Kumkum Bhagya

Kumkum Bhagya
Genre	Drama Romance
Created by	Ekta Kapoor
Based on	Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen[1]
Developed by	Ekta Kapoor
Screenplay by	Anil Nagpal Mrinal Tripathi Dialogues Dheeraj Sarna Vikash tiwari
Story by	Anil Nagpal
Directed by	Ravindra Gautam Sameer Kulkarni Sharad Pandey Jeetu Arora Deepak Chavan Shahnawaz Khan Khalid Akhtar Muzammil Desai
Creative directors	Shaalu Nitin Dhall Rajan Prachi Tanya Rajesh Kiran Gupta
Starring	Sriti Jha Shabir Ahluwalia Krishna Kaul Mugdha Chaphekar Rachi Sharma Abrar Qazi Pranali Rathod Akshay Bindra
Theme music composer	Lalit Sen Nawab Arzoo
Opening theme	"Kumkum Bhagya"
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	4
Production
Producers	Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor
Cinematography	Sanjay Memane Anil Katke
Original release
Network	Zee TV
Release	15 April 2014 (2014-04-15) – present
Related
Kundali Bhagya Bhagya Lakshmi
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Kumkum Bhagya (transl. Vermillion in My Fate) is an Indian Hindi-language drama television series produced by Ekta Kapoor under Balaji Telefilms.^[2] It premiered on 15 April 2014 on Zee TV and digitally streams on ZEE5.^[3] It formerly starred Sriti Jha, Shabir Ahluwalia, Mugdha Chaphekar, Krishna Kaul, Rachi Sharma and Abrar Qazi. Since February 2025, it stars Pranali Rathod and Akshay Bindra as the fourth-generation leads. One of the longest running Indian television soap opera, the concept of the show was originally based on Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility.^[1]