Sayoneee

Star Plus launched Sayoneee on Wednesday, 23 September 2026. The emotional family drama is built around a mother and a daughter, and it brings Rashami Desai back to fiction television after a break of about eight years. Sargun Mehta and Ravi Dubey produce the show under their banner, Dreamiyata Entertainment.

Story

The heart of the show is Saanvi, a cheerful, optimistic girl who grew up in an orphanage. She has always lived without knowing her real family, and her biggest dream is to find her mother one day. What Saanvi does not know is that her mother, Maya, is alive.

Maya is a powerful, guarded woman with a successful career in fashion and a past she keeps closed. Fate eventually brings mother and daughter together, but the reunion is not a simple happy ending. An old promise stands between them and puts their new bond to the test. Star Plus framed the first promo, released in July, around the idea of a woman who is a mother and yet is herself an orphan.

Cast

• Rashami Desai as Maya
• Janhavi Soni as Saanvi (Saanvi's younger self is played by child actors in the early episodes)
• Gautam Singh Vig as Aditya, the male lead
• Ajay Singh Chaudhary as Kabir, a lawyer and Maya's husband

Production

Sayoneee is produced by Sargun Mehta and Ravi Dubey's Dreamiyata Entertainment, one of Star Plus' regular fiction suppliers. The story is reported to be adapted from the Malayalam series Mazha Thorum Munpe, which was itself based on a novel by the writer Joycee. Star Plus revealed the show with a first promo on 13 July 2026 and announced the launch date in early September.

In interviews before the launch, Desai said she had turned down several television offers over the years. She has described the show as one that came to her with a purpose rather than as a planned comeback.

Where and when to watch

• Channel: Star Plus
• Streaming: JioHotstar
• Premiere: Wednesday, 23 September 2026
• Timing: 7:30 pm IST
• Production house: Dreamiyata Entertainment

For viewers who followed Desai's earlier shows, Sayoneee marks her return in a mature lead role. The mother-daughter angle gives the show an emotional centre that sets it apart from the romance-led dramas launched around the same time.