Pavitra Rishta

''Pavitra Rishta'' (International title: ''Sacred Relationship'') is a 2009 Indian soap opera produced by Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms, that aired on Zee TV from 1 June 2009 to 25 October 2014. It is an adaptation of Tamil television series Thirumathi Selvam.

In late 2018 and later in 2020 after the death of Rajput, the series was rebroadcast on Zee TV. After this rerun received good ratings, they decided to bring a new series. A web series titled Pavitra Rishta - Its Never too Late aired on Zee5 from 15 September 2021 starring Ankita Lokhande reprising her role as Archana and Shaheer Sheikh as Manav.

Summary

Archana Karanjkar is a hard-working, homely girl. Her mother, Sulochana fixes Archana's marriage with Manav Deshmukh, misunderstanding that Manav is a mechanical engineer. Finally, Archana and Manav marry and her family learns that Manav is a mere mechanic.

Gradually, Archana and Manav fall in love with each other. Manav's brother, Sachin dies in a car accident and his fiancée Shravani is pregnant with his child. Archana and Manav divorce to so that Sachin and Shravani's unborn child has a bright future. Manav and Shravani's marriage is fixed, and Archana leaves Mumbai and completes her higher studies.

2 years later

Archana is now educated and returns to Mumbai. Shravani has delivered a boy, who is named after Sachin. Sulochana decides to get Archana married to Jaywant. Coincidentally, Manav and Shravani's marriage falls on the same date as Jaywant and Archana's wedding. At last, Manav and Archana marry and hence unite again. Shravani leaves for abroad giving Jr. Sachin to Archana and Manav.

Archana's sister, Vaishali married with Manav's boss, Dharmesh.

4 years later

Manav is now a rich business tycoon. Manav and Archana have a son, Soham. Later, they have twin daughters, Ovi and Tejaswini. Archana's childless sister, Varsha abducts Soham and runs away with him. They fall into a river and presumed dead.

Manav's mother, Savita conspires against Archana. Manav misunderstands Archana and shifts to Canada with his family. Archana is shattered and adopts a baby girl, Purvi. Vaishali leaves Dharmesh due to his abusive behavior on herself and her children.

18 years later

Manav returns to India to finalize their divorce, and they are ordered a six-month courtship together. Deshmukhs' return to India. Ovi falls in love with Arjun Kirloskar, while he is in love with Purvi. Varsha and Soham are found to be alive as goons in Bihar. Due to Punni's conspiracy, Ovi blackmails Purvi and Purvi begs Arjun to marry Ovi. Tejaswini exposes Savita's conspiracy, uniting Archana and Manav. Punni creates a rift between Ovi and Purvi. To save Ovi and Arjun marriage life, Purvi shifts to Pune.

6 months later, Purvi is married to Dr. Onir, a gynecologist. Both Purvi and Ovi are pregnant with Arjun's child. Onir and Purvi return to Mumbai to treat Ovi. Ovi loses her child and Purvi switches her child with Ovi's baby with Onir. Soon, Purvi is exposed. Ovi-Arjun and Onir-Purvi get divorced. Finally, Manav and Archana decide to get Arjun and Purvi married so their daughter, Pari, gets her full family.

Tejaswini falls in love with Sunny. But, they have to break up as Savita and Snehlata are rivals. Soham falls in love with Gauri, who is Jr. Sachin's fiancée. He runs away with Gauri as family reject his relationship. They fall into a river and presumed dead.

Ovi finds that she's pregnant again with Arjun's child and delivers a daughter, Pia. Purvi misunderstands that Arjun has cheated on her. She shifts to Canada with Pari and the entire family.

20 years later

Purvi returns to Mumbai and realizes the truth of Pia and Ovi. Arjun is revealed to be have brain tumor. Arjun and Purvi reunite and they move to Australia for Arjun's treatment. Pia helps Ovi to unite with her parents and her family.

Soham, who is revealed to be alive, lives with his children, Ankita, Prashant, Mansi, Pranav and Sonali. Ankita, who is exactly lookalike Archana, marries the mentally challenged Naren Karmarkar. Naren is traumatized after his lover Ahaana's death, assumes that Ankita is Ahaana. Naren gets much better, and they consummate their marriage.

On Pari's wedding day, Naren discovers that Pari is Ahaana, and he went again in trauma. Naren regains his memory and expels Ankita from his life. Ankita gives birth to their daughter Ashi. Naren's mother, Rushali steals the baby to Naren and Pari and tells Ankita that her child is died.

5 years later

Pari realizes Ankita and Naren still love each other, and Ashi is their daughter and leaves them. Ankita and Naren unite.

Purvi and Arjun return to Pari, who accepts both her parents after some time and lives as a family. Ovi lives with Pia as a single mother.

Manav-Archana, Arjun-Purvi, and Ankita-Naren together commemorate their "Pavitra Rishta". Manav meets with a fatal accident and Archana dies of grief. Their souls are shown to be in heaven together, expressing their undying love for each other.

Cast

Main

* Ankita Lokhande as
** Archana "Archu" Karanjkar Deshmukh – Sulochana and Manohar's eldest daughter; Vinod, Varsha and Vaishali's sister; Manav's wife; Soham, Ovi and Tejaswini's mother; Jr. Sachin and Purvi's adoptive mother; Pia, Ankita, Prashant, Mansi, Pranav and Sonali's grandmother; Pari, Gaurav and Pushti's adoptive grandmother (2009–2014)
** Ankita Deshmukh Karmarkar – Soham's eldest daughter; Prashant and Mansi's sister; Pranav and Sonali's half-sister; Naren's wife; Arushi's mother (2013–2014)
* Sushant Singh Rajput / Hiten Tejwani as Manav Deshmukh – Damodar and Savita's elder son; Sachin and Vandita's brother; Archana's husband; Soham, Ovi and Tejaswini's father; Jr. Sachin and Purvi's adoptive father; Pia, Ankita, Prashant, Mansi, Pranav and Sonali's grandfather; Pari, Gaurav and Pushti's adoptive grandfather (2009–2014)
* Asha Negi as Purvi Deshmukh Kirloskar – Archana and Manav's adopted daughter; Jr. Sachin, Soham, Ovi and Tejaswini's adopted sister; Onir's ex-wife; Arjun's wife; Pari's mother (2011–2014)
* Rithvik Dhanjani as Arjun Kirloskar – Digvijay and Ashna's son; Ovi's ex-husband; Purvi's husband; Pari and Pia's father (2011–2014)
* Shruti Kanwar as Ovi Deshmukh – Archana and Manav's elder daughter; Soham and Tejaswini's sister; Jr. Sachin and Purvi's adopted sister; Arjun's ex-wife; Pia's mother (2011–2014)
* Mrinalini Tyagi as Tejaswini "Teju" Deshmukh – Archana and Manav's younger daughter; Soham and Ovi's sister; Jr. Sachin and Purvi's adopted sister; Sunny's ex-fiancée (2011–2014)
* Ankit Narang as Soham "Vishnu" Deshmukh – Archana and Manav's son; Varsha and Balan's adopted son; Ovi and Tejaswini's brother; Jr. Sachin and Purvi's adopted brother; Ratna's ex-husband; Ankita, Prashant, Mansi, Pranav and Sonali's father (2012–2014)
* Puru Chibber / Anubhay Srivastava as Jr. Sachin "Sachu" Deshmukh – Sachin and Shravani's son; Archana and Manav's adopted son; Soham, Ovi, Tejaswini and Purvi's adopted brother; Neena's husband; Gaurav and Pushti's father (2012–2014)
* Karan Veer Mehra as Narendra Karmarkar – Shirish and Rushali's elder son; Raunak's brother; Pari's ex-husband; Ankita's husband; Arushi's father (2013–2014)
* Ruhee Bagga as Pari Kirloskar – Purvi and Arjun's daughter; Pia's half-sister; Naren's ex-wife (2013–2014)

Recurring

* Savita Prabhune as Sulochana Karanjkar – Manohar's wife; Vinod, Archana, Varsha and Vaishali's mother; Poornima, Ruchita, Aniket, Soham, Ovi and Tejaswini's grandmother; Jr. Sachin and Purvi's adoptive grandmother; Pia, Ankita, Prashant, Mansi, Pranav and Sonali's great-grandmother; Pari, Gaurav and Pushti's adoptive great-grandmother (2009–2014)
* Ajay Rohila / Kishori Govind Mahabole as Manohar Karanjkar – Sulochana's husband; Vinod, Archana, Varsha and Vaishali's father; Poornima, Ruchita, Aniket, Soham, Ovi and Tejaswini's grandfather; Jr. Sachin and Purvi's adoptive grandfather; Pia, Ankita, Prashant, Mansi, Pranav and Sonali's great-grandfather; Pari, Gaurav and Pushti's adoptive great-grandfather (2009–2011) (Dead)
* Parag Tyagi as Vinod Karanjkar – Sulochana and Manohar's son; Archana, Varsha and Vaishali's brother; Manjusha's husband; Poornima and Ruchita's father (2009–2013)
* Priya Marathe as Varsha Karanjkar Deshpande – Sulochana and Manohar's second daughter; Vinod, Archana and Vaishali's sister; Satish's wife; Soham's adoptive mother (2009–2013)
* Prarthana Behere / Madhumita Das as Vaishali Karanjkar – Sulochana and Manohar's youngest daughter; Vinod, Archana and Varsha's sister; Dharmesh's ex-wife; Aniket's mother; Varun's adoptive mother (2009–2011) (2011–2012)
* Swati Anand as Manjusha Lokhande Karanjkar – Rasika's elder daughter; Ajit's sister; Vinod's wife; Poornima and Ruchita's mother (2009—2013)
* Jia Mustafa as Poornima "Punni" Karanjkar Mittal – Vinod and Manjusha's elder daughter; Ruchita's sister; Malik's wife (2011—2013)
* Krunal Pandit as Malik Mittal – Poornima's husband (2011–2013)
* Meghna Kinare / Shivani Tomar as Ruchita Karanjkar – Vinod and Manjusha's younger daughter; Poornima's sister (2011) (2013)
* Smita Oak as Rasika Lokhande – Manjusha and Ajit's mother; Poornima, Ruchita and Munni's grandmother (2009–2012)
* Yamini Thakur as Vandita "Vandu" Deshmukh Lokhande – Damodar and Savita's daughter; Manav and Sachin's sister; Ajit's wife; Munni's mother (2009–2013)
* Prabhat Bhattacharya / Pankaj Vishnu as Ajit Lokhande – Rasika's son; Manjusha's brother; Vandita's husband; Munni's father (2009–2011, 2013)
* Pragati Chourasiya as Munni Lokhande – Ajit and Vandita's daughter (2011)
* Anurag Sharma as Satish Deshpande – Mohan and Bhavna's son; Varsha's husband (2009–2011)
* Shalini Arora as Bhavna Deshpande – Mohan's wife; Satish's mother (2009–2011)
* Pawan Mahendru as Mohan Deshpande – Bhavna's husband; Satish's father (2009–2011) (Dead)
* Sumit Arora as Dharmesh Jaipurwala – Meena's son; Vaishali's and Madhuri's ex-husband; Varun and Aniket's father (2010–2011)
* Sujata Vaishnav as Meena Jaipurwala – Dharmesh's mother; Varun and Aniket's grandmother (2010–2011)
* Divjot Sabarwal as Madhuri Jaipurwala – Dharmesh's ex-wife; Varun's mother (2011)
* Karan Hukku as Varun Jaipurwala – Dharmesh and Madhuri's son; Vaishali's adopted son; Aniket's half-brother (2011)
* Rahul Tandon as Aniket Jaipurwala – Dharmesh and Vaishali's son; Varun's half-brother (2012–2013)
* Ajay Wadhavkar as Damodar Deshmukh – Vishwas's brother; Savita's husband; Manav, Sachin and Vandita's father; Jr. Sachin, Munni, Soham, Ovi and Tejaswini's grandfather; Purvi's adoptive grandfather; Pia, Ankita, Gaurav, Prashant, Mansi, Pushti, Pranav and Sonali's great-grandfather; Pari's adoptive great-grandfather (2009–2014)
* Usha Nadkarni as Savita Deshmukh – Damodar's wife; Manav, Sachin and Vandita's mother; Jr. Sachin, Munni, Soham, Ovi and Tejaswini's grandmother; Purvi's adoptive grandmother; Pia, Ankita, Gaurav, Prashant, Mansi, Pushti, Pranav and Sonali's great-grandmother; Pari's adoptive great-grandmother (2009–2014)
* Sunil Godse as Vishwasrao Deshmukh – Damodar's brother; Manav, Sachin and Vandita's uncle (2009–2010) (Dead)
* Raj Singh Suryavanshi as Sachin Deshmukh – Damodar and Savita's younger son; Manav and Vandita's brother; Shravani's fiancé; Jr. Sachin's father (2009) (Dead)
* Pooja Pihal as Shravani Mahadik – Girish's daughter; Sachin's fiancée; Jr. Sachin's mother (2009–2011)
* Anil Mishra as Girish Mahadik – Shravani's father (2009–2010)
* Manasi Salvi as Ashna Kirloskar – Digvijay's wife; Arjun's mother; Pari and Pia's grandmother (2011) (Dead)
* Naved Aslam as Digvijay Kirloskar – Manav's boss and friend; Ashna's husband; Arjun's father; Pari and Pia's grandfather (2011–2013)
* Mansi Sharma as Neena Deshmukh – Jr. Sachin's wife; Gaurav and Pushti's mother (2013–2014)
*Karishma Sharma as Pia Kirloskar – Ovi and Arjun's daughter; Pari's half-sister (2014)
* Nishant Raghuwanshi as Prashant Deshmukh – Soham's elder son; Ankita and Mansi's brother; Pranav and Sonali's half-brother (2013–2014)
* Aparna Dixit as Mansi Deshmukh Kamble – Soham's second daughter; Ankita and Prashant's sister; Pranav and Sonali's half-sister; Shashank's wife; Priya's mother (2013–2014)
* Manish Naggdev as Shashank Kamble – Mansi's husband; Priya's adoptive father (2013–2014)
* Akash Nath as Pranav Deshmukh – Soham and Ratna's son; Sonali's brother; Ankita, Prashant and Mansi's half-brother (2013–2014)
* Kreesha Shah as Sonali Deshmukh – Soham and Ratna's daughter; Pranav's sister; Ankita, Prashant and Mansi's half-sister (2013–2014)
* Niveen A Ramani as Gaurav Deshmukh – Jr. Sachin and Neena's son; Pushti's brother (2013–2014)
* Jinal Jain as Pushti Deshmukh – Jr. Sachin and Neena's daughter; Gaurav's sister (2013–2014)
* Mandar Jadhav as Vinay Apte – Purvi's ex-fiancé (2012–2013)
* Shakti Arora as Dr. Onir Dutt – Purvi's ex-husband; Shalini's husband (2012–2013)
* Maneka Lalwani as Shalini Dutt –
Onir's wife (2013)
* Simmi Ghoshal as Young Varsha (2013)
* Karan Sharma as Sunny Khandeshi – Mukesh and Snehlata's younger son; Jignesh's brother; Tejaswini's ex-fiancé (2012–2013)
* Ketki Dave as Snehlata Khandeshi – Mukesh's wife; Sunny and Jignesh's mother; Savita's rival (2012–2013)
* Mark Parakh as Jignesh Khandeshi – Mukesh and Snehlata's elder son; Sunny's brother (2012–2013)
* Priyanka Kandwal as Dr. Gauri Shahane – Umesh and Rajni's daughter; Atul's sister; Archana's doctor; Jr. Sachin and Soham's ex-fiancée (2013) (Dead)
* Sanjay Bhatia as Umesh Shahane – Rajni's husband; Gauri and Atul's father (2013)
* Amita Desai as Rajni Shahane – Umesh's wife; Gauri and Atul's mother (2013)
* Ahmad Harhash as Atul Shahane – Umesh and Rajni's son; Gauri's brother (2013)
* Mahesh Shetty as Jaywant Rane – Swati's brother; Archana's proposed groom (2010)
* Sheeba Chadha as Rushali Karmarkar – Shrish's wife; Naren and Raunak's mother; Priya and Arushi's grandmother (2013–2014)
* Vikrant Chaturvedi as Shirish Karmarkar – Sunanda's brother; Rushali's husband; Naren and Raunak's father; Priya and Arushi's grandfather (2013–2014)
* Sumukhi Pendsey as Sunanda Karmarkar – Shirish's sister; Naren and Raunak's aunt (2013–2014)
* Ranjeet Singh as Raunak Karmarkar – Rushali and Shirish's younger son; Naren's brother; Kinnari's husband; Priya's father (2013–2014)
* Minal Mogam as Kinnari Karmarkar – Raunak's wife (2013–2014)
* Angel as Arushi Karmarkar – Ankita and Naren's daughter (2014)
* Karan Suchak as Shekhar Gupta – Lawyer; Naren's friend; Pari's ex-fiancé (2013–2014)
* Amit Sareen as Ashwin Sagar – Satish's cousin; Varsha's lover; Urmila's husband (2009–2010)
* Ashlesha Sawant as Urmila Sagar – Ashwin's wife (2009–2010)
* Neha Sehgal as Ria Gupta – Manav's assistant (2010–2011)
* Mukul Harish as Ranvijay – Gopal and Neelima's younger son; Vishnu's brother; Vaishnavi's father (2014)
* Bhanujeet Sudan as Rishabh Kapoor – A businessman; Sonia's former husband; Purvi's obsessed lover (2013–2014) (Dead)
* Kali Prasad Mukherjee / Abhay Bhargava as Balan Lala Singh – Varsha's pretend husband; Soham's adoptive father (2012–2013) (2013–2014)
* Tanvi Thakkar as Rashmi (2009–2010)
* Syed Zafar Ali as Dr. Agarwal (2013)
* Eva Shirali as Swati Rane (2009–2010)
* Irfan Razaa Khan as Prakash (2010)
* Savita Shivaskar as Sundari (2011–2014)
* Aryan Prajapati as Nikhil (2013–2014)
* Anuradha Namdar as Charulata Mehta (2012–2013)
* Mohit Sehgal as Pradeep Saini (2013)
* Suman Shastri Kant as Kinshuk Banerjee (2013)

Production

Sushant Singh Rajput who was playing the parallel lead in '' Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil'' of StarPlus was cast as Manav. Zee TV did not accept him for casting as Manav as he was a parallel lead of the show in their rival channel. But Producer Ekta Kapoor convinced the channel to accept him. In November 2011 Rajput quit the series and was replaced by Hiten Tejwani. However, during the final of the series on 25 October 2014, Tejwani paved way for Rajput who appeared in the final episode as Manav.

Schedule

The show's time slot was changed from 21:00 to 18:30 in 15 April 2014 and the 21:00 slot was taken by Kumkum Bhagya, also produced by Ekta Kapoor.

Reception

Around late 2008, producer Ekta Kapoor and her production house Balaji Telefilms declined when the ratings and popularity of all her hit soaps of the 2000s decreased and were axed and also when newly launched ones performed poorly. Since then most channels did not accept her to work. It was due to the chance given by Zee TV for this series, the career of Kapoor and her production house was revived when it became one of the top-rated Hindi television programs.

Accolades

''Pavitra Rishta'' received several awards and nominations. Lokhande and Rajput received multiple awards for their roles Archana and Manav in the Best Actress and Best Actor categories, as has Nadkarni in the Best Negative Actress category and Ekta Kapoor in the Best Serial category.

Broadcast

* In India, the series is re-aired on Zee TV from September 3, 2020 due to popular demand.
* In Pakistan, it was aired on Geo Entertainment under the title "Na Tootay Rishta" for few months but than channel ended the show abruptly.
* In Vietnam, the show was broadcast on Vietnam Television and HuongVietTV under the name "Tình yêu và định mệnh".
* The show is dubbed in English at Urban Brew Studios South Africa and was Aired from Monday to Friday under the name Scared Ties On Zee World.
* The show currently airs on Apna Television in New Zealand with English subtitles, Mon–Fri 9:00pm.
* The Show is dubbed in French and broadcast in the Southern African region and Mascareignes Island on Zee Magic.
* It is also broadcast in Mauritius on MBC 2 and its sister channel MBC 4 .
* In Indonesia, the show was broadcast on antv under name "Archana Mencari Cinta" (Archana Searching Love)
* In Bulgaria, the show was broadcast on Nova TV under name "Завинаги свързани" (Connected Forever)
* Since September 3, 2018, the show is re-aired in Double Episodes (2 episodes at one airing) every Monday to Friday at 04:00 PM IST on Zee TV SD on popular demand.
* The series is also streaming on Zee5 in 2020 after the tragic death of one of its main actor, Sushant Singh Rajput on 14 June 2020.
* In Turkey, it aired on Kanal 7 under the title "Baş Tacım" from 21 June 2021 to 9 August 2022.

Adaptations

References

External links

*
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