23 February 2020 completing 106 episodes.

In October 2019, The Times of India criticised the ongoing track then stating: "Divya-Drishti’s latest storyline is crossing all boundaries of bizarreness. This storyline is full of essence which is just opposite of what we expect from a thriller show. We can just wait and hope to witness something very thrilling in the show, something more real than just mere naivety."

Ratings

Divya Drishti was the seventh most watched Hindi urban television show in its debut week (week 9 of 2019) in India, reaching a TRP of 1.9. In week 45, it was at fourteenth position with 4.32 million impressions with trp of 1.7. Since its premiere, the show has maintained its position in the top 20 most-watched Hindi shows.

Crossover

Nazar and Divya Drishti had a collaboration where Mohana portrayed by Monalisa from Nazar entered the show Divya Drishti teaming up with Pishachini portrayed by Sangita Ghosh for a sequence.