K. Street Pali Hill

K. Street Pali Hill is an Indian Thriller soap that aired on STAR Plus.[1] It replaced another thriller, Kaahin Kissii Roz, when it concluded in 2004.[2] K. Street Pali Hill was successful for about a year, only to plummet in popularity, owing to many of the actors' replacements. This show shared many similarities with DD National's popular daily soap Shanti.[3]

K. Street Pali Hill
Intertitle of "K. Street Pali Hill"
Created by	Balaji Telefilms
Written by	Story & Screenplay Mushtaq Shiekh Anil Pandey Samidha-Khalid Jainesh Ejardar Archana Joshi Dialogues Archana Joshi
Directed by	Garry Bhinder Prasad Govandi Kamal Monga Manish Om Singhania
Creative director(s)	Sandiip Sikcand Nivedita Basu
Starring	See Below
Opening theme	"K. Street Pali Hill" by Viju Shah
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi
No. of episodes	Total 428
Production
Producer(s)	Ekta Kapoor & Shobha Kapoor
Cinematography	Sadanand Pillai
Running time	24 minutes
Release
Original network	STAR Plus
Picture format	480i (SDTV),
Original release	27 September 2004 – 12 October 2006

Overview

K. Street Pali Hill is the address of one of Mumbai's most affluent families. Three friends share the same address. Money, power, fame, success - there's nothing that they do not have. They share everything including a secret, a secret so dark that it is casting shadows on their future.

Bikram Kaul, Aditya Khandelwal, Arindam Keshab are the premier business moguls of India. They live together in a sprawling mansion with their families. There is perfect harmony in the household, their kids love each other and the wives get along as well. But in this perfect world, if there's anything that is amiss, it is the old dilapidated outhouse that casts its evil shadow on the mansion. The outhouse is the foundation of their success and the keeper of their secret. Only the three friends know its past. It is like Pandora's box- silent until opened.

Plot

Part One
Arindam Keshav (Mukul Dev), Aditya Khandelwal (Rituraj) and Bikram Kaul (Vikram Kapadia) are three wealthy businessmen who have been close friends for 20 years. They share a secret that can destroy their lives. Their families live in the huge K-Mansion on K Street, Pali Hill. They keep the secret buried in the old outhouse behind the mansion and never unlock it. Smriti (Jasveer Kaur) enters the K Mansion as an interior decorator and bonds with the family members. Unusual haunting incidents begins to happen with everyone in the house. Somebody tries to create a rift among these three pals. Smriti is revealed to be the one behind all this. Her intention is to find out who among the three men is her father. Her mother, Meenakshi Gupta was raped by one of these friends. She tries all the possible ways to find out the culprit. The three friends feel disturbed about their secret being leaked. They check the outhouse where the rape happened but find nothing that can unveil their secret. Smriti tries to check out samples taken from the three friends, including hair samples, smoke samples and blood samples. Finally she discovers that Bikram is her father. Bikram reveals his secret story. He confesses that he raped Smriti's mother who used to be very loyal to his company and was a very innocent lady. After the secret is revealed, Bikram's wife Misha (Ashwini Kalsekar) goes against him and sends him out of the mansion. Smriti brings her mother to the mansion, but Bikram kills her in anger. Bikram calls his sister Gayatri Kaul a.k.a. GK (Sudha Chandran) and asks for her help. Gayatri enters K Mansion and starts plotting against the members of the household.

Part Two
Drone Keshab (Vipul Gupta), Arindam's eldest son, falls in love with Smriti (Jasveer Kaur). She does not reciprocate at first but later admits her attraction, and they decide to get married. Gayatri sends Drone out of K mansion for some business, and behind his back, she started instigating Aditya's wife Ishita to get her son Raunaq married with Smriti. Deboshree (Nivedita Bhattacharya), Drone's mother, feels that Drone and Smriti must get married Meanwhile, Raunaq (Alok Arora) falls in love with Smriti, but she only considers him a friend. When Raunaq comes to know about Drone and Smriti, he feels jealous but accepts this truth. Preparations for Drone and Smriti's marriage start but unusual incidents start happening with her. Someone sends a card to Smriti; the card contains a drawing in blood, a knife and a word "SURPRISE". From that day, knives start appearing around her, sometimes in her bedroom, sometimes as a delivered gift, sometimes inside her purse. This creates a rift between Drone and Smriti, so they get separated. After their breakup, Ishita picks up the topic of Smriti's marriage with Raunaq. Drone is beside himself when he hears about Smriti and Raunaq's upcoming marriage. He tries to convince Smriti that she did not understand what had really happened between them. But Smriti accepts Raunaq's proposal and marries him. Raunaq is then revealed to be the one behind all the threatening incidents as he is obsessively in love with Smriti and wanted to break up her relationship with Drone. Gayatri helps Raunaq in his plans because she wants to destroy Smriti. Drone, still in love with Smriti, marries Bikram's and Misha's Daughter, Dweep Kaul (Nisha Sareen). Smriti finds the SURPRISE posters in her husband Raunaq's wardrobe and realizes the truth. She breaks off all relations with Raunaq, though she does not break their marriage, as she does not want to hurt the other family members.

Part Three
Raunaq gets into a car accident and is badly wounded. He needs B- blood group for his operation to be successful. Arindam's blood matches with Raunaq's blood and he saves Raunaq's life. Gayatri and Bikram find out that Ishita (Raunaq's mother) and Arindam (Drone's dad) had an affair 20 years ago, and Raunaq is not Aditya's son but Arindam's. They expose this secret to everyone and it creates a rift between Arindam and Aditya as also Deboshree and Ishita. Arindam tries to make Aditya understand that he did not do it on purpose. 20 years ago he loved Ishita but sacrificed his love for his friend Aditya who was also in love with her. Aditya refuses to listen to any of this and breaks off all relations with Arindam. Raunaq recovers and starts treating Ishita and Arindam very badly. Everybody starts quarreling with each other and the entire family disperses. Smriti tries her best to solve the problem and reunite the family. She also starts to forgive her husband Raunaq for his past misdeeds with her, and keeps an eye on Bikram and Gayatri to know their next move.

Part Four
One day, Bikram and Gayatri start acting suspicious and go out. Smriti starts following their car. Gayatri and Bikram have planned this to lure Smriti and get her killed. They bribe a hit man to crash into Smriti's car with a truck. The car falls to the bottom of the cliff and explodes. However, Smriti is saved by Dr. Vansh (Sachin Sharma) and he gives her a new face via plastic surgery as her face was burned badly in the accident. As the days pass, she hooks up with him and bonds with his sister, Netra, a fashion designer. Smriti (now played by Riva Bubber) then remembers how Gayatri and Bikram had tried to kill her and decides to take revenge. She changes her name to Simran and enters K Mansion, which is in chaos. She is shocked to come face to face with a woman having her original face and living in the mansion as Raunak's wife Smriti. Aditya drinks excessively and usually fights with Ishita as he still hasn't forgiven her for her infidelity. Arindam and Deboshree are unhappy with each other. Misha was declared dead but later it was revealed that Bikram and Gayatri turned her mental by giving her pills and was admitted to mental asylum. Through the help of Netra, Simran approached Misha and discharged her from the asylum and Vansh helped Misha in recovery. Simran investigates and finds out that the fake Smriti is actually a woman named Anju. Gayatri has found her somewhere and trained her to act as Smriti to get all the K Mansion property for herself. Soon Anju and Simran form alias and sort out all the disputes of Arindum, Aditya, Ishita and Deboshree. Simran and Anju creates a rift between Bikram and Gayatri, later Bikram kidnapped Gayatri and dishonestly blames Gayatri's murder on Simran. Advocate Arya helped Simran escape this situation by revealing that she is actually Smriti and Gayatri went against Bikram which sentenced him to jail. Anju and Raunaq decide to get married. Drone, by now, has started to love his wife Dweep. Smriti a.k.a. Simran marries Dr. Vansh, but he dies soon after in a tragic mishap. Heartbroken, Simran/ Smriti learns that his death was no accident but was caused by someone in K-Mansion. She wages a long war to find her husband's killer and eventually discovers that it is none other than Raunaq, who is still obsessed with her. She has a hard time convincing Anju about this. Simran (Smriti) finally settles down with a good friend of hers, a lawyer named Arya Kapoor (Siddharth), who has supported her throughout her struggle.

Gayatri kidnaps Dweep. She calls Anju and directs her to bring the property transfer papers. Anju arrives at Gayatri's hideout and gives her the property papers. Gayatri tries to kill Anju but police arrives on the scene and arrests her. Court announces its verdict: Gayatri gets life-imprisonment, Bikram gets six month imprisonment and Raunak is relieved for testifying against them. Raunaq requests Anju to forgive him for all his misdeeds and give him a last chance. Finally, Anju forgives him and they lived happily thereafter with others in K Mansion.

Characters

• Vikram Kapadia ... Bikram Kaul
• Ashwini Kalsekar ... Misha Kaul (Bikram's wife)
• Sudha Chandran ... Gayatri Kaul a.k.a. GK (Bikram's elder sister)
• Jasveer Kaur ... Smriti Gupta (Bikram Kaul's illegitimate daughter) (before surgery) / Sunaina
• Riva Bubber ... Smriti (after surgery) / Simran / Mansi Mittal / Damini Virani Reborn
• Vipul Gupta / Vikas Sethi ... Drone Keshab (Arindum and Deboshree's elder son, Dweep's husband)
• Nisha Sareen ... Dweep Kaul Keshav (Bikram and Misha's daughter, Drone's wife)
• Rituraj Singh ... Aditya Khandelwal
• Iravati Harshe / Vaishnavi Mahant ... Ishita Khandelwal (Aditya's wife)
• Alok Arora ... Raunak Khandelwal (Aditya and Ishita's son)
• Suhasi Goradia Dhami ... Jugnu Khandelwal (Aditya and Ishita's daughter)
• Alyy Khan/ Mukul Dev ... Arindam Keshav
• Nivedita Bhattacharya ... Deboshree Arindam Keshav (Arindam's wife)
• Vijay Balhara ... Bhim Keshav (Arindam and Deboshree's second son)
• Ajay Balhara ... Shyam Keshav (Arindam and Deboshree's second son)(Bhim and Mahim both are Surgery twins)
• Divya Jagdale ... Meenakshi Gupta (Smriti's mother, Meenakshi was raped by Bikram Kaul resulting in Smriti's birth)
• Preeti Puri ... Janvi (Smriti's best friend)
• Kali Prasad Mukherjee ... Jaisingh (K mansion's head servant)
• Siddharth Vasudev ... Arya Kapoor
• Sachin Sharma ... Dr. Vansh, plastic surgeon
• Kunika ... Ketaki Kumar, Gayatri's friend
• Aashish Kaul as Advocate Satlani
• Rocky Verma ...Crime Branch Officer

Production

During the launch episode, the lead characters Kashish and Sujal from Kahiin To Hoga made a guest appearance. On 12 July 2005, the series had a crossover with Kahiin.[4]

References

1. "Two more shows on Star Plus from Balaji pad".
2. "From frills to thrills". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 4 July 2020.
3. Trouble at 'K Street, Pali Hill' 30 January 2005
4. "Adding to the content". The Indian Express. Archived from the original on 4 July 2020.

External links

• K. Street Pali Hill Official Site
• K. Street Pali Hill on IMDb