Ghar Ek Mandir
Genre	Indian soap opera
Written by	Story: Ekta Kapoor Screenplay: Kamlesh Kunti Singh, Sandip Sikcand Dialogues: Kamlesh Kunti Singh, Rekkha Modi
Directed by	Gogi Anand, Partho Mitra
Creative directors	Doris Dey Asso. Creative Head Khalid Khan
Starring	See below
Opening theme	"Ye Ghar Ek Mandir Hai" by Priya Bhattacharya
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of episodes	360
Production
Producer	Ekta Kapoor & Shobha Kapoor
Running time	approximately 24 minutes
Production company	Balaji Telefilms
Release
Original network	Sony Entertainment Television
Original release	24 April 2000 (2000-04-24) – 10 January 2002 (2002-01-10)

Ghar Ek Mandir is an Indian television show which aired on Sony Entertainment Television from 24 April 2000 to 10 January 2002. It was directed By Yatindra Rawat and produced By Balaji Telefilms and Ekta kapoor.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

Plot

The show centers around a middle class Indian family of Gopal a retired school principal, his wife Gayatri and their four children. The eldest son Rajesh is married to his love Sapna and has two children - daughter Rinky and son Bunty. The middle son Prem is to be engaged to a lawyer named Aanchal. The third son is Rahul. He is a law graduate but is unable to find any good employment. He is happy-go-lucky and shirks his responsibilities.^[5] The three brothers have a younger sister Archana who is immature and materialistic.^[5] Unfortunately, Prem dies due to a bomb blast on the day of his engagement to Aanchal, leaving his mother Gayatri in a state of shock. Gayatri desires to see Aanchal as a bride. Aanchal hasn't got over Prem yet while Rahul loves a spoilt rich girl, Mala. But due to family pressure to help Gayatri recover, Rahul and Aanchal get married. They consider this marriage as a sacrifice for their family’s welfare and do not have any intimate feelings for each other.^[5] Concurrently, Archana marries Aanchal's brother Vishwajeet, an emerging writer.^[5] The lives and stories of different characters are weaved together in this show, but the focus is on how Rahul and Aanchal slowly realize they are each other's soulmates and fall in love. They even end up consummating their marriage accidentally which leads to Aanchal getting pregnant with their first child, Pratham. With the arrival of baby Pratham, Gayatri recovers completely, believing that her Prem has returned to her at last.^[5][6] Throughout the course of the show, Rahul transforms into a more responsible person and together with Aanchal, supports his family.^[5]

Cast

• Gautami Kapoor as Aanchal, main protagonist, lawyer, wife of Rahul
• Aman Verma as Prem: Gopal and Gayatri's middle son; Rakesh's younger brother; Rahul and Archana's elder brother; Aanchal's ex–fiance (2000) (Dead)
• Ram Kapoor / Ashish Kapoor as Advocate Rahul: Gopal and Gayatri's younger son; Rajesh and Prem's younger brother; Archana's elder brother; Aanchal's husband; Mala's ex–boyfriend (2000–2001) / (2001–2002)
• Shweta Kawatra as Mala Singhal: Aman's daughter; Siddharth's elder sister; Rahul's ex–girlfriend (2000–2001)
• Madan Joshi as Gopal, retired school principal, husband of Gayatri, father of Rajesh, Prem, Rahul and Archana
• Shama Deshpande as Gayatri, wife of Gopal, mother of Rajesh, Prem, Rahul and Archana
• Mahesh Anand as Aman Singhal, underworld don and father of Mala and Siddharth
• Kiran Karmarkar as Rajesh, eldest son of Gopal and Gayatri
• Kishori Shahane as Sapna, Rajesh’s wife
• Kuljeet Randhawa / Urvashi Dholakia as Anjali, Sapna’s friend, Rajesh’s boss and lover
• Sujata Sanghamitra / Kainaaz Parvez as Archana, daughter of Gopal & Gayatri, wife of Vishwajeet
• Rituraj Singh as Vishwajeet
• Prakash Ramchandani as Gaurav
• Tasneem Sheikh as Meenakshi
• Gautam Chaturvedi as Manik
• Hiten Tejwani as Gautam
• Manish Goel as Ravi
• Moonmoon Banerjee as Kittu
• Rushad Rana as Siddharth Singhal
• Sameer Dharmadhikari as Raghu
• Neha Pendse
• Swati Anand
• Poornima Bhave as Megha
• Meenakshi Gupta as Vaidehi (before plastic surgery)
• Shilpa Mehta as Gaurav's Mother
• Rupa Divetia as Shanti, mother of Aanchal and Vishwajeet
• Romanchak Arora as Bobby
• Nitin Trivedi as Dr. Vasudev / Govind Patel
• Rajesh Kumar as Vilas
• Chandni Toor as Vaidehi (after plastic surgery) / Priyanka Patel
• Pratim Parekh as Mr. Rao
• Neha Mehta as Sharon
• Aparna Bhatnagar as Damini
• Pramatesh Mehta as Kishan (Gopal's younger brother; Gautam and Ravi's father)
• Niyati Joshi as Suman (Kishan's wife and Ravi's mother)
• Benika Bisht as Supriya: Ravi's girlfriend
• Meenakshi Verma as Gautam's mother
• Kusumit Sana as Simrati Agarwal
• Yamini Singh as Sapna, Megha and Vaidehi's mother
• Manav Kaul as Abhishek

References

External links

• Official Website