Pyaar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyaara Pyaara
Pyaar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyaara Pyaara is an Indian drama television series produced by Rajshri Productions. It aired from 18 June 2012 to 1 November 2014 on Star Plus weeknights at 10 pm IST. It starred Disha Parmar and Nakuul Mehta as Pankhuri Gupta and Aditya Kumar. Lyricist Raghvendra Singh is the creative director in this serial
Plot summary
Pankhuri Gupta is a small town simple girl from Kullu who strongly believes in relationships. Aditya Kumar, a rich city boy lives in Mumbai and has grown up cynical about relationships having seen his parents Avantika and Harish separated for 20 years.Purushottam visits Pankhuri's family in Kullu, determining to get her married to Aditya and feeling that Pankhuri can reunite and stitch the broken threads of his disunited family. Instead, Avantika arranges Aditya's engagement to the Mumbai-based Latika Bafna who only wants the Deewans' money.
Pankhuri is offered a job in Mumbai. Purushottam insists she stay at the Deewan mansion. Pankhuri and Aditya become best friends. Latika tries to drive them apart. Aditya's attitude gradually changes. Anuj and Sheela help arrange Pankhuri's marriage to Shivam Mehta.
Pankhuri agrees to marry Shivam for her family's happiness. Latika tries to ruin the wedding prompting Shivam to leave. Aditya steps in and marries Pankhuri. After many efforts on her part, Avantika accepts her. Anuj, Sheela and Rubal want the Deewans' property. Kaira arrives.
Rubal marries Latika. Kaira avoids talking to Purushottam thinking he killed his wife Kaushalya. This misunderstanding that gets cleared after many complicated truths. Anuj changes completely; he starts showing love and care for his Purushottam and Avantika by handing the reins of the business to Avantika and Aditya, that he had usurped.
It is revealed Aditya was accidentally responsible for the death of Kaushalya who was in coma, when he was a young boy. Taking advantage of this, Rubal transfers the properties to his name. After learning the truth of Kaushalya's mysterious death, Kaira apologises to Purushottam.
The Deewans are reunited after many ups and downs. The differences and misunderstandings between the Deewan family members sort out. Preeti marries Sameer. Purushottam dies peacefully in his sleep after uniting his family with Pankhuri's painstaking help.
After Purushottam's demise, Manik and his family invite themselves to live in the Deewan mansion. Latika joins Manik in his ulterior plans and undergoes an abortion but feigns a miscarriage blaming Pankhuri. Aditya is sent to jail framed for possessing fake notes and illegal drugs and divorces Pankhuri.
Later, Manik decides to reform and so does his family. Rubal and Sheela also reform. Rubal divorces Latika and falls in love with Payal Talwar whom he marries. Pankhuri and Aditya remarry while Kaira marries Varun. The family unites with Aneesha who returns from Australia after many decades.
Vikram wants to use Kaira to take revenge on the Deewans after a business decision by Avantika affects him negatively. The family eventually manages to settle the problem. Aditya and Pankhuri end up having an argument. While Pankhuri goes off to Kullu, she and Aditya patch over the phone just before disappears in a landslide.
Two years later
Harish meets Pankhuri's doppelganger Ayesha on a shooting trip to Lucknow. Harish uses her to bring Aditya out of the belief that Pankhuri is still alive but the plan flops. Aditya realises Ayesha is not Pankhuri and still believes that Pankhuri is alive. Ayesha falls in love with Aditya.Aarif blackmails Ayesha that she has to marry him. Aditya gets Aarif arrested. Nilofer forces Aditya to marry Ayesha. He agrees and does so but Avantika refuses to accept Ayesha as her daughter-in-law. Ayesha faces many problems and is soon accepted by Avantika.
Discovered alive, Pankhuri in a coma. On waking up, she reveals of being abducted for jewellery. The culprits are caught. Ayesha leaves to pursue her dream of becoming a designer. Aneesha accompanies her. Avantika's past affair is revealed when Ayush comes to live with the Deewan family.
Eventually, Harish accepts Ayush as his stepson. The show ends on a happy note with Pankhuri becoming pregnant and everyone in the family reuniting: thus, fulfilling the dream of being a united family that the late Purushottam had always dreamt of.
Cast
Main
- Disha Parmar as Pankhuri Kumar – Ambika and Diwakar's daughter; Aditya's Former wife / Ayesha Khan– Nilofer's daughter; Nafisa and Rukhsaar's sister; Aditya's second wife
- Nakuul Mehta as Aditya Kumar– Avantika and Harish's son; Ayush's adoptive brother; Pankhuri's Former Husband ; Ayesha's Husband.
Recurring
- Manasi Salvi as Avantika Deewan– Kaushalya and Purushottam's daughter; Anuj and Preeti's sister; Harish's wife; Aditya's mother; Ayush's adoptive mother
- Nitesh Pandey as Harish Kumar– Sukhmani's son; Avantika's husband; Aditya's father; Ayush's adoptive father
- Mukesh Khanna as Businessman Purushottam Deewan– Jagdish's friend; Manik's brother; Kaushalya's husband; Avantika, Anuj and Preeti's father; Aditya, Rubal and Kaira's grandfather
- Mehul Buch as Anuj Deewan– Kaushalya and Purushottam's son; Avantika and Preeti's brother; Sheela's husband; Rubal and Kaira's father
- Sonali Naik as Sheela Saini– Anuj's wife; Rubal and Kaira's mother
- Khushwant Walia as Rubal Deewan– Sheela and Anuj's son; Kaira's brother; Latika's ex-husband; Payal's husband
- Monica Khanna as Payal Talwar– Rubal's wife
- Ashlesha Sawant as Preeti Deewan– Kaushalya and Purushottam's daughter; Avantika and Anuj's sister; Kailash's former lover; Sameer's wife
- Kanwarjit Paintal as Jagdish Prasad Gupta– Purushottam's friend; Mohina's husband; Diwakar and Kailash's father; Pankhuri and Neha's grandfather
- Mehmood Junior as Shankar alias Shanky– Caretaker of Deewans
- Nandita Puri in Cameo as Kaushalya James Waterson– Anisha's sister; Purushottam's wife; Avantika, Anuj and Preeti's mother; Aditya, Rubal and Kaira's grandmother
- Vijayendra Kumeria as Sameer Deshpande– Nirmala and Sadanand's son; Preeti's husband
- Kuldeep Mallik as Sadanand Deshpande– Nirmala's husband; Sameer's father
- Rajlaxmi Solanki as Former Nurse Nirmala Ghai– Sadanand's wife; Sameer's mother
- Nivaan Sen as Sahil
- Prinal Oberoi as Kaira Deewan– Sheela and Anuj's daughter; Rubal's sister; Manan's ex-girlfriend; Varun's wife
- Prashant Upadhyay as Varun Dhanrajgir– Vikram's brother; Kaira's husband
- Apurva Agnihotri as Vikram Dhanrajgir– Varun's brother; Amrita's husband
- Aleeza Khan as Amrita Toshi– Vikram's wife
- Kunwar Aziz Ustahi as Diwakar Prasad Gupta– Mohina and Jagdish's son; Kailash's brother; Ambika's husband; Pankhuri's father
- Leena Prabhu as Ambika Kaneria– Govardhan's sister; Diwakar's wife; Pankhuri's mother
- Rita Bhaduri in Cameo as Mohina Devi– Jagdish's wife; Diwakar and Kailash's mother; Pankhuri and Neha's grandmother
- Ajita Kulkarni as Sushma Gupta– Kailash's wife; Neha's mother
- Worshipp Khanna as Toby
- Abir Goswami/Vimarsh Roshan as Kailash Gupta– Mohina and Jagdish's son; Diwakar's brother; Preeti's former lover; Sushma's husband; Neha's father
- Manish Khanna as Govardhan Kaneria– Ambika's brother; Kamini's husband
- Bharti Sharma as Kamini Talwar– Govardhan's wife
- Kunika as Anisha James Waterson– Kaushalya's sister
- Aparna Ghoshal as Nilofer Ali– Nafisa, Ayesha and Rukhsaar's mother
- Monica Murthy as Rukhsaar Khan– Nilofer's daughter; Ayesha and Nafisa's sister
- Divjot Sabarwal as Nafisa Khan– Nilofer's daughter; Ayesha and Rukhsaar's sister
- Nikhil Sharma as Ayush Kumar– Avantika and Harish's adopted son; Aditya's adoptive brother
- Anil Dhawan as Manik Deewan– Purushottam's brother; Manorama's husband; Kapil and Revati's father
- Suchitra Bandekar as Manorama Santoshi– Manik's wife; Kapil and Revati's mother
- Alekh Sangal as Kapil Deewan– Manorama and Manik's son; Revati's brother; Anuradha's husband
- Harsha Khandeparkar as Anuradha Sachdeva alias Roshni– Kapil's wife
- Sonali Nikam as Revati Deewan– Manorama and Manik's daughter; Kapil's sister
- Anubhav Krishna Srivastava as Naman Kapoor– Neha's husband
- Shreya Arora/Urmila Tiwari as Neha Gupta– Sushma and Kailash's daughter; Naman's wife
- Prateek Shukla as Shivam Mehta– Pankhuri's ex-fiancé
- Meenkashi Sethi as Sukhmani Devi alias Dadi– Harish's mother; Aditya's grandmother
- Yashashri Chiplunker as Payal Sharma– Harish's sister's daughter
- Raj Singh as professor Manan Modi– Kaira's ex-boyfriend
- Priyanka Nayyar as Nisha Ashraf– Latika's mother
- Alefia Kapadia as Latika Bafna– Aditya's ex-fiancé; Rubal's ex-wife
International broadcasts
- In Indonesia, it began airing on ANTV with the title Pyaar Ka Dard on 21 January 2019.