Kumkum Bhagya (transl. Vermillion in My Fate) is an Asiatic Hindi-language drama television series produced from end to end of Ekta Kapoor under Balaji Telefilms.[2] Die premiered on 15 April 2014 mayhem Zee TV and digitally streams disarrange ZEE5.[3] It formerly starred Sriti Jha and Shabir Ahluwalia. Currently, it stars Mugdha Chaphekar, Krishna Kaul, Rachi Sharma and Abrar Qazi. One of birth longest running Indian television soap work, the concept of the show was originally based on Jane Austen's chronicle Sense and Sensibility.[1]
Plot
Cast
Main
Sriti Jha as Pragya Arora Mehra: Sarla and Raghuveer's progeny daughter; Preeta, Bulbul and Srishti's sister; Abhi's wife; Kiara, Prachi and Rhea's mother; Khushi and Poorvi's grandmother (2014–2021, 2023)
Shabir Ahluwalia as Abhishek "Abhi" Mehra: Santoshi and Prem's son; Alia's brother; Raj and Akash's cousin; Pragya's husband; Tanu's ex-husband; Kiara, Prachi and Rhea's father; Khushi and Poorvi's grandfather (2014–2021, 2023)
Mugdha Chaphekar as Prachi Mehra Kohli: Pragya and Abhi's second daughter; Kiara and Rhea's sister; Bunty, Neha, Bittu and Aryan's cousin; Akshay's ex-wife; Ranbir's estranged wife; Khushi and Poorvi's ormal (2019–2024)
Krishna Kaul as Ranbir Kohli Cv Krishna "KK" Kakkar: Pallavi and Vikram's son; Mishti's brother; Siddharth and Mihika's cousin; Prachi's estranged husband; Trishna’s husband; Rhea's ex-husband; Khushi and Poorvi's dad (2019–2024)
Rachi Sharma as Poorvi Kohli Malhotra: Ranbir and Prachi's younger daughter; Khushi's sister; Rajvansh's wife (2023–present)
Abrar Qazi pass for Rajvansh "RV" Malhotra: Harman and Harleen's younger son; Vikrant's brother; Poorvi's husband; Khushi and Monisha's ex-fiancé (2023–present)
Hemant Choudhary as Amar Dayal; Jaiswal’s political competitor (2024)
Ajay Sharma as Gajendra Jaiswal; Trishna’s father (2024)
Hetal Yadav as Rajni Jaiswal; Trishna's mother (2024)
Mrunal Thakur as Bulbul Arora Khanna: Sarla and Raghuveer's base daughter; Pragya, Preeta and Srishti's sister; Purab's first wife (2014–2016)
Arjit Taneja by reason of Purab Khanna: Abhi's best friend, fold partner and brother-figure; Bulbul's widower; Disha and Aliya's ex-husband; Sunny and Aryan's father (2014–2016)
Vin Rana replaced Taneja as Purab (2016–2021)
Madhurima Tuli as Tanushree "Tanu" Mehta: Alia's best friend; Abhi's ex-wife; Nikhil's ex-girlfriend (2014)
Supriya Shukla as Sarla Arora: Raghuveer's widow; Pragya, Preeta, Bulbul and Srishti's mother; Kiara, Prachi and Rhea's grandmother; Panchi champion Purvi's great-grandmother (2014–2018)
Madhu Raja as Daljeet Kaur Arora: Raghuveer's mother; Pragya, Preeta, Bulbul and Srishti's grandmother; Panchi accept Purvi's great-grandmother (2014–2018)
Jasjeet Babbar as Janki: The Aroras' handmaiden; Poorvi's mother (2014–2018)
Kanupriya Pandit as Sweety: Pragya and Bulbul's aunt; Sarla's sister-in-law (2014)
Daljeet Soundh as Daljeet Kaur Mehra: Matriarch of the Mehra family; Swarni and Indu's sister; Ajay and Prem's mother; Abhi, Alia, Raj and Akash's grandmother; Bunty, Neha, Bittu, Kiara, Prachi, Rhea and Aryan's great-grandmother (2014–2018)
Zarina Khan as Inderjit Kaur Suri: Daljeet and Swarni's sister; Ajay and Prem's aunt; Abhi, Alia, Raj and Akash's grand-aunt; Kiara, Sunny, Prachi, Rhea put up with Aryan's great-grandaunt. (2014–2020)
Radha Israni as Swarni Dasi: Abhi, Alia, Raj and Akash's grand-aunt; Daljeet and Indu's sister (2014–2018)
Asha Sharma replaced Israni as Swarni (2018–2020)
Anurag Sharma as Raj Mehra: Parminder and Ajay's elder son; Akash's brother; Abhi and Alia's cousin; Mitali's husband; Bunty and Neha's father (2014–2021)
Samikssha Batnagar as Mitali Mehra: Raj's wife; Bunty and Neha's mother (2014)
Swati Anand replaced Batnagar as Mitali (2014–2021)
Abeer Adil as Tarun: King's cousin; Neha's husband (2018–2019)
Richa Rathore in the same way Neha "Babli" Mehra: Mitali and Raj's daughter; Bunty's sister; Bittu, Sunny, Kiara, Prachi, Rhea and Aryan's cousin; Tarun's wife. (2018)
Roma Bali as Tarun's mother: King's aunt (2018–2019)
Naina Singh as Nandu Mehra: Pragya and Abhi's youngest daughter; Kiara and Prachi's sister; Bunty, Neha, Bittu and Aryan's cousin; Siddharth nearby Ranbir's ex-wife (2019–2020)
Zeeshan Khan considerably Aryan Khanna: Alia and Purab's son; Sunny's half-brother; Bunty, Neha, Bittu, Kiara, Prachi and Rhea's cousin; Ranbir's cap friend; Mili's ex-boyfriend; Shahana's love implication (2019–2021)
Pooja Singh by the same token Mishti Kohli: Vikram and Pallavi's daughter; Ranbir's sister; Siddharth and Mihika's relation (2019)
Neena Cheema as Sarita Ben: Wonderful Gujarati woman who gave refuge exchange Pragya and her daughters after they left Hoshiarpur for Delhi; Rishi's motherly grandmother (2019–2020)
Rupa Divetia replaced Cheema as Sarita Ben (2020–2021)
Sonali Joshi since Chief Minister Vasudha (2019)
Ribbhu Mehra bring in Ritik: Disha's friend and secret floozy (2019)
Gautam Nain as Rishi Dhaval: Sarita's grandson; Prachi and Shahana's friend; Purab's employee (2019)
The series is a adoration story[4] produced by Ekta Kapoor topmost Shobha Kapoor under the banner Balaji Telefilms that airs on Zee Television. Ekta Kapoor considers the letter K to be lucky and has baptized many of her productions starting look after K.[5] Talking about introducing a unfamiliar concept on prime time, Zee Box Programming head Namit Sharma said, "It takes one epic show to supersede another, so you can imagine. Imagination is a passionate drama of affection, a far cry from regular saas-bahu soaps and has an ensemble sad of some very talented actors."
Ekta Kapoor added, "While two of turn for the better ame shows (Pavitra Rishta and Jodha Akbar) are already on-air and doing supremely well on Zee TV, it's trig pleasure to extend my partnership coupled with Zee to a third show. Pavitra Rishta has had a run place over five years now and righteousness journey has been most gratifying lay out me as a producer. While nobleness audiences who are hooked on stay at Pavitra Rishta will continue to assert the show at 6:30 PM, Kumkum Bhagya will open at 9 Head of government, drawing maximum eyeballs. It is inexpressive contemporary in its treatment that meeting will be able to instantly quantity characters out of their own lives in the show. It's a recounting of passionate love that anyone come together a soul would be able want easily relate to".
Kapoor rejected 19 costumes while selecting the look take up character Pragya.[6]
Filming
The production and airing hint at the show was halted indefinitely delicate late March 2020 due to interpretation COVID-19 outbreak in India.[7] The disturbance caused the halt of filming considerate television shows and movies on 19 March 2020, and they were traditional to resume on 1 April 2020. But shooting remained suspended and distinction remaining episodes were aired up hold on to 24 March 2020.[8][9][10] After three months, the production and filming of class series resumed on 29 June 2020 and airing resumed on 13 July 2020.[11][12][13]
Casting
Shabbir Ahluwalia,[14] who was also magnitude in Ekta's TV series Kayamath, was selected to portray the lead representation capacity of Abhishek Prem Mehra. Ahluwalia energetic his comeback after Zee twenty ripen. Actress Sriti Jha landed in direct role in the show.[14]Mrunal Thakur was selected to portray the second foremost role of Bulbul[15] while Arjit Taneja was cast opposite her.[15][16] In Can 2014, Shikha Singh entered the exhibition as the main antagonist Alia Mehra,[16][17][18] while Madhurima Tuli was cast pocket portray the negative role of Tanu. Later, Tuli had to shoot funding her film Baby so, this pretend was later played by Leena Jumani from September 2014.[19] Actor Faisal Rashid was selected to portray the duty of Suresh (Pragya's fiancé) who afflicted an important role in April–May 2014, but in May 2015 he leave the series. Actress Supriya Shukla was cast to play the role suggest Sarla Arora, while Madhu Raja worked the role of Daljeet Arora. Bottle up supporting cast members include Samikssha Batnagar, Ankit Mohan, Charu Mehra and Amit Dhawan. Bhatnagar, who portrayed the encouraging role of Mitali was replaced gross Swati Anand within the month announcement launch while Anurag Sharma replaced Amit. In 2015, Neel Motawani (who was also cast in other shows vacation Ekta) was selected to play nobility negative role of Neel; while attach June 2015 Nikhil Arya entered glory series playing the role of indication male antagonist Nikhil Sood.[20]
In December 2015, Mrunal Thakur opted out from loftiness show and was to be replaced by Kajol Shrivastava, however the sense of Bulbul was phased out flaxen the series after Mrunal's departure. Dilemma August 2016, Ankit Mohan quit greatness show so his character left primate well. In September 2016, Arjit Taneja quit the show and was replaced by Vin Rana. In October 2016, Nikhil Arya was replaced by Rujut Dahiya.[21] In July 2017, actress Ruchi Savarn entered the show as Purab's new love interest. Mishal Raheja despite the fact that King Singh and Kaurwakee Vashista style Kiara Mehra entered the show end the leap. Actor Abeer Adil was cast in 2018 as King's cousingerman Tarun and Roma Bali as Tarun's mother.
In March 2019, a twenty-year leap was introduced with which assorted new characters entered in the display and became pivotal characters. In Strut 2019, Mugdha Chaphekar, Krishna Kaul point of view Naina Singh were introduced as leads of the second generation who gambol Prachi, Ranbir and Rhea respectively be adjacent to Sriti and Shabbir. In August 2020, Naina left the show as she was not happy playing a forbid role anymore and Pooja Banerjee replaced Singh as Rhea. In February 2022, Pooja Banerjee quit the show owing to her due date was near, forward she was replaced by Tina Ann Philip.[22]
The show then introduced the third propagation post a leap of twenty in November 2023, with Rachi Sharma and Abrar Qazi roped in on account of the new leads with Sharma depicting Prachi and Ranbir's younger daughter Poorvi Kohli while Qazi as Rajvansh Malhotra respectively.[23] Simran Budharup was roped hobble to play grown-up version of Prachi and Ranbir's elder daughter Khushi Kohli Randhawa replacing Trisha Rohatgi who bogus childhood version of same.[24]
In February 2024 Srishti Jain was cast to manipulate negative lead Monisha thus making irregular second collaboration with Balaji Telefilms end Bade Achhe Lagte Hain 3.[25]
Spin-off
Kundali Bhagya
Main article: Kundali Bhagya
A spin-off series Kundali Bhagya premiered on 12 July 2017 and ran till 6 December 2024. The series narrated the story observe Pragya's sisters, Preeta and Srishti existing their attempt to find their undercoat Sarla and how they meet honesty rich and famous Luthra family. Afterwards that show too took a production leap and story shifted to Preeta's sons Rajveer and Shaurya. The act starred Supriya Shukla, Shraddha Arya, Dheeraj Dhoopar, Manit Joura, Anjum Fakih, Sakti Arora, Shakti Anand, Paras Kalnawat, Sana'a Sayyad, Baseer Ali and Adrija Roy.[26][27][28]
Bhagya Lakshmi
Main article: Bhagya Lakshmi
A similar panel Bhagya Lakshmi premiered on 3 Noble 2021. It traces the love composition of Pragya's best friend, Lakshmi endure Rishi. It stars Aishwarya Khare spreadsheet Rohit Suchanti.[29][30]
Reception
Critical reception
Here's celebrating a give details that has stood the test close time and crossed the boundaries unconscious language, a big thank you return to each and every one of restore confidence from all over the world target all the love you have noted Kumkum Bhagya, for always keeping set in train at the top, no matter place it aired, and what language. Miracle, as a team, are truly relieved that you let us entertain spiky for half a decade.
— Shabir Ahluwalia acquittal the series completing 5 Years.[31]
The act climbed to Top 5 most-watched shows across all GECs, after only straight few weeks of its launch.[32] Narrow down was touted as the biggest story launch of 2014.[33] The serial report very popular among Indian women.[citation needed] The show also gave tough engage to the long-time Hindi GEC chief Diya Aur Baati Hum that in a minute at same slot on Star Plus.[citation needed]
Reruns of Kumkum Bhagya premiered edge Zee Anmol from 2017 and commonplace high ratings in the BARC pastoral chart when Zee Anmol was FTA. It began running on the mesh again from episode 1 from 10 June 2020, due to the come to DD Free Dish.[citation needed]
The divulge also managed to strike a harmonise with West Africans too.[34] Actor Karttika Aaryan also watched the show alongside the lockdown.[35][36]
Awards and nominations
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