female prisoner) is an Indian soap opera produced by Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms.

[1] It starred Ronit Roy, Aasiya Kazi, Mrunal Jain, Leena Jumani, Shardul Pandit and Kunal Thakkur and was set against the backdrop of Gujarat in Dharampur a village near Surat in Gujarat.

[2][3] Santu Waghela is a poor but spirited girl who lives in the village of Dharampur with her maternal grandfather, Madhav Solanki, an experienced diamond cutter working for the middle-aged diamond merchant Dharamraj Mahiyavanshi As an incentive to his best worker, Dharamraj offers to arrange and sponsor Madhav's granddaughter's marriage.

For Dharamraj, the decision to marry Santu is purely a business calculation for appeasing his workforce.

Dharamraj is still in love with his dead wife Subhadra, who has left him with 5 children: Hiten, Kadambari a.k.a.

Once married to Santu, he ignores her and she is constantly abused by his older sister, Tarulata a.k.a.

But in order to save her sister's relationship, Khemi steps out of house and marries Arjan.

But Santu forces her way into the house, takes charge and starts many quarrels among family members.

A woman named Megha comes forward with her son, Vishal and she claims that Dharamraj is the father of this boy.

Megha had stolen Vishal from the jail hospital and Santu had been told that the baby was dead.

They go and live in Mumbai, where they start a new diamond business in the disguise of Damji Bhai and Kanku Ben.

and others After the exit of director Santaram Verma later replaced by Kaushik Ghatak, the main lead Ronit Roy himself directed the series for few episodes.

[4] In June 2010, Leena Jumani playing Kheemi quit as she was unhappy with the shaping of her character.

[6] However, with the production house not having paid the due for it, Adalja filed a complaint at The Film Writers Association and got her payment of ₹ 7.5 Lakhs after two years of the series premiere in 2011.