Shahmaran (2023) Season 01 Dual Audio [Hindi-English]

In this fantasy drama Shahmaran series, a lonely young woman finds her soul mate and discovers they are both part of an ancient legend.

Snakes slither on the ground towards a man standing on a cliff. A voice over says, “Since the creation of the world, human beings have betrayed everything they loved.”

The Gist: Sashu (Serenay Sarikaya), a PhD candidate from Istanbul, is on a train out to Adana to give a guest lecture at a university. But before she does that, she has to attend to some personal business: She takes a taxi out to the countryside and confronts her grandfather Davut (Mustafa Ugurlu), who left her mother behind decades ago. She thinks her mother never confronted him so she’s doing so on his behalf, since her mother recently died.

A girl from the property next door sees Sashu and runs to Maran (Burak Deniz), who lives in the complex with her, and gushes that she thinks she’s the “one.” Maran dismisses it.

But Sashu is having visions Shahmaran she can’t explain, similar visions to what her mother had. And when the town is shut down for an annual festival, the hotel manager sends us to a nearby lake, where she can submerge herself and have some peace. She encounters Maran there. He knows who she is, but isn’t all that interested in bringing him into her life, despite the fact that a legend that the others in his house believe and foster says that the two of them are destined to be together.

Davut comes into town to give her letters her mother sent him, where she talks about the same “sleep talking” Sashu has, but she says her medication isn’t working to head them off anymore.

At the festival as Sashu wanders through looking at the sites, her grandfather is there, but he doesn’t approach. She sees Maran but doesn’t want to talk to him. A mysticist talks to her about the legend of the Shahmaran, and to let it guide her when it comes to love. She takes the necklace that’s offered to her, though she feels it’s a silly superstition. But soon, she’s confronted with a raging fire that gets out of control when she approaches; the necklace burns a scar on her, then, right before she passes out, Maran picks her up and takes her out.

She wakes up the next day at Davut’s house, not knowing how she got there. The burn is gone, and Maran is denying anything ever happened. But he goes back to the group, led by Ural (Mahir Gunsiray), and says no one should tell Sashu the truth, even though they all know that the fire was the first omen that Sashu is the one.