Kundali Bhagya

Preeta meets the Luthra family when she becomes a physiotherapist to their matriarch whose younger grandson Karan shares a conflicting relationship with Preeta while the elder grandson Rishabh shares a cordial relationship with her and slowly starts developing one-sided feelings for her. Rishabh is not convinced by the idea of marriage. When Preeta convinces Rishabh, he agrees to marry Sherlyn Khurana in an apparent misunderstanding, assuming it to be Preeta. Sherlyn realizes his affections for Preeta and vows to get Preeta out of her life. After Rishabh and Sherlyn get engaged, Preeta realizes Sherlyn isn't the girl everyone thinks. She finds out Sherlyn has a boyfriend and confides her doubts to Karan.

At first, Karan belittles and calls Preeta a gold digger, but because the matter concerns Rishabh, he checks for evidence himself and is convinced of the truth. Karan and Preeta join forces in their mission to save Rishabh from Sherlyn and their alliance slowly blossoms into friendship, then to love. Preeta's engagement gets fixed with Sherlyn's boyfriend Prithvi Malhotra. Karan and Rishabh are both uneasy with Prithvi and soon realizes that he isn't right for her. Karan and Preeta try innumerable times to get evidence against Sherlyn. He and Rishabh try to convince Preeta and her family about Prithvi.

However, despite all the efforts by Preeta at Rishabh and Sherlyn's wedding to actually stop it from happening, Rishabh and Sherlyn get married. Karan vowed that if Rishabh's life was ruined by Preeta, he would seek revenge. He believes that Preeta is a gold-digger and has taken money from Sherlyn to ruin Rishabh's life. Karan humiliates Preeta after Rishabh's wedding and drags her out of the Luthra house. Rishabh although tries to talk sense into him but he doesn't listen. At Preeta's wedding with Prithvi, Karan does a groom swap and marries her without her consent. He convinces her and her entire family that his reason for marrying Preeta was love. It is revealed Karan married Preeta just for taking revenge as he believes Preeta betrayed him by joining hands with Sherlyn. He leaves Preeta after the wedding. He gets engaged to Mahira Khanna to humiliate Preeta further.

Karan although initially reluctant to marry Mahira agrees to the proposal once he sees that Preeta has sent an alimony notice, which further cements his belief that Preeta is really after his money. The notice in reality was sent by Sherlyn. In order to take further revenge, Karan humiliates Preeta a few more times in different wedding functions he has with Mahira. Rishabh tries to convince many times that Preeta is not the type of person who is after money, but Karan has no trust on her in the matter. On the Karan's wedding day, Preeta hears Sherlyn and Mahira planning to kill Mahesh after the wedding because he knows their truth. Preeta does a bride swap and marries Karan to save Mahesh. When everyone gets to know it, they insult Preeta and calls her a gold-digger, and get her out of the house. Prithvi gets to know about it. He goes to Sarla to ask for Preeta's hand and tells everything to her and questions Preeta's character then she slaps him and gets him out. Preeta comes to her house where Sarla asks her to fight for her rights. Preeta again goes to the Luthra house with NGO's ladies. Karan calls the police who also comes there and asks Karan to accept Preeta or the whole Luthra family will have to go jail. For his family's reputation, Karan accepts Preeta as his wife.

Talking about introducing a spinoff of a popular show on a primetime, Deepak Rajadhyaksha, the Deputy Business Head of Zee TV, says, "Zee TV has always strived to experiment with formats and bring its viewers unique and fresh content. After the success of Kasamh Se, Pavitra Rishta, Jodha Akhbar, Kumkum Bhagya and Brahmarakshas, we are extremely happy to associate yet again with Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Telefilms to bring an innovative narrative Kundali Bhagya. It introduces a new set of characters in an all-new world and will replace our hit primetime show, Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani, which was not only a strong differentiator but met with an overwhelming response and has had a glorious run of two years."[4]

On this, Kapoor said, "Over the last two decades, Balaji Telefilms in collaboration with Zee TV has created some great content. With our new show, Kundali Bhagya, we present a first-of-its-kind concept, an all-new interesting and engrossing show that emerges from the sub-plots of an already existing show. We will introduce Pragya’s sisters Preeta and Shrishti and the Luthra brothers Karan and Rishabh. We’re hopeful that the audience will fall in love with each of these endearing characters as we have gone through hundreds of auditions before locking the impressive young talent. The writing for this show is extremely strong in terms of characterisation and the engaging screenplay should leave audiences hooked at the end of every episode."[4]

The production and airing of the show was halted indefinitely in late March 2020 due to the Covid-19 outbreak in India.[5] Because of the outbreak, the filming of television series and films was halted on 19 March 2020 and expected to resume on 1 April 2020 but could not and the series was last broadcast on 24 March 2020 when the remaining episodes were aired.[6][7][8] After three months, the production and filming of the series resumed on 29 June 2020 and airing to resume from 13 July 2020.[9][10][11] However Sanjay Gagnani who plays Prithvi in the show have been tested positive for COVID-19 and the shootings of the series has halted again.But he has now recovered and the series went back into production in late September

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