| Pardes Mein Hai Mera Dil | |
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| Genre | Soap opera |
| Developed by | Ekta Kapoor |
| Written by | Ritu Bhatia Aayush Agrawal |
| Directed by |
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| Creative director | Sandiip Sickand |
| Starring | |
| Composer | Pamela Jain |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 170 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Aayush Agrawal |
| Producers | Ekta Kapoor Shobha Kapoor |
| Production locations | Austria Mumbai |
| Cinematography | Ravi Mishra |
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| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company | Balaji Telefilms |
| Original release | |
| Network | Star Plus |
| Release | 7 November 2016 (2016-11-07) – 30 June 2017 (2017-06-30)[2] |
Pardes Mein Hai Mera Dil (transl.My Heart Is in a Foreign Land) (International title:Chasing My Heart)[3] is an Indian television series produced byEkta Kapoor under her bannerBalaji Telefilms forStar Plus.[4] The story, set inAustria, is inspired by the 1997 filmPardes and Manju Kapur's 2008 novelThe Immigrant.[5] It was shot in locations inIndia,Vienna andInnsbruck.[6][7] The series starredDrashti Dhami,Arjun Bijlani andVineet Raina.[8] It went off air on 30 June 2017 with 170 episodes.[9] It was replaced byIss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon 3.[10]
Set inAustria, Raghav Mehra works in his rich Indian family. He was adopted by Mehra family but only Indumati (dadi) loves him. He loves the spoilt Sanjana who ignores him. Sanjana is his Aunt Parmeshwari's niece. Parmeshwari wants to marry Sanjana to Veer to get hold of business. Naina Batra, a woman close to her family breaks up with her fiancé Amit due to her heart patient mother Asha's illness and leaves toAustria for the operation.
Naina and Raghav become friends. Raghav's grandmother Indumati fixes Naina's marriage with his cousin Veer. On the wedding day, Veer leaves, after which Raghav sacrifices his love and marries Naina who feels betrayed but soon trusts him.
Sanjana is pregnant with Veer's child. Indumati allows Veer back in the family and announces his marriage with Sanjana. Veer feels jealous of Naina and Raghav. Indumati goes into a coma. Raghav starts a new business but he needs money for that. A buyer Rehaan Khanna enters. Naina meets his wife Ahana and agrees to become a surrogate mother. Naina gives that money to Raghav to start his business.
Due to a misunderstanding, Raghav thinks that Naina has an affair and carries someone else's baby.
Without justification, Raghav divorces Naina. Ahana meets with a car accident planned by Rehaan's stepmother Harjeet, and dies after telling Naina that the baby is in danger.
Raghav has now become a rich but arrogant businessman and buys Mehra mansion.
Naina now lives inIndia. She works in Raghav's company. Indumati wakes up from coma and mistakes Ahana's baby to be of Raghav and Naina. Indumati tells Raghav the reason for her coma. Raghav is infuriated and rushes to Veer and beats him and gets him arrested. Rehaan learns that Ahana hired a surrogate so he began searching her and also told about this to Harjeet who now wants to kill Ahana's baby.
Naina gives premature birth to a baby boy Ahaan. Naina and Raghav grow closer and confesses their love. Rehaan attacks Raghav thinking he had kidnapped the baby. Raghav presumably dies thinking Naina cheated on him and Rehaan is Ahaan's father.
Naina marries Rehaan to look after Ahaan, and acts to be possessed by Ahana's ghost. Naina reveals Harjeet's true intentions. She tells Indumati that her marriage with Rehaan is real. Harjeet is arrested and tries to shoot Naina but Rehaan sacrifices himself,
Naina, Ahaan and Indumati live happily. Naina works as a tuition teacher and points towards Raghav's photo when her students question about her love story. She tells them that Raghav is her life as he told her the meaning of love and she will be united with him in heaven.