Kabhi Kabhie Ittefaq Sey

Kabhi Kabhie Ittefaq Sey
Created by	Leena Gangopadhyay
Written by	Divy Nidhi Sharma (Dialogues & Lyrics) Aparajita Sharma (Dialogues)
Screenplay by	Vishal Vatwani Renu Vatwani
Story by	Leena Gangopadhyay
Creative director	Sidhartha Vanakar
Starring	Yesha Rughani Manan Joshi
Theme music composer	Nishant Raja
Opening theme	Kabhi Kabhie Ittefaq Sey by Shaan and Neeti Mohan
Composer	Dhruv Dhalla
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	168
Production
Producers	Rajesh Ram Singh Leena Gangopadhyay Saibal Banerjee Pradeep Kumar Pia Bajpiee Shaika Parveen
Cinematography	Shailesh Manore
Editors	Sagar Patil Maneesh Upadhyay
Camera setup	Multi camera
Production companies	Magic Moments Motion Pictures Cockcrow & Shaika Entertainment
Original release
Network	StarPlus
Release	3 January 2022 (2022-01-03) – present

Kabhi Kabhie Ittefaq Sey (transl. Sometimes, by chance) is an Indian Television Drama series that premiered on 3 January 2022 and airs on StarPlus and digitally on Disney+ Hotstar which stars Yesha Rughani and Manan Joshi. Its a loose Hindi adaptation of Star Jalsha's Khorkuto.

Summary

Getting connected initially by their families, and later through a helpless situation, Anubhav and Gungun don’t seem to part their ways too quick. With the pressure of Anubhav already being married to Akriti, will he be able to fetch Gungun the right she deserves?

Plot

Anubhav "Anu" Kulshreshth is a young 28 year old scientist, who lives with his big happy joint family, is very family oriented and believes in family values. On the other hand, Riddhima "Gungun" Bhatnagar is a rich spoilt 21 year old young girl, who lives with her father and aunt. Gungun's mother Maya left the house and abandoned her family 12 years ago, when Gungun was just 8 years old, for her career and luxurious life and moved to USA, thus, Gungun hates her for it. Her arrogance is the only way of hiding her pain from everyone, and she often parties with her so-called friends to fight her loneliness.

Anu's family thinks Gungun is a perfect match for Anu, but he disagrees as he only sees Gungun's rudeness. Gungun goes out partying with her friends. She also invites Chhavi but Anu disagrees as he doesn't like late night parties. Gungun also feels a connection with Kulshreshths, but hates Anu. The latter insults Gungun and her friends in the party but apologises to Gungun later at Dr. Riddhesh's behest. On her 21st birthday party, Gungun keeps avoiding Anu for insulting her. Later that night Gungun gets a call from her mother wishing her a happy birthday. But Gungun pours out her hate towards her mother as she never visited Gungun in the past 12 years. Anu overhears her conversation and realises that the reason behind Gungun's rudeness is actually not getting the love she wanted from her mother.

During the party, Dr. Riddhesh asks the Kulshreshts if Anu could get married to Gungun, and they agree. The next day, they speak to Anu about it, who completely disagrees to the marriage, citing Gungun's arrogance and inability to adjust in their household as reasons, upsetting his family. Finally, after his family's emotional request, he agrees. Even Gungun agrees as she fails in her B.A. final year exams. Before the wedding, they both make a deal with each other. They sign a deal to break their wedding when Gungun passes her exams next year and when Anubhav feels it's not good for them to be together.

Few days later, Anubhav is awarded the 'Scientist of the year' award and he sings in the ceremony to which Gungun is slightly impressed. On the day of ceremony, Garima sees her daughter Akriti being Anubhav's junior and tries to talk to her but she confronts Garima making her feel shattered as she thinks her mother left her for luxurious life, but Garima misses her daughter everyday and loves her a lot and everyone tries to make Akriti realise it, but she doesn't listen to them. Akriti also hates Gungun and Dr. Riddhesh for this. Gungun takes Anubhav's help to patch up them both but fails. Akriti has feelings for Anubhav, but later is shocked to learn about Anubhav and Gungun's wedding. Meanwhile, the Kulshreshths and Bhatnagars start preparations for the wedding, while the wedding sees a new problem. Golu (Anubhav's uncle) is accused of bank robbery done by his colleague Keshav. Kulshreshths hide this from Bhatnagars and decide to cancel the marriage. Soon Gungun and Dr. Riddhesh get to know the problem and Gungun pays the money from her account to save Golu and also police find the real culprit. Anubhav and his family thank Gungun. Meanwhile, Akriti confesses her love to Anu, to which he rejects her.

Maya (Gungun's mother) returns to India from U.S.A. and arrives for Gungun's marriage. She along with her husband Dr. Riddhesh meets Kulshresths and has a bad opinion on them. Meanwhile, Akriti sees Maya and introduces herself to Maya and thinks that she could use Maya for her benefits. She instigates Maya against the Kulshreshths so that she calls off Anubhav and Gungun's wedding. They both join hands to ruin the marriage and decide to arrange a pre-wedding party to insult the Kulshreshths. Meanwhile, Gungun and Maya start to patch up slowly. In the party, Maya heavily insults Kulshreshths to which they decide to call off the wedding. After Maya insults Kulshreshths in the party, Gungun realises that Maya didn't change and she begins to hate her even more, and wants her to be out of the house.

Gungun is so sad for what happened in the party and immediately wants to apologize to the Kulshreshths that night itself but her father stops her as they might get more stressed. On the other hand, Akriti tries her best to win the hearts of Anubhav's family and starts to comment negatively on Gungun. That night Akriti goes to the Kulshreshths and looks after them. Looking at her concern for their family and specially Anubhav, Kulshreshths start liking Akriti.

Now as the marriage of Anubhav and Gungun is cancelled, Charudutt wants Anubhav to get married off at the previously decided date, time and venue, but with a different bride in place of Gungun, so as to take revenge from Bhatnagars. He feels that Akriti is the perfect match for Anu and tells the whole Kulshreshth family the same. They all agree for the marriage, while Anu initially rejects but eventually agrees to that under his family's pressure.

Akriti, her father and the Kulshreshths, all agree for Akriti and Anubhav's marriage. Akriti and Shankar (her father) decide to call Garima also for her wedding. They inform Garima that Akriti's wedding got fixed but do not disclose that the groom is none other than Anubhav himself. Garima agrees to attend the wedding and all the pre-wedding rituals of her daughter. Akriti doesn't invite the Bhatnagars for her wedding. The Kulshreshths also decide to not inform or invite the Bhatnagars for the wedding.

Gungun and Riddhesh decide to go to the Kulshreshths and apologize to them for what happened at the party. Meanwhile, Garima gets to know that the groom is Anubhav and is shocked. She confronts Akriti and Shankar for doing this. Gungun and Riddhesh reach the Kulshreshths house only to see that Anubhav's sangeet ceremony is going on. They are in for yet another major shock, that the bride is none other than Akriti herself. Gungun and Riddhesh feel so dejected and sad seeing this. They misunderstand and confront Garima for not telling them the truth. Garima pleads to them and tells them that even she was kept uninformed of the groom till the sangeet, but Gungun and Riddhesh do not believe her. They apologize to the Kulshreshths and leave. Gungun feels shattered and cheated. She couldn't digest everything that was happening around her. After coming home, Maya triggers Gungun and Riddhesh and Gungun couldn't take that pain anymore. An angry Gungun leaves the house in her car without informing her parents and drives so speedily which results in her accident. Riddhesh calls Golu to ask if Gungun is at the sangeet. Golu comes to the Bhatnagars after knowing that Gungun is missing. The police inform Riddhesh about her accident. He and Golu immediately take her to his hospital. She is treated immediately and is out of danger. Golu informs Yug of Gungun's accident. Yug, Ankit and even Anubhav come to the hospital to see Gungun. Riddhesh confronts Anubhav and warns him to stay away from his daughter. Gungun gets discharged from the hospital and Gungun and Riddhesh have a heartfelt conversation of how only they both are enough for each other in this world. Meanwhile, Anubhav's Haldi ceremony is going on at the Kulshreshths. Gungun takes rest and sees a bad dream that Anubhav and Akriti are getting married and Riddhesh goes missing. She wakes up and confronts and blames Maya for what all is happening. Later, Gungun wants to gift a ring to Anubhav on his wedding, for which she and Riddhesh go for shopping. Ronnie (Gungun's namesake boyfriend) calls Gungun and asks her to come on their Mussoorie trip which he planned with all their friends, to which Gungun disagrees because she has to attend Anubhav and her cousin Akriti's wedding. Maya leaves for U.S.A. Meanwhile, a sad Garima goes to temple and does pooja for Gungun's wellbeing. Gungun and Riddhesh get ready to attend Anubhav and Akriti's wedding but Ronnie again calls Gungun and forces her to come to the trip. She agrees to it and takes the ring with her and tells Riddhesh that she'll gift Anubhav while returning from the trip the next day. Riddhesh agrees to it.

Later, on Anubhav's wedding day, he gets a call from Ronnie saying that on the same day, he and gungun are going to get married. Anubhav gets furious on learning this and calls Riddhesh to confront him for this. Much to Anu's surprise, Riddhesh himself is first shocked to know about Ronnie and Gungun's wedding and then he confronts Anubhav and asks him to not interfere in Gungun's life and look after his marriage. Then they figure out that Ronnie forcefully wants to marry Gungun without her interest. They both reach the venue on time and Anubhav fights Ronnie and his friends. Ronnie forcefully tries to fill Gungun's trichion with vermilion, seeing which Anubhav pushes aside Ronnie and himself fills her trichion with vermilion, thus unofficially marrying her in order to save her from Ronnie. Gungun is now anubhav's half wife. The police nab Ronnie and his friends. Riddhesh confronts Anubhav for marrying Gungun without her consent. Anubhav apologizes to Riddhesh for this and says that he only did this to save Gungun from Ronnie and that he doesn't not consider this marriage. Gungun is shattered and couldn't process everything that happened in front of her and to her. She gifts the ring to Anubhav. Riddhesh and Gungun reach home and Gungun refuses to remove the sindoor because she feels that it is wrong and disrespectful to remove sindoor as it was applied by Anubhav in the temple, in front of the Goddess. Anubhav reaches his wedding venue and hides the whole temple fiasco from his family.

Anubhav marries Akriti in presence of his family and relatives, with all the rituals. After their wedding is completed, Akriti calls Gungun and triggers her and asks her to come to their wedding to congratulate the newly married couple, saying that both her and Anubhav are waiting for Gungun. Akriti wants to invite Gungun to her wedding only to humiliate and make Gungun jealous. Gungun decides to go to the wedding as a married woman with the vermillion to make Anubhav realise his mistake. Meanwhile, Riddhesh suffers from severe chest pain and couldn't move from his place in his room, whereas Gungun doesn't know about Riddhesh's condition. While leaving for the wedding, Gungun informs Riddhesh from outside his room to which he doesn't respond loud, to which Gungun thinks that he's sleeping and that she shouldn't disturb him. She then leaves for the wedding venue. She reaches the wedding and everyone is shocked to see vermilion in her trichion and questions her regarding the same. She tells everyone that she's married but doesn't disclose the name of her husband. She indirectly confronts Anubhav for his irresponsible and cowardly actions. Everyone tries to confront and humiliate Gungun for her actions, without knowing the truth. When Gungun returns back home she learns that Dr.Riddhesh had heart attack and the latter dies in hospital leaving Gungun alone, heartbroken and shattered. Now Anubhav develops feelings for Gungun owing to her loneliness. While Akriti is constantly asking that who is Gungun's husband even when she's totally shattered due to her father's loss. Anubhav stands with Gungun in this tough time and his family finds it questionable believing that Gungun is actually married to someone and her husband should be here with her instead of Anubhav; since they do not know the fact that it is actually Anubhav who has put vermillion on Gungun's forehead. At her father's ashes veneration ceremony, Gungun tries to commit a failed suicide attempt by drowning in water but Anubhav saves her. Meanwhile Ronnie is trying to blackmail Gungun to marry him or else he will show the photo of Gungun and Anubhav's marriage to everyone. Gungun doesn't wants that Anubhav should get into any trouble because of her and hence keeps this fact from Anubhav. But later on both Gungun and Anubhav confess their love for each other. At the Tehravi(13th day after the death), Gungun's mom, Maya announces her marriage with Ronnie. Gungun keeps mum because of Ronnie. But in reality, Ronnie is a golddigger and wants to settle in the USA. Anubhav gets triggered by this and not knowing the facts unknowingly hurts Gungun by taking off the ring she gave him as a wedding present. Gungun invites the Kulshreshthas at her wedding personally. While getting ready for her wedding with Ronnie, Gungun is continuously consuming sleeping pills; making others seem that those pills are her vitamins. She does an entry dance in the ceremony and falls unconscious. Despite Ronnie being there, Anubhav insists on taking Gungun to the hospital. Everyone present at the ceremony questions this. Now Maya and Ronnie want Gungun to marry as soon as she gets conscious. At the hospital, Anugun tells Doctor Uncle all the truth and asks him to help them. Anubhav puts vermillion in Gungun's trichion before Garima, Maya, Ronnie, Golu, Yug, Ankit and Akriti arrive at the hospital. Akriti is severely furious at Anubhav for his deeds.Gungun tells Garima the truth about her marriage.On the other side, Charu takes a promise from Anubhav that he will never meet gungun again.Thus, Anubhav and Gungun miss each other terribly.

Cast

Main

• Yesha Rughani as Riddhima "Gungun" Bhatnagar Kulshreshth: Riddhesh and Maya's daughter; Akriti's cousin; Garima's niece; Anubhav's first wife. (2022-present)
• Manan Joshi as Dr. Anubhav "Anu" Kulshreshth: Chandragupt and Sargam's son; Khushi's elder brother; Yug, Rasika and Chhavi's cousin; Gungun 's and Akriti's husband. (2022-present)
• Ankit Bathla as Armaan Agrima: Chief Editor and CEO of Jeet Network. (2022-present)

Recurring

• Riya Bhattacharjee as Akriti Saxena Kulshreshth: Garima and Shankar's daughter; Gungun's cousin; Anubhav's assistant and second wife. (2022—present)
• Kanwarjit Paintal as Charudutt "Charu" Kulshreshth: Chandragupt, Kiran and Chanchal's brother; Sunanda's husband; Yug and Rasika's father; Patriarch of the Kulshreshth family. (2022—present)
• Yamini Singh as Sunanda Kulshreshth: Charudutt's wife; Yug and Rasika's mother. (2022—present)
• Rajeev Kumar as Chandragupt "Chandru" Kulshreshth: Charudutt, Kiran and Chanchal's brother; Sargam's husband; Anubhav and Khushi's father. (2022—present)
• Nishigandha Wad as Sargam Kulshreshth: Chandragupt's wife; Anubhav and Khushi's mother. (2022—present)
• Mehul Nisar as Chanchal "Golu" Kulshreshth : Charudutt, Chandragupt and Kiran's brother; Divya's husband; Chhavi's father. (2022—present)
• Naina Gupta as Divya Kulshreshth: Chanchal's wife; Chhavi's mother. (2022—present)
• Delnaaz Irani as Kiran "Goli" Kulshreshth : Charudutt, Chandragupt and Chanchal's sister; Yug, Rasika, Anubhav, Khushi and Chhavi's aunt; Pratyush's ex-fiancé. (2022—present)
• Sandeep Rajora as Dr. Riddhesh Bhatnagar: Garima's brother; Maya's husband; Gungun's father. (2022) (Dead)
• Rushali Arora as Dr. Maya Bhatnagar: Riddhesh's widow; Gungun's mother. (2022-present)
• Shilpa Kadam as Garima Bhatnagar Saxena: Riddhesh's sister; Shankar's estranged wife; Akriti's mother; Gungun's aunt. (2022—present)
• Anuj Khurana as Yug Kulshreshth: Charudutt and Sunanda's son; Rasika's brother; Anubhav, Khushi and Chhavi's cousin; Neeti's husband. (2022—present)
• Sonia Sharma as Neeti Kulshreshth: Yug's wife. (2022—present)
• Priya Rore as Khushi Kulshreshth Das: Chandragupt and Sargam's daughter; Anubhav's younger sister; Yug, Rasika and Chhavi's cousin; Ankit's wife. (2022—present)
• Gourav Raj Puri as Ankit Das: Khushi's husband. (2022—present)
• Akshita Tiwari as Chhavi Kulshreshth: Chanchal and Divya's daughter; Yug, Rasika, Anubhav and Khushi's cousin; Gungun's friend. (2022—present)
• Saim Khan as Ranvijay "Ronny": Gungun's namesake boyfriend. (2022—present)
• Romanch Mehta as Shankar Saxena: Garima's husband; Akriti's father. (2022—present)
• Shivani Mahajan as Dr. Kamini: Maya's friend; Sarwar's mother. (2022)
• Sheel Verma as Dr. Sarwar: Kamini's son. (2022)
• Imran Khan / Rohit Mehta as Pratyush: Kiran's ex-fiancé. (2022) / (2022-present)
• Abha Parmar as neighbor (2022)
• Sharik Khan as neighbor (2022)
• Siddharth Dhawan as Terrorist Group Leader (2022)

Guest appearances

• Ayesha Singh as Sai Joshi from Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Mein
• Neil Bhatt as Virat Chavan from Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Mein

Production

Casting

The casting commenced in October 2021 and actors Delnaaz Irani and Rajiv Kumar were the first to be cast as pivotal recurring characters. Later, Mehul Nisar, Kanwarjit Paintal, Shilpa Kadam and several others actors too were roped in to play pivotal roles.

Development

The pre-production began in July 2021. Shooting commenced in October 2021 and various sequences were shot in Lucknow.

Release

The first promo was released on 1 November 2021, featuring the leads Yesha Rughani and Manan Joshi.

Soundtrack

Kabhi Kabhie Ittefaq Sey Original Sound Track
Soundtrack album by Shaan and Neeti Mohan
Released	3 January 2022.
Genre	Romance Soundtrack
Length	1:00 Minute(s)
Language	Hindi
Label	Star India
Producer	Magic Moments Motion Pictures Cockcrow & Shaika Entertainment

The song ‘Aate Jaate Khoobsurat’ was reverbed in a newer version as the title track for the show. It is sung by Shaan and Neeti Mohan.

Adaptations

Language	Title	Original release	Network(s)	Last aired	Notes	Ref.
Bengali	Khorkuto খড়কুটো	17 August 2020	Star Jalsha	Ongoing	Original
Tamil	Namma Veetu Ponnu நம்ம வீட்டு பொண்ணு	16 August 2021	Star Vijay		Remake
Marathi	Thipkyanchi Rangoli ठिपक्यांची रांगोळी	4 October 2021	Star Pravah
Malayalam	Palunku പളുങ്ക്	22 November 2021	Asianet
Hindi	Kabhi Kabhie Ittefaq Sey कभी कभी इत्तेफाक से	3 January 2022	StarPlus
Kannada	Jenugudu ಜೇನುಗೂಡು	21 February 2022	Star Suvarna

External links

• Kabhi Kabhie Ittefaq Sey at IMDb
• Kabhi Kabhie Ittefaq Sey on Disney+ Hotstar