Pudhcha Paaul

Kalyani is a simple naive girl. She marries the Sardeshmukh family where she develops a bitter-sweet relation with her mother-in-law Rajlaxmi, the stern matriarch of the family. Rajalaxmi makes Kalyani dance to her tunes. The story progresses as Rajlaxmi turns mentor to Kalyani.[5]

The story revolves around a simple innocent orphaned village girl named Kalyani (Jui Gadkari). She does all the household work yet her aunt Kanchanmala (Supriya Pathare) and cousin Rupali (Sharmila Shinde) cannot tolerate her, and torture her daily. She is illiterate and they do not allow her to take any education. One day Rajalaxmi (aka Akkasaheb) Sardeshmukh (Harshada Khanvilkar) comes to their home with his son Soham (Astad Kale) for marriage of Rupali with Soham who already has an affair with another girl. But instead of Rupali she likes Kalyani and decides to make the latter her daughter-in-law, going against the wishes of her son.

Later both Kalyani and Rupali are married to Soham and Rohit (Soham's cousin) (Suyash Tilak) respectively. Rupali is jealous of Kalyani as she failed to become elder daughter-in-law of Sardeshmukh mansion which may deprive her of inheriting the property of the Sardeshmukh family. She, along with the evil plans of her mother Kanchanmala creates problems in Kalyani's life and tries to kill her. With all of these troubles on her shoulder, Kalyani completes all of her duties & wins all other family member's hearts. Later Soham also coming out from his past, falls in love with Kalyani and accepts her as his wife. In all the troubles Rajalaxmi (aka Akkasaheb) supports her as her own daughter making an inherent bond between a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Taking the opportunity of brother's death Soham's ex-girlfriend comes again in Soham and Kalyani's married life to make Kalyani's life hell. She pretends as mentally unstable and innocent Kalyani takes her in Sardeshmukh mansion going against everyone's decision. Soham's ex now makes problems to kick Kalyani out of the house and to bring back Soham again in her life.

• Jui Gadkari as Kalyani Soham Sardeshmukh/ Kalyani Sameer Sardeshmukh; Akkasaheb's Daughter-in-law, Soham's first wife, Sameer's wife[6] (2011-2017)
  • Madhuri Desai[7] replacing gadkari as Kalyani Sardeshmukh (2017)
• Harshada Khanvilkar as Rajlaxmi Sardeshmukh (aka Akkasaheb); Kalyani's mother-in-law, Soham's mother, Sameer's mother (2011-2017)
• Sangram Samel as Sameer Sardeshmukh; Kalyani's husband (2014-2017)
• Sharmila Rajaram Shinde as Rupali Sardeshmukh; Kalyani's sister and sister-in-law, Rohit's wife[8] (2011-2015)
• Suyash Tilak as Rohit Sardeshmukh; Rupali's husband, Soham's cousin (2011-2013)
  • Abhijeet Kelkar replacing tilak as Rohit Sardeshmukh (2013-2017)
• Swapnali Patil as Swapnali Soham Sardeshmukh; Soham's second wife, Akkasaheb's Daughter-in-law (2014-2016)
• Astaad Kale as Soham Sardeshmukh; Kalyani's first husband, Akkasaheb's son, Swapnali's second husband (2011-2015)
• Radhika Barve as Kanchanmala Randive; Rupali's mother, Kalyani's aunt (2011)
  • Supriya Pathare replacing barve as Kanchanmala Randive (2011-2015)
• Ajinkya Joshi as Chintamani; Kalyani & Rupali's mama, Kanchanmala's brother (2011-2017)
• Mrunal Deshpande as Devaki Yashwant Sardeshmukh; Rohit's mother, Akkasaheb's sister-in-law, Rupali's mother-in-law (2011-2017)
• Sonali Naik as Kaveri Jaywant Sardeshmukh (2011-2013)
• Pradeep Velankar as Dadasaheb Sardeshmukh; Yashwant and Jaywant's father, Akkasaheb's father-in-law (2011-2017)
• Shrirang Deshmukh as Yashwantrao Sardeshmukh; Rohit's father, Rupali's father-in-law, Devaki's husband (2011-2017)
• Tejashree Dharne as Sayali Pradhan (2016-2017)
• Radhika Harshe
• Milind Safai
• Mrunal Chandrakant
• Atisha Naik

Pudhcha Paaul is the Marathi remake of a popular Hindi drama Saath Nibhaana Saathiya which ended on 23 July 2017, after running for 2,184 episodes. Pudhcha Paaul takes much inspiration from its original Hindi show, but with several changes to adapt to the Marathi audience.

It became the top rated Marathi GEC at that time. It occupied the top position in Broadcast Audience Research Council.[9][10]

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