This Is Love) is an Indian romance drama produced by Ekta Kapoor under Balaji Telefilms, it starred Karan Patel, Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya, Ruhanika Dhawan and Aditi Bhatia.
Tamil dentist Ishita lyer and Punjabi businessman Raman Bhalla live in Delhi and are neighbours.
She unites their son, Aditya, with the Bhalla family and becomes the surrogate mother to Ishita and Raman's daughter, Pihu.
Ishita is alive and living in Australia with her childhood friend, Mani, and raising his niece Aliya, who is coincidentally working as a secretary for celebrity Ruhaan.
Raman is raising his daughter Pihu, who exactly looks like young Ruhi with Shagun and he hates Ishita for all the past incidents.
Kapoor said, "I created Divyanka's character as a dentist in 'Yeh Hai Mohabbatein', as I was having a lot of tooth trouble those days.
[6] The production began about a year before its premiere, but the launch was delayed due to creative differences and desired time slots being unavailable.
[7] In November 2019, Ekta Kapoor revealed, "When I started Yeh Hai Mohabbatein, I remember going to Gaurav Banerjee from Star Plus and asking him for a non-prime time slot because I wanted to do a show on a social issue.
"[8] In September 2014, Deepika Padukone and Arjun Kapoor were to promote their film Finding Fanny, which also starred the Yeh Hai Mohabbatein lead Tripathi Dahiya and Patel.
[9] Patel was unable to make the shooting, and so the script was changed in his absence at the last minute, as Deepika and Arjun could not reschedule.
[10] On 11 May 2016, during filming of the wedding sequence of characters Romi and Mihika, the shoot was stalled owing to a fight between the production house and workers union.
[13] Cezanne Khan was first approached to play Raman Bhalla opposite Tripathi Dahiya but was replaced by Karan Patel.
[16] Other cast members then chosen were Aly Goni, Mihika Verma, Shruti Bapna, Neena Kulkarni, Shahnaz Rizwan, Kaushal Kapoor, Abhay Bhargava and Gautam Ahuja.
[17][18] In March 2018, Charu Mehra was supposed to join the series during the filming in London, however, she was unable to due to visa issues.
[23] The story revolves around a famous rockstar, Rudraksh Khurana, and a gynaecologist, Dr Preesha Srinivasan who fall in love after raising their respective siblings' son together.
Despite first airing in the late night slot 11:00pm (IST), Yeh Hai Mohabbatein received better ratings than expected and ranked as the fourth most popular show on Star Plus.
Star Plus SVP marketing Nikhil Madhok stated that the move was made after audiences' feedback that a section of viewers found the 11:00pm slot too late.
StarPlus intervened, asking the producer, Ekta Kapoor, to change the storyline of the show while also giving it a 6-month deadline to increase the ratings.
[47] After the change in show timings to late night TRPs have dropped ranging from 1.2 to 1.4 mostly but had been the slot leader since then.