Bade Achhe Lagte Hain Explained

Alt Name:	Bade Achhe Lagte Hain Ye Dharti Ye Nadiya Ye Raina Aur Tum
Genre:	Drama Romance
Creator:	Ekta Kapoor
Story:	Doris Dey Sonali Jaffar Jayesh D. Patil Anil Nagpal
Screenplay:	Dilip Jha Archita Biswas Jha Harneet Singh Anil Nagpal Saba Mumtaz Nandini Arora Doris Dey Nehum Rawat Ruchi Shah Kovid Gupta Akash Deep Shilpa Jathar Vikas Tiwari Kamolika Bhattacharjee Dialogues Deepti Rawal Shirish Latkar Priti Mamgain Richa Singh Gautam
Director:	Partho Mitra Sangieta Rao Anil V. Kumar (directed episode 166; telecasted on 12 March 2012) Rakesh Malhotra Raja Mukherjee Muzammil Desai Ravindra Gautam^[1] ^[2] Ajay Kumar Sahil Sharma Mohit Hussein Jaladh Sharma Vijay K. Saini
Creative Director:	Doris Dey Udayan Pradeep Shukla Tanusri Dasgupta Prashant Bhatt Mansi Sawant Bharvi Shah Mohammed Suleman Quadri Mitu
Theme Music Composer:	Composer R. D. Burman Music by Lalit Sen
Opentheme:	"Bade Achhe Lagte Hain" by Shreya Ghoshal and Trijayh Dey
Composer:	Abhishek Singh Mintu Jha
Num Seasons:	1
Num Episodes:	644
Editor:	Online Editor(s)
Camera:	Multi camera
Runtime:	20–25 minutes (per episode) 45–50 minutes (integration episodes) aprrox. 34 minutes (last episode)
Company:	Balaji Telefilms Limited
Network:	Sony Entertainment Television
First Aired:	^[3]
Image Alt:	Intertitle of Bade Achhe Lagte Hain

Bade Achhe Lagte Hain (pronounced as /bəˈɽeː ˈəttʃʰeː ləɡˈteː ɦɛ̃ː/; They Look So Good) is an Indian soap opera that aired on Sony Entertainment Television from 30 May 2011 to 10 July 2014. Based on the Gujarati play Patrani by Imtiaz Patel, the soap opera was created and produced by Ekta Kapoor under the banner of Balaji Telefilms. The title of the show, along with the title-track, was derived from a song composed by R.D. Burman, from the soundtrack of the 1976 Bollywood film Balika Badhu. Ekta Kapoor had got the name, Bade Achhe Lagte Hain, registered about six years before the soap opera premiered.

The show explores the worlds of Priya Sharma (Sakshi Tanwar) and Ram Kapoor (Ram Kapoor), who accidentally discover love after getting married.^[4] After the storyline moved five years ahead in June 2012, many new actors and characters, including Samir Kochhar and Amrita Mukherjee who played the roles of Rajat Kapur and Peehu respectively, were introduced.

According to The Times of India, Bade Achhe Lagte Hain is the seventh most-watched television show of 2011 in India. The soap opera won the Kalakar Award for the Best Serial and the People's Choice Award for Favourite TV Drama, both in 2012. The soap opera was voted the Most Inspiring Soap in 2013, receiving a vote count of 43.68%. It has been dubbed and rebroadcast in English, Tamil, and Telugu.

Plot

Ram Kapoor is an unmarried, wealthy, established, and well-reputed Mumbai-based businessman in his early forties. Priya Sharma is a working woman in her early thirties and comes from a middle-class Mumbai family. Ram's half-sister, Natasha Kapoor, and Priya's brother, Kartik Sharma fall in love and have to consider the Hindu culture taboo of younger siblings marrying before their elder siblings. Ram has yet to select a prospective spouse so the marriage of Kartik and Natasha must wait.

There is a solution. Ram and Priya agree to the Punjabi practice of watta satta although Priya dislikes the economic disparity between their families. Ram and Priya considers each other arrogant and quarrelsome. They become closer with time and consummate their marriage. Kartik and Natasha are about to divorce as Natasha is unable to adapt to her reduced economic status. The divorce provokes disagreements between Ram and Priya. Priya, however solves things between Kartik and Natasha and mends their marriage. Priya is pregnant, has an accident that others believe has killed her. She moves to Dubai.

In Dubai, Priya lives with her and Ram's daughter, Pihu. Ram and Priya cross paths. Ram is furious at Priya for abandoning him and seeks custody of Pihu. Priya returns to Kapoors to be with Ram. They have daughters, Myra and Pari.

Pihu, Myra and Pari are grown up. Pihu, who is a spoiled brat now, falls in love with her college friend Varun. Priya objects this as Varun's father was probable candidate for Ram. This makes Pihu to hate Priya. Priya finds Pihu and Varun together. Pihu accuses Varun of raping her. Priya finds the truth and tries to rectify Pihu's misdeeds. Varun is shocked by Pihu's betrayal and kills himself. Priya and Pihu meet with an accident and Priya falls into a coma.

Priya recovers and returns to the Kapoors'. Priya's friend, Juhi, has cared for Pihu, Myra and Pari. Juhi falls in love with Ram and tries to make him divorce Priya, getting Ram's sympathy for her daughter, Naina. Pihu falls in love with Samar, who has an affair with Priya's doctor, Suhani. Priya finds this and objects to Pihu's relationship. Pihu threatens to kill herself if she cannot marry Samar, so her parents acquiesce. Suhani is pregnant with Samar's child. She kills Samar after his marriage with Pihu. Ram is accused of Samar's murder and is arrested. Priya proves his innocence and Pihu reunites with her. Juhi works to separate Ram and Priya, but is exposed, arrested and Ram and Priya reunite.

Cast

Main

• Sakshi Tanwar as Priya Sharma Kapoor – Shipra and Sudhir's elder daughter; Ayesha and Kartik's sister; Ram's wife; Pihu, Mayra and Pari's mother (2011–14)
• Ram Kapoor as Ram Kapoor – Amarnath and Krishna's son; Natasha and Rishab's half-brother; Priya's husband; Pihu, Mayra and Pari's father (2011–14)
• Fenil Umrigar / Sonia Balani as Pihu Kapoor Shergill – Ram and Priya's eldest daughter; Mayra and Pari's sister; Samar's wife (2013–14)
  • Aanchal Munjal as Teenage Pihu Kapoor (2013)
  • Amrita Mukherjee as Child Pihu Kapoor (2012–13)

Recurring

• Sumona Chakravarti as Natasha Kapoor – Amarnath and Niharika's daughter; Rishabh's sister, Siddhant and Ishika's half-sister; Ram’s half-sister; Kartik's first wife (2011–14)
• Mohit Malhotra / Chirag Thakkar as Kartik Sharma – Shipra and Sudhir's son; Priya and Ayesha's brother; Natasha and Jhanvi's husband; Raunak's father (2011–14)
• Madhu Raja as Krishna Kapoor – Amarnath's first wife; Ram's mother; Apeksha's adoptive mother; Pihu, Mayra and Pari's grandmother (2011–14)
• Chahat Khanna / Akanksha Juneja as Ayesha Sharma – Shipra and Sudhir's younger daughter; Priya and Kartik's sister; Siddhant's fiancée; Khush's mother (2011–13)
• Eva Grover as Niharika Talwar Kapoor – Shiney's sister; Jayesh ex-wife; Amarnath's second wife; Ram's step-mother; Siddhant, Ishika, Natasha and Rishab's mother; Khush's grandmother (2011–13)
• Jai Kalra as Vikram Shergill – Neha's husband; Ram's friend and business partner; Rahul, Samar and Riddhima's father (2011–14)
• Tarana Raja Kapoor as Neha Shergill – Vikram's wife; Rahul, Samar and Riddhima's mother (2011–14)
• Salim Shah / Deepak Qazir Kejriwal as Shiney Talwar (Mamaji) – Niharika's brother; Ram's uncle; Saudamini's boyfriend (2011–14)
• Mahesh Shetty as Siddhant Karyekar – Jayesh and Niharika's son; Ishika's brother; Natasha and Rishab's half-brother; Ayesha's fiancé; Khush's father (2011–14)
• Shubhavi Choksey as Juhi – Priya's childhood friend; Naina's mother (2011–14)
• Gaurav Sharma / Aditya Kapadia / Ankit Narang as Khush Karyekar – Siddhant and Ayesha's son; Ram and Priya's nephew (2013–14)
  • Neev Ritesh Jain as Child Kush Karyekar (2012–13)
• Vinti Idnani as Mayra Kapoor – Ram and Priya's second daughter; Pihu and Pari's sister (2013–14)
  • Ashnoor Kaur as Child Mayra Kapoor (2013)
• Pragati Chourasiya as Pari Kapoor – Ram and Priya's youngest daughter; Pihu and Mayra's sister (2013–14)
  • Zaynah Vastani as Child Pari Kapoor (2013)
• Rohan Shah / Yuvraj Thakur / Lavin Gothi as Samar "Sammy" Shergill – Vikram and Neha's son; Riddhima and Rahul's brother; Pihu's husband; Suhani's fiancé; Gudiya's father (2013–14)
• Renuka Israni as Shipra Sharma – Sudhir's wife; Priya, Ayesha and Kartik's mother; Pihu, Khush, Mayra, Pari and Raunak's grandmother
• Prithvi Sankhala as Sudhir Sharma – Shipra's husband; Priya, Ayesha and Kartik's father; Pihu, Khush, Mayra, Pari and Raunak's grandfather
• Rajinder Kaur Manchanda as Mrs. Kapoor (Dadi) – Amarnath's mother; Ram, Natasha and Rishab's grandmother
• Samir Kochhar as Rajat Kapoor – Ram's friend; Jyoti's ex-boyfriend
• Ekta Kaul as Dr. Suhani Malhotra – Priya's nurse; Samar's fiancée; Gudiya's mother
• Sunny Goraya as Rishabh Kapoor – Amarnath and Niharika's son; Natasha's brother; Ram, Siddhant and Ishika's half-brother; Saumya's husband
• Dipti Shrikant / Amrin Chakkiwala as Saumya Kapoor – Rishabh's wife
• Nitin Sahrawat as Rajeev  - Juhi's husband
• Niti Taylor as Naina  - Juhi's and Rajeev's daughter
• Azaan Rustam Shah / Anshul Pandey as Rahul Shergill – Vikram and Neha's son; Samar and Riddhima's brother
• Ruhee Bagga as Riddhima Shergill – Vikram and Neha's daughter; Samar and Rahul's sister
• Kanika Shivpuri as Daai Jaa – Rajat's aunt and caretaker
• Priya Marathe as Jyoti Malhotra – Rajat's ex-girlfriend; Kadambari's mother
• Arshima Thapar as Kadambari Malhotra – Rahul's wife; Jyoti's daughter
• Vaibhav Joshi as Rehaan – Neha's son from her colleague
• Sonal Parihar as Jhanvi Sharma – Kartik's second wife; Raunak's mother
• Yatin Mehta as Raunak Sharma – Kartik and Jhanvi's son; Sudhir and Shipla's grandson; Natasha's adopted son
• Harsh Khurana as Ashwin Khanna – Priya's ex-fiancé; Shruti's husband; Varun's father
• Madhumita Das as Shruti Khanna – Ashwin's wife; Priya's friend; Varun's mother
• Rohan Mehra as Varun Khanna – Ashwin and Shruti's son; Pihu's college friend (Dead)
• Amit Bhalla as Dr. Jayesh Karyekar – Niharika's first husband; Siddhant and Ishika's father; Khush's grandfather
• Asha Negi as Apeksha Malhotra – Krishna's adoptive daughter; Ram's adoptive sister (2011–12)
• Kajal Pisal as Ishika Kapoor Dhanrajgir – Jayesh and Niharika's daughter; Siddhant's sister; Natasha and Rishabh's half-sister; Aditya's wife
• Parakh Madan as Harry
• Saptrishi Ghosh as Rishi Shandeliya - Priya's boss
• Karan Veer Mehra as Bhanu Shergill; Vikram's brother
• Charu Asopa as Saudamini - Ayesha's friend; Shiney (Mamaji)'s girlfriend
• Anshuman Singh Mahant as Shags  - Natasha'a colleague
• Rakshanda Khan as Isha Singhania; Ram's crush; Ram, Vikram, and Neha's college friend
• Rushad Rana as Ram, Vikram, and Neha's college friend
• Dimpy Ganguli as Preetika; Ayesha's friend
• Karan Jotwani as Mandeep Bittu Singh — Pihu's ex-fiancé
• Nandini Sen as Nandini Bittu Singh; Mandeep's mother
• Mamta Luthra as Shipra's mother; Sudhir's mother-in-law; Priya, Kartik and Ayesha's grandmother
• Jai Shahideu as Saksh
• Nivin Ramani as Robin
• Neel Motwani as Daljeet Kapoor; Ram, Natasha and Rishab's cousin
• Bobby Arora as Bobby Singh
• Loveleen Kaur Sasan as Jenny; Ram's Office secretary
• Rajdeep Sikdar as himself; Ram's Office staff

Guest appearances

• Akshay Kumar to promote his film Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara!^[5]
• Jackky Bhagnani and Neha Sharma to promote their film Youngistaan^[6]
• Priyanka Chopra and Ram Charan to promote their film Zanjeer^[7]
• Ronit Roy to promote his television series Adaalat^[8]
• Sanaya Irani to promote her television series Chhanchhan ^[9]
• Tusshar Kapoor and John Abraham to promote their film Shootout at Wadala^[10]
• Tusshar Kapoor and Riteish Deshmukh to promote their film Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum^{[11] [12]}
• Vidya Balan and Emraan Hashmi to promote their film The Dirty Picture^[13]
• Vidya Balan to promote her film Shaadi Ke Side Effects^[13]

Production

Development

The name of the soap opera, along with its title track, has been inspired by a song of the same name, composed by R. D. Burman, from the soundtrack of the 1976 Bollywood film Balika Badhu.^{[14] [15] [16]} Based on the Gujarati play Patrani by Imtiaz Patel,^{[17] [18]} the soap opera is created by Ekta Kapoor and produced by her production company Balaji Telefilms.^{[19] [20] [21]} Ekta Kapoor had got the name, Bade Achhe Lagte Hain, registered about six years before the soap opera premiered.^[22]

Filming

Bade Achhe Lagte Hain is reportedly one of the soap operas in India that broke the monotone of endless indoors-only sequences.^[23] Most of its shooting has been done in India. But many episodes of the soap opera have also been shot in foreign locales. Sixteen episodes of the soap opera (episodes 102–117) were shot in Australia over 14 days, in partnership with Tourism Australia, in late 2011, to portray the honeymoon of Ram (Kapoor) and Priya (Tanwar). Bade Achhe Lagte Hain also received support from Destination New South Wales, Sony Entertainment Television India and Balaji Telefilms.

During the summer of 2012, Ekta Kapoor introduced a five-year leap in the narrative.^[24] After this leap, 36 episodes of Bade Achhe Lagte Hain (episodes 235–270) had content which was shot in Dubai, UAE over a period of 10 days. These episodes portray Priya (Tanwar) living with her five-year-old daughter Peehu (Amrita Mukherjee) in the city until she has to return to Mumbai, in India. The production team failed to obtain the correct permits to shoot in Dubai and had to briefly stop shooting until the paperwork was processed.

Music

The title track of the soap opera, inspired by the song Bade Achhe Lagte Hain is composed by R. D. Burman, from the 1976 Bollywood movie, Balika Badhu.^{[14] [15]} The lyrics of the soap opera's title track have been penned up by Nawab Arzoo and the title track has been sung by Shreya Ghoshal and Trijayh Dey. Lalit Sen provided the music to the title track.^[17] The background music or the incidental music of the soap opera has been provided by Abhishek Singh and Mintu Jha.^[17] It also includes songs from soundtrack albums of few Bollywood movies. The Tamil version of the title track song was sung by Shweta Mohan, with hummings of Shreya Ghoshal reused.

Broadcast

Bade Achhe Lagte Hain premiered on Sony Entertainment Television in India on 30 May 2011.^{[25] [26]} It was initially intended to run for 150 episodes but it went on to telecast a total of 644 episodes, going off-air after completing a run of 3 years, 2 months and 41 days.

Bade Achhe Lagte Hain was dubbed in Telugu and broadcast on Gemini TV as Nuvvu Nachhavu, an afternoon soap opera, premiered on 9 April 2012.^{[27] [28] [29]} Bade Achhe Lagte Hain has also been dubbed in Tamil under the title Ullam Kollai Poguthada, and it premiered on Polimer TV, on 10 December 2012, with some of the characters' names changed.^[30]

Integration episodes

The show had two integration episodes with Kya Hua Tera Vaada on 4 and 5 December 2012^[31] and one with Kehta Hai Dil...Jee Le Zara on 6 December 2013.^[32]

Other media

Reboots

See main article: Bade Achhe Lagte Hain 2.

In July 2021, a sequel was announced, with the title Bade Achhe Lagte Hain 2.^[33] Nakuul Mehta was finalized as the male-lead of the sequel.^[34] Disha Parmar was approached and locked by the makers to play the female lead, doing her second project with Mehta after seven years.^{[35] [36] [37]}

On 12 August 2021, the first teaser for the same was unveiled featuring leads, Mehta and Parmar, as Ram Kapoor and Priya.^[38] The show premiered on 30 August 2021.

See main article: Bade Achhe Lagte Hain 3. The series was announced after the ratings of Bade Achhe Lagte Hain 2 fell. The original leads of the previous season Mehta and Parmar were cast as the leads, marking their second collaboration with Ekta Kapoor.

Adaptations

Language	Title	Original release	Network(s)	Last aired	Notes
Malayalam	Anuraga Ganam Pole അനുരാഗ ഗാനം പോൾ	17 April 2023	Zee Keralam	15 March 2024	Remake
Kannada	Amruthadhare ಅಮೃತಧಾರೆ	29 May 2023	Zee Kannada	Ongoing
Tamil	Nenjathai Killadhe நெஞ்சத்தை கில்லாதே	1 July 2024	Zee Tamil

Reception

Response

Bade Achhe Lagte Hain had a television viewer rating of 1.3 in the debut week after its premiere, which increased ten weeks later to 3.7.^[39] It became the fifth most-watched Hindi television show in the thirty–fourth week (14–20 August) of 2011 in India, helping propel the broadcasting channel, Sony Entertainment Television India to number two in the rankings of the Hindi general entertainment television channels.^[40] The soap opera had a television viewer rating of 3.7 that week while Sony Entertainment Television India recorded a gross rating point of 245. In the forty eighth week of 2011 (25 November – 1 December), the soap opera became the fourth most-watched television show in India with a TVR of 4.30,^[41] and is the seventh most-watched of 2011.^[42]

Episode #166 of Bade Achhe Lagte Hain, directed by Anil V. Kumar^[17] and telecast on 12 March 2012, portrayed the protagonists (Ram and Priya) consummating their marriage. The episode was backed by a teaser to draw hype and interest.^[43] Within minutes of its telecast the episode went viral on YouTube with nearly 150,630 hits and counting. It also trended on social networking and microblogging sites such as Twitter. India Today described the episode as "aesthetically shot" whileTimes of India described it as "action packed". There was mocking of the episode and the overweight Ram Kapoor from some segments; Ram Kapoor responded that he would not lose weight for the television industry. IBN Live commented, "Indian television is still a good few decades immature when it comes to sex on the TV screen. So much for all the matured relationships and relevant themes – love making on Indian TV is as painful and archaic as the shaking flowers replacing actors on screen when they kiss or make love. A small sigh of relief and Ekta Kapoor and the director can congratulate themselves for the real onscreen peck on the lips." The episode was hyped as a couple on an Indian television had never before been so bold. The episode worried certain viewers who did not want to watch the episode with their children.^[43] Emirates 24/7 called it a "shocker to the Indian families". Yet India Today described it as a "big surprise for the audiences". Times of India rated the consummation scene as the Top Intimate Moment on TV. The last couple who had kissed on Indian television was Aditya Jakhar (Raqesh Vashisht) and Priya Jakhar (Ridhi Dogra) in the STAR Plus soap opera, Maryada...Lekin Kab Tak? in 2010. Following the telecast of the episode Ram Kapoor tweeted a thank you.

Bade Achhe Lagte Hain is the second most-watched fictional Hindi television show in the weekdays of the twenty-ninth week of 2012 (15–21 July) with a Television Rating Point (TRP) of 4.2, which was 0.5 points up from the TRP of the previous week (8–14 July) when the show had a TRP of 3.7.^[44] In early January 2013, the soap opera's TRP went down to 2.3.^[45]

In a 2014 poll conducted by Shaadi.com, Ram and Priya were voted the Favourite TV Couple by 42.3% of Indians.^{[46] [47]} Fans even dub the on-screen couple Raya (also written as RaYa), which is a linguistic blend of the pair's names.^[48] Ram Kapoor was also called "the Indian husband we love" by a Sunday publication in 2012. Ram Kapoor and Sakshi Tanwar later came together to portray the role of a couple in the ALTBalaji web-series Karrle Tu Bhi Mohabbat, which premiered in 2017 and was noted for its common plot elements with Bade Achhe Lagte Hain.^{[49] [50]}

Accolades

See main article: List of accolades received by Bade Achhe Lagte Hain. Bade Achhe Lagte Hain won the Kalakar Award for the Best Serial in 2012.^[51] In addition, the show has won six Indian Television Academy Awards,^[52] three Star Guild Awards,^[53] five Indian Telly Awards, three FICCI Frames Excellence Honours and two People's Choice Awards (including the Favourite TV Drama award).^[54]

External links

• • Official webpage on balajitelefilms.com
• Official webpage on sonyliv.com

Notes and References

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4. Book: Munshi, Shoma. Remote Control: Indian Television in the New Millennium. Penguin Group. Gone are the days when television was looked down upon as playing second fiddle to Bollywood. Soap stars, too, are now as many household names in India as their Bollywood counterparts. Typically, they are associated with their screen names and personas. Thus, Tulsi in Kyunki (Smriti Irani); Parvati in Kahaani and now in her new avatar as Priya in Bade Achhe Lagte Hain (Sakshi Tanwar); Ram Kapoor, the eponymous protagonist in Bade Achhe Lagte Hain...all have achieved iconic status and are instantly recognizable...the actors often become so strongly associated with an image that audiences are unable to accept them in other kinds of roles. Thus, when Sakshi Tanwar, the dutiful and always upright Parvati bhabi from Kahaani, played a cameo as Teepri, a home-breaker in Balika Vadhu (episodes in 2010), it did not go down well with audiences, who were unable to accept their role model as a negative character. Tanwar has since successfully morphed into her role as the thirty-something Priya who marries the rich tycoon in his forties, Ram Kapoor, in Sony's top-rated soap opera about finding love in an arranged marriage, titled Bade Achhe Lagte Hain. 978-01-4341-402-5. 15 December 2012 . 10 October 2014.
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17. Opening credits of the show
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