Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi
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Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (Hindi- क्योंकि सास भी कभी बहू थी, English Meaning - Because a Mother-in-law was once a Daughter-in-law too) was an India
n Soap Opera
that aired on STAR Plus
. This is ranked at top, number 1, on the list of STAR Plus
top 10 shows of all time.
This show was Asia's #1 most watched and awarded show . It was a Hindi
television Indian soap opera
, produced by Balaji Telefilms
, that revolves around the lives of the fictitious Virani family. The show went off-air in November 2008 due to some misunderstanding between the production house and the channel. Albeit, the show was extremely popular and is regarded to be instrumental in changing the face of the hindi television industry. It starred Smriti Zubin Irani
in the lead role, as Tulsi. The show has been the longest running serial in Indian television. It also made records of getting the highest with Television Rating Point for more than eight years.
Mihir returns from America and takes over the reins of the family business. He goes to the family temple and there he bumps into Tulsi - the daughter of the family pujari.
Savita, Daksha and Gayatri plan Mihir's wedding. Mihir meets a prospective bride called Niharika, but when she seems undecided about what she wants to do, Mihir lies to her parents about his affairs in America, and wiggles out of the match.
In steps Payal - with a proposal for Mihir. It is soon taken for granted that Payal will be marrying Mihir. But the differences between the two are apparent - and Tulsi and her dad, the pujari talk about this. Payal, in the meantime, goes over to the Virani household and tries to sniff out the undercurrents in the house.
Payal snubs Tulsi. When Mihir hears about this, he goes to apologise to Tulsi. Payal, however, does not apologise for her conduct. She does not go over to meet Chirag either - after he is brought home by the police on suspicions of attempting to kill himself, because he has flunked in his exams.
Mihir and Tulsi discover that they like each other. Savita stops Tulsi from coming to her house. Payal's mom goes to the pujari's house and insults him and Tulsi, as a result of which he suffers a heart attack. Mihir then breaks off his engagement to Payal and threatens his family that if he is forced to marry her, he will return to America.
Mihir proposes to Tulsi. Savita, in the meantime, has already planned to get Mihir engaged to Payal all over again. Plots and counter-plots fly thick and fast - and Mihir and Tulsi get married in secret, much to Savita's anger.
Savita asks Mihir to choose between her and Tulsi. She sulks for days on end till Mihir and Tulsi decide to leave home. Savita makes up her mind that she will pretend to be pacified in order to keep Mihir at home, but will make life hell for Tulsi.
Pragna, the sister of the Virani sons, comes to stay at Shantiniketan. Govardhan appoints Navin, her husband, as one of the directors in his company. Pragna, meanwhile, is placed in embarrassing situation time and again, because of her pathetic financial condition. To save her the hassle, Hemant and Mihir buy her a flat.
In the meantime, trouble is brewing at the Aligarh factory of the Viranis. Tulsi and Mihir cut short their honeymoon and return to India. Kiran returns too and is told about the Aligarh problems. He asks Govardhan to let him go to Aligarh.
He then throws a party for Mihir and Tulsi, where matters come to such a head between Tulsi and Savita that Mihir decides to return to America. He is coaxed into changing his mind. Kiran discovers that the girl he loves is the one Savita has decided he should marry.
Govardhan hands over all the work for Kiran's wedding to Mihir. When Savita is shown the wedding card, she bristles on seeing Tulsi's name on it and calls up Payal. She then decides to be ostensibly sweet to Tulsi, but to saddle her with responsibilities that she just cannot juggle. She plots as often as she can to get Tulsi into sticky situations.
At one of the rituals before Kiran's wedding, Hemant and Pooja get talking to each other. Savita puts Tulsi in charge of the jewellery for the wedding. Tulsi leaves the ornaments with Amba. When Pragna comes over, they open Amba's cupboard to look for the most expensive necklace they have made for Aarti - it is missing.
Savita asks Tulsi to get the necklace. Hemant comes to know that it is missing, and he asks Tulsi not to tell anyone about it. Hemant tells Govardhan about the loss of the necklace, and also points out that Daksha is wearing a similar one, which she claims is hers.
Daksha gives her necklace to Aarti and blames Tulsi for the loss of the necklace. The servant Madhu finds it in Tulsi's room. Just when everyone is convinced that Tulsi has stolen the necklace, JD catches Madhu counting money in the kitchen. He asks Madhu where he has got so much money. Madhu confesses that Gayatri had paid him to put the necklace in Tulsi's room.
JD drags Gayatri to Govardhan and Amba, but she refuses to apologise to Tulsi. JD praises Tulsi for her honesty. The three bahus start plotting again.
Meanwhile, Sejal, who had gone for a rehearsal, is in an accident. Hemant, JD, Gayatri, Payal and Mihir go to the hospital. Anand, Sejal's friend, who is with her when the accident occurs, feels guilty.
Kiran and Aarti plan the resurrection of the Aligarh factory. Kiran reaches the Aligarh factory and asks for work, but is dismissed. He waits outside the factory and meets Mohan, who tells him that he will find work there.
He then calls Aarti and asks her to come to the Aligarh factory. He asks her to pretend that she is the boss.
Meanwhile, Suhasi meets Rakesh, her parents' acquaintances' son, and agrees to marry him. Payal and Tulsi bump into each other at the temple, and Payal challenges Tulsi that she will make the two divorce each other. Tulsi and Amba decide that it's time to teach the three bahus of the Virani household a lesson.
But even before they can put their plan into action, Savita mounts an attack. Tulsi then makes up her mind to win over all the people of the house. She talks to JD and asks him to get Gayatri to take an interest in her dance again. She also tells Ba it's time to fulfil Gayatri's dreams for a dance institute.
Suhasi gets married. On the night of her wedding, she discovers that her husband already has a son. She decides that she will keep up the faade of the relationship.
Payal, who has been plotting against Tulsi, gets her friend Deepak to fake an affair with Tulsi. But this plot falls through when Deepak discovers that Tulsi is his childhood friend, and not the wicked woman that Payal had made her out to be. Deepak and Tulsi turn the tables on Payal and tell Savita that Deepak and Payal are actually in love with each other. Savita is furious.
Chirag fails his exams and leaves home, telling his parents that he will not return till he carves out an identity for himself.
In the midst of all this bad news comes some good - Ba and Babuji give Gayatri the plan to her dance institute. Gayatri apologises to Tulsi for misunderstanding her. Tulsi also gets Ba enrolled into a fashion designing school, where she is a hit.
Tulsi also discovers that she is pregnant - a fact that does not go down very well with Savita.
Pooja, in the meantime, has been getting blank calls from someone who professes to be her admirer. She discovers that the blackmailer is her boss and Anand's friend Rajeev.
At the factory, the village girl Kiran had rescued falls in love with him. This strains the relationship between Kiran and Aarti. Chirag returns home and tells everyone that he has become an actor.
Suhaasi, meanwhile, gets Rakesh's son Aniket home, but does not let him care for the baby. Suhasi comes home and Tulsi gets to know the truth about Aniket. Mihir, too, suspects that Aniket is Rakesh's son.
JD agrees to let Sejal marry Anand. Chirag tells Daksha he wants to marry Prajakta, and she warns him against it. Just when she is busy plotting Chirag's marriage with Bharti, her niece, the Virani family receives a bolt from the blue - Sejal consumes sleeping pills and it is discovered that she is pregnant. Daksha overhears Tulsi telling Mihir that she had suspected Sejal's condition. She tells Savita about this and the two plan to insult Tulsi in front of the entire family.
Pooja, in the meantime, is delivered an ultimatum by Rajeev - he tells her that she must marry him, or he will ensure that Anand never returns in time to marry Sejal. In order to make life easier for Sejal, Pooja agrees to marry Rajeev.
With this promised, the way is cleared for Anand to come home from Dubai and marry Sejal. But problems crop up almost from Day 1. Used as she is to the comforts of the Virani house, Sejal cribs about the lack of amenities at Anand's house and repeatedly castigates him for not being able to give her what she terms "basic comforts".
Hemant returns from his work abroad and is shocked to discover that Pooja has married Rajeev. He does not know that she has been blackmailed into it. Therefore, he vents his ire against her often, embarrassing her in public and taking pot-shots at her for toying with his emotions.
Mihir, in the meantime, is involved in the collaboration of a major project that could control the future of Virani industries. His financier for the project is Anupam Kapadia - a man he has spoken to over the phone, but has never met in person. It is gradually made clear that this project could make or break Virani Industries. In order to carry the project through to fruition, it becomes necessary for Mihir to go to the Aligarh factory.
Mihir leaves for the factory, evidently worried about the state of Tulsi, who is now far into her pregnancy. He promises to call and keep tabs on her health. He is delayed from reaching the factory, and the worried Viranis try calling him on his phone, but cannot get through to him. There is no news of him at the factory either, and everyone gets worried about his safety.
Just then, the Viranis get a call that confirms their worst fears - there has been an accident. Hemant, Chirag and JD go to the accident site - and discover that the body found at the site does, indeed, belong to Mihir.
With Mihir's death comes a sea-change in the attitude of Savita towards her bahu. Shattered by the death of her son, Savita is now left with hope in the form of her daughter-in-law and the child that she is carrying. Gautam, the child, is born and becomes the centre of his mother's and grandmother's worlds.
With Mihir's death, the project he had planned also seems doomed. In steps Anupam Kapadia, the financier of the project. He uses his business acumen to save the project and protect the Viranis from disaster.
Payal also offers her aid to the Viranis. Her company offers them money against the mortgage of their house. She then returns the mortgage papers to Hemant and uses this to get closer to him. Payal now has one goal in life - to get back into the Virani house as a daughter-in-law. With Hemant having got to know the true story behind Pooja's marriage to Rajeev, it now appears to Payal that all she has to do is capitalise on the lack of a woman in his life.
Anupam turns out to be the solace for the suffering Virani family. He falls in love with Tulsi and evinces interest in marrying her. Tulsi is totally against the idea, but she fears that if she turns down Anupam's proposal, he might ruin the Virani family financially. In order to save the family's fortunes, she agrees to get married to Anupam.
As luck would have it, the serial shifts back to Mihir - who is alive, and suffering from amnesia - in a Delhi hospital. He has been under the supervision of a certain Dr Mona. He is back from the dead, but has no memory of who he is and where his family is.
Mihir is given the name Amar and is taken care of by Mona, who has started harbouring a soft corner for him. Matters are complicated more when it is revealed that Mona is the sister of Anupam, the man Tulsi is all set to marry.
What follows are tense, climactic moments when Tulsi and Mihir almost seem destined to meet, but never really make it. But other people who know Mihir meet him - Payal's friend Deepak sees him, but gets confused about his identity. Bharti's fiance Suresh Dhurander spots Mihir and is convinced he has seen a ghost.
Hemant gets engaged to Payal. Suhasi gets a shock when Aniket's mother, Monisha, turns up and wins a court case against them. She has to give up Aniket to his biological mother.
In the meantime, Anand, pushed to the edge by Sejal's taunts, decides to join the Virani family business. He decides to go all out to make money and Sejal finds that he has lesser time now to spend on her and their child, Indu. This leads to frequent fights between the two.
As Tulsi's wedding to Anupam approaches, Savita faces the prospect of losing not just her grandson, but also the woman she has learnt to love. Tulsi senses Savita's sense of loss. She tells Savita that she will get married to Anupam only on the condition that she can leave Gautam behind with the Viranis.
Savita, however, begins to ask Aarti, Kiran's wife, to give up her career and stay at home. Aarti prefers the life of a successful businesswoman, and this leads to frequent arguments between the two.
Daksha is also busy on another front - she has got Chirag engaged to Bharti and is planning to get the two married. Prajakta, Suresh and Bharti panic, but Chirag assures them that he will find a way out.
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India
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n Soap Opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
that aired on STAR Plus
STAR Plus
STAR Plus is a Hindi language general entertainment television channel based in India. The channel is part of the STAR TV network's bouquet of channels...
. This is ranked at top, number 1, on the list of STAR Plus
STAR Plus
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top 10 shows of all time.
This show was Asia's #1 most watched and awarded show . It was a Hindi
Hindi
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television Indian soap opera
Indian soap opera
Indian soap operas are soap operas written, produced, filmed in India, with characters played by Indians , with episodes broadcast on Indian television channels/channel chains that are not often limited to the Republic of India itself: often many “serials,” as they’re more commonly referred to as,...
, produced by Balaji Telefilms
Balaji Telefilms
Balaji Telefilms is a production house based in Mumbai, India, and is promoted by Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor, Jeetendra and Tushar Kapoor.-History:...
, that revolves around the lives of the fictitious Virani family. The show went off-air in November 2008 due to some misunderstanding between the production house and the channel. Albeit, the show was extremely popular and is regarded to be instrumental in changing the face of the hindi television industry. It starred Smriti Zubin Irani
Smriti Zubin Irani
Smriti Zubin Irani is an Indian television actress, producer and politician, who has appeared in the Hindi television soap opera, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, in which she played the main character of Tulsi Virani....
in the lead role, as Tulsi. The show has been the longest running serial in Indian television. It also made records of getting the highest with Television Rating Point for more than eight years.
Plot
The show was about the female protagonist Tulsi Virani a simple girl who falls in love with the eldest son of the wealthy Virani family Mihir.The serial begins on Amba's birthday - a day that no one in the family, except her husband, her grandson Mihir and Tulsi, the daughter of the pujari, seem to remember. In order to make up for the lapse on their part, the Viranis propose to have dinner together. The bahus - Savita, Daksha and Gayatri - decide to order food instead of cooking. This embarrasses Amba, angers her sons, gives the three daughters-in-law more reason to crib against Amba and sets the tone for the way relationships proceed for the major part of the serial.Mihir returns from America and takes over the reins of the family business. He goes to the family temple and there he bumps into Tulsi - the daughter of the family pujari.
Savita, Daksha and Gayatri plan Mihir's wedding. Mihir meets a prospective bride called Niharika, but when she seems undecided about what she wants to do, Mihir lies to her parents about his affairs in America, and wiggles out of the match.
In steps Payal - with a proposal for Mihir. It is soon taken for granted that Payal will be marrying Mihir. But the differences between the two are apparent - and Tulsi and her dad, the pujari talk about this. Payal, in the meantime, goes over to the Virani household and tries to sniff out the undercurrents in the house.
Payal snubs Tulsi. When Mihir hears about this, he goes to apologise to Tulsi. Payal, however, does not apologise for her conduct. She does not go over to meet Chirag either - after he is brought home by the police on suspicions of attempting to kill himself, because he has flunked in his exams.
Mihir and Tulsi discover that they like each other. Savita stops Tulsi from coming to her house. Payal's mom goes to the pujari's house and insults him and Tulsi, as a result of which he suffers a heart attack. Mihir then breaks off his engagement to Payal and threatens his family that if he is forced to marry her, he will return to America.
Mihir proposes to Tulsi. Savita, in the meantime, has already planned to get Mihir engaged to Payal all over again. Plots and counter-plots fly thick and fast - and Mihir and Tulsi get married in secret, much to Savita's anger.
Savita asks Mihir to choose between her and Tulsi. She sulks for days on end till Mihir and Tulsi decide to leave home. Savita makes up her mind that she will pretend to be pacified in order to keep Mihir at home, but will make life hell for Tulsi.
Pragna, the sister of the Virani sons, comes to stay at Shantiniketan. Govardhan appoints Navin, her husband, as one of the directors in his company. Pragna, meanwhile, is placed in embarrassing situation time and again, because of her pathetic financial condition. To save her the hassle, Hemant and Mihir buy her a flat.
In the meantime, trouble is brewing at the Aligarh factory of the Viranis. Tulsi and Mihir cut short their honeymoon and return to India. Kiran returns too and is told about the Aligarh problems. He asks Govardhan to let him go to Aligarh.
He then throws a party for Mihir and Tulsi, where matters come to such a head between Tulsi and Savita that Mihir decides to return to America. He is coaxed into changing his mind. Kiran discovers that the girl he loves is the one Savita has decided he should marry.
Govardhan hands over all the work for Kiran's wedding to Mihir. When Savita is shown the wedding card, she bristles on seeing Tulsi's name on it and calls up Payal. She then decides to be ostensibly sweet to Tulsi, but to saddle her with responsibilities that she just cannot juggle. She plots as often as she can to get Tulsi into sticky situations.
At one of the rituals before Kiran's wedding, Hemant and Pooja get talking to each other. Savita puts Tulsi in charge of the jewellery for the wedding. Tulsi leaves the ornaments with Amba. When Pragna comes over, they open Amba's cupboard to look for the most expensive necklace they have made for Aarti - it is missing.
Savita asks Tulsi to get the necklace. Hemant comes to know that it is missing, and he asks Tulsi not to tell anyone about it. Hemant tells Govardhan about the loss of the necklace, and also points out that Daksha is wearing a similar one, which she claims is hers.
Daksha gives her necklace to Aarti and blames Tulsi for the loss of the necklace. The servant Madhu finds it in Tulsi's room. Just when everyone is convinced that Tulsi has stolen the necklace, JD catches Madhu counting money in the kitchen. He asks Madhu where he has got so much money. Madhu confesses that Gayatri had paid him to put the necklace in Tulsi's room.
JD drags Gayatri to Govardhan and Amba, but she refuses to apologise to Tulsi. JD praises Tulsi for her honesty. The three bahus start plotting again.
Meanwhile, Sejal, who had gone for a rehearsal, is in an accident. Hemant, JD, Gayatri, Payal and Mihir go to the hospital. Anand, Sejal's friend, who is with her when the accident occurs, feels guilty.
Kiran and Aarti plan the resurrection of the Aligarh factory. Kiran reaches the Aligarh factory and asks for work, but is dismissed. He waits outside the factory and meets Mohan, who tells him that he will find work there.
He then calls Aarti and asks her to come to the Aligarh factory. He asks her to pretend that she is the boss.
Meanwhile, Suhasi meets Rakesh, her parents' acquaintances' son, and agrees to marry him. Payal and Tulsi bump into each other at the temple, and Payal challenges Tulsi that she will make the two divorce each other. Tulsi and Amba decide that it's time to teach the three bahus of the Virani household a lesson.
But even before they can put their plan into action, Savita mounts an attack. Tulsi then makes up her mind to win over all the people of the house. She talks to JD and asks him to get Gayatri to take an interest in her dance again. She also tells Ba it's time to fulfil Gayatri's dreams for a dance institute.
Suhasi gets married. On the night of her wedding, she discovers that her husband already has a son. She decides that she will keep up the faade of the relationship.
Payal, who has been plotting against Tulsi, gets her friend Deepak to fake an affair with Tulsi. But this plot falls through when Deepak discovers that Tulsi is his childhood friend, and not the wicked woman that Payal had made her out to be. Deepak and Tulsi turn the tables on Payal and tell Savita that Deepak and Payal are actually in love with each other. Savita is furious.
Chirag fails his exams and leaves home, telling his parents that he will not return till he carves out an identity for himself.
In the midst of all this bad news comes some good - Ba and Babuji give Gayatri the plan to her dance institute. Gayatri apologises to Tulsi for misunderstanding her. Tulsi also gets Ba enrolled into a fashion designing school, where she is a hit.
Tulsi also discovers that she is pregnant - a fact that does not go down very well with Savita.
Pooja, in the meantime, has been getting blank calls from someone who professes to be her admirer. She discovers that the blackmailer is her boss and Anand's friend Rajeev.
At the factory, the village girl Kiran had rescued falls in love with him. This strains the relationship between Kiran and Aarti. Chirag returns home and tells everyone that he has become an actor.
Suhaasi, meanwhile, gets Rakesh's son Aniket home, but does not let him care for the baby. Suhasi comes home and Tulsi gets to know the truth about Aniket. Mihir, too, suspects that Aniket is Rakesh's son.
JD agrees to let Sejal marry Anand. Chirag tells Daksha he wants to marry Prajakta, and she warns him against it. Just when she is busy plotting Chirag's marriage with Bharti, her niece, the Virani family receives a bolt from the blue - Sejal consumes sleeping pills and it is discovered that she is pregnant. Daksha overhears Tulsi telling Mihir that she had suspected Sejal's condition. She tells Savita about this and the two plan to insult Tulsi in front of the entire family.
Pooja, in the meantime, is delivered an ultimatum by Rajeev - he tells her that she must marry him, or he will ensure that Anand never returns in time to marry Sejal. In order to make life easier for Sejal, Pooja agrees to marry Rajeev.
With this promised, the way is cleared for Anand to come home from Dubai and marry Sejal. But problems crop up almost from Day 1. Used as she is to the comforts of the Virani house, Sejal cribs about the lack of amenities at Anand's house and repeatedly castigates him for not being able to give her what she terms "basic comforts".
Hemant returns from his work abroad and is shocked to discover that Pooja has married Rajeev. He does not know that she has been blackmailed into it. Therefore, he vents his ire against her often, embarrassing her in public and taking pot-shots at her for toying with his emotions.
Mihir, in the meantime, is involved in the collaboration of a major project that could control the future of Virani industries. His financier for the project is Anupam Kapadia - a man he has spoken to over the phone, but has never met in person. It is gradually made clear that this project could make or break Virani Industries. In order to carry the project through to fruition, it becomes necessary for Mihir to go to the Aligarh factory.
Mihir leaves for the factory, evidently worried about the state of Tulsi, who is now far into her pregnancy. He promises to call and keep tabs on her health. He is delayed from reaching the factory, and the worried Viranis try calling him on his phone, but cannot get through to him. There is no news of him at the factory either, and everyone gets worried about his safety.
Just then, the Viranis get a call that confirms their worst fears - there has been an accident. Hemant, Chirag and JD go to the accident site - and discover that the body found at the site does, indeed, belong to Mihir.
With Mihir's death comes a sea-change in the attitude of Savita towards her bahu. Shattered by the death of her son, Savita is now left with hope in the form of her daughter-in-law and the child that she is carrying. Gautam, the child, is born and becomes the centre of his mother's and grandmother's worlds.
With Mihir's death, the project he had planned also seems doomed. In steps Anupam Kapadia, the financier of the project. He uses his business acumen to save the project and protect the Viranis from disaster.
Payal also offers her aid to the Viranis. Her company offers them money against the mortgage of their house. She then returns the mortgage papers to Hemant and uses this to get closer to him. Payal now has one goal in life - to get back into the Virani house as a daughter-in-law. With Hemant having got to know the true story behind Pooja's marriage to Rajeev, it now appears to Payal that all she has to do is capitalise on the lack of a woman in his life.
Anupam turns out to be the solace for the suffering Virani family. He falls in love with Tulsi and evinces interest in marrying her. Tulsi is totally against the idea, but she fears that if she turns down Anupam's proposal, he might ruin the Virani family financially. In order to save the family's fortunes, she agrees to get married to Anupam.
As luck would have it, the serial shifts back to Mihir - who is alive, and suffering from amnesia - in a Delhi hospital. He has been under the supervision of a certain Dr Mona. He is back from the dead, but has no memory of who he is and where his family is.
Mihir is given the name Amar and is taken care of by Mona, who has started harbouring a soft corner for him. Matters are complicated more when it is revealed that Mona is the sister of Anupam, the man Tulsi is all set to marry.
What follows are tense, climactic moments when Tulsi and Mihir almost seem destined to meet, but never really make it. But other people who know Mihir meet him - Payal's friend Deepak sees him, but gets confused about his identity. Bharti's fiance Suresh Dhurander spots Mihir and is convinced he has seen a ghost.
Hemant gets engaged to Payal. Suhasi gets a shock when Aniket's mother, Monisha, turns up and wins a court case against them. She has to give up Aniket to his biological mother.
In the meantime, Anand, pushed to the edge by Sejal's taunts, decides to join the Virani family business. He decides to go all out to make money and Sejal finds that he has lesser time now to spend on her and their child, Indu. This leads to frequent fights between the two.
As Tulsi's wedding to Anupam approaches, Savita faces the prospect of losing not just her grandson, but also the woman she has learnt to love. Tulsi senses Savita's sense of loss. She tells Savita that she will get married to Anupam only on the condition that she can leave Gautam behind with the Viranis.
Savita, however, begins to ask Aarti, Kiran's wife, to give up her career and stay at home. Aarti prefers the life of a successful businesswoman, and this leads to frequent arguments between the two.
Daksha is also busy on another front - she has got Chirag engaged to Bharti and is planning to get the two married. Prajakta, Suresh and Bharti panic, but Chirag assures them that he will find a way out.
Final Episode
Parvati of Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii makes an appearance in the final episode revealing that she has Tulsi's Grandson "Parth" who is Karan and Nandini's long lost son. She states that she has raised him and that she had told Baa to name the entire wealth after him... As to where the story is to go if continued we will just have to wait and see....
Trivia
- The serial also aired in Sri Lanka on Sirasa TV every weekday at 8.00pm. In this telecast, it is dubbed into Sinhala and the name of the drama is changed to `Maha Gedara` (meaning `big home` in Sinhalese). The serial is also aired in Afghanistan on Tolo TV every weekday in dubbed Dari version. In Pakistan it is aired on Star Plus (from India) on 10:00 pm.
- Originally, the serial was titled Ammma (Mother). The serial had witnessed two 20 year generation leaps.Despite managed to gain high degree of TRPs in its kitty.The arrival of Nandini in Karan and Ansh's life in the Virani clan, brought, more fame, name and not to forget, soaring Trps to the show and the channel both and created history with the unmatched popularity of the pairing of Karan & Nandini Virani.
- KSBKBT has maintained a double digit TRP for more than over 5 years in succession setting a benchmark record in television viewer ship, and is surely having the viewers rejoice this time too with its new look and the fresh faces that are bought to the forefront.
- In spite all the controversy and the circus that this serial created around itself, it still continued to elevate by every growing day and scale the charts rapidly. The initial success of the soap and the subsequent continued patronage of the largely female audience of the show has been instrumental in changing the fortunes of the production house and in creating a successful genre of tearjerker family dramas, which still continues in the Indian TV industry.
Other Awards
| Best On-screen Couple | Hiten Tejwani Hiten Tejwani Hiten Tejwani is an Indian television actor from Mumbai, India.-Early life:Tejwani was born and brought up in Mumbai, to a cloth merchant father and a home maker mother. He has two younger brothers... & Gauri Pradhan Tejwani |
KARAN & NANDINI VIRANI | HITEN-GAURI received their First Global TV & Film Honour Award for Best Couple. | ||
| 2010 | India ne Banadi Jodi Awards | Best On-screen Jodi of the Decade | Hiten Tejwani Hiten Tejwani Hiten Tejwani is an Indian television actor from Mumbai, India.-Early life:Tejwani was born and brought up in Mumbai, to a cloth merchant father and a home maker mother. He has two younger brothers... & Gauri Pradhan Tejwani |
KARAN & NANDINI VIRANI | HITEN-GAURI received their First India ne Banadi Jodi Award for Best Couple of the Decade. |
| 2010 | BIG Star Entertainment Awards BIG Star Entertainment Awards The Big STAR Entertainment Awards are presented annually by Reliance Broadcast Network Limited in association with Star India to honour personalities from the field of entertainment across movies, music, television, sports, theatre and dance... |
BIG Star TV Show of the Decade | Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi | Ekta Kapoor Ekta Kapoor Ekta Jeetendra Kapoor is an Indian TV and film producer. She is the Creative Director and Joint Managing Director of Balaji Telefilms, her production company.-Biography:... |
Kyunki was awarded as the Best TV show of the Decade at Big Star Entertainment Awards. |
1st Generation
- Govardhan 'Bapuji' Virani -- Sudhir DalviSudhir DalviSudhir Dalvi is an Indian actor. He first came to prominence for portraying Guru Vashishta in Ramanand Sagar's TV series Ramayan, but is also well known for his role as Sai Baba in the eponymous TV series, also created by Sagar...
- Amba 'Baa' (Govardhan) Virani -- Sudha ShivpuriSudha ShivpuriSudha Shivpuri is a noted TV actress, who is most famous for her role as 'Baa' in the Hindi TV serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi .-Early life:...
2nd Generation
- Mansukh (Govardhan) Virani -- Shakti SinghShakti SinghShakti Singh is an Indian discus thrower and shot putter.His personal best shot put is 20.60 metres, achieved in July 2000 in Bangalore. His personal best discus throw is 61.72 metres, achieved in June 1994 in Bangalore.-Achievements:...
- Savita (Mansukh) Virani -- Apara MehtaApara MehtaApara Mehta is a popular television supporting actress who is best known for her role of Savita Mansukh Virani in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi.-Early life:...
- Himmat (Govardhan) Virani -- Jitendra Trehan
- Daksha (Himmat) Virani -- Ketki DaveKetki DaveKetki Dave is a Bollywood actress. She has starred in films including Money Hai Toh Honey Hai, Kal Ho Naa Ho and Aamdani Atthanni Kharcha Rupaiya, as well as the dance show Nach Baliye 2...
- Pragya (Govardhan) Virani (Naveen) Sanghvi -- Utkarsha Naik
- Naveen Sanghvi
- Jamnadas 'JD' (Govardhan) Virani -- Muni Jha
- Gayatri (Jamnadas) Virani -- Kamalika Guhathakurta
3rd Generation
- Tulsi (Mihr) Virani -- Smriti Zubin IraniSmriti Zubin IraniSmriti Zubin Irani is an Indian television actress, producer and politician, who has appeared in the Hindi television soap opera, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, in which she played the main character of Tulsi Virani....
- Mihir Virani -- Amar UpadhyayAmar UpadhyayAmar Upadhyay is an Indian model, film and television actor. The role which gave Amar his major breakthrough and is well known for is of Mihir Virani from the popular serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi on Star Plus channel.-Early life:...
/ Inder KumarInder KumarInder Kumar born on August 26, 1973 in India. His real name is Inder Verma. He is an actor in bollywood. Star Sign of Inder Kumar is Virgo.-Filmography:*Yeh Dooriyan ...... Aditya*Wanted ...... Ajay*Paying Guests ...... Murli...
/ Ronit RoyRonit RoyRonit Roy is an Indian television and Bollywood actor, known for the roles of Dharamraj Mahiyavanshi, Rishabh Bajaj, Mihir Virani and Aparajit Deb. He is now in the serial Adaalat as KD Pathak. Roy has been referred to as the Amitabh Bachchan of small screen...
- Kiran (Mansukh) Virani -- Jiten Lalwani
- Aarti Patel (Kiran) Virani -- Eva Grover / Rushali Arora
- Chirag (Himmat) Virani -- Hussain KuwajerwalaHussain KuwajerwalaHussain Kuwajerwala is an Indian actor, anchor and dancer. His most prominent roles to date have been Sumit Wadhwa in the soap Kumkum and Chirag Virani in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi...
/ Amit Mistry
- Prajakta Deshmukh (Chirag) Virani -- Tuhinaa Vohra
- Hemant (Jamnadas) Virani -- Shakti AnandShakti AnandShakti Anand is an Indian television actor best known for his role as Nikhil Samarth on the Hindi television drama series Ek Ladki Anjaani Si.-Early life and education:...
- Pooja (Hemant) Virani -- Prachi ShahPrachi ShahPrachi Shah is an Indian soap opera and film actress, most known for TV series, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi.-Filmography:* Isi Life Mein Television* Kundali * Kahin Diyaa Jale Kahin Jiyaa...
- Sejal (Jamnadas) Virani (Anand) Gandhi -- Khyati Khandke
- Anand Gandhi -- Romanchak Arora
- Suhasi (Himmat) Virani -- Pooja Ghai Rawal
- Rakesh -- Prashant Bhatt
- Vikram (Naveen) Sanghvi -- Rakesh PaulRakesh PaulRaksh Paule Raksh Paule Raksh Paule (born Rakesh Paul in Patna, Bihar, India is an Indian Television actor, known for the roles of Woh Rehne Waali Mehlon Ki. He is an alumnus of the National School of Drama.-Early life:...
- Mandira Kapadia/Priyanka (Kiran) Virani (Aditya) Gujral -- Mandira BediMandira BediMandira Bedi is an Indian actress, model and television presenter who gained celebrity status playing the title role in the 1994 television serial, Shanti, shown on India's national channel, Doordarshan which was the first ever daily soap on Indian television.She followed up her career in TV...
/ Achint KaurAchint KaurAchint Kaur is an Indian television actress who comes from a Punjabi background and is famous for working in some of the popular Hindi language drama series...
- Payal (almost Mihir) Virani Mehra
- Anupam (almost Tulsi) Kapadia
- Meeraji (Tulsi Sautan/Mihir) Virani
4th Generation
- Gautam (Mihir and Tulsi) Virani (adopted by Kiran and Aarti) -- Sumeet SachdevSumeet SachdevSumeet Sachdev is an Indian actor, producer and director. He's most popularly known as Gautam "Gomzy" Virani the oldest son of Tulsi Virani in the popular Indian television serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. Sachdev made his directorial debut in his short film Rehman Saheb Ko Phone Karna...
- Ganga Joshi aka Mehta (Gautam) Virani (Sahil) Virani -- Shilpa Saklani
- Damini (Gautam) Virani -- Riva Babber / Jasveer Kaur / Riva Babber
- Karan (Mihir and Mandira) Virani -- Hiten TejwaniHiten TejwaniHiten Tejwani is an Indian television actor from Mumbai, India.-Early life:Tejwani was born and brought up in Mumbai, to a cloth merchant father and a home maker mother. He has two younger brothers...
- Nandini (Karan) Virani -- Gauri PradhanGauri pradhanGauri Pradhan better known as Gauri Pradhan Tejwani is an Indian television actress.- Early life :Gauri Pradhan was born in Kashmir, India. Her father was a Major in the Indian Army. After he took retirement the family settled in Pune...
- Tanya (Karan) Virani -- Rakshandha KhanRakshandha KhanRakshanda Khan is a former Model and a Television Actress, Anchor in the Indian Television Industry. She is better known for her role as Mallika Seth in Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin, Tanya Virani in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, and Roshni Chopra in Kasamh Se.-Personal life:Rakshanda Khan was born on...
- Teesha (Gautam) Virani -- Ashlesha Baswana Sawant
- Ansh (Mihir) Virani aka (Aditya) Gujral -- Akashdeep SaighalAkashdeep SaighalAkashdeep Saigal is an Indian model and a television actor. He is well known for the role of Ansh Gujral from the popular serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi on Star Plus....
- Sahil (Hemant) Virani -- Sandeep BaswanaSandeep Baswana-Early life and education:Sandeep Baswana was born in Haryana, India into Baswan/Baswana Hindu Jat family and raised in various parts of Northern India. He came to Mumbai in hope of becoming a director after graduating with an MBA in 1998 from IMT Ghaziabad. After a few modeling assignments for...
/Amit Sareen / Sandeep BaswanaSandeep Baswana-Early life and education:Sandeep Baswana was born in Haryana, India into Baswan/Baswana Hindu Jat family and raised in various parts of Northern India. He came to Mumbai in hope of becoming a director after graduating with an MBA in 1998 from IMT Ghaziabad. After a few modeling assignments for...
- Indira 'Indu' (Anand) Gandhi -- Karishma TannaKarishma TannaKarishma Tanna is an Indian television and theatre actress. She is well known for her role in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi as Indira 'Indu' Gandhi...
- Aniket (Rakesh) -- Shabbir AhluwaliaShabbir AhluwaliaShabir Sebastian Ahluwalia is an Indian television actor, best known for his role as Rishi in the soap opera Kahiin to Hoga and as Milind Mishra in Kayamath. He made his debut in Bollywood with Shootout at Lokandwala...
- Shobha (Mihir) Virani (Vishal) Mehra -- Ritu Choudhry Seth
- Vishal (Pratap) Mehra -- Rohit Bakshi
- Abhishek (Pratap) Mehra-- Vivan BhatenaVivan BhatenaVivan Bhatena is an Indian model and actor. He portrayed the role of the vice captain of the India national cricket team, Abimanyu Singh, in the 2007 hit film, Chak De India.-Background:...
/Nasir Qazi
- Tripti (Sahil) Virani -- Suvarna JhaSuvarna JhaSuvarna Jha is an Indian television actress who played Tripti Virani in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi.- Career:Suvarna Jha was also apart of a 2003 bollywood movie Sssshhh. It was Farah Khan, the daughter of the yesteryear Bollywood actor Sanjay Khan who offered her role in a show titled `Jannat`...
- Ansh (Mihir) Virani aka (Aditya) Gujral -- Akashdeep SaighalAkashdeep SaighalAkashdeep Saigal is an Indian model and a television actor. He is well known for the role of Ansh Gujral from the popular serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi on Star Plus....
- Shraddha (Ansh) Gujral/Virani -- Moonmoon Bannerjee
- Karishma (Kiran) Virani (Shantanu) Dey -- Kiran Dubey
- Shantanu Dey -- Narendra JhaNarendra JhaNarendra Jha is an Indian actor known best for his role in the television series Ravan.-References:...
- Harsh (Raj) Bhasin (adopted by Mihir and Tulsi) Virani -- Mehul Kajaria
- Mohini (Harsh) Virani -- Tasneem Sheikh
- Tarun (Hemant) Virani -- Abhijeet Khurana / Alok Arora
- Tushar (Rakesh) -- Manoj Bohra / Pradeep Kharab / Samir Sharma
- Savri (Chirag) Virani --
- Bavri (Chirag) Virani—- Hansika MotwaniHansika MotwaniHansika Motwani is an Indian actress and a former child actress. She has worked in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada films.-Early life:Hansika Motwani was born in Mangalore, India. Her father Pradeep Motwani is a businessman, and her mother is Seema Motwani, a dermatologist...
/Amita Chandekar
- Hitesh (Chirag) Virani-- Aditya Kapadia
- Sunny (Chirag) Virani-- Anurag Nigam
- Hotel Manager -- Sunny MozaSunny MozaSunny Moza is an Indian actor/director based in California. He appears mostly in independent movies, commercials and TV. He has also performed stand-up comedy at various events including Waheeda Rehman's fundraiser for Pratham....
5th Generation
- Youraj (Gautam) Virani (Gautam and Damini's elder son) -- Chetan Hansraj
- Priyanka (youraj) Virani -- Riya ChopraRiyaRiya, born February 18, is a female Japanese singer from Fukuoka, Japan. In her early career, she admired Akino Arai. Riya eventually became the lead singer and lyricist to the J-pop band Eufonius, which debuted in 2004.- Albums :...
- Krishna Tulsi(KT) (adopted by Tulsi) (Eklavya) Virani -- Mouni RoyMouni RoyMouni Roy is an Indian actress. Mouni is a very popular actress in Indian television. Mouni is best friends with Narayani Shastri, Reshmi Ghosh and Sanjeeda Sheikh...
- Eklavya (adopted by Gautam) Virani {born Ansh Virani/Gujral and Shraddha Gujral} -- Amey PandyaAmey PandyaAmey Pandya, is an Indian child actor active in Indian television and cinema. He is also sometimes credited as Ameya Pandya.-Career:...
- (Child Artiste) / Akashdeep SaighalAkashdeep SaighalAkashdeep Saigal is an Indian model and a television actor. He is well known for the role of Ansh Gujral from the popular serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi on Star Plus....
- Bhoomi (Ansh and Nandini then as Karan daughter) Virani Chunky(Child Artist) / Reshmi GhoshReshmi GhoshReshmi Ghosh is an Indian beauty queen and actress.Since being crowned Miss India Earth 2002. Ghosh has appeared in several Bollywood films as well as appearing in television series and advertisements.-Television Serials:...
- Nakul (Sahil) Virani {born Gautam Virani but later adopted by Sahil & Ganga} -- Naman ShawNaman ShawNaman Shaw is an Indian television actor notable for his roles as Pushkar in Zee TV's drama series Kasamh Se, as Nakul in STAR Plus's series Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. and in Kasautii Zindagii Kay as Nihaal. Shaw has also played small roles in other Balaji Telefilms serials such as a brief...
- Saanchi (Nakul's gf)-- Kritika SinghalKritika SinghalKratika Sengar is an Indian television actress. Popularly known as P2 in the hit Indian soap opera Kasautii Zindagii Kay. She has also played a cameo in "Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi" where she played the role of "Saanjhi".She also played Naina in Kya Dill Mein Hai, a show on channel 9x...
/Anita Hassanandani
- Laksh (Sahil) Virani -- Pulkit SamratPulkit SamratPulkit Samrat is an actor and model, is best known for starring as Lakshya Virani in the popular show Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi.-Biography:Pulkit Samrat a was born in Delhi...
/ Yash PanditYash PanditYash Pandit is a Bollywood film and television actor, most known as a lead in Rok Sako To Rok Lo and Begali film 'Faltu and TV daily soap, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi.-Career:...
- Vaidehi (Laksh) Virani - Twinkle BajpaiTwinkle BajpaiTia Bajpai was a finalist on the reality television music competition show, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005. She also participated in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Ek Main Aur Ek Tu, a duet singing competition, where she won the Judges Choice Award along with her partner Vishwas...
- Mayank (Gautam) Virani -- Rahul Lohani
- Joydeep Virani- Manav Vij
- Manthan (Karan and Tanya) Virani -- Amit TandonAmit TandonAmit Tandon is an Indian musician and television actor.He was first seen on television as one of the 11 finalists of the first season of Indian Idol. He was eliminated early and has since become a television actor whilst doing music. In 2008, he released his debut solo album Tanha. He has recently...
- Parth (Karan and Nandini) Virani— still unknown
- Archita (Harsh) Virani -- Gunjan Vijaya
- Pushkar (Vishal) Mehra --
- Pari (Abhishek) Mehra -- Garima Bhatnagar
Non-Viranis
- Payal Parikh (Pratap) Mehra -- Jaya BhattacharyaJaya BhattacharyaJaya Battacharya is an Indian television actress. She has also done small roles in movies. She is of Bengali descent.-Acting career:In the Hindi movie Saathiya, she played a small role being the sister-in-law of the main character, Vivek Oberoi. She also played a small role in the 2002 Bollywood...
- Pratap Mehra -- Mayan Patel
- Anupam Kapadia -- Aman VermaAman VermaAman Yatan Verma is a TV show anchor and an actor. He co-hosted with Mini Mathur in the first season of Indian Idol on Sony Entertainment Television and hosted Zee TV's Zee Cinestars.-Career:...
- Kesar (Anupam) Kapadia—Narayani ShastriNarayani shastriNarayani Shastri is an Indian television and theatre actress.Shastri was educated at Symbiosis College in Pune, and later moved to Government Law College in Mumbai.Narayani had dated boyfriend Gaurav Chopra.-Career:...
/Resham Seth
- Rajeev Mehra—Amaad Hussain
- Raj Bhasin -- Vishal Puri
- Abir (Raj) Bhasin-- Manoj Bidvai/Vikas SethiVikas SethiVikas Sethi is an Indian actor on the hit Indian soap opera Kasautii Zindagii Kay where he plays the role of Prem. He appeared in the fourth season of Nach Baliye performing along with his wife, Amita.-Filmography:...
- Kabir -- Chaitanya Chaudhary
- Meera Singhania -- Shubhaavi K
- Aditya Gujral -- Salim Shah
- Maansingh Chauhan -- Chetan Hansraj
- Vijay Saxena -- Makarand Deshpande
- Kaushalya (Kaush) Malhotra Smith -- Suhasini MulaySuhasini MulaySuhasini Mulay is an Indian actress in Bollywood and Marathi films as well as television. She won National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1999, for her performance in Gulzar's film Hu Tu Tu.-Early life and education:...
- Inspector Aryan- Sandeep RajoraSandeep RajoraSandip Rajora is an Indian model who has also acted in a number of television serials.- About Him :He studied in the Army Public School, New Delhi. Since his father was in the Army, the family had to shift he had to shift to Pune and he completed his MBA from Pune University. Then he got his first...
- Godawari (Junagadhwali) Daadi -- Induben Mehta
- ACP Ragini -- Sudha ChandranSudha ChandranSudha Chandran is an accomplished Bharatanatyam dancer, Indian film and television actress, who turned to acting following the loss of a leg in an accident in May 1981 near Trichy, Tamil Nadu.-Early life and education:...
- Shiv Singhania -- Yash TonkYash TonkYash Tonk is an Indian actor from Sonipat District, Haryana. He was brought up in a middle-class family at Hisar, Haryana where his father works as Chief Security officer in Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. He studied at Campus School in Hisar. He is married to Gauri Yadav Tonk; they were a...
- Manager -- Rocky VermaRocky VermaRocky Verma is an Indian film actor.-Early life:Verma was born at Indore, Madhya Pradesh. His father, Arjunsingh Verma, was a teacher and classical radio singer....
- Juhi Thakral -- Gautami Kapoor
- Jas Thakral -- Ram KapoorRam KapoorRam Kapoor is an Indian television actor noted particularly for his portrayal of Jai Walia on Kasamh Se' & also for his charecter Ram Kapoor in the very populay daily, Bade Achhe Lagte Hain.He rose to prominence as the host of Rakhi ka Swayamvar'. He is the only actor to win the Indian Telly...
- Billy Thakral -- Salil AcharyaSalil AcharyaSalil Acharya is a Hindi Cinema and Indian TV Actor who has appeared in the hit Mohit Suri's filmAwarapan and lots more Hindi films and Salil has also appeared in a number of TV Shows and made a name for himself in the world of fiction with dramas , reality shows and hosting a number of shows asa...
- Aseem Gupta -- Nikhil Arya
- Heer(Cameo) -- Additi GuptaAdditi GuptaAditi Gupta is an Indian television actress. She debuted in Balaji Telefilms soap Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil opposite Harshad Chopra when she was just 19 years old. Her hometown is Bhopal. Gupta is a fashion designer by profession from Pune. She is best known for playing the female lead Heer in...
- Rishabh (Tripti's other husband) -- Prabhat Bhattacharya
Crossover
- Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii and KayamathKayamathKayamath is an Indian soap opera that aired on STAR Plus and is created by Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms. The soap started airing on February 19, 2007 and ended on March 12, 2009.-Plot:...
on March 21, 2007
- Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii on December 20, 2007