Zindagi Ki Mehek

Zindagi Ki Mehek
Created by	Saurabh Tewari
Based on	A Passion For Food
Written by	Saurabh Tewari Damini Shetty Srinita Bhowmik Vibha Tewari Ishan Bajpai Malvika Asthana
Directed by	Cariappa Appaya Faheim Inamdar Pushpender Singh
Creative director(s)	Rohit K Mukherjee
Presented by	Zee TV
Starring	See Below
Theme music composer	Anand Bajpai Nishant Pandey
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	505
Production
Producer(s)	Saurabh Tewari Sumeet Chaudhary Kewal Sethi
Production location(s)	Delhi, India
Cinematography	Kunal Kadam
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22 minutes (approx.)
Production company(s)	Parin Multimedia Private Multimedia
Distributor	Zee Entertainment Enterprises
Release
Original network	Zee TV
Picture format	576i 1080i (HDTV)
Original release	19 September 2016 (2016-09-19) – 1 September 2018 (2018-09-01)
External links
Website

Zindagi Ki Mehek (English: Essence of Life) is an Indian Hindi soap opera television series, which aired on September 19, 2016 on Zee TV. The series is produced by Parin Media of Saurabh Tewari. The Series ended on 1st September 2018 after a Successfull Run of almost 2 years.^[1] The show starred Samiksha Jaiswal and Karan Vohra.

Plot

The story of the show is set in Delhi and depicts the journey of a homemaker Mehek^[2] and her passion for cooking. Mehek meets top chef Shaurya and while their cooking styles clash, they fall in love. Soon mehek meet Saurabh and start working with him Saurabh soon falls in love with mehek which created further miss under standing

Shaurya Khanna is a rich and wealthy restaurateur in Delhi while Mehek Sharma is a low on confidence middle class girl. Cooking is her hobby and passion which she inherited from her dead mother. Mehek and Shaurya meet at a cooking competition that Shaurya is judging. Through her cooking, Mehek attains attention and importance that greatly pleases her to-be husband Ajay and his materialistic family. Meanwhile, Shaurya insults her throughout the shooting of the show leading to a point when Mehek is publicly humiliated and slaps Shaurya. He realises his mistake and apologises to her which she finally accepts.

Mehek agrees to marry Saurabh. Mehek's cousin Nehal has a secret affair with Ajay. Ajay rejects Nehal and threatens her causing her to attempt suicide but she is saved by Shaurya. Shaurya tricks Ajay into revealing the affair himself thus leading to the wedding being called off. Shaurya and Mehek develop feelings for each other. Shaurya's mother Karuna fixes their marriage but Shaurya must prove himself to her family which he does. On their wedding day, Mehek is shocked to discover he has gone abroad to promote his new restaurant and has taken her recipes and their patents with him. It is revealed that Shaurya was planning his revenge on Mehek all this while.

Mehek decides to live in the Khanna household to make Shaurya realise his love for her. Shaurya helps Mehek's best friend Sonal elope with Mehek's brother Mohit. Mohit's father suffers a heart attack and the Sharmas blame Shaurya. In a fit of rage, Mehek's father vandalises Shaurya's restaurant and in retaliation Shaurya gets their shops bulldozed. This leads Mehek to finally give up and leave Shaurya. Mehek's ex-fiance Ajay and Sonal's ex-fiance Rohit abduct Mehek and try to rape her. Shaurya saves her in the nick of time but Mehek suffers serious injuries. Her family blames Shaurya and take Mehek away. Finally, the Sharmas accept Shaurya.

Before their wedding day, Shaurya organises security for Mehek but the chief officer has a connection to a dark secret from Shaurya's past. Just before their wedding, he reveals to Shaurya that 12 years ago, as a child, Shaurya caused a car accident and the couple killed were Mehek's parents. A shocked Shaurya tries to come clean to Mehek but the ceremony continues and they are married. Unfortunately, Mehek finds out the truth and believes Shaurya deceived her. She is enraged but pretends to be happily married for the sake of her family. When the Sharmas finally find out, they decide to reopen the case and Karuna is arrested. Finally misunderstandings between the families are cleared up.

Rishikesh Track

On their honeymoon in Rishikesh, Mehek witnesses a murder committed by Archie. Archie attacks Mehek and she is presumed dead in a drowning accident. A year later Shaurya returns to Rishikesh and runs into Vandana who looks exactly like Mehek but doesn't remember him. He is able to bring her memory back and Archie is killed. Mehek and Shaurya adopt the young Neev and return home.

Terrorist Attack Track

Nehal is pregnant with Shaurya's brother Vicky's child so the families decide to get them married. During a visit to the mall, there is a terrorist attack and Shaurya is abducted. The terrorist pretends to be Shaurya and enters the Khanna House. Neev discovers this but his throat is slit leaving him unable to speak. Mehek saves the day but her family is being blackmailed to plant a bomb but they defeat the terrorists. Later Mehek meets Saurabh who had loving mehek since six years betraying Tanuja his wife.

Anjali's Track

Karun's illegitimate daughter Anjali (Aanchal Khurana)^[3] enters their lives and creates misunderstandings between Mehek and Karuna. She gets Karuna to throw Mehek and Shaurya out of the house. Karuna names Anjali as the sole heir to her property but when Mehek announces her pregnancy, Karuna welcomes them back to the family. Eventually, Anjali's truth is revealed and she is sent to jail where she meets Shaurya's aunt Svetlana. They decide to break out of prison but Anjali is killed and Svetlana pretends that she was preventing Anjali's escape. She is set free and returns home pretending to be blind. In a series of events, Svetlana's revenge materialises as she sets off a bomb at the Khanna house killing almost all the Khannas and Sharmas. In the end, she shoots Mehek and Shaurya who vow to return to complete their story before dying.

Rebirth / Season 2^[4]

Shaurya and Mehek are reborn^[5]. Mehek is born to a poor household where her father resents her being a girl. On the other hand, Shaurya is born into a rich family. Mehek grows to become a tomboy and again meets Saurabh loves her in her past life later he leaves mehek because of svetlana who.murdered him.who is bold and fearless and easily picks up fights. Shaurya is practicing to become a boxer as his father hopes his son will one day win the gold medal. Both Shaurya and Mehek are haunted by visions of their previous life. Later Mehek and Shaurya are brought to same college both with passion of boxing. Shwetlana again tries to separate Mehek and Shaurya by killing them with the help of a superstitious baba. Mehek recalls her past life but Shwetlana fires two bullets at her. Mehek survives but pretends to be a ghost in front of Shwetlana to make her feared. She then meets Shaurya

Cast

References

External links

• Official Website