Bandini (TV Series) - Beginning

Beginning

Santu Waghela (Aasiya Kazi) is a poor village girl, who lives in the village of Dharampur with her two sisters, Khemi (Leena Jumani) and Mongi. The sisters stay with their maternal grandfather, Madhav Solanki, an experienced diamond cutter.

Middle-aged diamond merchant Dharamraj Mahiyavanshi (Ronit Roy) is the most powerful man in Dharampur. Dharamraj is facing problems at his diamond factory. In order to make sure that Madhav Solanki, his best worker, does not leave his employment, Dharamraj offers to arrange and sponsor Khemi's marriage to a worker named Mahesh. However, since Khemi's horoscope shows some inauspicious stars, unfavourable to marriage, it is decided that Mahesh will get married to Santu. Hours before the wedding, Mahesh is bribed by Dharamraj's rivals and flees Dharampur. The villagers protest. To calm them, Dharamraj, a widower, comes forward to marry Santu. The spiritual advisor to Dharamraj studies Santu's horoscope and predicts that her auspicious presence will solve all the problems affecting the Mahiyavanshis.

Dharamraj is still in love with his dead wife Subhadra, who has left him with 5 children: Hiten (Mrunal Jain), Kadambari (Prerna Wanvari), Maulik (Shardul Pandit), Birwa (Kimberly Jain) and Suraj. For Dharamraj, the decision to marry Santu is purely a business calculation. Once home, he ignores his wife Santu, and she is constantly abused by his older sister, Tarulata (Taru) Mahiyavanshi (Rasika Joshi). After a long time, however, Dharamraj and all his family members, except Taru and Maulik, accept Santu as a member of the Mahiyavanshi family. It is then revealed that Maulik is actually Taru's son, the result of her secret marriage to village outlaw Kanji Waghela.

Khemi and Hiten fall in love but are unable to get married to each other. Kadambari gets married to Shashank. Hiten eventually marries Toral and lives happily with her. Khemi gets married to Arjan, who is later discovered to be Dharamraj's long-lost son. Khemi and Arjan come to stay with the Mahiyavanshis . Arjan discovers Khemi's past relationship with Hiten. Furious, Arjan wants to kill Hiten but instead assaults Dharamraj. Birwa, trying to save her father, accidentally kills Arjan. To save Birwa, Santu takes the blame for the murder and goes to jail.