Kasturi (TV series)

Kasturi
Intertitle of "Kasturi"
Created by	Balaji Telefilms Nivedita Basu
Written by	Story & Screenplay Vipul Mehta, Sonali Jaffar, Nishikant Roy, Gauri Kodimala, Mrinal Jha & Salil Sand Dialogues Dheeraj Sarna, sharad tripathi,Amal Donwaar & Dharamendra Singh
Directed by	Garry Bhinder, Vicky Chauhan, Fahad Kashmiri, Deepak Saini, Shankar Verma, Navneet Baj Saini & Hitesh Tejwani
Creative director(s)	Shipra Arora, Neeshi Oza & Gargi Malwankar
Starring	See Below
Opening theme	"Kasturi" by Shreya Ghoshal Love theme-mitwa (film-kabhi alwida na kehna)
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Punjabi and Hindi
No. of episodes	Total 350
Production
Executive producer(s)	Tanveer Alam
Producer(s)	Ekta Kapoor & Shobha Kapoor
Cinematography	Sanjay Memane, Suhas Shirodkar & Rajan Singh
Editor(s)	Vikas Sharma, Lalit Tiwari, Sandeep Bhatt, Nishit Shah & Kamal Prasad Bhattarai
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	Balaji Telefilms
Release
Original network	STAR Plus
Picture format	576i (SDTV),
Original release	23 April 2007 – 31 March 2009

"Kasturi" by Shreya Ghoshal

Kasturi was an Indian soap opera that aired on STAR Plus channel from 23 April 2007 through 31 March 2009. The soap opera was created by Ekta Kapoor and was produced by her production company Balaji Telefilms. It aired every Monday to Thursday 9:30pm onwards. The show had the best ratings in the first year even though it was facing immense competition from the rival channel shows. The ratings declined later due to multiple track changes and addition of new characters.

Kasturi revolves around Kasturi Chawla (Shubhangi Atre Poorey), a young woman from a middle-class family. After graduating from university, she begins working for Robbie Sabharwal (Karan Patel) - a spoilt, arrogant, yet immensely popular rockstar.

Robbie and Kasturi take an instant disliking to each other due to the difference in their class, values and morals. Kasturi befriends Robbie's best friend Raunak (Jatin Shah), who seems to respect and understand her beliefs. As Robbie and Kasturi spend more time together, they start to fall in love and eventually confess their feelings. Their relationship is short-lived, as a misunderstanding causes Robbie to believe that Kasturi is cheating on him with Raunak.

After Robbie and Kasturi split up, Raunak proposes to Kasturi and she accepts after brief hesitation. On the day of their wedding, Robbie comes to know that he had misunderstood Kasturi and Raunak's relationship. He apologizes and begs Kasturi to reconcile with him, but she denies on the basis that their relationship has no future due to his constant lack of trust in her.

Raunak and Kasturi's wedding is followed by a series of events where Robbie tries to sabotage their relationship, but his attempts backfire and bring Raunak and Kasturi even closer. Soon, Raunak dies in an accident and Kasturi starts to believe that Robbie killed him. She sets out to take revenge by marrying him, under the pretext of moving on, and then makes life a living hell for him. Her plan seems to succeed and Robbie ends up in coma. However, Kasturi is shell-shocked when, in Malaysia, she comes face to face with Raunak, who is very much alive.

Raunak smugly tells Kasturi how he has been toying with her all along and how he has been the sole cause of her misery. He explains that he had always secretly resented Robbie because he (Robbie) gained fame and popularity while Raunak had not. So when he realized that Robbie/Kasturi broke up, he decided to get even by deliberately marrying Kasturi to hurt Robbie. Then he faked his own death to frame Robbie for murder. The person who helped him engineer this plot turns out to be Robbie's sister Shivani (Mouni Roy). She and Raunak have been in love since childhood, and she loathes Robbie with equal passion. The two of them tell an appalled Kasturi that their next move is to kill Robbie to get their hands on his wealth.

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