Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii (transl. The Story of Each Household) is an Indian soap opera which ran on StarPlus from 16 October 2000 to 9 October 2008.[1] The soap opera was created by Ekta Kapoor and was produced by her production company Balaji Telefilms which starred Sakshi Tanwar and Kiran Karmarkar in lead roles.[2]
The show explored the worlds of Parvati and Om Agarwal, living in a Marwadi joint family where Parvati is an ideal daughter-in-law of Agarwal family and Om the ideal son. The show is the story of the sons of Vishwanath Agarwal and their children thereof. The show also had Ali Asgar who played the role of Kamal Agarwal, Anup Soni who played the role of Suyash Mehra, Shweta Kawatra/ Achint Kaur who played the role of Pallavi Agarwal as the major supporting cast. Kahaani. Kahaani's ratings consistently maintained itself in the top 3 shows on Indian television.
The show is based mostly on their life and struggles in a joint family. The story, spread over three generations, focuses majorly on Parvati, who is married to Om, and her struggles as the ideal wife, daughter-in-law, mother and grandmother and depicts how sometimes one must stand against her loved ones to do what is morally right.[3][4] The story ends on the day of Dussehra with the family celebrating and highlighting the triumph of good over evil.[5]
It all begins with the happy Agarwal family. Vishwanath Agarwal comments on how he has always treated the daughters and daughters-in-law of the house with the same love and respect. He gives his oldest daughter-in-law Parvati his "mala". She says that she doesn't think she should receive it, but he gives it to her anyway. He tells her that this is because he thinks of her as the cord that goes through the chain holding all the beads together. These happy times are soon disrupted when Vishwanath's third son Ajay Agarwal refuses to marry the daughter of reputed businessman Mr. Bhandari. Babuji tells Ajay that he can either marry Pallavi Bhandari or leave the Agarwal house for good. Ajay opts to leave and, in a time of turmoil, Kamal steps forward to save the family and Pallavi from humiliation and agrees to marry her. The day Pallavi enters the house Parvati is busy shifting a glass structure from one place to another. Pallavi walks in and both collide. The structure collapses, shattering into a million pieces. Pallavi smiles secretly and hopes that from this day forth, whatever goes wrong in this house will go wrong because of her. Pallavi begins her venomous attack on the Agarwals and makes Parvati's life a living hell. Soon; because of the unknown conspiracies laid in by Pallavi; Parvati, Om and Shruti leave the house. Yet before too long Parvati and Chhaya run their own conspiracy against Pallavi and she is caught red-handed by the entire family in her evil scheme. Chaaya reveals to the family that she and Parvati planned this whole thing so that everyone would see how twisted Pallavi really was. Soon Kamal takes Pallavi back to her father's house and leaves her there saying that this is where she belongs. Meanwhile, the family brings Parvati and Om back home and the two of them are finally happy again. But before too long, Parvati goes to the Bhandari residence and brings Pallavi back as well. Pallavi asks Parvati how she could bring home the woman who threw her out, but Parvati tells her that they are family and they have to be together always.
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