'one who has a price') is an Indian Hindi-language television drama series produced by Ekta Kapoor under Balaji Telefilms.

[1] The series is set in the Rewari district of Haryana, and focuses on molkki pratha, or the custom of bride-buying in India.

The story revolves around Purvi, a 19-year-old girl who becomes the molkki bride of 42-year-old chief Virendra Pratapsingh, a widower and father of two children.

She fights for her and other molkki brides' rights, as well as fulfil her responsibilities as wife, daughter-in-law, mother, and chieftess of Rewari.

Molkki is an Indian tradition that involves marrying off poor girls to a wealthy man in exchange for money.

The storyline of the series revolves around a poor girl named Purvi who is made a Molkki bride for money.

Purvi marries Virendra Pratapsingh, a widowed father of two children and head of a village in Haryana's Rewari district.

A series of incidents leads to Virendra losing his trust in Purvi and he initially refuses to believe her allegations against his brother, however, she eventually succeeds in exposing Vaibhav's doings.

After this, Purvi, in a desire to receive better education, enrolls in a nearby college where she has to conceal her wealthy status to avoid ridicule.

Meanwhile, Vaibhav decides to punish Priyashi for her betrayal but, with the intent to scare her, accidentally kills her by pushing her from a cliff.

He succeeds and Virendra is imprisoned, while Vaibhav, wearing a bulletproof jacket, manages to escape with a disguise and attempts to leave the country with the help of Anjali.

After Purvi visits the cave, she feels restless and wakes up in the middle of the night due to a nightmare where she sees a woman in chains.

Sakshi discloses the hard-hitting truth about her return after five long years and reveals that she conspired with Prakashi and Anjali to throw Purvi out of the house.

Inbetween this Virendra's elder twin kids Veer & Nandini returns for London it hits their relationship hard.

Virendra then learns that 6 months earlier Purvi left the house and got hit by Daksh's car where she lost her memory and is now known by her new name Dhwani.

He manages to pursue Daksh and Dhwani to return to Rewari and conduct the marriage ceremony there, to which the duo agrees.

Purvi's womb gets damaged causing her to become infertile.Sakshi was arrested but Arjun accepted the crime in return of money offered by Sakshi.

So she joined hands with Sakshi and conspire against Purvi.While Purvi was helping a unknown person by taking huge amount from locker without Virendra's conscience.

At the same day of Virendra as student, having lunch with Purvi's box on sharing he mischievously irritates her while he receives a message of huge amount debited from his bank account.

Shockingly he left from the school, it leads restless to Purvi so she calls Anjali to know the scenario of haveli.Anjali explains about the money fraudulent happens in Virendra's account.

The main reason why I have picked up this character is that it challenges my set of skills as an actor, as there are no similarities between our lives.

Yes, being an uptown girl playing a character that was born and brought up in rural areas requires a lot of research, study, and understanding of the way of their culture.ThePrint stated the series tackled the issue of brides for sale when Purvi is forced into marriage with the sarpanch who is twice her age for money.

ThePrint also said that the series was "as real as it gets" and that "the serial is set in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh where such marriage transactions are only too often the tragedy".

[7] A reboot of the show named Molkki - Rishton Ki Agnipariksha, aired on the same channel start from 13 February 2023.