Ishqbaaaz

Ishqbaaaz
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Genre	Drama
Written by	Harneet Singh Divy Sharma Aparajita Sharma Mrinal Jha Abhijit Sinha
Directed by	Lalit Mohan
Starring	See below
Country of origin	India
Original languages	Hindi (primary) English (minor)
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	260 as of 18 April 2017
Production
Producers	Gul Khan Karishma Bhutoria
Cinematography	Rajan Singh
Production company	4 Lions Films
Original release
Network	Star Plus
Release	June 27, 2016 (2016-06-27) – present

Ishqbaaaz (English: Lovers) is an Indian drama television series which is broadcast on Star Plus. It premiered on 27 June 2016 and airs Monday to Friday at 10:00 PM IST. Nakuul Mehta, Kunal Jaisingh and Leenesh Mattoo respectively portray Shivaay, Omkara and Rudra, the three heirs of the Oberoi family. The show initially focused on the tale of three brothers, later become centered on the love story of Shivaay and Annika (Surbhi Chandna); with the story of Omkara and Rudra being shifted to the spinoff series Dil Boley Oberoi.

Plot

The story is about the lives of a rich business family in Mumbai, the Oberoi family who face difficult and challenging situations from time to time. Kalyani Oberoi is the matriarch of the family who resides in Oberoi mansion with her two sons and their family. The elder brother Tej has a wife, Jhanvi who has a drinking addiction because of Tej's illicit affair with his secretary, Svetlana. Tej and Jhanvi have three children. Their elder son is Omkara, a sculptor and a self made billionaire who also has a history of drug use. He is an understanding person and hates his father. He was also involved a relationship with a girl named Riddhima but broke up with her later on. Tej and Jhanvi's second child, Rudra, is a flirtatious guy and a playboy who is a fitness freak and loves partying and women, however, he does not believe in the concept of marriage. He is very friendly in nature. They also have a daughter, Priyanka whom everyone calls 'Prinku'. She is a quiet and simple girl who gets nervous really easily because of her social anxiety disorder but gets involved with her opposite; the brash ACP Ranveer. Tej has a younger brother, Shakti who is married to Pinky. They have one son, Shivaay, who is the eldest son and the face of the Oberoi's industry. He is a business tycoon with a strict personality that matches his uncle, Tej. He is arrogant, snobbish and judges people on the basis of their lineage and social status, rather than their personality or work. He does not believe in love but got engaged to Tia Kapoor because of her high class and status. Shivaay has a sense of loyalty towards his family name. Both, Tej and Pinky, want their respective sons to inherit the business and thus end up fighting each other. Even after everything the three cousins share an unusually strong bond with each other.

Shivaay comes across a middle-class girl, Annika who manages a catering business to support Sahil, her young adoptive brother, who needs crutches to walk. Sahil and Annika have a fat, evil aunt Sundari who cares about nothing but money. Shivay and Annika are always engaged in cat fights because of their differences in opinions and class. Annika is called up by Dadi to be wedding planner of Shivaay's marriage with his fiancé, Tia and therefore stays at the Oberoi's mansion all through the day. In a series of events Annika and Shivaay keep fighting but helping each other, especially Annika saving the Oberoi family members from several attacks by enemies and Hence starts their passionate often tumultuous love story.

Annika's psycopath ex-fiance Daksh, appears in their life because of whom Shivaay thinks of Annika as a gold digger. As the story progresses, Shivaay forces Anika to marry him when Tia goes missing on the wedding day. Tia returns the following day under the pretext of getting kidnapped and Shivaay presents her as his wife in front of the media instead of Annika. Daksh kidnaps Annika but Shivaay manages to save her from him. He finds out that Daksh was feeding him lies the whole time. When the truth comes out Annika and Shivaay come closer but Tia announces her pregnancy. Shivaay and Annika along with Omkara and Rudra try to prove that the child is not Shivaay's however, they are unsuccessful twice. Later, Annika falls from the stairs and suffers a memory loss. She forces Shivaay to marry Tia for the sake of their child. Later during the wedding, Tia's husband, Robin arrives whom Tia thought was dead the whole time. Annika finds Robin who was revealed to be hidden by Tia's mother. The truth of the Kapoor's evil plan comes out in the end thus exposing her and her family as Shivaay reveals that Annika's memory loss was a plan that was laid by himself, Annika and Omkara and Rudra. Priyanka is set to marry ACP Ranveer. During one of the pre-wedding functions, after a variety of events, Shivaay accepts that Annika as his wife in front of his family and the media.

Cast

Main cast

• Nakuul Mehta as Shivaay Singh Oberoi, Annika's husband, Omkara, Rudra and Priyanka's cousin, Shakti and Pinky's son/ Mahi (Fake Shivaay Singh Oberoi)
• Surbhi Chandna as Annika Shivaay Singh Oberoi, Shivaay's wife, Priyanka's Friend, Omkara, Rudra and Priyanka's sister-in-law, Sahil's sister

Recurring cast

• Kunal Jaisingh as Omkara Singh Oberoi, Rudra and Priyanka's elder brother, Shivaay's cousin,Soumya's rakhi brother and Gauri's husband (2016-)
• Leenesh Mattoo as Rudra Singh Oberoi, Omkara's younger brother and Priyanka's elder brother, Shivaay's cousin, and Saumya's husband (2016-)
• Neha Lakshmi Iyer as Saumya Rudra Singh Oberoi, Kalyani's Friend's Granddaughter, Rudra's wife (2016-)
• Subha Rajput as Priyanka Singh Oberoi, Omkara and Rudra's sister, Shivaay's Cousin, Annika's Friend, Ranveer's fianceé (2016-)
• Ayush Anand as ACP Ranveer Singh Randhawa, Kamini's son, Daksh's nephew, Priyanka's Fianceé (2016-)
• Mahesh Thakur as Tej Singh Oberoi, Omkara, Rudra and Priyanka's father, Saumya and Gauri's father-in-law (2016-)
• Mreenal Deshraj as Jhanvi Tej Singh Oberoi, Omkara, Rudra and Priyanka's mother, Saumya and Gauri's mother-in-law (2016-)
• Siraj Mustafa Khan as Shakti Singh Oberoi, Shivaay's father, Annika's father-in-law (2016-)
• Nitika Anand Mukherjee as Pinky Shakti Singh Oberoi, Shivaay's mother, Annika's mother-in-law (2016-)
• Navnindra Behl as Kalyani Prithviraj Singh Oberoi, Tej, Shakti and Roop's mother, the matriarch of Oberoi family (2016-)
• Amrapali Gupta as Kamini Khurana Singh Randhawa, Ranveer's Mother, Daksh's Sister, Priyanka's Mother in Law (2017-)
• Karan Khanna as Daksh Khurana, Shivaay's childhood friend, Annika' ex-fianceé (Jailed) Ranveer's Uncle, Kamini's Brother (2016;2017-)
• Sushmita Mukherjee as Dolly Singh Oberoi, Kalyani's sister-in-law, Tej, Shakti and Roop's aunt (2017-)
• Reyhna Malhotra as Svetlana Kapoor, Tia's elder sister, Tej's secretary and mistress, Omkara's fianceé, Fake Swetlana, Oberois' enemy (2016-)
• Aryan Prajapati as Sahil, Anika's adopted younger brother (2016-)
• Naman Mukul as Khanna, Shivaay's bodyguard (2016-)

Guest stars

• Navina Bole as Tia Kapoor, Svetlana's younger sister, Shivaay's ex-fiancée, Dushyant/Robin's Wife. (2016-17)
• Saurabh Kushwaha as Robin/Dushyant, Tia's husband, Romi's elder brother (2016-17)
• Krissann Barretto as Romi, Dushyant's younger sister, Saumya's friend, Rudra's ex-girlfriend. (2016-17)
• Vrushika Mehta as Ishana, a con woman (2016)
• Pooja Doshi as Mona, Ishana's younger sister (2016)
• Surbhi Jyoti as Mallika Kabeer Choudhary, Shivaay's ex-girlfriend (2016)
• Shaleen Malhotra as Siddharth Vikram Rana, Shivaay's business rival (2016)
• Naved Aslam as Vikram Pradeep Rana, Tej's business rival (2016)
• Manasi Salvi as Ketaki Vikram Rana (2016)
• Ashish Kaul as Mr. Chabra (2016)
• Anandi Tripathi as Mrs. Chabra (2016)
• Sheeba Chaddha as Inspector Maadhuri (2016)
• Shireena Sambyal as Riddhima, Omkara's ex-girlfriend (2016)
• Vishavpreet Kaur as Roop Singh Oberoi, Tej and Shakti's sister (2016)
• Nishi Singh as Sundari, Sahil's aunt. (2016-17)
• Anisha Hinduja as Mrs. Kapoor, Tia's mother, Oberois' enemy (2016-17)
• Ish Thakkar as Dev Chabra, Priyanka's ex-fiancé (2016)
• Hiten Meghrajani as Reyaan Chabra, Saumya's ex-fiancé (2016)

External links

• Ishqbaaaz Streaming on Hotstar
• Ishqbaaaz at IMDb