If you are a TV programming manager and you are looking for the best
rating Indian TV series, this is one of the series which achieved the
highest rating in India in 2012.
Moloy Basu runs a large company called Basu Publications, and his
best friend Rajesh Sharma works for it. Moloy wants Rajesh’s daughter
Prerna to marry his son Anurag. At first, Anurag and Prerna dislike the
idea, but later they fall in love. Anurag’s mother Mohini is against
this relationship because of the financial disparity between the
upper-class Basus and middle-class Sharmas. One day, the lovers get
stuck in a lonely place and end up consummating their relationship.
Their mutual love is recognized by their fathers, who decide to get them
engaged. But, in a tragic accident, Rajesh passes away and Moloy goes
into coma. Using this opportunity, Mohini plans to separate them. She
successfully uses emotional blackmail on Anurag. Prerna finds out she is
pregnant, even as Anurag marries Komolika, the daughter of Mohini’s
friend. Prerna thinks Anurag has cheated her and decides to take
revenge. Anurag silently helps her. Later, Prerna gives birth to a son
and names him Prem. He is adopted by Prerna’s brother and sister-in-law.
The Basu family gets a shock on finding out that Komolika is a
gold-digger. She has married Anurag for the sake of his family’s wealth.
Anurag divorces her. He also finds out that Prem is his son.
Happiness seems to be back in the lives of Prerna and Anurag. They
decide to get married, with blessings from both families. But fate plays
spoilsport. Komolika takes over the Basu family’s assets. She is helped
by Rishabh Bajaj, a handsome, rich, shrewd and hardhearted businessman.
The Basu family is facing the worst time of their lives. Prerna
approaches Mr. Bajaj. He asks her to marry him in return for the assets.
She unhappily agrees, for the sake of Anurag’s family, and gets married
to Bajaj. Anurag is heartbroken and unable to forget her.
The reason Mr. Bajaj married Prerna is soon revealed. He has three
children — Vishakha, Tushar and Kuki — from a marriage that ended in a
divorce. The youngest child, Kuki, is blind. He wants a woman to take
care of his children. Slowly, Prerna gets attached to the children, and
they too love her. She even manages to bring about some change in Bajaj,
making him a more sensitive and humane person. After some time, Bajaj
falls in love with Prerna and expresses his feelings to her. She is
shocked, since their marriage was based on an agreement that they would
never have an intimate relationship. Then a new person enters their
lives: Menaka Bose. She finances Anurag’s business and is extremely
interested in the Bajaj family. It is later revealed that she is Mr.
Bajaj’s ex-wife and the mother of his children. When Menaka learns about
Bajaj’s re-marriage, she tries to bring her children over to her side,
but they remain loyal to Prerna. Bajaj goes abroad on business.
Meanwhile, Anurag talks to Prerna as a friend. He tells her to move
ahead in her married life and get close to her husband. Prerna agrees to
do so. Just then, she gets news of her husband’s death in a car
accident abroad. She is shattered.
The widowed Prerna decides to fulfill all of Mr. Bajaj’s
responsibilities. She takes good care of his business and family. Tushar
and Vishakha are shocked when they learn that their father had forced
Prerna to marry him. They make plans to re-unite Anurag and Prerna. It
is then revealed that Bajaj is still alive and in a coma. His accident
and reported death were arranged by Menaka, who wanted to separate him
from Prerna. Meanwhile, Kuki’s eyesight is restored through Prerna’s
efforts. Even as Prerna and Anurag get married in India, Bajaj regains
consciousness abroad. Cleverly, he figures out Menaka’s evil plans and
exposes them, so that she goes to jail. Everybody tries to convince Mr.
Bajaj that he should let Prerna live with Anurag. Bajaj does so, but is
not able to forget her.
Prerna and Anurag spend some happy days together with their son Prem.
But Prerna loves Bajaj’s children, too, and sometimes neglects her
family to be with them. Then, Komolika gets back into the Basu family.
She marries Anurag’s cousin Subroto. Komolika keeps trying to influence
Mohini against Prerna. As a result, Mohini behaves badly with Prerna.
Bajaj secretly tries to disturb Prerna’s life with Anurag. He keeps
creating misunderstandings between the couple. Anurag distrusts Bajaj.
But Prerna treats Bajaj as a friend. Anurag gets jealous and thinks
Prerna loves Bajaj. This causes tension between the couple. Then comes
the biggest blow in Prerna and Anurag’s lives. Two-year-old -Prem is
kidnapped. Anurag, with the help of the police, searches every nook and
corner of the city. Finally, when they find the boy, they are shocked to
see him in a very serious condition. A tragedy occurs when Prem dies in
the hospital. Prerna and Anurag are devastated. They struggle to come
to terms with their son’s death and end up blaming each other for it.
Mr. Bajaj’s well-meant interference causes more strain in this already
shaky relationship, and Prerna leaves the Basu house. In another
shocking twist, the real kidnapper of Prem is revealed to be Subroto. He
did all this to get the whole Basu property in his name. Though he did
not intend to kill Prem, the goons he hired used too much chloroform by
accident, which caused the child’s death.
Prerna finds herself pregnant again. At first, Anurag is excited to
know about this. But Komolika creates doubts in his mind and makes him
think that Prerna is carrying Bajaj’s child. Prerna is stunned at
Anurag’s lack of trust in her. Mohini uses the opportunity to widen the
gaps between the couple and lead them to a divorce. Due to the constant
comments and questions from her own family, Prerna leaves the house and
starts staying with Mr.Bajaj and his children. On the other hand, a new
friend Aparna enters Anurag’s life. Mohini decides to get Anurag married
to Aparna. Anurag unhappily agrees. Prerna is shattered to know this.
Anurag slowly accepts that Aparna is his present and Prerna his past.
Time passes and Prerna gives birth to a baby girl, whom she names Sneha.
After Prerna’s delivery, Anurag decides to do some DNA tests as there
is a chance Sneha might be his daughter. Komolika, knowing everything,
switches the test reports and proves that Anurag is not the baby’s
father. Anurag’s worst fears are confirmed. Feeling bitter, he
consummates his marriage with Aparna. He refuses to acknowledge Sneha as
his daughter. Prerna is hurt beyond words. Along with her baby
daughter, she moves to a hill town, where the Bajaj family joins her.
The story takes a leap forward of eight years. Prerna, Anurag, Bajaj,
Aparna and Komolika’s destinies cross again. The eight-year-old Sneha
is the apple of Prerna’s eye. Mr. Bajaj also adores the child. However,
Sneha doesn’t know who her father is. She goes to school and befriends a
girl named Diya who is, in fact, Anurag’s niece. Sneha visits the Basu
House with Diya. Nobody guesses that she is Anurag’s daughter. Anurag is
won over by Sneha, who resembles him in many ways. Later, Prerna and
Anurag come across each other at a camp attended by Sneha and Diya.
Anurag is upset to think that the child he has grown to love is the
proof of his ex-wife’s disloyaly. Owing to societal pressures and
Sneha’s increasing questions about her father, Prerna gets engaged to
Mr. Bajaj. Later on, fate plays its cards again—Sneha is diagnosed with
leukemia. Her only chance of survival is with a bone marrow transplant.
Anurag now comes to know that Sneha is his daughter and Prerna has never
cheated on him. The doctors are not able to find a bone marrow donor
for Sneha. In order to save her life they advise Prerna to have another
child with Anurag, so that its bone marrow can be used to treat Sneha.
In a move supported by Bajaj and Aparna, Anurag and Prerna come together
to have another child. They no longer wish to stay with each other. But
their coming together and the resulting pregnancy cause insecurity to
both Aparna and Mr. Bajaj.
Then, Karvachauth (a festival of the Hindus for married women)
approaches. Knowing that things in the two couples’ lives are sour,
Aparna decides to fast for good luck. When Anurag returns home, he sees
that only Aparna is there. In the midst of loving conversation, she
suddenly stabs him with a knife. Then, her true colours are revealed.
She is actually an evil person. She is only interested in Anurag’s
wealth. She had earlier married a man named Debo, with whom she had a
son called Shravan. But she has hidden Shravan away. Debo wants to know
his son’s whereabouts, so he helps her kill Anurag. The entire Basu
family is plunged into despair, and everyone pities Aparna, thinking
that she is a grieving widow. However, Debo has actually saved Anurag
and told him the whole truth. They make a plan to get back at Aparna and
also find out about Shravan. Prerna and Sneha also get to know
everything. They all frighten Aparna by showing her Anurag’s ‘ghost’ (as
she thinks). She yells out the truth, which is overheard by the police
and the Basu family. Aparna is sent to jail, while Shravan is found.
However, Debo dies, leaving his son in Anurag’s care.
Rishabh Bajaj breaks his engagement so that Prerna can return to
Anurag. But, by now, she is in love with Bajaj, who has supported her
through thick and thin. Anurag is also now interested in getting back
with Prerna. But he decides to be a good friend and unite her with the
man she loves. Prerna gives birth to a son and names him Prem in memory
of her first child. Sneha’s illness is treated successfully. Bajaj and
Prerna get married and are soon expecting their own child together.
However, another disaster strikes. Little Prem is kidnapped by Komolika
because of Anurag’s carelessness. Prerna is furious with Anurag. The
former lovers-turned-friends get totally estranged from one another.
Anurag goes abroad with his adopted son Shravan. Prerna gives birth to
Bajaj’s daughter Kasak. After this the story takes a huge time-leap of a
generation.
After the time leap, Prerna and Anurag run into each other again,
causing mixed feelings in both of them. After some time, Anurag decides
to get married to his loyal friend and business partner Sampada. Shravan
and Kasak, now grown up, fall in love with each other. They are to get
married, but at the last moment Shravan finds out the past history of
Prerna, Anurag and his mother Aparna. He thinks that Prerna cheated
Aparna. He takes revenge by abandoning Kasak, who is pregnant and soon
miscarries. Relations between the two families become even more tense.
Their old enemy, Komolika, comes back to add fuel to fire. Amid many
misunderstandings, Prerna and Anurag find their lost son Prem, now known
as Yudi. He has turned into a bitter, heartless and selfish young man.
Prerna takes up the challenge of improving him, but it proves to be very
difficult. In the meantime, Sneha gets married to Sharad. He seems to
be an ideal husband, but is later found guilty of raping a young woman,
Prem’s girlfriend Mukti. Confronting Sharad with this discovery, Sneha
accidentally shoots her mother-in-law without meaning to do so. Prerna
takes the blame for the death and spends some years in jail.
When she is released from captivity, Prerna finds her family in
pieces. A grieving and guilt-stricken Sneha has turned into a drug
addict. Mr. Bajaj has distanced himself from everyone. Only Anurag
understands and supports Prerna. Eventually, she brings her family
together again. Prem, who is devastated after Mukti’s accidental death,
finds comfort with her look-alike Devki. However, Devki also disappears
without explanation one day. The heartbroken Prem finally marries a girl
named Palchhin, who provides him with much-needed stability and
companionship. Sneha remarries and is soon expecting a child with her
husband Omi. However, another storm is brewing in the lives of the Basu
and Bajaj families. Anurag’s wife Sampada has become jealous of his
friendship with Prerna. Misunderstandings are growing between Anurag and
Bajaj. The two men have a show-down on a hilltop one stormy night.
Unseen in the confusion, Sampada fires a bullet at Mr. Bajaj, sending
him headlong into deep water. Prerna gets the wrong idea that Anurag has
killed her husband. She shoots Anurag in a blind rage and he falls into
the same water as Bajaj. Both both men are believed to be dead. If
Sampada tells the truth, she will be arrested for Bajaj’s murder. So she
saves Prerna from getting punished for Anurag’s death.
Another 20 years pass. Prerna is now a grandmother to several
youngsters. A mysterious man named Pratham Mittal starts creating
problems for her. He is soon revealed to be Anurag, who survived the
shootout twenty years ago. Having undergone plastic surgery, he has
acquired a new appearance and identity. He is very angry with Prerna for
what she did to him. However, as time passes, he again begins to care
for her. Finallly, he discovers that the real culprit is his wife
Sampada. After Sampada is exposed, the Basu and Bajaj families think
about uniting Prerna and Anurag in the evening of their lives. However,
at this point, they come to know that Rishabh Bajaj is alive. He is
lying unconscious in a hospital. Prerna is overjoyed to find her
long-lost husband. However, Anurag gets suspicious and discovers that
Bajaj is trying to take revenge against Prerna and him. This is because
of Bajaj’s wrong idea that Prerna and Anurag have cheated him.
Meanwhile, two of Prerna’s grand-daughters—Prerna Junior (P2) and
Dhara—have got married to brothers Nihaal and Vardaan Garewal. Komolika
makes an unexpected appearance as the aunt of the Garewal brothers. It
is then revealed that Komolika is still trying to hurt Prerna and
Anurag. She is the one who has poisoned Bajaj’s mind. Finally, Bajaj
realizes that Prerna and Anurag are innocent. Komolika shoots Mr. Bajaj
in the head. Prerna responds by killing Komolika. However, in the
process, both Anurag and Prerna also lose their lives. Mr. Bajaj
survives but loses his mind and is placed in a mental hospital. He only
responds to Prerna’s name. Prem writes a book titled Kasauti Zindagi
Kii. It describes Anurag and Prerna—lovers who were separated throughout
their lives but achieved union in death. The spirits of Prerna and
Anurag look on. It is suggested that they will be present wherever two
lovers come together.
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