Kasautii Zindagii Kay (2001 TV series)

Kasautii Zindagii Kay (transl. The Trials of Life) is an Indian Hindi-language television series produced by Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms on Star Plus.[3][4] The show starred Shweta Tiwari, Cezzane Khan later replaced by Hiten Tejwani, Ronit Roy and Urvashi Dholakia who portrayed Prerna Sharma, Anurag Basu, Rishabh Bajaj and Komolika Majumdar.[5] The show aired from 29 October 2001 to 28 February 2008. The whole series is digitally available on Disney+ Hotstar. The show was one of the most longest running television show of Star Plus.

Kasautii Zindagii Kay
Directed by	Santram Varma Gautam Sobti Qaeed Kuwajerwala Ravindra Gautam[1] Santosh Bhatt Yash Chauhan Raminder Singh Suri Sushen Bhatnagar Rajeev Bhatia Jitendra K Basantt Rohit Malhotra Sangeeta Rao Deepak Chavan Jignesh Vaishnav Arvind Babbal Rishi Tyagi Hitesh Tejwani Shankar Verma Anoop Chaudhary, V.G Roy
Creative directors	Monisha Singh Nivedita Basu Doris Dey Shipra Arora Shiwangi Singh Chauhan Riti Chopra
Starring	Cezzane Khan Shweta Tiwari Urvashi Dholakia Hiten Tejwani Ronit Roy
Theme music composer	Lalit Sen
Opening theme	Babul Supriyo and Priya Bhattacharya
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	1,423
Production
Executive producer	Niel Singh
Producers	Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor
Cinematography	Santosh Suryavanshi Deepak Malwankar Rajesh Naag
Editors	Dharmesh Shah Sanjeev Shukla Uday Raj Achintya Ghosh Vikas Sharma Sandeep Bhatt
Camera setup	Multi-Camera
Running time	24 minutes
Release
Original network	Star Plus
Picture format	576i
Original release	29 October 2001 (2001-10-29)[2] – 28 February 2008 (2008-02-28)
Chronology
Related	Kasautii Zindagii Kay (2018 TV series)

The show explored the story of the star crossed lovers Anurag and Prerna. The various stages of their love and life as well as the lives of their children and grandchildren.