‪‪Kumkum Bhagya ZEETV‬, ‪February‬‬

Kumkum Bhagya follows the love and criminal story of a famous musician Abhi who marries Pragya, initially thought to be the love interest of the person who was the crush of Abhi's sister, but ends up knowing the truth and falls in love with her. The pivotal characters of this show are strong, feisty women, living together in an all-female matriarchal family. The series stars Sriti Jha, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Mrunal Thakur, Arjit Taneja/Vin Rana in the lead roles. The series is produced by Ekta Kapoor under the banner Balaji Telefilms. Continuing her tradition, Ekta Kapoor has named the series starting with the letter "K" because she feels it is lucky.[4] The show is directed by Sameer Kulkarni and developed by Ekta Kapoor. Plot The story is about Pragya, a humble teacher and Abhi who is a rockstar. Sarla Arora, who runs a marriage hall, lives with the hope of seeing her two daughters happily married. Pragya, the elder daughter, is practical, hardworking and teaches at a college. Bulbul, the younger daughter, has her head in the clouds and has a job but hates her boss, Purab. The show follows the lives of the two sisters and their hopes, dreams, and aspirations. Initially, the series followed a love triangle between Pragya, Bulbul and Suresh, where Pragya loved Suresh, who had feelings for Bulbul, leading to Pragya and Suresh's engagement getting canceled. Simultaneously, Abhi is a rock star who is in a relationship with a supermodel Tanushree (Tanu). Purab, Abhi's best friend, is engaged to his sister Aliya. Purab and Bulbul initially had hatred feelings for each other, but later falls in love. Aliya misunderstand his affair with Bulbul, thinking that he loved Pragya. As a result, Aliya and Tanu, together with Abhi plan to get Abhi married to Pragya out of revenge. After the marriage, Pragya gets to know about the whole situation and for her sister's protection, lies to Abhi that she indeed is in a relationship with Purab and eventually asks Bulbul to forget Purab. Purab agrees to get married to Aliya after knowing the whole situation as well but is unable to forget Bulbul. He elopes on his marriage day with Aliya to marry Bulbul where Abhi comes to know that Bulbul is the girl. Aliya and Tanu plans conspiracies against Pragya but their plans fail and instead brings Pragya more close to Abhi, leading them to develop feelings for one another. Abhi gets to know about Aliya and Tanu's true intentions, slaps Aliya for her wrongdoings which leads to develop a grudge against her brother. Abhi eventually improves his relation with Purab and Bulbul. Tanu, on the other hand gets pregnant after a one-night stand with Nikhil. She fakes her DNA reports and declares that Abhi was the father in order to get him back, leading to Abhi and Pragya's separation. Tanu is supported by Nikhil himself who is after Abhi's wealth, Aliya who wants revenge against and Abhi's cousin Raj, who blames Abhi for his misfortune. Pragya overhears Aliya and Tanu's conversation but before being able to tell Abhi, she gets involved in an accident and is declared dead. After one month, Pragya returns with an arrogant appearance, having a new motive for revealing her enemies and getting Abhi back. Simultaneously, Bulbul and Purab gets married where a sequence of love and jealousy starts between Bulbul, Purab and Aliya. Furthermore, to save her sister from Aliya, Bulbul risks her life and dies. An infuriated Pragya finally reveals the truth about Aliya, who is then banished from the family. Raj's misunderstanding about Abhi is cleared by Pragya after she reveals that his wife Mitali is actually responsible for his problems. Pragya finally discovers Tanu and Nikhil's relation, decides to expose Tanu, but in vain. Tanu has a miscarriage in an accident and blames Pragya. Facing Abhi's anger, Pragya still proves herself right and finally reveals the truth about Tanu, having gained back his trust. The two proposes to each other in Lonavla. However, Abhi loses his memory in a car accident which was meant for Pragya, and this results in forgetting the two-and-a-half years of his life, including Pragya. For his protection, Pragya leaves him, however does not divorce him. The show took a two-month leap and continued with Pragya overhearing her mother saying that she has lost the Kumkum Bhagya Marriage Hall. To help her family, she gets recruited as a receptionist at Love Life Music Company, where she meets Abhi who came to record his new album. They slowly become friends and later, Abhi hires her as his personal assistant. Aliya who took advantage of Abhi's amnesia returns and wanted Abhi to marry Tanu in order to keep him away from Pragya. Abhi and Pragya's relationship blooms into something more and Abhi sees Pragya as his best friend and something more. After much conspiracies, Pragya challenges Aliya and Tanu that she will bring back Abhi's memory before his marriage to Tanu. She is supported by Dadi and Purab. Abhi has some unclear flashbacks of his past. Purab makes Abhi realize his feelings for Pragya. Later, both confess their love. But the story takes another turn when Tanu's mother lies about cancer and Abhi, believing her agrees to marry Tanu which Pragya heartbroken. On the marriage day, Pragya comes to meet Abhi for last time. There, Dadi and Purab plans to swipe the bride but Pragya gets kidnapped by Nikhil. When Sarla tells Abhi that Pragya is kidnapped, he leaves the rituals and goes to save Pragya. He saves Pragya and after some ups and downs in their journey to the home, they decide to marry in the jungle. When Abhi and Pragya leaves, they have a car accident and Abhi regains his memory. They meet Pragya's father who does their gathbandhan and also they find out that Pragya has two other sisters. But unfortunately, Nikhil's goon shoots Pragya when they were trying to run from them and Pragya falls into the dam. Abhi tries to find her but is unsuccessful. When he returns home, Sarla wants Pragya, but Tanu and Aliya kicks her out. Abhi stops them and reveals that he has regained his memory and that he remembers every day of his life. After one month and two days leap, Abhi is finding Pragya and does a concert for her. There, he finds Munni, Pragya’s-lookalike who is a villager and thinks her to be Pragya and takes her home when terrorists attack and fire breaks out. Aliya tells Munni what to do and threatens that she will kill her sister's children if she does not cooperate. Munni unwillingly helps them. Soon Pragya who was in a coma returns to Mumbai to meet Abhi but finds out that he is married to her lookalike. Munni tells Pragya about Aliya's conspiracies so Pragya returns to Mehra house as Munni and decides to hide her identity from Aliya and Tanu until Munni finds her kids. But Tanu out of jealousy exposes Pragya, still thinking her to be Munni and Abhi kicks Pragya out of his house but she is able to return with the help of NGO women. While bearing everyone's hatred, Pragya saves Abhi's life many times from a mystery woman called Simonika who is Abhi's secretary and wants to kill Abhi as revenge for Abhi killing her husband. Through this, Abhi realizes that she is his Pragya. On the other hand, while on a trip to deposit Abhi's money to the bank, Purab meets Disha who saves him from some goons and marries her to prevent her from marrying Sangram Singh who only wants to hurt her. After Disha confesses her love, Purab feels guilty about still loving Bulbul and decides to give her the love she deserves and they consummate their marriage.