Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi

Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi
Format	Indian soap opera
Created by	Balaji Telefilms
Written by	Story Rajesh Joshi, Salil Sand, Anil Nagpal, Koel Chaudhary, Mitesh Shah & Swati Shah Screenplay Rajesh Joshi, Vipul Mehta, Bhavin Patel, Nayana Dasgupta, Mitesh Shah, Salil Sand, Kamlesh Kunti Singh, Anil Nagpal, Archita Biswas Mrinal Jha & Swati Shah Dialogues Dilip Rawal, Anand Gandhi, Rekkha Modi, Brij Mohan Pandey & Vinod Sharma
Directed by	Ashish Patil, Kaushik Ghatak, Suraj Rao, Santosh Badal, Dharmesh Shah, Santram Verma, Garry Bhinder, Deepak Chavan, Sanotsh Bhatt, Fahad Kashmiri, Jeetu Arora, Santosh Kolhe, Vicky Chauhan, Rohit Dwivedi, Deepak Sharma, Shyam Maheshwari, Talat Jani, Hitesh Tejwani and many more
Creative director(s)	Monisha Singh, Aparna Debey, Ekta R Bahri, Bharvi Shah, Shivangi Singh Chauhan, Shipra Arora, Doyel Som, Vikas Gupta
Starring	See below
Opening theme	"Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi" by Priya Bhattacharya
Country of origin	India
Language(s)	Hindi
No. of episodes	Total 1830
Production
Producer(s)	Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor
Editor(s)	Dharmesh Shah, Sanjeev Shukla, Rajiv Kumar Channai, Rajiv Shukla & Sagar S Naighojkar
Cinematography	Raju Halasagi, Sudesh Kotnis, Deepak Malwankar, Sanjay Malwankar, Ashok Salian & Sanjay Memane
Running time	24 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	STAR Plus
Picture format	576i (SDTV)
Original run	July 3, 2000 – November 6, 2008

Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (Hindi: क्योंकि सास भी कभी बहू थी, English: Because a mother-in-law was once a daughter-in-law too) was an Indian soap opera that aired on STAR Plus. Ir is ranked at number 1 on the list of STAR Plus top 10 shows of all time. Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi revolves around the life of the fictitious Virani family. It stars Smriti Zubin Irani in the lead role as Tulsi Virani.

The show was the second longest running serial on Indian television after C.I.D. It also set records for getting the highest television rating points (TRPs) for more than eight years. The show went off-air in November 2008 after a dispute between the production house and the channel.

Ratings, distribution, and generation switches

The serial also aired in Sri Lanka on Sirasa TV every weekday at 8:00 pm. In this version, it was dubbed into Sinhala and the name of the drama was changed to Maha Gedara ("Big Home" in Sinhalese). The serial was aired in Afghanistan on Tolo TV every weekday in dubbed Dari version. In Pakistan it was aired on Star Plus (from India) at 10:00 pm. Originally, in Hindi, the serial was to be titled Amma (Mother). It maintained a double-digit television rating point for than over five years in succession. In June 2006, the show took a second leap of 20 years, after Tulsi was thrown out of the house by her husband Mihir, who thought that she had deliberately killed his mother Savita. In June 2007, Smriti Irani left the show and was replaced by Gautami Kapoor. However, due to the consequential falling of TRPs, the producer decided to bring back Smriti Irani as Tulsi.

Awards

Main article: List of accolades received by Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi

Cast and characters

First generation

• Govardhan 'Bapuji' Virani -- Sudhir Dalvi
• Amba 'Baa' (Govardhan) Virani -- Sudha Shivpuri

Second generation

• Mansukh (Govardhan) Virani -- Shakti Singh
• Savita (Mansukh) Virani -- Apara Mehta
• Himmat (Govardhan) Virani -- Jitendra Trehan
• Daksha (Himmat) Virani -- Ketki Dave
• Pragya (Govardhan) Virani (Naveen) Sanghvi -- Utkarsha Naik
• Naveen Sanghvi
• Jamnadas 'JD' (Govardhan) Virani -- Muni Jha
• Gayatri (Jamnadas) Virani -- Kamalika Guhathakurta

Third generation

• Tulsi (Mihr) Virani -- Smriti Zubin Irani
• Mihir Virani -- Amar Upadhyay / Inder Kumar / Ronit Roy
• Kiran (Mansukh) Virani -- Jiten Lalwani
• Aarti Patel (Kiran) Virani -- Eva Grover / Rushali Arora
• Chirag (Himmat) Virani -- Hussain Kuwajerwala / Amit Mistry
• Prajakta Deshmukh (Chirag) Virani -- Tuhinaa Vohra
• Hemant (Jamnadas) Virani -- Shakti Anand
• Pooja (Hemant) Virani -- Prachi Shah
• Sejal (Jamnadas) Virani (Anand) Gandhi -- Khyati Khandke
• Anand Gandhi -- Romanchak Arora
• Suhasi (Himmat) Virani -- Pooja Ghai Rawal
• Rakesh -- Prashant Bhatt
• Vikram (Naveen) Sanghvi -- Rakesh Paul
• Mandira Kapadia/Priyanka (Kiran) Virani (Aditya) Gujral -- Mandira Bedi / Achint Kaur

Fourth generation

• Gautam (Mihir with Tulsi)(adopted by Kiran)Virani -- Sumeet Sachdev
• Ganga Joshi a.k.a. Ganga Mehta (Gautam)(Sahil) Virani -- Shilpa Saklani
• Damini Khanna (Gautam) Virani -- Riva Babber / Ravee Gupta / Riva Babber
• Karan (Mihir with Mandira) Virani -- Hiten Tejwani
• Nandini Thakkar (Ansh)(Karan) Virani -- Gauri Pradhan
• Tanya Malhotra (Karan) Virani -- Rakshandha Khan
• Teesha (Gautam) Virani -- Ashlesha Sawant
• Ansh (Mihir with Tulsi) Virani a.k.a. Ansh (Aditya) Gujral -- Akashdeep Saighal
• Sahil (Hemant) Virani -- Sandeep Baswana / Amit Sareen / Sandeep Baswana
• Indira 'Indu' (Anand) Gandhi -- Karishma Tanna
• Aniket (Rakesh) -- Shabbir Ahluwalia
• Shobha (Mihir with Tulsi) Virani (Vishal) Mehra (Abhishek)-- Ritu Choudhry Seth
• Vishal (Pratap) Mehra -- Rohit Bakshi
• Abhishek -- Vivan Bhatena / Nasir Qazi
• Tripti (Sahil) Virani -- Suvarna Jha
• Ansh (Mihir) Virani a.k.a Ansh (Aditya) Gujral -- Akashdeep Saighal
• Shraddha (Ansh) Gujral/ Virani -- Moonmoon Bannerjee
• Karishma (Kiran) Virani (Shantanu) Dey -- Kiran Dubey
• Shantanu Dey -- Narendra Jha
• Harsh (Raj) Bhasin (adopted by Mihir and Tulsi) Virani -- Mehul Kajaria
• Mohini Mittal (Harsh) Virani -- Tasneem Sheikh
• Tarun (Hemant) Virani -- Abhijeet Khurana / Alok Arora
• Tushar (Rakesh) -- Manoj Bohra / Pradeep Kharab / Samir Sharma
• Savri (Chirag) Virani --
• Bavri (Chirag) Virani —- Hansika Motwani/Amita Chandekar
• Hitesh (Chirag) Virani -- Aditya Kapadia
• Sunny (Chirag) Virani -- Anurag Nigam
• Hotel Manager -- Sunny Moza

Fifth generation

• Krishna Tulsi 'KT' (adopted by Tulsi) (Eklavya) Virani -- Mouni Roy
• Eklavya (Ansh with Shraddha)(adopted by Gautam) Virani -- Amey Pandya (Child Artist) / Akashdeep Saighal
• Bhoomi (Ansh with Nandini)(adopted by Karan) (Joydeep) Virani -- Chinky Jaiswal (Child Artist) / Reshmi Ghosh
• Nakul (Gautam) (adopted by Sahil) Virani -- Naman Shaw
• Laksh (Sahil) Virani -- Pulkit Samrat / Yash Pandit
• Vaidehi (Laksh) Virani - Twinkle Bajpai
• Mayank (Gautam) Virani -- Rahul Lohani
• Joydeep (adopted by Sahil) Virani -- Manav Vij
• Manthan (Karan with Tanya) Virani -- Amit Tandon
• Parth (Karan with Nandini) Virani— still unknown
• Archita (Harsh) Virani -- Gunjan Vijaya
• Pushkar (Vishal) Mehra -- unknown
• Pari (Abhishek) -- Garima Bhatnagar
• Sanchi (Nakul's girlfriend)-- Kritika Singhal/Anita Hassanandani

Non-Viranis

• Payal Parikh (Pratap) Mehra -- Jaya Bhattacharya
• Pratap Mehra -- Mayan Patel
• Anupam Kapadia -- Aman Verma
• Kesar (Anupam) Kapadia -- Narayani Shastri/Resham Seth
• Rajeev Mehra -- Amaad Hussain
• Raj Bhasin -- Vishal Puri
• Abir (Raj) Bhasin -- Manoj Bidvai/Vikas Sethi
• Kabir -- Chaitanya Chaudhary
• Meera Singhania -- Shubhaavi K
• Aditya Gujral -- Salim Shah
• Maansingh Chauhan -- Chetan Hansraj
• Vijay Saxena -- [[Makarand Deshpande]
• Kaushalya (Kaush) Malhotra Smith -- Suhasini Mulay
• Inspector Aryan -- Sandeep Rajora
• Godawari (Junagadhwali) Daadi -- Induben Mehta
• ACP Ragini -- Sudha Chandran
• Shiv Singhania -- Yash Tonk
• Manager -- Rocky Verma
• Juhi Thakral -- Gautami Kapoor
• Jas Thakral -- Ram Kapoor
• Billy Thakral -- Salil Acharya
• Aseem Gupta -- Nikhil Arya
• Rishabh (Tripti's other husband) -- Prabhat Bhattacharya

Crossover

• Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii and Kayamath on March 21, 2007
• Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii on December 20, 2007

External links

• Official site of Balaji Telefilms
• News of KSBKBT losing the court battle.
• Official site on STAR Plus UK