Pavitra Rishta 4th Anniversary Celebration

The Beginning

Pavitra Rishta is a story about the strong emotional bond that every daughter shares with her mother. This interesting saga brings in the flavour of the mother-daughter relationship and a mother's search for a desirable match for her daughter. Archana's mother is one of the few people who appreciates the middle-class girl and she is determined to help her daughter make a good match with a man who can support her comfortably. Because of this, mechanic Manav's mother Savita lies about Manav's circumstances so he can marry the girl he loves, but when his lie is discovered shortly after their wedding, Archana's mother tries to prevent their union. In this she happily fails. Manav & Archana face many good and bad circumstances but manage to surpass them.

After 4 Years

Manav & Archana's family of two have grown to six. They have a son Soham and twin daughters Ovi-Tejaswini. They have also adopted Manav's fatherless nephew Sachin. Manav has now become a big businessman. Savita tries to break their relationship by creating misunderstandings between them. Varsha kidnaps Soham and presumed to be dead. Manav blames Archana for this and takes her daughters away from her. Manav with Damodar, Savita, Sachu, Ovi and Teju goes to Canada. While Archana stays atIndia and tries to make a new family adopting the orphaned Purvi.

After 18 Years

Although separated, Manav & Archana, remain married. Archana leaves at Karanjkar house with Sulochana and Purvi and Manav leaves with his family at Canada. Manav meets Archana when he comes to Mumbai for business work. Later, Manav and family return to India to complete the divorce. Archana, unaware of her forged signature, is surprised when the subject of divorce is raised. She still loves Manav. But, the lawyer Sachin asks Archana to agree to divorce Manav for the sake of his real mother, Shravani. While Manav's mother Savita caused Sachin to be taken from his mother, she has allowed Sachin to believe that Archana was responsible. Archana goes along with this, but Purvi, who has discovered that Manav is her father is able to at least delay the divorce by six months by telling the court she will not take responsibility for her mother.

Purvi and Ovi are caught in a love triangle, as Ovi is in love with Arjun-the son of her father's boss DK and, after a business acquisition, the boss of both Archana and Purvi, but Purvi and Arjun have fallen in love. Purvi does not want to marry office colleague Vinay to whom her marriage is arranged as he is only interested in the prestige and money the match can bring him. To the couple's great dismay, however, soon after they reveal their feelings to one another, DK announces that Ovi and Arjun are to wed. Only then does Purvi discover that Ovi and Tejaswini are her sisters.

Although hurt that her mother kept this secret, she decides not to tell her mother of her love for Arjun, not wishing to hurt her mother in turn. Arjun tries to convince Purvi that he intensely loves her and didn't knew about the engagement but Purvi doesn't pay attention to Arjun. Savita arrives at Mumbai from Canada and come to know that Archana is living with Manav and her granddaughters are bonding with Archana. She tells Ovi and Teju that Archana is their mother and they start hating her. Savita also starts making Archana's life hell. Later Purvi and Arjun's love affair is exposed by Punni on the occasion of Ovi and Teju's birthday. Ovi still believes that Arjun loves her and it is Purvi who trapped Arjun.

Archana believes that Arjun has cheated both her daughters and he doesn't deserve marrying any of them. She tells Arjun if he really loves her daughter Purvi, he will have to prove himself. Arjun leaves his father's house, business, name and everything and start living in a chawl near Purvi's house. He begins to work as a mechanic in a car repair shop owned by Farooq Bhai. He works hard to complete Archana's challenge of earning Rs. 10,000. It is now revealed that Archana and Manav's son Soham and Archana's sister Varsha are alive. They live with the head of kidnapper gang in Patna. Soham is known as Vishnu and considers the kidnapper to be his father. The kidnapper sends Vishnu(Soham), on an assignment to kidnap Manav. Instead of Manav, he kidnaps Purvi. Manav saves the kidnapped Purvi by paying the ransom. Arjun also helps in saving Purvi who gets shot by Soham. Soham is then arrested by the police.

In the meantime, Archana approves Arjun as a worthy man for a daughter and the proceedings for marriage begin. Punni unsuccessfully tries to break the marriage with the help of Ovi. Ovi calls Archana when she is at Vinod's house and says that she wants to meet her. When they meet, Ovi says she knows that Archana wants her family back and that she loves them and says she can get all that back for her only if Archana tells Purvi to break up with Arjun. Archana thinks about it and later goes back to the Deshmukh house and says that everyone is invited to Purvi's wedding even though she knows that they all reject the relationship. Ovi is seen tearing up at this point and is later seen in the kitchen slicing her wrist a knife while Teju looks on in horror. Ovi is then bandaged up by Teju.

Later, the day of Manav and Archana's divorce comes. However, the divorce is postponed for 10 days because of an affidavit submitted by one of their daughters. Manav and Archana assume that the affidavit was submitted by Purvi. However, later Ovi is shown to make the same proposal to Purvi that she made to Archana. She then reveals that it was she who submitted the affidavit. On her marriage day, Purvi accepts Ovi's proposal and makes Arjun marry her so that Archana can get her family back. Thus, Arjun and Ovi are married.

Arjun is very unhappy about having to marry Ovi and when he finds out about the agreement between Purvi and Ovi and becomes furious. Purvi too, is unhappy as wasn't able to marry Arjun but she hides this. Later, Ovi confesses about the agreement to Manav and everyone else as well. Manav feels very upset and Sachin begins to feel guilty about what he has done. Sachin then talks with Savita about how they were wrong in their behaviour towards Archana. Teju overhears this and comes to know that Savita forged Archana's signature on the divorce papers. At the party of Arjun and Ovi's marriage, Teju tells Manav about what she heard and Manav confronts Savita and Sachin. Damodar also reveals to Manav that before 18 years Savita lied to Archana that Manav wants to give her divorce.

After finding out the full truth, he promises to live far away from Savita, leaving her devastated. Manav then fixes things up with Archana, and all three of his children apologize to her sincerely. She forgives them and they begin living together again. Manav and Archana start living together and Purvi is trying to ignore Arjun but the latter is not able to accept Ovi. Ovi becomes very close to Archana and tries to ask her help to get Arjun's love, Archana tells her that it is her duty to succeed this wedding. Manav has forgiven Sachin but not Savita. He forbids the other members from talking to Savita. She is alienated in her house but Archana tries to make Manav forgive her.

Soon, Varsha is identified by Purvi. Manav reopens Varsha's case and with the help of the police the Deshmukhs arrest Varsha. Varsha refuses to tell Soham's location and even says that Soham is dead. The Deshmukhs decide to release Varsha on bail so that they can track her down so that they can find Soham. In the meantime, Vishnu(Soham) is chosen to be a politician in Patna, and is given the name Bahubali. When, Archana finds out that Vishnu is Soham, she approaches him with the police behind her. Vishnu thinks that she is trying to get him arrested, so he puts a gun on Archana's head to escape from the police. He then takes Archana's hostage and flees. Manav, who doesn't know that Vishnu is Soham, tracks Vishnu down and shoots him because he is worried Vishnu may hurt Archana. When Manav finds out who he shot, he goes to the police and begs them to take him as a prisoner. In the meantime, Soham is taken to the hospital.

Varsha and Balan confront Archana by saying that she and Manav aren't worthy of being called Soham's parents. Then Soham get to know about his real parents, but Varsha lies him that they aren't a perfect parents, they consider him as a burden and that's why she kidnapped him. Soham hates Deshmukh family and speak rudely to them, insulted them in many ways. Now Deshmukh family dislike Soham except Archana, Savita and Purvi. Sulochana did the last ritual of Varsha. Manav charge a case in court against Soham. Manav, Purvi, Teju and Arjun speak against Soham in court. Archana also speaks against Soham in order to save Soham by making him realize his mistakes and become a good person. Soham got one year hard labour in jail and Rs. 25,000 fine. Varsha-Balan are also taken in custody. Now Soham hates Archana and family more than before. Purvi leaves her home and Mumbai so that Arjun can start his married life and could forget her.

Six Months Later

Arjun has become a successful businessman and Ovi is now pregnant with several complications. Arjun and Ovi appear to be a happy couple but it isn't true. Ovi constantly questions Arjun, whether or not he has forgotten Purvi. Later, Arjun goes to Kolkata for business purposes and to find Dr. Onir Dutt, who is a renowned Gynaecologist and the only doctor who is capable of treating Ovi. He finds the doctor and calls Ovi to come to Kolkata for her treatment. Ovi is accompanied by Archana and they arrive at Kolkata. Ovi dislikes Dr. Onir and refuses to get treatment from him. On the occasion of Durga Puja, Archana happens to meet Purvi who is also pregnant. It is now revealed that six months before, Purvi went to Kolkata and met Dr. Onir. They became friends and soon got married. This shocks Archana. Arjun and Ovi also come to know about Purvi when they arrive at Dr. Onir's home for dinner.

Ovi thinks that Arjun is having an affair with Purvi. She gets angry and returns back to Mumbai. Onir also refuses to treat Ovi because of her strange behaviour. At this point, Purvi reveals to Onir that Archana and Ovi are not strangers, but her mother and sister. Purvi leaves Onir's home and arrives at Mumbai. She does this so that Onir comes to Mumbai for Ovi's treatment. Ovi and Purvi's tests are conducted and then it is revealed that Purvi is pregnant with Arjun's child and this was the main reason of her leaving Mumbai. She married Onir only to give her child father's name and still loves Arjun.

Teju and Sunny have fallen in love with each other and now they are struggling to win Savita and Snehlata's heart respectively. On the other hand, Onir learns about Arjun being the father of Purvi's child and supports Purvi. Ovi turns good after seeing Onir accepting Purvi, so Ovi also decides to move on with Arjun and their baby. Meanwhile, it is revealed that, Punni loves Mittal and wants to marry him. Punni marries 40+ old Mittal for the sole reason of acquiring his property and Mittal marries Punni for Karanjkar house, where he wants to build a hotel. Punni signs a pre-nuptial promising Mittal the Karanjkar house.

Arjun-Ovi and Onir-Purvi meet with an accident, where Ovi loses her baby and Purvi delivers a girl. On learning that Ovi has lost her child, Purvi decides to give away her daughter to Ovi. Later Purvi struggles to stay apart from the baby. Everybody rejoices that Ovi is a mother and are also equally sad about Purvi losing her child. Manav and Archana are happy to become grandparents. Meanwhile, Soham is released form jail and is brain washed by Balan to shoot Manav. Soham reaches Manav and Archana but is torn between his real parents and the parents who have taken care of him. He realizes that he should shoot himself for being confused, but in a quarrel, the gun fires and shoots Archana.

Archana is rushed to the hospital where she is said to be in coma. Everybody is heart-broken to see Archana lying in coma and hand over Soham to the police. Arjun keeps her baby's name Pari. In Ovi's absence, Purvi feeds the baby. Punni sees this and informs Ovi. This makes Ovi angry and she warns Purvi to stay away from her daughter. Arjun is shocked to hear this. While changing the babies, Mittal takes a video and is now threatening Onir that he would show this video in the court and push him inside the bars for human trafficking as a revenge when Onir accused Mittal that he was doing human organ trafficking in his hospital with a doctor.

Punni also seizes the video CDs from Mittal to succumb the property of her grandmother for Mittal because of the agreement. Mittal tells Punni to get back the CDs. In the court, wrong CD is played and Onir is saved. It is revealed that Onir destroyed the CD in Punni's absence. On Mahashivratri, a grand function is held. During the function, Mittal goes to find the CD but Onir catches him and confesses that he has destroyed the CD. Varsha is released from jail and comes to Karanjkar house but Sulochana removes her out of the house. Onir and Arjun drink Bhang. In subconsciousness, Onir proposes his love to Purvi which makes her shocked.

In the court Mittal asks to conduct Arjun, Pari and Onir's DNA tests. In the report, it is proved that Pari is Arjun's daughter and Mittal loses the case. Varsha gets a job and stays in Sulochana's chawl. Onir gets Mittal arrested in the case of human organ trafficking. This worries Purvi about what would happen if Mittal came to know about her and Arjun's past. Punni gets the duplicate copy of the CD and comes to know that Arjun and Purvi are Pari's parents. Soham is released from jail but doesn't know who bailed him out. Punni sends the CD to Arjun and finally he comes to know the truth.

Punni tells Purvi to get Sulochana's sign on property papers where she is transferring the property to Mittal. Manav asks Sachin to check as to who bailed Soham out; it is later revealed that Archana signed the bail papers before she went into coma. Purvi gets Sulochana's sign on the property papers but later tears them and hands them over to Punni. Punni threatens Purvi that she would tell everybody the truth about Pari, Purvi tells Punni that she would tell everybody herself. Punni calls Ovi, Arjun and Purvi to a hotel where Arjun and Purvi reach earlier, when Ovi reaches there, she finds out while overhearing their conversation that Pari is not her daughter, but it's actually Purvi and Arjun's.

On her first anniversary, Ovi gets drunk and reveals the truth to the family members. Everybody think that Purvi and Arjun have done wrong with Ovi. Onir and Purvi leave Karanjkar house. Soham takes Onir and Purvi to his house. Sulochana comes to know of Punni's true intentions and breaks all relations with her. Ovi tells Arjun to take Pari and Arjun decides to raise Pari. On Gudi Padwa, Onir gets arrested in the case of changing babies. Arjun and Purvi meet at temple where Arjun says her to take Pari with her but Purvi refuses. Court cancels Onir's license to practice as a doctor. Onir-Purvi leave Varsha's house and go to a new place to stay. Pari gets kidnapped by Balan, but is saved by Soham. Arjun gives Pari to Purvi.

Ovi leaves home and goes to Canada for modelling and to leave alone for some time. Despite Sulochana and Savita's warning, Arjun goes to Purvi's house to meet Pari which makes them angry on Purvi. Teju starts accepting Soham as her brother. Purvi takes Pari to a polio booth and while returning it starts raining. DK sees them and takes them to his house. While video chatting with Arjun, Ovi sees Purvi and misunderstands that Arjun is having an affair with Purvi. Onir lies to Purvi that he got a job as an accountant in a company. A woman named Kinshuk Banerjee, who is related to Onir's past enters their life as his boss and becomes Purvi's friend. Soham insults a young lady named Dr. Gauri Shahane, who turns out to be Archana's new doctor. Gauri is shocked to know that Soham is Archana's son.

Archana starts responding and her condition improves. Ovi tells Manav about Purvi at Arjun's house. But, Manav comes to know the truth. Arjun goes to Canada to meet Ovi. Kinshuk calls Onir, but disconnects the phone as Purvi picks it. Purvi questions Onir about this, which makes him furious. Gauri turns out to be Purvi's college friend. Ovi tells Arjun to go back as she doesn't want to talk to him. Gauri tells Purvi that she does not believe that a goon can be Archana's son. Soham hears this and warns her to not make his family against him. Arjun sees Onir and Kinshuk at the airport and hears Onir saying that Purvi should not know the truth. Manav argues with Arjun for meeting Ovi. Purvi and Arjun see Onir in the city and when Purvi calls him, he says that he is not in Mumbai.

Soham gets the job of a waiter in a conference of doctors where Gauri is also present. She thinks that Soham is following her and calls police to arrest him. Soham's boss tells to police that he is a waiter and works with him. Soham insults Gauri for this. Arjun hires a detective behind Onir to find out the truth. Kinshuk calls Onir to meet a woman named Shalini. Dr. Agarwal tells Manav that they will conduct a experiment on Archana and while the experiment all the family members should be present. Shalini calls Onir to meet her urgently. The detective hired by Arjun follows him and listens their conversation. He informs Arjun that Onir met Shalini and is hiding something which makes Arjun more doubtful about Onir. Dr. Agarwal refuses to conduct the experiment on Archana due to his other patient's bad health from the same experiment.

Kinshuk visits Purvi's house and tells her about a woman with divine powers in Bhopal where they attend Asad and Zoya's sangeet ceremony where Arjun is present as well, and when Arjun tries to talk to Onir about how he saw Kinshuk and him together, Onir behaves rudely towards Arjun. Dr Agarwal informs the good and the bad effects of the experiment on Archana. Arjun follows Purvi on her way home in the train. Onir gets stunned watching Kinshuk and Shalini in the same train. Manav on the other hand, gets depressed after Dr Agarwal informs him about the complication that would take place, while conducting the experiment on Archana. Purvi watches Kinshuk in the same train, but, fails to meet her. Onir pretends to meet a stranger in the train, whom he introduces Purvi as his friend. Onir bribes the stranger after the stranger does his job well.

Dr. Agarwal proceeds with the phase one of his experiment on Archana. He tries to bring her back to her consciousness. Soham appears at the moment and get annoyed, considering Dr Agarwal's attempt as vague. Manav and Soham indulge in a severe argument. He bashes Soham. Soham on the other hand, bring Manav on his gunpoint. Archana reacts at the very moment. Manav yet again, tries to bring Archana to consciousness but, fails. He later, indulges in an argument with Dr. Agarwal. Sulochana forgives Soham and Varsha, but Manav again yells at them. Purvi explains to Manav that he and Archana are made for each other and no one can separate them. He should take one chance to save his and Archana's Pavitra Rishta. Purvi is going back and a lady falls down unconscious. It's Shalini. She decides to take her to their house. Manav gets ready to sign the papers.

Shalini tells Purvi that she is from Kolkata and has come here for job. Purvi requests her to stay at her house, since she is ill and has no house to stay. Dr. Agarwal gives Archana an injection and keeps her under observation for 72 hours. Onir is shocked to see Shalini at his house and warns her to go from his house, but she refuses. Gauri, Soham and Purvi go to temple and pray for Archana. Detective tells Arjun about Onir and Shalini. Arjun calls Onir and asks him that he can meet meet Pari. Onir lies that he is going out with Purvi and Pari for two days. Arjun comes to Purvi's house and asks Onir that why he told that he is not at home. Arjun is shocked to see Shalini at Onir's house. Manav allows Soham to meet Archana as he can bring her out of coma.

Arjun calls Purvi to meet him and tries to tell her about Onir, Kinshuk and Shalini, but Purvi refuses to hear him. Dr. Agarwal's other patient dies due to same experiment. Gauri hears this and is worried for Archana. Dr. Agarwal refuses her to inform this to anybody since 48 hours have passed and now they have to conduct experiment on Archana. Purvi sees Onir, Kinshuk and Shalini together and hears them talking about some plan. Onir pretends in front of Purvi that he called Kinshuk as she can give job to Shalini. Soham calls Purvi at the hospital. Gauri tells Purvi that Mariyam died and Archana's life is in danger.

Archana comes out of coma after 72 hours, but suffers breathing problem. Doctors attend to her and try their best to save her, but unfortunately Archana dies and Manav gets furious over Dr. Agarwal when Gauri tells him that Mariyam passed away. He asks Purvi to answer that she had faith that Archana will be fine and convinced him to sign the papers. Manav is unable to bear the loss of his love and life Archana and begs her to walk back into their lifes, no one is able to believe the fact that Archana has died. Manav says Archana to return for her Manav, her family and most importantly her Pavitra Rishta.

The show has completed its 1000 episodes on 15th March, 2013. It has received commercial and critical success, many awards and nominations from India and abroad. It is the first show of Zee TV that has completed 1000th episodes.

Ratings

Initially the show started with 2.4 TVR and after two months of its launch the show became one of the top 10 shows of Indian Television with an average rating of 3.3 TVR as of October, 2009. Since November 2009, the show became No. 01 Show on Hindi GEC beating all other shows with an average rating of 5.5 TVR. Even in the year of 2010, the show was the top show on Hindi GEC with an average TVR of 4.5 to 5.0, also bagged the TRP of 6+ and 7.2+. Also, in the initial months of 2011, the show continued to be top show across all GEC's with an average TVR of 5.55.

In January 2011, the show scored an all time high TVR of 7.0. Though during the time of IPL in 2011, the show was no. 1 fiction show across all GEC's, but its TRP fell to an average 4.44 TVR. In June 2011, the show's rating fell to 3.33 TVR but continued to be no. 1 show across all GEC's. However, due to stiff competition from KBC 5, airing at same slot on rival channel, the show maintained its TRP's, but fell to top 5 shows across all GEC's. But still the show was top show of Zee TV. In November, 2011 the show's ratings fell to 2.22 after Hiten Tejwani replaced Sushant Singh Rajput as male lead.

The show took 18 years leap on 12th December 2011, launched my new actors. Interesting story and good acting by new actors helped the show to pick up its ratings. In March, 2012 the show had an average rating of 3.6 TVR. In December 2012, show took 6 months leap, show got TVR of 3.4 to 3.8. Currently, it is receiving TVR of 1.8 to 2.4. It is still one of the top 5 shows of Zee TV and top 15 shows of Indian Television.