Yeh Hai Chahatein

Yeh Hai Chahatein is an Indian drama television series produced by Ekta Kapoor for Star Plus.[1] The series, which premiered on 19 December 2019, is a spin-off series of Yeh Hai Mohabbatein.[2] It stars Sargun Kaur Luthra, Abrar Qazi ,Yagya Bhasin.[3]

Yeh Hai Chahatein
GenreDrama
Created byEkta Kapoor
Written byDheeraj Sarna
Screenplay byShilpa Jathar
Story bySonali Jaffar
Directed byNeeraj Baliyan
Rishi Tyagi
Creative director(s)Shivangi Baabar
StarringSargun Kaur Luthra
Abrar Qazi
Yagya Bhasin
Theme music composerLalit Sen
Nawab Arzoo
Opening themeDilwalon ki Yeh Hai Chahatein
Ending theme Jogiya Bin Jag Suna Lage
Country of originIndia
Original language(s)Hindi
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes111
Production
Producer(s)Ekta Kapoor
Shobha Kapoor
CinematographyManeesh Malik
Rishi Sharma
Editor(s)Vikas Sharma
Vishal Sharma
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time22 minutes
Production company(s)Balaji Telefilms
DistributorStar India
Release
Original networkStar Plus
Picture format576i
HDTV 1080i
Audio formatDolby Digital
Original release19 December 2019 (2019-12-19) –
present
Chronology
Related showsYeh Hai Mohabbatein
External links
Website
Production website

Plot

Gynaecologist Preesha Srinivasan is raising her nephew, Saaransh as a mother, after her sister, Mahima dies. Saaransh is a fan of Rudraksh Khurana, a rockstar, who doesn't believe in love and is detested by Preesha.

Yuvraj fakes being in love with Preesha to get promoted as a judge by Gopal, after finding out that Saraansh is Rudraksh's nephew, who is the son of Rajeev, Yuvraj blackmails him for money, on Preesha's and Yuvraj's wedding day, Yuvraj leaves the marriage and kills Rajeev who has learned the truth about Saaransh. Preesha takes the murder blame on herself, after Yuvraj lies about his innocence, to save him, Rudraksh vows revenge on her. He learns that Saaransh is Rajeev's son and believes that Preesha is Saaransh's real mother and Rajeev's ex-lover, unaware that it was Mahima.

Yuvraj, who gets the promotion, sentences Preesha to be hanged after being bribed by Rudraksh. Yuvraj kidnaps Saaransh and pretends to save him, lying to Preesha that he sentenced her death to save Saaransh from Rudraksh. After learning that Saraansh will get 50 lakes per month, till he reaches the age of 21 - as planned by Rajeev - Yuvraj decides to legally adopt Saaransh to have a luxurious future by marrying Preesha. On their wedding day Rudraksh takes Yuvraj's place and marries Preesha to get full custody of Saraansh, as this was his brother's last wish and also his way to take revenge against Preesha.

Preesha thinks of the well being of her son and hands over the full custody of Saraansh to Rudraksh to prevent him being called the son of a murderer, Preesha is proved innocent with the help of her father and goes to take her son back, interrupting Rudraksh and Mishka's, Ahana's younger sister's, wedding, Rudraksh puts forth a condition in front of Preesha that since he has the legal custody of Saaransh then she has to live in the Khurana house to be with him, she agrees so Rudra calls off the marriage between him and Mishka. To stop the child care department from taking Saaransh, Rudra and Preesha act as a happy couple.

After Bubble and Bunty's marriage, Yuvraj steals the family necklace gifted to Preesha by Sharda which belongs to Balraj's first wife Sakshi but is caught by Ahana. They accuse Preesha of stealing who apologises to Sharda for the incident.

Niketan an investor in Khurana company and also Mishka's dad arrives, to give surprise to both his daughters. He gets to know about Preesha and Saraansh and supports Rudraksh's decision.

Later, Saraansh is attacked by a mysterious lady in a red saree who kidnaps him. Preesha and Rudraksh inform the police, but due to certain clues they doubt Balraj; due to his hatred towards Saraansh.

Gopal meets with an accident and is taken to hospital, Yuvraj comes to take Preesha to the hospital with a jealous Rudra accompanying them, at the hospital, they meet a fan of Rudra who flirts with him but because of a vow he had taken to save Saaransh, he doesn't flirt back. Yuvraj bribes her to fake a molesting case against Rudra but Preesha tricks her into confessing the lie.

Preesha discovers that Balraj is innocent and notices Saaransh's napkin in Niketan's pocket, she runs to Niketans room and finds Saaransh tied up under the bed, Niketan returns and Preesha confronts him where he reveals that he likes dressing as a women (cross dresser) and since Saaransh had seen him, he kidnapped him to safeguard his secret, he holds Saaransh at gun point and tries to escape, Preesha gets shot while Saaransh injures his head. Ahaana acts being kind and concerned about Preesha to get away from the crime while Niketan is arrested. Rudraksh donates blood to save Saaransh whose presence helps Preesha recover. At night Saaransh had a nightmare of Niketan killing Preesha and him as to which he got frightened and pee on the bed and to cure Saaransh, Preesha and Rudraksh re-create the scene and Ahana is dressed as her dad Niketan and Mishka as Preesha and then they manage to cure Saransh.

Preesha treats an Covid infected patient to which Balraj get angry and asks her to stay in quarantine for 14days in the servant quarter to which Preesha agrees but when Saaransh is crying Rudraksh does all the arrangements to make Preesha quarantine safely in the house and brings her from the servant quarter after Preesha's quarantine ends and Vasudha and GPS come to meet Preesha and they celebrate.

Preesha and Rudraksh are anxious for Saaransh's admission and Ahana is stern not to admit him in her school.

Cast

Main
  • Sargun Kaur Luthra as Dr. Preesha Rudraksh Khurana: Vasudha and Gopal's daughter; Mahima's younger sister; Saransh's aunt/ adoptive mother; Balraj's daughter in law,Ahana's sister in law and Rudraksh's wife (2019–present)
  • Abrar Qazi as Rudraksh Khurana: Balraj's son from his first wife; Sharda's step son; Rajeev's younger brother; Saransh's uncle/ adoptive father; Preesha's husband (2019–present)
  • Vidhaan Sharma as Saransh Khurana: Mahima and Rajeev's biological son; Ahana's step son turned niece,Preesha and Rudraksh's adopted son/nephew(2019–2020)
    • Yagya Bhasin replaced Sharma (2020-present)

Recurring
  • Indira Krishnan as Vasudha Gopal Krishnan Srinivasan: Gopal's wife; Preesha and Mahima's mother; Saransh's maternal grandmother (2019–present)
  • Vijay Kashyap as Gopal Krishnan Srinivasan: Vasudha's husband; Preesha and Mahima's father; Saransh's maternal grandfather (2019–2020)
    • Gulshan Pandey replaced Kashyap as Gopal (2020–present)
  • Aishwarya Khare as Mahima Srinivasan: Gopal and Vasudha's daughter; Preesha's elder sister; Rajeev's former lover; Saransh's mother (2019)[deceased character showed in flashbacks].
  • Dolly Sohi as Sakshi Balraj Khurana: Rudraksh and Rajeev's mother, Balraj's beloved wife (2020-present)
  • Satyajit Sharma as Balraj Khurana: Rudraksh and Rajeev's father; Sakshi's husband (legally). Sharda's husband(married after the presumed death of his wife Sakshi whom he always loves and respect,and could not give someone her place as he only married her to give his children the love of a mother but has never accepted her as his wife and always abuse and beat her as he cannot stand her as his wife); Saaransh's paternal grandfather (2019–present)
  • Mallika Nayak as Sharda Balraj Khurana: Rudraksh and Rajeev's stepmother; Balraj's second wife and Sakshi's husband'second wife. She was married to Balraj only to give the love of a mother to his children ,as she is never treated with the love and respect that a wife should get because Balraj has never forgotten his first wife Sakshi and cannot stand her as his wife but only married her for the sake of his children (2019-present)
  • Aishwarya Sakhuja as Ahana Rajeev Khurana (née Singhania): Niketan's daughter; Mishka's elder sister; Rajeev's wife and Saransh's step mother turned aunt, Rudraksh's sister in law [Bhabhi] and Balraj's daughter in law.(2019–present)
  • Indraneil Sengupta as Rajeev Khurana: Balraj's elder son from his first wife; Sharda's step son; Rudraksh's elder brother; Ahana's husband; Mahima's former lover; Saransh's father from Mahima(2019–2020)[deceased character now].
  • Siddharth Shivpuri as Advocate Yuvraj Pillai: Gopal's employee; Preesha's former fiancé (2019–present)
  • Katie Iqbal as Kaveri Dubey: Surya's girlfriend (2019)
  • Rupesh Kataria as Surya Raina: Kaveri's boyfriend (2019)
  • Tanu Khan as Mishka Singhania: Niketan's daughter; Ahana's younger sister (2019–present)
  • Nitin Bhatia as Bunty: Rudraksh's best friend (2019)
  • Bikramjeet Kanwarpal as Niketan Singhania : Ahana and Mishka's father and Saransh's maternal step grandfather. He is a business man and also a business partner in the Khurrana company who is revealed later revealed to be a cross-dresser. (2020)

Guests

Production

Development

In June 2017, during the launch of Kundali Bhagya, a spin-off of Kumkum Bhagya, Producer Ekta Kapoor revealed that she had plans for a spin-off of Yeh Hai Mohabbatein however stated, "I wanted to make a spin off of YHM (Yeh Hai Mohabbatein) but it’s not working out with the story line."[5] The reports of the spin-off in making was then announced in April 2018.[6] It was supposed to premiere in the same year but was delayed as the story was not finalized.[7] Then, it was reported to premiere in June 2019 and the casting for it was going on while Aakanksha Singh and Karan Vohra were reported as the leads.[8][7] But it was scrapped in July 2019.[9] In September 2019, the series was revived and fresh casting sessions began.[10] Sargun Kaur Luthra was cast as Dr. Preesha Srinivasan and Abrar Qazi was cast as Rudraksh Khurana.[11]

The first promo of the series was released on 27 November 2019 where Sargun Kaur Luthra and Vidhaan Sharma were introduced by Divyanka Tripathi and Karan Patel as Dr. Preesha Srinivasan and Saransh Khurana.[12] The next promo was released on 16 December 2019 featuring Abrar Qazi, Sargun Kaur Luthra and Vidhaan Sharma.[13]

Talking about the series, producer Ekta Kapoor said, "We have seen lots of stories till now, but this one is going to be even more special." Further, she said, "Yeh Hai Chahatein deals with another social issue. It’s often said that it’s easier for men with children to get married again, but very tough for a woman with a child to find a suitable groom."[14]

Abrar Qazi expressed, "I feel very fortunate to be working with Ekta Ma’am. I have been watching all her shows since childhood and it was a dream to work with her someday. I didn’t know my dream would come true so soon in my career but I feel blessed. I was in complete awe of her when I met her for the first time during the briefing of our show."[15]

Sargun Kaur Luthra stated that she took inspiration from Neena Gupta for her role.[16] Talking about playing a mother for the first time, she said, “When I was told that I will be playing a mother, I wasn’t apprehensive at all. My only worry was that i am very young and I had to look mature on the screen which was a challenge. The team has helped me a lot to help me look a certain age and moreover with my body language to portray this character. Even Vidhaan (my on-screen son), has helped bring out the best in me. More than mother-son, we are like friends off the screen.”[17]

Aishwarya Sakhuja was roped to play the negative role of Ahana which is her first negative role. Speaking about it she said, "I have auditioned for a lot of Balaji shows and whenever I auditioned for negative roles I was told I look very positive. So, when I bagged this role, I asked them why now? They said eventually you will get to know as to why we have chosen you, and I understand because they like to surprise their audience and that's exactly what they are doing. I was figuring how to go about it, but my team is helping. After every two sentences out of habit, I go into the positive zone but I have people to handhold me and help me,"[18]

Casting

Sargun Kaur Luthra was selected to play Dr. Preesha Srinivasan's character.[19] Karan Wahi was approached to play Rudraksh Khurana, but Abrar Qazi was signed by the makers.[20] Zebby Singh was in talks for playing Yuvraj Pillai before the role went to Siddharth Shivpuri.[21] Supposed to play Ahana in the show was Parul Chauhan, but Aishwarya Sakhuja replaced her.[22] When the shooting resumed after forced break owing to Covid-19 outbreak, in early July 2020 Vidhaan Sharma was replaced by Yagya Bhasin as Saaransh and Gulshan Pandey replaced Vijay Kashyap as Gopal.[23]

Broadcast

The production and airing of the show was halted indefinitely in late March 2020 due to the COVID-19 outbreak in India.[24] 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.[25][26][27] After three months, the production and filming of the series resumed on 27 June 2020 while the broadcast resumed on 13 July 2020.[28][29]

Filming

The series is mainly filmed at sets in Mumbai. On 3 August 2020, the shoot could not happen due to heavy rains in Mumbai and was cancelled.[30]

Reception

Critical response

Times Now stated, "Abrar Qazi and Sargun Kaur Luthra deliver an impressive performance".[31]

Pinkvilla said, "The first episode very well established the difference in approach to a single father and a mother and headlines the plot of this interesting love story of a gynecologist and a rockstar.[32]

Ratings

In week 3 of 2020, it occupied twentieth position with 3.7 million impressions in Hindi GEC urban.[33] On week 9 of 2020, it garnered 4.5 million impressions occupying fifteenth position in top 20 Hindi GEC weekly list in urban areas.[34]

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