MUMBAI: Karan Patel rose to famous with Star Plus daily show ‘Yeh Hai Mohabbatein’ starring Divyanka Tripathi in the female lead. Their chemistry in the show received a tremendous response. Although Patel proved his excellence through his performance, surprisingly Ekta Kapoor had roped in another actor for the lead role.

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Divyanka Tripathi was roped in by producer Ekta Kapoor to play Ishita Iyer in Yeh Hai Mohabbatein, while she had initially finalised Kasautii Zindagi Kay star Cezanne Khan for the role of Raman Bhalla but was replaced by Karan Patel.

Although Cezanne Khan had shot for a few episodes but he was suddenly removed from the show. Ekta Kapoor’s family drama would have marked the small screen comeback of Khan but life had other plans for the actor. On the other hand, Karan Patel had returned to Television after 3 years for the show.

Speaking about replacing Khan, Patel had said, “He’s an iconic actor. It was weird to replace someone much more successful than me. It was great to bag the role, but replacing someone makes you feel good and bad at the same time.”

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The daily soap aired between 3 December 2013 to 18 December 2019 on Star Plus and the story was based on Manju Kapur’s 2011 novel Custody. As per reports, the show had the same title as the book but later the makers renamed Mera Tera Rishta Purana which was again changed to Yeh Hai Mohabbatein.

Recently, Kasautii Zindagi Kay fame Cezanne Khan announced his marriage at the age of 44 with his long time girlfriend Afsheen.

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