Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi
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Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi ??????? ??? ?? ??? ??? ?? | |
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Format | Soap |
Created by | Balaji Telefilms |
Starring | see below |
Opening theme | "Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi" by Priya Bhattacharya |
Country of origin | India |
No. of episodes | 1811 as of 06 October, 2008 |
Production | |
Producer(s) | Ekta Kapoor & Shobha Kapoor |
Running time | 24 minutes |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | STAR Plus |
Picture format | 576i (SDTV), |
Original run | July 3, 2000 – November 11, 2008 |
External links | |
Official website |
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (??????? ??? ?? ??? ??? ?? - Because a Mother-in-law was once a Daughter-in-law too) is a popular Hindi TV soap opera produced by Balaji Telefilms, that revolves around the lives of the fictitious Virani family. The show has been airing since year 2000 on STAR Plus channel worldwide.
The show will finally go off-air in November 2008. This is due to its failing popularity; Star Plus decided to axe the show much before its contractual 'end date'. Balaji Telefilms will take Star TV India to court as a result of breach of contract. The show which made Star Plus - the leading channel on Indiantelevision, is about to draw its curtains.
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About The Show
The story focuses on the wealthy Virani family, which hails from Gujarat. The Viranis are quite successful and well-known in the corporate world. The story is mainly focused on Tulsi Virani, daughter of the family priest, who elopes with the family's eldest son, Mihir. The entire family except Govardhan Virani (the patriach) and Amba Virani (the matriarch) (played by Sudha Shivpuri) are against it. Due to anger, the daughters-in-law of the family, Savita (Apara Mehta), Daksha (Ketaki Dave) and Gayatri (Kamalika Guhathakurta) blame Tulsi for charming Mihir into marrying her and entering their rich household from a smaller, middle-class family. However, due to respect and belief in God Shri Shrinathji, called Thakurji, a form of Lord Krishna, Tulsi fights the injustice and battles her mother-in-law and devranis (wives of the younger brothers of a woman's husband).
The entire serial focuses on the battle between the mothers-in-law and Tulsi and in the process teaching them a lesson and earning respect from her family members.
Return of Smriti Irani
As of April 10, 2008, Smriti Irani will once again reprise her role as Tulsi Virani and replace Gautami Kapoor. This is after a break of over 8 months. It was at the Balaji Global Indian Television Awards held a few months ago where Balaji chief Ekta Kapoor decided that she made a huge mistake and decided to patch things up with Smriti, after the latter left the show.
Hype in the media and opposition by students
The return of Smriti Irani in the soap was covered as a major news item with such B class titles as "Tulsi phir aangan mein" and the likes on the current crop of entertainment oriented Indian News Channels.
The Undergraduate Student Community of India, although not as a unit, has shown dissatisfaction in this hype up of a relatively minor issue when the same day (April 10, 2008) The honorable Supreme Court Of India ordered the Govt. of India to reserve College Seats in all faculties for students belonging to the OBC strata. The simultaneous broadcast of the two news items with each receiving a continous airtime of half an hour is overtly gratifying for the Telenovella.
Characters
Virani family 1st generation
- Govardhan 'Baapuji' Virani -- Dinesh Thakur / Sudhir Dalvi (DEAD)
- Amba 'Baa' (Govardhan) Virani -- Sudha Shivpuri
2nd generation
- Mansukh (Govardhan) Virani -- Shakti Singh (DEAD)
- Savita (Mansukh) Virani -- Apara Mehta (DEAD)
- Himmat (Govardhan) Virani -- Jitendra Trehan
- Daksha (Himmat) Virani -- Ketki Dave
- Pragya (Govardhan) Virani (Naveen) Sanghvi -- Utkarsha Naik (DEAD)
- Naveen Sanghvi -- (DEAD)
- Jamnadas 'JD' (Govardhan) Virani -- Muni Jha
- Gayatri (Jamnadas) Virani -- Kamalika Guhathakurta
3rd generation
- Tulsi (Mihir) Virani -- Smriti Zubin Irani / Gautami Kapoor
- Mihir (Mansukh) Virani -- Amar Upadhyay / Inder Kumar / Ronit Roy
- Kiran (Mansukh) Virani -- Jiten Lalwani
- Aarti Patel (Kiran) Virani -- Eva Grover / Rushali
- Hemant (Jamnadas) Virani -- Shakti Anand
- Pooja (Hemant) Virani -- Prachi Shah
- Suhasi Virani -- Pooja Ghai Rawal
- Rakesh -- Prashant Bhatt
- Chirag (Himmat) Virani -- Hussain Kuwajerwala / Amit Mistry
- Prajakta Deshmukh (Chirag) Virani -- Tuhinaa Vohra
- Sejal (Jamnadas) Virani (Anand) Gandhi -- Khyati Khandke
- Anand Gandhi -- Romanchak Arora
- Mandira Kapadia (Kiran) Virani (Aditya) Gujral -- Mandira Bedi / Achint Kaur
4th generation
- Gautam (Mihir) Virani -- Sumeet Sachdev
- Teesha Mehta (Gautam) Virani -- Ashlesha Sawant (DEAD)
- Damini Khanna (Gautam) Virani -- Riva Babbur / Ravee Gupta
- Aniket -- Shabbir Ahluwalia
- Indira 'Indu' (Anand)Gandhi -- Karishma Tanna
- Shobha (Mihir) Virani (Vishal) Mehra -- Ritu Choudhry Seth
- Vishal (Pratap) Mehra -- Rohit Bakshi (DEAD)
- Abhishek -- Vivan Bhatena / Nasir Qazi
- Karan (Mihir) Virani -- Hiten Tejwani
- Nandini Thakkar (Ansh) Virani (Karan) Virani -- Gauri Pradhan Tejwani
- Tanya Malhotra (Karan) Virani -- Rakshandha Khan
- Sahil (Hemant) Virani -- Sandeep Baswana
- Ganga Joshi (Gautam) Virani (Sahil) Virani Joshi aka Mehta -- Shilpa Sakhlani
- Ansh (Mihir) Virani aka (Aditya) Gujral -- Aakashdeep Saigal (DEAD)
- Shraddha (Ansh) Gujral {posthumously Ansh Virani} -- Moonmoon Bannerjee (DEAD)
- Tarun (Hemant) Virani -- Abhijeet Khurana / Alok Arora
- Tushar -- Manoj Bohra / Pradeep Kharab / Samir Sharma
- Karishma (Kiran) Virani (Shantanu) Dey -- Kiran Dubey
- Tripti (Sahil) Virani -- Suvarna Jha
- Harsh (Mihir) Virani -- Mehul Kajaria
- Mohini (Harsh) Virani -- Tasneem Sheikh
- Shantanu Dey -- Narendra Jha
- Vikram (Naveen) Sanghvi -- Rakesh Paul
- Savri (Chirag) Virani --
- Bavri (Chirag) Virani -- Hansika Motwani / Amita Chandekar
5th generation
- Eklavya (Gautam) Virani {born Ansh Virani aka Gujral} -- Aakashdeep Saigal
- Nakul (Sahil) Virani{born (Gautam Virani} -- Naman Shaw
- Bhoomi Joydeep Virani {nee Ansh Virani aka Gujral} -- Chinky Jaiswal / Reshmi Ghosh
- Pushkar (Vishal) Mehra --
- Laksh (Sahil) Virani -- Pulkit Samrat / Yash Pandit
- Pari (Abhishek) Mehra -- Garima Bhatnagar
- Manthan (Karan and Tanya) Virani -- Amit Tandon
- Archita (Harsh) Virani -- Gunjan
- Mayank (Gautam) Virani -- Rahul Lohani
- Saanchi -- Anita Hassanandani
- Krishna Tulsi Eklavya Virani -- Mouni Roy
- Joydeep Virani- Manav Vij
- Vaidehi Laksh Virani - Twinkle Bajpai
Non-Viranis
- Payal Parikh (Pratap) Mehra -- Jaya Bhattacharya
- Pratap Mehra --
- Anupam Kapadia -- Aman Verma
- Kesar (Anupam) Kapadia -- Narayani Shastri
- Rajeev Mehra --
- Raj Bhasin -- Vishal Puri
- Kabir -- Chaitanya Chaudhary
- Meera Singhania -- Shubhaavi K.
- Aditya Gujral -- Salim Shah (DEAD)
- Maansingh Chauhan -- Chetan Hansraj
- Vijay Saxena -- Makarand Deshpande
- Kaushalya (Kaush) Malhotra Smith -- Suhasini Mulay
- Abir -- Manoj Bidvai / Vikas Sethi
- Inspector Aryan- Sandeep Rajora
- Parvati Om Agrawal -- Sakshi Tanwar
- Shiv Singhania -- Yash Tonk
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