Pavitra Rishta

Pavitra Rishta
File:PavitrRishta.jpg Intertitle of "Pavitra Rishta"
Genre	Indian soap opera, Romance and Drama
Created by	Balaji Telefilms
Written by	Story & Screenplay Rajesh Joshi Dialogues Shirish Latkar
Directed by	Muzammil Desai Ajay Veermal
Creative director	Sukriti Saxena
Starring	See below
Theme music composer	Sunil Singh Devendra Kafir
Opening theme	"Pavitra Rishta" by Keka Ghoshal
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	550+
Production
Producer	Ekta Kapoor & Shobha Kapoor
Production location	Mumbai, Maharashtra
Cinematography	Suhas Shirodkar Rajan Singh
Editors	Vikas Sharma, Vishal Sharma, & Manas Mojumdar
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	Approx. 24 minutes
Production company	Balaji Telefilms
Original release
Network	Zee TV
Release	June 1, 2009 – Present

Pavitra Rishta is an Indian daily soap opera that airs on Zee TV. The series premiered on June 1, 2009 and is produced by Indian television's soap queen Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms. The series is a remake of a very popular Tamil television serial, "Thirumathi Selvam" and has received the "Special Jury Award" at Seoul International Drama Awards 2010.

Plot

The story is based on the life of a middle-class Maharashtrian girl Archana, who makes every attempt to win over her estranged husband and the love of her in-laws. She has hard times in her life.

Cast

Archana Karanjkar Deshmukh (Ankita Lokhande) - is the main character of Pavitra Rishta, whose age is 30 years. She is an uneducated girl, a bane barrier in her marriage. She handles all the chores of her house and makes her mother comfortable. She was married to Manav but due to unfavourable circumstances got divorced. She leaves for Bangalore and comes back after 1 year, completing her education. She has now got remarried to Manav who she loves. For a while, she was hated by her sisters for re-marrying Manav.

Manav Deshmukh (Sushant Singh Rajput) - is the leading male character. He is about 32 years old. He works as a mechanic in a garage whole day to earn a living for his family. He too is not a much educated guy. He has no dreams of his own. He only dreams of earning & supporting his family financially. He loves Archana, but had to divorce her. He later gets a job in Satish & Dharmesh's company with Archana as his supervisor. He finds out the truth about jaywant and later reunites with archana.

Sulochana Karanjkar (Savita Prabhune) - is a central character of the show, whose age is about 60 years. She is Archana's mother and being that loves and cares for her including her other two daughters.

Manohar Karanjkar (Kishor Govind Mahabole) - is 62 year old father of Archana. He too loves his daughters and can go to any limit to protect their happiness. He undoubtedly is an ideal dad.

Varsha Joshi (Priya Marathe)- is 28 year old sister of Archana. She is married to Satish. At first her married life seemed threatened when her ex-beau Ashwin started blackmailing her but everything now is at peace. She is a career woman, but took off work for 2 years after her marriage and is now adamant on returning which is why she doesn't want to have a baby, much to her mother-in-law's dismay. However after receiving an interview, she discovers she is pregnant. Later she has an abortion which creates problems with her sasural but satish forgives her at Archana's house. Varsha has had problems after her abortion and doctor has told Satish that Varsha can never be pregnant again. Varsha is shattered after hearing this, she overhears this in a conversation between Vaishali and Archana.

Vaishali Jaipurwala (Prarthana Behere) - is the youngest sister of Archana whose age is 26 years. She always supports Archana and her mother just like Varsha. She is now married to Dharmesh Jaipurwala, Satish's business partner. Vaishali finds out of Dharmesh's secret marriage and is shattered.

Vinod Karanjkar (Parag Tyagi) - is Archana's brother, who is about 35 years old. He is married to Manjusha. He earns very low in his house. He has two daughters. Because of Manjusha's desire who can't seem to fit in a joint family, he shifted out in a separate flat. He has returned back to his parents' home now. He is often influenced by his wife and participates in humiliating Manav. Archana severes ties with him after knowing that Manjusha accused Manav of stealing money. He is naive and stupid and always supports Manjusha not knowing of her hidden motives.

Manjusha Karanjkar (Swati Anand) - is about 34 year old sister-in-law of Archana. She has very unoptimistic approach towards mother-in-law and Vinod’s sisters. She always gets into fights with Sulochana because she refuses to believe the wrongs said against her mother and brother. She also believes that everyone in the house blames her for their deeds. She always cooks some devious plans to hurt Vinod's family and has been exposed so many times. Her in-laws always forgive her and hope that she will improve. She particularly despises Manav and Archana. Manjusha is a greedy woman and ultimately wants her in-laws assets to herself alone. She tried to frame Manav for stealing 100,000 rupees from Vinod. Later she is exposed by Archana and told to leave the house. She then comes back but everyone is still mad.

Sachin Deshmukh (Raj Singh) - Manav's younger brother. He loved Shravani, but he died in an accident. He has a son with Shravani, named Sachin. Sachin junior is staying with Savita Deshmukh after Shravani left to USA.(29)

Damodar Deshmukh (Ajay Wadavkar) - Manav's father. He loves his wife Savita but quarrels with her all the time. He is happy now that Archana and Manav have reunited.(61)

Savita Deshmukh (Usha Nadkarni) - Manav's mother. She loves her family quite a bit. She initially hated Archana and desperately wanted Manav to divorce her and marry Shravani, but later she started loving Archana like her own daughter. She is the one affected much by their divorce. Now that Manav got re-married to Archana, she hates Archana again, and drives them out of the house. She has gotten more greedy as shown when she takes Sachin(baby) from Shravani. She only seems bad on the exterior which is mainly due to her greediness for money, but otherwise she loves her family and acts the way she does for no apparent reason.(60)

Vandita Lokhande (Yamini Thakur) - Manav's sister. Ajit molests her and then in public tells everyone that he raped her. She gets married to him because he and his mother blackmailed her into it. Ajit even beat her at times. But after the year skipped we saw that Ajit respects her a lot and tries to be nice with her. Vandita has also been instrumental in managing their family when they suffered poor times. Ajit is now supportive of Vandita, and also making her complete her studies.(26)

Shravani Mahadik(Pooja Pihal) - She loved Sachin. After his accident she learns that she's pregnant. With Savita's suggestion, she decides to marry Manav after his divorce. She falls in love with Manav and tries to separate him whole-heartedly from Archana. Because of the death of Manav's uncle at their wedding day, they didn't get married. After realizing that Manav, Archana and herself won't be happy if she married Manav, she broke off the marriage and sacrificed her love. She has a son named Sachin who was taken away from her by Savita. She has now moved to live in the US.(28)

Satish Joshi (Anurag Sharma) - Loves Varsha and married her. He tries to help everyone in his family who has problems. He still supports Varsha after finding out about her affair with his brother-in-law. Ashwin.After Ashwin said a lie about Varsha that she still loves him despite him being married, Varsha's whole family went against her. Only Satish defended her, thinking she is innocent. Satish then meets one of Varsha's former friend and accomplice of Ashwin, Rashmi, and gathered evidence against his brother-in-law. He then shows the evidence to his older sister Urmilla, Ashwin's wife,and Urmilla severe ties with Ashwin. He was originally supposed to marry Varsha's older sister, Archana. He is also one of the few characters who supports and understands Manav. (29)

Dharmesh Jaipurwala (Sumit Arora) - Dharmesh is the husband of Archana's youngest sister, Vaishaili. He is Satish's business partner. He fell in love with Vaishaili and proposed to her in front of her parents. He is very strict in his business principles and refuses to let his relationships or feelings get in the way of his business. He wants his sister-in-law, Archana to forget Manav and move on with her life and suggests her marriage to Jaywant. He wears glasses, has a paunch and is kind of a jerk. He also has another secret relationship (second wife and child) out of this marriage, who live in Pune. He can drop to any level to protect his skin.(32)

Madhuri Dharmesh Jaipurwala (Divjot Sabarwal) - Madhuri is Dharmesh's first wife. They have been married secretly long before Dharmesh got married to Vaishali. Dharmesh's parents as well as Vaishali and her family are oblivious of this prior relationship. However Madhuri is all aware of Dharmesh's second marriage and life in Mumbai. Madhuri lives in Pune with her son Varun. She is a simple woman, who has accepted this way of life, that she has to live alone despite having a husband. She only wants her ill child to become healthy, after which she intends to walk out of Dharmesh's life forever.(29)

Varun Dharmesh Jaipurwala - Varun is Dharmesh and Madhuri's son. Varun is often hospitalized due to his health problems. The doctors have said that they can do bone marrow transplant from Varun's sibling, which can save Varun's life. Madhuri hence comes to Mumbai to meet Dharmesh to ask for a second child, in order to save Varun's life.(9)

Rasika Lokhande (Smita Oak) - Manjusha's and Ajit's mother. Hates everyone apart from her children. She is a very vengeful person and wants to ruin the lives of Achana, Manav and their families. In one episode,Savita yelled at her for burning Vandita's hand.(60)

Ajit Lokhande (Pankaj Vishnu) - was an evil soul. He was the main reason for the divorce between Manav and Archana. Later he molested Vandita and tricked her into marrying him. Thus getting closer to Manav and Archana's famiy and ruining them for personal reasons. That was a year ago. Now he has transformed into a good being and is very supportive of Manav. He and Vandita try to help Manav for getting back with Archana. (32)

Jaywant Rane (Mahesh Shetty) - portrays the villain. He is Archana's second fiance. He plans to marry Archana only to win his court case and later kick archana out of his house 1 year later after he gets all his advantages. But Satish finds out the truth on the wedding day by accident and tells Archana to marry Manav instead. At the wedding time Archana is nowhere to be found as she flees to marry Manav. He is very insulted by this incident and wants to separate Manav and Archana. He is copiously making plans with Manjusha to help him implement them . (32)

Ashwin Sagar (Amit Sareen) - Varsha's old boss & ex-beau who blackmails her and sinfully loves her even though she is married & he himself too. Both Ashwin and Varsha used to love each other. When Manav find the truth that Ashwin is married, he confronted him and threatened him that he'll the truth to Varsha. Ashwin then threatened Manav that he'll face his wrath if he pokes into his business. When Manav told everything to Varsha about Ashwin, Varsha didn't believe him but she started worrying. Rashmi, one of Ashwin's associates, tells Ashwin what Manav told Varsha and is ordered to take control of the situation. When Varsha finds a letter which contain the flight ticket of Urmila Sagar, she is suspicious and then went to the airport, finding out Ashwin is already married. He then was caught by Varsha with his wife and tries to pacify her after knowing the truth. Varsha breaks off all ties with him but he comes back as her brother-in-law. Ashwin claims that he still loves Varsha even though Ashwin and Varsha are married. He then badmouths Varsha and turned the whole family against her. Satish only supported her and exposed his true intentions to his sister, Urmila, who divorced Ashwin. Ashwin isn't seen again. (35)

Urmila Sagar (Ashlesha Sawant) - Ashwin's wife and Satish's older sister. She divorced Ashwin and apologized to Varsha and others for his behaviour.(34)

Awards

Zee Rishtey Awards

In Feb-2010

Category	Character	Cast
Favorite Saas-Sasur	Savita & Damodar	Usha Nadkarni & Ajay Wadavkar
Favorite Mata-Pita	Sulochana & Manohar	Savita Prabhune & Kishor Govind Mahabole
Favorite Khalnayak	Savita	Usha Nadkarni
Favorite Bhabhi	Manjusha	Swati Anand
Favorite Serial	Pavitra Rishta	Ekta Kapoor
Favorite Jodi	Archana & Manav	Ankita Lokhande & Sushant Singh Rajput

In Dec-2010

Category	Character	Cast
Favorite Saas-Sasur	Savita & Damodar	Usha Nadkarni & Ajay Wadavkar
Favorite Mata-Pita	Sulochana & Manohar	Savita Prabhune & Kishor Govind Mahabole
Favorite Khalnayak Jodi	Savita & Manjusha	Usha Nadkarni & Swati Anand
Favorite Sautan	Shravani	Pooja Pihal
Favorite Popular Face-Male	Manav	Sushant Singh Rajput
Favorite Popular Face-Female	Archana	Ankita Lokhande
Favorite Parivaar	Pavitra Rishta Parivaar	Pavitra Rishta Team
Favorite Jodi	Archana & Manav	Ankita Lokhande & Sushant Singh Rajput

Other Awards

Year	Award	Category	Show/Cast	Character
2011	The Global Indian Film and Television Honours	Best TV Actor (Male)	Sushant Singh Rajput	Manav Deshmukh
2010	Seoul International Drama Awards	Special Jury Award for Best Drama Series	Pavitra Rishta	- .
2011	Zee Gold Awards	Best TV Actor (Male)	Sushant Singh Rajput	Manav Deshmukh
2010	Zee Gold Awards	Best TV Debut-Female	Ankita Lokhande	Archana Deshmukh
2010	Zee Gold Awards	Best TV Actor for Negative Role(Female)	Usha Nadkarni	Savita Deshmukh
2010	Zee Gold Awards	Best TV Show ruling TRP Charts of The Year	Pavitra Rishta	-
2010	BIG Star Entertainment Awards	BIG Star -Television Actor (Male)	Sushant Singh Rajput	Manav Deshmukh
2010	Indian Television Academy Awards	Best Actor Popular(Male)	Sushant Singh Rajput	Manav Deshmukh
2010	Indian Television Academy Awards	GR8 Face of the Year-Female	Ankita Lokhande	Archana Deshmukh
2010	Indian Telly Awards	Most Popular Drama Series	Pavitra Rishta	-
2009	Indian Telly Awards	Most Popular Actress in Supporting Role	Savita Prabhune	Sulochna Karanjkar
2009	New Talent Awards	Best New Actor-Female	Ankita Lokhande	Archana Deshmukh
2009	New Talent Awards	Best TV Personality	Ankita Lokhande	Archana Deshmukh
2009	New Talent Awards	Most Promising New Show Of The Year	Pavitra Rishta	-

External links

• Pavitra Rishta Official Site on Zee TV India
• Official Site on Zee TV USA