Ishqbaaaz

Ishqbaaaz
Genre	Drama[1]
Written by	Faizal Akthar Anand Jain Harneet Singh Divy Sharma Aparajita Sharma Mrinal Jha Abhijit Sinha
Directed by	Lalit Mohan
Starring	Nakuul Mehta Surbhi Chandna Kunal Jaisingh Shrenu Parikh Leenesh Mattoo Mansi Srivastava
Composer(s)	Sanjeev Srivastava
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	634 (as of 21 September 2018)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Gorky M
Producer(s)	Gul Khan Karishma Bhutoria
Cinematography	Rajan Singh
Camera setup	Multi-Camara
Running time	22 min approx
Production company(s)	4 Lions Films
Distributor	Star India Novi Digital Entertainment
Release
Original network	StarPlus
Picture format	576i 1080i HDTV
Audio format	Digital TV
Original release	June 27, 2016 (2016-06-27) – present
Chronology
Related shows	Dil Boley Oberoi
External links
Hotstar
Production website

Ishqbaaaz (lit. Lovers) is an Indian drama television series which is broadcast on StarPlus and stream on Hotstar. It premiered on 27 June 2016. It is the eleventh television series of 4 Lions Films.^[2][3] The show stars Nakuul Mehta, Kunal Jaisingh and Leenesh Mattoo, who portray Shivaay, Omkara, and Rudra, the three heirs of the Oberoi family.^[4] The show completed 600 episodes in August 2018.^[5] The show completed two years on 27 June 2018.^[6]

Plot

The family consists of Kalyani Dadi, the matriarch of the family and is always there to give advice to her children and grandchildren. Dadi has two sons named Tej and Shakti. Tej is married to Jhanvi and has three children with her, Omkara, Rudra and Priyanka. Shakti is married to Pinky and has one son with her, Shivaay, the eldest grandson.

The show follows the bond between the brothers and then shifts to the bonds the brothers have with their significant others. Shivaay is a reputable businessman who does not believe in love and plans to get married to Tia Kapoor, on his mothers insistence. Shivaay gets married to Anika, an orphan who has been adopted by a family with a physically disabled brother, Sahil. Although Shivaay and Anika do not get married under the perfect circumstances, they eventually fall in love and constantly prove to be the perfect couple and example for their younger siblings.

Omkara is originally an artist who loved the concept of love, who also becomes a businessman after he goes through a tragic time in his life.He meets Ishana, a girl who wanted to marry Omkara to attain financial stability. For that,she acts as Bela, a docile girl, in front of Omkara and Mala, a mediatist in front of Omkara's girlfriend,Riddhima, to separate Omkara and Riddhima. Then, Ishana gets revealed to Om,by Shivaay and Rudra and Om throws her out of his life. Riddhima,then deceives Omkara,and Om breaks up with her. After his breakup with Riddhima, Omkara started to despise the idea of love. Then,He gets married to Gauri Kumari Sharma, a bubbly girl he meets in Bareilly. Initially Omkara hates Gauri and believes her to be a gold digger. Gauri brings out the artist in him once again and eventually wins his love. Gauri's inability to properly say Hindi and English words alike, is part of her charm.

Rudra is the youngest brother and practically the baby of the family. He has no ambitions or goals in life and only loves to work out and party. His initial love interest is Saumya Kapoor, a family friend of the Oberoi's. Rudra initially hates Saumya but later after Saumya saves Rudra from Romi, a mentally stunted woman who claims herself to be a devi, Rudra develops feelings for Saumya.In a drunken state, Rudra and Saumya get married, but Rudra constantly rejects Saumya's love and she exits the show. Then enters Bhavya Pratap Rathore, a police officer, who is undercover as a shy and simple girl and uses Rudra in one of her operations. Eventually Rudra and Bhavya fall in love, but their age difference proves to be their problem. Saumya comes back to get Rudra back, but Bhavya and Rudra get married.

Priyanka is shy, nervous and honest girl. She is Anika's friend. Priyanka gets married to Ranveer Randhawan, an ACP officer.Ranveer initially portrayed as a negative character and try to ruin the oberois with his foster mother Kamini Khurana, but later changes good seeing Priyanka's love and devotion.

The brothers constant enemy happens to be the Kapoor sisters, who reveal to be Svetlana, Tia, and Saumya. Svetlana reveals that her parents were killed in an accident at one of the Oberoi's factory and therefore the sisters seek revenge from their family. Svetlana initially is Omkara and Rudra's father, Tej's mistress. The entire family hates her and she is the reason for Tej and Jhanvi's rocky marriage. When Tej and Jhanvi get back together, she tries her talents with Omkara, but does not succeed. She is eventually jailed.

Tia, who initially does not reveal herself to be Svetlana and Saumya's sister, tries to marry Shivaay. It is later revealed that she used to date a man named Dushyant, whom she believes died because of Anika and Shivaay. She eventually turns good after Dushyant turns up alive, and not loving Shivaay.

Saumya, the last Kapoor sister, was initially introduced as a family friend, and was a good character. Even when she made her re-entry into the show, she is shown to only want Rudra's love and willing to go to any means for him. Right after Bhavya and Rudra's wedding, it is revealed she is the secret third sister of the Kapoor family and was used as their secret weapon. Both Svetlana and Saumya are sent to jail, while Tia is reunited with Dushyant and goes on to have a child with him.

Anika soon finds out who her parents were, Vardhan Trivedi and his wife, who also died in the Oberoi factory incident. It is also revealed that Gauri is Anika's long-lost sister, Chutki.

Cast

Production

The show stars Nakuul Mehta, Kunal Jaisingh and Leenesh Mattoo, who portray Shivaay, Omkara, and Rudra, the three heirs of the Oberoi family.^{[18][19][20][21][22]}

The show initially focused on the tale of these three brothers, but later became centered on the love story of Shivaay (Nakuul Mehta) and Anika (Surbhi Chandna); with the story of Omkara (Kunal Jaisingh) and Rudra (Leenesh Mattoo) being shifted to the spinoff series Dil Boley Oberoi.^[23]

On 7 July 2017, Dil Boley Oberoi ended and the storylines were merged back into Ishqbaaaz.

In Dil Boley Oberoi, Shrenu Parikh and Mansi Srivastava were introduced as Kunal Jaisingh's and Leenesh Mattoo's love interests, respectively.

On 18 June 2018, a reboot version was started which is name as Ishqbaaaz: Redux.^[24]

Soundtrack

The Ishqbaaaz soundtrack was written by Shaheen Iqbal, and composed by Sanjeev Srivastava. Sanjeev Srivastava had composed the original songs and background score for the show. The original version of the album was released on 7 August 2016. "O Jaana", the theme song of the serial performed by Pamela Jain & Bhaven Dhanak. "O Saathiya", the theme song of Dil Boley Oberoi, the album released on 1 May 2017. Firstly, the song was made for Omkara & Ishana, but after Ishana left, the song wasn't used at Ishqbaaaz. When Dil Boley Oberoi aired on, the female version by Pamela Jain was released, but now it also used on this show for Omkara & Gauri, after merging with Ishqbaaaz.

Reception

See also

• 4 Lions Films
• Dil Boley Oberoi

References

External links

• Ishqbaaaz Streaming on Hotstar
• Ishqbaaaz on IMDb
• Ishqbaaaz at TV Guide