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Kumkum - Pyara Sa Bandhan
A promotional image of "Kumkum"
Format	Drama
Created by	BAG Films
Written by	Jayesh Patil, Virendra Shahaney,Radheshyam Rai, Akashaditya,Mitesh Shah &Nikhlilesh Sharma
Directed by	Aashish Patil,Anil V. Kumar, Paresh Patil & Swapnil Shahaney
Starring	Juhi Parmar Hussain Kuwajerwala
Opening theme	"Kumkum" by Sonu Nigam and Pamela Jain
Country of origin	India
Language(s)	Hindi
No. of episodes	Total 1450
Production
Producer(s)	Anuradha Prasad
Running time	24 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	STAR Plus
Picture format	480i (SDTV),
Original run	July 15, 2002 – March 13, 2009
External links
Official website

Kumkum - Pyara Sa Bandhan was an Indian television soap opera that aired from Monday - Friday at 10:00 am on STAR Plus in India/U.S. and 10:30 am in the UK. The story took some concepts from some popular Balaji Telefilms soaps such as Kkusum and Kutumb and towards the end it even introduced popular Balaji Telefilms faces Hiten Tejwani and Gauri Pradhan Tejwani in the story. The soap ended on March 13, 2009.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Main characters 2.1 kumkum 2.2 Sumit 3 Elder Wadhwa Family Members 4 Other Wadhwa Family Members 5 Raichand family 6 Mishra family 7 Antagonists 8 Cast 9 External links

[edit] Overview

The soap opera tells the tale of the Wadhwa family and its daughter-in-law, Kumkum. The show used to tell the story of the married couple of Sumit and Kumkum Wadhwa, but in an earlier episode, Kumkum was shot, and in thereafter Sumit killed himself. They were reborn, with Sumit being very shy and living with a big family in Delhi and Kumkum being born as a fun-loving prankster with her family in a village. Both hate each other after meeting in college, but due to circumstances they have to pretend to be married in front of their families.

Recently Ratan is scared as he thinks he killed Sumit and his ghost is back trying to get him and there kumkum arranges a party for Sumit's parents in occasion of their 25th anniversary and meanwhile Ratan plans to kill Kumkum as she can be danger to him and his mom's plan to get the property! however that fails as Sumit and kumkum's plan comes to success. Ratan being drunk announces to Sumit whom he thought was a ghost why and how he killed him, he was unaware of the people around him whom happened to be listening. Sumit's father finds out about ratan's evil plans and sends him into jail. meanwhile Ratan's evil mother is plotting against them. After all the problems are solved, Kumkum and Sumit live happily ever after.

[edit] Main characters

[edit] kumkum

kumkum is the favourite daughter-in-law of the Wadhwa family. First, she was married to Jatin; after Jatin's death she was engaged to Vishal but for some reason Vishal's parents called off the wedding and in the hustle bustle Sumit got angry and confused and applied the "sindur" on kumkum's forehead and so they got married and she had to face Renuka being Sumit's new wife and also had to face the problems and later on they had three kids Druv, Sharman and Aashka. And suddenly she faces a huge problem—so huge that it becomes the reason for her death. But again Kumkum is back after her reincarnation as a "chulbuli" prankster and even in this "janam" she kind of starts "liking" Sumit and due to some consequences, she has to live with Sumit as his wife and helps him in many ways. Recently she has also fallen in love with Sumit, but doesn't want to admit her love to him as Sumit's father, Om Raichand insulted her and her father Chandu Mishra, of wanting to marry Sumit for money.

[edit] Sumit

Was engaged to Renuka but married kumkum while she was away. He had much trouble winning Kumkum's love but after much drama Kumkum and Sumit fell in love. Then they tried to overcome problems that came with their children. After the reincarnation he was son of Om Raichand, who always had problems with his son. He grew up with the lack of love from his father. When he fell in love with Kumkum he had the problem that his father would not agree with the wedding. Now he is on the run along with Kumkum.

Some Facts

• First Kumkum is married to Jatin after he dies from brain tumor.
• Kumkum is married to Sumit and later on Sumit and Kumkum fall in love.
• Renuka comes back married with Sumit's uncle's fake marriage.
• Later Renuka finds Kumkum's look alike and plans to create misunderstandings between Kumkum and Sumit by changing Kumkum with Chanda (Kumkum look alike).
• She had success in changing them.

[edit] Elder Wadhwa Family Members

• Harshwardhan Wadhwa (The family's Patriarch)

• Rajeshwari Devi (a.k.a. Rajjo, Harshwardhan's wife)

• Kulbhushan skidmoore (Harshwardhan's and Rajjo's son, father of Sumit Wadhwa)

• Veena Wadhwa (Kulbhushan's wife, mother of Sumit Wadhwa)

[edit] Other Wadhwa Family Members

• Brijbhushan Wadhwa (Son of Harshwardhan & Rajeshwari)

• Sukanya Wadhwa (Daughter of Harshwardhan & Rajeshwari)

• Jatin Wadhwa (Brother of Sumit, first married to kumkum, DEAD)

• Druv Wadhwa (Eldest Son of Kumkum & Sumit)

• Sharman Wadhwa (Youngest Son of kumkum & Sumit)

• Siya Wadhwa (Wife Of Sharman)

• Antra Wadhwa (Wife of Druv, mother of Om, DEAD)

• Rahul Wadhwa (Son of Brijbhushan Wadhwa, in jail for killing Antra)

• Aashka Wadhwa (Daughter of Kumkum and Sumit, Sharman's Twin Sister)

• Preeti (Sister of Sumit and Jatin)

[edit] Raichand family

• Om prakash Raichand (Sumit's dad, protagonist)

• Yashodhara Raichand (Sumit's mom, protagonist)

• Ratan Raichand(Sumit's cousin and antagonist, jailed)

• Ramola Raichand (Ratan's mother and main antagonist)

• Komal Raichand (Om's sister and Sumit's bua, protagonist)

• Amma (Om & Komal's mother; Sumit's grandmother, protagonist)

[edit] Mishra family

• Chandu Mishra (a.k.a Chandu Halwai, Kumkum's father, protagonist)

• Manno Mishra (Kumkum's mother, protagonist)

• Chatru Mishra (Kumkum's uncle and Mini's father, Protagonist)

• Dilasa Mishra ((Kumkum's aunt and Mini's mother)

• Mini Mishra (Kumkum's cousin, Gaurav's wife, Protagonist)

[edit] Antagonists

• Pulkit (was in love w/Kumkum, killed Kumkum)

• Renuka (was engaged to Sumit, caused much problems for Wadhwas, DEAD)

• Neeti (was engaged to Sharman, married Rahul)

• Salil Patel (tried to help Renuka ruin Kumkum, DEAD)

• Abhay Chauhan (was in love with Kumkum's look alike, Chanda, Prisoned)

[edit] Cast

• Juhi Parmar ... Kumkum Wadhwa (dies) / Kumkum Mishra/ Kumkum Raichand after reincarnation

• Hussain Kuwajerwala ... Sumit Wadhwa (dies) / Sumit Raichand after reincarnation

• Anuj Saxena ... Jatin Wadhwa (dies) / Karan Kapoor

• Arun Bali ... Harshwardan Wadhwa

• Rita Bhaduri ... Rajeshwari Wadhwa

• Paritosh Sand ... Kulbhushan Wadhwa

• Prabha Sinha ... Veena Wadhwa

• Vivan Bhatena / Vishal Vatwani ... Dhruv Wadhwa

• Gagan Malik / Gaurav Khanna / Amit Khanna ... Sharman Wadhwa

• Sonia Singh / Sayantani Ghosh ... Antra Wadhwa

• Niyati Joshi ... Aashka Wadhwa

• Megha Gupta ... Neeti

• Mukul Dev ... Pulkit

• Mishir Mishra ... Dr. Vikram

• Shweta Kawatra ... Nivedita

• Shishir Sharma ... Brijbhushan Wadhwa

• Alka Kaushal ... Sukanya Bua

• Tasneem Sheikh ... Renuka

• Aman Verma ... Abhay Chauvan

• Kabir Sadanand ... Salil Patel

• Sameer Soni ... Yash Thakur

• Raunak Bhatia ...

• Buddhaditya Mohanty ... Akshay

• Aanchal Dwivedi ... Malli
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[edit] External links

• Official Site

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