Kundali Bhagya

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Kundali Bhagya
Genre	Drama Romance
Created by	Ekta Kapoor
Developed by	Ekta Kapoor
Written by	Anil Nagpal
Screenplay by	Anil Nagpal, Mrinal Tripathi
Story by	Kavita Nagpal Anil Nagpal
Directed by	Sameer Kulkarni Abhishek Kumar. R. Paul Aman Varpe
Creative directors	Chloe Ferns Qureshi Mukta Dhond
Starring	Shraddha Arya Dheeraj Dhoopar
Theme music composer	Lalit Sen Ashish Rego
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	1047
Production
Producers	[Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor
Editors	Vishal Sharma Vikas Sharma Sandip Bhatt
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22-23 minutes
Production company	Balaji Telefilms Limited
Release
Original network	Zee TV
Picture format	576i 1080i(HDTV)
Original release	12 July 2017 (2017-07-12) – present (present)
Chronology
Related shows	Kumkum Bhagya Bhagya Lakshmi
External links
Website
Production website

Kundali Bhagya (transl. The Fate of Our Horoscope) is an Indian romantic drama television series created by Ekta Kapoor, which has been broadcast on Zee TV since 12 July 2017. A spin-off series of Kumkum Bhagya, written by Anil Nagpal, it features Shraddha Arya and Dheeraj Dhoopar in lead roles with Sanjay Gagnani and Ruhi Chaturvedi as lead antagonists. Anjum Fakih, Supriya Shukla and Manit Joura have prominent supporting roles. It is dubbed in Tamil as Chinna Poove Mella Pesu on Zee Tamizh.

Plot[]

Arora sisters Preeta and Srishti leave their hometown Nasik after the death of their father, Raghuveer Arora, who before dying asked his daughters to go to Mumbai and reunite with their mother, Sarla. In the past, Raghuveer and Sarla separated, Sarla took charge of Pragya and Bulbul while Raghuveer took Preeta and Srishti with him. Preeta meets the Luthra family and becomes a physiotherapist to their matriarch, Bani Luthra whose younger grandson Karan, a popular cricket star, shares an adversarial relationship with her while the elder grandson Rishabh, a successful business tycoon, shares a rather cordial relationship with her and slowly develops one-sided feelings for her. Rishabh is not convinced to marry her, but Preeta convinces Rishabh, so he agrees to marry Sherlyn in an apparent misunderstanding, assuming it to be Preeta. After Rishabh and Sherlyn become engaged, Preeta realizes Sherlyn isn't the girl everyone thinks. She discovers that Sherlyn has a boyfriend and confides her doubts to Karan.

At first, Karan doesn't believe her, but because the matter concerns Rishabh, he checks for evidence himself and is convinced of the truth. Karan and Preeta join forces to save Rishabh from Sherlyn and their alliance slowly blossoms into friendship and then love.

In the meantime, Preeta's engagement is fixed with Sherlyn's boyfriend and ex-husband, Prithvi Malhotra. Karan and Rishabh are both uneasy with Prithvi and soon realize that he isn't right for her. Karan and Preeta at the same time repeatedly attempt to expose Sherlyn while Karan and Rishabh try to convince Preeta and her family about Prithvi.

To spoil Karan's image and take revenge on him, Prithvi brings Monisha, Ritvik's girlfriend, to the party where Karan and Preeta arrived. Prithvi makes Karan jealous by dancing with Preeta and Monisha takes advantage of this and gives Karan a spiked drink. Karan becomes unconscious after drinking that drink and Monisha takes him to her room. She tries to molest Karan but Preeta arrives on time and throws her out of the room. After, Prithvi locks Preeta in the washroom and Monisha succeeds in her plan and calls media and accuses Karan of attempted rape. Karan is imprisoned and later, Preeta makes a plan that Karan has to marry Monisha. Karan agrees and all the marriage rituals are started. Later, Monisha refuses to marry Karan as she loves Ritvik. Prithvi kills Ritvik and blames it on Rishabh. To save his brother, Karan agrees to marry Monisha once again. On the wedding day, Preeta exposes Monisha to everyone and she is then imprisoned.

Despite all the efforts by Preeta to stop Rishabh and Sherlyn's wedding, they marry and a fuming Karan vows to take revenge on Preeta for ruining his brother's life. He believes that Preeta has taken money from Sherlyn to ruin Rishabh's life. Karan humiliates Preeta after Rishabh's wedding and drags her out of the Luthra house thus ending their friendship. A few weeks later at Preeta's wedding with Prithvi, Karan orchestrates a groom swap and marries her without her knowledge. He convinces her and her family that he married Preeta out of love when it was all for revenge. The same night of their wedding, hurt and angry Karan confronts Preeta confessing how much he hates her and leaves her on the road in the middle of the night. The Luthra family convinces Karan of Preeta's apparent betrayal and he decided to become engaged to his childhood best friend, Mahira Khanna to further humiliate Preeta.

Karan, although initially reluctant to marry Mahira, agrees to the proposal once he sees that Preeta has ‘sent’ an alimony notice, which further cements his belief that Preeta is really after his money. The notice was actually sent by Sherlyn to intensify the current misunderstandings. Seeking further revenge, Karan humiliates Preeta a few more times in different wedding functions he has with Mahira to show off how ‘happy’ he is without her. Rishabh, who has now accepted the reality of Karan and Preeta's relationship, tries to convince him many times that Preeta is not the type of person he thinks, but Karan has no trust in her in the matter. On Karan's wedding day, Preeta overhears Sherlyn and Mahira planning to kill Mahesh after the wedding as he knows their truth. Preeta takes the same step as Karan and orchestrates a bride swap and marries Karan for a second time. When everyone becomes aware of it, they insult Preeta, calling her a gold-digger and throw her out of the house. Preeta returns to her house where Sarla insists that she fight for her rights.

A stronger Preeta returns to the Luthra house with a women's rights NGO. Karan calls the police, who side with Preeta and push the Luthras to accept Preeta for the sake of his family, Karan finally accepts Preeta as his wife but everything does not go as planned. Gradually, they again develop feelings and trust for each other.

Amidst the post-wedding functions, Mahira has a re-entry by faking her suicidal act. The family accepts Mahira just as a guest. Love starts to bloom between Karan and Preeta when they go to Manali for their honeymoon arranged by Rakhi. Akshay decides to marry Kritika for the sake of money for his failing business. Preeta suspects Akshay and plans to break the marriage, but in turn of events, Akshay cancels his marriage with Kritika on the mandap and the Luthra family believes Preeta to be responsible. Sarla takes Preeta home because of the humiliation Preeta suffered in the family. On Valentine's Day, Karan takes Preeta home and tells her to confess her love for him in the next half hour after he reaches the business office. Preeta mistakenly says, "I love you" to Prithvi as she receives his call first. Prithvi threatens her saying he will come to the Luthra house in the next half an hour. Prithvi reaches the Luthra house with Kritika expressing her as his bride. Kritika tells a sad story to the family but the Luthra brothers Rishabh, Karan, and Sameer, as well as Preeta, do not accept Prithvi as her husband. Kareena accepts Prithvi as her son-in-law and plans to do the pre-wedding rituals. Sherlyn breaks down learning the fact that Prithvi married Kritika, but he consoles Sherlyn by telling her that he just came to the Luthra house to destroy them. During all this drama, Akshay blackmails Kritika for some money in exchange for the intimate pics he gets off them, Prithvi pays Akshay to continue blackmailing Kritika. Preeta helps Kritika and goes to meet Akshay, however during a struggle Akshay falls unconscious. The police arrest Preeta by believing she killed Akshay. After much effort to prove Preeta innocent, Karan decides to take blame and is arrested, which upsets Preeta. Sameer, Shrishti, and Preeta acquire Akshay's phone and try to find out who the killer is, at first they suspect Mahira, however, the real killer is revealed to be Sherlyn. Sameer, Preeta, and Shrishti now seek evidence against Sherlyn. Preeta announces that Sherlyn is indeed the real murderer of Akshay but no one from the Luthra family believes her even when she hands the judge the evidence she and Shrishti collected. The judge releases Karan from jail as all allegations against him are proven false, however Sherlyn is still not found guilty and is not caught. Sherlyn and Mahira decide to seek revenge against Preeta. They decide to kill Preeta via a road accident through truck. However Mahira pushes Sherlyn instead of Preeta onto the road and Sherlyn becomes the victim of that road accident. While Mahira runs away to save herself, Preeta takes Sherlyn to hospital. Doctors are able to save Sherlyn but the baby is aborted. Luthras, on learning the truth, expel Mahira from the house. On the wedding day of Kritika and Prithvi, Mahira again unsuccessfully tries to expose Sherlyn and Prithvi and she is permanently banished from their lives. Kritika and Prithvi get married.

3 months later[]

On Dadi's birthday, Preeta arranges puja in the house and does all the preparations. The Luthras assemble for puja and Dadi's birthday celebrations. While Dadi praises Preeta's efforts, Sherlyn becomes jealous of her. Later, the family rejoices upon learning that Preeta is expecting twins. Then Karan's college friend Sonakshi arrives to invite Luthra's for her wedding in Lonavala and Preeta visits the hospital and ends up finding out that she is not pregnant and is infertile. A heartbroken Preeta decides to hide the truth till Sonakshi's wedding ends. Soon Sherlyn and Prithvi learn the truth about Preeta's pregnancy, however Sherlyn isn't able to prove the truth to the family due to lack of evidence. Preeta confesses to Karan that she isn't pregnant and can never conceive, which leaves Karan shocked and traumatized but he still supports and consoles Preeta. Sonakshi overhears their conversation, she assures them she'll not tell the truth to anyone and later takes them to a skilled gynaecologist who assures Preeta that there are chances of her conceiving and asks Preeta to start with the treatment after Sonakshi's wedding is over.

As Sonakshi's wedding rituals commence, Rajat (Sonakshi's fiancé), breaks the wedding just a moment before filling her hairline. He along with his family accuse Sonakshi of hiding the truth about her first marriage from him. Preeta supports Sonakshi and encourages her to fight for her self-respect and dignity. Meanwhile, Rajat's uncle shows proof of Sonakshi delivering a daughter a few years earlier. Preeta, Karan and the Luthras are shocked to find Karan's name as the father of the child. Sonakshi admits that she delivered a daughter, but insisted that the father of the child is not Karan and she is not married. In order to find the truth, Prithvi suggests examining the admission form of Sonakshi from the hospital where she delivered her child. The admission form also states that Karan is the baby's father and everyone accuses Karan of having physical relation with Sonakshi and hiding the truth. Later Sonakshi confesses that Karan is indeed the father of her child and reveals even more. Years earlier, while they were intoxicated after a party, Karan impregnated Sonakshi. While Karan forgot this, Sonakshi remembered. Later, Sophia, then Karan's girlfriend, prevented Sonakshi from telling Karan about the pregnancy. Sonakshi's father says that her daughter died soon after birth. This shocks the Luthra family, especially Preeta. After the family reaches Mumbai, Karan and Preeta resolve the situation and reconcile. Sherlyn informs Sarla about the Lonavala incident and tries to instigate her against Karan. Sarla arrives at the Luthra House and to everyone's surprise, supports Karan and Preeta and asks Preeta to stay with Karan.

Cast[]

Main[]

• Shraddha Arya as Dr. Preeta Karan Luthra (née Arora): Karan's wife; Raghuveer and Sarla's daughter; Pragya, Srishti and Bulbul's sister; Pihu's adoptive mother (2017-present)
• Dheeraj Dhoopar as Karan Luthra: Preeta's husband; Mahesh and Rakhi's younger son; Rishabh's brother; Sameer and Kritika's cousin; Pihu's adoptive father (2017-present)
• Manit Joura as Rishabh Luthra: Rakhi and Mahesh's elder son; Karan's brother; Sameer and Kritika's cousin; Sherlyn's husband (2017–present)
• Ruhi Chaturvedi as Sherlyn Rishabh Luthra (née Khurana): Rishabh's wife; Prithvi's girlfriend; Sanjana's daughter (2017–present)
• Anjum Fakih as Srishti Arora: Raghuveer and Sarla's daughter; Pragya, Bulbul and Preeta's sister; Kiara, Prachi, Rhea and Pihu's maternal aunt; Sameer's love interest (2017–present)
• Abhishek Kapur as Sameer Luthra: Karan, Rishabh and Kritika's cousin; Pihu's paternal uncle; Srishti's love interest (2017–present)
• Sanjay Gagnani as Prithvi Malhotra: Kritika's husband; Sherlyn's boyfriend; Preeta's former fiancé; Pawan's brother (2017–present)

Recurring[]

• Supriya Shukla as Sarla Arora: Raghuveer's wife; Pragya, Bulbul, Preeta and Srishti's mother (2017–present)
• Twinkle R Vashisht as Kritika Prithvi Malhotra: Prithvi's wife; Kareena's daughter; Karan, Rishabh and Sameer's cousin; Akshay's ex-fiancée (2017–present)
• Anisha Hinduja as Rakhi Luthra: Rishabh and Karan's mother, Mahesh's wife (2017-present)
• Swarna Pandey as Pihu Karan Luthra: Sonakshi's biological daughter; Karan and Preeta's adoptive daughter (2021–present)
• Jasjeet Babbar as Janki: Arora's handmaiden (2017–present)
• Neelam Mehra as Bani Luthra: Matriarch of the Luthra family; Mahesh, Suresh, and Kareena's mother (2017–present)
• Naveen Saini as Mahesh Luthra: Bani's son; Rakhi's husband; Karan and Rishabh's father; Suresh and Kareena's brother (2017–present)
• Pyumori Mehta Ghosh/Usha Bachani as Kareena Luthra: Mahesh and Suresh's sister; Kritika's mother (2017)/(2017–present)
• Mansi Srivastava as Sonakshi Raichand: Karan's college friend; Pihu's biological mother (2021–present)
• Hemant Choudhary as Yashvardhan Raichand: Sonakshi's father (2021)
• Giriraj Kabra as Rajat Bedi: Sonakshi's fiancé (2021)
• Sanjana Phadke as Sanjana Khurana: Sherlyn's mother (2017–present)
• Swati Kapoor as Mahira Khanna: Karan's obsessive one-sided lover and ex-fiancée; Ramona's daughter (2019–2021)
• Madhu Raja as Daljeet Arora: Matriarch of the Arora family; Raghuveer's mother (2017–2020)
• Geetanjali Mishra as Ramona Khanna: Mahira's mother (2020–2021)
• Saptrishi Ghosh as Suresh Luthra: Pammi's husband; Mahesh and Kareena's brother (2021)
• Shravani Goswami as Parminder "Pammi" Luthra: Suresh's wife (2021)
• Trupti Mishra as Dr. Deepali (2021)
• Ankit Gupta as Pawan Malhotra: Prithvi's younger brother (2020–2021)
• Ashish Mehrotra/Mukul Harish/Naveen Sharma as Akshay Ahuja: Kritika's ex-fiancé; Ruchika's boyfriend; Megha's husband (2017)/(2018)/(2021)
• Priyanka Zemse as Ruchika: Akshay's girlfriend (2021)
• Ruchita Anchor as Megha Ahuja: Akshay's wife (2021)
• Girish Thapar as Mr. Ahuja: Akshay's father (2017–2018; 2021)
• Parveen Kaur as Mrs. Ahuja: Akshay's mother (2017–2018; 2021)
• Akshay Raj Jawrani as Shiv: Karan's friend; Preeta's one-sided lover (2019)
• Mahira Sharma as Monisha Sharma: Karan's former fiancée (2018–2019)
• Isha Anand Sharma as Tapsee: Prithvi's former girlfriend (2018)
• Roma Arora as Sofia: Karan's former girlfriend (2017–2018; 2021)
• Shyn Khurana as Malishka: Karan's former girlfriend (2017)
• Vijay Kashyap as Raghuveer Arora: Daljeet's son; Sarla's husband; Preeta and Srishti's father (2017)
• Sahil Phull as Deepak: Preeta's former fiancée (2017)

Guests[]

Development[]

Talking about introducing a spinoff of a popular show on a primetime, Deepak Rajadhyaksha, the Deputy Business Head of Zee TV, says, "Zee TV has always strived to experiment with formats and bring its viewers unique and fresh content. After the success of Kasamh Se, Pavitra Rishta, Jodha Akbar, Kumkum Bhagya and Brahmarakshas, we are extremely happy to associate yet again with Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Telefilms to bring an innovative narrative Kundali Bhagya. It introduces a new set of characters in an all-new world and will replace our hit primetime show, Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani, which was not only a strong differentiator but met with an overwhelming response and has had a glorious run of two years."^[1]

On this, Kapoor said, "Over the last two decades, Balaji Telefilms in collaboration with Zee TV has created some great content. With our new show, Kundali Bhagya, we present a first-of-its-kind concept, an all-new interesting and engrossing show that emerges from the sub-plots of an already existing show. We will introduce Pragya's sisters Preeta and Shrishti and the Luthra brothers Karan and Rishabh. We’re hopeful that the audience will fall in love with each of these endearing characters as we have gone through hundreds of auditions before locking the impressive young talent. The writing for this show is extremely strong in terms of characterisation and the engaging screenplay should leave audiences hooked at the end of every episode."^[1]

The production and airing of the show was halted indefinitely in late March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2] Because of the outbreak, the filming of television series and films was halted on 19 March 2020 and expected to resume on 1 April 2020 but could not and the series was last broadcast on 24 March 2020 when the remaining episodes were aired.^[3][4][5] After three months, the production and filming of the series resumed on 29 June 2020 and broadcast to resume from 13 July 2020.^[6][7][8]

Reception[]

Viewership[]

In its debut week, it was the fourth-most-watched television show in the twenty eighth week (8–14 July) of 2017 in Hindi GEC 5.796 urban and 4.064 rural million impressions.^[9] In the thirty-second week of 2017 (5–11 August), the soap opera became the second most-watched Hindi GEC with 10.498 million impressions.^[10] In week 33 (12–19 August) 2017, the soap opera saw a dip in the ratings thereby recording 10.097 million impressions but still was the third most-watched.^[11] In week 34, 2017 the soap opera further fell to 9.691 million impressions being fifth most watched show during the week.^[12] In Week 37, 2017 (9–15 September), the soap opera showed a jump in ratings and recorded, 10.940 million impressions; thereby becoming the second most-watched Hindi GEC for the week, the first being its sister show Kumkum Bhagya.^[13] In week 40, 2017 (30 September – 6 October), the soap opera recorded 11.216 million impressions and continued to be the second most watched show.^[14] In first week of October 2017, it was at second position with 11.27 million impressions while the following two weeks it topped with 11.63 and 11.60 million impressions.^[15]

In November, Kundali Bhagya took the top spot and maintained it in November and December 2017. The show topped TRP charts in January 2018 with a staggering 7.889 million viewership in urban markets and 12.5 million viewership in all India. Due to continuous increases in ratings and topping the charts, the show became the biggest weekday launch since 2017 by Balaji Telefilms.^[16]

After topping the charts continuously for six months with minor exceptions wherein the show was among the top three most-watched shows; its first spot was taken by Colors' Naagin (season 2).^[17]

In week 51 of 2018 it was at third position with 11.4 million impressions in Hindi GEC.^[18]

In week 18 of 2019, it was at second position with 10.048 million impressions.^[19] In week 21 of 2019, it was at third position in overall Hindi GEC with 11.523 million impressions.^[20] In week 22 of 2019, the show topped the ratings charts with 7.122 million impressions in urban ratings and 5.306 million rural.^[21] It was beaten in urban ratings by Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai since week 28 of 2018 pushing Kundali Bhagya to second place.^[22] However, it took back its first place in week 38 of 2019, pushing Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai to second position.^[23][24]

The series became the most watched when it resumed after three months after the COVID-19 break garnering 5.509 million impressions in Hindi GEC urban.^[25] In last two weeks of July 2020 it maintained its top position in Hindi GEC with 13.3 and 12.4 million impressions.^[26] In week 36, it maintained its top position with 12.853 million impressions while in week 42 of 2020, it still maintained its top position with 12.026 million impressions.^[27][28] During week 52 of 2020, in urban it dropped to third position with 7.471 million impressions while it maintained its top position in Hindi GEC overall with 12.411 million impressions.^[29]

In second week of 2021, it further dropped in urban to fourth position garnering 6.849 million impressions while it dropped to third position overall.^[30][31] In fourth week, it maintained its third position overall with 11.13 million impressions.^[32] The following week it dropped to fifth and fourth positions in urban and overall with 6.647 and 10.989 million impressions.^[33][34] In its sixth week, it rose to 7.220 in urban occupying fourth position and at second position overall with 12.017 million impressions while the following week it maintained its urban position while dropping overall with 6.684 and 10.683 million impressions.^[35][36] In week 10, it was at fifth and fourth position in urban and overall with 6.516 and 10.403 million impressions.^[37][38] The following week it jumped to second position in urban and overall at the top with 7.285 and 11.754 million impressions.^[39][40] The following week it dropped to fourth positions in both urban and overall with 6.588 and 10.681 million impressions.^[41][42] In week 13, it garnered 10.651 million impressions overall with second position overall while dropping out of the top 5 in urban.^[43][44] The following week it garnered 11.319 occupying third position.^[45][46]

Awards and nominations[]

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