Qubool Hai () is an Indian soap opera that was produced by 4 Lions Films and broadcast on Zee TV. The series focused on the Muslim community and initially aimed to dispel stereotypes regarding Islam,Times News Network. and had been credited for pioneering Muslim-oriented programming in Indian television.
Premise The first season of the show focused on the love story of Asad Ahmed Khan and Zoya Farooqui, played by Karan Singh Grover, who was later replaced by Raqesh Bapat, and Surbhi Jyoti. The show was also focused on the lives of Humaira Siddiqui Sheikh, played by Ketki Kadam, Ayaan Ahmed Khan, played by Rishabh Sinha / Vikrant Massey and Haider Sheikh played by Mohit Sehgal.
In May 2014, the second season introduced Asad and Zoya's twin daughters, Sanam and Seher (both played by Jyoti), and revolved around their lives 20 years after the death of their parents. Karanvir Bohra portrayed Sanam's husband Aahil Raza Ibrahim. Shehzad Sheikh joined the cast as Rehan Qureshi, Seher's love interest.
The third season of the show portrayed Aahil and Sanam's incomplete love story after she loses her memory, is transported to Pakistan, and an imposter takes her place.
The fourth season of the show, launched in August 2015 and incorporating supernatural elements, was set 25 years after Sanam's suicide. It focused on the love story of Mahira, who was the result of Sanam's last prayer (again portrayed by Jyoti), and her two husbands - Azaad Iqbal Khan (Rajbeer Singh), who is revealed to be a vampire and is the "fake" Sanam's son, and his long-lost brother, Armaan Iqbal Khan, who receives his heart in a transplant. The show ended in January 2016 after Armaan and Mahira's remarriage.
Plot Season 1 Zoya Farooqui, a fun-loving girl brought up in the USA comes to Bhopal in search of her real father and stays with her foster sister's aunt Dilshad, who has a daughter Najma and a silent, traditional, orthodox and short tempered son Asad Ahmed Khan. Zoya and Asad gradually fall in love, but his childhood friend Tanveer Baig creates obstacles for them. Asad's father Rashid now lives with his much wealthy second wife Shireen, though their son Ayaan has a loving relationship with Asad.
Shireen's brother Ghafoor Siddiqui turns out to be Zoya's biological father, who presumed her dead after his second wife, Razia, killed his first wife (Zoya's mother) in a fire, though Zoya had escaped that time. Rashid and Dilshad unite. Razia and Ghafoor's daughter Humaira loves Ayaan but is shattered as he leaves with Shireen. Haider enters to take revenge for his parents' death but falls in love with and marries Humaira, after knowing he is Zoya's lost brother.
Zoya and Asad marry and eventually become parents to twin daughters, Sanam and Seher. Haider moves to Dubai with the pregnant Humaira. Tanveer traces Asad and Zoya out and brutally stabs and kills them, setting fire to their house. Dilshad escapes with Haya (Najma's daughter) and Sanam, but loses Seher in the fire.
Season 2 20 years later
Dilshad, Haya and Sanam live in Punjab. Sanam runs a restaurant and crosses her path with business tycoon Aahil Raza Ibrahim, Tanveer's stepson. She later arrives in Bhopal. Soon, Aahil falls for Sanam and marries her due to Tanveer, who wants to get the property. Sanam and Aahil gradually fall in love. Two brothers Faiz and Raahat fall in love with Haya, who reciprocates Raahat. Faiz tries to attack them, but they kill him and unite. Aahil and Sanam separate when Tanveer finds she's Asad and Zoya's daughter. She kidnaps Sanam and puts an alive Seher in her place.
Soon, Dilshad finds out about Tanveer and reveals Sanam and Seher's history to them. They vow to avenge their parents' death. Tanveer tricks Aahil into marrying a woman who she imposters as Sanam. He later finds out his father Raza is alive. As Aahil dismisses Tanveer, she attacks him but instead kills her own son Rehan. Zoya's soul kills Tanveer. The impostor Sanam, to separate the united Aahil and Sanam, tries to sell Seher to a brothel. Sanam reaches to rescue her but Seher dies. Sanam, unaware of this searches for her and reaches to Lahore.
Season 3 Sanam has lost her memory and lives with a Pakistani Major, Shaad Aftaab Khan, who in order to save her life, lied that she is his wife, Jannat. "Jannat" confusingly remembers extracts of her life with Aahil.
Soon, Tanveer's daughter enters their life disguised as Misbah, Shaad's cousin, and kills the family posing as a terrorist. Shaad and Jannat chase Misbah and reach India, where Aahil finds her and suggests they come to Bhopal for her treatment. Shaad realises Jannat is Sanam and leaves her with Aahil. But Sanam's impostor, still living with Aahil, tries to keep her away from him. She pays a man to kill them and successfully kills Aahil. Devastated Sanam regains her memory and vows to take revenge from her husband, Aahil's killers. After taking her revenge from all the murderers except Nayi Sanam, Sanam commits suicide, taking away all her powers.
Season 4 25 years later
Mahira takes birth at the same time when Sanam dies. Mahira is the answer to Sanam's last prayer. She comes to Bhopal to stay with her stepsisters. She encounters Fake Sanam (now Khan Begum) who is now miserable without her powers. She also encounters her older son Azaad, and they fall in love. However, Azaad is revealed to be a vampire. Mahira is initially engaged to Amaad (Khan Begum's youngest son) as Azaad rejects her to keep her safe from himself. But Khan Begum later has her marry Azaad on persistence of Razia, who believes only the offspring of true lovers can help them recover Khan Begum's evil powers. But soon, Afreen enters in their lives, killing Amaad and causes a havoc, tormenting and separating the newlyweds. Afreen in her attempt to kill Khan Begum kills Azaad and his heart is transplanted into his older brother Armaan, who is the first born of KB. She also learns that her first born and Mahira's offspring can actually bring back her evil powers.
Though, they are initially at loggerheads as Armaan fakes his love for Mahira to take the revenge of her slaps, they are married as he blackmails her. Both Mahira and Armaan try to trouble and outsmart each other after the marriage but soon falls for each other after she saves him from terrorists. Amaad returns their lives and manipulates Armaan into divorcing Mahira. Khan Begum finally realizes her mistakes and is now powerless. She sacrifices herself to revive Armaan. In the end, Mahira and Armaan gets married again and name their daughter, Zoya, ending Qubool Hai.
Cast Main
Surbhi Jyoti as Zoya Farooqui Ahmed Khan – Ghafoor's daughter; Humaira's half-sister; Haider's cousin; Asad's wife; Sanam and Seher's mother (2012–2014) Harshaali Malhotra as Child Zoya Farooqui (2012) Sanam Ahmed Khan Raza Ibrahim – Zoya and Asad's daughter; Seher's twin sister; Aahil's wife; Rehan and Shaad's friend (2014–2015) Seher Ahmed Khan – Zoya and Asad's daughter; Sanam's twin sister; Rehan's fiancée (2014–2015) Mahira Akhtar Raza Sheikh – Reborn Sanam; Azaad and Armaan's wife; Jr. Zoya's mother (2015–2016) Karan Singh Grover as Asad Ahmed Khan – Dilshad and Rashid's son; Najma's brother; Ayaan, Nikhat and Nuzhat's half-brother; Zoya's husband; Sanam and Seher's father (2012–14) Raqesh Bapat replaced Grover as Asad. (2014) Rishabh Sinha as Ayaan Ahmed Khan – Rashid and Shireen's son; Nikhat and Nuzhat's brother; Asad and Najma's half-brother; Humaira's ex-fiancé (2012–13) Vikrant Massey replaced Rishabh as Ayaan. (2013) Ketaki Kadam as Humaira Siddiqui Sheikh – Ghafoor and Razia's daughter; Zoya's half-sister; Ayaan's ex-fiancée; Haider's wife (2012–14) Mohit Sehgal as Haider Sheikh – Zoya's cousin; Humaira's husband (2013–14) Nisha Nagpal as Tanveer Baig aka Begum Sahiba – Asad's childhood friend and lover; Zoya and Sanam's enemy; Rehan and Shashi's mother; Aahil's step-mother. (2013) Amrapali Gupta replaced Nagpal as Tanveer. (2013–15) Suzi Khan as Child Tanveer Baig (2012) as Shashi Kapoor aka Misbah Sayyed – A terrorist; Tanveer's daughter (2015) Alka Kaushal as Razia Ahmed Siddiqui – Ghafoor's second wife; Humaira's mother (2012–15) Shalini Kapoor as Dilshad Ahmed Khan – Rashid's first wife; Asad and Najma's mother (2012–14)
Karanvir Bohra as Aahil Raza Ibrahim – Nawab's son; Tanveer's step-son; Shazia and Nazia's brother; Sanam's husband (2014–15) Sahil Qureshi – Nawab Of Bhopal (2015) Shehzad Shaikh as Rehan Qureshi – Tanveer's son; Seher's fiancée (2014–15) Surbhi Chandna as Haya Qureshi Ansari – Najma and Imran's daughter; Raahat's wife (2014–2015) Deepak Wadhwa as Raahat Ansari – Haya's husband (2014–2015) Additi Gupta as Khan Begum – Sanam's impostor; Naseer, Aahil and Ahsaan's wife; Azaad, Kainaat, Armaan, and Amaad's mother; Aahil's murderer (2014–16) Varun Toorkey as Shaad Aftaab Khan – Sanam's friend and saviour in Pakistan (2015) Avinash Sachdev as Armaan Raza Sheikh – Khan Begum's illegitimate son; Azaad, Kainaat and Amaad's half-brother; Mahira's second husband; Jr. Zoya's father (2015–2016) Rajbeer Singh as Azaad Iqbal Khan – Khan Begum and Naseer's son; Kainaat and Amaad's brother; Armaan's half-brother; Mahira's first husband Ankit Raaj as Amaad Iqbal Khan / Munna Rangila – Khan Begum and Naseer Khan's son; Azaad and Kainaat's brother; Armaan's half-brother; Mahira's obsessive lover (2015–2016) Puja Banerjee as Aafreen – A witch; Azaad's ex-wife (2015) Nitin Sahrawat as Star Anand Kumar / Naseer Khan – Khan Begum's husband; Azaad, Kainaat and Amaad's father (2015)
Recurring Vidya Sinha as Badi Bi – Rashid's mother; Asad, Ayaan, Najma, Nikhat and Nuzhat's grandmother (2012–2014) Vaquar Shaikh as Rashid Ahmed Khan – Dilshad and Shireen's husband; Asad, Ayaan, Najma, Nikhat, Nuzhat's father (2012–2014) Tej Sapru as Ghafoor Ahmed Siddiqui – Razia's husband; Zoya and Humaira's father (2012–2014) Surabhi Vanzara as Shireen Ahmed Khan – Rashid's second wife; Ayaan, Nikhat, and Nuzhat's mother (2012–2014) Archana Taide as Nikhat Ahmed Khan / Qureshi – Rashid and Shireen's daughter; Ayaan and Nuzhat's sister; Asad and Najma's half-sister; Farhan's ex-wife (2012–2014) Nehalaxmi Iyer as Najma Ahmed Khan / Qureshi – Dilshad and Rashid's daughter; Asad's sister; Ayaan, Nikhat and Nuzhat's half-sister; Imran's wife (2012–2014) Shweta Kanoje as Chief Dayan (Who Ruled) (2015–2016) Digangana Suryavanshi / Farhina Jarimari as Nuzhat Ahmed Khan – Rashid and Shireen's younger daughter; Ayaan and Nikhat's sister; Asad and Najma's half-sister (2012–2014) Vikram Singh Chauhan as Imraan Qureshi – Najma's husband (2013–2014) Vishal Nayak as Farhaan Qureshi – Sameera and Nikhat's ex-husband (2013–2014) Nishi Singh as Haseena Bi – Imran and Farhan's abusive mother (2012–2014) Sunayana Fozdar as Sameera Qureshi – Farhan's first wife (2012–2014) Sangeeta Kapure as Zeenat Farooqui – Zoya's foster sister; Anwar's wife (2012–2014) Harsh Vashisht as Anwar Farooqui – Zeenat's husband (2012–2014) Melanie Nazareth as Ghazala – Tanveer's sister; Azhar's mother (2014–2016) Rakesh Bedi as Dhurandar Watavdekar – Immigration officer (2013) Juhi Aslam as Dolly – Dhurandar's assistant (2013) Puneet Sharma as Faiz Ansari – Raahat's brother; Haya's ex-husband (2014) Chahatt Khanna as Nida Beg – Aahil's best friend (2014) Kinjal Pandya / Kamya Choudhary as Shazia Raza Ibrahim – Nawab's daughter; Aahil and Nazia's sister (2014–2015) Shahina Surve / Ankita Bahuguna / Saanvi Talwar as Nazia Raza Ibrahim – Nawab's daughter; Aahil and Shazia's sister) (2014–2015) Kashish Vohra as Kainaat Khan (2015–2016) (Khan Begum and Naseer Khan's daughter; Sameer's wife) Shubhashish Jha (2015–2016) as Sameer (Afreen's brother; Kainaat's husband) Namik Paul (2015) / Rohan Gandotra (2015–2016) as Ahsaan (Armaan's best friend, Khan Begum's third husband) Divy Nidhi Sharma as Azhar – Ghazala and Razzaq's son; Asma's husband (2014)