Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan
Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan | |
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File:KumKum.jpg A promotional image for Kumkum | |
Created by | BAG Films |
Written by | Mayah Basle, Jayesh Patil, Harsha Jagdish, Radheshyam Rai, Shobhit Jaiswal, Binita Desai, Mahesh Pandey, S Farhan, Barry Dhillon, R M Joshi, Mitesh Shah & Virendra Shahaney, Anshuman Sinha, Gayatri Gill & Ved Raj |
Directed by | Aashish Patil, Anil V. Kumar, Arvind Babbal, Paresh Patil & Swapnil Shahaney |
Starring | Juhi Parmar Hussain Kuwajerwala |
Opening theme | "Kumkum" by Sonu Nigam and Pamela Jain |
Country of origin | India |
Original language | Hindi |
No. of seasons | 04 |
No. of episodes | 1449 |
Production | |
Producer | Anuradha Prasad |
Running time | 24 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | STAR Plus |
Release | July 15, 2002 – March 13, 2009 |
Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan (Hindustani pronunciation: [ˈkʊmkʊm]; English: A lovely bond) was an Indian television soap opera that aired on STAR Plus channel.[1] It is one of the longest and best shows the channel has seen, with a total of 1449 episodes aired over seven years.
The show aired from Monday to Friday at 1.00pm in India/U.S. and 10:30 am in the UK. Although it was an afternoon soap, certain tracks of Kumkum gained more TRPs than a prime time one. The story took some concepts from some popular Balaji Telefilms soaps such as Ghar Ek Mandir, Kkusum and Kutumb and towards the end it even introduced popular Balaji Telefilms faces Hiten Tejwani and Gauri Pradhan Tejwani in the story. The soap ended on March 13, 2009. This show is ranked number 4 on the list of STAR Plus top 10 shows of all time. It is India's fourth longest running serial.
The story falls under family-drama category but can be called more as the love story of the two main characters, Sumit–Kumkum. Sumit–Kumkum are considered to be one of STAR Plus's most favourite couples. A huge part of the success of the serial was credited to the chemistry shared by the leads: Hussain Kuwajerwala and Juhi Parmar.
Overview
The soap opera tells the tale of the Wadhwa family and its daughter-in-law, Kumkum. She is happily married to Jatin. However, he dies of a brain tumour while she is expecting their first child. The Wadhwas decide to get their young daughter-in-law re-married, and find an eligible young man named Vishal. However, when obstacles arise to prevent that marriage, Jatin's younger brother Sumit impulsively marries Kumkum in order to save her from social disgrace. The new relationship between Kumkum and Sumit begins as a compromise but ripens into deep love. They face many problems but stay together. They bring up their three children-- Dhruv (biological son of Jatin), Sharman and Ashka.
Then Kumkum and Sumit Wadhwa die. They are reborn as Kumkum Mishra and Sumit Raichand. Sumit is very shy and living with a big family in Delhi and Kumkum is a fun-loving prankster living with her family in a village. Both hate each other after meeting in college but, owing to circumstances, they have to pretend to be married in front of their families. In this life, too, their love passes through many trials and challenges. After all the problems are solved, Kumkum and Sumit live happily ever after.
Main characters
Kumkum
'Kumkum Wadhwa is the favourite daughter-in-law of the Wadhwa family. First, she is married to Jatin; after his death she is engaged to Vishal. Vishal's parents call off the wedding because some one sent a fake saying that Kumkum cant anymore child after Jatin's child. In the hustle-bustle Sumit gets angry and confused; he applies "sindur" in the parting of Kumkum's forehead making them husband and wife by tradition.Kumkum and Sumit start having lots problems in their life but always stayed together. Later on they have three kids: Dhruv, Sharman and Aashka. Suddenly Kumkum faces a huge problem — so huge that it becomes the reason for her and sumit's death. But again Kumkum is back after her reincarnation as a lively prankster, Kumkum Mishra. Even in this incarnation, she kind of starts "liking" Sumit (also re-incarnated as Sumit Raichand). Because of some complications, Kumkum has to live with Sumit as his wife. She helps him in many ways. She falls in love with Sumit, but doesn't want to admit it since Sumit's father, Om Raichand, insulted her and her father, Chandu Mishra.
Sumit
Sumit Wadhwa, the younger brother of Kumkum's first husband Jatin, is engaged to Renuka. But after Jatin's death, he marries Kumkum while Renuka is away. He has much trouble winning Kumkum's love. However, after many complications, Kumkum and Sumit fall in love. Then they try to overcome the problems that affect their children. After his death and subsequent reincarnation, Sumit is the son of Om Raichand. In this incarnation, Sumit grows up deprived of the love of his father. When Sumit falls in love with Kumkum his father does not agree to their wedding. Then Sumit has to be on the run along with Kumkum.
Elder Wadhwa family members
- Harshwardhan Wadhwa (family patriarch)
- Rajeshwari Devi a.k.a. Rajjo, Harshwardhan's wife
- Brijbhushan Wadhwa (son of Harshwardhan and Rajeshwari, father of Rahul Wadhwa)
- Sukanya Wadhwa (daughter of Harshwardhan and Rajeshwari)
- Kulbhushan Wadhwa (son of Harshwardhan and Rajeshwari. father of Jatin, Sumit and Preeti Wadhwa)
- Veena Wadhwa (Kulbhushan's wife, mother of Jatin, Sumit and Preeti Wadhwa)
Other Wadhwa family members
- Jatin Wadhwa (brother of Sumit, first married to Kumkum, dead)
- Rahul Wadhwa (son of Brijbhushan Wadhwa, in jail for killing Antara)
- Preeti (sister of Sumit and Jatin)
- Dhruv Wadhwa (eldest son of Kumkum and Jatin)
- Sharman Wadhwa (youngest son of Kumkum and Sumit)
- Aashka Wadhwa (daughter of Kumkum and Sumit, Sharman's twin sister)
- Antara Wadhwa (wife of Dhruv, mother of Om, dead)
- Siya Wadhwa (wife of Sharman)
Raichand family
- Om prakash Raichand (Sumit's dad, protagonist)
- Yashodhara Raichand (Sumit's mom, protagonist)
- Ratan Raichand(Sumit's cousin and antagonist, jailed)
- Ramola Raichand (Ratan's mother and main antagonist)
- Komal Raichand (Om's sister and Sumit's bua, protagonist)
- Amma (Om & Komal's mother; Sumit's grandmother, protagonist)
Mishra family
- Chandu Mishra (Kumkum's father, protagonist)
- Manno Mishra (Kumkum's mother, protagonist)
- Chatru Mishra (Kumkum's uncle and Mini's father, protagonist)
- Dilasa Mishra (Kumkum's aunt and Mini's mother)
- Mini Mishra (Kumkum's cousin, Gaurav's wife, protagonist)
Antagonists
- Pulkit (was in love with Kumkum, killed her)
- Renuka (was engaged to Sumit, caused much problems for Wadhwas, dead)
- Neeti (was engaged to Sharman, married Rahul)
- Salil Patel (tried to help Renuka ruin Kumkum, dead)
- Abhay Chauhan (was in love with Kumkum's look alike, Chanda, prisoned)
- Ratan Raichand (Sumit's cousin in his second janam who wanted full share of the inheritance from his rich uncle and Sumit's father Omi Raichand)
- Ramola Raichand (Ratan's mother who assisted him in his aims to be able to attain full power over the Raichand Industries)
Cast
- Juhi Parmar ... Kumkum Sumit Wadhwa / Chanda
- Hussain Kuwajerwala ... Sumit Wadhwa
- Anuj Saxena ... Jatin Wadhwa / Karan Kapoor
- Arun Bali ... Harshwardhan Wadhwa
- Rita Bhaduri ... Rajeshwari Wadhwa
- Paritosh Sand ... Kulbhushan Wadhwa
- Prabha Sinha ... Veena Wadhwa
- Raman Trikha... Vishal
- Vivan Bhatena / Vishal Vatwani ... Dhruv Wadhwa
- Gaurav Khanna / Gagan Malik / Amit Khanna ... Sharman Wadhwa
- Sayantani Ghosh / Sonia Singh ... Antara Wadhwa
- Niyati Joshi ... Aashka Wadhwa
- Megha Gupta ... Neeti
- Mukul Dev ... Pulkit
- ? ... Aditi Wadhwa
- Mihir Mishra ... Dr. Vikram
- Shweta Kawatra ... Nivedita
- Kartik Sabharwal...Abhishek
- Shishir Sharma ... Brijbhushan Wadhwa
- Alka Kaushal ... Sukanya
- Tasneem Sheikh ... Renuka
- Aman Verma ... Abhay Chauhan
- Kabir Sadanand ... Salil Patel
- Sameer Soni ... Yash Thakur
- Buddhaditya Mohanty ... Akshay
- Aanchal Dwivedi ... Malli
- Pragati Mehra ... Ramola Raichand
- Hasan Zaidi...Ratan Raichand
- Aditi Shirwaikar ... Mini Mishra
- Rupam Bajwa ... Preeti
- Surendra Pal ... Chandu Mishra
- Mohini Sharma ... Omprakash Raichand's Mother
- Priya Ahuja ... Pam
- Prabhat Bhattacharya / Harsh Vashisht ... Rahul Wadhwa