Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyaar Ke


Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyaar Ke is an Indian drama television series that premiered on 18 March 2019 on Star Plus and streams on Hotstar. It is a spin-off of Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai. Produced by Rajan Shahi's Director's Kut Productions, it stars Shaheer Sheikh and Rhea Sharma.

Plot

Season 1

Set in Rajkot, the story follows the journey of Mishti Agarwal and Abir Rajvansh as they question age old concepts of arranged marriages and relationships.
Mishti is a kind, down-to-earth girl who believes in independence and the importance of compatibility in a relationship. Estranged from her parents Karishma and Naman, she was adopted by the Maheshwari family on Devyani's request. Abir is a cheerful, positive-minded boy who expresses his emotions through his poetry.
Kuhu falls in love with Kunal at first sight and is delighted when Meenakshi sends a proposal for Kunal's marriage. Due to a misunderstanding, Meenakshi chooses Mishti, leaving Kuhu heartbroken. Meenakshi is angered when Mishti asks for premarital courtship. She asks Mishti to help in Abir's NGO, hoping to create differences and problems between Mishti and Kunal.
As Mishti and Abir work together, they form a bond of friendship and understanding, coming closer in the process. While Abir falls in love with Mishti, she breaks off her alliance with Kunal owing to his indifferent behaviour and Meenakshi begins to dislike her. Eventually, Mishti realises her feelings for Abir and the two confess their love. Meanwhile, Kunal marries Kuhu without his will. Kuhu feels heartbroken after learning Kunal doesn't love her. Meenakshi puts an ultimatum in front of Abir to either choose Kunal or Mishti. Helpless, Abir ends his alliance with Mishti.
Two months later, Mishti and Nishant execute their plan to make Abir confess his feelings for her while Meenakshi turns Abir against Mishti, and Nishant falls in love with her. Soon, on learning Meenakshi's plots, Abir attempts for reconciliation with Mishti while Nishant tries to keep Mishti and Abir apart, hoping to marry her. When Abir and Mishti reconcile, they express the family of their love and Nishant backs off and apologises. Soon, Mishti and Abir get married while Kuhu and Kunal reconcile. Meenakshi tries to create differences between Mishti and Kuhu to make them leave the house.

Season 2

Mishti and Abir stay away from their family due to the lockdown. Meanwhile, Ketki's alliance gets fixed with Varun Soni. It is later revealed that Abir and Mishti were away as Mishti was suffering from PSTD. The reason of the trauma was that Mishti had fatally injured a man when he had tried to molest her. Abir is aware that the aggressor was no one but Varun's elder brother Karan and tries his best to protect Mishti from the truth and from his family. On the other hand Ketki gets pregnant putting her alliane at risk. However Abir manages to fix the broken alliance. Later on the engagement day, Mishti sees Karan in a slideshow and gets a panic attack. Meanwhile, Meenakshi is set to gather evidence against Mishti and find out the reason for her unusual behaviour.

Cast

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Development

In June 2018, there were reports of Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai getting a spin-off. However, producer Rajan Shahi denied it. But, the plan for a spin-off was announced in January 2019. Talking about it producer Rajan Shahi said, "We are working on a spin-off of Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai, which completed 10 years recently. Shaheer has been signed on to play the male lead. He will be seen in a dynamic role, which will be different from his previous outings. I realised that some characters from the original show deserve to be explored further."
The team had a havan on their sets on February 21, 2019, for an auspicious beginning to their new journey.
In February 2019, Shivangi Joshi introduced Rhea Sharma as Mishti. Soon, in March 2019, a promo based on marriage and courtship featuring Rhea Sharma, Lata Sabharwal, Sanjeev Seth, Pooja Joshi Arora, Kshitee Jog and Medha Jambodhkar was released. Later, rapper and singer Badshah with some female characters of other shows of Star Plus promoted the show along with Rhea Sharma. The next promo featured Shaheer Sheikh and Rhea Sharma with the song sung by Badshah. Days before its premiere, another promo featuring both on a roof of a bus was released.
The show is set in Rajkot, Gujarat. The team had shot some initial scenes in Bhuj and Kutch of Gujarat. Stating about it Rajan Shahi says, “We wanted to extend the show beyond Rajasthan and decided to add the vibrancy of Gujarat. My entire creative team explored the region, including various markets of Kutch, to capture the region flawlessly in our show. We have included various artworks, handicrafts, handlooms and the aesthetics of Kutch. Just like Kartik and Naira, I am looking at creating Abir and Mishti as the next sought after couple on Hindi television!”
Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai and Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyaar Ke had an integration from 12 March 2019 to 16 March 2019 where Mishti and Kuhu were introduced.
Shaheer Sheikh expressed, “I relate to Abir’s character in so many ways and I love the fact that more than anything else, he wants to bring equality in the society. He wants all the parents to treat their kids the same way irrespective of their gender. He believes everyone has the right after a certain age to make their own decisions and follow what they believe. He is aware how in certain sections of our society the voice of women can be suppressed and he wants to support them,”
Rhea Sharma stated that she can relate her character to Deepika Padukone’s character Naina from the film Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani. Talking about the show, Rhea Sharma said, "After my previous show, which was also on Star Plus and it was a successful show I was looking to do something that was equally good or something better and bigger and a grand show with a good script and a different character. I was approached for the spin-off and I came to know that the character I was approached for is a spin-off and it is very different from what I have done on my previous shows. Actually, the character and the script and the association with Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai is something that made me extremely excited for the show. And of course, it is a Rajan Shahi show, and he makes great shows, and I believe in his vision. And that's it, I met sir, I was narrated the character and the show, and I was happy."
Rupal Patel related her role Meenakshi Rajvansh and her previous well known role Kokila Modi in Saath Nibhana Saathiya as twins stating, "I would say that Kokila and Meenakshi are like twins. While Kokila was traditional and orthodox, Meenakshi is sophisticated and educated. However, both want the best for their families and feel that they are always right. I was completely bowled over by the character of Meenakshi and the way it has been written, when Rajan Sir offered me the role. It has a lot of depth. I had to prep for the part."

Casting

Rhea Sharma was selected to portray Mishti and Shaheer Sheikh to portray Abir. Lata Sabharwal, Sanjeev Seth, Pooja Joshi Arora, Akshaya Naik, Amardeep Jha, Kshitee Jog, Shivangi Joshi and Mohsin Khan reprise their respective roles from the parent series Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai. Jay Pathak, Sameer Sharma and Soniya Kaur were cast as Naman, Shaurya and Jasmeet which were earlier played by Anshul Pandey, Yash Gera and Shirin Sewani in Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai.
Besides Kaveri Priyam, Ritvik Arora, Rupal Patel, Deepak Ghewala, Sangeeta Kapure, Sanjeev Jotangia, Chaitrali Gupte, Trisha Chatterjee and Shashwat Tripati were cast.
Earlier, Harshad Arora was in talks for playing Abir while Tushar Khanna was supposed to play Kunal. But Shaheer Sheikh and Ritvik Arora replaced them.
Palak Purswani was cast to play Kunal's former girlfriend Shweta in July 2019. Sameer Dharmadhikari was roped to play Abir's father, Mehul in September 2019. In November 2019, Helly Shah was roped for a cameo as Neha. Vatsal Sheth entered soon after as Nishant and quit on 5 February 2020 with the end of his role. When the filming resumed three months in late June after indefinite halt owing Covid-19 outbreak, Ruslaan Mumtaz and Seema Pandey were cast. In the last week of July 2020, Producer Rajan Shahi confirmed replacing Ritvik Arora due to Arora’s unwillingness to return to the sets owing to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.

Filming

Based on the backdrop of Gujarat, set in Rajkot, the series is mainly filmed at the sets created in Film City at Mumbai. Some of the initial sequences were shot at Bhuj, Gujarat.

Broadcast

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 which could not and the series was last broadcast on 25 March 2020 when the remaining episodes were aired. The production and filming of the series resumed after three months on 26 June 2020. The airing of the series resumed from 13 July 2020, being shifted from its earlier 10:00 pm slot to 9:00pm slot since then.

Reception

Critical reception

appreciated the chemistry of the leads Rhea Sharma and Shaheer Sheikh and also acclaimed the series as the best Hindi fiction launch of 2019.
India Today stated, "The authentic flavour of Gujarat, the dialect, costumes to fresh look of the characters-- telly buffs are rejoicing and relishing the spin-off series."

Ratings

Since its premiere, it was the slot leader when aired on 10:00 pm slot.
Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyaar Ke was the most watched Hindi urban television show in its debut week in India, raking in a TRP of 2.5. The following week, it dropped drastically to tenth position with TRP of 1.7 and improved to ninenth position garnering 1.9 in week 14 in urban. In week 28, it entered top five urban Hindi GEC after a long time occupying fifth position with 5.3 million impressions in urban. In week 34, it occupied third position with 7.07 million impressions and a trp of 2.7 in urban while teh following week it dropped to seventh place. In week 41, it was at ninenth position with 4.5 million impressions in urban. In week 48, it occupied seventh position garnering 5.36 million impressions in urban and the following week at eighth position with 5.30 million impressions.

Soundtrack

Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyaar Ke's soundtrack is composed by Nakash Aziz and Sargam Jassu.

Awards and nominations