Yeh Hai Mohabbatein


Yeh Hai Mohabbatein is an Indian television drama series which aired from 3 December 2013 to 18 December 2019 on Star Plus. Created by Ekta Kapoor under Balaji Telefilms, it starred Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya and Karan Patel.
The story is partially based on Manju Kapur's 2011 novel Custody. Set in Delhi, the show follows the love story of Tamil dentist Dr. Ishita Iyer and Punjabi CEO Raman Bhalla. Ishita and Raman's daughter, Ruhi become emotionally attached to each other. Due to circumstances, Raman and Ishita marry each other later fall in love.
In July 2019, Karan Patel left the series and was replaced by Chaitanya Choudhury. Choudhry's character was later revealed to be an imposter. In November 2019, Patel returned to bid the show audieu.
In December 2019, a spin-off titled Yeh Hai Chahatein launched starring Sargun Kaur Luthra and Abrar Qazi replacing this series.

Plot

Ishita Iyer and Raman Bhalla are two people from different cultures brought together by Raman's daughter Ruhi Bhalla.
Tamil dentist Ishita lyer and Punjabi businessman Raman Bhalla live in Delhi. Ishita, who is infertile, forms a motherly bond with Raman's daughter, Ruhi who was abandoned by his former wife Shagun Arora. Gradually, Ishita, who is affectionately called "Ishima" by Ruhi, and Raman come close, marry and fall in love.
Shagun continues to create trouble for the two but later reforms. She unites with the Bhalla family, Raman and with their elder son Aditya "Adi" Bhalla. Ishita finally has a daughter with Raman who they name Pihu.
Later, a scheming lawyer Nidhi kidnaps Pihu. In order to rescue Pihu, they forget about Ruhi thus Nidhi kidnaps Ruhi and takes her away.

7 years later

Ishita now lives in Australia with her childhood friend, Mani, and his niece Aliya, who is coincidentally a grown-up Ruhi's secretary, who lives with a torturous Nidhi. Ishita finds out about Ruhi and unites with Raman. Ruhi comes back to India and lives with Ishita and Raman in the Bhalla house. Shagun and Mani eventually get married. Adi falls into a very bad scheme and is forced to marry Roshni in Khandarpur. Roshni and Adi go for annulment. Alia gets to know about his marriage on their wedding and she still decides to marry him anyway.They get married.

1 year later

Shagun, Mani, Aliya, and Pihu live in Bangkok, Thailand. Raman keeps a close eye on them. Pihu finally meets Ishita and accepts her as her mother. They return to India. They struggle with Ruhi's love interests with Sohail who is Nidhi's brother. Sohail wants revenge from the Bhalla family and targets Ruhi to complete his plan. He eventually gets arrested. Raman's multiple arrests as he is mistakenly blamed for Mani's death. His innocence is proved when Mani is brought alive. Pihu then accidentally pushes her cousin Ananya down the stairs and Ananya dies. Ishita takes the blame and is imprisoned.

2 years later

The Bhallas visit Budapest, Hungary for a business trip, as part of a revenge scam by Simmi, and Param, for their daughter Ananya's death. Aliya begins gambling, and Pihu is in a boarding school where Simmi tortures her. Raman is depressed and gives away his company to Param. Ishita is released as terminally ill, and a reformed Ashok reopens her case. Simmi instigates everyone against Ishita, drugs Raman to make him lose his memories, and further tries to frame Aliya in a murder case, but is defeated and exposed by Ishita. Ishita Remarries Raman to save Bhallas from Simmi but Raman keeps distance from Ishita because of simmi's drugs. Ishita attempts to punish Ruhi's molester Nikhil, but loses her eyes in the scuffle. Raman regains his sanity, and Ashok dies, saving Ishita. Simmi finds out Pihu was behind Ananya's death and submits her to juvenile custody. Adi begins to conspire against Raman but is thrown out of the house. He kidnaps his first wife Roshni and Ishita is forced to shoot him.

8 months later

Pihu returns to see Ishita who now shelters a pregnant Roshni and also is alienated from the Bhallas for killing Adi. The Bhallas want to get Roshni back as she is carrying Adi's child. Roshni promises to hand over the custody of her child if the Bhallas accept Ishita. They accept her condition.
Roshni's baby is handed over to Mihika. Param kidnaps Pihu and Simmi reforms. Raman suffers from spinal injury in the rescue and it further worsens as he is improperly treated by an alcoholic doctor Rajat, who later commits suicide due to his humiliation.
Ruhi receives a marriage proposal from Rohan, but he mistakes Aliya for Ruhi, and falls in love with her. A widowed Aliya initially rejects him in spite of the family's wishes, but later agrees. Ruhi falls in love with Rohan's brother, Karan. It is later revealed that Rohan and Karan are Dr. Rajat's nephews, and the whole proposal is a sham to humiliate the Bhallas. Rohan opposes his mother's plans, and sides with the Bhallas.
Ishita encounters Yug, Adi's look-alike. Karan brings in Yug to drive a wedge between Rohan and Aliya, but is roped in with Rohan's opinions and soon begins to fall in love with Ruhi. Yug reminds Aliya of Adi. An insecure Rohan tries to win Aliya back by sexually pursuing her and ends up using force, when she is rescued by the family.
Aliya marries Yug, when a woman named Neha comes in and claims to be his wife. She begins to live with the Bhallas. Eventually, she is exposed and her intention to take revenge from Yug is revealed.
Raman leaves for a business meeting. The family learns that Raman's flight crashed with no chance of his survival. They break down while Ishita refuses to believe the news. Arjit Saxena marks his entrance. He is revealed to have kidnapped Raman. Ishita learns about it and rushes to find Raman. Arjit drops Raman off a building and flees while Ishita rushes Raman to hospital.
Due to severe damage, Raman is given a new face shocking the Bhallas. Natasha and Sunny mark their entry in the Bhallas lives with Natasha claiming Raman to be her husband Shardul. It is later revealed that the Raman staying with the Bhallas is Shardul while the real Raman is in a coma. Raman recovers and is brought home.
As Karan and Ruhi prepare to marry, Ruhi discovers she can't conceive like Ishita. Initially, Sudha plans to cancel the marriage but later she accepts Ruhi. Ruhi and Karan marry and adopt a baby girl. Ishita and Raman get remarried.

Cast

Main

Development and premiere

The series, produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor under the banner Balaji Telefilms is a family drama and also a love story. The show premiered on 3 December 2013. Talking about the show, Ekta said, "My association with Star goes back a long way. We have together celebrated many successes and created iconic characters through generations. I look forward to working with them closely on this show and I am sure that the viewers will accept Ishita & Raman into their families". Speaking on the character Ishita's development, Kapoor said, "I created Divyanka's character as dentist in 'Yeh Hai Mohabbatein', as I was having a lot of tooth trouble those days. My dentist sorted my problems a lot, so I brought that character alive"
The show was initially titled as Custody but was renamed Mera Tera Rishta Purana which was again changed to Yeh Hai Mohabbatein.
In November 2019, Ekta Kapoor revealed, "When I started Yeh Hai Mohabbatein, I remember going to Gaurav Banerjee from Star Plus and asking him for a non prime time slot because I wanted to do a show on a social issue. I had stopped doing much television and I wanted to make YHM without the trappings of a TRP driven show. A show about a woman who cannot have children, a stepmother who according to Indian terms is considered bad! Words in India like barren and evil stepmother got used so often and labelled women in the worst poss way. This show got so much love that it went on for six years. And from a non prime time slot to a prime time slot."
In September 2014, Deepika Padukone and Arjun Kapoor were to promote their film Finding Fanny in the series for which the leads Tripathi Dahiya and Patel had to shoot a sequence with them. As Patel delayed to the sets for shooting, the script was changed on Patel's absence at last minute as the films stars had to head on for other promotions.
On 11 May 2016, during filming of the weeding sequence of characters Romi and Mihika, the shoot was stalled owing to a fight between the production house and workers union. In 25 July 2018, the shoot was stalled for a while during bandh in Mumbai.

Casting

was selected by Kapoor to play Ishita Iyer. Cezanne Khan was first approached to play Raman Bhalla opposite Tripathi, but was replaced by Karan Patel. Child artist Ruhanika Dhawan was chosen to play Ruhi Bhalla. Sayantani Ghosh was first considered but Anita Hassanandani was selected to play Shagun Arora. The other cast included then were Aly Goni, Mihika Verma, Shruti Bapna, Neena Kulkarni, Shahnaz Rizwan, Kaushal Kapoor, Abhay Bhargava and Gautam Ahuja.
In March 2018, Charu Mehra was supposed to enter the series during the filming at London, however could not due to her visa issues.

Filming

The show has taken various leaps including a seven-year leap in April 2016, followed by a one-year leap in November 2016 and then a two-year leap in November 2017. On 9 December 2016 the show completed 1,000 episodes. The show completed 1,500 episodes on 13 June 2018.
Based on backdrop of Delhi, the series is mainly filmed at the sets in Andheri, Mumbai. Some sequences were filmed at several foreign locations including Australia, Budapest and London.

Spin-off series

A spin-off series, Yeh Hai Chahatein, premiered on 19 December 2019, replacing Yeh Hai Mohabbatein. It focuses on Ishita's niece Preesha portrayed by Sargun Kaur Luthra opposite Abrar Qazi portraying Preesha and Rudraksh respectively.

Adaptations

A version of the series dubbed in English was broadcast in Africa on Glow TV and on Star Plus South Africa/Mauritius, with episodes broadcast three and a half hours after premiering in India. It also airs on MBC Digital 4.
The show has been remade in several languages:
YearAwardCategoryRecipientResult
2014Gold AwardsBest Actress In Lead Role Divyanka Tripathi
2014Gold AwardsBest Actor In Lead Role Karan Patel
2014Gold AwardsBest Actress In Negative Role Anita Hassanandani
2014Indian Telly AwardsMost Popular Child Artiste Ruhanika Dhawan
2014Indian Telly AwardsMost Popular Actress In A Lead RoleDivyanka Tripathi
2014Indian Telly AwardsMost Popular Actor In A Lead RoleKaran Patel
2014Indian Telly AwardsMost Popular Onscreen CoupleKaran Patel and Divyanka Tripathi
2014Indian Television Academy AwardsGR8! Onscreen Couple Of The YearKaran Patel and Divyanka Tripathi
2014Big Star Entertainment AwardsMost Entertaining Actress In Lead RoleDivyanka Tripathi
2015Lions Gold AwardsBest Actress In Lead RoleDivyanka Tripathi
2015Gold AwardsBest Actor In Lead Role Karan Patel
2015Gold AwardsBest Actress In Lead Role Divyanka Tripathi
2015Gold AwardsBest Actress In Negative Role Anita Hassanandani
2015Gold AwardsBest Actor In Negative Role Sangram Singh
2015Gold AwardsBest Actor In Negative Role Sangram Singh
2015Gold AwardsBest Actor In Supporting Role Raj Singh Arora
2015Gold AwardsBest TV Show of the Year Ekta Kapoor
2015Indian Telly AwardsBest Actor In Lead RoleKaran Patel
2015Indian Telly AwardsBest Actress In Lead RoleDivyanka Tripathi
2015Indian Telly AwardsBest Onscreen Jodi Karan Patel & Divyanka Tripathi
2015Indian Television Academy AwardsBest Romantic Actor Karan Patel
2015Indian Television Academy AwardsBest Actor In Negative Role Anita Hassanandani
2015Asian Viewers Television AwardsMale Actor of the YearKaran Patel
2015Asian Viewers Television AwardsFemale Actor of the YearDivyanka Tripathi
2015Asian Viewers Television AwardsSoap of the YearEkta Kapoor
2016Gold AwardsBest Actor Karan Patel
2016Gold AwardsBest Actress Divyanka Tripathi
2016Gold AwardsBest Actor In Supporting Role Raj Singh Arora
2016Gold AwardsBest Actress In A Negative RoleAnita Hassanandani
2016Gold AwardsBest Actor In A Negative RoleSangram Singh
2016Gold AwardsBest Onscreen JodiKaran Patel and Divyanka Tripathi
2016Asian Viewers Television AwardsFemale Actor of the YearDivyanka Tripathi
2017Gold AwardsBest Actor In Lead Role Karan Patel
2017Gold AwardsBest Actress In Lead Role Divyanka Tripathi
2017Gold AwardsBest Actress In Negative Role Anita Hassanandani
2017Gold AwardsBest Actor In Supporting RoleRaj Singh Arora
2017Gold AwardsBest Actress In A Supporting RoleAditi Bhatia
2017Gold AwardsBest Actor In A Negative RoleSangram Singh
2018Gold AwardsBest Actress In Lead Role Divyanka Tripathi
2018Gold AwardsBest Actor In Lead Role Karan Patel
2018Gold AwardsBest Show Ekta Kapoor
2018Gold AwardsBest Onscreen JodiKaran Patel and Divyanka Tripathi
2018Gold AwardsGold Producer's HonourEkta Kapoor
2018Indian Television Academy AwardsBest Actress Divyanka Tripathi
2019Lions Gold AwardsBest Actress PopularDivyanka Tripathi
2019Indian Telly AwardsBest Actress in Lead Role Divyanka Tripathi
2019Indian Telly AwardsBest Actor In Lead Role Female Divyanka Tripathi
2019Indian Telly AwardsBest Actor In Lead Role Male Karan Patel
2019Indian Telly AwardsBest JodiDivyanka Tripathi & Karan Patel
2019Indian Telly AwardsBest Actor In Supporting Role Male Abhishek Verma
2019Indian Telly AwardsBest Actor In Supporting Role Female Aditi Bhatia
2019Gold AwardsBest Actress In Lead Role Divyanka Tripathi
2019Gold AwardsBest Actor In Lead Role Karan Patel
2019Gold AwardsBest Show Ekta Kapoor
2019Gold AwardsBest Onscreen JodiKaran Patel and Divyanka Tripathi
2019Gold AwardsBest Actress In Supporting RoleAnita Hassanandani

Reception

In spite of started airing at late night slot 11:00pm, Yeh Hai Mohabbatein received ratings than expected and even became forth number on Star Plus. In 2014, on audience request, it got a dual slot of 7:30pm and 11:00pm. Star Plus SVP marketing Nikhil Madhok stated that the move was made after audiences’ feedback that a section of viewers found the 11:00 pm slot too late in night. He further explained, “This was a show where repeat viewing the next day or viewing on online digital medium is very high. So the dual airing will not only help the existing viewers who love the show to watch it twice but also add a whole new set of viewers".
In early 2016, it lost its steady position from top five, juggling in top ten weekly Hindi GEC list in weeks three to seven of the year where it garnered 10.47, 10.09, 10.95, 10.59 and 10.34 million impressions while in week five, it occupied third position.
Starting in January 2017, the show begun to falter in the TRP ratings when the show's focus shifted to the new generation. Nevertheless, the show is very popular in the UK, being the most-watched Indian show. The climax of Ruhi-Nikhil track leading to Ananya's death brought a sudden spike in the ratings in the first week of November 2017 and the series secured a place amongst the Top 10 shows after almost a year off this ranking. With the Budapest track and the focus back on the main leads, the show reached the Top 5 in the second week of November 2017. In week 46 of the year 2017, the show further climbed to the 4th spot on the TRP chart, thus becoming the most-watched show on StarPlus. In week 47 of the year 2017, the show remained at 4 on the TRP charts and continued to be the most-watched show on StarPlus. The show continued to do well maintaining its No. 1 position on StarPlus in the following weeks. In week 51 of 2017, Yeh Hai Mohabbatein emerged as the most-watched show across all Hindi GECs.
In week 8 of the year 2018, the show remained at 3 on the TRP charts and continued to be the most-watched show on STAR Plus. In May 2018, the show was shifted to 10:30 pm from 7:30 pm which led to a fall in TRPs. Roshni's baby track was received poorly by fans which led to a further downfall in TRPs following which the broadcaster, StarPlus, intervened asking the producer, Ekta Kapoor, to change the storyline of the show also giving it a 6-month deadline to increase the ratings. Ishita's fake death drama to expose Param led to the show re-entering the top 20 shows in week 31 of the year 2018 occupying the 18th place with 3889 million viewerships. After the change in show timings to late night TRPs have dropped ranging from 1.2 to 1.4 mostly but has been the slot leader since then. The show has been rumoured to go off air for a long time. However, the lead actor Divyanka Tripathi, who played Ishita Bhalla on the show, and the creative director Sandiip Sikcand refuted all these rumours adding that the show has been doing exceedingly well at its time slot.