Mata Ki Chowki Synopsis and Characters

Mata ki Chowki will take you on a journey that will reveal many true faces of our modern society. A society that doesn't fear God, and atrocities and unfairness are in abundance. But then there are people like Vaishnavi, a great devotee of Mata Vaishno Devi, is out there in our society to make a difference.

Mata ki Chowki is a story of a girl called Vaishnavi, an adopted child of Pandit Vidyasagar and his wife Shraddha. After two years, her mother, Shraddha, dies giving birth to her own child Sunakshi.

From the early age of six, Vaishnavi develops immense interest and faith in "Ma Vaishno Devi". She starts showing signs of being a super-normal child. She preaches about Mata, sings Jagrata, motivates people to follow Mata and rescues people from pain and misery.

The story takes a twist when her sister, Sunakshi runs away with her lover at the time of her marriage with Vansh. And this ends up Vaishnavi marrying Vansh and throwing herself into an unfamiliar world. Here, Vaishnavi meets Sheel Kumar (father-in-law), the evil force who takes advantage of her devotion towards Mata Viashno Devi and her ability to motivate people through her preaching.

Vaishnavi sees herself in a world wherein the seven deadly sins lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride have cluttered humans to look for short cuts to power, wealth and success following non-moralistic ways. As a great devotee of Mata Vaishno Devi, would Vaishnavi be able to help people to show the right path in this 'nowhere' going era of Kalyug? Or will she be just a puppet in the hands of evils of the modern society?

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Vaishnavi:

Vaishnavi had great interest in Mata Vaishnodevi from the early age of six. Eventually this makes her a great devotee of Mata. She also shares her knowledge of Mata through her preaching which motivates people to follow Mata Vaishnodevi.

Vaishnavi is an adopted child of Pandit Tripurari and his wife Shraddha. When their own daughter Sunakshi runs away with her lover on the day of her marriage, Vaishnavi gets a chance to show her gratitude towards them and accepts to marry Vansh in place of Sunakshi.

Vaishnavi's marriage with Vansh puts her into a world where she has to face all kinds of evil forces. She surrenders herself to Mata and sails through all testing times, performs every role neatly: best bahu, good wife, guiding/helping sis-in-law, working daughter-in-law. Here too she wins the heart of everybody through her devotion and preaching about Mata Vaishnodevi.

Vansh Kumar:

Vansh Kumar lives a laid back life, loves to party around with friends and have fun, but is quite cultured, believes in God and has immense respect for parents.
As he couldn't say no to his father's proposal on his marriage with pandit's daughter, he ends up marrying Vaishnavi although he is in love with a girl called Mohini.

Initially Vansh is also part of the rebellious group against Vaishnavi, but at one point of time he literally fights for Vaishnavi with people. Later he starts paying attention to business, understands the real culprits in house, and takes over from everyone to run business with an honest approach since Vaishnavi is always there to guide him.

Sheel Kumar:

Sheel Kumar is the father-in-law of Vaishnavi. He is shrewd, cunning, diplomatic and a smart planner. As a business minded person, he notices the blind faith of mumbaikars in religion and spirituality specifically for Mata Vaishnodevi. He planes to "use" this faith of people along with his intelligence and hard word to excel in life by using Vaishnavi.

Sheel is soft–spoken, sweet talker, articulate and charms people; also has the immense power to convince people on his own terms. He keeps his family together and believes in "using" them as per his comfort. He is quite smart in approach, plays long term game and never reveals his plan.

Ambika Kumar :

Wife of Sheel Kumar – cultured lady – has been through the journey of life of Sheel Kumar – she is well aware of the conspicuous characteristics of Sheel Kumar – she knows that his tendency of saying "Jai Mata Di" all the time is not noble – she keeps an close eye on his plans but is not sure about it all the time – else, she is like any Indian cultured lady who performs all her duties without even an ounce of selfishness – not that spiritual but believes in Mata – is the leading lady of the house – house runs on her order – people are scared of her, respect her, admire her except Priyamvada – initially she doubts the characteristic of Vaishnavi (as in she is real or fake) but later she understands her and loves her – Yash, her rebellious son only loves her and respects her in the house.

Sabhya Kumar :

50 years old – a shy, humble, honest and introvert individual – content and satisfied – never tried to push himself beyond – cultured – firm believer in Mata – peace loving, tension-free, spiritual, philosophical and humourous individual – believes, "Malik ne jita diya utni meri aukat nahi…", "Jo hota hai accha hota", "Karm kiye ja phal ki chinta mat kar…" and the kind of theories – has immense faith and respect for Sheel kumar – his saying are like "amrit Vani" and his orders are like orders of God, his achievements are the best to him – his most of the time spends in talking about achievements of his brother – he narrates the story as how his brother groomed him and this empire out of his sheer hard work – a fan, follower of Sheel Kumar and thinks of himself nothing when compared to Sheel – tries to calm down his wife and requests her not to talk ill about Sheel or his business – his majority of time passes in making his wife understand that "Sheel was never partial with him and all the luxuries, comfort, respect and honour they are enjoying is because of Sheel – he wants his son

Priyamvada Kumar :

45 years old – was the first elite lady to enter the Kumar's family which hails from humble background – comes from a rich business class family – her marriage with Sabhya was arranged by Sheel himself – Priyamvada's father gave lot of dowry which helped Sheel to expand business and thus they became billionaire – Priyamvada feels that Sabhya and she couldn't get that much of respect, fame, honour and credit as the show was stolen by Sheel even though it came out of money given to her by her father – that thing has stuck somewhere in her mind – she wants all the credit, ownership, profit which sabhya couldn't get for her as Sabhya completely disagrees to her theory – She has major complaints with sabhya; thinks of him as looser and a pawn in hands of Sheel – she is motivating and preparing her son "Moksh" in her battle against Sheel. She is quite a diplomat – about the rest, she doesn't even care – is very bitchy in her approach towards other family members – very negative, very cynical.

Moksh :

25 years old – a dark coloured horse in the stallion of all white horses – plays long term moves – a real villan – seems to be very positive, but actually is dark, negative – a master mind – ambitious, shrude, cunning, street-smart, focused, pushes himself – can go to any limitation to achieve his goal – has becomes revengeful and wants to take the entire Kumar's business under his control – has been poked by his mother since childhood that justice has been denied to her and his father –– he is on his secret mission and has been able to get things almost under his control before the arrival of vaishnavi in house – all like him in house – is dearest to Sheel kumar as he sees his reflection in him and according to him has good understanding of business – Sheel Kumar believes that Moksh will keep Kumar's flag flying high – Yash doubts Moksh, he thinks that he is 'too much involved in business' and has been pampering Vansh too much and it is because of that Vansh is not focusing much on work – After coming of Vaishnavi, he plays smart – because sheel likes her, he too likes her – but he sees her as threat because Sheel hands over certain power to her and makes her the decision maker in house – he tries to be very cordial with Vaishnavi – but at the same time gets insecure about her overpowering impression on Sheel Kumar and thinks of her as major threat.

Vidyasagar :

55 years of age – staunch Brahmin – a bright looking, respected, adored and worshipped individual – he has a high self – respect, doesn't believe in commercialization of God, no one can dare to buy him out – a well read man of god and straight way links human being and life to God – master philosopher, teacher of spirituality and karmic studies – a laureate in Vedas, Upanishads and other spiritual scriptures – head priest of vaishno devi shrine – his lineage has been serving as priest in the shrine.

He is old fashioned and firm believer in "Dhrama Practices" that has been there for years. He knows that Vaishnavi is not his daughter and never accepts her as one. He doubts her lineage and questions her identity. Though he appreciates the spiritual acumen of Vaishnavi and enjoys pride of being her father, he never reveals it in open. He just raises her but without investing emotions. He later realizes her importance when Vaishnavi says yes to discreet marriage in between her and Vansh. When it comes to loving and raising Sunakshi, he acts as any selfish father.

Shraddha :

Wife of Vidyasagar – very loving, endearing, sweet and motherly lady – daughter of one of the senior priest at shrine – well acquainted about spiritual affairs specially related to mata Rani – all features of a perfect Indian house maker – her only worry in life is that it has been 7 years and she hasn't been able to deliver a baby – adopts Vaishnavi against the wishes Panditji – loves her more than any mother can love even her own child – after 2 years of coming of Vaishnavi, she is blessed with Sunakshi – dies while giving birth to Sunakshi – takes promise from Panditji to care for Vaishnavi even more than Sunakshi after her death.

Abdul :

55 years of age – looks like a sage, saint – soothing, calm and content person – has certain aura and attraction – looks older than his age – a Muslim by birth but is more knowledgeable than a Hindu about spiritual affairs – remembers all mata Rani stories and moral teachings by heart – his ancestors have been working as a pitthu (person that carries worshippers/ travelers on their back when they are unable to walk to the shrine) in the area - works as a "pitthu" cum guide cum story teller – very entertaining, very loving – favourite of any age groups – children and old people just love talking to him – is very near to the family of panditji –has an active role in raising up Vaishnavi – he is the one who interacts most with Vaishnavi in her childhood – almost works as her as "Practical Guru" who has answers for any damn, tough questions of Vaishnavi.