Kasautii Zindagii Kay (2001 TV series)

Kasautii Zindagii Kay
Directed by
  • Santram Varma
  • Gautam Sobti
  • Qaeed Kuwajerwala
  • Ravindra Gautam[1] Santosh Bhatt
  • Yash Chauhan
  • Raminder Singh Suri
  • Sushen Bhatnagar
  • Rajeev Bhatia
  • Jitendra K Basantt
  • Rohit Malhotra
  • Sangeeta Rao
  • Deepak Chavan
  • Jignesh Vaishnav
  • Arvind Babbal
  • Rishi Tyagi
  • Hitesh Tejwani
  • Shankar Verma
  • Anoop Chaudhary, V.G Roy
Creative directors
  • Monisha Singh
  • Nivedita Basu
  • Doris Dey
  • Shipra Arora
  • Shiwangi Singh Chauhan
  • Riti Chopra
StarringCezzane Khan
Shweta Tiwari
Hiten Tejwani
Ronit Roy
Urvashi Dholakia
Theme music composerLalit Sen
Opening themeBabul Supriyo and Priya Bhattacharya
Country of originIndia
Original languageHindi
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes1,423
Production
Executive producerNiel Singh
ProducersEkta Kapoor
Shobha Kapoor
Cinematography
  • Santosh Suryavanshi
  • Deepak Malwankar
  • Rajesh Naag
Editors
  • Dharmesh Shah
  • Sanjeev Shukla
  • Uday Raj
  • Achintya Ghosh
  • Vikas Sharma
  • Sandeep Bhatt
Camera setupMulti-Camera
Running time24 minutes
Original release
NetworkStar Plus
Release29 October 2001 (2001-10-29)[2] –
28 February 2008 (2008-02-28)
Related
Kasautii Zindagii Kay (2018 TV series)
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Kasautii Zindagii Kay (transl. The Trials of Life) is an Indian Hindi-language romantic drama television series produced by Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms on StarPlus.[3][4] The show starred Shweta Tiwari, Cezzane Khan (later replaced by Hiten Tejwani), Ronit Roy and Urvashi Dholakia.[5] The show aired from 29 October 2001 to 28 February 2008.

Kasautii Zindagii Kay explored the story of star-crossed lovers Anurag and Prerna, various stages of their love and life as well as the lives of their children and grandchildren.

Kasautii Zindagii Kay was one of the longest-running Indian television series. The entire series is digitally available on Disney+ Hotstar.

  1. ^ ""If you restrict the story to the main characters, the viewer enjoys it more": Ravindra Gautam". Indian Television dot com.
  2. ^ "Ekta Kapoor shares how Kasautii Zindagii Kay and Kutumb 'busted the rating charts' 18 years ago". The Times of India. 30 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Kasautii Zindagi Kay TV basti". tvbasti.com. Archived from the original on 5 February 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
  4. ^ "Kasautii Zindagi Kay Episodes". briyanshu.blogspot.com. Archived from the original on 7 June 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
  5. ^ "Audiences are used to seeing characters dying and coming back". tellychakkar.com. Archived from the original on 13 December 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2012.