Broken But Beautiful

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Broken But Beautiful
Broken But Beautiful 3 Poster.jpeg
Official poster of season 3
Genre
Created by Ekta Kapoor
Developed by Ekta Kapoor
Written by
  • Reshu Nath
  • (seasons 1&2)
  • Rajat Arora
  • (season 3)
Directed by
  • Santosh Singh
  • (season 1)
  • Harsh Dedhia
  • (season 2)
  • Priyanka Ghose
  • (season 3)
Creative directors
  • Sanjay Kumar Daryani
  • Bhavna Rawail
  • Baljit Singh Chaddha
  • Aakaash Berry
  • Insiya Burmawala
  • Rohit Mondal
Starring see below
Music by see below
Opening themeYe Kya Hua
Country of originIndia
Original languages
  • Hindi
  • English
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes31 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producerYukti Anand
Producers
  • Sarita A Tanwar
  • (seasons 1, 2 & 3)
  • Muraj Khetani
  • (seasons 1 & 2)
  • Ashwin Varde
  • (seasons 1 & 2)
  • Niraj Kishore Kothari
  • (seasons 1, 2 & 3)
Cinematography
  • Jitan Harmeet Singh
  • Anik Ram Verma
Editors
  • Unnikrishnan Payoor Parameshwaran
  • Honey Thakur
  • Kamlesh Parui
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time18-34 minutes
Production companies
  • Roaring River Productions
  • Cine 1 Studios
  • Inglorious Films
  • (seasons 1 & 2)
  • 11:11 productions
  • (season 3)
Original release
Network
Release27 November 2018 (2018-11-27)

Broken But Beautiful, abbreviated as BBB 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]

Contents

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

ActorRole(s)DescriptionAppearances
Season 1Season 2Season 3
Vikrant Massey Veer ShekhavatSameera's LoverMainGuest
Harleen SethiSameera JoshiVeer's LoverMainGuest
Sidharth Shukla Agastya RaoRumi's Love InterestMain
Sonia Rathee Rumi DesaiAgastya's Love InterestMain

Recurring

ActorRole(s)DescriptionAppearances
Season 1Season 2Season 3
Sheetal Thakur AlinaVeer's dead wifeRecurring
Poppy Jabbal IshanviAlina's sister and Veer's sister-in-lawRecurring
Nikhil SabhrawalAdilIshanvi's husbandRecurring
Pooja BhamrahPornoSameera's friendRecurring
Akriti SinghAgniSameera's friendRecurring
Meherzan Mazda ParthAgni's husbandRecurring
Jitin GulatiKartikVeer's cousin and Sameera's exRecurring
Simran Kaur Mundi AnanyaKartik's girlfriendRecurring
Gaurav Arora Ahan ChaterjiSameera's ex-boyfriendRecurring
Anuja JoshiDebbieVeer's ex-girlfriendRecurring
Ivan Sylvester Rodrigues Mr. ChaterjiAhan's DadRecurring
Sameer RoyNeilDebbie's brotherRecurring
Ehan Bhat Ishan RanaRumi's love-interestRecurring
Jahnavi DhanrajgirSakshiAgastya's colleagueRecurring
Manvir singhRishabhAgastya's colleagueRecurring
Taniya KalraFarahAgastya's friend and PR managerRecurring
Saloni khannaMairaRumi's younger sisterRecurring
Bishakha ThapaGulRumi's friendRecurring
Bijay AnandDilip DesaiRumi's step-fatherRecurring
Nandini senVasundhara DesaiRumi's motherRecurring
Pratik PariharAmitAgastya's lead actorRecurring
Tanvi ShindeVinnyRumi's friendRecurring
Karan TanejaNavinAgastya's BrotherRecurring

Episodes

Series overview

SeriesEpisodesOriginally released
1 1127 November 2018 (2018-11-27)
2 1027 November 2019 (2019-11-27)
3 1029 May 2021 (2021-05-29)

Season 1 (2018)

No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
11"Bleeding Memories of the Happily Ever after."Santosh SinghReshu Nath27 November 2018 (2018-11-27)
22"Haunting Of the Heart."Santosh SinghReshu Nath27 November 2018 (2018-11-27)
33"Broken Damaged Deranged"Santosh SinghReshu Nath27 November 2018 (2018-11-27)
44"Scared and Alone"Santosh SinghReshu Nath27 November 2018 (2018-11-27)
55"Found A Doppelganger Soul"Santosh SinghReshu Nath27 November 2018 (2018-11-27)
66"To Make Me Whole"Santosh SinghReshu Nath27 November 2018 (2018-11-27)
77"To Mend My Heart"Santosh SinghReshu Nath27 November 2018 (2018-11-27)
88"And Drown the Pain"Santosh SinghReshu Nath27 November 2018 (2018-11-27)
99"So I Breathe Again"Santosh SinghReshu Nath27 November 2018 (2018-11-27)
1010"Closure"Santosh SinghReshu Nath27 November 2018 (2018-11-27)
1111"If I Said I Love You"Santosh SinghReshu Nath27 November 2018 (2018-11-27)

Season 2 (2019)

No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
121"I Made You Up Inside My Head"Harsh DedhiaReshu Nath27 November 2019 (2019-11-27)
132"Happily Ever After"Harsh DedhiaReshu Nath27 November 2019 (2019-11-27)
143"Puppy Love"Harsh DedhiaReshu Nath27 November 2019 (2019-11-27)
154"The Penny Drops"Harsh DedhiaReshu Nath27 November 2019 (2019-11-27)
165"Little Death"Harsh DedhiaReshu Nath27 November 2019 (2019-11-27)
176"Loves Me, Loves Me Not"Harsh DedhiaReshu Nath27 November 2019 (2019-11-27)
187"Addicted To Love"Harsh DedhiaReshu Nath27 November 2019 (2019-11-27)
198"Walk Away"Harsh DedhiaReshu Nath27 November 2019 (2019-11-27)
209"The Perfect Mistake"Harsh DedhiaReshu Nath27 November 2019 (2019-11-27)
2110"Broken But Beautiful"Harsh DedhiaReshu Nath27 November 2019 (2019-11-27)

Season 3 (2021)

No.
overall
No. in
season
TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
221"It Happened That Night"Priyanka GhoseRajat Arora29 May 2021 (2021-05-29)
232"Love and all other drugs"Priyanka GhoseRajat Arora29 May 2021 (2021-05-29)
243"You, Me, Him and Her"Priyanka GhoseRajat Arora29 May 2021 (2021-05-29)
254"La La La Land"Priyanka GhoseRajat Arora29 May 2021 (2021-05-29)
265"Crazy, Stupid, Foolish Love"Priyanka GhoseRajat Arora29 May 2021 (2021-05-29)
276"This Could Be Us"Priyanka GhoseRajat Arora29 May 2021 (2021-05-29)
287"A Sense Of The Ending"Priyanka GhoseRajat Arora29 May 2021 (2021-05-29)
298"Eternal Sunshine of the Helpless Mind"Priyanka GhoseRajat Arora29 May 2021 (2021-05-29)
309"The Fault in Their Stars"Priyanka GhoseRajat Arora29 May 2021 (2021-05-29)
3110"And so, begin again"Priyanka GhoseRajat Arora29 May 2021 (2021-05-29)

Soundtrack

Season 1

Broken But Beautiful
Soundtrack album by
Released16 November 2018
Label Sony Music India
Producer Ekta Kapoor
Shobha Kapoor Broken But Beautiful S-4* = Manish Singh
Track listing
No.TitleLyricsMusicSinger(s)Length
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

Broken But Beautiful - Season 2
Soundtrack album by
Released30 May 2020
Label Zee Music Company
Producer Ekta Kapoor
Shobha Kapoor
Track listing
No.TitleLyricsMusicSinger(s)Length
1."Teri Hogaiyaan" Vishal Mishra Vishal MishraVishal Mishra2:55
2."O Saajna" Akhil Sachdeva Akhil SachdevaAkhil Sachdeva4:44
3."Shaamein" Manoj Muntashir Amaal Mallik Armaan Malik 3:13
4."Boureya"Akshay ShindeSandman Anusha Mani 3:33
Total length:14:25

Season 3

Broken But Beautiful - Season 3
Soundtrack album by
Released28 May 2021
Length22:23
Label Zee Music Company
Producer Ekta Kapoor
Shobha Kapoor
Track listing
No.TitleLyricsMusicSinger(s)Length
1."Mere Liye" Akhil Sachdeva Akhil SachdevaAkhil Sachdeva4:54
2."Tere Naal"Akhil SachdevaAkhil SachdevaAkhil Sachdeva4:17
3."Kya Kiya Hain Tune" Rashmi Virag Amaal Malik Armaan Malik, Palak Muchhal 3:11
4."Teri Hogaiyaan 2" Vishal Mishra, Kaushal KishoreVishal MishraVishal Mishra3:36
5."Hun Jaavaan"Ginny DiwanSandmanRomy, Anusha Mani 6:25
Total length:22:23

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