Ishqbaaaz

Plot

The story is about the lives of a rich business family in Mumbai, the Oberoi family who face difficult and challenging situations from time to time. Kalyani Oberoi is the matriarch of the family who resides in Oberoi mansion with her two sons and their family. The elder brother Tej has a wife, Jhanvi who has a drinking addiction because of Tej's illicit affair with his secretary, Svetlana. Tej and Jhanvi have three children. Their elder son is Omkara, a sculptor and a self made billionaire who also has a history of drug use. He is an understanding person and hates his father. He was also involved a relationship with a girl named Riddhima but broke up with her later on. Tej and Jhanvi's second child, Rudra, is a flirtatious guy and a playboy who is a fitness freak and loves partying and women, however, he does not believe in the concept of marriage. He is very friendly in nature. They also have a daughter, Priyanka whom everyone calls 'Prinku'. She is a quiet and simple girl who gets nervous really easily because of her social anxiety disorder but gets involved with her opposite; the brash ACP Ranveer. Tej has a younger brother, Shakti who is married to Pinky. They have one son, Shivaay, who is the eldest son and the face of the Oberoi's industry. He is a business tycoon with a strict personality that matches his uncle, Tej. He is arrogant, snobbish and judges people on the basis of their lineage and social status, rather than their personality or work. He does not believe in love but is engaged with a girl named Tia Kapoor because of her high class and status. Shivaay has a sense of loyalty towards his family name. Both, Tej and Pinky, want their respective sons to inherit the business and thus end up fighting each other. Even after everything the three cousins share an unusually strong bond with each other.

Shivaay comes across a middle-class girl, Annika who manages a catering business to support her adopted brother, Sahil and aunt who cares about nothing but money. The two are always engaged in cat fights because of their differences in opinions and class. Annika is called up by Dadi to arrange Shivaay's marriage with his fiancé, Tia and therefore stays at the Oberoi's mansion most of the time. In a series of events Annika gets married to Shivaay and hence starts their passionate often tumultuous love story.

As the story progresses, Shivaay forces Anika to marry with him as Tia is missing on their wedding day and Anika makes the substitute bride to run away.Later he finds that Tia was actually kidnapped as he find her in a sack next day. So, he present Tia as his bride in the media next day. Later,Anika's psycopath ex-fiance Daksh, appears in their life because of whom Shivay thinks Anika as a gold digger, he makes Shivaay think that Anika slept with Daisha. He kidnaps Anika and Shivay saves her from him. That's when he knows that Daksh,who was also his friend was feeding him lies. When the truth comes out Anika-Shivay comes closer but Tia announces her pregnancy. Shivika,along with other Obros try to prove that the child was not Shivaay's. However they are unsuccessful twice. Later,Anika fall from the stairs and suffers from memory loss. She forces Shivay to marry Tia for the sake of their child. Later during the wedding Tia's husband who actually was not dead came there. Anika found Robin who was hidden by Tia's mother. The truth of Tia's evil plan came to an end. Thus exposing her. Shivaay reveals that Anika's memory loss was a plan that was laid by Shivaay ,Anika and OmRu. Priyanka is set to marry ACP Ranveer. During one of the pre-wedding functions, after a variety of events, Shivaay accepts that Anika is his wife to his family and the media.

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Broadcast

The series was dubbed into Telugu as Prema Yuddam on MAA TV.