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Kumkum Bhagya (transl. Vermillion in My Fate) is an Indian Hindi-language drama television series produced by Ekta Kapoor under Balaji Telefilms. It premiered on 15 April 2014 on Zee TV and digitally streams on ZEE5. It formerly starred Sriti Jha and Shabir Ahluwalia. Currently, it stars Mugdha Chaphekar, Krishna Kaul, Rachi Sharma and Abrar Qazi. One of the longest running Indian television soap opera, the concept of the show was originally based on Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility. Plot Sarla Arora runs a marriage hall, Kumkum Bhagya, and is a single mother to her two daughters, Pragya and Bulbul. Sarla constantly worries for Pragya as she is still not able to find her a groom. Famous rockstar Abhishek "Abhi" Prem Mehra crosses paths with Pragya and they immediately get on each other's bad side. Abhi's grandmother, Kulpreet Mehra, asks for Pragya's hand in marriage for Abhi from Sarla, to which Sarla agrees. Alia, Abhi's sister, is in love with Purab Khanna, Abhi's best friend, while he is in love with Bulbul. Mistakenly believing Pragya loves Purab, Alia urges Abhi to marry her, and he reluctantly complies for his sister's happiness. On their wedding night, Pragya is devastated to know the truth about her marriage, as Abhi promises to make her life hell. She also finds out that Alia's supermodel best friend, Tanushree "Tanu" Mehta, is Abhi's girlfriend. To protect her sister Bulbul, Pragya falsely claims to be involved with Purab. She convinces Bulbul to move on from Purab, who is slated to marry Alia. However, on the wedding day, Purab flees to marry Bulbul. Soon it is revealed that Bulbul is the woman whom Purab loves. Alia, Abhi, and Tanu blame Pragya for everything, but after a series of events, he realises that Bulbul and Purab truly love one another and arranges their marriage, angering Alia. During one of the wedding ceremonies, Alia arranges for Bulbul to be kidnapped but Pragya is kidnapped instead. The marriage preparations are put on hold and Abhi goes in search of Pragya. They both spend a month trying to escape from their kidnappers, who are Neel, the corporator, and his henchmen. Neel works with Alia because he is in love with Bulbul as Alia is with Purab. Before they return home, Pragya confesses her love for Abhi. After a series of events, Abhi realises he reciprocates Pragya's feelings. When he is about to confess his love for her, Pragya lies to him and says that she was only joking with him, devastating him. Abhi decides to find out what is going on with Pragya as she began to behave rudely with the family members, got Akash, Abhi's cousin, married to a pregnant Rachna, Pragya's neighbour, and also brings Tanu to their home. Abhi is shocked to know that Pragya wants everyone to hate her so that Tanu wins everyone's hearts, as she is pregnant with Abhi's child. In a turn of events, Tanu's pregnancy is revealed to the whole family, angering Kulpreet. Abhi agrees to marry Tanu, for the sake of the baby. Pragya fakes her death, reappearing later to claim the property and money, pretending to be motivated by greed. In reality, Pragya, along with Kulpreet, Rachna, Bulbul, and Purab, are all scheming to expose Alia, for wanting to usurp the property and Abhi's business, and Tanu, who is pregnant with another man's child. Bulbul and Purab are married in a temple by Pragya, after she has a dream that Alia killed Bulbul. At the reception, Alia organises for Pragya to be killed, but Bulbul saves Pragya and later dies by suicide. After various failed attempts to expose Tanu, Pragya finally reveals everything to Abhi. At first, he does not believe her as he thinks she is responsible for Tanu's accident and losing the baby, but in fact, Pragya saved Tanu and the real father of the baby. He only believes her when she tells him about Rachna, Bulbul, Purab, and Kulpreet's involved. They reconcile, but their happiness is short lived as Abhi gets into an accident, planned by Alia and Tanu to kill Pragya. In hospital, he is announced dead, but Pragya is able to revive him. She is devastated to find out that Abhi has no memory of everything that has happened after Alia went to study in Australia, which was two and a half years prior to their marriage. She is forced to move back to her mother's house and Alia and Tanu decide to take advantage of Abhi's memory loss. Later, Pragya begins working in Abhi's company and they constantly cross paths with one another, but this time, they form a friendship. Alia and Tanu do not like their budding romance and put Abhi in a situation where he is forced to marry Tanu. The wedding day approaches, but Abhi does not show up as he goes in search of Pragya who has been kidnapped once again. Abhi confesses his love for Pragya and they get married in a temple, not long after, they take refuge in a middle aged man's home and Pragya discovers that he is her father, Raghuveer, and that she has two younger sisters, Preeta and Srishti after Bulbul. Abhi regains his memory, Purab finally tracks down Abhi and Pragya, but Pragya is shot and falls into a flowing river. In a fit of rage, Abhi accidentally kills Dushyant, who shoots Pragya. Abhi returns home, throws Alia and Tanu out of the house, and hopes for Pragya's return. One month later Abhi is shown to still be waiting for Pragya's return, but tries to cheer up his family. Alia and Tanu live in a small house, but later move back in the Mehra Mansion when they come across a villager, Munni, who is Pragya's doppelganger. They hire Munni to pose as Pragya to which Munni reluctantly agrees as she is need of money for her nephew's treatment. Abhi, though suspicious at first, allows them to stay and believes “Pragya has lost her memory”. Purab, who had gone away for business, meets a villager, Disha, who had saved him from being attacked. They later escape the village to Mumbai and get married with Sarla, Kulpreet, and Abhi's blessing. Purab tells Disha that he is still in love with Bulbul, which she respects, but Purab later falls in love with her. It is later revealed that Pragya is alive and was in a coma. She returns home, shocked to find Abhi remarried, but relieved upon learning the truth from Munni, and they switch places. Alia and Tanu notice Munni's changed behaviour and think she has turned on them. They expose her as an impostor, and Pragya goes along with their plan, only to save Munni's niece and nephew, as Munni had gotten in an accident. Purab, Disha, and Abhi decide to find out the truth and they succeed. Due to a misunderstanding created by Dushyant's widow, Simonika, Abhi blames Pragya for Kulpreet's death, and they get separated, but unknown to both of them, she was pregnant with their baby at that time. 7 years later Pragya now has a daughter with Abhi named Kiara. She is living with King Singh, a famous rapper in London, who has one sided romantic feelings for her. Purab and Disha also have a son, Sunny. Abhi has married Tanu but still misses Pragya. Later.... Discover the Ms Shikha Nautiyal popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Ms Shikha Nautiyal books.