Broken But Beautiful
Broken But Beautiful is a 2018 Hindi romance web series, created by Ekta Kapoor, and available on video on demand platforms and ALTBalaji/MX Player.[1] The series revolves around love, heartbreaks and never ending romance between two individuals.[2][3] First two seasons are about the story of Veer and Sameera played by Vikrant Massey and Harleen Sethi respectively.[4] The third season introduces a new story of Agastya and Rumi played by Sidharth Shukla and Sonia Rathee respectively.[5]
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| Created by | Ekta Kapoor |
| Developed by | Ekta Kapoor |
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| Starring | see below |
| Music by | see below |
| Opening theme | Ye Kya Hua |
| Country of origin | India |
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| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 31 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer | Yukti Anand |
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| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 18-34 minutes |
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| Picture format | HDTV 1080i |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital |
| Original release | 27 November 2018 |
Plot
Story of Veer and Sameera
Season 1
Broken But Beautiful season 1 is Veer and Sameera's story, where their hearts were left broken. Veer lost his wife Alina in a road accident 3 years ago but still hasn't been able to cope. Veer begins to hallucinate Alina and talks to her in his imagination. Alina's sister, Ishanvi and her husband Adil are motivating him to move on in his life and try to spend time with him. Due to unavoidable circumstances, Veer has to buy his cousin Kartik's house. Kartik broke up with his girlfriend Sameera 8 months ago and moved on to date Ananya. Sameera has been unable to forget Kartik and stalks him everywhere, unable to move on. Since the house belonged to Kartik and Sameera, Veer needs Sameera's signatures on the sale papers. When she signs the papers, Veer promises her to let her speak to Kartik one last time.
Veer and Sameera come up with a plan and pretend they are together to make Kartik jealous. The show then revolves around the budding relationship between Sameera and Veer.
Season 2
Veer meets Debbie and Sameera meets Ahan. Veer and Sameera decide to marry Debbie and Ahan respectively. Then the show revolves around the realization of love for both Veer and Sameera towards each other. As Veer and Sameera separate, Veer meets Debbie and start dating, while Sameera meets her classmate, Ahan who had a crush on her formerly. In the hope of bonding with her once again, Ahan asks Sameera out and she reluctantly agrees. They soon become great friends but Sameera's past experiences stop her from being in a relationship. Meanwhile, Veer and Sameera meet once again and become friends, deciding to move on from their past experiences. Sameera gets to know that Debbie is pregnant with Veer's child and that Veer has completely turned into the Sameera she was before and has now decided to marry Debbie. Feeling insecure, she starts seeing Ahan who is madly in love with her. Soon, Veer and Sameera talk about their feelings and become intimate in a drunken state. When they finally wake up the next morning, they realize their folly and decide to tell their respective partners. In mean time, Debbie realizes that she is not pregnant and tells it to Veer who panics and Ishanvi accidentally blurts out the truth and they break up. Sameera also tells Ahan who tells her to choose between him and the one she cheated on him with. Sameera chooses Ahan out of guilt and Ahan acts as a very supportive partner. Veer, on the other hand, confesses his love to Sameera who tells him about her former choice. Thus, they part ways yet again and this time Veer has a lot of difficulty in moving on. But fate has other plans of bringing them before each other as Sameera and Ahan decide to get married in Veer's resort. And the rest of the story revolves on how these two find their way back to each other.
Story of Agastya and Rumi
Season 3
Broken But Beautiful exhibits a determined and courageous Agastya Rao who is a struggling theatre writer-director with principles and truckloads of attitude who believes the mediocre world doesn't deserve someone as talented as him and a feisty Rumi Desai who come from a different strata of society. Rumi comes from a rich family, a spill-over of her mother's second marriage. She hates her stepsister who always manages to overshadow her. But when they meet, Agastya sees the talent and intensity in Rumi. They start an intense fling. Rumi is in love with Ishaan (Ehan Bhat) her rich and suave childhood friend and tells Agastya that they can't have a future together, but Agastya has fallen in love. He falls into a trap of drunkenness and depression and Rumi gets married. After a few years, Rumi divorces Ishaan and realises he never loved her like Agastya did.
Cast
Main
| Actor | Role(s) | Description | Appearances | ||
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| Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | |||
| Vikrant Massey | Veer | Sameera's Lover | Main | Guest | |
| Harleen Sethi | Sameera Joshi | Veer's Lover | Main | Guest | |
| Sidharth Shukla | Agastya Rao | Rumi's Love Interest | Main | ||
| Sonia Rathee | Rumi Desai | Agastya's Love Interest | Main | ||
Recurring
| Actor | Role(s) | Description | Appearances | ||
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| Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | |||
| Sheetal Thakur | Alina | Veer's dead wife | Recurring | ||
| Poppy Jabbal | Ishanvi | Alina's sister and Veer's sister-in-law | Recurring | ||
| Nikhil Sabhrawal | Adil | Ishanvi's husband | Recurring | ||
| Pooja Bhamrah | Porno | Sameera's friend | Recurring | ||
| Akriti Singh | Agni | Sameera's friend | Recurring | ||
| Meherzan Mazda | Parth | Agni's husband | Recurring | ||
| Jitin Gulati | Kartik | Veer's cousin and Sameera's ex | Recurring | ||
| Simran Kaur Mundi | Ananya | Kartik's girlfriend | Recurring | ||
| Gaurav Arora | Ahan Chaterji | Sameera's ex-boyfriend | Recurring | ||
| Anuja Joshi | Debbie | Veer's ex-girlfriend | Recurring | ||
| Ivan Sylvester Rodrigues | Mr. Chaterji | Ahan's Dad | Recurring | ||
| Sameer Roy | Neil | Debbie's brother | Recurring | ||
| Ehan Bhat | Ishan Rana | Rumi's love-interest | Recurring | ||
| Jahnavi Dhanrajgir | Sakshi | Agastya's colleague | Recurring | ||
| Manvir singh | Rishabh | Agastya's colleague | Recurring | ||
| Taniya Kalra | Farah | Agastya's friend and PR manager | Recurring | ||
| Saloni khanna | Maira | Rumi's younger sister | Recurring | ||
| Bishakha Thapa | Gul | Rumi's friend | Recurring | ||
| Bijay Anand | Dilip Desai | Rumi's step-father | Recurring | ||
| Nandini sen | Vasundhara Desai | Rumi's mother | Recurring | ||
| Pratik Parihar | Amit | Agastya's lead actor | Recurring | ||
| Tanvi Shinde | Vinny | Rumi's friend | Recurring | ||
| Karan Taneja | Navin | Agastya's Brother | Recurring | ||
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2018)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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| 1 | 1 | "Bleeding Memories of the Happily Ever after." | Santosh Singh | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2018 |
| 2 | 2 | "Haunting Of the Heart." | Santosh Singh | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2018 |
| 3 | 3 | "Broken Damaged Deranged" | Santosh Singh | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2018 |
| 4 | 4 | "Scared and Alone" | Santosh Singh | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2018 |
| 5 | 5 | "Found A Doppelganger Soul" | Santosh Singh | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2018 |
| 6 | 6 | "To Make Me Whole" | Santosh Singh | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2018 |
| 7 | 7 | "To Mend My Heart" | Santosh Singh | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2018 |
| 8 | 8 | "And Drown the Pain" | Santosh Singh | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2018 |
| 9 | 9 | "So I Breathe Again" | Santosh Singh | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2018 |
| 10 | 10 | "Closure" | Santosh Singh | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2018 |
| 11 | 11 | "If I Said I Love You" | Santosh Singh | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2018 |
Season 2 (2019)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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| 12 | 1 | "I Made You Up Inside My Head" | Harsh Dedhia | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2019 |
| 13 | 2 | "Happily Ever After" | Harsh Dedhia | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2019 |
| 14 | 3 | "Puppy Love" | Harsh Dedhia | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2019 |
| 15 | 4 | "The Penny Drops" | Harsh Dedhia | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2019 |
| 16 | 5 | "Little Death" | Harsh Dedhia | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2019 |
| 17 | 6 | "Loves Me, Loves Me Not" | Harsh Dedhia | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2019 |
| 18 | 7 | "Addicted To Love" | Harsh Dedhia | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2019 |
| 19 | 8 | "Walk Away" | Harsh Dedhia | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2019 |
| 20 | 9 | "The Perfect Mistake" | Harsh Dedhia | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2019 |
| 21 | 10 | "Broken But Beautiful" | Harsh Dedhia | Reshu Nath | 27 November 2019 |
Season 3 (2021)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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| 22 | 1 | "It Happened That Night" | Priyanka Ghose | Rajat Arora | 29 May 2021 |
| 23 | 2 | "Love and all other drugs" | Priyanka Ghose | Rajat Arora | 29 May 2021 |
| 24 | 3 | "You, Me, Him and Her" | Priyanka Ghose | Rajat Arora | 29 May 2021 |
| 25 | 4 | "La La La Land" | Priyanka Ghose | Rajat Arora | 29 May 2021 |
| 26 | 5 | "Crazy, Stupid, Foolish Love" | Priyanka Ghose | Rajat Arora | 29 May 2021 |
| 27 | 6 | "This Could Be Us" | Priyanka Ghose | Rajat Arora | 29 May 2021 |
| 28 | 7 | "A Sense Of The Ending" | Priyanka Ghose | Rajat Arora | 29 May 2021 |
| 29 | 8 | "Eternal Sunshine of the Helpless Mind" | Priyanka Ghose | Rajat Arora | 29 May 2021 |
| 30 | 9 | "The Fault in Their Stars" | Priyanka Ghose | Rajat Arora | 29 May 2021 |
| 31 | 10 | "And so, begin again" | Priyanka Ghose | Rajat Arora | 29 May 2021 |
Soundtrack
Season 1
| Broken But Beautiful | |
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| Soundtrack album by | |
| Released | 16 November 2018 |
| Label | Sony Music India |
| Producer | Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor |
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Ye Kya Hua" | Amitabh Bhattacharya | Rana Mazumder | Shreya Ghoshal, Dev Negi | 4:12 |
| 2. | "Laute Nahi" | Yash Narvekar | Yash Narvekar | Papon | 4:09 |
| Total length: | 8:21 | ||||
Season 2
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| Soundtrack album by | |
| Released | 30 May 2020 |
| Label | Zee Music Company |
| Producer | Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor |
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Teri Hogaiyaan" | Vishal Mishra | Vishal Mishra | Vishal Mishra | 2:55 |
| 2. | "O Saajna" | Akhil Sachdeva | Akhil Sachdeva | Akhil Sachdeva | 4:44 |
| 3. | "Shaamein" | Manoj Muntashir | Amaal Mallik | Armaan Malik | 3:13 |
| 4. | "Boureya" | Akshay Shinde | Sandman | Anusha Mani | 3:33 |
| Total length: | 14:25 | ||||
Season 3
| Broken But Beautiful - Season 3 | |
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| Soundtrack album by | |
| Released | 28 May 2021 |
| Length | 22:23 |
| Label | Zee Music Company |
| Producer | Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor |
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Singer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Mere Liye" | Akhil Sachdeva | Akhil Sachdeva | Akhil Sachdeva | 4:54 |
| 2. | "Tere Naal" | Akhil Sachdeva | Akhil Sachdeva | Akhil Sachdeva | 4:17 |
| 3. | "Kya Kiya Hain Tune" | Rashmi Virag | Amaal Malik | Armaan Malik, Palak Muchhal | 3:11 |
| 4. | "Teri Hogaiyaan 2" | Vishal Mishra, Kaushal Kishore | Vishal Mishra | Vishal Mishra | 3:36 |
| 5. | "Hun Jaavaan" | Ginny Diwan | Sandman | Romy, Anusha Mani | 6:25 |
| Total length: | 22:23 | ||||
References
- ^ "Shooting for ALTBalaji web series Broken commences". The Digital Hash. 6 April 2018.
- ^ "Vikrant Massey Can associate with heartbreak". Mid-day. 6 April 2018.
- ^ "Broken is About Love That Heal The Heart Says Ekta Kapoor - Bollywood Galiyara English". Dailyhunt.
- ^ Rajesh, Srividya (27 February 2018). "Vikrant Massey to play lead in ALTBalaji's web-series, 'Broken'". IWMBuzz.
- ^ "Sidharth Shukla and Sonia Rathee to star in Ekta Kapoor's Broken But Beautiful 3". The Indian Express. 4 December 2020.