Plot
The story focuses on the wealthy Virani family, which hails from Gujarat. The Viranis are quite successful and well-known in the corporate world. The story is mainly focused on Tulsi Virani, daughter of the family priest, who elopes with the family's eldest son, Mihir. The entire family except Govardhan Virani (the patriach) and Amba Virani (the matriarch) are against it. Due to anger, the daughters-in-law of the family, Savita (Apara Mehta), Daksha (Ketaki Dave) and Gayatri (Kamalika Guhathakurta) blame Tulsi for charming Mihir into marrying her and entering their rich household from a smaller, middle-class family. However, due to respect and belief in God Shri Shrinathji, called Thakurji, a form of Lord Krishna, Tulsi fights the injustice and battles her mother-in-law and devranis (wives of the younger brothers of a woman's husband).
The entire serial focuses on the battle between the mothers-in-law and Tulsi and in the process teaching them a lesson and earning respect from her family members. Along the road, many new characters enter the scene and the episodes are spiced up with several affairs.
Note--- The main character of the show, Tulsi Virani, formerly played by Smriti Irani was recently replaced by Gautami Kapoor. Gautami took over the role of Tulsi from 07 June 2007.
Cast/Characters
1st generation
- Govardhan 'Baapuji' Virani -- Dilip Thakur, Sudhir Dalvi (DEAD)
- Amba 'Baa' (Govardhan)Virani -- Sudha Shivpuri
2nd generation
- Mansukh (Govardhan)Virani -- Shakti Singh (DEAD)
- Savita (Mansukh)Virani -- Apara Mehta (DEAD)
- Himmat (Govardhan)Virani -- Jitendra Trehan
- Daksha (Himmat)Virani -- Ketki Dave
- Pragya (Govardhan)Virani(Naveen)Sanghvi -- Utkarsha Naik (DEAD)
- Naveen Sanghvi -- (DEAD)
- Jamnadas 'JD'(Govardhan)Virani -- Muni Jha
- Gayatri (Jamnadas)Virani -- Kamalika Guhathakurta
3rd generation
- Mihir (Mansukh)Virani -- Amar Upadhyay, Inder Kumar, Ronit Roy
- Tulsi (Mihir)Virani -- Smriti Zubin Irani, Gautami Kapoor
- Kiran (Mansukh)Virani -- Jiten Lalwani
- Aarti Patel(Kiran)Virani -- Eva Grover, Rushali
- Hemant (Jamnadas)Virani -- Shakti Anand
- Pooja (Hemant)Virani -- Prachi Shah
- Suhasi Virani -- Pooja Ghai Rawal
- Rakesh -- Prashant Bhatt
- Chirag (Himmat)Virani -- Hussain Kuwajerwala, Amit Mistry
- Prajakta Deshmukh(Chirag)Virani -- Tuhinaa Vohra
- Sejal (Jamnadas)Virani(Anand)Gandhi -- Khyati Khandke
- Anand Gandhi -- Romanchak Arora
- Mandira Kapadia(Kiran)Virani(Aditya)Gujral -- Mandira Bedi, Achint Kaur
4th generation
- Gautam (Mihir)Virani -- Sumeet Sachdev
- Teesha Mehta(Gautam)Virani -- Ashlesha Sawant (DEAD)
- Damini Khanna(Gautam)Virani -- Riva Babbar, Ravee Gupta
- Aniket -- Shabbir Ahluwalia
- Indira 'Indu'(Anand)Gandhi -- Karishma Tanna
- Shobha (Mihir)Virani(Vishal)Mehra -- Ritu Choudhry Seth
- Vishal (Pratap)Mehra -- Rohit Bakshi (DEAD)
- Abhishek -- Vivan Bathena , Nasir Qazi
- Sahil (Hemant)Virani -- Sandeep Baswana, Amit Sareen
- Ganga Joshi(Gautam)Virani(Sahil)ViraniJoshi aka Mehta -- Shilpa Saklani Agnihotri
- Karan (Mihir)Virani -- Hiten Tejwani
- Ansh (Mihir)Virani aka(Aditya)Gujral -- Akashdeep Saigal (DEAD)
- Nandini Thakkar(Ansh)Virani(Karan)Virani -- Gauri Pradhan Tejwani
- Tanya Malhotra(Karan)Virani -- Rakshanda Khan
- Shraddha (Ansh)Gujral{(Ansh)Virani} -- Moonmoon Bannerjee (DEAD)
- Tarun (Hemant)Virani -- Abhijeet Khurana, Alok Arora
- Tushar -- Manoj Bohra, Pradeep Kharab, Samir Sharma
- Karishma (Kiran)Virani(Shantanu)Dey -- Kiran Dubey
- Tripti (Sahil)Virani -- Suvarna Jha (DEAD)
- Harsh (Mihir)Virani -- Mehul Kajaria
- Mohini (Harsh)Virani -- Tasneem Sheikh
- Shantanu Dey -- Narendra Jha
- Vikram (Naveen)Sanghvi -- Rakesh Paul
- Savri (Chirag)Virani --
- Bavri (Chirag)Virani -- Hansika Motwani, Amita Chandekar(older)
5th generation
- Eklavya (Gautam)Virani{born (Ansh)Virani aka Gujral} -- Akashdeep Saigal
- Nakul (Sahil)Virani{born (Gautam)Virani} -- Naman Shaw
- Bhoomi (Joydeep) Virani {born (Ansh)Virani aka Gujral} -- Chinky Jaiswal, Reshmi Ghosh
- Pushkar (Vishal)Mehra --
- Lakshya (Sahil)Virani -- Pulkit Samrat
- Pari (Abhishek) Mehra -- Garima Bhatnagar
- Manthan (Karan) Virani -- Amit Tandon
- Archita (Abhir)(born Harsh Virani) -- Gunjan Vijaya
- Mayank (Gautam) Virani -- Rahul Lohani
- Krishna Tulsi (Eklavya) Virani -- Mouni Roy
- Joydeep - Manav Vij
Non-Viranis
- Payal Malhotra(Pratap)Mehra -- Jaya Bhattacharya
- Pratap Mehra --
- Anupam Kapadia -- Aman Verma
- Kesar (Anupam)Kapadia -- Narayani Shastri, Resham Seth
- Rajeev Mehra --
- Raj Bhasin -- Vishal Puri (DEAD)
- Kabir -- Chaitanya Chaudhary
- Godavari (Junagadhwali) Dadi -- Induben Mehta
- Meera Singhania -- Shubhaavi K.
- Aditya Gujral -- Salim Shah (DEAD)
- Maansingh Chauhan -- Chetan Hansraj
- Vijay Saxena -- Makarand Deshpande
- Kaushalya (Kaush)Malhotra -- Suhasini Mulay
- Abir -- Manoj Bidvai, Vikas Sethi
- Inspector Aryan- Sandeep Rajora
- Mr Thakrar -- Ram Kapoor
- Juhi Thakrar -- Gautami Kapoor
- Billy Thakral -- Salil
- Sanjhi -- Kritika Senghal, Anita Hassanandani
- Rishabh Malhotra
Cricket
Bindi
