Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai

Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai is an Indian musical blockbuster romance drama-series that aired on Sony TV produced by Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms in March, 2005. It is known as one of Ekta Kapoors most popular show till date. It became a huge hit among the young & mature audience, and is till date remembered as the DDLJ of Television. The leads Iqbal Khan(Angad) and Neha Bamb(Kripa) shot to fame overnight with this serial. The drama is currently being repeated on Set USA.

Plot

The show starts out with a very young girl, Kripa Sharma (Neha Bamb) who lives in a small hill station of Nainitaal. She has a passion for music and also is deeply and blindly in love with a very famous, young & dashing singer, Angad Khanna (Iqbal Khan), from Mumbai. She travels to Mumbai to join Soul music academy which belongs to the Khannas, and in the hopes of seeing Angad. Kripa & Angad's families being old family friends, she stays in Angad's farmhouse, but is unable to see or meet him, and is treated like dirt by his rich and arrogant family members except for his grandmother. One night Angad lands up drunk in the outhouse, stumbles upon Kripa, at that very moment is caught in a media fiasco which later is sorted out by the Khannas. Kripa is crestfallen by their first meeting, and the other night she sees Angad having a fling with a random girl in the outhouse. She hears Angad saying that he thinks "Love is a commodity" and only pretends that love is beautiful to preserve his public reputation. Kripa is in despair, since Angad was poles apart to the image of him in her head. She now hates Angad, refuses to acknowledge him when she officially gets to meet him. Than one day Kripa gets an offer to tryout for a concert with Angad and while she is rehearsing, Angad misbehaves with her. Kripa slaps Angad in outrage. Angad is furious, and treats her like dirt. Kripa refuses to do the concert but is forced into a contract by the Khannas. Kripa & Angad unable to stand each other, never approved of each other due to their poles apart ideals, while their concert is a huge hit. Kripa befriends the Khanna business partner Prithvi (Amit Tandon) who reciprocates her love, but they get into a love triangle: Prithvi loves Kripa, Prithvi's younger sister, Mishti, loves Angad, but Angad comes to love Kripa as they get to know each other during their other meetings after the concert, mostly in form of a hateful interaction, but as they say the 'opposites attract'.

One night, Kripa and Prithvi's parents arranges for their engagement, but after Angad confesses his love to Kripa, she tells Prithvi she cannot marry him as she does not love him. There starts a beautiful love story between Angad & Kripa, but many people are upset with their relationship, like Naina Khanna(Angad's mother) Mishti and Prithvi. Naina hates Kripa because she does not belong to their high status and she plots to break the two up. Naina shows Angad some false evidences indicating that Kripa and Prithvi are having an affair. This angers Angad, and he comes to believe that Kripa is a conniving girl out to get his money. He breaks all ties with kripa, insults her, and gets engaged to Mishti. Kripa, hurt and pregnant with Angad's child, is depressed and decides to stay away from Angad. Prithvi & Angad's grandmother are her only support. Alia, Angad's cousin enters, who shows Angad how he was presented with false evidences. He leaves Mishti on the day of his wedding to go to Kripa. Meanwhile, Kripa has a miscarriage and loses her baby. Kripa decides to strengthen herself, and is out to avenge Angad for all the pains he gave her. Kripa vows to destroy Angad, and Angad silently agrees as he is madly in love with her and wants to redeem himself. He asks his best friend Josh to help Kripa become successful by accompanying her in the concerts, who himself is a famous rock singer. Kripa does become successful, Angad becomes a flop singer, and is considered unprofessional which he deliberately caused to himself so that Kripa can rise. One day, Josh tells Kripa everything, how Angad was lied to, and how he destroyed himself after realizing his mistake. Kripa forgives Angad and decides to help him rise to fame once again. However, she is engaged to Prithvi, who helped her in all her troubled times. Hence, she decides to marry Prithvi.

Angad starts to regain his success after doing a show with Kripa who herself is successful. Prithvi and Kripa's wedding preparations begins, but Josh tries out everything to make Kripa realize she should marry Angad and not Prithvi. Prithvi sacrifices, and breaks his engagement with Kripa. Angad and Kripa reunite, and one of Angad's ex-girlfriends named Simone comes back into city, but is now showed as the love interest of Prithvi. Someone's several attempts fails to kill Angad, Kripa suspects culprit to be Josh, misunderstandings rises between Angad and Josh. Once the misunderstanding is cleared up, Josh finds out Prithvi was the one trying to kill Angad in his obsession with Kripa. Josh confronts Prithvi, but is murdered by him, unable to tell anyone about Prithvi's evil shades. Angad is accused & arrested for Josh's murder. Initially Kripa believes Angad is innocent and hires Shabbir (Rohit Bakshi) who is city's best criminal lawyer for him. But then, Simone lies her how she had a one night stand with Angad. Kripa then believes Angad is untrustworthy, a liar, and testifies against him in court. Angad is heart broken, and sentenced to jail.

One year later, in Dubai, Kripa is married to Prithvi but did not consummate their marriage till date. Kripa gets haunted by an Angad lookalike in Dubai, but to which no one else believed. Prithvi clears her illusion by finding out from Mumbai Police that Angad met with an accident while transferring him to another jail and is dead. Zaib, the dashing & upcoming singer enters, who is Angad's lookalike. Everyone tries to prove that Zaib is actually Angad, but instead he succeeds in proving he is Zaib. Although Zaib admits to Kripa that he is none other than Angad, who escaped from the staged accident with the help of Shabbir. Angad/Zaib starts mentally torturing Kripa in revenge for sending him to jail. In Mumbai, Angad/Zaib pretends to be in love with Mishti, only so that he can stay closer to the family and ruin Kripa's married life. After a number of clashes with each other, when Angad seems to be succeeding in breaking her marriage, Kripa retaliates by sleeping with her husband Prithvi in front of Angad. Angad who still loves her is devastated, in anger he plays his last cards to finally break Kripa & Prithvi's marriage. He declares that he(Zaib) is actually Angad, and falsely proves to Prithvi that Kripa & Angad were seeing each other behind his back. Prithvi is desolated, in depression he divorces Kripa.

Angad forces Kripa into marriage with him, she takes up the challenge and both gets married just to destroy each other. After miniseries of battles between them while married to each other, Kripa sorts out her misunderstandings with Prithvi. One night, angered by Kripa’s sore lie to his family about his impotence, Angad forces himself on Kripa, but at the end he let her go. Angad is sorry, but broken down by his violent seizure Kripa continues to live with Angad but cutoffs anymore interactions with him. Kripa does a singing concert for Prithvi’s company on the same day of Angad’s concert, Angad is broken down to see his wife sing for someone else, and in drunken status he declares he would kill Prithvi. Threatened by Angad's outrage Kripa re-opens Josh's murder case in the hopes of getting Angad into Jail, and getting back with Prithvi. During court sessions Angad finds out from Alia that despite Kripa's illusion that Angad had betrayed her love one year ago, she married Prithvi actually to help out Angad's(Khanna) family business which went to huge losses at that point of time, and only Prithvi could help them regain profits. Angad in return decides to reduce Kripa's difficulties by admitting to the murder charge he never committed, and he is sentenced to jail once again. But soon with the help of Shabbir & Alia, eventually Kripa discovers Angad did not sleep with Simone an year ago, but it was all staged by Prithvi who is obsessively in love with Kripa. Also that Prithvi murdered Josh and framed Angad. Prithvi once confronted, is shot by police for his violent outburst and ends up with Coma in hospital. Angad is free from jail, he forgives Kripa and they start their new journey of marriage filled with love.

Kripa soon finds out that she is pregnant with Prithvi's child but Angad misunderstands as his own. Conflicts continue between them when Kripa first hides the pregnancy truth to Angad, and later due to her successful career where as Angad's career was not doing well. Gradually their relationship gets better. Angad once again framed in a court case with a rape charge, Kripa in confusion testifies against him. However, it is proved that Mishti had framed him to avenge the couple because Angad never loved her back, and for her brother Prithvi's loss. Angad wins the case but is furious at Kripa for once again not trusting him, and wants her out of his life. This time not to forgive her. They have a breakup. Kripa leaves the house heartbroken, and leaves behind her newborn with Angad since he loves the baby like his own flesh & blood. Kripa goes to Mussoorie to work for the rich businessman Nishant(Hiten Tejwani), while she is pregnant with Angad's child who she names Prateek. Angad raises Prithvi and Kripa's daughter Sur as his own. Kanan (Gauri Pradhan Tejwani)a former young singer enters and works as Angad's manager cum friend, and falls in love with him.

Five years pass - Angad blocks down Kripa's memories and once again becomes the super successful & Casanova rockstar who disapproves of love, but loves his daughter Sur most on earth. While Kripa is a less stubborn, mature & a beautiful mother to Prateek and the caretaker cum a family member of Nishant. Angad and Kripa meets while Nishant merges a part of his business with Angad's, and they moves back to Mumbai. Kripa is horrified to find out Angad had spoiled Sur, Angad hates Kripa's come back and interference in Sur's life. Kripa gets engaged to Nishant, while Angad and Kanan also gets engaged. Angad finds out Prateek is his son, initially he tries an out of law settlement for Prateek's half custody but later on, he softens after having Kripa around for a while and soon he desires her back in his life. Nishant finds out Kripa does not love him and she is given the choice by him to break off the engagement, Angad confesses his love to Kripa but is rejected by her as she decides to help Nishant by faking a wedding with him for the sake of Nishant's ill aunt who wishes to see them married. Nishant and Kripa pretends to be married in front of the world, Angad is furious, but after Kripa reciprocates to his love one night while returning from a concert together, Angad finds out Kripa still loves him and that her marriage with Nishant was not real. This time instead of pressuring her he decides to leave her alone; he breaks his engagement with Kanan and goes to Dubai with Sur, away from everyone. Meanwhile Nishant finds out about Angad & Kripa's past and he decides to reunite them. In Dubai, Nishant dies while protecting Angad in a shootout caused by none other than Angad's own father and Kripa is devastated. Back in Mumbai, Angad patiently waits for Kripa to return to him, meanwhile she supports Nishant’s family to overcome the misery and also finds out she is pregnant with Angad’s child. Eventually Angad and Kripa gets reunited by their families as they were meant to be, and in the last episode Kripa is shown giving birth to their second baby, but the very first while with each other. Their love story will live on forever and at the end of the day it really made you think Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai!

Cast

• Neha Bamb ... Kripa Bose|Sharma|Khanna/ Tanya
• Iqbal Khan ... Angad Khanna/Zaib
• Amit Tandon ... Prithvi Bose
• Hiten Tejwani ... Nishant
• Gauri Pradhan Tejwani ... Kannan
• Chetan Hansraj ... Josh
• Rohit Bakshi ... Shabbir Alluwaliya
• Suvarna Jha ... Mishty Bose
• Jaya Bhattacharya ... Damini Bose
• Faizan Kidwai ... Kartik Khanna
• Sujata Segal ... Ex - Naina Khanna
• Aashish Kaul ... Mr. Verma
• Khushi Dubey... Sur
• Mansi Verma... Alia #1
• Arunima Sharma... Alia #2
• Preiti Gupta ...Anita
• Ashlesha Sawant... Sheetal

External links

• Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai Official Site on SET Asia
• Sydication Page'
• Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai Fan Site
• News Article on Tellychakkar.com