MTV Big F
| MTV Big F | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | MTV Big F - Forbidden.First.Fantasies (Season 1) MTV Big F - Forbidden No More (Season 2) |
| Genre | Romance Thriller Fantasy |
| Created by | Sukesh Motwani and Mautik Tolia |
| Presented by | Gautam Gulati - Season 1 Randeep Hooda - Season 2 |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Editor | Manish Mistry |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | approx. 42 minutes |
| Production company | Bodhitree Multimedia |
| Original release | |
| Network | MTV India |
| Release | 11 October 2015 – 4 June 2017 |
MTV Big F is a television anthology series broadcast by MTV India. It premiered on 11 October 2015, every Sunday. The show brings Gautam Gulati as host and deals with young people's forbidden fantasies [1] by showcasing stories of young people in each episode.[2][3][4] The second season was hosted by Bollywood actor Randeep Hooda which primarily revolves around the psyche of Indian women to explore their hidden desires.[5]
Host
[edit]- Gautam Gulati – season 1 (13 episodes)
- Randeep Hooda – season 2 (13 episodes)
Cast
[edit]Main Leads
| Season | Episode | Actor | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Priyal Gor | Shruti |
| Abhinav Shukla | Vikram | ||
| 2 | Megha Gupta | Raima | |
| Rohit Suresh Saraf | Gyaan | ||
| 3 | Ruslaan Mumtaz | Abhimanyu | |
| Tavneet Rekhi | Rajji | ||
| 5 | Plabita Borthakur | Anjali | |
| Hasan Zaidi | Arjun | ||
| 6 | Asma Badar | Sarmishtha | |
| Madhura Naik | Madhurima | ||
| Aditya Singh Rajput | Riteish | ||
| 7 | Neetha Shetty | Sakshi | |
| Rohit Khandelwal | Varun | ||
| 9 | Krishna Mukherjee | Jia | |
| Shravan Reddy | Maan | ||
| 10 | Bharat Chawda | Pawan | |
| Puneet Vashist | Arjun | ||
| 11 | Abigail Jain | Jaya | |
| Randeep Rai | Nakul |
| Season | Episode | Actor | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | Shantanu Maheshwari[citation needed] | Terry |
| Cherry Mardia | Rashi | ||
| Mrinal Dutt | Akshay | ||
| 2 | Varun Sood | Daljeet | |
| Mansi Srivastava | Dhapan | ||
| 3 | Akshaya Arvind Naik | Sanjana | |
| Manish Anand | Vikram | ||
| 4 | Annie Gill | Madhu/Madhav | |
| Siddhant Karnick | Sameer | ||
| 6 | Charu Mehra | Kiara Kumari | |
| Viraf Patel | Samrat .S | ||
| 8 | Ahsaas Channa | Diya Dayal | |
| Shubhashish Jha | Kabir | ||
| 11 | Nikhil Khurana | Karan | |
| Unknown | Lavanya | ||
| Yuvraj Thakur | Zeeshan |
Season 1
[edit]| No. in season | Title | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Fantasy and Rebellion" | 11 October 2015 | |
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Shruti's marriage is arranged with Mohit (Mark Farokh Parakh), whom she barely knows. Shruti(Priyal Gor) loves Vikram (Abhinav Shukla) but she never dares to reveal it to Mohit. Mohit's inappropriate behavior gives Shruti the power to rebel.[6] | |||
| 2 | "Love Just Happens" | 18 October 2015 | |
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Gyan (Rohit Suresh Saraf) works in an advertising agency where he meets Raima (Megha Gupta), a woman few years older. He finds his colleagues belittling Raima but when he starts to get to know her, falls in love with her.[7] | |||
| 3 | "Being Fat isn't a Shame" | 25 October 2015 | |
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Rajji (Tavneet Rekhi) is a chubby young girl and her slim friends make fun of her. She falls in love with a tennis player, Abhimanyu (Ruslaan Mumtaz) who also happens to fall for her. Abhimanyu makes her realize her true worth.[8] | |||
| 4 | "Business Meets Pleasure" | 1 November 2015 | |
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Sagar (Skand Thakur) and Ahana (Jiya Shankar) are two people who meet by chance and get intimate as they are attracted. They give in to their desires without caring for the world [9] | |||
| 5 | "Private Tutor" | 8 November 2015 | |
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Anjali (Plabita Borthakur), a small town girl comes to Mumbai to chase her dreams of becoming a singer. She meets Arjun (Hasan Zaidi), who helps her regain the confidence.[10] | |||
| 6 | "Girl's Love" | 15 November 2015 | |
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Sharmishta (Asma Badar) is a lesbian who has not been able to express her desires. She and her best friend Riteish (Aditya Singh Rajput) both fall in love with a model named Madhurima (Madhura Naik).[11] | |||
| 7 | "Pati, Patni aur Pilot." | 22 November 2015 | |
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Sakshi (Neetha Shetty) is married to Pranav who never cares about her. Finally Varun (Rohit Khandelwal), a pilot makes Sakshi realize the importance of being a woman.[12] | |||
| 8 | "The Unforgetable Coincidence" | 29 November 2015 | |
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Aman (Parv Agarwal) and Maya (Vaibhavi Upadhyay) get to know about each other on a social media platform with pseudo names. However, they coincidentally meet each other and fall in love. Later, they share intimate moments with each other.[13] | |||
| 9 | "Love is Fair" | 6 December 2015 | |
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Jia (Krishna Mukherjee) wants to enjoy her life like everyone but she is a handicap. She meets Maan (Shravan Reddy), who starts taking care of her and boosts her confidence. Gradually, Maan's love succeeds to make Jia stand up on her feet.[14] | |||
| 10 | "Virtuous Love" | 13 December 2015 | |
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A young virtuous man, Pawan happens to meet a super model, Carol who doesn't seem to win his confidence at first. But as Pawan spends more time with her, he ends up falling in love with her.[15] | |||
| 11 | "Rebelling Against The Odds" | 20 December 2015 | |
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Nakul (Randeep Rai) has a soft corner for his deceased brother's wife, Jaya (Abigail Jain). Eventually their attachment makes them fall in love. Their love gives Jaya the confidence to stand up for herself.[16] | |||
| 12 | "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder" | 27 December 2015 | |
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Armaan falls in love with his landlord's daughter Ishita who is under-confident because of a scar on her face. But Armaan helps her discover her true beauty.[17] | |||
| 13 | "The Last Chapter" | 3 January 2016 | |
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KD suffers from a stammering problem and is in love with Sameera, a beauty queen. Soon he realizes that Sameera too doesn't have an exciting life. Together they come out of their shells.[18] | |||
Season 2
[edit]| No. in season | Title | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Forbidden No More" | 12 March 2017 | |
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Rashi (Cherry Mardia) takes up the challenge thrown at her by her misogynist fiancé, Akshay (Mrinal Dutt) as well as the society which always seems ready to label women as either the virtuous or the vamp. She finds herself questioning her values as she meets Terry (Shantanu Maheshwari), the lady-killer and a choreographer.[19] | |||
| 2 | "Dil ye Ziddi hai" | 19 March 2017 | |
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In a society that has set norms for the fairer sex, Dhapan (Mansi Srivastava) dares to break the shackles of age-old customs and traditions to follow her dreams. The 6th daughter of a dhobi inspires to be a national footballer. Being discouraged and held back by her family, her motivations comes in the form of her crush, Daljeet. (Varun Sood) | |||
| 3 | "Love comes in all size" | 26 March 2017 | |
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Sanjana (Akshaya Arvind Naik), is a self-conscious girl who constantly faces body shaming from her mother and friends. She falls in love with Chef Vikram (Manish Anand) and fights to face her inner demons to do the impossible.[20] | |||
| 4 | "A transgender love story" | 2 April 2017 | |
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Born with the dream of becoming a model, Madhu finds herself caged in a man's body. Her struggle to accept the woman in her becomes more difficult when her family disowns her. Life takes an unexpected turn with Sameer's entry. Their paths cross and love blossoms. But she's soon betrayed by her friend who reveals Madhu's hidden dark secret. Will Madhu face her demons or surrender to fate?[21] | |||
| 6 | "Steamy Office Romance" | 17 April 2017 | |
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Meet Kiara (Charu Mehra), a small town girl with big city dreams, who joins as an intern in an advertising company, struggles to fit in. Her dedication and unfeigned charm attract her boss Samrat .S (Viraf Patel), but their relation earns sexist remark from colleagues. With her reputation and career at stake, she's cornered by her CEO's immoral advances. Will Kiara suffer in silence or fight? | |||
| 8 | "The Death Of Innocence" | 26 April 2017 | |
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Young and wild Diya Dayal (Ahsaas Channa) studies in a boarding school. She loves to play pranks and has a huge crush on her teacher, Kabir (Shubhashish Jha). After her summer holidays, however, Diya is disturbed and violent. It is as if something has broken inside her. A concerned Kabir tries to reach out to her, but Diya seems cold and distant. Will Diya open up about her sexually abusive past in a biased world? Can she trust Kabir?[22] | |||
| 11 | "Spoilt for choice!" | 21 May 2017 | |
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Post her makeover, Lavanya is now the campus favourite! But wait... is she actually two timing her college friends?[23] | |||
References
[edit]- ^ "MTV to launch 'MTV Big F with Gautam Gulati' - a show about Forbidden Fantasies". Indian Television Dot Com. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
- ^ "Bigg Boss winner Gautam Gulati is back with Big F". India.com. 11 September 2015. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
- ^ "Big F - Know Everything About The Show - The Times of India". The Times of India. 25 September 2015. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
- ^ "After kissing, Gautam Gulati bares butt for MTV Big F". daily.bhaskar.com. daily.bhaskar.com. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
- ^ "A woman not an object of man's desire, says Randeep Hooda". Retrieved 9 March 2017.
- ^ "Fantasy and Rebellion". Retrieved 9 March 2017.
- ^ "Love Just Happens". Retrieved 9 March 2017.
- ^ "Being Fat isn't a Shame". Retrieved 9 March 2017.
- ^ "Business Meets Pleasure". Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "Private Tutor". Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "Girl's Love". Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "Pati, Patni aur Pilot". Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "The Unforgetable Coincidence". Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "Love is Fair". Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "Virtuous Love". Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "Rebelling Against The Odds". Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder". Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "The Last Chapter". Retrieved 10 March 2017.
- ^ "Forbidden No More". Retrieved 13 March 2017.
- ^ "MTV Big F hits back at Body Shamers". Retrieved 4 April 2017.
- ^ "VOOT.com".
- ^ "VOOT.com". YouTube.
- ^ "VOOT.com".
External links
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