Filiz is a young girl who has been forced to take care of her five younger siblings since her mother left them. Her father Fikri is an alcoholic man who causes different problems for the family now and again. Despite the fact that they are struggling to survive in a very poor neighborhood of Istanbul, the six siblings try to keep each other happy. Filiz believes that there is no place for love in her life until she meets Barış, a young man who does anything for Filiz and her family, just to win Filiz's heart. Both Filiz and Barış fall in love with each other, but their relationship faces a lot of challenges due to Barış's mysterious past and secretive life.
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Development
The idea of the project was first discussed in 2015 and its name was announced as Utanmazlar, an adaptation of the American TV seriesShameless. Milliyet columnist Sina Koloğlu, published an article on 16 January 2017 in which he wrote that after asking the question "How our ‘Shameless’ is going to be?" from the producer, he responded by giving examples of other Turkish adaptations and gave rise to the question "Americans do it this way, well, how is it going to be for us?" The series' name was later confirmed to be Bizim Hikaye. Director Serdar Gözelekli later stated that the scenario would be adapted in a way suitable for the Turkish audience, by turning the story into a series applicable to the Turkish society. Bizim Hikayes script was written by Hatice Meryem and Banu Kiremitçi Bozkurt. Serdar Gözelekli was replaced by Koray Kerimoğlu as the series' director. Banu Kiremitçi Bozkurt, who wrote the script for the first season, left the crew and Seray Şahiner became the series' main scriptwriter.
Filming
Principal photography began on 24 July 2017 in Sarıyer, Istanbul.
Casting
In January 2017, the first actor to join the cast was confirmed to be Hazal Kaya, who was announced to be portraying Filiz Elibol/Aktan. On 16 June 2017, Burak Deniz was officially cast and portraying Savaş/Barış Aktan. On 24 July 2017, the names of all cast members were announced. Reha Özcan joined the series in the role of family's father, Fikri Elibol, while the family's mother Şükran, was said to be portrayed by Esra Bezen Bilgin. Yağız Can Konyalı, Nejat Uygur, Zeynep Selimoğlu, Alp Akar, and Ömer Sevgi joined the cast as Fikri and Şükran's children Rahmet, Hikmet, Kiraz, Fikret, and İsmet respectively. Nilay Duru joined the series as the character "Yeliz" on episode 21. Cemal Toktaş started portraying the character Ömer from episode 26. In April 2018, Beren Gökyıldız was confirmed to be joining the cast from episode 29 as Ayşe. It was later announced that Ayşen Gruda would be also starring in the series from episode 32 as Yedi Bela Aysel. In the second season, Sahra Şaş, Miray Akay, Murat Danacı, Melisa Döngel and Hazal Adıyaman joined the cast as Çiçek, Zeynep, Selim, Deniz and Derin respectively.
Broadcast
On 5 August 2017, the first teaser for the series was released. It was followed by another teaser on 22 August 2017. The first episode was broadcast on 14 September 2017 on Fox. The last episode of the first season aired on 7 June 2018 and it concluded with 37 episodes. The second season premiered on 13 September 2018.
Reception
Writing for Vatan, Oya Doğan praised the director Serdar Gözelekli for his work on the first episode of the series, adding that he succeeded in "creating a cinematographic atmosphere". She also reacted positively to Hazal Kaya's acting, saying that "While watching Filiz on the screen, I forgot Hazal and went deep into the story".
International broadcasting
The drama is being telecast at the start of November 2019 in Pakistan on Urdu1 channel with the title in Urdu ہماری کہانی.The title is a translation of the original Turkish title Bizim Hikaye. on July 2020 season 2 will begin there generating a’lot of hype. Season 1 of the drama is available on an Indian OTT Platform, called MX Player to stream in Hindi with the title Our Story, with several other Turkish dramas. Season 2 of the drama was started to be uploaded in Hindi on MX Player in 2020.
