[2] The show follows the journey of a young, hardworking and middle class girl, Kkusum and later, after a 20 year leap on her daughter Kkumud.

The show starred Nausheen Ali Sardar[3] in the title role, and after a generation leap, it was played by Manasi Joshi Roy[1] and Shilpa Saklani.

[5] The roles of Kkumud and Kali were essayed by Aashka Goradia and Rucha Gujarathi.

This show is about a middle class girl, Kkusum Deshmukh, everyone in her family is dependent on her.

But she meets him and puts forth a condition that she'll take her family's responsibilities after their marriage also.

They happily marry each other.On their wedding night, he shows his weird sparks.

Kkusum also finds out that Abhay only married her because she is akhandsaubhagyavati (her husband will not die).

But Kkusum finds out that now Abhay cannot be a dad because of an accident that's why he called her back, because she's pregnant.

Kkusum's phone rings and Abhay and Esha are scared that someone heard them.

She goes there and waits for Abhay when he comes she slaps him twice and leaves saying that she'll never come back but her mother-in-law stops her.

Meanwhile, there is a marriage proposal that comes to Tanya Kapoor who is Abhay's cousin sister.

Siddharth's paternal aunts, Pamela, Natasha "Tashu", maternal aunt, Raima, adoptive mother Reema and biological mother Devanshi are evil so they try to break them up but they fail because Siddharth loves Kkusum.

But he finds out that Kkusum wasn't lying about the brain tumor case so he calls her while driving.

A while later, everyone figures out that Abhay has brain tumor and then Sarla comes to Kkusum for her son's life.

They go back, Esha comes back after sometime, Kkusum starts to fall for Abhay again, they both don't tell each other about their feelings, Esha comes to live in with them and she too falls for Abhay despite knowing that he is married.

Then everyone finds out that Abhay accidentally killed Siddharth when he was having brain tumor attack while driving.

She creates such situations that Kkusum suspects Mahi and Abhay so she leaves without interrogating.

Kkusum lives in Ludhiana with Kkumud, Sumitra and her family-like neighbour Madhuri and her daughter Simran.

Kali is grown up to be a spoilt brat due Mahi's evil teachings.

She leaks exam papers, keeps drugs in Kkumud's bag and accuses her for all these crimes.

In the courthouse, Kkusum and Abay meet each other as Nakul is the younger son of Abhay's best friend Aryaman.

Nakul is proven to be lying, so Abhay breaks the engagement, Kali is forced to get engaged to Garv, Esha's Godson, who loves Kali, but she still loves Nakul.

On Garv's and Kkumud's wedding day Kshitij finds out that he doesn't have cancer and that it was the conspiracy of his grandmother and Nakul.

So, Garv returns to India and helps Nakul win Kali's trust again.

But sadly, Abhay also dies in an accident, which worsens the condition of Kkusum and the whole family.

Kali is happy in marital life but Kkumud is deeply hurt and unhappy by the demise of her two closely related family members.

After seeing both of her daughters happy, Kkusum dies and gets reunited with her love, Abhay.

Kkumud is shown happily living with her family and her daughter with Karan, also named as Kkusum.

Kkumud also faced a lot of tribulations in her life, from being an unmarried pregnant woman to losing her first love, Kshitij.

This starts the story of another "Kkusum”: Ek Aam ladki Ki Kahani.