Kyun Apne Huye Paraye TV Serial - Doordarshan DD National (DD1)

Kyun Apne Hue Paraye first started serialisation in 1964 which aired in Doordarshan National television. It belonged to the daily soap genre and targets the audience belonging to the older generation. The main protagonist is Kamta Prasad who is a kind, truthful , upright and honouable individual who dearly loves and cherishes his family which includes his wife, eldest son Sharad and his wife, beloved daughter Shradha and youngest son Shinpoo. The pilot episode starts with the introduction of Kamta Prasad and his business partner Sunil Saxena who is also the elder brother of his son-in-law(Shradha’s husband). The episode further explains how Sunil has earlier failed in all the 3 business enterprises he had tried to start but this time due to the collaboration with Kamta Prasad the present enterprise has stabilised and earned quite a profit. Shradha is Kamta’s one and only daughter who is also the apple of his eye and has recently gotten married. Later both the family of Kamta Prasad and Shradha’s in-laws get together to celebrate her completion of her Master’s Degree. This allows the viewers to meet the rest of the family members including the antagonist Sunil’s wife and Kamta’s youngest son Shinpoo who turns out to be a demanding and rash college student but all over good hearted person. On the later half, the viewers are shown how Sunil is a devious and dishonourable character who plans to covet all of the profits including Kamta Prasad’s hard earned money. Earlier during the collaboration it was verbally decided that the profits would be divided into 50-50 shares but later after looking at the huge amounts of profits raked in Sunil becomes greedy and declares to Kamta that he deserves 70% profits instead of the original 50%. Later that night Kamta Prasad has a quite discussion with his wife on how dishonourable Sunil is but he would not pursue this in court because for the happiness of his daughter who is married into that family. He declares to his wife that in order to avoid any resentment and bad incidents he will keep this incident between himself and Sunil. While both husband and wife were having this discussion, Shinpoo hears it which leads to him seeking revenge and physically beating up Sunil. This event marks the start of the actual plot as this incident creates the first of many misunderstandings between both the families. The beating results in the incarceration of Shinpoo and Sunil uses this opportunity to discredit Kamta Prasad in front of his family also causing Shradha’s husband to resent Kamta leading to tension in-between Shradha and her husband. The series later on shows various incidents in which Kamta Prasad’s integrity is questioned and how Shradha supports her father regardless of her husband’s family being against it. The show was bankrolled by Dr.Anil K. Mehta and helmed by Desh Deepak. The serial has total of 61 episodes.