MUMBAI: Kumkum Bhagya is a drama produced by Ekta Kapoor under Balaji Telefilms.

It premiered on 15 April 2014 on Zee TV and is also digitally available on ZEE5. The series stars Sriti Jha and Shabbir Ahluwalia as main leads. Since March 2019, Mugdha Chaphekar, Pooja Banerjee and Krishna Kaul were also introduced as leads of the second generation alongside Sriti and Shabbir. The concept is based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility.

Kumkum Bhagya is a love story of Pragya and Abhi who are destined to be together against all odds. The series started as the story of sisters Pragya and Bulbul, and their mother Sarla Arora's hope to see them married. Later, the show revolved around Abhi and Pragya.

Later a 20-year leap was introduced. The show was rebranded as "Dusri Pidhi". The story now revolves around the married lives of Prachi-Ranbir and Rhea-Siddharth.

As seen, Prachi has trust issues with Ranbir but still loves him while Ranbir tries to explain how Rhea blackmailed the family of suicide. Ranbir reveals to Prachi that he married Rhea to save his family from the police case however this enrages Prachi further. Prachi blames Ranbir for not considering her as a family or thinking about her leaving him speechless.

Meanwhile, Ranbir bluntly tells Rhea on her face that she is not his wife but the mistake of his life.

This irks Rhea and she gets wild with anger. Moreover, Rhea plans big with Alia and makes Prachi drink alcohol, and gets her signature on the divorce papers. Pallavi, Rhea, and Alia rejoice in their victory as now Prachi will be out of the house.

Now it will be interesting to see what will Prachi do next knowing her blunder in an intoxicated state.

The story is introduced by Anil Nagpal and the show is directed by Ravindra Gautam, Sameer Kulkarni, Sharad Pandey, Jeetu Arora and Deepak Chavan.

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