Dhruv Tara – Samay Sadi Se Pare

In the 17th century, Senapati (Commander) Samrat Singh wants to become the king of Vallabhgarh. To fulfil his evil ambitions, he poisons Crown Prince Mahaveer and plots to marry Mahaveer's sister, Princess Tarapriya (Tara). Prince Mahaveer develops a lethal brain tumour and Princess Tara, an aspiring ayurvedic doctor (vaidya), tries her best to find a cure. Tara is able to control the growth of Mahaveer's brain tumour to some extent, but no cure exists in their era. Tara learns about and practices ayurveda secretly with Mahaveer's support, but is forbidden from openly working as a doctor (vaidya) because she is a woman.

Queen Saraswati has been exiled within the kingdom for years for suspected adultery, and it is forbidden for anyone to meet her. On hearing of her son Mahaveer's brain tumour, Queen Saraswati summons her daughter Tara. Saraswati tells Tara that she is not guilty of adultery and that she had accidentally time travelled to the future many years ago, where there are doctors who can treat brain tumours through surgery. Saraswati insists that Tara should time travel to the 21st century through the forbidden Navrangvan to find a neurosurgeon who can treat Mahaveer, but she was unable to tell Tara how to return back to the 17th century. Meanwhile, Samrat has discovered that Tara is a vaidya and has been secretly treating Mahaveer. King Udaybhan is upset that Tara visited Queen Saraswati. Samrat tells the king that Tara is a talented vaidya and lies that Tara has touched him (Samrat) while treating him previously. The royal priest advises the king that since Tara has touched Samrat, who is an unrelated male, Tara and Samrat should be married to each other. A baffled King Udaybhan fixes Tara's marriage with Samrat against Tara's wishes. However, Tara flees on her wedding day with the help of her friend Anusuya, who is also Mahaveer's fiancée. Despite Samrat's efforts to stop her, Tara reaches Navrangvan and time travels to the 21st century.

Tara arrives in Agra in the year 2023, where she meets successful neurosurgeon Dr. Dhruv Saxena. Tara tries to explain that she is a princess from the 17th century, and Dhruv assumes that she is a mentally ill patient reported to have escaped from a local psychiatric hospital. Dhruv takes her to the hospital but Tara is discharged once the misunderstanding is cleared. Tara and Dhruv cross paths again multiple times before Tara realises that Dhruv is the doctor she is searching for. On one occasion Tara meets Dhruv's grandparents, not knowing they are related to Dhruv, and saves them from a thief. Finding out that Tara has nowhere to live, they take her to their home without informing anyone. Tara realises she is in Dhruv's house and is happy to have finally found him. Once she is discovered in the house, Tara is thrown out by Dhruv's mother, Susheela but Dhruv stops her. Dhruv's aunt, Lalita, suggests keeping Tara as a maid, to which Tara agrees.

Tara wins everyone's hearts, except Susheela, Lalita, and Dhruv's sister-in-law Ayesha. Tara is fascinated by modern day technology, which is amusing to some family members and baffling to others. Vidya Devi, Susheela's mother, loves Tara's style of speaking in proper Hindi, but this also leads to some misunderstandings for Tara and others she interacts with. It is revealed that Ayesha loves Dhruv but he rejected her marriage proposal because he knew that his cousin Jay loved Ayesha. Ayesha then married Jay so she could still live in the same home as Dhruv and prevent him from marrying anyone else. Ayesha is still desperate for Dhruv's love and is unwilling to move on in her own life or to let Dhruv move on with anyone else. In the 17th century, Senapati Samrat tries to find Tara and sends soldier Dharmendra to Navrangvan. Dharmendra also time travels to 2023 in Agra, where he becomes comatose after an encounter with the police. Dhruv and Tara find him and admit him to hospital. Eventually, Tara comes to know that Susheela's husband, Ravi, left home with an unidentified woman on Holi many years ago; because of this, Susheela is insecure about Dhruv being taken away from her by Tara, and the Saxena family does not celebrate the Holi festival. Tara convinces Dhruv and the family to celebrate Holi, and Dhruv and Tara become friends. Susheela's fears increases when she sees their growing friendship and when Dhruv gives special attention to Tara.

Dhruv receives an offer to work in Canada for three years, for which he would be leaving India in one month. Tara realises that she has a very short time to convince Dhruv to take him to the 17th century to get her brother treated. Tara entrances Dhruv with the help of medicinal herbs and tries to take him with her to the 17th century, but fails to find Navrangvan. Dhruv comes to his senses and questions Tara. Tara requests Dhruv to find Navrangvan for her so that she can go back home. Meanwhile, the Saxena family read the letter Tara left for them explaining that Dhruv has gone away with her temporarily, but are afraid that Tara has taken Dhruv away from them forever. Susheela is distraught at the thought that history has repeated itself. When Dhruv and Tara return home, Dhruv explains that he had gone on an emergency patient visit with Tara accompanying him, but Susheela remains suspicious of Tara. Meanwhile in the 17th century, Senapati Samrat is announced as the heir to the throne after Mahaveer's health worsens. Mahaveer visits Saraswati to seek Tara's whereabouts and is shocked to find out that Tara time travelled to the future to find a surgeon for his treatment. Mahaveer asks his mother why he himself couldn't have time travelled to seek treatment, and Saraswati tells him that he wouldn't be able to withstand the pressure generated within the time machine in his current state of health.

Alarmed by Dhruv's growing closeness to Tara, Susheela insists that Dhruv marry a girl of her choice before moving to Canada. Susheela fixes Dhruv's marriage with a girl named Preeti Shukla, who unbeknownst to everyone is already married and pregnant. Preeti's brother Tarun, who is an archaeologist, is dominating; because of this, Preeti is hesitant to tell him the truth and agrees to go along with the engagement until she can tell Dhruv the truth.

Dhruv finds out about a place called Navrangvan temple. He and Tara reach there but Tara is disheartened when it turns out to be a replica rather than the original Navrangvan. Dhruv then contacts a priest to find out further information about Vallabhgarh and the real Navrangvan. On Dhruv and Preeti's engagement day, Tara sees a man attempting to kidnap a young woman and beats him up. The police attempt to arrest Tara even though the man is a goon who regularly harasses women, and she flees and reaches a mass wedding venue. Tara dresses up as a bride to disguise herself, with her veil hiding her face. Realising Tara is in trouble after seeing a viral video of her beating up the goon, Dhruv reaches the wedding venue, dresses as Tara's groom, and cleverly stops the police from seeing her face. Dhruv and Tara participate in some of the wedding rituals before escaping, by which time word has spread to Tarun and the Saxena family that Dhruv has married someone. Susheela sees Tara and Dhruv dressed as bride and groom, and assumes them to be married. Preeti tells Dhruv and Tara the truth of her marriage and pregnancy, and requests them to pretend to be married until she is able to leave Agra with her husband. Dhruv and Tara act as a married couple in front of the Saxena family, which angers Susheela and Ayesha in particular. It is also revealed that Dhruv is actually Lalita and Sanjay's biological son. After the departure of Susheela's husband, Ravi (Sanjay's brother), Lalita and Sanjay were worried that Susheela would slip into depression and so they gave their toddler son Dhruv to Susheela so that she would have a fulfilling reason to live happily.

An enraged Tarun tricks Susheela by showing her the viral video in which Tara is seen beating the goon. Shocked and disgusted, Susheela tricks Tara to accompany her to the police station to have her arrested. There Tarun records a video showing Susheela pushing Tara in front of a car, which was actually an accident. He uses the video to file a false domestic violence complaint against Susheela on Tara's behalf. Tara takes a stand for Susheela and gets her released, and is herself arrested for beating up the goon. Susheela realises Tarun's true colours and repents for the way she treated Tara. Dhruv finds the woman Tara saved from the goon, and she and several other young women previously harassed by the goon drag him to the police station and beat him up there. The goon accepts his misdeeds and Tara is released from custody. Dhruv realises his love for Tara, and Susheela forgives Tara and accepts Tara as her daughter-in-law.

With time, Susheela, Lalita, and Vidya Devi get to know that Dhruv and Tara were pretending to be married for Preeti's sake. Susheela questions Dhruv and asks him whether he loves Tara. Dhruv confesses his love in front of everyone; however, Tara feels that Dhruv lied to his mother. Dhruv and Tara learn of a medieval book about Vallabhgarh from the priest Dhruv had contacted previously, which they believe has information about the modern-day location of Navrangvan. Unfortunately, Tarun snatches the book before they are able to get it. Dhruv and Tara try to steal the book from Tarun's house but fail, although Tara sees the riddle hidden in the book by her mother, which contains information about how to find Navrangvan in the 21st century. Tarun finds out and is convinced that Tara can solve the riddle, which he hopes will help him find the riches of Vallabhgarh. Tarun decides to excavate the area the book indicates to discover Vallabhgarh.

With Preeti's help, Dhruv and Tara go to the excavation site to steal the book. A 400-year-old painting depicting Rajkumari Tarapriya and Senapati Samrat Singh's marriage is discovered at the site. As a result, Tara thinks that she will have to marry Samrat Singh on returning home. After seeing the painting and listening to the testimony of soldier Dharmendra, who has awoken from his coma in hospital, Dhruv believes Tara's story about being from the 17th century and promises her that he will go there with her to treat her dying brother. Tara requests a family photo before leaving with Dhruv to treat her brother, after which she reveals to everyone that her marriage to Dhruv was fake and that she is engaged to someone else. Dhruv's family wishes for Tara and Dhruv to marry, and encourages Dhruv to fight for his love and return with Tara after treating her brother. Meanwhile, Tarun has found out and accepted the truth of Preeti's marriage and pregnancy, and on her request he seemingly agrees to let Preeti give the book to Dhruv and Tara. Dhruv gathers battery-powered medical devices and Tara goes to meet Preeti to pick up the book. Tarun meets Tara instead and causes trouble for her and Dhruv. Together Dhruv and Tara overcome many obstacles posed by Tarun and finally get the book from him. They then make it to Navrangvan with the book and their medical devices, ready to time travel to the 17th century – where Mahaveer's health is now declining due to Samrat burning the remaining medicines that Tara had prepared and left for him.

Dhruv and Tara time travelled to the 17th century but got separated while escaping from soldiers who thought Dhruv and Tara to be spies of another kingdom. Tara got to know about coronation ceremony of Senapati Samrat Singh. Tara reaches the palace and stopped the ceremony and also told that she had brought the doctor to cure her brother. Meanwhile Dhruv is captured by soldiers who thought him to be a spy, but Dhruv escapes. But he got stucked in a trap by soldiers but a little girl named Sukanya saved Dhruv as Dhruv helped a goat owned by her. Dhruv and Tara unites again and they reaches to the palace where Dhruv confesses his love to Tara in front of everyone but in English which no one understands, as showing his knowledge. Senapati got afraid as Tara brought Dhruv to cure prince Mahaveer so he manipulates everyone even the king and gives Dhruv a challenge to treat a dying soldier on the spot and if Dhruv fails then Dhruv's hands will be cut down. Dhruv almost saved the soldier's life but on Senapati's order the Rajya Vaidya secretly poisoned the soldier pretending to check him. As a result, the soldier died and Dhruv got arrested.

The series was announced on Sony SAB by Shashi Sumeet Productions.[4] Ishaan Dhawan as Dhruv and Riya Sharma as Tarapriya were signed as the leads.[5][6] Set in Agra, shooting of the series started in December 2022, with Narayani Shastri and Yash Tonk joining the cast as the parallel leads.[7][8][9] It was Yash and Narayani were first appearance together, previously both were seen with their partners in the dance reality show Nach Baliye - Season 2. The promo featuring the leads was released on 23 December 2022.[10]

In January 2023, Swati Kapoor was cast to portray a negative role and was joined by Vineet Kumar Chaudhary and Krishna Bharadwaj.[11][12][13]

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