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Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (Pronunciation in IPA: /kjõki saːs bʰiː kəbʰiː bəhuː t̪ʰiː/; Hindi: क्योंकि सास भी कभी बहू थी; lit., Because a Mother-in-law was once a Daughter-in-law too) is a popular Hindi soap opera produced by Balaji Telefilms, that revolves around the lives of the fictitious Virani family.
Originally, the serial was supposed to be called Amma (Mother), but was revised to the current title on the suggestion of the costume designer.
[edit] Claim to fame
The pilot episode aired in the year 2000, at the same time as Kaun Banega Crorepati (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?). The show was an immediate success, and gained audiences not only in India, but also with Hindi viewers in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Canada, United States of America, United Kingdom, Australia, Kenya, Mauritius and New Zealand.[citation needed]
The show achieved the all time highest television ratings of any serial in the history of Indian television.[citation needed]
[edit] Original plot
The story, set in Mumbai, focuses on the Virani family which hails from Gujarat. The Viranis are quite successful and well-known in the corporate world. The story is focused on Tulsi Virani, daughter of the family priest, who elopes with the family's eldest son, Mihir. All the members except Govardhan Virani, the patriarch, and Amba Virani, the matriarch, 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 (Smriti Irani) for instigating the family's eldest son, Mihir for marrying him and entering the 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 her mother-in-law's devrani (wives of the younger brothers of a woman's husband), in this case Savita.
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. Along the road, many new characters enter the scene and the episodes are spiced up with several affairs. The archenemies of Tulsi outside the household is Payal, Mihir's one time fiancee who instigates members of the Virani household, especially Savita, to boot Tulsi out of the house so she could have another chance at Mihir. However, Mihir dies (misconception of the family, he has amnesia and is in Delhi) and the bitter fight over Mihir is over between Tulsi and Payal. Due to family pressure, Tulsi agrees to marry another man, but at the altar, Mihir comes back and joy is back in the heart of Tulsi. But, the doctor who took care of Mihir, Mandira is the sister of the groom, Anupam who was supposed to marry Tulsi and plans to get Mihir, since she has fallen in love with him and comes up with some plans to devastate the marriage of Tulsi and Mihir. One of them is feigning pregnancy. In the process, Payal tries to forget Mihir and decides to enter the household by marrying Hemant, Mihir's younger brother and then destroying the entire family, since even Savita won't support her now. But, at last, Truth triumphs and all the misconceptions are gone and everything is fair and well. Tulsi also gives birth to a son, named Gautam who is adopted by her barren sister-in-law. Due to jealousy and animosity, she runs away with the child and her husband, Kiran, younger brother of Mihir to Australia and everyone is shocked. Tulsi tries to forget her son and gives birth to a daughter named Shobha. Pooja, Mihir's cousin Hemant's wife, gives birth to a boy named Sahil.
[edit] The first 20 year leap
This was the timeleap during which the transition was made, at first gradually, from KSBKBT's actors presenting the story to KSBKBT's story presenting whatever actors were both available and popular. At least until the arrival of the charismatic villainous Ansh midway through this timeleap, no character from any generation was totally neglected. Hemant and Pooja were actively taking sides during the Mandira situation, and Chirag and Prajakta were significant during the prelude to the denouement of Harsh’s true parentage. But after the hugely popular Ansh’s arrival?
[edit] Mandira
Then Tulsi saw the supposedly twenty-years deceased Mandira alive with Mihir, and became circumstantially convinced that Mihir had concealed Mandira’s existence to have a longstanding affair with her. Mihir explained the truth about the coercive circumstances created by Mandira, but Tulsi didn't believe him.
Karan then revealed to Tulsi that he was Mihir’s and Mandira’s son. Since Karan believed his mother’s lifelong lies, he blamed Mihir and turned Tulsi against Mihir.
The whole family turned against Mihir, except most recent entrant Teesha who looked on Tulsi and Mihir as her parents rather than in-laws and was certain Mihir loved and adored only Tulsi. After the Gautam-Teesha and Sahil-Ganga weddings, Mihir was goaded by Tulsi into leaving the house. The balancing sweetness in the family came from the doting ‘sisters’ equation established by Teesha and Ganga, and they began to get the distant Sahil and Gautam more and more cordial to each other. Then Shobha and Teesha both became pregnant and everyone was delighted.
But the shadow of the Mandira situation wreaked havoc again, and first Shobha had a miscarriage, and then after Mihir proved Mandira’s truth to everyone except Karan, Mandira tried to kill Tulsi and inadvertently killed Teesha and her unborn daughter instead, as well as faking Mandira’s own death.
Karan still thought his mother was a saint, so he continued his attacks against the Viranis and especially Tulsi’s championing son Gautam. Gautam finally retaliated by tricking Karan’s love and support Damini into marriage but then felt guilty for separating her from her love and tried to reunite her and Karan. But Damini decided to stick with the marriage, and she and Gautam grew to love each other and she and Karan became best friends and confidantes.
Then Karan was proven the truth about Mandira, and Tulsi was persuaded by the Viranis to accept him as her son. Remorseful Karan adored Tulsi, replacing Gautam as her foremost champion, and became the perfect dutiful Virani son. Sahil’s maasi’s (mother’s sister) daughter Nandini arrived and became Karan’s love-interest.
[edit] Ansh
Then it was revealed that Harsh was really Tulsi's sister’s son, and had been interchanged with Tulsi's own son. After a lot of efforts, it was found out that Ansh Gujral, a psychopathic young underworld scion, was Tulsi's longlost son. He was obsessed with Nandini, and entered the Virani family and pretended to improve into a good son and person to trick Tulsi into matchmaking him with Nandini.
Karan sacrificed his love, and Ansh and Nandini married. But he made her life hell, and turned everyone against Karan and Nandini. Gautam and Damini had twin sons, but since Ganga had a miscarriage, Gautam was coerced into giving his elder son to Ganga.
Ansh finally raped Nandini. He also arranged the murder of Shobha’s husband Vishal without letting Abhishek know. Abhishek was Ansh’s crime-associate, Vishal’s business-partner, fond of Vishal, in love with Shobha, and trying to use Vishal without getting him hurt.
Tulsi shot Ansh dead, but – thanks to the zealous efforts of her lawyer friend Meera and Karan – she was sentenced to only three years imprisonment.
Nandini was pregnant with Ansh’s child when she and Karan married. Pregnant Shobha married Abhishek, and bore first Vishal’s son and then Abhishek’s daughter. Nandini went into coma while giving birth to daughter Bhumi, and Karan was persuaded to marry close friend Tanya to provide Bhumi with a mother.
Ganga gave birth to a son Lakshya. When Tanya was happy in marriage with Karan, Nandini came out of coma and returned into Karan’s life. Doctors said Nandini must not have trauma, so Karan’s marriage to Tanya was kept secret.
[edit] Mandira's back
Mandira is soon back and wreaks havoc yet again, she has also married Aditya Gujral! As she comes back and brainwashes Karan, or so she thinks, yet its all a drama arranged by Tulsi and Karan, everyone goes against Tulsi yet soon Gautam is kidnapped, but later rescued by Karan and Tulsi.
Thus Mandira decides to kidnap Bhumi, Nandini's daughter. But is caught and due to Tulsi, Karan and Gautam's testament in court and Meera's good lawyer skills, is imprisoned. Yet Mandira knows that Meera has a burning Passion for Mihir!
[edit] Tulsi gets cancer
After this Mandira crisis it turns out that Tulsi has lung cancer, and is admitted in hospital and is awaiting her death, everyone comes to see her and soon they all fear that she will die any instant yet after a few weeks worth of episodes, the melodrama ends, when it turns out that the reports were wrong and she is perfectly healthy! to generate more 'masala' and 'Hungama'
[edit] Gujral's back
Ansh’s foster-father Aditya Gujral came to avenge his son’s death, and made the Viranis’ lives hell, taking over their business and wanting custody of ‘grand-daughter’ Bhumi. Nandini finally killed him, and was sentenced to 14 years life imprisonment. (Yes, Tulsi got three years for defending the adult Nandini, and Nandini got 14 years for defending her little daughter!) As per Gujral's will, most of his wealth went to Bhumi but since she was a minor, Nandini looked after the money.
And after she was imprisoned, she requested Karan to look for some Shraddha, whose name was in the will, to give her her share. Tulsi and Tanya investigated and found out about Ansh’s beloved....
[edit] Shraddha?
Shraddha, as it turns out, was Ansh's adored wife and mother of his child, but when she found out that she was terminally ill with a heart-ailment, she left Ansh after lying to him that she was having an affair, because if he found out the truth, the news would simply devastate him. Unfortunately, her performance convinced him so well that she had no hope of undoing the damage when her doting husband turned into a psychopath after the leaving of his 'adulterous' wife.
Shraddha had a son (Eklavya) who, when she died from a heart attack, was taken by Tulsi and Tanya to Shantinektan, where not everyone believed he was Ansh's son. In particular Savita. She claimed that Tulsi has just picked up any old kid and brought him home to mitigate her guilt for Ansh's death. After one accident where Eklavya accidntally pushed Bhoomi, causing her to bang her head on the marble floor and have severe bleeding, that (very laughably and stupidly, because this was really inaccurate enough to laugh at) they had to get a C.A.T. scan done. Savita now hated Tulsi even more for bringing Eklavya home. So after a huge family fight, usual in these soaps, Savita wanted to leave, she said either she or Eklavya would stay here. But Tulsi said she'd leave with Eklavya, who almost everyone loved, other than Savita.
On the morning of leaving, when Tulsi was about to go, she was stopped by Gautam who showed legal documents to the family that he had now adopted Eklavya (without his wife Damini's involvement?!), that he was the legal father of Eklavya now, and that it was Mihir's solution to resolve the crisis. Savita was furious that her son and grandson both sided against her for Tulsi. Tulsi gradually bridged to some extent the distance Savita maintained with Ekalavya.
[edit] Savita VS Tulsi
Meera (who loved Mihir) had turned negative, and turned Savita completely against Tulsi. Shobha got into politics with her mother-in-law Payal, and Tulsi encouraged her to do it, yet Savita is completely against all things Tulsi says or does.
Yet soon Shobha gets shot and Savita lmes Tulsi, she is not letting Tulsi even see her daughter after the accident, let alone nursing her better! Meanwhile Meera is given the task of looking after Shobha, yet the trio of 'bahus', daughter-in-laws (Damini, Ganga and Tanya) find a way of letting Shobha and Tulsi meet.
When Savita realized she had been played against Tulsi, she went against Meera. Mandira and Meera united and arranged Savita’s accident (crushing Savita with a bulldozer), while all the Viranis except Tulsi were abroad for a few days to attend Mihir's nephew's wedding, turning Savita into a semi-vegetable (she could move her arm with the finger she pointed with at Tulsi every time, yet not the rest of her body).
[edit] Savita dead, Tulsi framed
In a storyline that was widely panned by critics of the show as treating the crucial ethical dilemma of euthanasia very lightly, Tulsi took only a few days to consent to the tormented Savita’s pleas for euthanasia. After Ansh’s death, Savita’s death became the second wedge in Tulsi’s and Mihir’s relationship.
A long court case followed, with family members taking sides of Tulsi or Meera, who was fighting a case against Tulsi for the 'Savita Virani murder case'. No lawyer want's to fight for Tulsi yet Karan sets on a mission to find one.
And he does, in a pub where he meets Vijay Saxena, who agrees to fight and win, even though he had never won a case before). Soon the case ends branding Tulsi with the verdict of NOT GUILTY. All is well and everyone is happy, all but Gayatri, who is the heir to Savita's ego and easily made biased mind.
[edit] Scheming and lies to follow
Amongst all this Harsh’s scheming gold-digger wife Mohini made two alliances (Meera and Tripti) and her connivance was invaluable in the ouster of two Virani wives (Tulsi and Ganga). Ganga was tricked into believing Sahil was having an affair with Mohini, and humiliated the innocent Sahil, whomshe accused of sleeping with Mohini, resulting in her conceiving; and then letting her have an abortion, into Mohini’s secret best friend Tripti’s arms.
Sahil felt he was with Tripti after Ganga had thrown him out of her life, and Ganga thought he was a serial philanderer with extramarital affairs with first Mohini and then Tripti. Instead of making Ganga see sense and dragging Sahil back, Tulsi sided with Ganga and threw Sahil out of the house.
Sahil’s grandmother Gayatri sided with Sahil and threw Ganga out of the house to bring in Sahil and Tripti, refusing to let Ganga take Nakul and Lakshya with her. Meera convinced Mihir that Tulsi had forced euthanasia on Savita against Savita’s wishes, and Mihir threw Tulsi out of the house. He then burned all photos of her. Circumstances led everyone to believe Tulsi was dead, and Karan turned against Mihir. (First for not valuing Mandira, then for not valuing Tulsi. Karan valued Mihir only if Mihir was valuing whoever Karan considered ‘mother’ at the time!)
Remorseful teetotaler Mihir turned into an overnight alcoholic, and also made a sketch of Tulsi. But Tulsi secretly returned home a few days later, only the problem was her trust in Mihir was as fragile as his in her, and when she saw Meera initiating an embrace (Mihir repulsed it just as hidden Tulsi turned away) and heard tabloid-reporters discussing the ‘inevitable’ nuptials of the ‘recently bereaved widower’ Mihir Virani with Meera, she left the house and the city without checking the facts. She went to Haridwar, and adopted an abandoned baby girl, who was thereafter named Krishnatulsi (“Tulsi” off Tulsi’s own name, and the prefixed “Krishna” since this was during the Krishnapaksh part of the month by the Hindu calendar).
Later Mihir wen't to Meera's house, drunk and spent the night there doing nothing, yet in the morning, during Mihir's ((hangover))she accused (oviously falsely) of ((raping)) her, and said she wouldn't reveal the truth is she were brought back to Shantiniket
[edit] The 20 year leap
Soon twenty years alapse after Tulsi's supposed 'death', and everyone, including Meera thinks she had died. Yet she is alive and well in the holy city of Haridwar. She also adopted a girl she found, floating on the river ganga, on a basket over a few flowers and leaves. Soon Tulsi takes her as her own daughter calling her Krishna Tulsi.
Ushering in with its generation next the 7 new faces will hold the new look of the show as they get introduced in the Virani family. KSBKBT has maintained a double digit TRP for more than over 5 years in succession setting a benchmark record in television viewership, and is sure to have the viewers rejoicing this time too with its new look, that the fresh faces bring to the show, with this leap.
Commenting on the occasion said Shailja Kejriwal, Senior Creative Director, Star India, "It was absolutely logical to take this leap, as even after 5 years Kyunki, remains a clear leader amongst television soaps across channels, and to remain at that level its always important to constantly innovate, so it was essential to bring in freshness to the story, with this leap into the future."
Ever since Tulsi left 'Shantiniketan', the house hasn't seen a single day filled with happiness or joy. Ganga's moving out of the house too, has lead to the unsought entry of conniving- Meera into the Virani's house, which is no longer left with any sense of warmth or togetherness. Because of which Mihir finds himself disoriented & totally lost in the dismal situation that 'Shantiniketan' is in. Aging & going forward 20 years the show will bring in a breeze of newness & hope to Virani parivaar as it unveils the 4th generation of the family along with its new protagonist or the heir to Tulsi's legacy named Krishna Tulsi- a new character in the show, she will be a strong character rooted to the culture & family values which are characterized by her innocence, intelligence and go-getter attitude.
Elaborating on Krishna Tulsi, Ekta Kapoor said, "It is time Tulsi passes on the baton to the younger generation. I was very particular about what I wanted from the actor as it is a very important role that she, as Krishna Tulsi, will be playing and I am happy that I narrowed down to the best. I am quite sure she will do complete justice to the role. For six years Kyunki, has been the No 1 serial and the mix of characters will make the plot all the more interesting. Not only the new characters, but also the new sets and the new look of the existing characters will make the prime slot worth waiting."
The serial introduces a mix of characters be it the religious, mischievous, sensitive (Krishna) Laksh, son of Sahil & Ganga, Nakul, who is bitter due to his non-wealthy status and is extremely protective of his family and hates Manthan because of his brash attitude. Then there is also the leader Bhoomi - a spoilt brat and a tomboy, who is the biological daughter of Nandini & Ansh, and the adopted daughter of Nandini and Karan. We will also see Akashdeep Saighal (Ansh) coming back to the show in the role of Eklavya, where he plays Ansh's son but in a positive role. The family mix completes with Manthan, son of Karan & Tanya, who like Meera and Mandira is shrewd, brooding and very manipulative. Living with this family is also the self-effacing geek Joydeep, a distant relative to the family of Sahil's family, now adopted by Sahil.
Now that all the children are grown up, they start having arguments again. Lakshya Falls in love with Krishnatulsi. And Manthan and Nakul do not get on very well.
Also the show will feature the return of Ganga, in a rather glamorous role, whom Trupti looks on with increasing fear and hate. Ganga, hates Sahil for robbing her of her children and blames Trupti for turning her children Nakul and Lakshya against her, and plans to take revenge on Sahil and Trupti, while trying to win back the love of her children.
Eklayva plays the role of the big brother of the family whom all respect and love and even Bhoomi and Manthan grudingly accept his status as they are somewhat cowed down by his personality and Charisma. He is the perfect Virani son, like Mihir was in his young age, or that is what we are supposed to think before the twist happens.
Bhoomi plays a very spoilt and headstrong brat, who likes to flaunt her wealth and status and considers everyone else inferior and gives little respect to family elders and values. She cares only for Karan to a very great extent, and to a lesser extent about tanya, who she knows as her mother and Manthan, her brother.She is so arrogant, that she doesn't care whether others live or die because of her actions except her mother Nandini and father Karan
Archita, is the daughter of Harsh and Mohini, a young girl whom everyone in the family loves. She is to some extent like Indu, but more mature and childish at the same time. She is fond of eklavya as he is her big brother who cares for her very much. She and KrishnaTulsi become good friends. Mohini is sad that her daughter has not become a scheming gold-digger like her. Rather, she has become the perfect Virani daughter, much like Tulsi's daughter Shobha was.
Nakul, Sahil and Ganga's eldest son and Lakshya's big brother, is a bitter young man, who suffers from a sort of inferiority complex as they are very poor compared to other family members. Particularly Karan's family, as his children spare no expense to humiliate his father. He loves his father very much and is very hard working and intelligent. He hates Manthan fiercely which is matched only by Manthan's hatred for him and they often fight to the extent of going to blows. He loves Trupti very much as he doesn't know her truth and hates Ganga for abandoning him. Apart, from all this he is an extremely nice person who likes to join Lakshya in playing pranks on Archita and Joydeep, two persons he is extremely fond of.
[edit] Th New Plot
Soon it is Baa's 100th birthday, everyone is celebrating, even Tulsi celebratd it in her own special way. Yet soon even Baa is tired of Meera's presence and her negativity towrds Tulsi. Others tell Mihir to marry Meera yet Mihir, still shattered over Tulsi's death refuses to do so. Meera get's extremely irratated and she does what she's best at, which is being a pain. Soon Karan and Sahil compete for a contract and Tripti interfeers in the household, to everyone's outrage.
Soon Baa is tired of this petty arguments and want's to go to the holy city of haridwar to pray for Tulsi's soul, all the family are in agreement on the fact that if she want's to go she can! Meanwhile Sahil is horrified to find that Karan has got the contract for the virani group of industries, before him.
[edit] Krishna Tulsi- KT
Soon all the family go to Haridwar, where Meera thinks she has seen Tulsi. Then A few days later Krishna Tulsi has got a scholarship at a top Mumbai college, and asks Tulsi to accompanny her.
Krishna Tulsi decides to come to Mumbai for a job and ends up in the Virani group of Industries working for Mihir, but dosent know that Tulsi is of that family and wife of Mihir.
Lakshya, (the child of Sahil and Ganga)and KT (Krishna Tulsi) fall in love, later in the show, however Eklavya also falls in love with her, though KT gets engaged to Eklavya to make Tulsi happy and does not want to leave Lalshya, but Laksh tells KT to make Tulsi happy rather than himself. But During Eklavya's and KT's engagement Tulsi stops them and gets Lakshya and KT engaged instead.
Manthan (Son of Karan and Tanya) hates KT's guts so he keeps attempting to make her life a complete misery. all these attempts include framing KT of dealing with drugs which put her in prison but the case was solved later on. Mihir who deaply trust her, helps KT to come out of jail and find the real culprit who framed her.
[edit] MMT
Meawhile in Shantiniketan, the "terrible trio" (Meera, Mohini and Tripti-MMT)trying to kill Mihir so they can get his wealth, in this way, Mihir is extremely injured and in Hospital.
Tulsi eventually comes to te hospital for some reason and finds Baa there, so tries to meet her after 20 years but sees MMT there, she sees Meera wearing sindoor and thinks that Mihir has married her, which he hasn't! And decides to go back to Haridwar. (details to follow.
[edit] Meera!
Tulsi doesn't return to Haridwar due to some problem in Mumbai, where she is later caught in a human stampede and is nearly killed but is pulled into a car of a stranger who savs her life, none other than: Mihir! They spend some time talking and Tulsi is touched by his love. Although thinks that he and Meera are married.
Meera tells Mihir that Tulsi married again and that Krishna Tulsi (KT) is the product of the marriage. Mihir is heartbroken, and during the same time Manthan tries to frame KT for a court case the next day, but KT's boyfriend Lakshya finds out and some how stops Meera from framing KT.
In court Mihir gives a testament against KT, who want's Tulsi to go back to Shantiniketan. But during the court case Meera says she is part of the Virani family, but is by Vijay Saxena, who is KT's lawyer (employed by Karan) who says that she has just being living there.
KT wins the case, while Tulsi is shocked to find out that Mihir and Meera aren't married. later KT tells her that they are getting married. Soon meera brings the divorce paper to Tulsi but Tulsi refuses to sign. And Mihir rejects Meera during the wedding, creating a huge scene.
Meera is enraged and hires a hitman to kill Tulsi and calls Shantiniketa to say she dead in a very psychotic way. Due to which Baa has a heart attack. But Tulsi is saved by Karan and Mihir. Tulsi is informed about Baa's heart attack and is told to come to Shantiniketan, she agrees, and goes after 20 years. Baa tries to give the keys to house which mean that she is the leade of the family, but Tulsi refuses and leaves.
Meera is furious by what has happened and decides to kill Tulsi herself! She goes to her house and tries to shoot her but Meera's plan fails and she is arrested and put in prison. Tulsi is asked to come to Shantiniketan again, she agrees, but only till Baa is sick.
[edit] Return of Daksha and Rape of KT
After much on-off-on stories, Ketaki Dave who plays Daksha chachi (famous for her arara) has returned to the serial to provide comic relief. Also, two love triangles, one between Nandini, Karan and Tanya, and the other between Lakshya, KT and Eklavya is prominently shown. KT has also been raped by an unknown Virani family member, and it's up to Tulsi, Nandini and karan to find out who he is and render justice.however initial investigation shows Eklavya to be the culprit which no one want's to believe. At first, Tulsi doesn't believe that it is Eklavya, but because of some misunderstanding, she also thinks that Eklavya's the culprit and throws him in jail. Also many scenes point out that either Manthan himself is perpetrator or had given money to someone to do this act. But recent episode showed that Damini's son Mayank is the culprit. Mayank's reason for raping KT is that he loves her but she loves Lakshya. Damini does slaps Mayank but doesn't wants her son to loss. Damini, who fears Mayank being sent to jail, falsely tells Tulsi that the rapist is MANTHAN. Also, Eklavya is becoming just like his father Ansh because of everyone falsely accusing him of raping KT. He threatens Tulsi that HE will not die so soon like his father did, at least not in this lifetime.But this could also be his acting so as to save his younger brother and bring the suspicion on himself as he hold gratitude towards Damini for raising him as his son.It is seems due to lack of storyline ekta kapoor is going back to her old ways
[edit] When does it air?
The serial currently airs on STAR Plus, Monday to Friday at 10:00 p.m in the United Kingdom and Monday to Friday 10:30pm in India. To watch it in US Live, subscribe to Direct TV.
[edit] International distribution
The serial airs in Sri Lanka on Sirasa TV every week day at 8.00pm. In this telecast it is dubed into Sinhala and the name of the drama is changed to 'Maha Gedara' (meaning big home in Sinhalese).
The serial also is 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.
[edit] Characters
Virani family
1st generation
- Govardhan 'Baapuji' Virani -- Dilip Thakur, Sudhir Dalvi
- Amba 'Baa' (Govardhan)Virani -- Sudha Shivpuri
2nd generation
- Mansukh (Govardhan)Virani -- Shakti Singh
- Savita (Mansukh)Virani -- Apara Mehta
- Himmat (Govardhan)Virani -- Jitendra Trehan
- Daksha (Himmat)Virani -- Ketki Dave
- Pragya (Govardhan)Virani(Naveen)Sanghvi -- Utkarsha Naik
- Naveen Sanghvi --
- Jamnadas 'JD'(Govardhan)Virani -- Muni Jha
- Gayatri (Jamnadas)Virani -- Kamalika Guhathakurta
3rd generation
- Tulsi (Mihir)Virani -- Smriti Z Irani
- 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
- 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
- Damini Khanna(Gautam)Virani -- Riva Babbar, Ravee Gupta, Riva Babber
- Aniket -- Shabbir Ahluwalia
- Indira 'Indu'(Anand)Gandhi -- Karishma Tanna
- Shobha (Mihir)Virani(Vishal)Mehra -- Ritu Choudhry Seth
- Vishal (Pratap)Mehra -- Rohit Bakshi
- Abhishek -- Vivan Bhatena, Nasir Qazi
- Sahil (Hemant)Virani -- Sandeep Baswana, Amit Sareen, Sandeep Baswana
- Ganga Joshi(Gautam)Virani(Sahil)ViraniJoshi aka Mehta -- Shilpa Saklani Agnihotri
- Karan (Mihir)Virani -- Hiten Tejwani
- Ansh (Mihir)Virani aka(Aditya)Gujral -- Akashdeep Saigal
- Nandini Thakkar(Ansh)Virani(Karan)Virani -- Gauri Pradhan Tejwani
- Tanya Malhotra(Karan)Virani -- Rakshanda Khan
- Shraddha (Ansh)Gujral{posthumously(Ansh)Virani} -- Moonmoon Bannerjee
- 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} -- Akashdeep Saigal
- Nakul (Sahil)Virani{born (Gautam)Virani} -- Naman Shaw
- Mayank (Gautam)Virani -- Rahoul
- Bhumi (Karan)Virani {nee(Ansh)Virani} -- Chinky Jaiswal, Reshmi Ghosh
- Pushkar (Vishal)Mehra --
- Laksh (Sahil)Virani -- Pulkit Samrat
- Pari (Abhishek) Mehra -- Garima Bhatnagar
- Manthan (Karan and Tanya)Virani -- Amit Tandon
- Archita (Harsh)Virani -- Gunjan
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
- Maansingh Chauhan -- Chetan Hansraj
- Vijay Saxena -- Makarand Deshpande
- Kaushalya (Kaush)MalhotraSmith -- Suhasini Mulay
- Krishnatulsi -- Mouni Roy
- Joydeep -- Manav Vij
- Abir -- Manoj Bidvai, Vikas Sethi
- Inspector Aryan- Sandeep Rajora
[edit] Salary report
According to each contract, each of the characters gets a specific amount of money, that is kept quite confidential, but early in 2005, reports were spilled to several key journal entries, that the main character, Tulsi Virani, played by Smriti Malhotra Irani gets paid Rs. 50,000 ($1000) per show, or in other words, around $405,000 per year.
[edit] Trivia
- In April 2005 the show celebrated its 1000th episode as well as the completion of 5 years on the air.
- After the death of Mihir Virani in its early stages, the public forced (Ekta Kapoor), the producer/director of the serial, to revive the character, and it was supposedly done so according to the wishes of the public. Contrary information holds, on the other hand, that Mihir's re-entry was planned along with his 'death' and everyone kept their mouths shut to boost the ratings.
- With the prominence of the serial and the popularity or notoriety of the characters, it is very common for people to start a chat with the famous character when they meet in shops and people even get physically hostile with actors playing villains and vamps in the serial and causing trouble to the lead protagonist Tulsi.
- Karan-Nandini's marriage was held according to public demand..they were the famous On-screen couple Of KUTUMB and soon after Nandini's arrival in KSBKBT Gauri and Hiten got married in real life.
