[1] The soap opera was created by Ekta Kapoor and was produced by her production company Balaji Telefilms which starred Sakshi Tanwar and Kiran Karmarkar.

The story, spread over three generations, focuses majorly on Parvati, who is married to Om, and her struggles as the ideal wife, daughter-in-law, mother and grandmother and depicts how sometimes one must stand against her loved ones to do what is morally right.

These happy times are soon disrupted when Vishwanath's third son Ajay Agarwal refuses to marry the daughter of reputed businessman Mr. Bhandari.

Ajay opts to leave and, in a time of turmoil, Kamal steps forward to save the family and Pallavi from humiliation and agrees to marry her.

Yet before too long Parvati and Chhaya run their own conspiracy against Pallavi and she is caught red-handed by the entire family in her evil scheme.

Time goes on and Om brings home his good friend's blind daughter, Khushi Kantilal Shah, after her father passes away.

Before long Parvati finds out that Om's cousins, Devin and Rohan Garg, were the ones responsible for this heinous crime.

Parvati calls Om under the guise of Ambika Sharma and gives him information that could drive Pallavi into the ground.

Parvati screams blue murder and says that she will not go through the Agni Pariksha because she knows that she is telling the truth and thereafter she leaves the house for good.

Shruti meets Aryan, the love of her life and with his entrance into the story we also welcome back his parents-Sanjay and Mallika Doshi.

But as time went on the situation was resolved and it was uncovered why Parvati and Swati did what they did and the family is at peace again until the deaths of Rohan and Devin in the plane crash that also took Smriti's life.

The five guests arrive at the Agarwal mansion and the woman introduces herself as Garima Garg, Devin's legal wife.

In a series of unfortunate events that follow, the family loses everything to Sasha who plays a game of cards with Krishna laying Gunn down as the bet.

Parvati takes up the MD post of the company and butts heads with business tycoon Suyash Mehra.

After a blood and DNA report Krishna finds that he is not the father of Gunn's child and believes that she has cheated on him with Nikhil Mehra.

Another conspiracy is afoot but Parvati finally finds out from Chhaya's husband Vikram that Trishna is the real killer.

Into this mayhem steps Jhanki Devi, a Parvati look-alike and a fabulously rich woman who stands no nonsense and knows how to fight back for her rights and dignity.

Gradually, she challenges Trishna's power, and eventually succeeds in taking over the control of the Agarwal family after many trials and tribulations.

It is revealed that Jhanki is in fact Parvati, who had survived and taken a new identity in order to avenge Om's killers and save her family.

Then, when Kapoor reduced the age of the characters in story by ten years, Tanwar rejected again as she was not willing to shift from Delhi to Mumbai for her daily soap shooting considering her routine would become affected.

[8] When the ratings of the series slightly declined, Kapoor decided and on 15 November 2006, the story took a generation leap of 18 years.

[16] When it ended, The telegraph stated both the positive and negative aspects of the show saying," A by and large credible storyline and identifiable characters.

"[17] This series which aired at a night slot of 10:00 pm (IST) is regarded as the third most highest rated soap after Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi and Kasautii Zindagii Kay which mostly dominated the top positions in Hindi GEC for about seven years.

[24] In the Year 2002 and 2003, the series trailed only Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi to become the number two show on Indian Television.

[33] Also Sakshi Tanwar was applauded for her portrayal as Janki Devi, a break for her and audience who saw her enacting Parvati Aggrawal for continuous 6 years!

[39] Protests evoked by Jagori, a women's group, in May 2002 for depiction of the raping a blind girl Khushi where the rapist justifies the crime as punishment for not respecting him, in the episode aired on 21 May 2002.

[40] In February 2003, The Times of India reported that the people started recreating the grand sets of the series in their homes at Kolkata.

[42] The victim's mother Nupur Talwar requested the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) to stop Balaji Telefilms from airing the sequence, saying that the production house was trying to earn TRPs by exploiting a tragedy.

[43] However, the production house refused to change the script stating the sequence not being inspired from that case while there were some similarities reported between both.

Soon, the track was altered regarding which Creative head, Nivedita Basu stated, "Well, Andy will not die; only Tanu will be bumped off.