Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil

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Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dill
किस देश में है मेरा दिल
Format Indian soap opera, Romance and Drama
Created by Balaji Telefilms
Written by Story
Sonali Jaffar
Screenplay
Arshad Jafri, Salil Sand, Vandana Tewari, Gaurav Sharma, Fatima Rangila & Anil Nagpal
Dialogues
Rekkha Modi
Directed by Garry Bhinder, Ravindra Gautam, Anoop Chaudhary, V G Roy, Lalit Mohan, Deepak Saini, Fahad Kashmiri, Rishi Tyagi, Muzammil Desai, Anil V Kumar, Talat Jani, Praveen Suden, Ashish Shrivastav, Hitesh Tejwani & Ajay Veermal
Creative director(s) Vikas Gupta, Ipshita Deb, Doris Dey, Doyel Som, Sanchi Bawa & Madhura Rapsang
Starring See Below
Opening theme "Kis Desh Mein Hai Mera Dil" by Richa Sharma
Country of origin India
Language(s) Hindi and Punjabi
No. of episodes Total 444
Production
Producer(s) Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor
Editor(s) Vikas Sharma, Sandeep Bhatt & Vishwabandhu Giri
Cinematography Suhas Shirodkar - Rajan Singh & Mahesh Thalakaad
Running time 24 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel STAR Plus
Picture format 720i (SDTV)
Original run March 3, 2008 – February 13, 2010

Kis Desh Mein Hai Mera Dil (Hindi: किस देश में है मेरा दिल) (English: In Which Country Does My Heart Live) was a very popular Indian soap opera that aired on STAR Plus. The series is produced by popular Indian soap opera producer, Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms. The story is of two lovers, Prem and Heer and their undying love for one another. Their story consist of many conspiracies, tragedies, heart-break, etc. but in the end their undying love for one another prevails through the roughest of times.

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[edit] Story

The story begins with a young village woman, Heer Maan, who has been engaged to her father’s best friend’s son since before she hit puberty. She is a simple girl, and above all wants to make her parents happy . She doesn’t think twice about her engagement to a man she has never seen. On the other side, we have Prem Juneja, a man who has grown up in Canada, yet has no problem agreeing to a marriage his father decided on years ago, because his parents are the most important people to him. Next to them, his happiness means nothing. Prem returns to India with his family, only to find out that Heer and her entire family have supposedly perished in an accident.

Now, here, instead of releasing Prem from his promise, his father forces him to agree to marry his best friend’s niece, thinking to appease his best friend’s soul in this way. The thing they don’t know is that Heer and her sister, Mehar, are actually alive and well. Their deaths are a lie perpetuated by an evil aunt, who wants to marry her daughter off to the rich Prem Juneja.

Prem meets Heer, falls in love with her and, eventually, runs off with her. He loves his father, but he cannot watch Heer marry a mentally challenged man. Prem regrets hurting his father, but he has made a promise to Heer. During a storm, Lalit Juneja, Prem’s father, realizes the truth and is ready to give his blessing to the couple. Heer does not know this, and pretends to have amnesia so that Prem can be free to go back to his family. Heer sneaks out one night, and Prem goes after her. At the train station, Lalit helps Prem convince Heer to stay. Heer and Prem reunite and Lalit gives them his blessing.

Before Heer and Prem can marry, Prem supposedly dies in a bomb blast. However, he turns out to be alive, suffering from Amnesia. He recovers from his amnesia in time to save Heer from marriage to a man bent on destroying the Juneja family. It then seems that the man Heer married is not Prem Juneja, but is actually someone masquerading as him for money. As the story moves along, it is proved that Heer's husband actually is Prem Juneja, but he is dying of a disease. And then, that turns out to be a lie. Prem is actually whole and healthy. Prem and Heer reunite.

The story continues. Just as Prem and Heer consummate their relationship, Prem’s spoiled sister Veera comes home with tales about her husband’s abuse. Because Veera’s husband is Heer’s long-lost brother, Nihal, Heer is kicked out of the house in retaliation. Preet and Heer’s sister work diligently to reunite the two. Eventually, Prem realizes that while he must respect his mother, his wife is his responsibility, too. He brings Heer back home. They reunite. This action causes Prem’s (step)mother to hate Heer, to be jealous of her, and to decide on destroying her son’s relationship with Heer.

Stepmother succeeds. She manipulates Prem into thinking that Heer is having an affair. Prem then gets drunk and falls in bed with another woman. The audience knows that nothing happened, but the characters don’t. Heer leaves.

Six years later, the two meet again. Prem finds out that Heer had a daughter that she named Chahat. At this point, we see an angry and bitter Heer. She has been hardened by Prem’s betrayal, and wants nothing to do with him. Prem pursues Heer (knowing that he cannot live without her any longer), and Heer eventually forgives him. They reunite.

Stepmother is still trying to separate the two, and Heer doesn’t tell Prem about this. Prem is still easily manipulated and explodes at Heer multiple times. The woman that Prem supposedly slept with comes back into their lives. That is when the truth comes out regarding Prem’s infidelity. After all of this, Prem and Heer’s main supporter, and Mehar's husband, Preet, is killed. There then follows a plot regarding Mehar's evil new husband, kidnapping, and the truth coming out. The story ends with the Juneja family mourning those they have lost, and being hopeful about the future.

[edit] Cast and Characters

[edit] Characters (Present Characters)

Heer is a small town girl. She is very obedient and has a mixture of tradition and keeps the morals taught by her parents above all. She is caring and sensitive by nature and agrees to marry Prem because it was her father's wish and happiness. She easily accepts Prem's family as her own and handles all responsibilities as a daughter-in-law of the Juneja family. She loves Prem unconditionally and irrevocably and trusts him blindly.

Prem is an obedient, loving and traditional son. Brought up in Canada, he is the jewel of his parents as he kept his culture, heritage and values intact and strong. He sacrifices everything for his siblings, worships his mother and father and soon begins to fall passionately and unconditionally in love with Heer. In a test of love, he is forced to choose between the parents whom he considers his gods and the love he considers his life. Throughout the show, Prem portrays the perfect image of a character that is not fully god, yet not human either.

  • Gayatri played by Shama Deshpande

Gayatri is Prem and Kulraj's stepmother. However, she considers them both as her own children and loves him both dearly. She believes that Prem will never hurt her and will always support her decisions. Gayatri however, has a great change of heart after the tragic death of her daughter Veera.

  • Lalit Juneja played by Deepak Qazir

Lalit Juneja is the father of Prem, Kulraj, Harman,Veera and Preet. He believes in keeping his family together. He treats his daughter-in-laws Heer and Meher as his own daughters.

  • Harman Juneja played by Manoj Chandila / Tabrez Khan

Harman is the second son of the Juneja family. He believes in taking his own decisions, even if it means going against the family. He is married to the modern, stylish but money-minded Maya.

  • Maya Juneja played by Madhura Naik

Maya is Harman's wife. She is modern and finds it difficult to adjust in the conservative Juneja family. Her only support is her sister-in-law Veera, since both of them dislike Heer and Meher.

  • Kulraj Juneja' played by Nidhi Tikoo

She is the eldest child of the Juneja family. She is married to Kiran and has three children. She is a simple girl who loves her siblings, children and parents a lot. Kulraj is always lively and light hearted.

  • Meher Juneja played by Vaishali Sachdev

Meher is Heer's younger sister. She is a like Heer by nature- obedient, sweet and simple. Food is her weakness and she finds it difficult to control herself. Meher is married to Preet (Prem and Harman's younger brother).

  • Chahat Juneja played by Muskaan Uppal

Chahat is Prem and Heer's daughter. She is fun, gullible and loved by all. She respects her parents and tries to keep them close together. Chahat is 7 years old.

Preet is Prem's little brother. He is married to Heer's younger sister Meher. Preet is caring and funny. He can do anything for his elder brother prem and considers him his world

Veera is the youngest child in the Juneja family and is selfish and incredibly money minded. She attempts to destroy her brother, Prem's relationship and her own relationship with her husband, but ultimately falls in love with her husband. She dies in a fire in an attempt to bring her husband, Nihaal, closer to her.

  • Nihaal Mann played by Mahesh Shetty

Nihaal is the brother of Heer and Meher who was separated from them in his childhood but then reunited with them as an adult. He is a loving brother and a loving husband, yet he does never receives the same love from his wife. In the begininng of their marriage, Veera detests him and when she begins to love him at last, she is killed in a fire. Nihaal, who is believed to be at fault, is then hated and accused by Veera's family and sent to jail.

[edit] Awards

Year Award Category
2008: Star Parivaar Awards Favourite Naya Sadasya(Male)

Harshad Chopra as Prem Juneja
2008: Star Parivaar Awards Favourite Yogya Jodi

Harshad Chopra as Prem Juneja and Additi Gupta as Heer Maan
2008: New Talent Awards Best New On Screen Couple

Harshad Chopra as Prem Juneja and Additi Gupta as Heer Maan
2009: Star Parivaar Awards Favourite Jodi

Harshad Chopra as Prem Juneja and Additi Gupta as Heer Maan/Juneja

[edit] STAR India Plus (United States and Canada)

Premiere Concluded
March 3, 2008 February 8, 2010
Re-air Concluding
March 8, 2010 March 13, 2012

Notes:

  • Re-airing with subtitles in the U.S. and Canada!
  • This is the first time in Indian history that a popular soap has re-aired in the U.S. and Canada on its original channel.
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