A passionate love story between a famous rockstar, Rudraksh Khurana and a gynaecologist, Dr Preesha Srinivasan who fall in love after raising their respective siblings' son together. They die promising one another to always be soulmates who will reunite in each life time.
20 years later
Destiny brings a reserved physiotherapist, Dr Nayantara Iyer and a famous rockstar Samrat Khurana together. Thus, begins an eternal love saga however when Samrat's ex-wife Mansi enters, she causes many problems in their lives including killing Nayantara's parents and turning Nayantara against Samrat which eventually leads to their separation.
20 years later
Nayantara now lives with Satish's mother, Toshi at
Faridabad and raises her and Samrat's daughter, Kaashvi and also adopts Satish's daughter, Mahima. Kaashvi is sweet, lovely and a caring women whereas, Mahima is being greedy, cunning and a selfish women. Kaashvi is in love with her childhood friend, Arjun while Mahima is in love with Pradyuman while her marriage is fixed with Arjun. Samrat still devastated that Nayantara is dead so he returns Delhi whom meets Kaashvi as he is unaware that Kaashvi is his daughter. Samrat and Nayantara meet each other but he misunderstands that Nayantara had cheated him with another man so he starts to hates her. Samrat finds Kaashvi is Nayantara's daughter and questions her about this as Kaashvi gets injured and Nayantara confesses the truth to Samrat that Kaashvi is his daughter and reveals how she left him due to Manasi's lie.
5 years later
Kaashvi is now turned into an IAS officer and returns to Faridabad with Toshi as she misses her son and Arjun, While Arjun now raises his and Kaashvi's son, Karun whom he considers Mahima as his own mother as Arjun is unaware of his truth and he misses Kaashvi. Mahima now lives into an luxurious life by using Karun by blackmailing Arjun. Kaashvi meets Karun unaware that Karun is her son. Kaashvi and Arjun meets eachother as Arjun gets a job as a trainee at his office but Kaashvi still holds a grudge against on him. Aditya, who is Kaashvi's friend who works as her boss and it is revealed he is in love with her.
Mahima learns about Kaashvi and she vows to keep Karun and Arjun away from Kaashvi. Kaashvi learns about Arjun and Mahima's marriage and gets heartbroken. Kaashvi learns about her child's alive truth from a women named, Simran as she was pushed by her mother-in-law, Gitika (the corrupt doctor whom helps Mahima) and her husband, Harman as she was killed by Romila as Simran was in love with her and Kewal's son, Micky.
Mahima learns about this and creates problems to stop her from searching her child and also Arjun and Kaashvi's reunion. Aditya learns about Kaashvi and Arjun's truth so he decided to make Arjun to stay away from Kaashvi as he loves her. Kaashvi finds out Karun is Arjun's child but she misunderstands to being Mahima's child as for Karun's sake, she doesn't have any choice but she decided to marry, Aditya. Arjun finds out Aditya had already married to a women named, Nisha and had a son named, Vansh as he learns that Nisha had suffered from
Domestic Violence by Aditya whom he posed himself as Aman. Arjun tries to stop Kaashvi from marrying Aditya and he reveals his true colours to her but fails. Mahima finds out this and destroys evidences against Aditya as Kaashvi and Aditya is married but however their marriage is faked as Arjun brings Nisha and exposes Aditya to everyone and gets arrested but Kaashvi bails him by making them to believe that Aman is his twin brother and they arrests Aman. Nisha gets died in mysteriously. Arjun blames Kaashvi for marrying, Aditya and he vows her to return to his life once again.
Aman survived from jail and he tries to kill Kaashvi but Aditya shoots him to death where Arjun and Kaashvi finds out, Aman is not Aditya's twin brother as his real name is Nikhil Desai where Arjun and Kaashvi meets Nikhil's mother, Pallavi. But however, Pallavi gets murdered and they finds Aditya's mother, Sushma had killed her. Aditya is revealed to being enemy for Arjun and Kaashvi because it is finds out Aditya had killed Nisha as she had learned about his truth and also he kills a women named Savita where she threats him to expose his truth. Aditya decided to kill Kaashvi but however he changes as he loves her so he decided to kill Arjun but fails. Mahima learns about this and joins hands with Aditya to separate Arjun and Kaashvi by using Karun.
Aditya rapes Isha, who is Monty's fiance and he blames Arjun for this and gets arrested. Kaashvi decided to find out this by gaining entire evidences and learns that Mahesh had raped her but however it is revealed, Aditya had framed Mahesh with the help of his ex-girlfriend, Natasha as Mahesh gets arrested and commits suicide which leads his wife, Shanti seeks revenge against on Kaashvi as she had lost her child. Shanti meets Gitika, whom had hiding from Kaashvi and police where she finds out Karun is Kaashvi and Arjun's son so she decided to kill Karun.
Arjun and Kaashvi finds out Mahima is having an illicit affair with a man named, Vishal who is a trainee at Arjun and Kaashvi's office and also to being Arjun's enemy. Shanti moved to Bajwa House as her intension to kill Karun. Karun learns about Mahima and Vishal's affair as Shanti kidnaps Karun with the help of a goon named, Gopal.
Shagun Sharma as IAS Kashvi "Kashu" Khurana Bajwa: Nayantara and Samrat's daughter; Prem and Mahima Sabharwal's adopted sister; Arjun's wife; Karun's mother (2023–present)
Pravisht Mishra as IAS Arjun Bajwa: Nitya and Jagdish's son; Suraj and Pankaj's cousin; Kashvi's husband; Karun's father (2023–present)
Recurring
Krish Chugh as Saransh Khurana: Rajeev and Mahima Srinivasan's son; Rudraksh and Preesha's nephew and adopted son; Ruhi and Samrat's cousin and adopted brother (2021–2022) (Dead)
Vidhaan Sharma /
Yagya Bhasin / Ali Dhuru as Child Saransh Khurana (2019–2020) / (2020–2021) / (2021)
Swarna Pandey as Ruhi Khurana: Preesha and Rudraksh's daughter; Samrat's sister; Saransh's cousin and adopted sister (2021–2022) (Dead)
Mallika Nayak as Sharda Khurana: Balraj's widow; Rajeev and Rudraksh's step-mother; Saransh, Ruhi and Samrat's step-grandmother; Kashvi's step-great-grandmother; Karun's step-great-great-grandmother (2019–2022) (Dead)
Indira Krishnan as Vasudha Srinivasan: Gopal's wife; Venkatesh, Mahima Srinivasan and Preesha's mother; Saransh, Ruhi and Samrat's grandmother; Kashvi's great-grandmother; Prem's adoptive great-grandmother; Karun's great-great-grandmother (2019–2022)
Siddharth Shivpuri as Advocate Yuvraj Pillai: Gopal's former employee; Preesha's ex-boyfriend; Ahana's ex-husband; Rajeev's murderer (2019–2022)
Aishwarya Khare as Mahima Srinivasan: Vasudha and Gopal's elder daughter; Venkatesh and Preesha's sister; Vaijayanti's cousin; Rajeev's lover; Saransh's mother; Balraj's murderer (2019–2021)
Prince Mahajan as Venkatesh "Venky" Srinivasan: Vasudha and Gopal's long-lost son; Mahima Srinivasan and Preesha's brother; Vaijayanti's cousin (2021) (Dead)
Krutika Desai as Advocate Vaijayanti Srinivasan: Gopal's niece; Venkatesh, Mahima Srinivasan and Preesha's cousin; Venkatesh's murderer (2021–2022)
In June 2017, producer
Ekta Kapoor revealed her plan for a spin-off of Yeh Hai Mohabbatein however stated, "I wanted to make a spin off of Yeh Hai Mohabbatein but it's not working out with the story line."[7] The reports of the
spin-off in making was then announced in April 2018.[8] It was supposed to premiere in the same year but was delayed as the story was not finalized.[9] Then, it was reported to premiere in June 2019 and the casting for it was going on while
Aakanksha Singh and Karan Vohra were reported as the leads.[10][9] But it was scrapped in July 2019.[11] In September 2019, the series was revived and fresh casting sessions began.[12]Sargun Kaur Luthra was cast as Dr. Preesha Srinivasan and
Abrar Qazi was cast as Rudraksh Khurana.[13]
Talking about the series, producer Ekta Kapoor said "Yeh Hai Chahatein deals with another social issue. It's often said that it's easier for men with children to get married again, but very tough for a woman with a child to find a suitable groom."[14]
Release
The first promo of the series was released on 27 November 2019 where Sargun Kaur Luthra and Vidhaan Sharma were introduced by
Divyanka Tripathi and
Karan Patel as Dr. Preesha Srinivasan and Saransh Khurana.[15] The next promo was released on 16 December 2019 featuring
Abrar Qazi, Luthra and Vidhaan Sharma. The series premiered on 19 December 2019 on
StarPlus.[16]
Casting
Sargun Kaur Luthra was selected to play Dr. Preesha Srinivasan's character.[17]Karan Wahi was approached to play Rudraksh Khurana, but Abrar Qazi was signed by the production team.[18] Zebby Singh was potentially going to play Yuvraj Pillai before the role went to Siddharth Shivpuri.[19]Parul Chauhan was supposed to play Ahana, but
Aishwarya Sakhuja replaced her.[20] When the shooting resumed after the COVID-19 outbreak, in early July 2020, Vidhaan Sharma was replaced by Yagya Bhasin as Saaransh and Gulshan Pandey replaced
Vijay Kashyap as Gopal.[21]
Luthra stated that she took inspiration from
Neena Gupta for her role.[22]
Talking about playing a mother for the first time, she said, "When I was told that I will be playing a mother, I wasn't apprehensive at all. My only worry was that i am very young and I had to look mature on the screen which was a challenge. The team has helped me a lot to help me look a certain age and moreover with my body language to portray this character. Even Vidhaan (my on-screen son), has helped bring out the best in me. More than mother-son, we are like friends off the screen."[23]
Sakhuja was hired to portray Ahana, her first negative role. Speaking about it she said, "I have auditioned for a lot of Balaji shows and whenever I auditioned for negative roles I was told I look very positive. So, when I bagged this role, I asked them why now? They said eventually you will get to know as to why we have chosen you, and I understand because they like to surprise their audience and that's exactly what they are doing. I was figuring how to go about it, but my team is helping. After every two sentences out of habit, I go into the positive zone but I have people to handhold me and help me."[24]
Set in
Delhi, the series is mainly filmed in
Film City,
Mumbai. On 3 August 2020, the shoot could not happen due to heavy rains in Mumbai and was cancelled.[26]
On 13 April 2021, Chief Minister
Uddhav Thackeray announced a sudden curfew effective from 15 April. On 14 April, Ekta Kapoor and
Balaji Telefilms decided to move all their shows' shooting to their sets at
Goa.[27]
Broadcast
The production and airing of the show was halted indefinitely in late March 2020 due to the
COVID-19 outbreak in India.[28] The series was expected to resume on 1 April 2020 but could not and the series was last broadcast on 24 March 2020 airing its remaining episodes.[29][30][31] After three months, the filming of the series resumed on 27 June 2020 while the broadcast resumed on 13 July 2020.[32][33]
The cast of Yeh Hai Chahatein went on to participate in Ravivaar With Star Parivaar, a musical competition wherein eight
StarPlus shows competed against each other to win the title of "Best Parivaar".[34]Yeh Hain Chahatein was eliminated at 8th position and was the first show to be eliminated.[35]