Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi
| Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thii | |
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Intertitle of Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi
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| Created by | Ekta Kapoor |
| Written by |
Story R M Joshi, Salil Sand, Anil Nagpal, Koel Chaudhary, Mitesh Shah & Swati Shah Screenplay R M Joshi, Vipul Mehta, Bhavin Patel, Nayana Dasgupta, Mitesh Shah, Salil Sand, Kamlesh Kunti Singh, Anil Nagpal, Archita Biswas, Mrinal Jha and Swati Shah Dialogues Dilip Rawal, Anand Gandhi, Sunjoy Shekhar, Rekkha Modi, Brij Mohan Pandey and Vinod Sharma |
| Directed by | Ashish Patil, Kaushik Ghatak, Nivedita Basu Suraj Rao, Santosh Badal, Dharmesh Shah, Santram Verma, Garry Bhinder, Deepak Chavan, Sanotsh Bhatt, Fahad Kashmiri, Avhiroop Mazzumdar, Jeetu Arora, Santosh Kolhe, Vicky Chauhan, Rohit Dwivedi, Deepak Sharma, Shyam Maheshwari, Talat Jani, Hitesh Tejwani and many more |
| Creative director(s) | Monisha Singh, Aparna Dubey, Ekta R Bahri, Bhairvi Shah, Shivangi Singh Chauhan, Shipra Arora, Doyel Som, Vikas Gupta (producer) |
| Starring | See below |
| Opening theme | Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi by Priya Bhattacharya |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language(s) | Hindi |
| No. of episodes | 1833 |
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| Producer(s) | Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor |
| Cinematography | Raju Halasagi, Sudesh Kotian, Deepak Malwankar, Sanjay Malwankar, Ashok Salian and Sanjay Memane |
| Editor(s) | Dharmesh Shah, Sanjeev Shukla, and Sagar S Naighojkar |
| Running time | 24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Balaji Telefilms |
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| Original network | STAR Plus |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) |
| Original release | 3 July 2000 – 6 November 2008 |
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (English: Because a mother-in-law was once a daughter-in-law, too) is an Indian soap opera that premiered on 3 July 2000 on Star Plus. The entire series is available on Hotstar. The show revolves around an ideal daughter-in-law Tulsi Virani, the daughter of a pandit married to the grandson of rich business tycoon Govardhan Virani. The role of the protagonist Tulsi Virani was played by Smriti Irani. The show was co-produced by Shobha Kapoor and Ekta Kapoor under their banner Balaji Telefilms.
Produced with the backdrop of Mumbai and the concept of an ideal Gujarati joint family, the show made Producer Ekta Kapoor and Network Star Plus achieve great heights of success, by not only being the number 1 show on Indian Television for eight constant long years but also receiving great TRPs. The show also went on to receive several awards, most of which were won by Smriti Irani for her portrayal of the ideal character Tulsi. The show also won Best Continuing Series at Indian Telly Awards for six consecutive years (2002-2007) and won Best Serial (Popular) for five consecutive years(2001-2005) at Indian Television Academy Awards.
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi was dubbed in Sinhala language and broadcast on Sirasa TV where it was titled as Maha Gedara ("Big Home" in Sinhalese). It was also dubbed in Dari language and was aired on Tolo TV in Afghanistan.
The show is one of the longest running daily soaps on Indian television, running from 2000-2008 and completing 1833 episodes. In 2008, its eighth year, the show was the topmost show on Indian television averaging a TRP of 5.4.
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