Aapki Antara (International title: Antara), produced by Drishtant Media, is a soap opera which ran on Zee TV from 1 June 2009 through 18 February 2010 as a social problem drama focusing on the issue of autism.
She is born to Anuradha, who had a relationship out of wedlock with Aditya Verma.
When Anuradha dies in a car accident, Antara is orphaned, leaving Aditya with the responsibility of taking his illegitimate daughter home to his wife, Vidya, and son, Abhishek, and raising her as a part of his family.
Antara does not behave like a normal child, being unable to express her emotions and living in her own world.
Both she and her family are faced with the journey of navigating the world and being accepted by the society Antara is brought up in.