There are many such shows in the history of Indian television, which ran for a long time. ‘Krishi Darshan’ was the country’s longest running show with 16 thousand episodes telecasted.
But do you know which is the country’s longest running daily soap at present? Till January 12, 2024, 4,312 episodes of this daily soap have been telecasted. Till now, many leaps have taken place in this serial, dozens of actors have changed, but it is still continuing as usual.
Longest running TV Show of India
The name of this daily soap is ‘Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai’. This daily soap of Ekta Kapoor started in 2009 with Hina Khan and Karan Mehra.
This family drama made Hina Khan famous in every household as ‘Akshara Bahu’. People also started calling Karan Mehra by the name of Naitik in real life.
Surprisingly, even after 15 years, ‘Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai’ remains among the top-5 and top-10 TV shows in the TRP list. Currently the show is focusing on the story of the fourth generation. Now Samriddhi Shukla and Shehzada Dhami are in the lead roles.
The shooting of ‘Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai’ started at Rambagh Palace in Jaipur. There have been 10 leaps in this TV show so far. The craze of ‘Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai’ is still intact, but its three actors are no longer in this world. Someone committed suicide, someone’s surgery took their life and an actress was infected with Corona.
Actress Divya Bhatnagar, who played the role of Gulabo, the maid of the Singhania family in ‘Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai’, died due to Corona in 2020. She also worked in the TV show ‘Silsila Pyar Ka’.
Rakesh Deewana played the role of Maharaj Ji of the Singhania family in ‘Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai’, but he died in 2014. Rakesh Deewana had undergone surgery to reduce obesity a few days before his death.
The family had expressed suspicion of negligence in the treatment of Rakesh Deewana. Actually, Rakesh Deewana’s condition deteriorated after the operation. His BP increased and he had brain problems. Rakesh Deewana also played the role of ‘Kumbhakarna’ in the 2008 TV serial ‘Ramayana’.
Actress Vaishali Thakkar played the role of Naksh’s best friend Sanjana in ‘Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai’. But she committed suicide on 15 October 2022. Vaishali had also left a 5-page suicide note, in which she held boyfriend Rahul responsible.
