Margarita is an Indian television show broadcast on Zee TV in 1997, starring Milind Soman, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Malvika Singh, Vinay Pathak, Nadira, and Kalpana Iyer.
It tells the story of Pedro who is in love with Margarita, also called Tita, the youngest of the family's three children.
However, a family tradition that the youngest daughter remains unmarried to take care of her aged parents prevents the two from marrying.
Nacha makes Elena Mai lay on the kitchen counter and delivers the baby: it's a girl.
Once Mai leaves, Margarita looks at herself in the mirror, stands on her toes, and while whispering to herself, 'Now I am tall enough to drink some', she gulps a single shot from the tray in front of her.
Margarita is walking with chicks bundled up in her skirt when one of them falls down as she is climbing the stairs from the garden.
She struggles to pick up the fallen chick as both her hands are full and as Pedro rushes to help, her skirt hikes up.
Margarita realizes what is happening and while trying to quickly fix her skirt, the chicks all fall out onto Pedro.
Next, Margarita is seen walking on the seashore along with Chancha, Rose, and Gertrude with Pedro following her closely.
The girls giggle and smile and continue walking along the shores, while Pedro follows Margarita who is lagging behind, and asks her if she has feelings for him also.
Nacha, the housemaid and also Margarita's foster mother thinks that Elena Mai wouldn't be adamant to follow this absurd tradition.
To her shock, Elena Mai expresses her concern and makes it clear to the entire house that according to the traditions, Tita is the youngest, and therefore she cannot marry anyone.
She also states that his son-in-law to her other daughters must live with them in the Braganza house since, after her, all the property would eventually belong to him.
Nacha is seeing cutting onions and down came Tita's tears like rain on a deserted land.
While she hallucinates back to reality, she realizes that Rose and Pedro are taking their first walk down the aisle as a married couple and bells are ringing.
Pedro sees Tita working on the grinding stone in the kitchen and is wooed by her beauty.
Dr. John Coelho and Pedro reach only to find that Tita has delivered Rose's baby boy, Roberto.
Pedro is jealous and confronts Dr. John saying that he should know that Tita cannot marry as per this house's tradition.
A few weeks, days, or months have not passed and Elena Mai decides to send some fresh fish and other food items to Pedro's house.
Mai thinks she is going mad and therefore seeks Dr. John's help to find Margarita a decent Mental Asylum for her treatment.
He instead offers to help by taking Margarita in his home for a few days to which Mai agrees amicably.
She and Dr. John decide to pay a visit to Braganza house, only to find saddened faces of Chancha and Elena Mai in pain.
Looking at all of this, Tita decides to stay back at Braganza house to take care of Mai.
Chancha confides in Tita over the wrath of that evening and what tragedy befallen on her pride and self-esteem.
Tita finds the secluded box with love letters between Mai and his lover, Joseph.
Dr. John officially asks for Tita's hand in marriage from Rose and Pedro, as only them being the elders of the house.
Angrily, out of revenge, Elena's ghost attacks Pedro by transporting a flying log of firewood to him.
Nacha appears to Tita and pleads her to detangle herself from the worries and woes of those around her and that she is not needed anymore here.
As they walk down the aisle as a married couple, Tita sees Rose at the church's door.
Tita says she is so happy to see Rose back in her normal body again, rid of all obesity and beautifully smiling at her.