Sapna Babul Ka... Bidaai is an Indian soap drama that aired from 8 October 2007 to 13 November 2010 on STAR Plus during weekdays. It tells the story of a father and his two daughters and explores the social impacts of skin colour. The series was replaced by Gulaal. In August 2022, rerun of the series started on StarPlus's sister channel Star Bharat.
Plot
Ragini and Sadhana are cousins where Sadhana's mother dies due to her illness in the first few episodes, and Sadhana's father is unable to save her owing to a lack of funds. Sadhana's father promises to fly to the USA in order to accumulate more wealth, and she is given to her maternal uncle Prakash Chandra. Sadhana is now residing in Agra and her father is in California after a 17-year separation. Sadhana's father's greatest wish is to see her as a bride. Sadhana, on the other hand, is desperate to visit her father. She succeeds to win Ragini's and Prakash Chandra's hearts while living with the Sharmas. Ragini's mother, Kaushalya, is concerned because the two have different skin complexions. According to the report, Sadhana's father will return from California and will take Sadhana back to Udaipur one day. Everyone is ecstatic. However, a twist of fate puts an end to all hope. Sadhana's father's plane crashes and he dies as a result of the bad weather. Sadhana is devastated by the news. She eventually decides to stay at the Sharma residence.
Ragini is having difficulty finding a suitable match because of her dark complexion, and she is eventually rejected in favour of the lighter-complexioned Sadhana. One proposal is eventually finalised, and Kaushalya and Ragini's Nani decide to keep Sadhana hidden. Sadhana arrives at Ragini's wedding venue owing to unforeseen circumstances, and the boy's family rejects Ragini once more in favour of Sadhana, causing Kaushalya to attempt suicide, but Prakashchand saves her. Sadhana gets a new job, and everything returns to normal.
Sadhana begins working as a tutor at the Rajvansh family. Ranveer is one of the Rajvansh sons who studied in the USA but has returned for the time being. He has a mentally ill brother named Alekh. Vasundhara, Alekh's mother, believes that marriage will help Alekh improve.
The Sharmas are facing serious financial difficulties and the possibility of losing their home.
Sadhana demands that Vasundhara get Ranveer married to Ragini in exchange for money to save their home. She does so after witnessing Ranveer protecting Ragini's reputation from few hooligans who criticised her dark complexion, and she believed that he would be a wonderful life partner for Ragini, as well as for him.
Vasundhara deceives Sadhana by agreeing to her demand, but this was just a sham. She sends Ranveer to the United States, while Sadhana marries Alekh and offers to marry them when he returns. Sadhana marries Alekh, but Ragini and Ranveer's marriage does not work out since, Ranvir fell in love with Sonia. Sonia, on the other hand, is revealed to be a gold digger who is just interested in Ranveer's money. Ranveer is devastated by this news and begins to suffer from depression. In a strange twist of destiny, Ragini is the one who saves him when she rings his number by accident and tells him to move on with his life in wonderful words. Ranveer is completely charmed by her comments, and the two gradually begin conversing on the phone on a regular basis, oblivious of each other's identities.
They went by the names Anmol and Anamika. Sadhana eventually figures it out, but she doesn't reveal them and instead trusts God to decide the fate of their friendship. She, on the other hand, tells Alekh about the secret.
Ranveer and Ragini develop feelings for each other and resolve to meet. However, when they met, they were both taken aback, and due to Vasundhara's interference (who refused to accept Ragini as her daughter-in-law due to her dark complexion), Ranveer believes Ragini was aware of his true identity all along, but chose to deceive him in order to marry into a wealthy family. Meanwhile, Ragini is taken aback when she learns that Ranveer is Anmol, and she is distraught when he appears to reject her. Sadhana knew about their true identities all along, and both Ranveer and Ragini hate her for keeping it hidden from them.