Kumkum Bhagya

Kumkum Bhagya
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Genre	Drama Romance
Created by	Ekta Kapoor
Based on	Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Developed by	Ekta Kapoor
Written by	Story Anil Nagpal Screenplay Anil Nagpal Mrinal Tripathi Dialogues Dheeraj Sarna Vikash tiwari
Directed by	Ravindra Gautam Sameer Kulkarni Sharad Pandey Jeetu Arora Deepak Chavan
Creative directors	Shaalu Nitin Dhall Rajan Prachi
Starring	Sriti Jha Shabbir Ahluwalia
Theme music composer	Lalit Sen Nawab Arzoo
Opening theme	"Kumkum Bhagya"
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of episodes	1874
Production
Producers	Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor
Cinematography	Sanjay Memane Anil Katke
Original release
Release	15 April 2014 (2014-04-15) – Present
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Kumkum Bhagya (English title: Twist of Fate) is an Indian drama television series produced by Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms. It premiered from April 15, 2014 on Zee TV and also digitally available on ZEE5. The series stars Sriti Jha and Shabbir Ahluwalia. Kumkum Bhagya is loosely based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility.

The series started as the story of Pragya, Bulbul and their mother Sarla Arora's hope to see them married. Later, the show revolved around Abhi and Pragya. On March 18, 2019, after Abhi and Pragya's separation, a twenty-year leap was introduced. Post-leap, Mugdha Chaphekar and Naina Singh (later replaced by Pooja Banerjee) were introduced as Abhi and Pragya's separated twin daughters, Prachi Mehra and Rhea Mehra.

Plot

Arora sisters, Pragya and Bulbul help their mother Sarla run the Kumkum Bhagya marriage hall. The series begins with a short-lived love triangle involving Pragya – Suresh – Bulbul, leading to the cancellation of Pragya's engagement with Suresh. Rockstar Abhishek "Abhi" is in a relationship with supermodel Tanushree "Tanu". Purab Khanna is Abhishek's best friend and music handler and hires Bulbul at his advertising agency. He falls in love with Bulbul despite being engaged to Abhi's sister Alia. Alia misunderstands that Purab is seeing Pragya and Abhi marries Pragya to keep her from ruining Alia's relationship with Purab. Post-marriage, Pragya realizes the truth and accepts the blame to protect Bulbul. On his wedding day, Purab abandons Alia and comes clean to everyone about his love for Bulbul. Various situations and circumstances bring Abhishek and Pragya closer. Abhi reconciles with Purab and Bulbul and gets them married. Desperate to get Abhi back, Tanu fakes a DNA report to imply that he is the father of her unborn child, which is actually the result of a one-night stand between her and Nikhil. Pragya realises the truth but suffers an accident and is declared dead, before she could reveal the truth to Abhi.

20 days later

Pragya returns to exact revenge on her wrongdoers by becoming the owner of Abhi's properties. Bulbul risks her life and dies while saving Pragya from Alia. The season ends with Pragya exposing Tanu and winning back Abhi's trust. However, Abhishek gets into an accident and loses his memory. He forgets the last one-and-a-half years of his life, including Pragya who has to leave him for his own good.

2 years later

Abhi and Pragya come across each-other once again, the meeting results to their friendship where Abhi is still unaware of who she is. On his wedding day with Tanu, Pragya is kidnapped by Nikhil's goons and Abhi leaves Tanu on the mandap and searches for Pragya. In between the days of escaping from the goons Abhi and Pragya marry each other. Abhi regains his memory but he soon loses Pragya for she is shot by some goons and falls into a dam. However, after several sequences with her look alike named Munni, Pragya finally recovers from coma and reconciles with Abhi. On the other hand, Purab and Disha's love story begins to bloom. She proposes to him and he decides to move on from Bulbul and give their marriage a chance.

A girl named Simonika, joins Abhi's office as his secretary, she plans to take her revenge for he has killed her husband Dushyant. In a barter, Tanu asks Simonika to spare Abhi and kill Pragya instead. However, Simonika ends up murdering Dadi who reaches the factory before Pragya to save her life. Both Abhi and Alia blame Pragya for Dadi's death. Abhi asks Pragya to leave, thus, a heart-broken and grief-stricken Pragya is shown attempting suicide by jumping off a cliff.

7 years later

Abhi lives with Tanu in a mutually agreed upon fake relationship, while Pragya is living in the UK with King Singh, a London-based rapper. She also has a daughter from Abhi, named Kiara. Abhi and Pragya hold each other responsible for Dadi's death. Purab and Disha have a happy married life and they now have a son, Sunny. Abhi and King are offered a world music album and thus, the latter flies to India with Pragya and Kiara.

Kiara and Abhi meet in Delhi, where the Mehra family now lives, and become good friends. First meet of King and Abhi is in clash, where he meets Pragya in police station as King's wife and latter is heartbroken. Abhi and King become friends. Abhi finds out about Kiara being his daughter at Neha's wedding, who is Mitali and Raj's daughter. Abhi comes to know that King and Pragya are not married for real. He convinces Pragya of his love and remarries her, after their marriage, Pragya expects twins. King who fell in love with her, misses her and Kiara. A jealous Tanu tries to kill Pragya and her unborn babies, but Abhi, Alia and others kick her out of the house. King decides to protect Pragya from Tanu. Tanu reaches out to her ex-boyfriend Nikhil and instigates him to take revenge from Abhi by murdering Pragya and her twins. Nikhil enters Mehra mansion with the intention of killing Pragya and her twins but Kiara identifies him. To save himself from being exposed, he changes his plan and kidnaps Kiara. Nikhil then calls Abhi and Pragya to ask for ransom money, while King plans to take Kiara with him and agrees to pay more money to Nikhil but he should give Kiara to him. But Kiara is killed by Nikhil for seeking revenge which results in Pragya and Abhi blaming each-other. This results in Abhi taking one twin and Pragya taking another, and both of them leaving each other.

20 years later

Pragya lives with her daughter, Prachi in Hoshiarpur. There Pragya resides with Beeji and Shahana (Beeji's granddaughter). Rhea, the other twin is brought up by Abhi who turns out to be an arrogant fashionista and adamant girl, but loves her father and Aliya. Rhea has been brought up by her governess, Meera, whom she loves. For years Meera has hidden her love for Abhi, as she knows Abhi belongs to Pragya and thus her duty is with Rhea only. Disha and Purab have now been separated since 19 years and Purab married Alia and together they have a son, Aryan. It is revealed that Alia created misunderstandings between Purab and Disha, causing Disha to leave Purab for good. As Shahana and Prachi decide study in Delhi (at a college where Rhea also studies). Pragya first refuses as Abhi too lives there but later accepts. There Prachi and Abhi meet multiple times and create a strong bond. But Rhea develops hatred for Prachi, especially after Abhi's growing fatherly bond with Prachi, so Pragya comes there to stay with Prachi, and to clear their misunderstandings. However, Rhea and Pragya share a good relationship. Pragya, Prachi and Shahana live in Sarita Behen's house, who fondly calls Pragya by her daughter's name Anuradha, and as a result Prachi's mother Pragya is mistaken as Anuradha by Abhi. Ranbir Kohli (Abhi's best friend and business partner) Vikram Kohli's son and Rhea are childhood friends who secretly like each other. He proposes to Rhea who asks him to pretend to fall for Prachi, then break her heart as a condition to accept him. Prachi and Ranbir hate each other and constantly bicker and she doesn't like Ranbir because of his bad boy status and casanova ways. Ranbir is confused as he attracts every girl in the college except her. Sanju, Prachi's obsessed lover from Hoshiarpur, arrives in Delhi looking for Prachi. He works with Rhea so she can get the two married as soon as possible as she dislikes Ranbir and Prachi's closeness. She tells Ranbir to speed up the process of breaking Prachi's heart. Whilst completing Rhea's quest, Ranbir unknowingly falls in love with Prachi. She too later starts to reciprocate his feelings after seeing the good side to him. Disha and Purab meet again and it is evident they still love each other. However, Disha maintains her distance after finding out Purab and Alia are married and have a son. Purab hates Alia and only stays with her because of Aryan. In a turn of events, Ranbir gets engaged to Maya, a politician's daughter and on their wedding day she is swapped by Prachi as part of Ranbir, Prachi, Aryan, Shahana and Sarita's plan, but their wedding is stopped. Ranbir and Prachi make a promise to each other. He soon proposes to Prachi and makes her wear a ring which is seen by a shocked Rhea (who was supposed to get engaged with him as both their families want them to marry). This enrages Rhea, who along with Alia decide to kill Prachi but ends in knowing the truth that Prachi is her own elder sister and Pragya is her mother. Ranbir is forced to get engaged with Rhea due to his mother's health condition and her wish to make Ranbir forget Prachi and marry Rhea.

Abhi and Pragya eventually meet and learn that Prachi and Rhea are their twin daughters. Ranbir tries to avoid Prachi for his mother even though it is killing him and Prachi is upset as she thinks he doesn't love her anymore. When she confronts him, he tells Prachi she is the best girl in the world and he loves her. Rhea overhears their confession and when she sees them together she lashes out at Prachi and tells the latter she and Ranbir will marry. Prachi defends herself saying she is engaged to Ranbir but Rhea tells her that their engagement is already decided by their families. Prachi runs away, upset and angry at Ranbir. Soon, Ranbir visits Prachi who is still upset with him and he blames his mother and says he will bring her to his home as Mrs. Kohli. Prachi forgives him and they reunite. Pragya misunderstands that Abhi is living with Meera (Rhea's caretaker) and leaves him. Then misunderstandings begin to crop up again between Prachi and Ranbir due to Abhi and Meera's wedding. Rhea promises to get Pragya married to Abhi if Prachi breaks her relationship with Ranbir. Prachi, brokenheartedly agrees to this for her mother's happiness. She thus distances herself from Ranbir saying she was only with him for his money.

On the other side Abhi wants to make Pragya accept her love for him and plans a fake marriage with Meera who goes along with the plan to reunite Abhi and Pragya. Ranbir learns that Prachi broke up with him because of her deal with Rhea but he does not know what it was about. Therefore, he along with Aryan, Shahana and his friends Jay and Palak plan his and Prachi's wedding in a temple. Prachi remains unaware of this as she thinks Jay and Palak are marrying. But Ranbir changes his mind as he realises he wants to marry Prachi in an honest way. On the other hand as expected by Abhi and Meera, Pragya arrives, stops his and Meera's wedding and remarries him with Meera's blessings. The family are overjoyed to see this over a video call but Alia is furious thus she expels Meera from the house. The newlyweds Abhi and Pragya flee from some goons. It is revealed to be a man called Digvijay who wants to get revenge from Abhi for a past incident. Digvijay and his men shoot Abhi. But, Pragya saves him and takes him to a hospital. However, Pragya is kidnapped by Digvijay's goon. Doctors declare Abhi dead. Pragya evades the goons and rushes to the hospital and revives Abhi, but the goons arrive at the hospital again and chase Pragya, but she faints and the goons leave. It is revealed that Pragya was comatose for two days and none of the family has been allowed to see Abhi because of Alia. The Mehras have been hiding Abhi's unknown secret which makes Pragya suspicious and when she pleads to see her husband Abhi, Alia has her arrested after showing proof they aren't married. But she is released and returns to the Mehras but Alia kicks her out.

Tanu returns to the Mehras after being called by Alia. Pragya decides to change her identity to Gayatri so she can work at the Mehra mansion as a veiled servant. It is revealed that Abhi has become mentally unstable and has lost his mind therefore he is confined to a room. Everyone in the Mehra mansion knows of this except Pragya, Prachi, Shahana, Sarita, Ranbir and Aryan. Pragya is shocked and heartbroken on seeing Abhi's condition and she is further astonished to see Aliya beating him with a stick.

Ranbir tries to win back Prachi again whilst she still maintains her distance now knowing her parents have remarried and her deal with Rhea was successful. However, she learns from Palak that Ranbir planned his and Prachi's wedding in the temple and they were supposed to marry that day. Angry, Prachi confronts Ranbir for his betrayal. Ranbir retaliates by saying he regrets not marrying her that day. Prachi and Aryan are horrified by Ranbir's new determination and he tells Aryan, Prachi will become Mrs. Ranbir Kohli no matter what. Aliya tells Tanu to get close to Rhea and show her a lot of affection so when Abhi recovers he can trust Tanu and Alia. Alia plans Ranbir and Rhea's engagement which makes the Kohlis happy except Ranbir. Ranbir informs Prachi about the families' decision for him to marry Rhea which upsets Prachi. Rhea overhears their conversation and is shocked to hear that Ranbir and Prachi were about to marry in the temple. She accuses Prachi of turning back on their deal however Prachi tells her it was unknown to her. Abhi asks Pragya if he can call her Fuggi (which was the name Abhi used to call Pragya). This overwhelms Pragya. She improves his condition by bringing him in front of the family members so Abhi can get used to them. Ranbir is suspicious of Gayatri and Pragya. Abhi enjoys teasing Tanu and Mitali. He also forms a friendship with his daadi. Pragya (Gayatri) also hears about Ranbir and Rhea's engagement and is stuck on what to do as she knows Ranbir and Prachi love each other and on the other hand Rhea is also her daughter and she does not want her to get hurt. Rhea plans a fake MMS of Prachi along with her friend, Parth so it could cause Ranbir to be disgusted of Prachi's character. However, Ranbir does not believe the MMS and supports Prachi and beats up Parth. Prachi realises Rhea caused this so she decides to go along with the plan to make Ranbir hate her. She tells Ranbir the MMS is true and convinces him she and Parth love each other. Ranbir feels betrayed and angry and seeing as he can't take her betrayal anymore he announces to his family he is ready to marry Rhea who is overjoyed. Ranbir visits Prachi one last time and breaks all the ties between them and in front of Prachi he destroys her memories. He further announces to her that he and Rhea will soon become engaged, which shocks Prachi. She breaks down in front of Shahana, having lost Ranbir for good. Ranbir too has a breakdown. Aryan and Shahana fail to convince the duo what they are doing is wrong. Tanu tries to brainwash Rhea against Pragya.

Ranbir and Rhea's engagement preparations begin and Digvijay plans to kill Abhi at the party. Shahana arrives in the party to stop Ranbir with the help of Aryan but is stopped by Alia. Prachi arrives in the engagement to search for Shahana as Ranbir told her not to send anyone to stop his engagement. She collides with Ranbir and they both become emotional. They have an argument where Ranbir accuses her of coming to his engagement to stop him. Abhi overhears their conversation and Prachi is heartbroken seeing her father in this state. Abhi takes off his flower ring which was given by Ranbir earlier to calm him down. He gives the ring to Ranbir and forces him to put it on Prachi's finger. Abhi is happy to see their 'pretend engagement'. Rhea sees Abhi playing and tries to bond with him after being told by Ranbir. When she enquires about Ranbir, Abhi tells her Ranbir put a ring on a girl's finger which surprises Rhea. When Prachi tells him she does not want to stop his engagement he forcefully takes the ring off her hand which hurts her finger and tells her she's not worthy of it. Prachi gets upset and says to him she doesn't love him; Ranbir proves she does love him as he hits his hand repeatedly on the pillar and Prachi cries and stops him and caresses his hand; he tells her he knows she still loves him. Ranbir tells her to say the truth and when Prachi is about to say something she hears Rhea calling out to her. Ranbir and Rhea leave after Rhea sees scratches, but no ring, on Prachi's fingers. Abhi becomes interested in wedding rituals and a Pandit tells him in order to marry you have to take seven rounds. He tells Gayatri (Pragya) to marry him and they walk around seven times pretending. Tanu sees this and complains to Alia. She says Gayatri is exactly like Pragya. When Rhea hears Pragya's name she tells them to not say that name again. Pragya overhears this and gets upset. Aryan also overhears Digvijay's men's conversation of finishing off Abhi and he breaks free from the bathroom, knocks the killer on his head and goes to inform the family but the killer knocks him unconscious. Ranbir and Rhea get engaged with an upset Prachi looking on. Ranbir dances with Rhea to make Prachi jealous which works but when she sees Pragya watching her she pretends to be happy. The killers cut the rope of the chandelier above Abhi, but Pragya pushes him out of its way. Pragya's veil comes off and her identity is revealed to Ranbir who is horrified to see Gayatri's real identity is Pragya. He keeps this to himself as he knows Pragya is doing this for Abhi's well-being. Abhi is saved with minor injuries. Pragya (Gayatri) consoles Rhea whilst Ranbir tries to do the same to Prachi but stops himself. Tanu has now divorced her husband and is happy to move on, but Alia tells her to marry Abhi today as soon as possible as she knows Abhi won't accept Tanu (after what she did with Kiara) when he recovers.

Alia secretly plans Abhi and Tanu's wedding on the same night with only Baljeet Dadi, Mitali, Rhea and the Kohlis present. When Pragya learns of this she is unable to do anything. She tells Alia to not go ahead which makes her suspicious. Vikram supports Gayatri and requests Alia to stop because of Abhi's condition but she doesn't listen. Ranbir informs Gayatri he knows she is really Pragya and tells her he will support her and encourages her to stop the wedding. Eventually, the wedding is cancelled. Tanu shockingly sees Pragya under the veil but passes out. The next morning, Tanu tells Alia that Gayatri is actually Pragya. Alia decides to confirm this by going to Gayatri to take off her veil but she learns she has taken Abhi out for the day. On the other hand, Abhi is happily enjoying ice cream with Gayatri who sees Digvijay's goon there. She attempts to escape with Abhi but the goon catches them and beats Abhi, injuring him. When Pragya reaches home with Abhi, Alia removes her veil in front of everyone. Alia says she is a curse as whenever she is around Abhi danger follows. She along with Tanu expel her from the house. Pragya asks God to return her husband, then Abhi awakens with his memories intact. Everyone is overjoyed seeing Abhi in his normal state except Alia, Tanu and Mitali, who are terrified as they mistreated Abhi. Abhi announces to everyone he is bringing his wife back where she belongs. He expels Alia and Tanu from the house as he remembers what they did. He spares Mitali due to Baljeet Dadi's request as she was only doing what Alia told her to do. Alia seeks forgiveness from Abhi and calls him a bad brother for disowning her and putting Pragya first, which is what made her bad. She promises to obey him and respect Pragya but Abhi doesn't listen. However, Daadi requests him to forgive her and give her a chance. After an argument with Ranbir, Prachi accepts a proposal from a matchmaker in front of him to prove she has moved on. Ranbir is stunned and instead praises Rhea in front of her saying he loves her and is worthy of him. Prachi vows to marry before him in order to prove she doesn't love Ranbir, which shocks him.

Abhi goes to bring his wife and daughter home. He happily reunites with Pragya and Sarita Ji gives them her blessings and tells Abhi to look after them. Although Prachi is happy for her parents she later chooses to reside with Sarita and Shahana. Pragya and Abhi happily enter their home with everyone's blessings and Alia does their aarti. Then Tanu arrives with the police and accuses Abhi of raping her. Abhi is arrested. Pragya vows to free her husband after learning he faces a long sentence. She goes from lawyer to lawyer but none agree to help her as Abhi's case is serious and they are not likely to win. Ranbir and Prachi break into Tanu's house separately and they decide to collaborate to find evidence against Tanu to prove she is lying, but they are arrested. Pragya bails them out and Tanu warns them all. Rhea and Pallavi are angry with Ranbir for being with Prachi and they berate him. Vikram however supports him. Ranbir and Pragya try to find a lawyer and expose Tanu and in the meantime Prachi gets closer to Ranbir who tries distancing himself from her; still showing anger. Abhi's court hearing arrives, but Abhi's lawyer does not attend. The judge lets Pragya search for him. Abhi is tensed whilst Prachi comforts him but she sees Ranbir tending to Rhea as she becomes claustrophobic, making Prachi jealous. Outside the court, Tanu tells Pragya that she killed her lawyer and now no one can help Abhi. Helpless, Pragya fights alone in the court but all the evidence is pushed against her. But the lawyer eventually arrives and tells the judge he was attacked by Tanu's goons. Tanu's lawyer also has strong evidence, so the judge releases Abhi on bail and schedules another hearing. Pragya learns that the Mehra mansion has caught fire and they won't be able to live there for a while, so the Mehras and Ranbir move to the farmhouse where they stayed in childhood; Pragya and Prachi join them. Prachi overhears Ranbir tell Aryan he no longer loves Prachi and becomes upset. However, Ranbir was aware of her presence and lied to Aryan. Tanu shows Pragya her strong evidence against Abhi and promises she will keep him in jail for at least ten years. Pragya begs her to free Abhi. Tanu insists that Pragya leave Abhi and have him marry her. Pragya dislikes Tanu's deal, but is given time to ponder it. Instead of staying with Abhi and the Mehras, Pragya stays with Sarita as she is unwell. She and Abhi miss each other. Prachi is rude to Ranbir in the farmhouse and Aryan tells her to stop. Prachi tries to apologise to Ranbir but Rhea catches them together and warns Prachi to stay away. Abhi rejects Tanu's deal, but to save Abhi from imprisonment, Pragya accepts Tanu's deal which is overheard by Rhea and Aryan. Aryan informs Prachi of this. The sisters Rhea and Prachi inform their parents and scheme for Abhi to falsely marry Tanu and in the meantime for Abhi to get Tanu to confess her misdeed. Pragya and Abhi support the idea. The Mehra family spend time happily and the parents are happy to see their daughters together even though they dislike each other. Pragya learns that Tanu already has a husband, Pradeep, who is unaware of Tanu's marriage with Abhi. So Pragya plans to have Pradeep attend the engagement so he can see what Tanu is doing and stop her. The family also decide to spike Tanu's drink on the engagement day so in an inebriated state she will reveal everything. Mitali, Rhea, Prachi, Ranbir and Aryan cooperate and steal her phone. Pragya, with Tanu's phone, records Pradeep's number to her phone and sends the wedding invitation to Pradeep who is angered by Tanu's betrayal. He disguises himself as a waiter at the party and Tanu instantly recognises him. Tanu lies to Pradeep that she is only marrying Abhi for money and to repay him. Pradeep threatens to tell Abhi and Pragya everything. When he approaches Pragya, Tanu knocks him unconscious. Tanu begins to feel dizzy due to the drink and the family try to record her confession but the pill wasn't enough for Tanu to confess. Now the family have no choice but to allow Abhi and Tanu's engagement. Tanu foils the Mehras' other plans.

Meanwhile, Prachi and Ranbir become close again, so Rhea tells Prachi she hates her and only accepts her because of their parents. She orders Prachi to leave the house after her marriage with Ranbir otherwise she will split the family. Prachi sadly agrees, valuing her parents' happiness as they struggled to be together. Pallavi informs the Mehra family she wants Ranbir and Rhea's marriage to happen in a few days and the family happily agree to keep their wedding the day after Tanu and Abhi's wedding. This upsets Ranbir and Prachi, whilst Rhea is overjoyed. The wedding day arrives and Pragya visits Tanu to give her the wedding dress. Pragya injects Tanu with truth serum, so Tanu confesses everything and falls unconscious because of the serum. On the other hand, Ranbir doesn't want to marry Rhea and flees. On the road he meets Pradeep and brings him home so he can stop Abhi's wedding. Pragya informs Abhi and Alia of Tanu's unconsciousness and Alia tells her she will send someone to get Tanu. Abhi sits in the mandap with a 'veiled Pragya' and they are married. The judge arrives and Abhi introduces his wife to him. He lifts the veil and the bride is revealed to be Tanu, to the surprise of Abhi and the family. It is then revealed that Alia orchestrated this to obtain the property. She, Tanu and Mitali were cooperating. Meanwhile Pragya had been unconscious and doesn't remember what happened. Abhi does not accept this marriage and demands to know how this happened. Pragya is heartbroken upon learning of Abhi and Tanu's wedding. Pragya sees Pradeep with Ranbir and Aryan and she begs to him to reveal the truth in front of the judge as she has no other choice.

Cast

Main

• Sriti Jha as
  • Pragya Abhishek Mehra (née Arora): Raghuveer and Sarla's daughter; Bulbul, Preeta and Srishti's sister; Abhi's wife; Kiara, Prachi and Rhea's mother (2014–present)
  • Munni: Pragya's look-alike (2017)
• Shabbir Ahluwalia as Abhishek Prem Mehra "Abhi": Prem and Santoshi's son; Alia's elder brother; Pragya and Tanu’s husband; Kiara, Prachi and Rhea's father (2014–present)
• Shikha Singh (2014–2020) / Reyhna Malhotra (2020–present) as Alia Purab Khanna (née Mehra): Prem and Santoshi's daughter; Abhi's younger sister; Purab's wife; Aryan's mother
• Mugdha Chaphekar as Prachi Kohli (née Arora/Mehra): Pragya and Abhi's second daughter; Kiara's younger sister; Rhea's elder twin sister; Ranbir's wife (2019–present)
• Naina Singh (2019–2020)/ Pooja Banerjee (2020–present) as Rhea Mehra: Pragya and Abhi's youngest daughter; Kiara and Prachi’s younger sister; Ranbir’s ex-fiancée
• Krishna Kaul as Ranbir Kohli: Vikram and Pallavi's son; Mishti's brother; Prachi's husband; Rhea’s ex-fiancé (2019–present)
• Madhurima Tuli (2014) / Leena Jumani (2014–2019; 2021 –present) as Tanushree "Tanu" Mehra (née Mehta): Alia's best friend; Abhi's obsessive one-sided lover and wife

Recurring

• Arjit Taneja (2014–2016) / Vin Rana (2016–present) as Purab Khanna: Abhi's best friend; Sunny and Aryan's father; Bulbul's widower; Disha's former husband; Alia's husband
• Mrunal Thakur as Bulbul Purab Khanna (née Arora): Pragya, Preeta and Srishti's sister; Purab's now dead wife; Sarla and Raghuveer's daughter (2014–2016)
• Ruchi Savarn as Disha Purab Khanna (née Singh): Purab's second and now estranged wife; Sunny's mother
• Mishal Raheja as King Singh: A rapper with whom Pragya lived in UK after getting separated from Abhi before Kiara's birth and her one-sided lover (2018–2019)
• Kaurwakee Vasishta as Kiara Abhishek Mehra: Abhi and Pragya's eldest daughter; Prachi and Rhea's elder sister (2018–2019)
• Vedaansh Jaju as Sunny Khanna: Disha and Purab's son; Aryan's half-brother (2018–2019)

• Swati Anand as Mitali Mehra: Raj's wife; Neha's mother (2014–present)
• Anurag Sharma as Raj Mehra: Pammi and Ajay's son; Akash's brother; Mitali's husband; Neha's father (2014–present)
• Shivaani Sopuri as Pammi Mehra: Ajay's wife; Raj and Akash's mother (2014–present)
• Zeeshan Khan as Aryan Khanna: Alia and Purab's son; Sunny's half-brother; Ranbir's best friend; Shahana's love interest (2019–present)
• Aparna Mishra as Shahana Sharma: Beeji's granddaughter; Pragya's niece-figure; Prachi's best friend and sister-figure; Aryan's love interest (2019–present)
• Neena Cheema / Roopa Divetia as Sarita: A Gujarati woman who gave refuge to Pragya and her daughters; Rishi's maternal grandmother (2019–2020; 2020–present)
• Farida Dadi as Baljeet Dadi: Abhishek, Raj, and Alia's cousin grandmother (2020–present)
• Mehul Kajaria as Vikram Kohli: Daljeet's son; Pallavi's husband; Ranbir and Mishti's father; Abhishek's friend and business partner (2019–present)
• Khyaati Keswani as Pallavi Kohli: Vikram's wife; Ranbir and Mishti's mother (2019–present)
• Rohit Choudhary as Pradeep: Tanu’s husband (2021-present)
• Supriya Shukla as Sarla Arora: Raghuveer's wife; Pragya, Bulbul, Preeta and Shrishti's mother (2014–2018)
• Madhu Raja as Daljeet Arora: Raghuveer's mother; Pragya, Bulbul, Preeta and Shrishti's grandmother (2014–2018)
• Jasjeet Babbar as Janki: Arora family's housekeeper; Poorvi's mother (2014–present)
• Zareena Roshan Khan as Indu Suri: Matriarch of Mehra family; Abhishek, Alia, Raj, and Akash's cousin grandmother (2014–2020)
• Asha Sharma as Swarni Dadi: Abhishek, Raj, and Alia's cousin grandmother (2018–2019)
• Daljeet Soundh as Daljeet Mehra: Matriarch of Mehra family; Abhishek, Alia, Raj and Akash's grandmother (2014–2018)
• Ajay Trehan as Ajay Mehra: Pammi's husband; Raj and Akash's father (2014–2020)
• Kiran Bhargava as Daljeet Kohli: Vikram's mother; Ranbir and Mishti's grandmother (2019–2020)
• Pooja Singh as Mishti Kohli: Vikram and Pallavi's daughter, Ranbir's sister (2019)
• Ashlesha Sawant as Meera: Rhea's governess and Abhishek’s ex-fiancée (2019–2021)
• Charu Mehra as Poorvi: Janki's daughter; Pragya and Bulbul's namesake sister (2014–2015)
• Ankit Mohan as Akash Mehra: Pammi and Ajay's son; Raj's brother; Rachna's husband; Abhishek and Alia's cousin (2014–2016)
• Aditi Rathore as Rachna Mehra: Suresh's sister; Akash's wife (2014–2016)
• Faisal Rashid as Suresh Shrivastav: Rachna's brother; Pragya's former fiancé (2014–2015)
• Neha Bam as Mrs. Khanna: Purab's aunt (2014–2015)
• Neel Motwani as Corporator Neil Thakur (2014–2015)
• Haelyn Shastri as News Reporter (2015)
• Nikhil Arya / Rajat Dahiya / Shaad Randhawa as Nikhil Sood: Tanu's former lover (2015–2019)
• Bobby Khanna as Mr. Mehta: Tanu's father (2015–2017)
• Roma Lavani as Mrs. Mehta: Tanu's mother (2015–2018)
• Rithvik Dhanjani as Arjun Kirloskar (2015)
• Asha Negi as Poorvi Kirloskar (2015)
• Krystle D'Souza as a stranger who gives Pragya lift when the latter is in search of Abhishek (2016)
• Pratik Parihar as Manohar: Abhi's accountant who plotted a trap along with Alia against Pragya (2016)
• Nitin Goswami as Dushyant Rana: Simonica's husband who was accidentally killed by Abhishek (2017–2018)
• Vivana Singh as Simonica Dushyant Rana: Dushyant's widow (2017–2018)
• Sharhaan Singh as Sangram Singh Chautala: Disha's ex-fiancé (2017–2018)
• Shraddha Arya as Dr. Preeta Arora: Pragya, Bulbul and Shrishti's sister; later Karan's wife (2017–2018)
• Anjum Fakih as Shrishti Arora: Pragya, Bulbul and Preeta's sister (2017–2018)
• Dheeraj Dhoopar as Karan Luthra: Abhi's friend; later Preeta's husband (2017–2018)
• Manit Joura as Rishabh Luthra: Karan's elder brother (2017–2018)
• Vijay Kashyap as Raghuveer Arora: Daljeet's son; Sarla's husband; Pragya, Preeta, Bulbul and Shristi's father (2017)
• Shwetanshu Singh as Dr. Sheila (2017)
• Roma Bali as Tarun's mother: King's aunt (2018–2019)
• Vishal Singh as Rahul: Abhishek and Poorab's friend; Anjali's husband (2018)
• Rhea Sharma as Anjali: Abhishek and Poorab's friend; Rahul's wife (2018)
• Yuvika Choudhary as Tina: Rahul's former fiancé (2018)
• Dolly Sohi as Tina's mother (2018)
• Kavita Ghai as Rahul's mother (2018)
• Rakesh Kukreti as Rahul's father (2018)
• Abeer Adil as Tarun: King's cousin; Neha's husband (2018–2019)
• Richa Rathore as Neha "Babli" Mehra: Mitali and Raj's daughter; Tarun's wife (2018)
• Ribbhu Mehra as Ritik: Disha's friend and secret lover (2019)
• Manmohan Tiwari as Sanju aka Rohit Gill: A local gangster of Hoshiarpur; Prachi's obsessive one-sided lover (2019–2020)
• Ashwini Tobe as Dimpy: Rhea's friend (2019–2020)
• Shivali Choudhry as Shaina: Rhea's friend (2019–2020)
• Gazala Silawat as Pari: Rhea's friend (2021)
• Gautam Nain as Rishi Dhaval: Sarita's grandson; Prachi and Shahana's friend; Purab's employee (2019)
• Kajal Chauhan as Priyanka Rane: Abhi's friend's daughter, Rishi's obsessive lover (2019)
• Jaanvi Sangwan as Beeji: A nurse who took Pragya in after the latter's exile, Shahana's paternal grandmother (2019)
• Abhishek Kumaarr as Jai: Ranbir and Aryan's friend (2021)
• Naina Yadav as Palak: Prachi and Shahana's friend (2021)
• Sonali Joshi as Chief Minister Vasudha (2019)
• Rose Khan as Maya Choubey, Ranbir's ex-fiancée (2020)
• Deepak Soni as Dev Mittal (2020)
• Manish Khanna as Dushyant Singh Chaubey, Maya's uncle (2020)
• Bhupendra Khuranna as Mr. Choubey, Maya's father, Dushyant's younger brother (2020)
• Anuradha Sharma as Mrs. Choubey, Maya's mother (2020)
• Sharukh Firoz Khan as Sharp Shooter (2021)
• Gagan Anand as Digvijay: Abhishek's business rival (2021)
• Rohit Choudhary as Pradeep Khurana: Tanu's former husband (2021–present)
• Dolly Sohi as Sushma: A rich businesswoman and Pragya's mentor (2021–present)

Cameo appearances

• Krystle D'Souza (2016)
• Devoleena Bhattacharjee (2016)

Guest stars

• Riteish Deshmukh
• Rani Mukerjee
• Irrfan Khan
• Sridevi
• Rakul Preet Singh
• Nargis Fakhri
• Emraan Hashmi
• Tusshar Kapoor
• Jeetendra
• Aftab Shivdasani
• Sushant Singh Rajput
• Salman Khan
• Shubham Choudhury
• Sonam Kapoor
• Varun Dhawan
• Shahrukh Khan
• Kriti Sanon
• Kajol
• Shraddha Kapoor
• Siddharth Malhotra
• Karishma Tanna
• Pratyusha Banerjee
• Asha Negi
• Mouni Roy
• Drashti Dhami
• Rithvik Dhanjani
• Amruta Khanvilkar
• Nia Sharma
• Arjun Kapoor
• Dipika Kakar
• Shamita Shetty
• Surbhi Jyoti
• Deepika Singh
• Karan Wahi
• Ayushmann Khurrana
• Nushrat Bharucha

Production

Development and premiere

Kumkum Bhagya has moved beyond the confines of a TV show to become an integral part of our viewers’ lives. Over the past couple of years, Abhi, Pragya and their undeniable chemistry has appealed to viewer sensibilities, making the show the undisputed leader of the Hindi television space.

— Zee TV’s Deputy Business Head, Deepak Rajadhyaksha about Kumkum Bhagya

Filming location at Delhi

The series is a love story produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor under the banner Balaji Telefilms that airs on Zee TV. The show premiered at 09:00 pm (IST) and 10:30 pm (CAT) on Tuesday on 15 April 2014 and airs episodes from Monday to Friday. Ekta Kapoor considers the letter K to be lucky and has named many of her productions starting with K. Talking about introducing a fresh concept on prime time, Zee TV Programming Head, Namit Sharma said, "It takes one epic show to replace another, so you can imagine. It is a passionate drama of love, a far cry from regular saas-bahu soaps and has an ensemble cast of some very talented actors." Ekta Kapoor added, "While two of my shows (Pavitra Rishta and Jodha Akbar) are already on-air and doing immensely well on Zee TV, it's a pleasure to extend my partnership with Zee to a third show. Pavitra Rishta has had a run of over five years now and the journey has been most gratifying for me as a producer. While the audiences who are hooked on to Pavitra Rishta will continue to enjoy the show at 6:30 PM, Kumkum Bhagya will open at 9 PM, drawing maximum eyeballs. It is so contemporary in its treatment that viewers will be able to instantly spot characters out of their own lives in the show. It's a story of passionate love that anyone with a soul would be able to easily relate to".

Speaking of his comeback as an actor, Shabbir Ahluwalia, the protagonist of the show says, "With me producing shows, it was getting very difficult to manage time for acting assignments. But now, I have decided to concentrate on acting. You cannot be away from what you love doing for long. The role appealed to me a great deal. This is the first time that I will be playing a rockstar on television and in order to look my part, I had to ensure that I did not just get my costume and look right, but also get that attitude right that is required to portray a rockstar onscreen."

The production and airing of the show was halted indefinitely in late March 2020 due to the Covid-19 outbreak in India. 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. After three months, the production and filming of the series resumed on 29 June 2020 and airing to resume from 13 July 2020.

Casting

Shabbir Ahluwalia, who was also cast in Ekta's TV Series Kayamath, was selected to portray the lead role of Abhishek Prem Mehra. Ahluwalia made his comeback after Zee 20 years. Actress Sriti Jha landed in lead role in the show . Mrunal Thakur was selected to portray the second leading role of Bulbul while Arjit Taneja was cast opposite her. In May 2014, Shikha Singh entered the show as the main antagonist Alia Mehra, while Madhurima Tuli was cast to portray the negative role of Tanu. Later, Tuli had to shoot for her film Baby so, this role was later played by Leena Jumani in September 2014. Actor Faisal Rashid was selected to portray the role of Suresh (Pragya's fiancé) who played an important role in April–May 2014, but in May 2015 he quit the series. Actress Supriya Shukla was cast to play the role of Sarla Arora, while Madhu Raja played the role of Daljeet Arora. Other supporting cast members include Samiksha Bhatnagar, Ankit Mohan, Charu Mehra and Amit Dhawan. Bhatnagar, who portrayed the supporting role of Mitali was replaced by Swati Anand within the month of launch while Anurag Sharma, who also appeared in Ekta Kapoor's Pavitra Rishta, Bade Achhe Lagte Hain, Yeh Hai Mohabbatein and Itna Karo Na Mujhe Pyaar replaced Amit. In 2015, Neel Motawani (who was also cast in other shows of Ekta) was selected to play the negative role of Neel; while in June 2015 Nikhil Arya entered the series playing the role of main male antagonist Nikhil Sood.

In December 2015, actress Mrunal Thakur who played the role of Bulbul opted out from the show and was to be replaced by Kajol Shrivastava, however the character of Bulbul was phased out of the series after Mrunal's departure. In August 2016, Ankit Mohan quit the show so his character left as 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. In July 2017, actress Ruchi Savarn entered the show as Purab's new love interest. Mishal Raheja as King Singh and Kaurwakee Vashista as Kiara Mehra entered the show after the leap. Actor Abeer Adil was cast in 2018 as King's cousin Tarun and Roma Bali as Tarun's mother.

Naina Singh and Mugdha Chapekar entered the show as the new leads after the 20 years generation leap. Actor Krishna Kaul plays the male lead post leap.

Distribution

The series was released on 15 April 2014 on Zee TV. The series also airs on Zee TV HD and Zee TV Asia. The show was also broadcast internationally on the latter's international distribution. It airs in U.K., United States, Reunion Island, Malaysia, Canada, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Ireland, South Africa, Indonesia, Chile, Philippines, Ghana and Singapore on Zee TV Worldwide.

Kumkum Bhagya's broadcasts

Country	Channel	Name	Language
Worldwide	Zee TV	Kumkum Bhagya	Hindi
India	Zee Anmol	Kumkum Bhagya
	Polimer TV	Iru Malargal	Tamil
	Zee Tamizh	Iniya Iru Malargal
	Zee Telugu	Kumkuma Bhagya	Telugu
	Zee Keralam	Sindooram	Malayalam
	Big Ganga	Kumkum Bhagya	Bhojpuri
South Africa	Zee World	Twist Of Fate	English
Sri Lanka	Hiru TV	Adarei Man Adarei	Sinhala
Mauritius	MBC Digital 4	Kumkum Bhagya	Hindi
France	Antenne Réunion	Kumkum Bhagya	French
Indonesia	Antv	Lonceng Cinta	Indonesian
Middle East	Zee Alwan	مكانك في القلب هو القلب كله	Arabic
Turkey	Kanal 7	Ah Kalbım	Turkish
Russia	Zee TV	Женская Доля	Russian
Ghana	Adom TV	Kumkum Bhagya	Akan
Pakistan	Geo Kahani	Kumkum Bhagya	Hindi
South Korea	JTBC Zee TV	내 운명 이니	Korean
Japan	Zee Asahi	運命のねじれ	Japanese
Kenya	Inooro TV	Kumkum Bhagya	Kikuyu
Vietnam	Echannel	Giấc Mơ Thiên Đường	Vietnamese
Philippines	Zee Sine	Twist of Fate	English

Digital release

In late 2015, the app introduced their "Before TV" service where they launched Kumkum Bhagya's episodes before airing on TV, new episodes were released at 5:30 am (IST) on the Ditto app. The app was then rebranded to OZee, and later to ZEE5.

Spin off

Shraddha Arya and Dheeraj Dhoopar as Karan Luthra and Dr. Preeta Arora, the protagonists of Kundali Bhagya

Main article: Kundali Bhagya

A spin-off series Kundali Bhagya premiered on 12 July 2017. The series narrates the story of Pragya's two sisters Preeta and Srishti and their attempt to find their mother Sarla and the dynamics which lead to their acquaintance with the rich and famous Luthra family. The show stars Shraddha Arya, Dheeraj Dhoopar, Manit Joura and Anjum Fakih.

Television special

"Kumkum Bhagya – Saawaan Mahotsav" (transl. Monsoon festival) is a special segment wherein Kumkum Bhagya characters will be seen celebrating the Saawan Mahotsav and will recreate a scene from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. Pragya and Abhi will be invited to Tina and Rahul's wedding. On realizing how much Anjali loves Rahul, Pragya along with Abhi, would make Rahul believe that he is actually in love with Anjali and that they both should tie the knot.

This special episode stars Rhea Sharma, Vishal Singh, Yuvika Chaudary along with Sriti Jha and Shabbir Ahluwalhia.

Reception

Critical reception

Here's celebrating a show that has stood the test of time and crossed the boundaries of language, a big thank you to each and every one of you from all over the world for all the love you have given Kumkum Bhagya, for always keeping it at the top, no matter where it aired, and what language. We, as a team, are truly grateful that you let us entertain you for half a decade.

— Shabir Ahluwalia on the series completing 5 Years.

The show climbed to Top 5 most-watched shows across all GEC's. After only a few weeks of its launch and was touted as the biggest fiction launch of 2014. The serial is very popular among Indian women. The show also gave tough fight to the long time Hindi GEC leader Diya Aur Baati Hum that aired at same slot on Star Plus. On the reception of the show in such a short span of time, Zee TV business head Pradeep Hejmadi announced that he considered the 'wedding track' a very important inflection point for people to gravitate to the series, believing it to be attracting increasing interest in all parameters. He also added "Each story has its own promise and people who tune in are people who are bought into those promises or are keen to explore the relationships or the characters that stand out speaking to them. We concentrated on bringing out the key inflection points for the show and it was important because it is the core promise of Kumkum Bhagya."

Later, the series further raised to 13.5 million impressions (urban + rural) when the production decided to introduce Tannu's DNA report storyline. Later in the month of August, makers introduced Abhi's memory loss twist and restarted the show which helped to maintain the ratings and dominated the first spot till October. In the month of October 2016, Balaji Telefilms Naagin second season launched and dominated the first spot, pushed Kumkum Bhagya to second spot in BARC chart. In the month of May 2017, Kumkum Bhagya became number one show again and continued to be for few weeks, dethroning the mega success of 2017 Naagin second season. In September, Kumkum bhagya's Spin-off Kundali Bhagya, the story of Pragya's long lost sisters Preeta and Shristi became the most-watched show replacing Kumkum Bhagya. Since then Kumkum Bhagya mostly stayed in second spot. Decline ratings lead makers to introduce Kumkum Bhagya: Doosri Peedhi (Translation: Vermilion in my fate: next generation) quickly in March 2019. Doosri Peedhi helps to make the show number one again in BARC week 14, 2019.

Reruns of Kumkum Bhagya premiered on Zee Anmol from 2017 and got very high ratings in the BARC rural chart when Zee Anmol was FTA. It began running on the network again from episode 1 from 10 June 2020, reason being the return to DD Free Dish.

Ratings

Week/ Year	BARC ratings Urban (in millions (TVM))	BARC's rank (Weekly rank in viewership)	Published date
Week 16, 2014 and Week 17, 2014	3.3 and 2.7	-	25 April 2014 and 2 May 2014
Week 19, 2014 and Week 20, 2014	2.8 and 3.0	-	16 May 2014 and 23 May 2014
Week 21, 2014 and Week 22, 2014	3.0 and 3.3	-	30 May 2014 and 5 June 2014
Week 23, 2014 and Week 24, 2014	3.2 and 3.5	-	12 June 2014 and 20 June 2014
Week 25, 2014 and Week 26, 2014	4.9 and 5.7	-	27 June 2014 and 3 July 2014
Week 27, 2014 and Week 29, 2014	6.3 and 6.6	6 and –	11 July 2014 and 25 July 2014
Week 30, 2014 and Week 31, 2014	7.4 and 7.5	– and 4	3 August 2014 and 8 August 2014
Week 32, 2014 and Week 33, 2014	7.6 and 8.0	-	16 August 2014 and 21 August 2014
Week 35, 2014 and Week 36, 2014	4.1 and 8.6	2 and 1	6 September 2014 and 12 September 2014
Week 37, 2014 and Week 39, 2014	8.4 and 7.3	1 and 3	18 September 2014 and 4 October 2014
Week 40, 2014 and Week 42, 2014	6.5 and 7.4	4 and 4	18 October 2014 and 25 October 2014
Week 44, 2014 and Week 47, 2014	7.1 and 8.1	3 and 3	10 November 2014 and 27 November 2014
Week 48, 2014 and Week 49, 2014	8.3 & 3.9	3 and 4	4 December 2014 and 11 December 2014
Week 50, 2014 and Week 51, 2014 and Week 52, 2014	3.2 and 9.9 and 9.0	6 and 3 and 3	18 December 2014 and 26 December 2014 and 3 January 2015
Week 01, 2015 and Week 03, 2015	4 and 9.2	3 and 2	8 January 2015 and 22 January 2015
Week 04, 2015 and Week 05, 2015	4.1 and 8.4	4 and 3	30 January 2015 and 6 February 2015
Week 06, 2015 and Week 07, 2015	4.2 and 4.6	3 and 1	12 February 2015 and 20 February 2015
Week 08, 2015 and Week 09, 2015	9.4 and 4.2	3 and 3	27 February 2015 and 5 March 2015
Week 10, 2015 and Week 11, 2015	9.4 and 4.4	1 and 2	13 March 2015 and 19 March 2015
Week 12, 2015 and Week 13, 2015	10.2 and 4.5	1 and 1	27 March 2015 and 2 April 2015
Week 16, 2015 and Week 17, 2015	4.9 and 5.4	7 and 3	30 April 2015 and 7 May 2015
Week 18, 2015 and Week 19, 2015	4.7 and 5.6	8 and 2	14 May 2015 and 19 May 2015
Week 20, 2015 and Week 21, 2015	5.4 and 3.2	3 and 3	29 May 2015 and 5 June 2015
Week 22, 2015 and Week 24, 2015	2.9 and 2.7	6 and 6	12 June 2015 and 26 June 2015
Week 25, 2015 and Week 27, 2015	3.4 and 3.9	4 and 3	3 July 2015 and 10 July 2015
Week 28, 2015 and Week 29, 2015	3.7 and 3.7	2 and 1	17 July 2015 and 24 July 2015
Week 30, 2015 and Week 31, 2015	3.5 and 3.8	2 and 1	7 August 2015 and 14 August 2015
Week 32, 2015 and Week 33, 2015	3.9 and 4.8	2 and 1	21 August 2015 and 28 August 2015
Week 34, 2015 and Week 35, 2015	4.3 and 4.5	1 and 1	4 September 2015 and 11 September 2015
Week 36, 2015 and Week 37, 2015	4.8 and 4	1 and 3	18 September 2015 and 25 September 2015
Week 38, 2015 and Week 39, 2015	4 and 4.3	2 and 3	1 October 2015 and 9 October 2015
Week 40, 2015 and Week 41, 2015	4 and 3.8	3 and 2	16 October 2015 and 23 October 2015
Week 42, 2015 and Week 43, 2015	3.6 and 4.5	1 and 1	30 October 2015 and 6 November 2015
Week 44, 2015 and Week 45, 2015	4.2 and 3.8	3 and 3	16 November 2015 and 20 November 2015
Week 46, 2015 and Week 48, 2015	4.3 and 4.1	3 and 3	27 November 2015 and 11 December 2015
Week 49, 2015 and Week 50 2015	3.8 and 3.6	3 and 3	18 December 2015 and 26 December 2015
Week 51, 2015 and Week 52, 2015	3.5 and 3.2	3 and 5	31 December 2015 and 7 January 2015
Week 01, 2016 and Week 02, 2016	3.1 and 3.8	3 and 3	15 January 2016 and 22 January 2016
Week 03, 2016 and Week 04, 2016	3.8 and 3.9	2 and 2	29 January 2016 and 4 February 2016
Week 06, 2016 and Week 07, 2016	3.7 and 4	2 and 3	19 February 2016 and 25 February 2016
Week 08, 2016 and Week 09, 2016	3.7 and 3.2	3 and 3	3 March 2016 and 11 March 2016
Week 10, 2016 and Week 11, 2016	3.3 and 3.8	3 and 2	18 March 2016 and 29 March 2016
Week 14, 2016 and Week 15, 2016	4 and 2.7	2 and 3	16 April 2016 and 26 April 2016
Week 16, 2016 and Week 17, 2016	4.9 and 2.8	7 and 3	30 April 2016 and 5 May 2016
Week 18, 2016 and Week 19, 2016	4.7 and 6.2	8 and 1	14 May 2016 and 20 May 2016
Week 20, 2016 and Week 21, 2016	6.9 and 2.5	3 and 4	26 May 2016 and 4 June 2016
Week 22, 2016 and Week 24, 2016	2.7 and 5.3	2 and 7	10 June 2016 and 24 June 2016
Week 25, 2016 and Week 26, 2016	2.6 and 2.9	3 and 2	1 July 2016 and 8 July 2016
Week 27, 2016 and Week 28, 2016	13.4 and 3.3	1 and 1	14 July 2016 and 22 July 2016
Week 29, 2016 and Week 30, 2016	7.1 and 14.7	1 and 1	28 July 2016 and 4 August 2016
Week 31, 2016 and Week 32, 2016	8.5 and 7.4	1 and 1	12 August 2016 and 19 August 2016
Week 33, 2016 and Week 34, 2016	6.6 and 7.2	1 and 1	25 August 2016 and 1 September 2016
Week 35, 2016 and Week 36, 2016	7.4 and 6.8	1 and 3	8 September 2016 and 15 September 2016
Week 37, 2016 and Week 38, 2016	4.7 and 7.6	12 and 3	22 September 2016 and 29 September 2016
Week 39, 2016 and Week 40, 2016	6.6 and 6.2	3 and 5	6 October 2016 and 13 October 2016
Week 41, 2016 and Week 42, 2016	5.4 and 6.5	9 and 4	20 October 2016 and 27 October 2016
Week 43, 2016 and Week 44, 2016	6.2 and 6.0	4 and 4	7 November 2016 and 10 November 2016
Week 45, 2016 and Week 46, 2016	6.2 and 6.7	4 and 5	17 November 2016 and 24 November 2016
Week 47. 2016 and Week 48, 2016	6.8 and 6.5	4 and 7	1 December 2016 and 8 December 2016
Week 49, 2016 and Week 50, 2016	7.36 and 7.3	2 and 2	15 December 2016 and 22 December 2016
Week 51, 2016 and Week 52, 2016	7.0 and 6.9	3 and 3	29 December 2016 and 5 January 2017
Week 03, 2017 and Week 04, 2017	6.1 and 6.0	4 and 4	27 January 2017 and 2 February 2017
Week 07, 2017 and Week 08, 2017	6.5 and 11.3	3 and 2	23 February 2017 and 2 March 2017
Week 09, 2017 and Week 10, 2017	6.7 and 6.8	3 and 2	9 March 2017 and 16 March 2017
Week 11, 2017 and Week 12, 2017	6.7 and 6.7	3 and 3	23 March 2017 and 30 March 2017
Week 13, 2017 and Week 14, 2017	7.0 and 6.1	2 and 3	6 April 2017 and 13 April 2017
Week 15, 2017 and Week 16, 2017	5.6 and 5.9	4 and 2	20 April 2017 and 27 April 2017
Week 17, 2017 and Week 18, 2017	6.4 and 10.8	1 and 1	4 May 2017 and 11 May 2017
Week 19, 2017 and Week 20, 2017	11.2 and 6.5	1 and 1	18 May 2017 and 25 May 2017
Week 21, 2017 and Week 22, 2017	6.5 and 5.9	1 and 1	1 June 2017 and 8 June 2017
Week 23, 2017 and Week 25, 2017	5.4 & 5.7	3 and 5	15 June 2017 and 29 June 2017
Week 26, 2017 and Week 27, 2017	6.4 and 7.1	2 and 2	6 July 2017 and 13 July 2017
Week 28, 2017 and Week 29, 2017	7.0 and 6.0	2 and 2	20 July 2017 and 27 July 2017
Week 30, 2017 and Week 31, 2017	5.9 and 5.6	6 and 8	3 August 2017 and 10 August 2017
Week 32, 2017 and Week 33, 2017	5.5 and 5.8	7 and 5	18 August 2017 and 24 August 2017
Week 34, 2017 and Week 35, 2017	6.0 and 5.8	3 and 3	31 August 2017 and 7 September 2017
Week 36, 2017 and Week 37, 2017	6.3 and 7.1	3 and 2	14 September 2017 and 21 September 2017
Week 38, 2017 and Week 39, 3017	3.3 and 5.8	10 and 3	1 October 2017 and 6 October 2017
Week 40, 2017 and Week 41, 2017	5.8 and 6.3	4 and 3	12 October 2017 and 23 October 2017
Week 42, 2017 and Week 43, 2017	10.5 and 6.9	1 and 1	26 October 2017 and 2 November 2017
Week 44, 2017 and Week 45, 2017	6.2 and 6.2	3 and 3	9 November 2017 and 16 November 2017
Week 46, 2017 and Week 47, 2017	7.4 and 7.1	2 and 2	23 November 2017 and 30 November 2017
Week 48, 2017 and Week 49 2017	6.7 and 7.3	2 and 1	7 December 2017 and 14 December 2017
Week 50, 2017 and Week 51, 2017 and Week 52, 2017	6.8 and 6.9 7.0	2 and 4 and 2	21 December 2017 and 29 December 2017 and 5 January 2017
Week 02, 2018 and Week 03, 2018	7.0 and 6.7	2 and 3	18 January 2018 and 24 January 2018
Week 04, 2018 and Week 05, 2018	6.6 and 6.9	2 and 2	1 February 2018 and 8 February 2018
Week 06, 2018 and Week 07, 2018	5.9 and 6.8	4 and 2	15 February 2018 and 22 February 2018
Week 08, 2018 and Week 09, 2018	6.6 and 5.7	4 and 5	1 March 2018 and 8 March 2018
Week 10, 2018 and Week 11, 2018	6.0 and 6.4	5 and 2	15 March 2018 and 22 March 2018
Week 12, 2018 and Week 13, 2018	7.1 and 5.8	2 and 3	29 March 2018 and 5 April 2018
Week 14, 2018 and Week 15, 2018	4.9 and 5.8	7 and 1	12 April 2018 and 19 April 2018
Week 16, 2018 and Week 17, 2018	5.3 and 5.8	5 and 3	26 April 2018 and 4 May 2018
Week 18, 2018 and Week 19, 2018	5.4 and 5.7	2 and 2	10 May 2018 and 18 May 2018
Week 20, 2018 and Week 21, 2018	5.8 and 6.2	2 and 2	24 May 2018 and 31 May 2018
Week 22, 2018 and Week 23, 2018	7.3 and 7.5	1 and 3	7 June 2018 and 14 June 2018
Week 24, 2018 and Week 25, 2018	11 and 6.8	3 and 3	21 June 2018 and 28 June 2018
Week 26, 2018 and Week 27, 2018	6.6 and 9.9	4 and 4	5 July 2018 and 12 July 2018
Week 28, 2018 and Week 29, 2018	6.7 and 7.2	4 and 3	19 July 2018 and 26 July 2018
Week 30, 2018 and Week 31, 2018	7.1 and 7.6	3 and 4	2 August 2018 and 9 August 2018
Week 32, 2018 and Week 33, 2018	7.9 and 7.5	3 and 4	17 August 2018 and 23 August 2018
Week 34, 2018 and Week 35, 2018	6.7 and 6.8	6 and 5	30 August 2018 and 6 September 2018
Week 36, 2018 and Week 37, 2018	7.1 and 12.4	4 and 4	14 September 2018 and 20 September 2018
Week 38, 2018 and Week 39, 2018	5.7 and 6.4	7 and 5	27 September 2018 and 5 October 2018
Week 40, 2018 and Week 41, 2018	6.2 and 5.7	8 and 9	11 October 2018 and 18 October 2018
Week 42, 2018 and Week 43, 2018	9.1 and 9.9	5 and 5	25 October 2018 and 1 November 2018
Week 44, 2018 and Week 45, 2018	10.8 and 9.7	4 and 5	12 November 2018 and 15 November 2018
Week 46, 2018 and Week 47, 2018	10.3 and 11.1	4 and 5	22 November 2018 and 29 November 2018
Week 48, 2018 and Week 49, 2018	12.3 and 12.1	3 and 5	6 December 2018 and 13 December 2018
Week 50, 2018 and Week 51, 2018 and Week 52, 2018	10.5 and 10.6 9.5	4 and 4 and 8	20 December 2018 and 28 December 2018 & 4 January 2019
Week 01, 2019 and Week 02, 2019	9.2 and 9.0	9 and 12	10 January 2019 and 17 January 2019
Week 03, 2019 and Week 04, 2019	9.0 and 5.6	13 and 10	24 January 2019 and 31 January 2019
Week 05, 2019 and Week 06, 2019	5.8 and 2.1	9 and 10	7 February 2019 and 14 February 2019
Week 07, 2019 and Week 08, 2019	1.9 and 1.9	10 and 7	21 February 2019 and 28 February 2019
Week 11, 2019 and Week 12, 2019	2.1 and 2.4	7 and 3	22 March 2019 and 28 March 2019
Week 13, 2019 and Week 14, 2019	2.1 and 6.0	7 and 1	4 April 2019 and 11 April 2019
Week 15, 2019 and Week 16, 2019	5.8 and 5.7	1 and 2	18 April 2019 and 25 April 2019
Week 17, 2019 and Week 18, 2019	6.5 and 6.0	1 and 1	3 May 2019 and 9 May 2019
Week 19, 2019 and Week 20, 2019	6.2 and 6.1	1 and 2	16 March 2019 and 23 May 2019
Week 21, 2019 and Week 22, 2019	6.7 and 6.4	3 and 3	30 May 2019 and 6 June 2019
Week 23, 2019 and Week 24, 2019	6.6 and 7.4	4 and 2	13 June 2019 and 20 June 2019
Week 25, 2019 and Week 26, 2019	5.8 and 7.4	3 and 2	27 June 2019 and 4 July 2019
Week 27, 2019 and Week 28, 2019	6.8 and 7.1	3 and 3	11 July 2019 and 19 July 2019

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result	Ref(s)
2014	Zee Rishtey Awards	Favorite Beti	Sriti Jha	Won
		Favorite Popular Face (Male)	Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Favorite Popular Face (Female)	Sriti Jha
		Favorite Parivaar	Ekta Kapoor
2015	Kalakar Awards	Best Direction	Sameer Kulkarni	Won
		Best Actor (Popular)	Arjit Taneja
		Rising TV Star (Female)	Sriti Jha
	Star Guild Awards	Best Upcoming Drama Series	Ekta Kapoor	Won
	Television Style Awards	Most Stylish Beti on TV	Sriti Jha	Won
		Most Stylish Beta on TV	Shabbir Ahluwalia
	Gold Awards	Best Actress in Negative Role (Critics)	Shikha Singh	Won
		Best Actor in a Lead Role (Critics)	Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Best Actress in a Lead Role (Popular)	Sriti Jha	Nominated
		Best Actor in a Lead Role (Popular)	Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Best TV Show of the Year (Fiction)	Ekta Kapoor
	Indian Telly Awards	Best Onscreen Couple	Sriti Jha & Shabbir Ahluwalia	Won
		Best Actress in a Lead Role	Sriti Jha
	BIG Star Entertainment Awards	BIG Star Most Entertaining Fiction Series	Ekta Kapoor	Won
		BIG Star Most Entertaining Television Actor - Female	Sriti Jha	Nominated
		BIG Star Most Entertaining Television Actor - Male	Shabbir Ahluwalia
	Zee Rishtey Awards	Favorite Story	Anil Nagpal	Won
		Favorite Popular Face (Male)	Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Favorite Popular Face (Female)	Sriti Jha
		Favorite Jodi	Sriti Jha & Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Favorite Parivaar	Ekta Kapoor
2016	9th Boroplus Gold Awards	Boroplus Face of the Year	Sriti Jha	Won
		Best Actor in a Lead Role (Popular)	Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Best TV Show of the Year (Fiction)	Ekta Kapoor
		Best Actress in Negative Role (Critics)	Shikha Singh	Nominated
		Best Actor in Supporting Role (Popular)	Arjit Taneja
		Best Actress in a Lead Role (Popular)	Sriti Jha
	Indian Television Academy Awards	Best Actor (Popular)	Shabbir Ahluwalia	Won
	Ghana Movie Awards	Best Foreign TV Series	Ekta Kapoor	Won
	Zee Rishtey Awards	Favorite Bahu	Sriti Jha	Won
		Favorite Jodi	Sriti Jha & Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Favorite Popular Character (Female)	Sriti Jha
		Favorite Popular Character (Male)	Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Favorite Dharavaahik	Ekta Kapoor
2017	Gold Awards	Best TV Show of the Year (Fiction)	Ekta Kapoor	Won
		Best Onscreen Jodi	Sriti Jha & Shabbir Ahluwalia	Nominated
		Best Actress in Negative Role (Popular)	Shikha Singh
		Best Actor in Supporting Role (Popular)	Arjit Taneja
		Best Actress in a Lead Role (Popular)	Sriti Jha
		Best Actor in a Lead Role (Popular)	Shabbir Ahluwalia
	Zee Rishtey Awards	Favorite Buzurg	Daljeet Soundh	Won
		Favorite Maa	Supriya Shukla
		Favorite Beti	Sriti Jha
		Favorite Jodi	Sriti Jha & Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Favorite Popular Character (Male)	Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Favorite Dharavaahik	Ekta Kapoor
		Favorite Popular Character (Female)	Sriti Jha	Nominated
		Favorite Beta	Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Favorite Parivaar	Ekta Kapoor
2018	11th Keshking Gold Awards	Best Actress in Negative Role (Popular)	Shikha Singh	Won
		Best Actor in a Lead Role (Popular)	Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Best Actress in a Lead Role (Popular)	Sriti Jha
		Best Television Show (Fiction)	Ekta Kapoor
		Gold Producer's Honour (For Completing 1000 Episodes)	Ekta Kapoor
	Zee Rishtey Awards	Favorite Maa	Sriti Jha	Won
		Favorite Pitah	Shabbir Ahluwalia
			Mishal Raheja
		Favorite Chota Sadasya	Kaurwakee Vasistha
			Vedaansh Jaju
		Favorite Beta	Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Favorite Jodi	Sriti Jha & Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Favorite Popular Character (Male) (on Zee5)	Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Favorite Popular Character (Female) (on Zee5)	Sriti Jha
	Telly Technical and Trade Awards	Best Editor (Fiction)	Vikas Sharma	Won
2019	Lions Gold Awards	Best Actor (Popular)	Shabbir Ahluwalia	Nominated
		Best Show	Ekta Kapoor
	Indian Telly Awards	Best Daily Series	Ekta Kapoor	Won
		Best Jodi	Shabbir Ahluwalia & Sriti Jha	Nominated
		Best Actor in Lead Role (Male)	Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Best Actor in Lead Role (Female)	Sriti Jha
		Best Actor in Supporting Role (Male)	Mishal Raheja
		Best Actor in Negative Role (Male)	Shaad Randhawa
		Best Actor in Negative Role (Female)	Leena Jumani
	Gold Awards	Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Mugdha Chaphekar	Won
		Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Krishna Kaul	Nominated
		Best Actress in a Lead Role (Popular)	Sriti Jha
		Best Actor in a Lead Role (Popular)	Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Best Onscreen Jodi	Sriti Jha & Shabbir Ahluwalia
		Best TV Show of the Year (Fiction)	Ekta Kapoor
		Television Personality of the Year (Female)	Sriti Jha
		Television Personality of the Year (Male)	Shabbir Ahluwalia

Soundtrack

The Kumkum Bhagya Soundtrack was written by Nawab Arzoo and composed by Lalit Sen. Lalit Sen had composed the original songs and background score for the show. "Allah Waariyan" is not the song of this show but it was the theme song of Abhi and Pragya. The first original song of the show is "O Rabba Ki Karaan", audience loved the song. The sad version of this song are also released with the title "Tum Ko Mera Dard Dikhna" and "Har Ke Bhi Jitna Hai Pyaar" Sung By Kashi Malik. Meherbaanon Ka Shukriya Song was released on the occasion of completing 1000 episodes and for thanking the audience for the love and support.

All lyrics are written by Nawab Arzoo; all music is composed by Lalit Sen

KumKum Bhagya Track List:

No.	Title	Singer	Length
1.	"Allah Waariyan"	Shafqat Amanat Ali	5:14
2.	"Tujh Mein Kaisay Kho Gayi Mein"	Kashi Malik	0:52
3.	"O Rabba Ki Karaan"	Kashi Malik	2:30
4.	"Kumkum Kumkum"	Kashi Malik	0:20
5.	"Tu Meri Jaan Hai"	Kailash Kher	4:00
6.	"Meherbaanon (1000 Ka Shukriya)"	Various Artists	4:01
7.	"Tum Ko Mera Dard Dikhna"	Kashi Malik	1:24
8.	"Rockstar Theme"	Unknown	0:50
9.	"Har Ke Bhi Jitna Hai Pyar"	Kashi Malik	1:02
10.	"Saari Duniya Rooth Jaye"	Kashi Malik	1:16
11.	"Tu Yaad Mujhay Aati Hain"	Arnab Dutta	3:04

External links

• official website
• Kumkum Bhagya at IMDb
• Iniya Iru Malargal at IMDb