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{{Short description|Bengali TV serial}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
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| genre = [[Drama]], [[Family]], [[Comedy]]
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| developer = [[Leena Gangopadhyay]]
| writer = Leena Gangopadhyay
| director = Saibal Banerjee Sujit Pyne
| creative_director = Leena Gangopadhyay<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/bengali/are-women-really-ruling-the-roost-on-bengali-tv/articleshow/68255424.cms|title=Are women really ruling the roost on Bengali TV? - Times of India|website=The Times of India}}</ref>
| presenter = Bright Advertising Pvt. Ltd.
| starring = Ranita Das [[Rishi Kaushik]] Ankita Chakraborty Sudipta Chakraborty
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| country = India
| language = Bengali
| num_seasons = 1
| num_episodes = 1332
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| executive_producer = Sumit Kumar Roy, Satyajit Chakraborty (Magic Moments), Kastuvi Ghosh ([[Star Jalsha]]), Sriya Basu ([[Star Jalsha]])
| producer = Saibal Banerjee
| editor = Sameer Soumen
| location = [[West Bengal]]
| cinematography = Siddhartha Mukherjee
| camera =
| runtime = 22 minutes (approx.)
| company = [[Magic Moments Motion Pictures]]
| distributor = [[Star India]]
| channel = [[Star Jalsha]]
| picture_format = [[576i]] [[SDTV]] [[1080i]] [[HDTV]]
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| first_aired = {{start date|df=yes|2011|10|24}}
| last_aired = {{end date|df=yes|2015|12|13}}
| preceded_by =
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| related = [[Mohi (TV series)|Mohi]] 
[[Neelakkuyil (TV series)|Neelakkuyil]] [[Neelakuyil (TV series)|Neelakuyil]] [[Imlie]]
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'''Ishti Kutum''' is a Bengali TV serial that aired from 24 October 2011 to 13 December 2015 on [[Star Jalsha]] (from Monday to Saturday).<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Star Jalsa launched 2 non-fiction sauces; Extends fiction band|url=https://www.indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/regional/star-jalsha-to-launch-two-non-fiction-shows-extends-fiction-band-150429|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=Indian Television dot com}}</ref> It started telecasting everyday from 3 May 2015. The show was produced by [[Magic Moments Motion Pictures]] company.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Zee-bangla-launches-new-fiction-show-Kojagori|url=https://www.indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/regional/zee-bangla-launches-new-fiction-show-kojagori-150203|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=Indian Television dot com}}</ref> This is the first serial by Magic Moments Motion Pictures on Star Jalsha. The show went on-air on 24 October 2011. It starred Ranita Das (later replaced by Sudipta Chakraborty), [[Rishi Kaushik]] and Ankita Chakraborty in lead roles. After running for 4 years, Ishti Kutum went off-air on 13 December 2015.

==Plot==
Baha, a tribal girl is forced to marry Archi when they spend a night in the hut during heavy rains. Even though Baha knew Archi is engaged already with his 7 year long time fiancee Kamalika, so she decided to hide the marriage as Archi did not accept her as a wife. Archi marries his love Kamalika, who is also Baha's elder half-sister in the city. What happens after that?

==Plot summary==
The story revolves around the life of an 18 year old tribal love-child Bahamoni Soren from a secluded region called Palashboni in rural [[West Bengal]]. Bahamoni (Baha), who had just completed her 10th standard upon scoring star marks and wants to attend college, is brought up by her mother Konkamoni (Konka) and stepfather Satyakam who is also a tribal activist and leader. Baha and her mother Konka had to face a lot of humiliation from her grandmother, who always yelled at her and Konka. Konka and Dibyo recalled their past when Dibyo came to Polashboni 20 years ago and had an affair but Dibyo eventually leaves Konka as Dibyo is married with a 7 year old daughter Kamalika/Mon. A famous journalist from the city of [[Kolkata]], Archisman Mukherjee, visits Palashboni to interview Satyakam. Baha and Archi cross paths when Baha brings food and when the food falls down. One stormy night Baha was forced to spend the night in the Tourist Lodge in Archi's room. The next morning, the villagers decided to kill Archi, but Baha stopped it. Archi was in a difficult situation and to save his life, he was forced to marry Baha. Archi was having a tough time, thinking that how he will go to his family. On that day, Baha knew Archi has a fiancee in the city so she promises Archi that she will never talk about this forced ritual. Archi, who has a 7 year long love relationship with Kamalika, refuses to recognize the ceremony and asks Baha to decide what she wants to do. Baha then comes to Kolkata with Archi as a maidservant. She begins to study in the city. Gradually, she becomes comfortable and happy in the city, living with the Mukherjee family, who also begin to love her cheerful ways. Initially, Archi thinks of Baha as a nuisance. He continues his engagement to Kamalika Majumdar, a college professor, whose father Dibyojoti Majumdar, a painter, who also happens to be Baha's biological father. Archi marries Kamalika legally with ceremony and registration in the city as Baha also witnesses the same. But after 8 months of their marriage Archi started cheating on Kamalika with Baha. After knowing Baha is the secret love-child of Dibyo and Kanka, and she is also his wife Kamalika's half sister, Archi suddenly started feeling bad for Baha and wanted to have her close to him now. Baha who always wanted to be recognized by Archi secretly took this opportunity and started visiting Kamalika-Archi's bedroom when Kamalika was not present. Gradually Archi starts misbehaving with Kamalika, making her life sad and miserable. Baha secretly used to see this but went on as a secret affair inside Archi's house. An unhappy Kamalika tries to commit suicide when she realized she has been cheated by her husband and 8 year long trusting man. With such drastic step Kamalika's mother decides to file a case against Archi but Kamalika was still madly in love with him saves Archi's career, reputation, and jail-time by lying to everyone that she herself is not interested in this marriage. Kamalika eventually divorces Archi to free him from this marriage and arranges for his wedding to Baha even though Kamalika;s heart was broken everyday. Archi and Baha are married in the eyes of the law. Baha continues her studies and performs brilliantly. Kamalika forces her father Dibyojoyti to accept Baha as his daughter. Dibyojoti regrets his past behavior and tries to build a relationship with Baha. Meanwhile, Archi's elder brother, Dhritiman, returns home and is suffering from [[leukemia]]. He breaks off his engagement with Sanjhbati, a singer, because of his illness. With Baha's help, Dhritiman and Sanjhbati resolve their differences and marry. Archi grows jealous of Baha's intimacy with Prakash, her friend and professor, but later realises she is innocent and becomes possessive of her. Dhrubo Sen, a lawyer, falls in love with Kamalika. Kamalika takes his help in getting bail for Satyakam. Finding a good friend in Dhrubo, Kamalika agrees to marry him. But Dhrubo's first wife Rusha, who had run away and was missing for many years, suddenly returns leaving Kamalika shocked. Baha and Archi try to fight for Rusha, unaware of her criminal connections. Baha gets arrested as she lies to police and take a packet of drugs. Archi and Baha again breaks Kamalika's marriage by bringing Rusha in their life. Rusha returns to Dhrubo and Kamalika leaves him becoming lonely. As a result, Dibyojyoti disowns Baha as his daughter. Later on, Baha travels abroad for higher studies. Kamalika is pregnant with Dhruba's child but hides this from him. She meets Bikram who falls in love with her and accepts her unborn child. Meanwhile, Archi discovers that Bikram is his cousin brother. Kamalika finally decides to marry Bikram and gives birth to a son, Aasmaan. Rusha steals the baby who is rescued and returned to Kamalika by Bikram and Archi. After a long time, Baha returns in a new look. Baha unintentionally causes Archi's sister Nilu to miscarry. Archi threatens to divorce Baha. Kamalika sees Baha and her colleague on the street and informs Archi suspecting Baha is having an affair. An angry Baha threatens Kamalika with filing a case if she interferes between her and Archi. Archi reminds her of Kamalika's sacrifices that Archi would have been in jail and Baha would have had no life if Kamalika didnt show mercy on them while divorcing archi. Archi started moving away from Baha because nuisance. Kamalika is diagnosed with a terminal disease. She goes to Palashboni and donates her money to build a hospital there. She dies in Archi's arms on her birthday and leaves her child in his care. Baha realizes no matter how much she tries Archi will never forget his first love Kamalika and leaves finally. Elsewhere, Mithai later marries Dibakar.

===5 years later===

Baha and Archi meet at a function and Archi talks about Kamalika's son who wants to see Baha. Baha decides to stay with him happily again and the serial ends.

==Cast==
===Main===
* Ranita Das as Bahamoni Mukherjee (née Soren/Majumdar) aka Baha – Konkamoni and Dibyo's daughter; Satyakam's adoptive daughter; Kamalika's half-sister; Archi's wife; Aasman's foster mother. (2011 – 2014)
**Sudipta Chakraborty Replaced Ranita Das as Bahamoni Mukherjee (2014 – 2015)
*[[Rishi Kaushik]] as Archisman Mukherjee aka Archi – A journalist; Polu and Parna's son; Mithai's brother; Kamalika's ex-husband; Baha's husband; Aasman's foster father. (2011 – 2015)
*Ankita Chakraborty as Prof. Kamalika Mukherjee (née Majumdar) aka Mun – An Economics professor; Anu and Dibyo's daughter; Baha's half-sister; Archi and Dhruba's ex-wife; Bikram's wife; Aasman's mother. (Deceased) (2011 – 2015)

===Recurring===
====Mukherjee family====
*Goutam De as Pallab Mukherjee aka Polu – Parna's husband; Mithai and Archi's father. (2011 – 2015)
*Tanuka Chatterjee as Parnabai Mukherjee aka Parna – Polu's wife; Mithai and Archi's mother. (2011 – 2015)
*[[Santu Mukherjee]] as Hiranmoy Mukherjee aka Hiru – Rani's husband; Nilu, Rupu and Dhriti's father (2011 – 2015)
*Saswati Guha Thakurta as Radharani Mukherjee aka Rani – Hiru's wife; Nilu, Rupu and Dhriti's mother (2011 – 2015)
*[[Arindam Sil]] as Debraj Mukherjee aka Debu – Doyel's ex-husband; Chini's father (N/A)
*Manjusree Ganguly as Doyel Ghosh (née Pakhi) – Debu's ex-wife; Tamojit's wife; Chini's mother (2011 – 2015)
*Surojit Banerjee as Tamojit Ghosh – A scientist; Doyel's second husband; Chini's adoptive father (2013 – 2015)
*[[Badshah Moitra]] as Dhritiman Mukherjee aka Dhriti – Hiru and Rani's son; Nilu and Rupu's brother; Sanjhbati's husband (Deceased) (2012 – 2015)
*[[Bidipta Chakraborty]] as Sanjhbati Mukherjee – A singer; Dhriti's widow (2012 – 2015)
*Rupsha Guha as Nilanjana Banerjee (née Mukherjee) aka Nilu – Hiru and Rani's younger daughter; Rupu and Dhriti's sister; Prabuddha's wife
*Sandip Chakraborty as Prabuddha Banerjee – Nilu's husband (2011; 2012 – 2015)
*Sahana Sen as Rupanjana Chatterjee (née Mukherjee) aka Rupu – Hiru and Rani's elder daughter; Nilu and Dhriti's sister; Arjo's wife (2011 – 2015)
*Suman Banerjee as Arjo Chatterjee – Rupu's husband (2012 – 2015)
*Aishi Bhattacharya / Abantika Biswas as Chinmoyee Ghosh aka Chini – Doyel and Debu's daughter; Tamojit's adoptive daughter (2011 – 2015)
*Sonal Mishra as Suranjana Ghosh (née Mukherjee) aka Mithai – Polu and Parna's daughter; Archi's sister; Prakash's ex-wife; Dibakar's wife (2011 – 2015)

====Majumdar family====
*[[Shankar Chakraborty]] as Dibyajyoti Majumdar aka Dibyo – An aspiring painter; Ashapurna's son; Jaya's brother; Anu's husband; Kamalika and Baha's father (2011 – 2015)
*[[Madhabi Mukhopadhyay]] as Ashapurna Majumdar – Dibyo and Jaya's mother; Kamalika and Baha's grandmother (2011 – 2015)
*Rajasree Bhowmick as Jayasree Majumdar aka Jaya – Ashapurna's daughter; Dibyo's sister (2011 – 2015)
*Suchismita Chowdhury as Anushree Majumdar aka Anu– Dibyo's wife; Kamalika's mother (2011 – 2015)

====Hembram family====
*[[Anushree Das]] as Konkamoni Hembram (née Soren) – Satyakam's wife; Baha's mother; Prakash's adoptive mother. (2011 – 2015)
*[[Chandan Sen]] as Satyakam Hembram – A tribal activist; Konkamoni's husband; Prakash's father; Baha's adoptive father (2011 – 2015)
*Sudip Sengupta as Prakash Hembram – Satyakam's son; Baha's former love interest; Mithai's ex-husband (2011 – 2015)

====Others====
*[[Bhaswar Chatterjee]] as Dhrubo Sen aka Piklu – A lawyer; Kamalika's ex-husband; Aasman's father (2012 – 2015)
*[[Koushik Roy]] as Bikramjit Mukherjee aka Bikram – Archi and Mithai's cousin; Kamalika's husband (2014 – 2015)
*[[Dipankar De]] as Babiya - Sanjhbati's uncle (2012)
*[[Anuradha Roy (actress)|Anuradha Roy]] as Sanjhbati's mother (2012)
*Dola Chakraborty as Arjyo's mother (N/A)
*Kunal Padhi as Arjyo's father (N/A)
*Dwaipayan Das as Dibakar Ghosh – Mithai's second husband (2015)
*Diganta Bagchi as Arghya Uncle (2012)
*Koushani Roy as Rusha Sen – Dhrubo's first wife (2014 – 2015)
*Dr. Basudeb Mukherjee as Jyotishmaan Sen – Dhrubo's father
*Chaitali Dasgupta as Dhrubo's mother
*Kalyani Mondal as Dhrubo's aunt
*Sagarika Roy as Sokhimoni aka Sokhi – Baha's friend in Palashboni. (2011 – 2015)
*[[Arup Roy]] as Monglu – Baha's friend (2012 – 2015)
*Priyam Chakraborty as Monojaba / Dodul
*[[Rita Koyral|Rita Koiral]] as Kumudini / Kumu
*Sujata Daw as Mishti
*Pushpendu Roy as Krishanu (2012)
*Surjya Kar as Anjan
*Satyam Majumder as a milkman (2012)
*[[Sourav Chatterjee]] as Arjun
*[[Sanchita Bhattacharya]] as Srimoyee
*[[Sourav Chakraborty]] as Rusha's Boss
*Arghya Mukherjee as an Inspector
*[[Kamalika Banerjee]] as Sharmila (2015)
*Suparna Patra as Baha's friend (2012 – 2015)
*Pritha Roy as Baha's friend (2012 – 2015)

====Guest appearance====

* [[Prosenjit Chatterjee]]
* [[Aryann Bhowmik]]
*[[Srikanta Acharya]]
*
*[[Soumitra Chatterjee]]

==Adaptations==
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! style="background:#E0CEF2; width:20%;"| Language
! style="background:#E0CEF2; width:24%;"| Title
! style="background:#E0CEF2; width:16%;"| Original release
! style="background:#E0CEF2; width:12%;"| Network(s)
! style="background:#E0CEF2; width:18%;"| Last aired
! style="background:#E0CEF2; width:22%;"| Notes
|-
|[[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|''Ishti Kutum'' ইষ্টি কুটুম
|24 October 2011
|[[Star Jalsha]]
|13 December 2015
|Original
|-
|[[Hindi]]
|''[[Mohi (TV series)|Mohi]]'' मोही
|10 August 2015
|[[StarPlus]]
|27 February 2016
| rowspan="5" |Remake
|-
|[[Malayalam]]
|''[[Neelakkuyil (TV series)|Neelakkuyil]]'' നീലക്കുയിൽ
|26 February 2018
|[[Asianet (TV channel)|Asianet]]
|6 April 2020
|-
|[[Tamil language|Tamil]]
|''[[Neelakuyil (TV series)|Neelakuyil]]'' நீல குயீல்
|17 December 2018
|[[Star Vijay]]
|24 August 2019
|-
|[[Hindi]]
|''[[Imlie]]'' इमली
|16 November 2020
|[[StarPlus]]
| rowspan="2" |Ongoing
|-
|[[Telugu language|Telugu]]
|''[[Malli Nindu Jabili]]'' మల్లి నిండు జాబిలి
|28 February 2022
|[[Star Maa]]
|}

==Reception==
This show has been highly controversial, because of its poor and misleading content. This has also enraged the tribal community of West Bengal for hurting their sentiments and portraying tribal characters poorly. A lawsuit was filed by the tribal community in July 2014 in [[Calcutta High Court|Kolkata High Court]] against the channel for portraying tribal women's characters in poor light as well as ridiculing their language and culture. Though the channel denied all charges, there was a huge uproar from the audience towards the themes of cheating women, and domestic violence, provocation of suicide etc. by the lead characters of Archi and Baha.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://zeenews.india.com/bengali/entertainment/ishtikutum-may-facing-ban_119014.html|title=অপমানিত সাঁওতাল জনগোষ্ঠি, বিতর্কে জনপ্রিয় বাংলা সিরিয়াল ইষ্টিকুটিম|date=2014-07-24|website=Zee24Ghanta.com|language=en|access-date=2019-07-24}}</ref>

==See also==
* ''[[Ichche Nodee]]''
* ''[[Kusum Dola]]''
* ''[[Jol Nupur]]''

{{Magic Moments Motion Pictures}}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{imdb title|11638960|Ishti Kutum}}
* [https://www.facebook.com/Ishti-Kutum-233350270052051/ ''Ishti Kutum''] at [[Facebook]]

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