| Pyaar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyaara Pyaara | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Soap opera |
| Written by | Zama Habib Sonali Jafar Gitangshu Dey Rohini Ninwane Rahul Modi |
| Directed by | Aashish Shrivasta Kaushik Ghatak |
| Starring | Disha Parmar Nakuul Mehta Mukesh Khanna |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of episodes | 663 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Kavita K. Barjatya |
| Production locations | Mumbai Kullu Manali |
| Cinematography | Sanjay Malwankar |
| Editors | Janak chauhan Masih habib |
| Camera setup | 576i HDTV 1080i |
| Running time | 24 minutes |
| Production company | Rajshri Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | Star Plus |
| Release | 18 June 2012 – 1 November 2014 |
Pyaar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyaara Pyaara is an Indian Hindi-language romantic drama television series produced by Rajshri Productions.[1] It aired from 18 June 2012 to 1 November 2014 on Star Plus.[2][3] It starred Disha Parmar and Nakuul Mehta as Pankhuri Gupta Kumar and Aditya Kumar.[4]
Pankhuri Gupta is a small town simple girl from Kullu. Aditya Kumar, a rich boy in Mumbai, has grown cynical about relationships, having seen his parents Avantika and Harish separated for 20 years. Purushottam Deewan (Aditya's maternal grandfather), a wealthy business tycoon, visits the Guptas in Kullu, determined to get Pankhuri married to Aditya.
Instead, Avantika fixes Aditya's engagement with the Mumbai-based Latika Bafna, who only wants the Deewans' money. Latika frames Aditya for taking advantage of her, but Pankhuri proves his innocence & rebukes Latika for her lies against Aditya. Aditya and Pankhuri become best friends. Pankhuri's parents fix Pankhuri's marriage to Shivam Mehta. Latika tries to ruin the wedding, prompting Shivam to leave. Aditya steps in and marries Pankhuri, and Avantika eventually accepts her as her daughter-in-law wholeheartedly after seeing her unconditional efforts to reunite her with her husband Harish. Rubel (Anuj's son) comes to India. He is a spoiled brat and despises Aditya as he believes he is too good and more emotionally attached to Purushottam and gets more things whatever he wants more than him and wants the family business and property. Rubel marries Latika in a contract marriage for the property. Sheela and Latika plan and successfully brainwash Anuj for property and make him acquire a power of attorney. They plot against Aditya and Pankhuri and get them ousted out of the Deewan mansion. They later fire Shanky. Kaira (Anuj's daughter) fears and lives in a misconception that Purushottam killed his wife Kaushalya. This misunderstanding is cleared after many complicated truths. At a young age, Aditya was accidentally responsible for the death of Kaushalya, who was in a coma. After learning the truth, Kaira apologises to Purushottam. The Deewans are reunited after many ups and downs. Anuj starts showing love and cares for his father Purushottam and sisters Avantika and Preeti, by handing the reins of the business that he'd usurped to Avantika and Aditya. Preeti marries Sameer Deshpande.
Purushottam's younger brother Manik and his family invite themselves to live in Deewan Mansion after the former's death.
Latika joins Manik and his wife Manorama in their ulterior plans and undergoes an abortion but feigns a miscarriage blaming Pankhuri, which is later revealed to Rubel of Latika's true colours, leading Rubel to change himself and become a better and positive person. Aditya is jailed, framed for possessing fake notes and illegal drugs, and is proven innocent after some time as Aditya relentlessly sticks to the truth that he didn't do anything unethical nor did he ever possess fake notes and illegal drugs. The wicked Manorama compels him to divorce Pankhuri to save Rubel, Aditya-Pankhuri gets divorced for a few days till the true colours of Manik, Manorama & Kapil are out, Manik and Manorama reform after Manorama becomes paralyzed due to an accident and realize all the wrongdoings they caused to everyone in the family, feels sorry for their wrongdoings Rubel divorces Latika, and falls in love with, and marries Payal. Pankhuri and Aditya remarry with all rituals in a grand way. Kapil (Manik's son) gets arrested, and Kaira marries Varun.
The family reunites with Aneesha (the late Kaushalya's younger sister), who returns from Australia after decades. Vikram (Varun's elder brother) wants to use Kaira for revenge on Deewans as a decision by Avantika affects him negatively. The family eventually settles the problem. Aditya and Pankhuri have a tiff . While she goes off to Kullu, they sort out the tiff and patch over the phone and have a special conversation just before Pankhuri falls of a cliff due to a landslide.
Harish meets Pankhuri's lookalike Ayesha on a trip in Lucknow and uses her to bring Aditya out of the belief that Pankhuri is still alive but the plan flops. Aditya realises Ayesha isn't Pankhuri and still believes that Pankhuri is alive. Ayesha falls in love with him but keeps her feelings to herself, aware that Aditya only loves Pankhuri. Ayesha's mother Nilofer forces Aditya to marry her after Ayesha's image is tarnished by a photographer Arif.
He marries her; to save her dignity and respect; Avantika soon accepts her. Alive, Pankhuri is brought back to deewan mansion in a coma. On waking up, she reveals being abducted for jewellery. The culprits are caught. Ayesha leaves to pursue her dream of becoming a designer after seeing that Aditya was,is, and will always be only Pankhuri's Adi & only and only love Pankhuri, none can replace her, decides to free him from bond of marriage, which he did to save her dignity and image in the society. Aneesha accompanies her as she considers Ayesha like her daughter. Avantika's past affair is revealed when her illegitimate son Ayush comes to live with the Deewan family.
Eventually, Harish accepts Ayush as his stepson. The show ends on a happy note with Pankhuri turning pregnant and everyone in the family reuniting and rejoicing: thus, fulfilling the dream of being a united and happy family that the late Purushottam Deewan had always dreamt of.