Kya Huaa Tera Vaada

Kya Huaa Tera Vaada (International Title:The Promise) is an Indian soap opera that premiered on 30 January 2012 and went off air on 23 May 2013, on Sony Entertainment Television India. It also airs on Sony Entertainment Television Asia. The show stars Mona Singh and Pawan Shankar as the protagonists and Mauli Ganguly as the antagonist. Kya Huaa Tera Vaada is produced by Balaji Telefilms.

Plot

Beginning

Kya Huaa Tera Vaada is the story of Pradeep Singh (Pawan Shankar) and Mona Singh (Mona Singh), a young couple who lives in Mumbai with their three children Bulbul, Rano And Rajbeer. Between their work, they try their best to find time for each other. But every time, their children create a wedge between them. Pradeep works in a multinational company and Mona is simple but ideal housewife. The plot revolves around their lives twelve years after their marriage.

The wedge between the couple becomes more pronounced when Pradeep starts an affair with Anushka (Mauli Ganguly), his old college friend and his present boss in his company whom he had been in love with, before agreeing to an arranged marriage with Mona. When the affair is revealed, Pradeep leaves Mona and moves in with Anushka, filing for divorce from Mona. Thus begins Mona's battle for her own identity and that of her children to show Pradeep and Anushka that she is more than just a mere housewife.

Finally Mona gets a job in Vineet Raizada(Darshan Pandya)'s company, which has been joined with Anushka's company. Anushka tries to creates problems for Mona in office but fails.As time passes Mona proves herself and becomes the president of the company along with Anushka. In all this time Pradeep realizes his love for Mona and thinks of giving a second chance to their marriage but they cannot. A marriage proposal comes for Mona of Jatin Chopra (Hiten Tejwani) who is the son of Pradeep's father's friend but Mona refuses to marry as she still cares for Pradeep. Vineet falls in love with Mona and expresses his desire to marry her. But Mona is not ready for it. Soon, Mona and Pradeep's divorce procedure starts. Mona's father-in-law gets a heart attack and makes Mona and Vineet promise that they will get married. Pradeep hears this and asks Anushka to marry him. Anushka tries to break Vineet and Mona's relationship by creating misunderstandings between them but fails.

Meanwhile, a mysterious person named Shaurya Mitra(Chetan Hansraj) enters their lives. It is revealed that he is Anushka's old husband.Shaurya Mitra comes back pretending to be her cousin brother, and later he blackmails her for money. Anushka tries to steal money from the company locker but fails. Finally, she steals the money Pradeep's father had arranged for Mona's wedding. But when she is caught, she blames Shaurya for stealing the money.

Anushka then sells a property as she has to give him 10 million and get their marriage certificate back from him. But Shaurya has a second copy and he plans to give that to Pradeep. Anushka finds it out and gets into a fight with him and eventually kills him. At the same time, Pradeep comes into the place in drunken state where the murder was committed and the police accuse him of being the murderer. The same night Mona and Vineet's wedding is to be held, but Mona, on getting the news of the arrest tells the police Pradeep was with her the last night and hence, he is not to be accused. This saves him. Pradeep also tells Anushka that he does not want to marry her anymore, as she is least bothered about him and he is just a fantasy for her.

Mona comes to stay at Pradeep's house till Pradeep is proved innocent. Anushka tries to make Vineet think that Pradeep and Mona are close but the plan goes in vain.Anushka's younger adoptive brother Tarun (Raunaq Ahuja)falls in love with Pradeep's younger sister Taani(Priya Chauhan) and they decide to get married.Mona gets Shaurya and Anushka's marriage certificate.Mona proves that Anushka was Shaurya Mitra's wife in the court. She also gets proof of Pradeep's innocence. On their wedding anniversary, Pradeep sends Mona to an announcement party of business project deal of Vineet and Rajat Kapur (Sameer Kochhar) (from Bade Acche Lagte Hain) with Vineet. Anushka decides to kill Mona and also goes to the party.

In the party (a crossover of the two Mega serials, Bade Achhe Lagte Hain and Kya Huaa Tera Vaada), Anushka first points gun at Priya Kapoor (Sakshi Tanwar) (from Bade Acche Lagte Hain) and Ram Kapoor tries to snatch the gun from Anushka and gets shot in an attempt to save Priya. After that when Anushka tries to shoot Mona, Pradeep comes in between to save her and is shot. Both Ram Kapoor and Pradeep are admitted to the hospital and are critical. Priya and Mona are together praying for their husbands. Ram Kapoor is saved. Pradeep is very serious and is being operated on. Anushka goes there and tells Pradeep the biggest secret of their life, their daughter. Anushka reveals that after she left Pradeep, she came to know that she was pregnant with Pradeep's child. She tried to contact Pradeep but she got to know that Pradeep got married. She went to New York and gave up her daughter in an adoption centre.

Mona sees Anushka and by that time Pradeep dies. Mona sends Anushka to jail which makes Anushka more angry and she vows to return. Bulbul starts hating Pradeep because of their past. Mona refuses to marry Vineet and promises herself to fulfill every dream which she and Pradeep saw for their children.Vineet also tells Mona that from now he will live only with Mona's memories and decides to never move on in life.

Ten Years Later

The story moves forward to ten years later,and^[1] the children of Mona & Anushka grow up. Mona, along-with Tarun has opened a restaurant named Apna Tadka. Mona's elder daughter Bulbul(Sargun Mehta) is very much like her; sweet, simple, caring and selfless.Tarun is married to Taani. Anushka's daughter Anika(Neelam Sivia) is like her. Now it is Bulbul's turn to get married, but Bulbul doesn't trust men anymore because of the experience her mother had to go through 10 years before. Bulbul works in a TV news channel(media company). Mona then decides to make Bulbul meet a guy on the 5th anniversary of her restaurant. Bulbul and the guy, Ajay, start to go out. But, Bulbul's mind is elsewhere, and she gets a chance to visit the local jail. There she plans on meeting Anushka, but finds out that she has been out for the last five years. Bulbul gets upset and this story goes to Anushka, who is currently residing in Australia. Anushka is shown to be married to the richest man in Australia, Balbir Bhalla (Deepak Qazir Kejriwal).

On the night of their wedding, Anushka keeps on begging Balbir to buy her Mona's restaurant. But, Balbir reminds her that he has taken Anushka out of jail on one condition, which is not to mess around with Mona's life. Mona then finds out that Ajay was actually using Bulbul for revenge because Bulbul had revealed his friend's dark secrets. Bulbul's boss is bribed and terminates Bulbul from the job, on orders of the corporater she had exposed earlier. Anushka finally buys Mona's restaurant.Anushka calls Mona and tells her that she is the new owner of her restaurant and tells her name Mrs.Bhalla. Mona is really happy that the new owner, Mrs. Bhalla, is Punjabi without knowing that Mrs.Bhalla is none other than Anushka. Soon Anushka doubles the rent of the restaurant. When Mona finds out about Bulbul losing her job, she meets the co-owner of the company, who coincidentally happens to be Jatin Chopra. Meanwhile, Vihaan(Mohit Malhotra)(Son of Jatin's friend and business partner Harsh Ruia) is in love with Anika. Vihaan's dad wants him to go and settle down in Mumbai, so he proposes to Anika. Rajbeer (Yatin Mehta) gets a scholarship to Australia to pursue his education, and he goes there. At the same time Anushka's family and Vihaan's family come to India. Rajbeer gets to know about Anushka's visit, but he keeps his mouth shut in front of his family.

Next day, Bulbul gets a promotion from her boss Jatin, and Jatin tells Bulbul to shoot the marriage of Vihaan and Anika. When Bulbul reaches the marriage hall she forgets the camera battery, and when Mona comes to the hall to give her the battery, Anushka sees Mona and Bulbul together. Anika, on the other hand was supposed to go to the Mandir but instead goes to a disco. Vihaan finds her in the disco dancing with someone else and gets depressed. Finally Bulbul and Vihaan meet. Anushka comes to know that the Ruias are filing for bankruptcy. Then she tries to convince Anika about breaking the marriage. Anika comes back after running away from marriage venue and breaks her marriage with Vihaan. Broken-hearted, hurt,Betrayed, cheated Vihaan decides to prove to himself and earn back his self-respect through hard work. He decides to work under Jatin and is posted as an assistant to Bulbul even though he was son of co-owner of the company.

Meanwhile, Anushka confronts her husband who wants her to go back to Australia and yells at him, telling him she married him just for his money. He has a heart attack and gets admitted in the hospital. Anushka gets furious to know that the restaurant is still in Mona's name and vows to keep him alive, in order to not lose the restaurant.Mona comes to meet Balbir Bhalla in the hospital. She comes face to face with Mona. The story proceeds with Anushka's rudeness to Mona. Mona realizes that Balbir Bhalla is Anushka's Husband.A new understanding develops between Vihaan and Bulbul.Vihaan and Bulbul become friends as they have same way of thinking.

Anushka organizes a party and tells Mona to serve food to everybody, like a waiter. Anushka, in front of everyone calls Pradeep her husband, which makes Mona furious. She tells Anushka that Pradeep was only her husband and father of her children only. Hearing this, Anushka reveals the truth that Anika is Pradeep's daughter. This truth sends Mona into a shock. This truth is later revealed by Mona to Bulbul. Bulbul in shock consumes alcohol. Vihaan comes there and saves her. Vihaan asks about her grief and asks her to share her problem. Drunkun Bulbul unknowingly reveals her father Pradeep's past with Anushka and Anika being their daughter to Vihaan and also tells that that's why she doesn't trusts any man as her father betrayed her mother. Vihaan also feels connected to it as he had gone through same experience and Vihaan has also stopped trusting any woman. Vihaan drops Bulbul to her house.

Anushka sends Anika's birth certificate to Mona's house. Rano (Siddhi Karwa) plans to get Bulbul and Vihaan together. She sends both of them to the reunion party where Vihaan tells Bulbul about his past in which he was in love with a girl and she left him on their marriage and cheated him and in that party Vihaan once again meets Anushka. Vihaan leaves the party and Rano reveals to Bulbul that she had planned all this to get Bulbul and Vihaan together and also tells her to realize her liking of Vihaan but Bulbul refuses. Also, Vihaan's best friend Myra comes from Sydney and Bulbul gets jealous on seeing Vihaan and Myra together. Rajbeer tries to jump off the terrace as he lost the scholarship to Australia and has come back. Jatin saves Rajbeer and reprimands him for trying to commit suicide.Rano falls for a boy named Rohan.Rohan tried to take advantage of her and then Anushka arrives there and saves her from him. Anushka shows fake concern for her. Actually, Anushka had sent Rohan in Rano's life and using him to spoil her life.Rohan starts blackmailing Rano and demanding his money back that he spent on Rano. Anushka gives him money. Anushka gives Rano a job in her shop so Rano can repay her money.Anushka starts poisoning Rano's mind against Mona.Rano gives redevelopment papers to Mona, asks her to sign it, and reveals that she works for Anushka.Anushka had asked Rano to take Mona's signs on it. Jatin decides to announce Vihaan as chairperson of the company, and does so in front of everyone. Because Vihaan did not tell her the truth of being company's co-owner's son before, Bulbul is hurt and gets angry and they start quarreling.Bulbul thought that Vihaan lied to her, she gets angry because she couldn't hear his voicemail he left for her.She hates liers. Mona get to know that the Rajbeer's college scandal happened because of Anushka.Mona confronts Anushka and warns her to not to mess around with her family and children. With the help of Jatin and Vihaan, she telecasts this in news. Anushka wants revenge now so she creates a scene and because of this awkward situation for which Jatin says he will marry Mona. Rano doesn't agree with this marriage as Anushka has poisoned her mind against Mona and Jatin and leaves Mona's house and shifts to Anushka. Rano makes Rajbeer to refuse to accept Mona and Jatin's marriage. Mona decides to call off her marriage with Jatin. Jatin invites Mona's family to Holi party in which Anushka comes there and tries to woo Jatin to create misunderstandings between Jatin and Mona. Bulbul is still angry with Vihaan and quarrels with him because of misunderstanding. Vihaan is now angry with Bulbul and he angrily says that he hates her and that he does not want to see her again. He tells her that she was the first person he told after finding out that he would become the CEO. He tells her that he left her a voice mail in which he told everything. Bulbul feels guilty . After hearing this, Mona tells Bulbul that everyone is not like Anushka so she shouldn't treat everyone as untrustworthy.Mona sees Jatin with Anushka and misunderstands Jatin. Then Jatin in front of everyone, implies sindoor on Mona's head and Mona is happy. Anushka is furious seeing Mona happy. She sets Mona's restaurant on fire to take revenge and then Jatin and Vihaan come to save Mona, unfortunately Vihaan falls under a beam of fire, while Jatin saves Mona. Vihaan was saving Jatin from falling under the beam and instead he fell. Vihaan is kept under the eyes of the doctors and nurses there.Bulbul hears Vihaan's voicemail after reaching house and feels guilty.

Bulbul and all the Singh family rushes to hospital.When Bulbul finds out about who saved Mona's life, she starts to thank Vihaan, apologises for her behaviour and always misunderstanding him and she realises her love for Vihaan and also admits how much she loves him. Vihaan overhears this and admits his feelings too .he confesses his love for Bulbul to her. Vihaan's heartbeat increases and he falls asleep. In panic, Bulbul calls the doctors. Hearing on the news that Vihaan was seriously injured, Anika reaches the hospital and visits Vihaan. Vihaan, still thinking that Bulbul is by his side, says that he needs her to stay next to him in the hospital and says how much he loves her. Anika feels guilty about what she had done to Vihaan and promises to Vihaan that she will always remain by Vihaan's side. Jatin visits Mona and she wakes up to see that Jatin is in the room. Mona tries to thank Jatin for his bravery, but fails because Jatin says that she doesn't need to say thank you for saving her life. After hearing news about Mona being injured in fire Rajbeer and Rano come to the hospital. Mona later asks about Rajbir and Rano. Jatin says that they are waiting outside. Then Jatin asks Mona to trust him and then Jatin gives a big lecture to Rano. When Rano goes to Anushka for comfort, she realizes that Anushka really doesn't care about her and Anushka is a bad person and she can never change. Rano then understands that Anushka is the main culprit and she had set Mona's restaurant on fire to kill Mona.She understands that she was using them against Mona.Rano reveals this truth to Rajbeer.Both Rajbeer and Rano feel guilty. Bulbul starts to take extra care of Vihaan. Mona and Jatin then understand that they like each other. Bulbul too admits that she is in love with Vihaan.Anushka and Anika land up into an argument. Anushka in fit of anger reveals a shocking truth to Anika about her birth. Anika is shocked by Anushka's truth and leaves Anushka's house and shifts to Mona's house. Vihaan calls Bulbul to meet him.Vihaan tells Jatin that he is in love with Bulbul and he is going to meet her.Bulbul comes to meet Vihaan.At the same time Anika comes to meet Vihaan and hugs him.Bulbul learns that Anika is the girl whom Vihaan used to love.Bulbul is shattered, Bulbul misunderstood that Vihaan still loves Anika. She is with broken heart becomes angry with him.Vihaan angrily tells Anika that he doesn't loves her and he loves someone else. Anika is shocked and is with broken heart returns to Mona's house. Upset Vihaan tells Jatin about this incident.Anika tells Bulbul that Vihaan told her that he doesn't loves her and he loves someone else.Alok(Mona's Father-in-law)(Bhuvan Chopra) arrives at Anushka's house and tells her that he has left house because of Mona. Anushka is happy to see him and thinks that Mona will be defeated as her biggest support system, her father-in-law is not with her. However, Alok was only acting to teach Anushka a lesson. Rano apologizes for hurting Mona and everything to Alok and reveals to him that Anushka had set Mona's restaurant on fire and Jatin reveals Mona about Anika being Vihaan's past and how she ran away from their marriage and cheated Vihaan. Anushka comes to Mona's house and tells Anika the truth about Pradeep being her father. She at first doesn't believe it but after she comes to know that Bulbul is the one whom Vihaan loves after seeing Vihaan and Bulbul together and overhearing their conversation when Vihaan came to meet Bulbul, she goes back with Anushka. Vihaan tells Bulbul that he only loves her and she has to believe him. Bulbul tells Vihaan that if he ever loved or respected her he should go away from her life.Vihaan leaves from there.

Jatin gives an Idea to Vihaan to get Bulbul back in his life.Jatin tells Vihaan to act as if he is going to marry someone else in order to make Bulbul jealous. Jatin and Mona also help him in the plan. Bulbul get jealous. Bulbul overhears Vihaan's 'to-be-wife' (Binita) talking on the phone saying that she's only getting married to Vihaan for his money. She tells Mona and Jatin about it but they don't believe her. On Vihaan and Binita's engagement, Bulbul stops their engagemet and tells everyone that Binita is getting married to Vihaan for his money. She even says that she still loves Vihaan and that she wants to get married to him. Vihaan says that Binita is an actress and that it was all his plan. Bulbul and Vihaan later spend some romantic moments together where he proposes to her. Bulbul calls Rano and tells about Vihaan and her marriage and decides to agree. Rano tells Anushka and Anika about Bulbul and Vihaan's wedding which shocks them. Anika gets jealous and she pretends that she is going to kill herself. Anushka and Anika tell a lie to Rano about how Vihaan is a drug addict and how abusive he is. Rano doesn't believe them but she tells them that she will prove to her sister what a bad person Vihaan is so she takes Anika's camcorder. While playing around with the camcorder Rano presses the record button and she records that she knows that Anushka is a bad person and that she is pretending so that she can ruin Anushka. A servant comes and gives Anika her camcorder back. While looking through her camcorder, Anika finds the recording that Rano had recorded. She shows it to Anushka and Anushka decides to take revenge on Rano. On Vihaan and Bulbul's mehendi, Anushka sends Rano to give an order to some deserted place. Rohan arrives there and tries to misbehave with her and Rano pushes him and he falls down from the building. Anushka arrives there and tells Rano that Rohan is dead. Rano returns to Mona's house where Rajbeer is waiting for her.

Before Vihaan and Bulbul's wedding night, Anika blackmails Vihaan by showing the video of Rano pushing Rohan off the terrace. Anika tells him that she will show this video to the police. So Vihaan has to marry Anika. Bulbul feels very hurt and betrayed. She also goes to Vihaan's house as a bahu(daughter-in-law) without telling anyone except her grandfather.When Anushka tries to stop her,Bulbul tells Anushka that she will not let Anushka and Anika ruin her(Bulbul) life. Rano reveals the truth of Rohan's murder and Vihaan's marriage to Anika to Jatin and they both start to investigate.Jatin realises that Vihaan married to Anika only to save Rano's life from ruining and he still loves Bulbul. Jatin reveals the truth to Bulbul and she apologizes to Vihaan. They team up against Anika. Rano reveals the truth of Rohan's murder to Mona. Mona is furious to hear about Rano's murder. She also gets to know about Bulbul being in Vihaan's house as second woman.Anika tries to woo Vihaan but her plan fails and Vihaan insults Anika telling her that Bulbul will always remain his love and he will always love Bulbul . Mona and Jatin with the help of Rano find out that Rohan is alive and they get to know about Anushka's plans. Rohan is arrested and when Mona confronts Anushka then Anushka confesses that she tried to ruin Bulbul's life and Vihaan and Anika got married because of her plan.She was only using Anika for taking revenge from Mona. She also confessed that she murdered Pradeep and she was in jail for 5 years. Hearing this, shocked Anika tries to commit suicide because Anushka had not told her the truth.This truth sends Anika into a shock. Anika is taken to the hospital and is revived.Anika gets angry at Anushka tells Anushka that she hates her and doesn't wants to see her face.Anika feels guilty for having Anushka as her mother.Anushka is shattered. In the hospital, Anika gifts Bulbul the divorce papers of her and Vihaan.Vihaan and Anika are now divorced. Vihaan and Bulbul's marriage proceedings start. Bulbul's office assistant Jogi starts loving Anika.But he couldn't express it.Anika realises this and agrees to get married with Jogi.Vihaan and Bulbul get married. Anushka comes to the wedding and blesses Bulbul and Vihaan and apologizes to Mona for everything. The serial ends with Mona talking to Pradeep's picture and telling him that she will fulfill the remaining responsibilities so that he will not have to say "Kya hua tera vaada?"(what happened to your promise?) And then everyone lives happily ever after!

Cast

Production

Crossover

Kya Huaa Tera Vaada had two crossover episodes with Bade Achhe Lagte Hain on 4 & 5 December 2012.

Replacement

• Kya Huaa Tera Vaada would air its last episode on 23 May 2013, thereby completing 276 episodes successfully and would be replaced by Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap from 27 May 2013.
• As per sources, the show will return with second season by the end of 2014. Season 1, completed 276 successful episodes.

Remakes

This serial is dubbed as Sonnathu Neethane in Tamil which airs every Monday to Friday 7pm on Jaya TV.

Reception

Ratings

the show launched with a trp of 2.0 and started recording 2.2+trps later in August 2012 it had a drop in trps and recording 1.4-1.9+ .the shock came when in 2013 the show started recording 0.7-1.2 trps after the show had taken a leap as it was expected that the show would increase in trps after leap .during ipl 2013 it recorded all-time low of 0.7 the show recorded trps of 0.7 in its last week its lowest trps till date is 0.7 and highest trps is 2.5

Awards

Zee Gold Awards

• Best Serial-Jury, 2012
• Bes Director-Partho Mitra, 2012

BIG Television Awards

• Bechara Character-Female (Mona Singh), 2012
• Khatarnak Character-Female (Mauli Ganguly), 2012

Indian Television Academy Awards

• Best Actress-Jury (Mona Singh tied with Shweta Tiwari), 2012
• Best Actress in a Negative Role (Mauli Ganguly), 2012
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Apara Mehta), 2012
• Best Serial-Jury, 2012
• Best Director (Partho Mitra), 2012
• Best Dialogues (Rekha Modi), 2012

Indian TV Awards

• Best Maa (Mona Singh), 2012
• Best Khalnayaka (Mauli Ganguly), 2012
• Best Bahu (Mona Singh), 2012
• Best Saas (Apara Mehtra), 2012
• Best Sasur (Bhuvan Chopra), 2012
• Best Saut (Mauli Ganguly), 2012
• Best Actress (Mona Singh), 2012
• Best Serial, 2012

FICCI

• Best Actress (Mona Singh), 2012

Colors Screen Awards

• Best TV Serial, 2013
• Best TV Director, 2013
• Best TV Actress (Mona Singh), 2013

Indian Telly Awards

• Best Actress-Jury (Mona Singh), 2013
• Best Actress in a Negative Role (Mauli Ganguly), 2013
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Apara Mehta), 2013
• Best TV Program of the Year (tied with Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai), 2013
• Best Dialogues (Rekha Modi), 2013
• Best Story (Sonali Jaffar), 2013
• Show with a Social Message, 2013

References

External links

• "Kya Huaa Tera Vada official site on Sony TV India". 
• "Official information site".