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Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon

★ 7.6 5K votes 2011–2018 12 seasons · 409 episodes Ended StarPlus
Indian TVIndian television traditions across Hindi and regional industries.This show: 10/10Soap & telenovelaHeightened, continuing melodrama.This show: 9/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 9/10Long-runnerA show whose sheer longevity shapes how it's watched.This show: 8/10Family sagaBonds and fractures across generations of one family.This show: 8/10Romantic yearningThe will-they-won't-they ache as the main draw.This show: 8/10SentimentalOpenly emotional storytelling that reaches straight for the heartstrings.This show: 7/10Elites & privilegeThe rich and powerful, glamorous or rotten.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Barun SobtiSanaya IraniDaljeet KaurDeepali PansareAbha ParmarUtkarsha Naik
Starring
Barun SobtiSanaya IraniDaljeet KaurDeepali PansareAbha ParmarUtkarsha Naik

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About

"Slow-burn arranged-marriage romance built on lead chemistry"

A wealthy, guarded businessman and a warm-hearted, financially struggling young woman are thrown together by circumstance and eventually forced into marriage before love has a chance to catch up. What follows is a long-running Indian television romance built on misunderstandings, family drama, and slow-burn emotional payoffs. The pace is unhurried by Western standards, leaning on repetition, close-ups, and swelling music to milk every glance and confrontation. It's melodrama in the classic soap tradition: comforting, occasionally frustrating, and driven almost entirely by the chemistry of its two leads rather than plot economy.

Watch it for

the charged push-pull chemistry between its two mismatched leads.

Maybe skip if

you need brisk pacing and dislike drawn-out melodrama with repetitive plot beats.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12011
8.7835478h 44m
Season 1 consists of the initial Lucknow arc where the two scar-crossed lovers meet in a drastic way , which starts their fights and challenges .Followed by Khushi and Arnav's Journey in office, now that both are in same world, will Khushi be able to manage?
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Season 22011
9.025428
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Season 32011
9.234144
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Season 42011
9.415324
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Season 52011
9.634443
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Season 62012
9.535147
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Season 72012
9.434757
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Season 82012
9.522532
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Season 92012
9.524633
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Season 102012
9.423032
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Season 112012
9.417513
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Season 122015
9.52529

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Barun Sobti Arnav Singh Raizada
Sanaya Irani Khushi Kumari Gupta
Daljeet Kaur Anjali Singh Raizada
Deepali Pansare Payal Kumari Gupta
Abha Parmar Madhumati Gupta
Utkarsha Naik Manorama Singh Raizada
Jayshree Talpade Devayani Singh Raizada
Akshay Dogra Akash Singh Raizada
Abhaas Mehta Shyam Manohar Jha
Sanjay Batra Shashi Gupta

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