If Saanjhi can do for Zee what Saans did for Star Plus, the beleaguered channel may have reason to smile.

After Saans, Palchhin and Sonpari, Neena Gupta is ready with her new offering, scheduled to go on air in January 2002. Gupta, who will also make her presence felt as the hostess of Kamzor Kadii Kaun, the Indian version of BBC's Weakest Link, from 25 December, is being tight lipped about the project.

But industry sources reveal that Saanjhi will essentially explore relationships within the Indian marriage institution once again. Gupta is again slated to play the long-suffering wife. Only this time, her chief sorrow is childlessness. Saanjhi is the story of a couple (Arun Govil and Neena Gupta) who cannot have children even after 14 years of marriage. In a desperate bid to have a child, Govil marries a much younger woman - the arrangement worked out just for the sake of having an offspring - nothing more. Trouble starts when he actually falls in love with the younger woman.

The rest of the serial revolves around how the protagonists manage their lives after this turn of events.