Kitani Mohabbat Hai

Kitani Mohabbat Hai
Genre	Romantic Drama
Created by	Ekta Kapoor
Written by	Story Sonali Jaffar Screenplay Fatima Rangila & Vandana Tewari Dialogues Rekkha Modi & Mukul Shrivastava
Directed by	Anil V. Kumar Sangieta Rao Fahad Kashmiri Mujammil Desai Anoop Choudhary V.G Roy
Creative directors	Vikas Gupta, Sanchi Bawa, Sandiip Sikcand & Prashant Bhatt Creative Head Pranshu Ghosh Asso. Creative Head Swati Rai, Priyanka Mehrotra & Shravan Pundeer
Starring	Kritika Kamra Karan Kundra Hiten Tejwani
Opening theme	"Kitani Mohabbat Hai" by Aishwarya Nigam and Manjera Ganguly
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	170
Production
Producers	Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor
Cinematography	Veerdhaval Purnaik, Deepak Malwankar, Balu Dahifale & Ashish Sharma
Editor	Vikas Sharma & Sandeep Bhatt
Running time	24 minutes (approximately)
Production company	Balaji Telefilms
Release
Original network	NDTV Imagine
Picture format	576i SDTV
Original release	19 January (2009-01-19) – 25 September 2009 (2009-09-25)
Chronology
Followed by	Kitani Mohabbat Hai 2

Kitani Mohabbat Hai (कितनी मोहब्बत है) (How Much I Love You) is an Indian soap opera which aired on Imagine TV from 19 January 2009 to 25 September 2009 at 10:30pm. Kitani Mohabbat Hai 2 started airing on 1 November 2010 at 8pm. Season 2 is not a continuation; it stars the same leads in a different story.

Season 1 was launched at Krishna Cottage in Mumbai days before the premiere.^[1]

Plot[]

This tale of pure love begins as Arjun Punj, son of a business tycoon D K Punj, is introduced in jail. He refuses to accept release on bail or talk to any lawyer. Ganga Rai, a young lawyer, is determined to find his story out.

Arjun emotionally reveals that he fell in love with a simple girl from the small town of Shimla, Aarohi Sharma, who sang beautifully. Her father runs a Gurukul, and she lived with her indifferent brother and his greedy wife, her widowed sister-in-law Purvi, and her two younger sisters, Sur and Antara.

After Hari Prasad Sharma retires, Aarohi takes up a job as Arjun's associate to support her family but is not treated well by Arjun, arrogant, materialistic, and the son of a separated couple, due to which he hates his mother, and thus all women. Aarohi continues to stand up to him, which attracts Arjun and softens him towards her, and they gradually develop feelings for each other.

Meanwhile, their ties are strengthened as Salil Mittal, Arjun's best friend and the son of D K Punj's business partner, whose family live with the Punjs, falls in love with Purvi and marries her against his family's wishes.

During this, Arjun finds out that Aarohi's mentor and mother figure is his mother, Savita, who abandoned him in childhood. He feels betrayed by Aarohi and breaks off their alliance, only to find out it was his father's fault that his parents separated. He wishes to reconcile with Aarohi, but they meet in an accident.

Post recovery, Aarohi goes to Mumbai to pursue her music career and soon meets Karan. Her family supports her relationship with Karan, but she still loves Arjun. D K Punj, scared of having another middle-class "greedy" woman in a wealthy family, reveals to Aarohi that Arjun is adopted and blackmails her with this long-kept secret to leave Arjun. Aarohi thus accepts Karan's proposal. When Arjun finds this out, he kidnaps Aarohi from her wedding venue, and her family rushes to rescue her. Her father falls from the terrace and dies in the scuffle, and Arjun is blamed and arrested for his murder.

As Arjun finishes his narration, the show leaps to the present, and Ganga Rai begins to try proving him innocent to prevent his hanging. She finds Aarohi, a famous singer, and asks her to help Arjun, but she refuses. Meanwhile, Salil's mother, Padmalakshmi Mittal, has footage of that night and accidentally misplaces it in some packages. Aarohi receives the CD, which proves Arjun's innocence and rushes to save Arjun, and is successful, but unfortunately does not meet him.

Both of them leave for Shimla, where they first met, and wish to retire there from a life of chaos. As Aarohi runs towards the train, Arjun reaches his hand out to her, like the first time they met, and they unite. The last scene shows them marrying happily ever after.

Cast[]

Main[]

• Karan Kundra as Arjun Punj
• Kritika Kamra as Aarohi Sharma

Recurring[]

• Hiten Tejwani as Karan Singh
• Rakshanda Khan as Ganga Rai
• Satyajit Sharma as D K Punj
• Papiya Sengupta/Neena Gupta as Savita Punj
• Veerendra Saxena as Hari Prasad Sharma
• Shresth Kumar as Salil Mittal
• Pooja Gor as Purvi Salil Mittal
• Akshita Kapoor as Antara Sharma
• Sonam Mann as Sur Sharma
• Sheeba Chadha as Padmalakshmi Mittal
• Mihika Verma as Natasha Mittal
• Sudha Shivpuri as Bua
• Mrinal Dutt as Aman Mittal
• Ayaz Ahmed as Abhay
• Irfan Razaa Khan as Vikas Gupta
• Priya Bathija as Mallika

Sequel[]

The show was well received by the audience thus, a new season was started soon after titled Kitani Mohabbat Hai 2.

International broadcast[]

• In Indonesia (Indonesian Language) began to be aired on ANTV with the titles Arjun dan Arohi on 21 November 2018. The series ends on 25 January 2019.
• This show was later Re-run on India's No. 1 General Entertainment Channel Dangal TV.

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