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Roohaniyat

Roohaniyat is an Indian Hindi-language romantic mystery drama web series that premiered on the streaming platform MX Player on 23 March 2022. It stars Arjun Bijlani as Saveer Rathod, a man in his thirties who no longer believes that love lasts, and Kanika Mann as Prisha Srivastava, a nineteen-year-old who believes in love strongly. The series is an adaptation of the Forever Series of novels by Novoneel Chakraborty.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Original run	Season 1 premiered 23 March 2022; Season 2 released from 22 July 2022, finale 1 September 2022¹^•³
Episodes	Season 1: 13 episodes; Season 2: 27 episodes³
Lead cast	Arjun Bijlani as Saveer Rathod, Kanika Mann as Prisha Srivastava, Yuvika Chaudhary as Ishanvi Purohit⁴^•⁵
Direction	Glen Barretto and Ankush Mohla¹
Production	Endemol Shine India; producer Gautam Talwar; music by Rishabh Shrivastava¹
Basis	The Forever Series written by Novoneel Chakraborty²
Rating	8.3/10 on IMDb (about 3.9K votes); certified 16+ (U/A 16+)⁶

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Premise

The story follows two characters with opposite views of love. Saveer Rathod lost the love of his life, Ishanvi (Yuvika Chaudhary), on his birthday, and events have led him to believe that love does not last forever; he tells Prisha that "forever" is a lie. Prisha Srivastava, a nineteen-year-old, falls in love with him after listening to his podcast and pursues him despite warnings from people around him. The two are strangers who keep meeting by coincidence or, as Saveer believes, destiny.¹^•⁷^•⁶

The first season opens with Saveer madly in love with his fiancée Ishanvi, who is killed on his birthday while he finds himself blamed for the murder; the season's episodes carry titles such as "Forever Is A Lie", "Blind Date", "Girlfriend Killer", and "Departure".⁷ Season 2 picks up from the cliffhanger in which Saveer pushed Prisha off a cliff, and follows Prisha confessing her love through the Rooh Publication podcast while a friend of Saveer's who also likes him tries to push her out of his life.⁸^•⁹

Production and release

MX Player released the series as an "MX Serial", which the platform's Chief Content Officer Gautam Talwar described as its first premium long-format narrative on OTT (over-the-top: streaming services delivering shows over the internet), with story arcs and characters that build gradually across episodes. All episodes streamed free from launch day.¹⁰

The screenplay was written by Sushil Choubay, Shilpa Choubey, and Shreyes Anil Lowlekar, with cinematography by Ramani Ranjan Das and editing by Steven Bernard. Music was composed by Rishabh Shrivastava, Paresh Shah, and SCAR. The supporting cast includes Aman Verma, Smita Bansal, Palak Purswani, Geetika Mehandru, Harshit Sindhwani, Arushi Handa, and Shaan Groverr.¹^•²

Arjun Bijlani said in a March 2022 interview that Saveer Rathod was a well-written character with various shades, unlike anything he had played before, and that the story centered on the age gap between a man in his thirties and a nineteen-year-old woman.¹¹

Seasons and reception

Season 1 ran for 13 episodes of roughly 31 to 38 minutes each. Season 2, released in batches from 22 July 2022, ran to 27 episodes and concluded on 1 September 2022 with the finale "Forever Is True".³^•⁷

Critical reception was divided. An Ottplay review of Season 1 gave it 0.5 out of 5, calling it proof that television soap conventions were spreading to OTT, while crediting Arjun Bijlani's performance with making the show bearable.¹² The same reviewer gave Season 2 a 3 out of 5, judging it more binge-watchable than the first season, with stronger chemistry between the leads, though still prone to cheesy and predictable moments.¹³ On IMDb the series holds a rating of 8.3/10 from about 3.9K votes, with one nomination.⁴ Roohaniyat Season 2 appeared in COTT's Top 10 OTT shows of 2022 in India, one of three MX Player titles on that list alongside Shiksha Mandal and Dharavi Bank.¹⁴

The series remains available free with ads on MX Player and Amazon MX Player.⁶

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Web-native and streaming-original series › Indian and South Asian web series › Premiered 2021 to 2025

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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