Kumkum Bhagya


Kumkum Bhagya is an Indian drama television series produced by Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms. It premiered on April 15, 2014 on Zee TV. The series initially starred Sriti Jha, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Shikha Singh, Mugdha Chaphekar, Naina Singh and Krishna Kaul. Reyhna Malhotra replaced Shikha Singh as Alia and Pooja Banerjee replaced Naina Singh as Rhea. Kumkum Bhagya is loosely based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility.
The series started as the story of Pragya, Bulbul and their mother Sarla Arora's hope to see them married. Later, the show revolved around Abhi and Pragya.
On March 18, 2019, after Abhi and Pragya's separation, a twenty-year leap was introduced. Post-leap, Mugdha Chaphekar and Naina Singh were introduced as Abhi and Pragya's separated twin daughters, Prachi Mehra and Rhea Mehra. And mainly the story revolves around them.

Plot

Pragya and Bulbul help their mother Sarla run the Kumkum Bhagya marriage hall. The series begins with a short-lived love triangle involving Pragya – Suresh – Bulbul, leading to the cancellation of Pragya's engagement with Suresh. Rockstar Abhishek "Abhi" is in a relationship with supermodel Tanushree "Tanu". Purab Khanna is Abhishek's best friend and music handler and hires Bulbul at his advertising agency. He falls in love with Bulbul despite being engaged to Abhi's sister Aliya. Aliya misunderstands that Purab is seeing Pragya and Abhi marries Pragya to keep her from ruining Aliya's relationship with Purab. Post-marriage, Pragya realizes the truth and accepts the blame to protect Bulbul. On his wedding day, Purab abandons Aliya and comes clean to everyone about his love for Bulbul. Various situations and circumstances bring Abhishek and Pragya closer. Abhi reconciles with Purab and Bulbul and gets them married. Desperate to get Abhi back, Tanu fakes a DNA report to imply that he is the father of her unborn child, which is actually the result of a one-night stand between her and Nikhil. Pragya realises the truth but suffers an accident and is declared dead, before she could reveal the truth to Abhi.

2 years later

Pragya returns to exact revenge on her wrongdoers by becoming the owner of Abhi's properties. Bulbul risks her life and dies while saving Pragya from Aliya. The season ends with Pragya exposing Tanu and winning back Abhi's trust. However, Abhishek gets into an accident and loses his memory. He forgets the last two-and-a-half years of his life, including Pragya who has to leave him for his own good.

2 months later

Abhi and Pragya came across each-other once again, the meeting results to their friendship where Abhi is still unaware of who she is. On his wedding day with Tanu, Abhi regains his memory but he soon loses Pragya for she is shot by some goons and falls into a dam. However, after several sequences with her look alike named Munni, Pragya finally recovers from coma and reconciles with Abhi. On the other hand, Purab and Disha's love story begins to bloom. She proposes to him and he decides to move on from Bulbul and give their marriage a chance.
A girl named Simonika, joins Abhi's office as his secretary, she plans to take her revenge for he has killed her husband Dushyant. In a barter, Tanu asks Simonika to spare Abhi and kill Pragya instead. However, Simonika ends up murdering Dadi who reaches the factory before Pragya to save her life. Both Abhi and Aliya blame Pragya for Dadi's death. Abhi asks Pragya to leave, thus, a heart-broken and grief-stricken Pragya is shown attempting suicide by jumping off a cliff.

7 years later

Abhi lives with Tanu in a mutually agreed upon fake relationship, while Pragya is living in the UK with King Singh, a London-based rapper. She also has a daughter from Abhi, named Kiara. Abhi and Pragya hold each other responsible for Dadi's death. Abhi and King are offered a world music album and thus, the latter flies to India with Pragya and Kiara.
Kiara and Abhi meet in Delhi, where the Mehra family now lives, and become good friends. Abhi finds out about Kiara being his daughter at Neha's wedding, Mitali and Raaj's daughter. Abhi comes to know that King and Pragya are not married for real. He convinces Pragya of his love and remarries her, after their marriage, Pragya expects twins. A jealous Tanu tries to kill Pragya and her unborn babies, but Abhi, Aliya and others kick her out of the house. King too realises his mistake and decides to protect Pragya from Tanu. Tanu reaches out to her ex-boyfriend Nikhil and instigates him to take revenge from Abhi by murdering Pragya and her twins. Nikhil enters Mehra mansion with the intention of killing Pragya and her twins but Kiara identifies him.. To save himself from being exposed, he changes his plan and kidnaps Kiara. Nikhil then calls Abhi and Pragya to ask for ransom money, but eventually plans to end Kiara's life to complete his revenge which results to Pragya and Abhi blaming each-other. The results end in Abhi taking 1 twin and Pragya taking another.

20 years later

It is shown that Abhi and Pragya have been separated and have each of their daughters; Pragya has the custody of Prachi and Abhi has the custody of Rhea. Pragya and Abhi both blame each other for Kiara's death. Pragya has settled in Hoshiarpur working as college lecturer. Prachi has a friend, Shahana who lives with Pragya and Prachi and affectionately calls Pragya as Maasi. Abhi is settled in Delhi. He has a company which promotes the new young talents. Purab has married Aliya, but their married life is not a happy one. They also have a son named Aaryan. Abhi is friend with Mr. Kohli who has a son named Ranbir Kohli, a spoilt rich brat. He also goes to the same college as Rhea. Prachi gets a scholarship to study in Delhi but Pragya is reluctant to send her there because of her past. But she eventually sends Prachi and Shahana to study in Delhi. The college they get admission into happens to be the same place where Pragya and Abhi's other twin daughter, Rhea, is studying. Prachi and Abhi meet when the former's luggage is stolen. They become friends. As a result of attempting to rag Prachi, Rhea gets slapped by Prachi and is left humiliated in front of the entire college. At the same time Prachi dislikes Ranbir for his casanova ways. Prachi and Shahana start working part-time in an event management company where their first catering job is in Abhi's house. To plan a revenge, Rhea makes it look like Prachi is a thief and gets her arrested. Hearing her arrest, Pragya returns to Delhi. However, Abhi believes Prachi is innocent and gets her released. Soon after it is revealed through the CCTV camera that Rhea was responsible for framing Prachi, for which she gets slapped by Abhi for the first time. Rhea starts hating Prachi as she feels that Prachi is stealing Abhi from her. She attempts to run over Prachi on the road but accidentally hurts Pragya. Prachi gets Rhea arrested for this but Pragya intervenes and let's Rhea go. Rhea is impressed with Pragya's attitude and slowly starts to idolise her. Rhea attempts to hurt Prachi many times like making it seem that Prachi killed her at camp, planting drugs in her bag to get her arrested but each attempt fails. For some reason Pragya does not understand that Rhea is indeed a spoilt and horrible brat while Prachi tries to justify why Rhea is bad. During all this time, Abhi and Prachi have become close as well. Abhi and Pragya meets after 20 years but he gets injured soon after. Pragya leaves immediately after saving him and donating her daughter's blood for him. She feels that Abhi will take her daughter from her. Pragya misunderstands who Abhi is as everyone calls him Mr. Mehra. She thinks that Mr. Mehra is Mr. Kohli due to many incidents. Pragya, Prachi and Shahana lives with Saritaben who lovingly calls Pragya as Anuradha. This leads to a lot of confusion since everyone from Abhi's side calls Pragya as Anuradha.
Rhea initially thinks that something is going on between Ranbir and Prachi but later understands that Ranbir likes her only. Rhea decides that she will accept Ranbir's proposal only if he makes Prachi fall in love with him and break her heart. Ranbir reluctantly accepts to do so, but in the process ends up actually falling in love with Prachi. Meanwhile, Shahana and Aaryan also come close. It is also shown that Purab is still in love with Disha and they got separated because of misunderstandings of cheating created by Alia, where the media also gets involved. In order to save Alia's reputation, Purab marries her. When Alia realises that Purab still only loves Disha, she attempts suicide but is saved by Purab. The doctor recommends to Purab to keep Alia happy as she can do anything with her life, otherwise. In his rush to get Alia to the hospital, Purab hits Disha's car and injures her. He saves both of them but writes his relation to Disha as husband and his relation to Alia as friend in the hospital form. He also leaves his wedding ring at Disha's hospital room. Alia becomes more and more insecure as she feels that Disha will take Purab away. She refuses to believe Disha, who is clearly not interested to get back with Purab.
Abhi starts to message Pragya thinking she is Anuradha since both have heard great things about each other. They even plan to meet several times but something or the other comes up. Saritaben wants Abhi and Pragya to marry each other but they are least interested. Again incidents come where they meet like in the Ganesh Chaturthi event but before they can even go to each other, they are interrupted by robbers who are trying to steal the jewels laid on the statue of Ganesh. However, in between Prachi and Ranbir are getting closer, Ranbir is attracted with Prachi's simplicity different behaviour as he attract every girl in college but prachi is not even bothered by his presence. In between this a new girl Priyanka is in the house whom are family friends of Mehra family. Priyanka is obsessed with a former boyfriend called Rishi, Saritabehn's grandson. They were in a relationship in college but they broke up because of Priyanka's dominating behaviour. Now she is not able to see Rishi getting closer to any other women, misunderstanding reaches its peak when she misjudge Shahana as Rishi's new girl friend. In an attempt to get rishi back in his life, she starts luring pragya and sarita behn, to which the latter fakes the news that rishi and shahana are already engaged. Enraged with continuous disapproval from rishi and his family, she makes abhi slap rishi with a molestation case in an attempt to exact revenge. This leads to reunion of abhi and pragya in the police station but their happiness is short-lived as they both support their respective children.

Cast

Main

Development and premiere

The series is a love story produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor under the banner Balaji Telefilms that airs on Zee TV. The show premiered at 09:00 pm and 10:30 pm on Tuesday on 15 April 2014 and airs episodes from Monday to Friday. Ekta Kapoor considers the letter K to be lucky and has named many of her productions starting with K. Talking about introducing a fresh concept on prime time, Zee TV Programming Head, Namit Sharma said, "It takes one epic show to replace another, so you can imagine. It is a passionate drama of love, a far cry from regular saas-bahu soaps and has an ensemble cast of some very talented actors." Ekta Kapoor added, "While two of my shows are already on-air and doing immensely well on Zee TV, it's a pleasure to extend my partnership with Zee to a third show. Pavitra Rishta has had a run of over five years now and the journey has been most gratifying for me as a producer. While the audiences who are hooked on to Pavitra Rishta will continue to enjoy the show at 6:30 PM, Kumkum Bhagya will open at 9 PM, drawing maximum eyeballs. It is so contemporary in its treatment that viewers will be able to instantly spot characters out of their own lives in the show. It's a story of passionate love that anyone with a soul would be able to easily relate to".
Speaking of his comeback as an actor, Shabbir Ahluwalia, the protagonist of the show says, "With me producing shows, it was getting very difficult to manage time for acting assignments. But now, I have decided to concentrate on acting. You cannot be away from what you love doing for long. The role appealed to me a great deal. This is the first time that I will be playing a rockstar on television and in order to look my part, I had to ensure that I did not just get my costume and look right, but also get that attitude right that is required to portray a rockstar onscreen."
The production and airing of the show was halted indefinitely in late March 2020 due to the Covid-19 outbreak in India. Because of the outbreak, the filming of television series and films was halted on 19 March 2020 and expected to resume on 1 April 2020 but could not and the series was last broadcast on 24 March 2020 when the remaining episodes were aired. After three months, the production and filming of the series resumed on 29 June 2020 and airing to resume from 13 June 2020.

Casting

, who was also cast in Ekta's TV Series Kayamath, was selected to portray the lead role of Abhishek Prem Mehra. Ahluwalia made his comeback after Zee 20 years. Actress Sriti Jha landed in lead role in the show. Mrunal Thakur was selected to portray the second leading role of Bulbul while Arjit Taneja was cast opposite her. In May 2014, Shikha Singh entered the show as the main antagonist Aliya Mehra, while Madhurima Tuli was cast to portray the negative role of Tanu. Later, Tuli had to shoot for her film Baby so, this role was later played by Leena Jumani in September 2014. Actor Faisal Rashid was selected to portray the role of Suresh who played an important role in April–May 2014, but in May 2015 he quit the series. Actress Supriya Shukla was cast to play the role of Sarla Arora, while Madhu Raja played the role of Daljeet Arora. Other supporting cast members include Samiksha Bhatnagar, Ankit Mohan, Charu Mehra and Amit Dhawan. Bhatnagar, who portrayed the supporting role of Mitali was replaced by Swati Anand within the month of launch while Anurag Sharma, who also appeared in Ekta Kapoor's Pavitra Rishta, Bade Achhe Lagte Hain, Yeh Hai Mohabbatein and Itna Karo Na Mujhe Pyaar replaced Amit. In 2015, Neel Motawani was selected to play the negative role of Neel; while in June 2015 Nikhil Arya entered the series playing the role of main male antagonist Nikhil Sood.
In December 2015, actress Mrunal Thakur who played the role of Bulbul opted out from the show and was to be replaced by Kajol Shrivastava, however the character of Bulbul was phased out of the series after Mrunal's departure. In August 2016, Ankit Mohan quit the show so his character left as well. In September 2016, Arjit Taneja quit the show and was replaced by Vin Rana. In October 2016, Nikhil Arya was replaced by Rujut Dahiya. In July 2017, actress Ruchi Savarn entered the show as Purab's new love interest. Mishal Raheja as King Singh and Kaurwakee Vashista as Kiara mehra entered the show after the leap. Actor Abeer Adil was cast in 2018 as King's cousin Tarun and Roma Bali as Tarun's mother.
Naina Singh and Mugdha Chapekar entered the show as the new leads after the 20 years Generation Leap. Actor Krishna Kaul plays the male lead post leap.

Distribution and release

Broadcast

The series was released on 15 April 2014 on Zee TV. The series also airs on Zee TV HD and Zee TV Asia.
The show was also broadcast internationally on the latter's international distribution. It airs in U.K., U.S., Reunion Island, Malaysia, Canada, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Ireland, South Africa, Indonesia, Chile, Philippines, Ghana, and Singapore on Zee TV Worldwide.
CountryChannelNameLanguage
WorldwideZee TVKumkum BhagyaHindi
OnlineZEE5Kumkum BhagyaHindi
IndiaZee AnmolKumkum BhagyaHindi
IndiaPolimer TVIru MalargalTamil
IndiaZee TamizhIniya Iru MalargalTamil
IndiaZee TeluguKumkuma BhagyaTelugu
IndiaZee KeralamSindooramMalayalam
IndiaBig GangaKumkum BhagyaBhojpuri
South AfricaZee WorldTwist Of FateEnglish
Sri LankaHiru TVAdarei Man AdareiSinhala
MauritiusMBC Digital 4Kumkum BhagyaHindi
La RéunionAntenne RéunionKumkum BhagyaFrench
IndonesiaAntvLonceng CintaIndonesian
Middle EastZee Alwanمكانك في القلب هو القلب كلهArabic
TurkeyKanal 7Ah KalbımTurkish
RussiaZee TVЖенская ДоляRussian
GhanaAdom TVKumkum BhagyaAkan
PakistanGeo KahaniKumkum BhagyaHindi
South KoreaJTBC Zee TV내 운명 이니Korea
JapanZee Asahi運命のねじれJapan
KenyaInooro TVKumkum BhagyaKikuyu
VietnamEchannelGiấc Mơ Thiên ĐườngVietnamese
PhilippinesZee SineTwist of FateEnglish

Digital release

In late 2015, the app introduced their "Before TV" service where they launched Kumkum Bhagya's episodes before airing on TV, new episodes where released during 5:30am, the service was available on a subscription plan. Although the YouTube service was terminated, the channel still release their episodes on the Zee TV website and Zee TV app. On ZEE5 the show airs earlier than on TV.

Spin off

A spin-off series Kundali Bhagya premiered on 12 July 2017. The series narrates the story of Pragya's two sisters Preeta and Srishti and their attempt to find their mother Sarla and the dynamics which lead to their acquaintance with the rich and famous Luthra family. The show stars Shraddha arya, Deeraj Dhoopar and Manit Jaura.

Television special

Kumkum Bhagya – Saawaan Mahotsav '' is a special segment wherein Kumkum Bhagya characters will be seen celebrating the Saawan Mahotsav and will recreate a scene from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. Pragya and Abhi will be invited to Tina and Rahul's wedding. On realizing how much Anjali loves Rahul, Pragya along with Abhi, would make Rahul believe that he is actually in love with Anjali and that they both should tie the knot.
This Special episode stars Rhea Sharma, Vishal Singh, Yuvika Chaudary along with Sriti Jha and Shabbir Ahluwalhia.

Reception

Critical reception

Initially started with low ratings, the show climbed to Top 5 most watched shows across all GEC's. After only a few weeks of its launch and was touted as the biggest fiction launch of 2014. The serial is very popular among Indian women. The show also gave tough fight to the long time Hindi GEC leader Diya Aur Baati Hum that aired at same slot on Star Plus. On the reception of the show in such a short span of time, Zee TV business head Pradeep Hejmadi announced that he considered the 'wedding track' a very important inflection point for people to gravitate to the series, believing it to be attracting increasing interest in all parameters. He also added "Each story has its own promise and people who tune in are people who are bought into those promises or are keen to explore the relationships or the characters that stand out speaking to them. We concentrated on bringing out the key inflection points for the show and it was important because it is the core promise of Kumkum Bhagya."
Later, the series further raised to 13.5 million impressions when the production decided to introduce Tannu's DNA report storyline. Later in the month of August, makers introduced Abhi's memory loss twist and restarted the show which helped to maintain the ratings and dominated the first spot till October. In the month of October 2016, Balaji Telefilms Naagin second season launched and dominated the first spot, pushed Kumkum Bhagya to second spot in BARC chart. In the month of May 2017, Kumkum Bhagya became number one show again and continued to be for few weeks, dethroning the mega success of 2017 Naagin second season. In September, Kumkum bhagya's Spin-off Kundali Bhagya, the story of Pragya's long lost sisters Preeta and Shristi became the most watched show replacing Kumkum Bhagya. Since then Kumkum Bhagya mostly stayed in second spot. Decline ratings lead makers to introduce Kumkum Bhagya: Doosri Peedhi quickly in March 2019. Doosri Peedhi helps to make the show number one again in BARC week 14, 2019.
Reruns of Kumkum Bhagya premiered on Zee Anmol from 2017 and got very high ratings in the BARC rural chart when Zee Anmol was FTA. It began running on the network again from episode 1 from 10 June 2020, reason being the return to DD Free Dish.

Ratings

Week/ YearBARC ratings Urban
'		BARC's rank
'		Published date
Week 16, 2014 and Week 17, 20143.3 and 2.7-25 April 2014 and 2 May 2014
Week 19, 2014 and Week 20, 20142.8 and 3.0-16 May 2014 and 23 May 2014
Week 21, 2014 and Week 22, 20143.0 and 3.3-30 May 2014 and 5 June 2014
Week 23, 2014 and Week 24, 20143.2 and 3.5-12 June 2014 and 20 June 2014
Week 25, 2014 and Week 26, 20144.9 and 5.7-27 June 2014 and 3 July 2014
Week 27, 2014 and Week 29, 20146.3 and 6.66 and –11 July 2014 and 25 July 2014
Week 30, 2014 and Week 31, 20147.4 and 7.5– and 43 August 2014 and 8 August 2014
Week 32, 2014 and Week 33, 20147.6 and 8.0-16 August 2014 and 21 August 2014
Week 35, 2014 and Week 36, 20144.1 and 8.62 and 16 September 2014 and 12 September 2014
Week 37, 2014 and Week 39, 20148.4 and 7.31 and 318 September 2014 and 4 October 2014
Week 40, 2014 and Week 42, 20146.5 and 7.44 and 418 October 2014 and 25 October 2014
Week 44, 2014 and Week 47, 20147.1 and 8.13 and 310 November 2014 and 27 November 2014
Week 48, 2014 and Week 49, 20148.3 & 3.93 and 44 December 2014 and 11 December 2014
Week 50, 2014 and Week 51, 2014
and Week 52, 2014		3.2 and 9.9
and 9.0		6 and 3
and 3		18 December 2014 and 26 December 2014
and 3 January 2015
Week 01, 2015 and Week 03, 20154 and 9.23 and 28 January 2015 and 22 January 2015
Week 04, 2015 and Week 05, 20154.1 and 8.44 and 330 January 2015 and 6 February 2015
Week 06, 2015 and Week 07, 20154.2 and 4.63 and 112 February 2015 and 20 February 2015
Week 08, 2015 and Week 09, 20159.4 and 4.23 and 327 February 2015 and 5 March 2015
Week 10, 2015 and Week 11, 20159.4 and 4.41 and 213 March 2015 and 19 March 2015
Week 12, 2015 and Week 13, 201510.2 and 4.51 and 127 March 2015 and 2 April 2015
Week 16, 2015 and Week 17, 20154.9 and 5.47 and 330 April 2015 and 7 May 2015
Week 18, 2015 and Week 19, 20154.7 and 5.68 and 214 May 2015 and 19 May 2015
Week 20, 2015 and Week 21, 20155.4 and 3.23 and 329 May 2015 and 5 June 2015
Week 22, 2015 and Week 24, 20152.9 and 2.76 and 612 June 2015 and 26 June 2015
Week 25, 2015 and Week 27, 20153.4 and 3.94 and 33 July 2015 and 10 July 2015
Week 28, 2015 and Week 29, 20153.7 and 3.72 and 117 July 2015 and 24 July 2015
Week 30, 2015 and Week 31, 20153.5 and 3.82 and 17 August 2015 and 14 August 2015
Week 32, 2015 and Week 33, 20153.9 and 4.82 and 121 August 2015 and 28 August 2015
Week 34, 2015 and Week 35, 20154.3 and 4.51 and 14 September 2015 and 11 September 2015
Week 36, 2015 and Week 37, 20154.8 and 41 and 318 September 2015 and 25 September 2015
Week 38, 2015 and Week 39, 20154 and 4.32 and 31 October 2015 and 9 October 2015
Week 40, 2015 and Week 41, 20154 and 3.83 and 216 October 2015 and 23 October 2015
Week 42, 2015 and Week 43, 20153.6 and 4.51 and 130 October 2015 and 6 November 2015
Week 44, 2015 and Week 45, 20154.2 and 3.83 and 316 November 2015 and 20 November 2015
Week 46, 2015 and Week 48, 20154.3 and 4.13 and 327 November 2015 and 11 December 2015
Week 49, 2015 and Week 50 20153.8 and 3.63 and 318 December 2015 and 26 December 2015
Week 51, 2015 and Week 52, 20153.5 and 3.23 and 531 December 2015 and 7 January 2015
Week 01, 2016 and Week 02, 20163.1 and 3.83 and 315 January 2016 and 22 January 2016
Week 03, 2016 and Week 04, 20163.8 and 3.92 and 229 January 2016 and 4 February 2016
Week 06, 2016 and Week 07, 20163.7 and 42 and 319 February 2016 and 25 February 2016
Week 08, 2016 and Week 09, 20163.7 and 3.23 and 33 March 2016 and 11 March 2016
Week 10, 2016 and Week 11, 20163.3 and 3.83 and 218 March 2016 and 29 March 2016
Week 14, 2016 and Week 15, 20164 and 2.72 and 316 April 2016 and 26 April 2016
Week 16, 2016 and Week 17, 20164.9 and 2.87 and 330 April 2016 and 5 May 2016
Week 18, 2016 and Week 19, 20164.7 and 6.28 and 114 May 2016 and 20 May 2016
Week 20, 2016 and Week 21, 20166.9 and 2.53 and 426 May 2016 and 4 June 2016
Week 22, 2016 and Week 24, 20162.7 and 5.32 and 710 June 2016 and 24 June 2016
Week 25, 2016 and Week 26, 20162.6 and 2.93 and 21 July 2016 and 8 July 2016
Week 27, 2016 and Week 28, 201613.4 and 3.31 and 114 July 2016 and 22 July 2016
Week 29, 2016 and Week 30, 20167.1 and 14.71 and 128 July 2016 and 4 August 2016
Week 31, 2016 and Week 32, 20168.5 and 7.41 and 112 August 2016 and 19 August 2016
Week 33, 2016 and Week 34, 20166.6 and 7.21 and 125 August 2016 and 1 September 2016
Week 35, 2016 and Week 36, 20167.4 and 6.81 and 38 September 2016 and 15 September 2016
Week 37, 2016 and Week 38, 20164.7 and 7.612 and 322 September 2016 and 29 September 2016
Week 39, 2016 and Week 40, 20166.6 and 6.23 and 56 October 2016 and 13 October 2016
Week 41, 2016 and Week 42, 20165.4 and 6.59 and 420 October 2016 and 27 October 2016
Week 43, 2016 and Week 44, 20166.2 and 6.04 and 47 November 2016 and 10 November 2016
Week 45, 2016 and Week 46, 20166.2 and 6.74 and 517 November 2016 and 24 November 2016
Week 47. 2016 and Week 48, 20166.8 and 6.54 and 71 December 2016 and 8 December 2016
Week 49, 2016 and Week 50, 20167.36 and 7.32 and 215 December 2016 and 22 December 2016
Week 51, 2016 and Week 52, 20167.0 and 6.93 and 329 December 2016 and 5 January 2017
Week 03, 2017 and Week 04, 20176.1 and 6.04 and 427 January 2017 and 2 February 2017
Week 07, 2017 and Week 08, 20176.5 and 11.33 and 223 February 2017 and 2 March 2017
Week 09, 2017 and Week 10, 20176.7 and 6.83 and 29 March 2017 and 16 March 2017
Week 11, 2017 and Week 12, 20176.7 and 6.73 and 323 March 2017 and 30 March 2017
Week 13, 2017 and Week 14, 20177.0 and 6.12 and 36 April 2017 and 13 April 2017
Week 15, 2017 and Week 16, 20175.6 and 5.94 and 220 April 2017 and 27 April 2017
Week 17, 2017 and Week 18, 20176.4 and 10.81 and 14 May 2017 and 11 May 2017
Week 19, 2017 and Week 20, 201711.2 and 6.51 and 118 May 2017 and 25 May 2017
Week 21, 2017 and Week 22, 20176.5 and 5.91 and 11 June 2017 and 8 June 2017
Week 23, 2017 and Week 25, 20175.4 & 5.73 and 515 June 2017 and 29 June 2017
Week 26, 2017 and Week 27, 20176.4 and 7.12 and 26 July 2017 and 13 July 2017
Week 28, 2017 and Week 29, 20177.0 and 6.02 and 220 July 2017 and 27 July 2017
Week 30, 2017 and Week 31, 20175.9 and 5.66 and 83 August 2017 and 10 August 2017
Week 32, 2017 and Week 33, 20175.5 and 5.87 and 518 August 2017 and 24 August 2017
Week 34, 2017 and Week 35, 20176.0 and 5.83 and 331 August 2017 and 7 September 2017
Week 36, 2017 and Week 37, 20176.3 and 7.13 and 214 September 2017 and 21 September 2017
Week 38, 2017 and Week 39, 30173.3 and 5.810 and 31 October 2017 and 6 October 2017
Week 40, 2017 and Week 41, 20175.8 and 6.34 and 312 October 2017 and 23 October 2017
Week 42, 2017 and Week 43, 201710.5 and 6.91 and 126 October 2017 and 2 November 2017
Week 44, 2017 and Week 45, 20176.2 and 6.23 and 39 November 2017 and 16 November 2017
Week 46, 2017 and Week 47, 20177.4 and 7.12 and 223 November 2017 and 30 November 2017
Week 48, 2017 and Week 49 20176.7 and 7.32 and 17 December 2017 and 14 December 2017
Week 50, 2017 and Week 51, 2017
and Week 52, 2017		6.8 and 6.9
7.0		2 and 4
and 2		21 December 2017 and 29 December 2017
and 5 January 2017
Week 02, 2018 and Week 03, 20187.0 and 6.72 and 318 January 2018 and 24 January 2018
Week 04, 2018 and Week 05, 20186.6 and 6.92 and 21 February 2018 and 8 February 2018
Week 06, 2018 and Week 07, 20185.9 and 6.84 and 215 February 2018 and 22 February 2018
Week 08, 2018 and Week 09, 20186.6 and 5.74 and 51 March 2018 and 8 March 2018
Week 10, 2018 and Week 11, 20186.0 and 6.45 and 215 March 2018 and 22 March 2018
Week 12, 2018 and Week 13, 20187.1 and 5.82 and 329 March 2018 and 5 April 2018
Week 14, 2018 and Week 15, 20184.9 and 5.87 and 112 April 2018 and 19 April 2018
Week 16, 2018 and Week 17, 20185.3 and 5.85 and 326 April 2018 and 4 May 2018
Week 18, 2018 and Week 19, 20185.4 and 5.72 and 210 May 2018 and 18 May 2018
Week 20, 2018 and Week 21, 20185.8 and 6.22 and 224 May 2018 and 31 May 2018
Week 22, 2018 and Week 23, 20187.3 and 7.51 and 37 June 2018 and 14 June 2018
Week 24, 2018 and Week 25, 201811 and 6.83 and 321 June 2018 and 28 June 2018
Week 26, 2018 and Week 27, 20186.6 and 9.94 and 45 July 2018 and 12 July 2018
Week 28, 2018 and Week 29, 20186.7 and 7.24 and 319 July 2018 and 26 July 2018
Week 30, 2018 and Week 31, 20187.1 and 7.63 and 42 August 2018 and 9 August 2018
Week 32, 2018 and Week 33, 20187.9 and 7.53 and 417 August 2018 and 23 August 2018
Week 34, 2018 and Week 35, 20186.7 and 6.86 and 530 August 2018 and 6 September 2018
Week 36, 2018 and Week 37, 20187.1 and 12.44 and 414 September 2018 and 20 September 2018
Week 38, 2018 and Week 39, 20185.7 and 6.47 and 527 September 2018 and 5 October 2018
Week 40, 2018 and Week 41, 20186.2 and 5.78 and 911 October 2018 and 18 October 2018
Week 42, 2018 and Week 43, 20189.1 and 9.95 and 525 October 2018 and 1 November 2018
Week 44, 2018 and Week 45, 201810.8 and 9.74 and 512 November 2018 and 15 November 2018
Week 46, 2018 and Week 47, 201810.3 and 11.14 and 522 November 2018 and 29 November 2018
Week 48, 2018 and Week 49, 201812.3 and 12.13 and 56 December 2018 and 13 December 2018
Week 50, 2018 and Week 51, 2018
and Week 52, 2018		10.5 and 10.6
9.5		4 and 4
and 8		20 December 2018 and 28 December 2018
& 4 January 2019
Week 01, 2019 and Week 02, 20199.2 and 9.09 and 1210 January 2019 and 17 January 2019
Week 03, 2019 and Week 04, 20199.0 and 5.613 and 1024 January 2019 and 31 January 2019
Week 05, 2019 and Week 06, 20195.8 and 2.19 and 107 February 2019 and 14 February 2019
Week 07, 2019 and Week 08, 20191.9 and 1.910 and 721 February 2019 and 28 February 2019
Week 11, 2019 and Week 12, 20192.1 and 2.47 and 322 March 2019 and 28 March 2019
Week 13, 2019 and Week 14, 20192.1 and 6.07 and 14 April 2019 and 11 April 2019
Week 15, 2019 and Week 16, 20195.8 and 5.71 and 218 April 2019 and 25 April 2019
Week 17, 2019 and Week 18, 20196.5 and 6.01 and 13 May 2019 and 9 May 2019
Week 19, 2019 and Week 20, 20196.2 and 6.11 and 216 March 2019 and 23 May 2019
Week 21, 2019 and Week 22, 20196.7 and 6.43 and 330 May 2019 and 6 June 2019
Week 23, 2019 and Week 24, 20196.6 and 7.44 and 213 June 2019 and 20 June 2019
Week 25, 2019 and Week 26, 20195.8 and 7.43 and 227 June 2019 and 4 July 2019
Week 27, 2019 and Week 28, 20196.8 and 7.13 and 311 July 2019 and 19 July 2019

Awards and nominations

Soundtrack

The Kumkum Bhagya Soundtrack was written by Nawab Arzoo and composed by Lalit Sen. Lalit Sen had composed the original songs and background score for the show. "Allah Waariyan" is not the song of this show but it was the theme song of Abhi and Pragya. The first original song of the show is "O Rabba Ki Karaan", audience loved the song. The sad version of this song are also released with the title "Tum Ko Mera Dard Dikhna" and "Har Ke Bhi Jitna Hai Pyaar" Sung By Kashi Malik. Meherbaanon Ka Shukriya Song was released on the occasion of completing 1000 episodes and for thanking the audience for the love and support.