Grihasti is a family drama produced by Sphere Origins, that aired on StarPlus during weekday afternoons.

After the death of the family's patriarch, Balraaj, the women realize that they must come together to succeed in their male-dominated society.

This change in their life shows the importance of many female roles in society: wife, daughter, grandmother, and sister.

The Balraaj family house is taken by the fraudulent Lucky Kapoor and his wife and mother.

Lucky Kapoor comes out of jail and is determined to kill Raunak so he goes to the Balraj house.

In November 2008, the shootings and telecast of all the Hindi television series including this series and films were stalled on 8 November 2008 due to dispute by the technician workers of FWICE (Federation of Western India Cine Employees) for increasing the wages, better work conditions and more breaks between shootings.

[5] FWICE first took a strike on 1 October 2008 when they addressed their problems with the producers and production was stalled.