3 months later

Preeta realises that she is pregnant but soon she discovers it was a false pregnancy, saddening her and her family. They then adopt a child, Pihu. It is later revealed that Karan's college friend and one-sided lover, Sonakshi, made Preeta believe that it was not possible for her to conceive and the former gave her pills which unknowingly stopped her from conceiving. Sonakshi hires a goon to create an accident, in which Pihu dies, and the entire Luthra family blame Preeta for it and expel her from the house. Karan expels Sonakshi from his house for coercing him to marry her. Preeta leaves for Bangalore.

2 years later

Preeta is back in Mumbai and works as a physiotherapist at a clinic. She accidentally meets Mahesh who is irrational and has been confined in a mental institution. She then goes to the Luthra mansion where she learns about what happened in the past two years where Prithvi captured the Luthras' property and business, and that Mahesh suffers from mental illness because of Prithvi. Sherlyn and Prithvi bring a con woman named Natasha in the house to seduce Karan, so that he forgets Preeta but fails.

Preeta re-enters the Luthra mansion by presenting Mahesh's will defeating Prithvi's attempt to confiscate the Luthra property and business. She then resolves the family's problems and brings Rishabh back, who was stuck in Dubai due to a case plotted against him by Prithvi and Sherlyn. Rishabh exposes them. Thus, Sherlyn and Rishabh as well as Kritika and Prithvi get divorced. The Luthras overcome their hatred towards Preeta and accept her.

Sherlyn and Natasha convince Karan that Preeta and Rishabh are having an affair. Natasha and her boyfriend Roxy, push a drunk Karan off the dam and he is presumed to be dead. They then go into hiding. Preeta discovers that she is pregnant with Karan's child. The Luthras perform the custom, Chadar Andazi, where Rishabh marries Preeta to give her child a paternal identity.

5 years later

Preeta has given birth to her and Karan's daughter, Kavya. She and Rishabh have marriage in name only, moreover share a friendly and respectful relationship. Srishti and Sameer as well as Sherlyn and Prithvi are now married.

Karan is revealed to be alive but has suffered a memory loss plus plastic surgery after his accident. He is now known as Arjun Suryavanshi and is engaged to a businesswoman named Nidhi Hinduja who saved him. Later he regains his memory and sets out to destroy Rishabh and Preeta because he believes that they pushed him off the dam. He is accompanied by Nidhi's sister, Anjali.

After some time, Karan takes over Luthra mansion. He offers to allow the family members to stay in the house if Preeta marries him. Preeta gets several clues that Arjun is Karan so she agrees to his terms. The judge declares Rishabh and Preeta's marriage invalid, and they divorce. The latter marries Karan, angering Anjali who is obsessed with Karan. The Luthras discover that Arjun is in fact Karan. Karan reveals his mission to destroy Rishabh and Preeta as he believed they pushed him off the dam. Rishabh and Preeta prove themselves innocent by showing him the CCTV footage of the dam on the day of his accident. Thus, Karan and Preeta reunite and Karan severs his ties with Anjali after learning of her misdeeds. The Luthra family have Natasha and Roxy arrested when they learn their truth.

Later, Preeta gives birth to fraternal twin sons, Rudraksh and Shaurya. Karan has Anjali arrested when she kidnaps Rudraksh and forces Karan to marry her in lieu of his son's life, but soon she escapes and hits them with a truck and kidnaps Rudraksh once again. Karan's face is disfigured and he falls into a coma. Preeta escapes from the accident, however the Luthras blame her for everything and expel her from the house. Preeta saves Rudraksh, but Anjali falls off a cliff and dies. Srishti then separates from Sameer due to his mistrust of her sister and for how the Luthras mistreated Preeta. The Luthras presume Rudraksh and Preeta dead.

20 years later

Rudraksh was renamed to Rajveer Arora by Srishti after Preeta lost her memory, and they move to another city. She lets them think that Rajveer is her son who grows up to be kind-hearted, generous yet sharp-minded guy. Preeta suffers panic attacks on trying to remember her past. Meanwhile Shaurya grows up to be over pampered and spoilt living with Luthras with Nidhi fostering him as mother while Karan who's now a business tycoon still mourns supposed deaths of Preeta and Rudraksh and thinks she intentionally left him.

Soon Rajveer learns that he's Preeta's son and questions Srishti who tells him Preeta's past. He decides to move back to Mumbai with Preeta in his determination to get her lost honour back while hates Karan on learning about his marriage with Nidhi. However, bus boarded by them meets with an accident due to Shaurya's rash driving and they meet Dr. Palki Khurana who helps them medically and gets them a house on rent. Soon Rajveer and Shaurya establish hateful nature towards each other while Shaurya develops a soft-corner for Preeta.

Rajveer and Palki gets smitten with each other but her alliance gets fixed with a filmmaker. However, Shaurya keeps troubling Rajveer and Palki and tries to show them characterless on her marriage day when Rajveer rescues Palki from his goons. But Rajveer proves their innocence and Palki calls off the marriage. Rajveer realises Shaurya's hand in the chaos and decides to teach him a lesson but ends up rescuing Karan and Preeta from a fire accident post which Karan realises he is related to Preeta and appoints him in his company.

Soon Kavya returns and is set to get married but memories of her mother has faded away over the years. She meets Rajveer after he rescues her and feels a connection with him and invites him in her marriage functions. Seeing Luthras' growing closeness with Rajveer, Shaurya in his insecurities starts plotting against him while Srishti too returns back to Mumbai. Palki's sister Shanaya also arrives back who decides to marry Shaurya by using Rajveer but herself gets attracted to latter.

Soon Palki and Rajveer fall for each other. However Nidhi plots to kill Preeta but Srishti falls prey to her and slips to coma due to severe injuries, burns and her face being damaged while Rajveer and Preeta too senses Nidhi's involvement. Rajveer and Palki confess their love to each other meanwhile Nidhi learns that Rajveer is Rudraksh and plots to keep it a secret so that Karan stays away from him and Preeta while Shaurya gets obsessed with Palki making more attempts to make Rajveer's life a hell to get her.

Main

• Shraddha Arya as Dr. Preeta Arora Luthra: Sarla and Raghuveer's second daughter; Pragya, Bulbul and Srishti's sister; Karan's wife; Pihu's adoptive mother; Rishabh's ex-wife; Kavya, Rajveer and Shaurya's mother (2017–present)
• Dheeraj Dhoopar as Karan Luthra: Rakhi and Mahesh's younger son; Rishabh and Ruchika's brother; Sameer and Kritika's cousin; Preeta's husband; Pihu's adoptive father; Kavya, Rajveer and Shaurya's father; Nidhi's illegitimate husband (2017–2022)
  • Shakti Arora replaced Dhoopar as Karan Luthra (2022–2023)
  • Shakti Anand replaced Arora as Karan Luthra (2023–present)
• Manit Joura as Rishabh Luthra: Rakhi and Mahesh's elder son; Karan and Ruchika's brother; Sameer and Kritika's cousin; Sherlyn and Preeta's ex-husband; Kavya, Rajveer and Shaurya's uncle (2017–2021; 2022–present)
• Paras Kalnawat as Rajveer Arora Luthra: Preeta and Karan's elder twin son; Pihu's adoptive brother; Kavya's younger and Shaurya's twin brother; Palki's fiancé (2023–present)
• Baseer Ali as Shaurya Luthra: Preeta and Karan's younger twin son; Pihu's adoptive brother; Kavya's younger and Rajveer's twin brother; a rap artist; Palki's one-sided obsessive lover (2023–present)
• Sana Sayyad as Dr. Palki Khurana: Shailendra and Daljeet's eldest daughter; Shanaya and Mahi's elder sister; Rajveer's fiancée; Ketan's ex-fiancée; Dr. Avinash's assistant; Bani's doctor (2023–present)

Recurring

• Vijay Kashyap as Raghuveer Arora: Daljeet's son; Sarla's husband; Pragya, Preeta, Bulbul and Srishti's father; Pihu's adoptive maternal grandfather; Kavya, Rajveer and Shaurya's maternal grandfather (2017)
• Supriya Shukla as Sarla Arora: Raghuveer's widow; Pragya, Preeta, Bulbul and Srishti's mother; Pihu's adoptive maternal grandmother; Kavya, Rajveer and Shaurya's maternal grandmother (2017–2022)
• Anjum Fakih as Srishti Arora Luthra: Sarla and Raghuveer's youngest daughter; Pragya, Preeta and Bulbul's younger sister; Sameer's estranged wife; Kavya, Rajveer and Shaurya's aunt (2017–2023)
• Abhishek Kapur as Sameer "Sammy" Luthra: Rishabh, Karan, Ruchika and Kritika's cousin; Srishti's estranged husband; Kavya, Rajveer and Shaurya's uncle (2017–2023)
• Madhu Raja as Daljeet Arora: Matriarch of the Arora family; Raghuveer's mother; Pragya, Preeta, Bulbul and Srishti's grandmother; Pihu's adoptive maternal great-grandmother; Kavya, Rajveer and Shaurya's maternal great-grandmother (2017–2023)
• Jasjeet Babbar as Janki: The Aroras' handmaiden (2017–2021)
  • Mehnaaz Shroff replaced Babbar as Janki (2021–2023)
• Twinkle Vashisht as Kritika Luthra: Kareena's daughter; Rishabh, Karan, Ruchika and Sameer's cousin; Akshay's ex-fiancée; Prithvi's ex-wife (2017–present)
• Mrinal Singh Lal as Ruchika Luthra: Mahesh and Rakhi's daughter; Rishabh and Karan's sister; Sameer and Kritika's cousin (2017)
• Neelam Mehra as Bani Luthra: Matriarch of the Luthra family; Mahesh, Suresh and Kareena's mother; Rishabh, Karan, Kritika, Sameer and Ruchika's grandmother; Pihu's adoptive paternal great-grandmother; Kavya, Rajveer and Shaurya's paternal great-grandmother (2017–present)
• Naveen Saini as Mahesh Luthra: Bani's elder son; Suresh and Kareena's brother; Rakhi's husband; Karan, Rishabh and Ruchika's father; Pihu's adoptive grandfather; Kavya, Rajveer and Shaurya's grandfather (2017–present)
• Anisha Hinduja as Rakhi Luthra: Mahesh's wife; Rishabh, Karan and Ruchika's mother; Pihu's adoptive paternal grandmother; Kavya, Rajveer and Shaurya's paternal grandmother (2017–present)
• Pyumori Mehta Ghosh as Kareena Luthra: Bani's daughter; Mahesh and Suresh's sister; Kritika's mother (2017)
  • Usha Bachani replaced Ghosh as Kareena Luthra (2017–present)
• Sahil Phull as Deepak: Preeta's ex-fiancé (2017)
• Shyn Khurana as Malishka: Karan's ex-girlfriend (2017)
• Ruhi Chaturvedi as Sherlyn Khurana Malhotra: Sanjana's daughter; Rishabh's ex-wife; Prithvi's wife (2017–2023)
• Sanjana Phadke as Sanjana Khurana: Sherlyn's mother; Kareena's friend (2017–2022)
• Roma Arora as Sofia: Karan's former girlfriend (2017–2018)
• Sanjay Gagnani as Prithvi Malhotra: Pawan's brother; Preeta's ex-fiancé; Kritika's ex-husband; Sherlyn's husband (2017–2023)
• Ajay Basnur as Girish: Luthra's servant; Girija's husband (2017–present)
• Mahira Sharma as Monisha Sharma: Karan's ex-fiancée (2018–2019)
• Isha Anand Sharma as Tapsee: Prithvi's former girlfriend (2018)
• Mandeep Bamra as Vicky (2019)
• Ashish Mehrotra as Akshay Ahuja: Ruchika's boyfriend; Megha's husband; Kritika's ex-fiancé (2017)
  • Mukul Harish replaced Mehrotra as Akshay Ahuja (2018)
  • Naveen Sharma replaced Harish as Akshay Ahuja (2021)
• Girish Thapar as Mr. Ahuja: Akshay's father (2017–2018; 2021)
• Parveen Kaur as Mrs. Ahuja: Akshay's mother (2017–2018; 2021)
• Swati Kapoor as Mahira Khanna: Karan's obsessive one-sided lover and ex-fiancée; Ramona's daughter (2019–2021)
• Kasturi Banerjee as Ramona Khanna: Mahira's mother (2019–2020)
  • Geetanjali Mishra replaced Banerjee as Ramona Khanna (2020–2021)
• Akshay Raj Jawrani as Shiv: Karan's friend; Preeta's one-sided lover (2019)
• Ankit Gupta as Pawan Malhotra: Prithvi's younger brother (2020–2021)
• Saptrishi Ghosh as Suresh Luthra: Bani's younger son; Mahesh and Kareena's brother; Pammi's husband (2021)
• Shravani Goswami as Parminder "Pammi" Luthra: Suresh's wife (2021)
• Priyanka Zemse as Ruchika: Akshay's girlfriend (2021)
• Ruchita Anchor as Megha Ahuja: Akshay's wife (2021)
• Mansi Srivastava as Sonakshi Raichand: Karan's college friend and one-sided lover (2021)
• Hemant Choudhary as Yashvardhan Raichand: Sonakshi's father (2021)
• Giriraj Kabra as Rajat Bedi: Sonakshi's fiancé (2021)
• Trupti Mishra as Dr. Deepali (2021)
• Swarna Pandey as Pihu Luthra: Preeta and Karan's adopted daughter; Kavya, Rajveer and Shaurya's adopted elder sister (2021)
• Rishika Nag as Natasha Khurana/Payal: A con-woman and Sherlyn's fake younger cousin sister (2021–2022; 2023)
• Gaurav Bora as Roxy: Natasha's boyfriend (2022; 2023)
• Vipin Sharma as Nagre: Prithvi's advocate (2021–2022)
• Niya Sharma as Nidhi "Nidz" Hinduja Luthra: Anjali's elder sister; Arjun's widow; Karan's illegitimate wife and obsessive lover; Aarohi's best-friend (2022)
  • Ira Sone replaced Sharma as Nidhi (2023)
  • Akanksha Juneja replaced Sone as Nidhi (2023–present)
• Sonal Vengurlekar as Anjali Hinduja: Karan's obsessive one-sided lover; Nidhi's younger sister (2022–2023)
• Prince Abhimanyu Singh Gill as Vipin: Rajveer's neighbour and best friend (2023)
• Preeth Balyaya as Sandy: Shaurya's friend (2023–present)
• Rishabh Jaiswal as Sanju: Shaurya's friend (2023)
• Rose Sardana as Mahi Khurana: Shailendra and Daljeet's youngest daughter; Palki's and Shanaya's younger sister; Shaurya's fan; Rajveer's admirer; an aspiring model (2023)
• Farukh Saeed as Shailendra Khurana: Gurpreet's brother; Daljeet's husband; Palki, Shanaya and Mahi's father (2023–present)
• Roma Bali as Daljeet Khurana: Shailendra's wife; Palki, Shanaya and Mahi's mother (2023–present)
• Niju Machhan as Gurpreet Khurana Bajwa: Shailendra's sister; Mohit's mother; Palki, Shanaya and Mahi's aunt; Rajveer and Preeta's landlady (2023–present)
• Sohil Singh Jhuti as Mohit Bajwa: Gurpreet's son; Palki, Shanaya and Mahi's cousin; Rajveer's best-friend (2023–present)
• Abhishek Sharma as Ketan Bansal: Mr. Bansal and Jasbir's son; a filmmaker; Palki's ex-fiancé (2023)
• Ridhi Budhkar as Jasbir Bansal: Mr. Bansal's wife; Ketan's mother (2023)
• Meera Sarang as Aarohi aka Roh: Nidhi's best-friend (2023–present)
• Sneha Das as Shreya: Palki's friend (2023)
• Mrinal Navell Chandra as Kavya "Kavu" Luthra: Karan and Preeta's daughter; Pihu's adoptive younger sister; Rajveer and Shaurya's elder sister; Varun's fiancée (2023–present)
  • Ananya Gambhir as young Kavya (2022–2023)
• Vivek Doshi as Viper: Shaurya's friend; a social media influencer; rap and hip-hop artist (2023)
• Ashish Trivedi as Varun: Rahul's brother; Kavya's fiancé (2023–present)
• Gayatri Soham as Varun and Rahul's mother (2023)
• Farooq Khan as Varun and Rahul's father (2023)
• Guneet Sharma as Rahul: Varun's brother (2023)
• Shalini Mahal as Shanaya "Sona" Khurana: Shailendra and Daljeet's younger daughter; Palki's younger and Mahi's elder sister; Rajveer's admirer; a fashion designer (2023–present)
• Ashish Kaul as Dr. Avinash: Shailendra and Gurpreet's friend; Palki's senior; Bani's doctor (2023)
• Priyanjali Uniyal as Priyanka: Palki's friend (2023–present)
• Pankaj Bijlani as Inspector Surya: Yash's father; Karan's old rival; Narcotics Bureau officer (2023–present)

Guests

Filming

The production and airing of the show was halted indefinitely in late March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[5] Due to the outbreak, the filming of television series and films was halted on 19 March 2020 and expected to resume on 1 April 2020 but could not and the series was last broadcast on 24 March 2020 when the remaining episodes were aired.^[6][7][8] After three months, the production and filming of the series resumed on 29 June 2020 and broadcast to resume from 13 July 2020.^[9][10][11]

Casting

In January 2022, Supriya Shukla playing Sarla Arora quit the show saying, "I had done everything as Sarla but there was not much left for me to do".^[12]

First generation title screen featuring Shraddha Arya and Shakti Arora

In June 2022, actor Dheeraj Dhoopar, who played Karan Luthra, quit the series due to personal reasons and was replaced by Shakti Arora.^[13][14]

In January 2023, a twenty-year generation leap and a new generation of leads were announced.^[15] Arora, who replaced Dhoopar as Karan, quit owing to the generation leap, stating he didn't want to play a father to grown-ups and wanted to explore other things.^[16][17] Arora was then replaced by Shakti Anand after the leap.^[18][19] Sanjay Gagnani, who portrayed Prithvi Malhotra, also announced his decisions to quit the series as he wanted to take up new opportunities.^[20] Shraddha Arya, who portrays Preeta Luthra, decided to continue as a mother to the new generation. Later in March 2023, Sonal Vengurlekar, playing Anjali Hinduja, also announced her decision to quit after the generation leap because she didn't wanted to age onscreen.^[21] Ruhi Chaturvedi, who portrayed Sherlyn Khurana, also quit right before leap as she wanted to explore more as an actress.^[22]

Paras Kalnawat, Baseer Ali and Sana Sayyad were introduced as new leads with Kalnawat as one of Preeta's twin sons, Rajveer Luthra, and Ali as Preeta's other twin son, Shaurya Luthra, and Sayyad as Dr. Palki Khurana.^[23][24][25] In the same month, Rose Sardana was cast to play Mahi Khurana, Palki's sister.^[26]

In May 2023, Anjum Fakih portraying Srishti Arora, who had initially taken a break from the show for participating in Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 13, later confirmed quitting as her role was no longer challenging after the leap,^[27] but also said that she will return back if the story requires her character,^[28] and she reprised her role in July 2023, post her stint in the adventure-based reality show.^[29] However she permanently quit the series in October 2023 to explore new projects by calling it the most difficult decision, and the storyline showcased Srishti ending up in coma with severe facial and physical burns due to Nidhi's murder attempt on her.^[30][31]

Later Abhishek Kapur who portrayed Sameer Luthra too quit the series to try new spaces as an actor.^[32] In June 2023, Ira Sone portraying Nidhi quit the series and Akanksha Juneja replaced her.^[33] Later in the following month, Mrinal Navell Chandra was cast to play grown-up Kavya Luthra replacing Ananya Gambhir who played Kavya's younger version,^[34] while Ashish Trivedi was cast opposite her as Varun and Guneet Sharma was cast to play his brother Rahul.^[35][36] In the following month, Shalini Mahal joined the cast as Palki's sister Shanaya Khurana.^[37]

Impact

Kundali Bhagya is one of the longest-running Indian television series. It took its generation leap on 16 March 2023 and completed its 1500 episodes on 10 April 2023.^[38]

Anjum Fakih's character was slated to be negative after three months from the day of premiere of the show, but the love of audience to her positive character made the production revoke their decision.^[39]