Bam! That's it for
The Crossroads on Star Life.
It ends on Wednesday, 30 January and will be replaced by a new 154-episode series called Family Secrets, originally named Rishton Ka Chakravyuh in India.
It premieres on Thursday, 31 January at 21h00 (also with two episodes a night) and tells the story of 17-year-old Anami Baldev Singh, played by Mahima Makwana of Young Dreams (Rachna).
Anami is from a royal industrialist family but was abandoned by her mother Satrupa (Narayani Shastri) when her twin brother Vatsalya (Devarshi Shah) died.
She was adopted by another family and now, years later, her mother insists that she return to her original family home Lal Mahaal - as the one-and-only heir to their fortune.
As the action unfolds, the story explores Anami's unwilling return to her roots and the fiery relationship between herself and her mother.
In the process she meets CBI officer Adhiraj Pandey (Ankit Siwach) who deals with matters concerning the house of Lal Mahaal. He takes a liking to Anami and the pair become tight as Anami starts to live her new life with a new mission: to find out what happened to her brother.
Enter Sudha (Sangita Ghosh), Anami's biological father's lover, and Anami has an enemy - but she doesn't know it. Suhda wants it Lal Mahaal and Anami's inheritance for herself and her illegitmate son Narottam (Akash Gill)
.
Instead of giving her trust to her pushy, domineering mother Satrupa, Anami puts her trust in Suhda.
But then she starts to see. Adhiraj wisens up to Sudha's evil ways and protects Anami by warning her.
So begins her struggle to secure what's hers and to find the truth about Lal Mahaal and everyone associated with it.
Thematically the series is loosely based on the Mahabharata, the longest epic poem of Ancient India and a Hindu spiritual work. It deals with the struggle for an ancestral throne and includes the legendary Bhagavad Gita.
According to Family Secrets writer Vijayendra Prasad, the inspiration for the show came from his mother who was suffering from breast cancer. When she was in hospital she read the Mahabharata and would talk to him about it and debate it.
"I found my Anami in her,"
he told ETimes before the debut of the series in India.
Keep a lookout for the first teasers - comin' up soon.