''Kehta Hai Dil'' is an Indian soap opera that aired on Star Plus channel from 2 July 2002 to 29 March 2005, and is produced by

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. The story is based on the life of a girl named Karishma and portrays the dramatic events that occur in her life, which affect her entire family - who lives in the small, idyllic town of Anand Nagar. The series was initially based on Star World series ''

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''. However soon the story was entirely deviated from ''Picket Fences''.

Plot

''Kehta Hai Dil'' is the story of a family who lives in the small, idyllic town of Anand Nagar. It is the family of Superintendent of Police (SP) Adityapratap Singh, Dr. Jaya Singh, and their three children - Karishma, Kunal and Kiran. Karishma loves Dhruv who is her childhood friend. Their fathers have also been friends. SP Adityapratap tries to expose the corrupt town mayor Bhandari and his wife Lalita Devi. To take revenge, Lalita makes her elder son Nikhil befriend Karishma and then makes the media print a fake report alleging that Karishma is having an affair with Nikhil. This forces Karishma to marry Nikhil. It is only after they are married that the Bhandaris' lies is revealed. A devastated Karishma vows to take revenge on every single one of them. The story follows Karishma as she extracts her revenge and exposes the Bhandaris.

Cast

* Kamya Panjabi /

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as Karishma Singh / Karishma Nikhil Bhandari * Aman Verma /

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as SP Adityapratap Singh *

Gautami Kapoor Gautami Kapoor (born Gautami Gadgil) is an Indian television and film actress and model. She is well known for playing the role of Jaya in '' Kehta Hai Dil'' on Star Plus. She also gained popularity playing the lead in TV drama '' Ghar Ek Mand ...

as Dr. Jaya Adityapratap Singh * Swapnil Joshi as Dhruv * Manoj Joshi as Mayor Bhandari *

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as Nikhil Bhandari, the Mayor's Adopted Son * Grusha Kapoor as Lalita Devrani Devi , Mayor Bhandari's Wife and Nikhil's Adopted Mother *

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as Jai Singh *

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as Mrs. Singh *

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as Ranbir *

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as Sonia * Mehul Kajaria as Kunal Singh * Tanvi Bhatia as Kiran Singh * Dara Singh as Karishma's Grandfather * Soumya Arya as Dr. Talwar *

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as Priya * Rajeev Kumar as Inspector Vikram * Lata Sabharwal as Constable's Wife * S.P Khere as Ameeta's Father * Reshma Polekar as Ameeta * Suhita Thatte as Sarson * Pamela Mukherjee as Divya * Devanshi as Sonia's Son * Sushmita Daan as Nilanjana * Atul Srivastava as Charandas * Hrishita as Deepti *

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as Jaya's Mother * Rakesh as Pappu *

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as Dhruv's Friend * Rajesh Asthana as Inspector * Khyaati Khandke Keswani as Aanchal * Abbas Khan as Chota Pappu * Shadab Khan as Doctor * Sunita Verma as Menka * Rajni Chandra as Nikhil's Mother * Manav Merchant as Ravi * Dinesh Hinge as Judge *

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as Pradhan * Natasha Sinha as Manju * Tanvir Roy as Chief Minister * Rahul Lohani as Swayam *

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as Professor * Pankaj Mishra as Narayan * Narendra Gupta as Dr. Jain *

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as Ranveer Rathore / Sandeep Jain / Shakti Singh *

Veerendra Saxena Virendra Saxena (born 23 November 1951) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi theatre, film, and television. He is an alumnus of the National School of Drama. Saxena is known for his character roles as well as his unique voice. He has acted in ...

as Bijlani *

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as Inspector Pandey * Sandeep Vohra as Prosecutor * Sunil Verma as Prisoner * Sunil Ghate as Judge * Kavita Vaid * Pooja as Shangrila

Reception

Aired on Tuesdays at prime time, it became the most watched Hindi show in its slot and one of the top ten Hindi GEC overall. Despite deviating entirely from

, it was one of the top shows. In third week of August 2004, it garnered 7.1 TVR. Between July to October 2004, it averaged 9.6 TVR with a peak rating of 10.5 TVR. From 20 December 2004 to 15 January 2005 it garnered an average ratings of 11.2 TVR.

Soundtrack

The music for ''Kehta Hai Dil'' was composed by

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, and the lyrics were penned by Naqsh Lyalpuri. The title track was sung by

Kumar Sanu Kedarnath Bhattacharya (born 20 October 1957), better known as Kumar Sanu, is an Indian playback singer. He is known as the King of Melody in Bollywood. He is famous for singing thousands of Bollywood Hindi songs. Apart from Hindi, he has al ...

Mahalakshmi Iyer Mahalakshmi Iyer is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi, Assamese and Tamil songs. She has sung in many other Indian languages as well, including Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati and Kannada. Career Playback singing Ma ...

, and Priya Bhattachariya.

Awards

The series has won the following awards in

The Indian Telly Awards The Indian Telly Awards is an annual award for excellence both on-screen and behind-the-scenes of Hindi-language television. Conceptualised and created by Anil Wanvari, the founder, CEO of media and services group, indiantelevision.com, they a ...

of 2003: * Best Actor in a Negative Role (Male) - Manoj Joshi Shared with

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. * Best Actor of the Year (Male) - Aman Verma shared with

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References

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External links

Kehta Hai Dil Official Site on STAR PlusWatch Entire Episodes Kehta Hai Dil Online
StarPlus original programming Indian television series 2002 Indian television series debuts 2005 Indian television series endings Indian television soap operas UTV Television