Kkavyanjali is an Indian television

romantic drama Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey ...

series that aired on

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from 25 January 2005 to 28 August 2006. The series starred Anita Hassanandani, Rakshak Sahni and

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. It is the tale of two lovers who can never meet, soulmates who love each other deeply but are separated.

Plot

Kkavya Nanda, a charming and eligible young man, is the only son of the late Mayank Nanda ( Ronit Roy) and his wife, Nitya Nanda (

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). He is the sole heir to more than half of the Nanda group of industries. Kkavya is coming back to India after many years and everyone in the close-knit joint family is eagerly awaiting his return. A series of parties and celebrations have been planned to welcome him. And in one such party, Kkavya sees a beautiful girl who leaves a lasting impression on his mind. After this first encounter, he repeatedly sees the same girl in various places, but is not able to speak to her on all occasions. However, her memory haunts him and eventually, he finds himself falling in love with this mysterious woman. It was the biggest launch of 2005, for Indian soap, the serial made big news by being the comeback vehicle of

, Vidya Sinha and Natassha. The television ratings provided much support to the serial even in mid-August 2005, the show became the #1 show of India. But the death of the male protagonist, (

) (Kkavya) made things worse. But with the entry of (

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) as Shaurya and a change in the storyline, the serial recovered its lost position. It's been a year since Kkavya's death. Anjali has become a stronger person. She is performing Kkavya's duties in the family and is looking after the family business as well. It's the perfect match of a modern woman, who is also traditional. Recently a lookalike of Kkavya named Soham (

) has entered the program, Anjali had made out to the family that he is Kkavya so she can find the murderer of Kkavya. Soham seems to be an evil character. However soon after finding out about Kkavya's killer which was Yug, Soham decides to prove to Anjali that the killer is Yug (

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) but Yug tries to blame Kkavya and Nitya's death on Shaurya but everything is found out by Soham and he brings proof and Yug kills himself. Soon after that Soham realises that he loves Anjali but so does Shaurya. Anjali also starts to love him and Shaurya sees this in their eyes so when Shaurya and Anjali are about to get married, Shaurya stops the wedding and says bad stuff about Anjali and Soham says out loud Anjali is not and he also shouts out that he loves her. Shaurya said he knew as it was his plan to bring out his feelings. Then Soham and Anjali get married and live happily ever after with the blessings of the family.

Cast

Main

* Anita Hassanandani as Anjum Anjali Salve / Anjali Kkavya Nanda / Anjali Soham Saxena * Rakshak Sahni /

as Kkavya Nanda *

as Dr. Soham Nanda / Saxena

Recurring

as Nitya Nanda *

as Shaurya Nanda *

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as Romilla Nanda *

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as Nihaal Nanda *

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as Bebe * Ronit Roy as Mayank Nanda * Vikrant Rai as Jai Nanda *

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as Arun * Pradeep Kharab /

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as Shlok Nanda * Nandini Singh as Pammi Mittal *

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as Vanshita Nanda *

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as Disha Jai Nanda * Talat Rekhi as Yash Nanda * Vidya Sinha as Sharmila Nanda * Soni Singh /

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as Arpita Nanda / Arpita Vansh Malhotra *

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as Vansh Malhotra *

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as Vayu Kapoor * Nisha Sareen as Disha Jai Nanda * Shivalika Sharma as Rohina Nanda *

as Yug Mittal *

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as Sonia * Madhumalti Kapoor as Khala *

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as Mrs. Salve * Sudhir Dalvi as Mr. Salve *

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as Bindiya * Ali Asgar as Adeep Nanda * Akshay Anand as Aman Kapoor *

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as Aarav Nanda * Rupali Ganguly as Mona Mittal *

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as Chaman *

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as Mr. Malhotra *

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as Mrs. Malhotra *

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as Kanishk Malhotra *

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as Reeva *

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as Sandeep (Sandy) Nanda *

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as Priya *

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as Navin Nanda * Rocky Verma as Mr. Sad *

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as Neha *

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as Akshara

Special appearances

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as Prerna * Neha Bamb *

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(twice) as Parvati *

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* Achint Kaur * Jitendra * Aamna Shariff as Kashish *

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Production

₹90 Million had been spent on the marketing of the series before its premiere. Mainly filmed in

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, one of the show's sequences was filmed at

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during 2005 for a total of ten episodes, and by collaboration with Hong Kong Tourism Board, various domestic locations were promoted in the series. In a sequence, to depict a deluge in

at that time (2005), about 80 tankers were used to create false floods, with the main lead caught admitting it. In June 2006, the series had a crossover with ''

Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii ''Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii'' ( The story of each house) is a Hindi-language Indian soap opera on Indian television which ran on Star Plus from 16 October 2000 to 9 October 2008. The soap opera was created by Ekta Kapoor and was produced by her pr ...

''. In March 2005, Rakshak Sahni playing Kkavya was replaced in the series, due to his incapability of bringing life into his role and also when he wanted for a ten-day break and

was made to quit ''Kahiin To Hoga'' for Sahni's role. Bollywood actress

and Vidya Sinha made their television debut with the series. Days before its end, in August 2006,

quit the series owing professional ethics followed by the death of her character.

Reception

Kkavyanjali which premiered at 9:30pm (

IST Ist or IST may refer to: Information Science and Technology * Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Science and Technology * Graduate School / Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Japan * Graduate School ...

), which Producer

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considered one of her critical show at that time with a great hope, was touted as the best fiction launch of the year 2005 but did not receive the expected success. It opened with a rating of 13.91 TVR on 25 January and averaged 11.7 in that week, becoming the ninth-most-watched Hindi TV show overall. Specifically, in

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and Madya Pradesh it received 21 TVR and 29.4 TVR. However, the following weeks, the ratings dipped. In May 2006, when the storyline took a leap and with entry of Iqbal Khan, it improved quite a bit which was not sufficient to get the expected ratings. It got off-aired in August 2006 because of the conflict between Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms and

due to its change in storyline and time slot from 9:30 to 9:00 pm (IST), which received quite less ratings then in that slot compared to their rival channel Zee TV's ''Saat Phere:Saloni Ka Safar''. The show got the awards in both categories i-e Technical and Programming for both Jury and Popularity. ''

'' had a drop in its ratings in 2005, so

(producer) crossed it over with ''Kkavyanjali'' after which ''Kahaani'' saw a spike in its ratings. Anita Hassanandani charged 40 thousand per day at that time. The show was also shot in

Pritam Pritam Chakraborty (born 14 June 1971), also known mononymously as Pritam, is an Indian composer, instrumentalist, guitarist, and singer. After working as an ad jingles composer, he debuted as a co-composer in the 2001 Hindi film Tere Liye. ...

charged 20 lakhs for its unique music composition.

Awards

Indian telly awards Best actor in a supporting role Akshit j Sharma

References

External links

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"Kavyanjali" Star TV, United Kingdom

"Kavyanjali on Star Content Syndication"
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