Yeh Hai Mohabbtatein

 

Yeh Hai Mohobbatien Family

Yeh Hai Mohabbatein (transl. This is love) is an Indian soap opera which aired from 3 December 2013 to 18 December 2019 on Star Plus..Produced by Ekta Kapoor under Balaji Telefilms, it starred Divyanka Tripathi and Karan Patel as Ishita and Raman. In December 2019, a spin-off titled Yeh Hai Chahatein launched starring Sargun Kaur and Abrar Qazi replacing this series.

The story was initially based on Manju Kapur's 2011 novel Custody.

In July 2019, Karan Patel left the series and was replaced by Chaitanya Choudhury. Choudhry's character was later revealed to be an imposter. In November 2019, Patel returned for a farewell performance.

Raman & Ishita

Shagun & Raman

Aliya Bhalla

Aditya Bhalla

Plot

Set in Delhi, the show follows the love story of Tamil dentist Dr. Ishita Iyer and Punjabi CEO Raman Bhalla. Raman's daughter, Ruhi Bhalla and Ishita become emotionally attached to each other. Due to circumstances, Raman and Ishita marry each other later fall in love.

Ishita Iyer and Raman Bhalla are two people from different cultures brought together by Raman's daughter Ruhi Bhalla.

Tamil dentist Ishita and Punjabi businessman Raman live in Delhi. Ishita forms a motherly bond with Raman's daughter, Ruhi who was abandoned by her former wife Shagun Arora. Gradually, Ishita and Raman marry for the sake of Ruhi and eventually fall in love.

Shagun continues to create trouble for the two but later reforms. She unites with the Bhalla family, Raman and their elder son Aditya "Adi" Bhalla. Ishita and Raman have a daughter named Pihu.

Later, a scheming lawyer Nidhi kidnaps Pihu. In order to rescue Pihu, they forget about Ruhi who gets kidnapped by Nidhi and taken away.

7 years later

Ishita now lives in Australia with her childhood friend, Mani[abhimanyu], and his niece Aliya, who is coincidentally a grown-up Ruhi's secretary, who lives with a torturous Nidhi. Ishita finds out about Ruhi and unites with Raman. Ruhi comes back to India and lives with Ishita and Raman in the Bhalla house. Shagun and Mani eventually get married. Adi falls into a very bad scheme and is forced to marry Roshni in Khandarpur. Roshni and Adi go for annulment. Alia gets to know about his marriage on their wedding and she still decides to marry him anyway.They get married.

1 year later

Shagun, Mani, Aliya, and Pihu live in Bangkok, Thailand. Raman keeps a close eye on them. Pihu finally meets Ishita and accepts her as her mother. They return to India. They struggle with Ruhi's love interests with Sohail who is Nidhi's brother. Sohail wants revenge from the Bhalla family and targets Ruhi to complete his plan. He eventually gets arrested. Shagun suffers miscarriage. Raman's multiple arrests as he is mistakenly blamed for Mani's death. His innocence is proved when Mani is brought alive. Pihu then accidentally pushes her cousin Ananya down the stairs and Ananya dies. Ishita takes the blame and is imprisoned.

2 years later

The Bhallas visit Budapest, Hungary for a business trip, as part of a revenge scam by Simmi, and Param, for their daughter Ananya's death. Aliya begins gambling, and Pihu is in a boarding school. Raman is depressed and gives away his company to Param. Ishita is released as terminally ill, and a reformed Ashok reopens her case. Simmi instigates everyone against Ishita, drugs Raman to make him lose his memories of Ishita. and Param tries to frame Aliya in a murder case, but both are defeated and exposed by Ishita. Ishita remarries Raman to save Bhallas from Simmi but Raman keeps distance from her because of Simmi's drugs. Ishita attempts to punish Ruhi's molester Nikhil, but loses her eyes in the scuffle. Raman regains his sanity, and Ashok dies, saving Ishita. Simmi finds out Pihu was behind Ananya's death and submits her to juvenile custody. Adi begins to conspire against Raman but is thrown out of the house. He kidnaps his first wife Roshni and Ishita is forced to shoot him.

8 months later

Pihu returns to see Ishita who now shelters a pregnant Roshni and also is alienated from the Bhallas for killing Adi. The Bhallas want to get Roshni back as she is carrying Adi's child. Roshni promises to hand over the custody of her child if the Bhallas accept Ishita. They accept her condition.

Roshni's baby is handed over to Mihika. Param kidnaps Pihu and Simmi reforms. Raman suffers from spinal injury in the rescue and it further worsens as he is improperly treated by an alcoholic doctor Rajat, who later commits suicide due to his humiliation.

Ruhi receives a marriage proposal from Rohan, but he mistakes Aliya for Ruhi, and falls in love with her. A widowed Aliya initially rejects him in spite of the family's wishes, but later agrees. Ruhi falls in love with Rohan's brother, Karan. It is later revealed that Rohan and Karan are Dr. Rajat's nephews, and the whole proposal is a sham to humiliate the Bhallas. Rohan opposes his mother's plans, and sides with the Bhallas.

Ishita encounters Yug, Adi's look-alike. Karan brings in Yug to drive a wedge between Rohan and Aliya, but is roped in with Rohan's opinions and soon begins to fall in love with Ruhi. Yug reminds Aliya of Adi. An insecure Rohan tries to win Aliya back by sexually pursuing her and ends up using force, when she is rescued by the family.

Aliya marries Yug, when a woman named Neha comes in and claims to be his wife. She begins to live with the Bhallas. Eventually, she is exposed and her intention to take revenge from Yug is revealed.

Raman leaves for a business meeting. The family learns that Raman's flight crashed with no chance of his survival. They break down while Ishita refuses to believe the news. Arjit Saxena marks his entrance. He is revealed to have kidnapped Raman. Ishita learns about it and rushes to find Raman. Arjit drops Raman off a building and flees while Ishita rushes Raman to hospital.

Due to severe damage, Raman is given a new face shocking the Bhallas. Natasha and Sunny mark their entry in the Bhallas lives with Natasha claiming Raman to be her husband Shardul. It is later revealed that the Raman staying with the Bhallas is Shardul while the real Raman is in a coma. Raman recovers and is brought home.

As Karan and Ruhi prepare to marry, Ruhi discovers that just like Ishita; she can't conceive. Initially, Sudha plans to cancel the marriage, but later she accepts Ruhi. Ruhi and Karan marry, and adopt a baby girl. Ishita and Raman get remarried.

 

Main

·         Divyanka Tripathi as Dr. Ishita Iyer Bhalla: Madhavi and Vishwa's daughter; Vandu and Mihika's sister; Raman's wife; Pihu's mother; Ruhi, Aditya and Yug's adoptive mother (2013–2019)

·         Karan Patel as Raman Bhalla: Santoshi and Omprakash's son; Simmi, Romi and Rinki's brother; Shagun's former husband; Ishita's husband; Aditya, Ruhi and Pihu's father; Yug's adoptive father (2013–2019).

 

Recurring

·         Anupama Solanki as Shweta: Main Lead Raman Bhalla’s Personal Secretary; She is the person who is Handling Raman Bhalla’s whole Office (2016-2019) https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/anupama-solanki-juggles-three-shows-at-a-time/articleshow/70074066.cms

·         Abhishek Verma as Aditya "Adi" Bhalla: Shagun and Raman's son; Ruhi's brother; Ishita's adopted son; Aliya's former husband; (2016–2018)/Yug Sharma: Ishita and Raman's adopted son; Aliya's husband (2018-2019)

·         Krishna Mukherjee as Aliya Raghav: Mani daughter; Adi and Rohan's former wife; Yug's wife (2016–2019)

·         Aditi Bhatia as Ruhi Bhalla: Shagun and Raman's daughter; Adi's sister; Ishita's adoptive daughter (2016–2019)

·         Reyaansh Chaddha as Karan Srivastav: Sudha's son; Rohan's brother; Ruhi's husband (2018–2019)

·         Ruhanika Dhawan as Young Ruhi Bhalla: Shagun and Raman's daughter; Adi's sister; Ishita's adoptive daughter/Pihu Bhalla: Ishita and Raman's daughter (2013–2016)/(2016–2019)

·         Anita Hassanandani as Shagun Arora: Raman's former wife; Ruhi and Adi's mother; Mani's wife (2013–2019)

·         Sumeet Sachdev as Abhimanyu "Mani" Raghav: Ishita's childhood friend; Aliya's adoptive father; Shagun's husband (2014–2019)

·         Shahnaz Rizwan/Usha Rana as Santoshi "Toshi" Bhalla: Omprakash's wife; Simmi, Raman, Romi mother (2013–2018)/(2018–2019)

·         Kaushal Kapoor as Omprakash Bhalla: Santoshi's husband; Simmi, Raman, Romi and Rinki's father (2013–2019)

·         Neena Kulkarni as Madhavi "Madhu" Iyer: Vishwa's wife; Vandu, Ishita and Mihika's mother (2013–2019)

·         Abhay Bhargava as Vishwanathan "Vishwa" Iyer: Madhavi's husband; Vandu, Ishita and Mihika's father (2013–2019)

·         Aly Goni as Romesh "Romi" Bhalla: Santoshi and Omprakash's son; Simmi, Raman brother; Sarika's former husband; Mihika's husband (2013–2019)

·         Mihika Verma/Avantika Hundal as Mihika Iyer: Madhavi and Vishwa's daughter; Vandu and Ishita's sister; Ashok's former wife; Romi's wife (2013–2016)/(2016–2019)

·         Shireen Mirza as Simran "Simmi" Bhalla: Santoshi and Omprakash's daughter; Raman, Romi and Rinki's sister; Param's former wife; Ananya's mother (2013–2019)

·         Anurag Sharma as Parmeet "Param" Khurana: Simmi's former husband; Ananya's father (2013–2019)

·         Kavya Ramnani as Ananya Khurana: Simmi and Param's daughter (2016-2017)

·         Shruti Bapna as Vandita "Vandu" Iyer: Madhavi and Vishwa's daughter; Ishita and Mihika's sister; Bala's former wife; Shravan and Kshitija's mother (2013–2017)

·         Pankaj Bhatia as Bala Chandran: Vandu's former husband; Shravan and Kshitija's father; Kiran's husband (2013–2019)

·         Amita Yadav as Kiran Chandran: Bala's second wife (2017–2019)

·         Raj Singh Arora as Mihir Arora: Poornima's son; Shagun's and Sanjana's brother; Mihika's former boyfriend; Rinki's widower (2013-2015)

·         Sangram Singh as Ashok Khanna: Shagun's former fiancé; Adi's foster father; Mihika's former husband; Ishita's nemesis turned friend (2013–2018)

·         Vineet Kumar Chaudhary as Sooraj Kumar Khanna: Ashok's brother (2014–2018)

·         Resha Konkar as Rinki Bhalla: Santoshi and Omprakash's daughter; Simmi, Raman and Romi's sister; Mihir's former wife (2013–2015)

·         Vivek Dahiya as Inspector Abhishek Singh: Sarika's brother; Divya's fiancé (2014–2015)

·         Neel Motwani as Advocate Neel Pathak: Bhalla family's lawyer; Raman, Romi, Bala and Mihir's friend (2013–2015)

·         Arshima Thapar as Sanjana Arora: Shagun and Mihir's sister (2014)

·         Sudha Chandran as Sudha Srivastav: Koko and Rajat's sister; Rohan and Karan's mother (2018–2019)

·         Abhishek Malik as Rohan Srivastav: Sudha's son; Karan's brother; Aliya's former husband (2018–2019)

·         Varun Parashar as Dr. Rajat Srivastav: Sudha and Koko's brother (2018)

·         Vidisha Srivastava as Roshni Bhalla: Aditya's former wife (2017–2018)

·         Bhanujeet Sudan/Amit Tandon as Dr. Subramaniam "Subbu" Chandran: Devyani's son; Bala's brother; Ishita's former fiancé (2013-2015)

·         Anjali Ujawane as Devyani Chandran: Bala and Subbu's mother (2013–2017)

·         Gautam Ahuja as Young Aditya "Adi" Bhalla: Shagun and Raman's son; Ruhi's brother; Ishita's adopted son (2013-2016)

·         Bhavesh Jaiswal/Mihir Arora as Young Shravan Chandran: Vandu and Bala's son; Kshitija's brother (2013–2018)

·         Shahina Surve as Lakshmi Kumar Chandran (2015)

·         Anju Mahendru as Sujata Kumar: Lakshmi's mother. (2015)

·         Kiran Bhargava as Shobhna Venkatesh: Aliya's grandmother (2016–2017)

·         Neeru Agarwal as Neelu: Bhalla family's domestic helper (2013–2018)

·         Sweety Walia as Pammi Mehra: Santoshi's friend (2013–2018)

·         Yukti Kapoor as Ishita's colleague (2013)

·         Shakti Arora as Ishita's suitor (2013)

·         Deep Jaitley as Prateek: Ishita's former fiancé (2013–2014)

·         Pratik Parihar as Karan: Aliya's former fiancé

·         Gaurav Nanda as Rajeev Tandon: Trisha's brother; Raman's investor (2014–2015)

·         Garima Jain as Trisha Tandon: Rajeev's sister; Mihir's former fiancée (2014)

·         Sarika Dhillon as Sarika Tiwari: Romi's former wife (2014–2016)

·         Karishma Sharma as Raina: Bala's blackmailer (2014)

·         Benazir Shaikh as Divya: Abhishek's fiancée (2017)

·         Abhilash Chaudhary as Mihika's friend (2015–2016)

·         Darshan Pandya as Prateek Sharma: Abhishek's friend (2015–2016)

·         Manoj Chandila as Dr. Manoj Paul (2015–2016)

·         Parveen Kaur as Aditi: Psychiatrist (2015)

·         Hargun Grover as Nikhil Malhotra: Rinky's former fiancé (2015)

·         Navina Bole as Dimple: Nikhil's sister (2015)

·         Kanisha Malhotra as ACP Shalini (2015)

·         Arishfa Khan as Vinni (2015)

·         Ruchika Rajput as Vinni's mother (2015)

·         Gopal Singh as Chand Mishra (2015)

·         Priya Shinde as Dr. Anita: Ishita's psychiatrist (2015)

·         Pavitra Punia as Nidhi Chhabra: Lawyer; Sohail's sister. (2016–2017)

·         Gaurav Wadhwa as Sohail Behl: Nidhi's brother; Ruhi's former lover (2016–2017)

·         Ribbhu Mehra as Nikhil: Ruhi's former lover (2017–2018)

·         Hritu Dudhani as Pooja: Nikhil's former wife (2017)

·         Drishti Hemdev as Riya: Nikhil and Pooja's daughter; Pihu's friend (2017)

·         Deepak Wadhwa as Gaurav Bajaj: Simmi's lover. (2016–2017)

·         Sid Makkar as Vidyut: Ishita and Raman's friend (2016–2017)

·         Swati Kapoor as Sanchi (2016)

·         Avdeep Sidhu as Anil Nagpal: Raman's lawyer (2016)

·         Lalit Bisht as Amarnath Chaddha: Pallavi's husband (2016)

·         Garima Kapoor as Pallavi Chaddha: Amarnath's wife (2016)

·         Manish Khanna as Shyam Raichand (2016)

·         Zareena Roshan Khan as Ismail's mother (2016)

·         Aashu Kohli as Malhotra (2017)

·         Gagan Anand as Gagan: Chandan's brother (2017)

·         Charu Mehra as Sonakshi Gupta/Aarushi Gupta (2018)

·         Sharat Sonu as Keshav Kumar Dalmiya (2018)

·         Ankit Bhatia as Sudha's lawyer (2018)

·         Dinesh Mehta as Vijender (2018)

·         Ajay Kumar Nain as Sahil Shah: Don; Muskaan's brother; Shaina's husband (2019)

·         Lankesh Bhardwaj as Police Inspector

·         Hemaakshi Ujjain as Muskaan Shah: Sahil's sister. (2019)

·         Mithil Jain as Arjit Saxena: Neeti's father (2019)

·         Chaitanya Choudhury as Shardul Sinha: Ishita's friend; Natasha's husband (2019)

·         Sapna Thakur as Natasha: Sunny's sister; Shardul's wife (2019)

·         Ansh Kukreja as Sunny: Natasha's brother (2019)

·         Niyati Joshi as Shaila Vanraj: Omprakash's cousin; Neha's mother (2015)

·         Gulki Joshi as Neha Vanraj: Raman's cousin; Shaila's daughter (2015)

·         Arti Singh as Kriti, Ishita’s college friend (2013)

·         Amardeep Garg as Haryanvi inspector (2014)

Ishra Love

 

Guests

·         Hina Khan as Akshara Singhania from Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (2014)

·         Shraddha Kapoor and Sidharth Malhotra for promoting Ek Villain (2014)

·         Deepika Padukone and Arjun Kapoor for promoting Finding Fanny (2014)

·         Vidya Balan as Vasudha for promoting Hamari Adhuri Kahani (2015)

·         Salman Khan for promoting Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015)

·         Manasi Parekh as Maya for promoting Sumit Sambhal Lega (2015)

·         Tushar Kapoor and Aftab Shivdasani for promoting Kyaa Kool Hain Hum 3 (2016)

·         Emraan Hashmi for promoting Azhar (2016)

·         Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma for promoting Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (2016)

·         Devoleena Bhattacharjee for Dance Performance "Gopi" from Saath Nibhaana Saathiya (2016)

·         Deepika Singh Goyal for Dance Performance "Sandhya Rathi" from Diya Aur Baati Hum (2016)

·         Drashti Dhami and Alka Amin for promoting their new show Pardes Mein Hai Meraa Dil (2016)

·         Arjun Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor for promoting Half Girlfriend (2017)

·         Barun Sobti for promoting his new show Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon 3

·         Mahima Makwana for promoting her show Rishton Ka Chakravyuh (2017)

·         Supriya Pathak for promoting her new show Khichdi Returns (2018)

·         Rani Mukerji for promoting her new movie Hichki (2018)

·         Mohit Sehgal as Himself (2018)

·         RJ Alok as Radio Jockey (2019)

·         Sargun Kaur Luthra as Preesha Srinivasan for promoting Yeh Hai Chahatein (2019)

 

Production

Development and premiere

Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya, Karan Patel and Ruhanika Dhawan as Raman, Ishita and Ruhi during the launch of Yeh Hai Mohabbatein

The series, produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor under the banner Balaji Telefilms is a family drama and also a love story. The show premiered on 3 December 2013. Talking about the show, Ekta said, "My association with Star goes back a long way. We have together celebrated many successes and created iconic characters through generations. I look forward to working with them closely on this show and I am sure that the viewers will accept Ishita & Raman into their families". Speaking on the character Ishita's development, Kapoor said, "I created Divyanka's character as dentist in 'Yeh Hai Mohabbatein', as I was having a lot of tooth trouble those days. My dentist sorted my problems a lot, so I brought that character alive"

The show was initially titled as Custody but was renamed Mera Tera Rishta Purana which was again changed to Yeh Hai Mohabbatein.

In November 2019, Ekta Kapoor revealed, "When I started Yeh Hai Mohabbatein, I remember going to Gaurav Banerjee from Star Plus and asking him for a non prime time slot because I wanted to do a show on a social issue. I had stopped doing much television and I wanted to make YHM without the trappings of a TRP driven show. A show about a woman who cannot have children, a stepmother who according to Indian terms is considered bad! Words in India like barren and evil stepmother got used so often and labelled women in the worst poss way. This show got so much love that it went on for six years. And from a non prime time slot to a prime time slot."

In September 2014, Deepika Padukone and Arjun Kapoor were to promote their film Finding Fanny in the series for which the leads Tripathi Dahiya and Patel had to shoot a sequence with them. As Patel delayed to the sets for shooting, the script was changed on Patel's absence at last minute as the films stars had to head on for other promotions.

On 11 May 2016, during filming of the weeding sequence of characters Romi and Mihika, the shoot was stalled owing to a fight between the production house and workers union. On 25 July 2018, the shoot was stalled for a while during bandh in Mumbai.

Casting

Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya was selected by Kapoor to play Ishita Iyer Bhalla. Cezanne Khan was first approached to play Raman Bhalla opposite Tripathi Dahiya, but was replaced by Karan Patel. Child artist Ruhanika Dhawan was chosen to play Ruhi Bhalla. Sayantani Ghosh was first considered but Anita Hassanandani was selected to play Shagun Arora. The other cast included then were Aly Goni, Mihika Verma, Shruti Bapna, Neena Kulkarni, Shahnaz Rizwan, Kaushal Kapoor, Abhay Bhargava and Gautam Ahuja.

In March 2018, Charu Mehra was supposed to enter the series during the filming at London, however could not due to her visa issues.

Filming

The show has taken various leaps including a seven-year leap in April 2016, followed by a one-year leap in November 2016 and then a two-year leap in November 2017. On 9 December 2016 the show completed 1,000 episodes. The show completed 1,500 episodes on 13 June 2018.

Based on backdrop of Delhi, the series is mainly filmed at the sets in Andheri, Mumbai. Some sequences were filmed at several foreign locations including Australia, Budapest and London.