Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? (transl.What Shall We Name This Love?) is an Indian Hindi-language romantic drama television series that aired on StarPlus from 6 June 2011 to 30 November 2012. Produced by Gul Khan under 4 Lions Films, it starred Barun Sobti and Sanaya Irani.
On 24 November 2015, Hotstar launched an eight episode web series, Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? – Ek Jashan, to extend the Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? storyline. Barun Sobti and Sanaya Irani reprised their respective roles as Arnav and Khushi.[1][2]
The story revolves around a rich, arrogant, and suave Delhi-based business tycoon, Arnav Singh Raizada (ASR), and a lower middle-class girl from Lucknow, Khushi Kumari Gupta.
Khushi Kumari Gupta is a free spirit trapped by nightmares of a childhood she can’t remember, but despite her broken past, she’s never stopped seeing the beauty in the world and hopes to find the love of her life one day, little did she know the love of her life, Arnav Singh Raizada is a devil blessed with the face of an angel and cursed with a past he can't escape, driven by a tragedy that has haunted him for most of his life, his ruthless pursuits for success leave little room for matters of the heart. Theirs is a love that was never supposed to happen but when it does, it unleashes secrets that could destroy them both and everything they hold dear. She is his complete opposite. she is everything he is not, but despite their differences, when they get entangled they find that they are more similar than they seem.
Khushi stumbles into Arnav in Lucknow after mistakenly crashing one of his promotional fashion events and is blamed. This delays her duties towards her sister Payal's wedding, which is canceled. Meanwhile, Khushi gets harassed by eve-teasers and is saved by Shyam Manohar Jha, a married man, who instantly gets attracted to her. With the wedding being called off and rebuked by society, Khushi's adoptive parents decide to send Payal and Khushi to live with their paternal aunt in Delhi. Khushi is adopted as her parents had died in a car crash when she was young. Her maternal aunt and uncle had decided to take her in.
The two sisters arrive in Delhi to live with their aunt. Upon traveling on a scooter, she bumps into Arnav’s car. He challenges her to pay for the damage, and Khushi accepts. She goes on to sell Lucknow's Indigenous Chikankaari sarees to pay for Arnav's broken car, and she ends up at his house, Shantivan, by mistake. She meets Arnav's sister, Anjali, and their maternal grandmother, Devyani Devi, fondly called Naani. Both of them instantly like the lively and cheerful Khushi as she reminds them of their hometown Lucknow. She successfully sells her sarees and gets an even bigger order from them, only to be falsely framed by Arnav's aunt, Manorama, to have sold torn sarees. Thus, she loses the order and cannot gather the money to pay Arnav for the car damages.
Back at her aunt's, Shyam, Anjali's husband, reaches Khushi's place as a bachelor wanting to get engaged to Khushi. Khushi asks Shyam to help her get a job, and thus she reaches ASR's office. Khushi's clumsiness irritates Arnav, so he does not want her in his office. Khushi, not wanting to give up, taunts Arnav, and eventually, they sign a 15-day contract, which says if she quits before the end of the contract period, Khushi would have to pay ASR one lakh rupees. Khushi takes up the challenge only to find ASR trying to make her quit the job somehow. He makes her miserable by assigning her humanely impossible tasks, but Khushi does them all in strike. In a particularly life-threatening situation, Arnav rescues Khushi and briefly regrets putting her in that predicament. Tired of these antics, Payal convinces Khushi to quit the job, and the two sisters decide to go back to Lucknow. However, inspiration hits Khushi, who believes that it is a sign from the goddess she has strong faith in (Devi Maiyya). They decide to stay and open a sweet shop and as luck would have it, they end up at the Raizada house to fulfill an order of sweets for Anjali's wedding anniversary celebrations.
At Shantivan, one thing leads to another, and Anjali hires Khushi to groom Arnav's girlfriend, Lavanya, to make her the perfect daughter-in-law of the Raizadas. Khushi's constant presence at his house initially irritates Arnav, but her funny antics and lively nature wins him over slowly. He refuses to admit this and frequently taunts Khushi about her social status, in an attempt to satisfy his own ego. During Diwali celebrations, Arnav and Khushi share an intimate moment that Arnav is in denial about. He then says he is willing to marry Lavanya, much to his own displeasure, and because he is not willing to come to terms that he is in fact in love with Khushi. Khushi is devastated when she hears this. On the other hand, Shyam is successful in getting engaged to Khushi. After Arnav finds out that Khushi is marrying someone else, he once again resorts to his old ways of making her miserable.
On a parallel, Arnav's cousin Akash falls in love with Payal and proposes marriage. As the wedding preparations begin, Khushi's adoptive father, Shashi, discovers Shyam's secret - that he is married to Anjali. When he tries to reveal this to the rest of the family, Shyam tortures him into partial paralysis, rendering him unable to speak. Shyam then cleverly manipulates Buaji under the pretext of taking up family responsibilities instead.
With the wedding rituals beginning in Raizada and Gupta household, it becomes increasingly difficult for Shyam to hide his secret, and eventually, Khushi finds out the truth and breaks the engagement, enraging Shyam. Shyam then threatens to ruin Akash and Payal’s relationship. Khushi doesn't want to break Payal's wedding and she thinks that Anjali would be heartbroken so she doesn't reveal the truth to the Raizadas. Arnav realizes that he is in love with Khushi and breaks off his engagement with Lavanya. He plans on professing his love to Khushi on Payal and Akash's wedding day, when he overhears Shyam professing his love to Khushi and pleading for her to marry him, and mistakes Khushi to be instigating Shyam to break off his marriage with Anjali. To save his now pregnant sister's marital life, Arnav blackmails Khushi into marrying him for six months, by keeping Payal's wedding at stake. A heartbroken and confused Khushi reluctantly agrees to this just so she can save Payal's wedding.
Khushi and Arnav begin a pretend marriage filled with love and hate. Amid constant bickering and pranks, they grow closely together. She starts to wonder why Arnav married her. Suspecting Arnav's ulterior motives, Khushi contemplates suicide but is rescued by Arnav, who tells her that he knows the truth about her and Shyam and refuses to listen to her. On the other hand, Shyam, greedy for the Raizada estate and industries, plans to murder Arnav and arranges his abduction. Khushi manages to rescue him with the help of his NRI cousin - Nandkishore (NK) and Manorama. Arnav comes home, exposes Shyam, and throws him out, causing Anjali to fall into depression. Over the next few days, Anjali begins meeting Shyam secretly, who continues to deceive her with his manipulative ways. Meanwhile, Anjali and Arnav's paternal grandmother, Subhadra Devi (Dadi), arrives at Shantivan and takes an instant dislike towards Khushi, but Khushi receives support from Arnav and other family members. Subhadra Devi is also displeased to learn about Shyam and Anjali's separation and tries her best to bring Shyam back to Shantivan. During the Janamashtmi celebrations, Khushi realizes that her wedding ceremony lacked the rituals to bind her and Arnav in holy matrimony and thus insists that Arnav fulfill them. Subhadra Devi overhears this and insults Khushi. Arnav finally agrees to marry Khushi in an elaborate ceremony so as to make their relationship official. Subhadra Devi, however, is still displeased and tries to call off the wedding, suspecting a connection between Khushi's mother and Arnav's parents' death. Shyam gets a hint of this and plots to use it to his advantage in stopping Arnav and Khushi's wedding. It is revealed that Khushi's adoptive mother Garima had an extra-marital affair with Arnav's father, unaware of the fact that he was a married man. When Arnav's mother learns of this, she kills herself. This leads to Arnav's father taking his life, too, out of guilt. Subhadra Devi holds Garima responsible for the deaths of her son and daughter-in-law.
As the wedding preparations begin, unaware of Shyam's duplicity, Subhadra Devi encourages Anjali to meet and repair her relationship with him. Shyam, on the other hand, hatches a plan for Anjali's miscarriage, which he brings to fruition on her baby shower day. Anjali falls deeper into depression and adamantly asks Shyam to be allowed back in the house. Khushi notices that Anjali feels better in Shyam's presence and for the sake of Anjali's well-being decides to bring Shyam back to Shantivan, much to Arnav's displeasure. However, they reconcile and consummate their relationship.
On the wedding day, Subhadra Devi reveals the truth to Arnav about his parents' suicide. Initially shattered, he realizes that Garima was unaware of his father's marriage, and punishing Khushi for something that she did not do would be unfair. Arnav marries her despite Subhadra Devi's opposition and makes it clear to her that his father is to be equally blamed for their family's sufferings and that holding Garima alone responsible would be wrong.
On their wedding night, Arnav and Khushi discover several cameras hidden in their room and all over the Raizada house and realize that they could be placed by Shyam. With some investigative work, they further discovered that Shyam was responsible for Anjali's miscarriage. Arnav, Khushi, and NK together expose Shyam, who confesses to his misdeeds. Anjali finally sees him for who he truly is and throws him out of the house.
As Khushi and Arnav's relationship gets better, Arnav's college friend Sheetal drops in with Aarav, an orphan, disguising him as Arnav's "son" to inherit Arnav's property. Arnav exposes Sheetal’s plan to extort money from him, and later Arnav & Khushi adopt Aarav. Khushi later runs for a beauty pageant due to wanting to establish her own identity. With Arnav and his family’s motivation, she goes on to win it and they live happily ever after.
Cast
Main
Barun Sobti as Arnav Singh Raizada aka ASR – Ratna and Arvind's son; Anjali's younger brother; Akash and Nandkishore's cousin; Khushi's husband; Aarav's adoptive father (2011–2012)[3]
Sanaya Irani as Khushi Kumari Gupta Singh Raizada – Shashi and Garima's niece and adoptive daughter; Payal's cousin and adoptive sister; Arnav's wife; Aarav's adoptive mother (2011-2012)
Recurring
Dalljiet Kaur as Anjali Singh Raizada – Ratna and Arvind's daughter; Arnav’s older sister; Akash and Nandkishore's cousin; Shyam's ex-wife[4]
Abhaas Mehta as Shyam Jha – Anjali's former husband; Khushi's former fiancé (2011–2012)[5]
Deepali Pansare as Payal Singh Raizada - Shashi's and Garima's daughter; Khushi's elder adoptive sister; Akash's wife (2011–2012)[6]
Akshay Dogra as Akash Singh Raizada – Manorama and Mahendra's son; Anjali, Arnav and Nandkishore's cousin; Payal's husband (2011–2012)[7]
Utkarsha Naik as Manorama Singh Raizada – Mahendra's wife; Ratna's sister-in law;Akash's mother; Anjali, Arnav, NK and Bubbly's aunt (2011–2012)[8]
Sanjay Batra as Shashi Gupta – Madhumati's brother; Garima and Sandhya's husband; Payal and Khushi's father (2011–2012)
Tuhina Vohra/Pyumori Mehta Ghosh as Garima Gupta – Gauri's sister; Shashi's second wife; Payal's mother; Khushi's aunt and adoptive mother (2011–2012)
Abha Parmar as Madhumati Gupta – Shashi's sister; Payal and Khushi's aunt (2011–2012)
Jayshree T. as Devyani Raizada – Ratna and Mahendra's mother; Subhadra's childhood friend; Anjali, Arnav and Akash's grandmother (2011–2012)
Rajesh Jais as Mahendra Singh Raizada – Devyani's son; Ratna's brother; Manorama's husband; Akash's father; Anjali, Arnav and NK's uncle (2011–2012)
When Barun Sobti announced his break from the show due to health problems, fans of the series requested the production team to shut down the show on a happy note rather than any replacement.[15]
Reception
In week 15 to 21 of 2011, it entered top ten Hindi GEC list garnering 2.6 TVR occupying ninth position.[16]
Sapna Babul Ka... Bidaai is an Indian soap drama that aired from 8 October 2007 to 13 November 2010 on STAR Plus during weekdays. It tells the story of a father and his two daughters and explores the social impacts of skin colour. The series was replaced by Gulaal. In August 2022, rerun of the series started on StarPlus's sister channel Star Bharat.
Sanaya Irani is an Indian actress. She is known for playing Gunjan in Miley Jab Hum Tum, Khushi in Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? and Parvati in Rangrasiya. In 2015, she participated in the eighth season of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa and emerged as the first runner up. She later participated in Nach Baliye in 2017 with her husband Mohit Sehgal and finished third place.
Barun Sobti is an Indian actor. He is best known for his roles in Asur, Raat Jawaan Hai, Kohrra, Tu Hai Mera Sunday, Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon and Halahal. In 2023, he won the Filmfare OTT Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role in the Netflix series Kohrra.
Sasural Simar Ka is an Indian Hindi-language television soap opera produced by Rashmi Sharma Telefilms that aired from 25 April 2011 to 2 March 2018 on Colors TV. It is the second longest-running Indian television series on Colors TV, after Balika Vadhu.
Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai, also known internationally as The Inseparables, is an Indian Hindi-language family drama television series that aired on StarPlus during weekdays from 3 October 2011 to 13 September 2013. It is digitally available on Disney+ Hotstar.
Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha is an Indian Hindi-language drama television series that premiered from 9 January 2012 to 12 September 2013 on Colors TV. Produced under Sunshine Productions, it starred Kunal Karan Kapoor, Aakanksha Singh.
Akshay Dogra is an Indian actor and producer working in the television industry. He has worked on many shows during his career, both on-screen and off-screen. After working backstage at many shows, Akshay finally made his television debut in 12/24 Karol Bagh on Zee TV. He is known for playing Akash Manohar Singh Raizada in Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?, Satya Nayak in Do Dil Ek Jaan and Jagan Pawaniya in Waaris.
4 Lions Films is a production house based in Mumbai, India. Founded in 2008, its primary focus is youth-oriented and general entertainment shows.
Geetanjali Tikekar is an Indian television actress known for portraying the role of Aparna in Kasautii Zindagii Kay and Anjali Niranjan Agnihotri in Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? Ek Baar Phir.
Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? Ek Baar Phir is an Indian romantic drama television series created and produced by Sunjoy Waddhwa under Sphere Origins. The series aired on StarPlus from 26 August 2013 to 13 June 2015, completing a total of 542 episodes. The show stars Avinash Sachdev and Shrenu Parikh as Shlok and Aastha, respectively. It is the second installment in the Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? series.
Swati Chitnis is an Indian television actress who works in films, television and Marathi stage. She played the pivotal role of Suhasini Ajmera Goenka, who is Kartik Goenka's grandmother; Akshara Goenka Sharma's great-grandmother and Abhira Sharma's great-great-grandmother in the second and third generations of Star Plus's longest-running soap opera Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai from 2016 to 2023.
Deepali Pansare is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi television and Hindi films. Pansare is known for portraying Suhaagi in Neer Bhare Tere Naina Devi, Payal Singh Raizada in Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?, Devyani Kelkar in Devyani and Sanjana Deshmukh in Aai Kuthe Kay Karte.
Gul Khan is an Indian producer, writer and director known for producing shows like Geet, Qubool Hai, Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?, Ishqbaaaz, Kullfi Kumarr Bajewala, Nazar, Yehh Jadu Hai Jinn Ka!, Imlie, Ishk Par Zor Nahi and Aashiqana. She is co-creative head and co-producer of 4 Lions Films.
Ketki or KetakiKadam is an Indian television actress who appeared as Humaira on Zee TV's Qubool Hai opposite Rishabh Sinha / Vikrant Massey / Mohit Sehgal where she played the parallel lead role in the show.
MBC Bollywood is a free-to-air television channel that broadcasts Indian dramas. It was launched, on 26 October 2013, by Kareena Kapoor. MBC Bollywood is MBC Group's 14th channel, and it is aimed to air 24 hours of Hindi films, subtitled in Arabic, targeting South Asian audiences and Hindi Bollywood enthusiasts.
Shalmalee Desai is an Indian television writer and actress mainly known for the role of Sojal in the Hindi television show Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? Ek Baar Phir. She was the winner of the UTV Stars reality show Lux The Chosen One in 2012.
Pyumori Mehta Ghosh is an Indian film and television actress. She has appeared in various Indian Television Serials and Full length Hindi Feature Films. In 2016 she appeared in the Hindi film Sanam Teri Kasam. Currently she is playing Harleen Malhotra in Kumkum Bhagya. She has also appeared in various television serials, including Kitani Mohabbat Hai, and regularly appears on Savdhaan India and Crime Patrol.
Shivani Tomar is an Indian actress who mainly works in Hindi television. She made her acting debut in 2012 with Gumrah: End of Innocence. She is best known for her portrayal of Shakti Rai in Friends: Conditions Apply, Chandni Narayan in Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon 3, Kanchan in Mitegi Laxman Rekha and Dr. Agni Awasthi in Agni Vayu.
Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? 3 is an Indian drama television series that aired on StarPlus from 3 July 2017 to 6 October 2017. Produced by Gul Khan under 4 Lions Films, it starred Barun Sobti and Shivani Tomar. The story is set in Allahabad and Mumbai. It is the third installment of the Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? series.
Nee Naan Kaadhal is a 2023 Indian Tamil drama television series that airs on Star Vijay, starring Prem Jacob, Varshini Suresh, Saai Gayathri, Shankaresh Kumar, Naveen Muralidhar and VJ Dhanusek Vijayakumar.
↑ Somashukla Sinha Walunjkar (15 April 2012). "Replacement stars rewrite TRPs". The Times of India. TNN. Archived from the original on 27 August 2023. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
