The concept of an arranged marriage is quiet unique to the Indian culture. The families choose the bride and the groom as per their own beliefs and customs and the two strangers are tied for a lifetime by the knot of holy matrimony. There is no courting and they rarely ask the bride and groom for their preferences.
This is a beautiful and heart warming story of a girl called Akshara who, not unlike millions of other girls in India, knows that her marriage will happen with the consent of her parents and family. Like other young girls, she also has grown up fancying film stars and cricket stars…but to fall in love before marriage remains a distant dream for her.
About Show Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai
Akshara is born into a traditional Marwari family - the Maheshwaris of Udaipur. She is the apple of everyone’s eye and lives a protected and sheltered life. Her family loves her very much and sets up her alliance with a deserving boy of their community. Although she willingly accepts her marriage with Naitik, whom her parents have chosen as her life partner, she realizes that their relationship is not like any of the romantic notions she had nurtured in her heart about her future husband.
Her mother explains to her that love is an emotion that finds it’s way gradually into the relationship between a husband and wife. As they get to know each other more and more, and learn to adapt themselves to their life partner, love will surface and they will find their bonds strengthened by it. Akshara then begins the journey of discovery of her new life wondering if life is really the miracle that her mother proposes it is.
Love after marriage is something Akshara is yet to experience. In the quest of that unrequited love, she will chance upon changing dimensions of various other relationships… some bitter… some sweet… and finally discover that life is indeed a miracle.http://starplus.startv.in
Cast:
Akshara
Akshara's world consists of her husband, Naitik, her in-laws and her determination to do everything possible to make her loved ones happy! She's just a simple, educated girl from a traditional family and she believes in turning every situation into a positive, fulfilling one. She is naive yet adaptable to change and has adjusted well to her circumstances. She firmly believes that family values and tradition go hand-in-hand with being broad minded. She helps her sister-in-law realize her love even though love marriage is taboo in the family. She is a daughter to her in-laws, who loves her own family but has learned to give priority to her in-laws out of duty.
Naitik
He is pampered - and not ashamed of it! He is the much-loved son of the Singhania family. Naitik loves his family and is rooted in tradition. He is discovering love after marriage! Though he has a sensitive soul and never hurts anyone, there is a certain pride in him for being born a boy! Male chauvinistic to a certain extent, he feels that men are privileged by birth and women are supposed to understand this. His journey helps him learn to love and admire his young bride despite the fact that she does not fulfil his fancy of his ideal woman.
Daddaji
He is the eldest brother of the family. After the sudden demise of his parents, he took upon himself the onus of taking care of his brothers, educating them and settling them in life. As a result he could not study much and does not hold a degree. He took care of the family business of jewels/diamonds and ran it with the help of his traditional wisdom. However, later when Raj Shekhar and Chiraag grew up with degrees, he withdrew a little and let them handle the business. Though he sits at the honourable chairperson’s position in the company and no decision is ever taken without consulting him, he has given Raj Shekhar all the powers to run the business his way.
Kaaveri
Fondly called Bhabhi Maa by everyone in the house, Kaaveri is Mahendra Pratap’s wife. There is a big age difference between them. Kaaveri came to this house at the tender age of 15 and had to immediately assume the responsibility of mothering Mahendra Pratap’s kid brothers. She brought them up with affection and selfless love and even searched and got the best wives for the two. She is the most selfless woman who has always found happiness in tending to her family members and seeing a smile of satisfaction on their faces. The only times she gets into bouts of depression and mood swings is when it concerns her daughter, Nandini, who is afflicted by Polio and hence still unmarried at the age of thirty.
Nandini
Nandini is Mahendra Pratap’s and Kaveri’s only daughter and also the first born of the family. A gregarious and lively girl in her childhood, her right leg got afflicted by polio at the tender age of six and since then she is either on crutches or bound on wheelchair. The magical world of books and stories always inspired her and she eventually wanted to become a novelist. However, thanks to the conservative household she was born in, her father thought it was inappropriate for her to study further as it would be a hurdle in her marriage. Hence she was forced to quit studies and was made to go through repeated and horrendous rounds of meeting prospective grooms one after the other and getting rejected repeatedly. While others sympathised with her and thought that finding the right groom for her was the only solution to end her misery, only Raj Shekhar could see the irony of the situation.
Raj Banna
Raj Shekhar is the second born son of the family. He was barely seven years old when his parents passed away, and ten years old when Bhabhi Maa came to this house as a bride. He vividly remembers how Mahendra Pratap sacrificed everything, including his college education, for the sake of his younger brothers and how Bhabhi Maa never let them feel the absence of a mother. An educated and learned man himself, at times he does not totally agree with the strict rules and regulations imposed by his brother but follows his orders nonetheless. Gayatri proved to be a good wife and an understanding partner to him.
Gayatri
Gayatri came as the second bahu of the house. Though a positive soul at heart and a good human being, she soon faced an identity crisis as a woman when she saw that everything in the house was centred around Bhabhi Maa. She also realised that the only way to get a little ahead of Bhabhi Maa in this house is to gain brownie points from Mahendra Pratap. God dropped this opportunity in her lap as she was blessed with a son, an heir, for whom Mahendra Pratap was pining. Hence Gayatri got more importance simply by being the mother of a son, something that Bhabhi Maa could never be!
Rashmi
Rashmi is Naitik's younger sister. She is a typical dreamy eyed teenager who lives and breathes Yash Chopra movies. Everything in her life is filmy, all the situations are melodramatic. A little impractical and frivolous, she is a perfect antidote to her elder sister Nandini, who has lost hopes in life
Vishambhar
Conservative but loving, Vishambhar is the head of the Maheshwari family. He loves his family and will do anything to protect the interest of his children Akshara and Shaurya. Sometimes strict but ultimately understanding, Vishambhar is like a coconut, tough from outside and soft inside.
Rajshri
Akshara’s mother, Rajshri is a simple housewife who worries about her children and her household all the time. Rajshri panics at the slightest hint of trouble and is very coy and demure. Highly emotional and vulnerable, Rajshri loves her daughter Akshara more than anything and it breaks her heart when she cries.
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