Mariam Khan - Reporting Live is an Indian television series that aired on Star Plus and on Hotstar. The series premiered on 21 May 2018, and was produced by Majid Azam and Afaque Azam. It starred Mahima Makwana and Param Singh. The show ended on 11 January 2019, completing 169 episodes, and was replaced by the serial Dil Toh Happy Hai Ji.
Synopsis
Mariam Khan is an imaginative and curious child who does not take things at face value. She is the youngest member of a large family. Her grandfather is the patriarch. Mariam idolizes her father Majaaz Khan, who is an idealistic journalist and owns a newspaper. The show is based in Bhopal, a city that mixes westernization and tradition. Her mother Madeeha is only concerned with marrying off her daughters, while Mariam plans to become a reporter and shares an emotional bond with her father. But the Khan family is hiding a secret from the world. Unbeknownst to the younger generation, her father is accused of terrorism and is shot dead while a pilgrim takes away young Mariam.
Mariam grows up. To escape her past, she adopts the name Manjeet Kaur and starts living in Amritsar working as an independent cab driver. One day while taking one of her passengers to Badnaam Gali to meet a stranger, she is shocked to see her father's photo in his hand. Later on, she suspects Fawad and tries to learn more about her father. In this process she learns that her ostensibly dead family is actually alive and her house did not burn down. She was made to believe that her family wasn't alive by Fawad's mother so that she could own the ancestral home in the name of Mariam Mariam and Fawad fall in love. Majaaz is revealed to be alive and not a terrorist. Later Majaaz joins them. They start preparing for the marriage of Zain and Meher and Fawad and Mariam. Then they come to know about Fawad's and Bhakti's daughter, Cheeku Later they realize that Cheeku isn't Fawad's daughter & that Fawad's evil mother had blackmailed Bhakti to say so but she denied. Finally Fawad's mother killed off Bhakthi & created a fake story that Cheeku is Fawad's daughter. Mariam finds out everything following which Fawad's mother get arrested & Cheeku is adopted legally as Mariam & Fawad's daughter
Cast
Main
Deshna Duggad as young Mariam Khan
Mahima Makwana as Mariam Khan / Manjeet Kaur – Majaaz and Madeeha's daughter; Meher and Mahira's younger sister; Fawad's wife
Param Singh as Fawad Ashraf – Wasim and Rifat's son, Zain's younger brother, Mariam's husband
Priyanka Kandwal as Mahira Khan – Majaaz and Madeeha's daughter; Meher's younger and Mariam's elder sister; Rehaan's lover; Zain's former wife
Sheena Bajaj as Meher Khan – Majaaz and Madeeha's daughter; Mahira and Mariam's elder sister; Zain's second wife
Avinash Mishra/Himmanshoo A. Malhotra as Zain Ashraf – Wasim and Rifat's son; Fawad's elder brother; Meher's husband; Mahira's former husband
Paras Kalnawat as Rehaan Thakur – Sarfaraz's son; Mahira's lover
Khalid Siddiqui as Majaaz Aijaz Khan – Aijaaz and Ayesha's son; Aayat's elder brother; Madeeha's husband; Meher, Mahira and Mariam's father
Rukhsar Rehman as Madeeha Khan – Majaaz's wife; Meher, Mahira and Mariam's mother
Mansi Sharma as Aayat Aijaz Khan – Aijaaz and Ayesha's daughter; Majaaz's younger sister; Meher and Mahira's aunt; Mariam's biological mother,Humdum's sister in law
Surveen Chawla in a cameo role as Shaira – Meher's friend
Soundtrack
Mariam Khan Reporting Live's soundtrack is written and composed by Rahul Jain. O Rangrez, sung by Rahul Jain was released on 21 May 2018. Neeraj Shridhar sung and composed the title track of this show.
Production
The show took over the time slot of Yeh Hai Mohabbatein and the latter was shifted to late night slot. In September 2018, actress Priyanka Kandwal quit the show as she doesn't want to age after the leap. In the same month, actor Avinash Mishra quit as he was dissatisfied with the screen time given to his character. Paras Kalnawat also quit the show as he was disappointment with the makers as they didn't offer him the lead character role as they promised. It initially started Deshna Dugad. Owing to low ratings, the storyline took a leap which started Mahima Makwana and Param Singh.
