Ghar Ki Lakshmi Betiyann

Ghar Ki Lakshmi Betiyann
Created by	Creative Eye Limited
Directed by	Rajan Shahi Romesh Kalra Sunand Kumar Baranwal Santosh Bhatt
Starring	Kshitee Jog Aleeza Khan Smriti Mohan Gunjan Walia Soni Singh
Music by	Abhijeet Hegdepatil KK
Opening theme	"Ghar Ki Lakshmi Betiyann"
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	595
Production
Producers	Dheeraj Kumar Zuby Kochhar
Production location	Mumbai
Editor	Sameer Gandhi
Running time	approximately 23 minutes
Production company	Creative Eye Limited
Original release
Network	Zee TV
Release	September 25, 2006 (2006-09-25) – August 27, 2009 (2009-08-27)

Ghar Ki Lakshmi Betiyann (The wealth of the house - daughters) (also known as Betiyann) (International Title: Destiny) is a Hindi language television drama-series that aired on Zee TV. It premiered on 25 September 2006 and was directed by director, Rajan Shahi. The serial ended on 27 August 2009. This serial was produced under the banner of Creative Eye Ltd.

Other versions/telecasts

An Arabic dubbed-version premiered on Zee Aflam under the name "Al Banat Zinat Al Bayt" - girls are the beauty of the house/"البنات زينة البيت", the second season aired on 16 April 2014.

The Show was dubbed In English and aired on Zee World on DSTv channel number 166.

The Show was dubbed In French and aired on Zee Magic on Canal Sat channel number 51.

The Show was dubbed In Indonesian and aired on Zee Bioskop on MNC Vision channel number 23.

Summary

Suryakant Garodia is married to Savitri and has four daughters named Saraswati, Gauri, Durga, and Lakshmi. He is adamant about having a son that will continue the family's dynasty and inherit the Garodia wealth. As Savitri's body cannot bear another pregnancy, Suryakant marries Menka, who gives birth to Yuvraj. Suryakant abandons and neglects his daughters and Savitri, while spoiling Yuvraj who grows up insolent and arrogant.

Menka wishes to have sole rights to the household and wealth and seeks to get rid of the daughters as soon as possible by arranging marriages for them. She orchestrates Saraswati's marriage to Bhavishya Kapadia, an abusive man. However, Saraswati's childhood lover, Kshitij, saves her when Bhavishya attempts to set her on fire. After a lengthy trial, the sisters win the case. Saraswati, having avenged Bhavishya's actions and revealing the truth, becomes pregnant and eventually marries Kshitij.

The youngest and lively Lakshmi is to wed Satyakam, who also helps find clues against Bhavishya, but he dies, leaving her in a state of shock. She later meets Karan, who has come to the Garodia's to avenge his mother, who was harassed by Menka's brother Rasik. She marries him, but later realises his real intentions of revenge. She insists on her father's innocence to no avail. Karan completes his revenge, leaving Suryakant in mental shock who disappears by falling down a mountain. The family believes Suryakant to be dead. Lakshmi begins to hate Karan as he did not pay heed to her when she begged him not to avenge her father. Realising his mistakes, Karan sets on a conquest to find Suryakant alive. He then remarries Lakshmi after she forgives him, but soon dies thereafter due to acknowledging a family secret which, when exposed, brings shockwaves to the Garodia family.

Soon this secret is revealed: disclosing the fact that Menka deceived the family and gave birth to a daughter instead of a son many years before. The family try to find the long-lost daughter, only to find that she has been sold to a brothel in Mumbai and is one of the most sought out prostitute. Jhumki soon begins mingling with the family after many challenges. She also faces her own hurdles in love and marriage due to her past. Her first encounter is unsuccessful, but she soon meets Nikhil.

On the other hand, Yuvraj is trapped by a prostitute, Kajri, whom he disguises as a decent woman named Pavitra, to fool his family and marries her. He is greedy and rebukes his mother, Menka. The sisters discover his secret, and Suryakant disowns Yuvraj. However, he is eventually accepted back in the family, but he devises a plan with Kajri to take all the family wealth. The property is now in his name, and he throws everyone out of Garodia Niwas, living there peacefully with Kajri and the brothel owner, Rasili Bai. The daughters fight back to reclaim the property for their father. Eventually, Suryakant pays the price for Yuvraj's mistakes through his demise. Kajri begins to blackmail Yuvraj, controlling all the family wealth while enslaving the family.

As the show ends, Gauri is married to Akash Shah. Durga marries Bhavishya's lookalike Ranbir Dhawan, and Saraswati reluctantly accepts the alliance. Lakshmi marries a mentally disturbed man with a brutal history of violence who is later cured in Australia. Jhumki, who changed her name to Jhanvi, marries Nikhil and moves to her husband's home, facing patriarchal trouble and female oppression at her in-laws, which is eventually overcome with the daughters proving they are equal to men.

Cast

• Rohini Hattangadi / Nayan Bhatt as Gayatri "Baa" Garodia - Suryakant's mother; Saraswati, Gauri, Durga, Lakshmi, and Jhanvi's grandmother; Yuvraj's adoptive grandmother; Kiran, Suhana, and Manav's great-grandmother
• Yatin Karyekar as Suryakant Garodia - Gayatri's son; Savitri and Menka's husband; Saraswati, Gauri, Durga, Lakshmi, and Jhanvi's father; Yuvraj's adoptive / foster father; Kiran and Suhana's grandfather and Manav's adoptive grandfather
• Aishwarya Narkar as Savitri Suryakant Garodia - Suryakant's first wife; Saraswati, Gauri, Durga and Lakshmi's mother; Yuvraj and Jhanvi's stepmother; Kiran and Suhana's grandmother and Manav's step-grandmother
• Tanushree Kaushal as Menka Suryakant Garodia - Suryakant's second wife; Yuvraj's adoptive / foster mother; Jhanvi's mother; Saraswati, Gauri, Durga and Lakshmi's stepmother; Manav's adoptive grandmother; Kiran and Suhana's step-grandmother
• Kshitee Jog as Saraswati Kshitij Gandhi (née Garodia / formerly Kapadia) - Suryakant and Savitri's eldest daughter; Gauri, Durga, and Lakshmi's eldest sister; Yuvraj's eldest adoptive / foster sister; Jhanvi's half-sister; Bhavishaya's former wife; Kshitij's wife; Kiran's mother
• Vikrant Rai / Hemant Thatte as Kshitij Gandhi - Saraswati's husband; Kiran's father
• Neetha Shetty / Aleeza Khan as Gauri Akash Shah (née Garodia) - Suryakant and Savitri's second daughter; Saraswati's younger sister; Durga and Lakshmi's older sister; Yuvraj's elder adoptive / foster sister; Jhanvi's half-sister; Akash's wife
• Smriti Mohan as Durga Ranveer Dhawan (née Garodia) - Suryakant and Savitri's third daughter; Saraswati and Gauri's younger sister; Lakshmi's older sister; Yuvraj's elder adoptive / foster sister; Jhanvi's half-sister; Ranveer's wife
• Twinkle Bajpai / Gunjan Walia as Lakshmi Karan Mathur (née Garodia) - Suryakant and Savitri's youngest daughter; Saraswati, Gauri, and Durga's youngest sister; Yuvraj's elder adoptive / foster sister; Jhanvi's half-sister; Satyakam's former fiancée; Karan's wife; Suhana's mother
• Romit Raj as Yuvraj Garodia - Suryakant and Menka's adoptive / foster son; Saraswati, Gauri, Durga, Lakshmi and Jhanvi's adoptive / foster brother; Kajri's former husband; Niyati's husband; Manav's father
• Soni Singh as Jhumki Rani / Jhanvi Nikhil Singhania (née Garodia) - A former prostitute; Suryakant and Menka's (previously estranged) daughter; Saraswati, Gauri, Durga, and Lakshmi's half-sister; Yuvraj's adoptive / foster sister; Nikhil's wife
• Yuvraj Mehra as Puneet Gandhi
• Yuvraj Malhotra as Karan Mathur - Lakshmi's husband; Suhana's father
• Manini Mishra as Chanchal
• Kartik Sabharwal as
  • Bhavishya Kapadia - Saraswati's abusive former husband
  • Ranveer Dhawan - Durga's husband
• Shishir Sharma / Sai Ballal as Nekchand Kapadia
• Natasha Rana as Dhara Nekchand Kapadia - Nekchand's wife
• Sid Makkar as Satyakam Kapadia
• Chhavi Mittal as Preeti
• Jasveer Kaur as Kajri Bai / Pavitra Yuvraj Garodia - A prostitue; Yuvraj's former wife
• Gulfam Khan as Rasili Bai - Head and owner of the brothel
• Nupur Alankar as Halki Bhen
• Suchitra Bandrekar as Phulki Garodia
• Shekhar Shukla as Hasmukh Bhai
• Rajendra Chawla as Rasik Bhai
• Amit Dolawat as Prince / Dev
• Niyati Joshi as Niyati Yuvraj Garodia - Yuvraj's wife; Manav's mother
• Narayani Shastri as Advocate Damini Verma
• Gaurav Chopra as Advocate Kapil Singhania
• Alka Ashlesha as Mrs. Verma (Damini's Mother)
• Yash Pandit as Prakash
• Karan Hukku as Nikhil Singhania - Jhanvi's husband
• Jatin Shah as Akash Shah- Gauri's husband
• Mahru Sheikh as Devyani Shah
• Nimai Bali as Suraj Pratap Singh