Bizim Hikaye (English: Our Story) is a Turkish drama series starring Hazal Kaya as Filiz, a young woman who takes care of her siblings after her mother leaves them, and Burak Deniz as Barñà Â, a mysterious man, who appears in Filiz's life. It is an adaptation of the British original series Shameless. Its first episode (in September 2017) received more than 20 million views. The show was shot in Istanbul and ran for 70 episodes. The series is currently popular in Turkey.
Season 1
Filiz, 20, is a young woman in a lower-class Turkish family, forced to take care of her five younger siblings after her mother leaves and as her father, Fikri, is an alcoholic. Filiz believes that there is no place for love in her life until she meets Barñà Â, a young man who cares for both Filiz and her family.
Meanwhile, Cemil, a police officer who is also in love with Filiz, finds out that BarÃ±à  is a car thief and threatens to expose him to Filiz unless he leaves. Fikri reports the fact that his children are living without parental supervision to social services, resulting in her siblings being taken from Filiz, forcing her to marry Cemil.
BarÃ±à  has a strained relationship with his father, who dislikes Filiz because she comes from a poor background. ÃÂmer, a mafia leader, is revealed to be the husband of Yeliz, Filiz's older sister. ÃÂmer secretly loves Filiz, but he comes to the neighborhood to find diamonds that Yeliz stole. ÃÂmer and Servet join forces and send Filiz to jail. Filiz and BarÃ±à  fall in love with each other, but their relationship faces a lot of challenges due to Barñà Â's mysterious past and secretive life.
Season 2
Filiz is released from prison and is shocked to see that BarÃ±à  has disappeared. She refuses to believe this, as BarÃ±à  had written her letters, but her younger brothers reveal to her that they were the ones who wrote them so that she would not worry. Filiz finds BarÃ±à  in a hospital where she finds out he has a son, Savaà  Junior, and a wife. BarÃ±à  tells her he used her because he was tired of married life and never really loved her. Filiz is heartbroken and gets drunk. Her lawyer Selim, who is secretly in love with her, escorts her home.
Filiz starts a business that is coincidentally right next to Barñà Â's office. Both of them argue as Filiz does not want to leave the area, and BarÃ±à  is disturbed because of the construction in her shop. Tulay loses her twins. Meanwhile, Hikmet is in love with a pregnant girl named Zeynep. He marries her and decides to raise the child as his own. He keeps her secret when Cicek, living with Filiz after coming out of prison, finds his marriage papers, and the family finds out. Tulay decides to keep Zeynep and has a soft spot for her because she is pregnant.
Savaà  Junior gets a heart transplant, and BarÃ±à  tells Filiz the truth that he only went back to his first wife Nihal because his son was sick; Filiz and BarÃ±à  reconcile. Fikri marries a rich woman named Melek, who is dying of cancer. She spoils Kiraz and Feco badly and does not monitor them at all. Kiraz starts to act spoiled and is rude to Filiz, telling her to get out of her life. Melek goes to her mother in Switzerland and later dies. Fikri and his kids are kicked out of the house, and Filiz takes them into her own home. Kiraz stands on the roof of a construction building to enter a friend's club. Filiz, who is high with fever and tired, faints. BarÃ±à  proposes to her in the hospital and she accepts. Nihal threatens to imprison Filiz if BarÃ±à  does not return to her but BarÃ±à  fakes his death in front of Nihal and marries Filiz. Hikmet leaves the house, as he does not want BarÃ±à  to live there. Merve, Barñà Â's sister, shows up and decides to help BarÃ±à  by spying on Nihal by acting as Savaà  Junior's babysitter. Hikmet kidnaps a woman's child, and BarÃ±à  reveals him to be bipolar. Hikmet is put in the hospital. Filiz is revealed to be pregnant. Meanwhile, Nihal discovers BarÃ±à  is alive and imprisons him as Merve betrays Barñà Â. Nihal has a brain hemorrhage, and when she gets better, she repents and moves aboard with her son.
Neslihan is introduced as Barñà Â's colleague and former girlfriend. Rahmet sees Baris carrying Neslihan to a hotel and accuses him of cheating on Filiz. Filiz tells BarÃ±à  to divorce her, and he agrees. Later Rahmet finds out it was a misunderstanding, and BarÃ±à  carried Neslihan to her room because she was drunk, and he did not sleep with her. Filiz asks BarÃ±à  to forgive her, but he refuses. Filiz goes to Barñà Â's office to find out her baby's sex, and they welcome the news that they are having a girl. Fikri has a heart attack and claims Hikmet and his granddaughter saved him from death. He vows to become a super father. Hikmet is released from the hospital and comes to live with the Elibols. A month later, Cemil and Cicek get married as well as Rahmet and Deniz. Filiz gives birth to a baby girl. Fikri buys them all apartments for his granddaughter's arrival. A baby is left at their doorstep, which turns out to be Fikri's eighth child.
The idea for the project was first discussed in 2015 and its name was announced as Utanmazlar, an adaptation of the American TV series Shameless. Milliyet columnist Sina KoloÃÂlu published an article on 16 January 2017 in which he wrote that after asking the question "How our âÂÂShamelessâ is going to be?" from the producer, he responded by giving examples of other Turkish adaptations and asked "Americans do it this way, well, how is it going to be for us?" The series' name was later confirmed to be Bizim Hikaye. Director Serdar Gözelekli later stated that the series would be adapted for a Turkish audience. Bizim Hikayes script was written by Hatice Meryem and Banu Kiremitçi Bozkurt.
Gözelekli was replaced by Koray KerimoÃÂlu as the series' director. Banu Kiremitçi Bozkurt, who wrote the script for the first season, left the crew, and Seray à Âahiner became the series' main scriptwriter.
Principal photography began on 24 July 2017 in Sarñyer, Istanbul.
In January 2017, the first actor confirmed to join the cast was Hazal Kaya, who played Filiz Elibol. On 16 June 2017, Burak Deniz was officially cast as Savaà  "Barñà Â" Aktan. On 24 July 2017, the names of all cast members were announced; Reha ÃÂzcan joined the series in the role of family's father, Fikri Elibol, while the family's mother à Âükran, was said to be portrayed by Esra Bezen Bilgin. YaÃÂñz Can Konyalñ, Nejat Uygur, Zeynep SelimoÃÂlu, Alp Akar, and ÃÂmer Sevgi joined the cast as Fikri and à Âükran's children Rahmet, Hikmet, Kiraz, Fikret, and ðsmet respectively. Nilay Duru joined the series as Yeliz on episode 21. Cemal Toktaà  started portraying the character ÃÂmer from episode 26. In April 2018, Beren Gökyñldñz was confirmed to join the cast in episode 29 as Ayà Âe. It was later announced that Ayà Âen Gruda would also be starring in the series from episode 32 as Yedi Bela Aysel.
In the second season, Sahra à Âaà Â, Miray Akay, Murat Danacñ, Melisa Döngel and Hazal Adñyaman joined the cast as ÃÂiçek, Zeynep, Selim, Deniz and Derin respectively.
On 5 August 2017, the first teaser for the series was released, followed by another teaser on 22 August 2017. The first episode was broadcast on 14 September 2017 on Fox. The second season premiered on 13 September 2018.
Writing for Vatan, Oya DoÃÂan praised Gözelekli for his work on the first episode of the series, adding that he succeeded in "creating a cinematographic atmosphere." She also reacted positively to Hazal Kaya's acting, stating "While watching Filiz on the screen, I forgot [the existence of] Hazal and went deep into the story."