Mahua, a bright girl in a village, meets Shambhu Singh Thakur, the elder grandson of a wealthy women, Durga aka Ammaji. They argue and hate each other. At the age of 18, Mahua's parents sells her to Ramesh by using a system called "Nath Utrayi", as he tries to kill her. She is saved by Shambhu, who marries her. After their marriage, Shambhu died in the hands of Ramesh and Mahua's elder sister, Boondi whom is his ex-fiancé whom had obsessive towards on him as she had married to Radhe, Shambhu's cousin as she had took revenge against on her and Mahua marries Inspector Aryan Mishra, her best friend while she also kills Boondi whom she tries to harm Aryan and she also destroys her evil spirit as she tries to harm her and also the family. Mahua, becomes pregnant and giving birth to two daughters, steals one from her father, Garjan Mishra. She steals the child from a woman selling it, and Aryan and Mahua separate, each taking one of their daughters.
6 years later
Mahua, is a school teacher in the village, raises her daughter Krishna, while Aryan is in love with Kajal while raising his daughter Gauri. Aryan decided to divorce Mahua to marry Kajal and live happily. Mahua refuses to sign the divorce papers, and Ammaji announces Aryan and Kajal's wedding in front of the villagers. While Mahua's aunt, Poonam fixes her marriage with Kishor. Aryan and Mahua reunited, but Aryan is killed by Ramesh. Mahua mistakenly goes to Pakistan, but with the help of Shoaib, she escapes and returns to India. After that she marries Captain Aditya Rathore. Padma is murdered, and Ramesh is arrested. Mahua helps Janaki, but Sukant Narayan tortures her. Mahua exposes Sukant's crimes, but he kills her by throwing her off from a under construction building.
Few years later
Durga, Krishna, and Gauri live in poverty due to Mrs. Narayan's deceitful theft of the Thakur family's ancestral house. Gauri falls in love with Jeet Narayan, but Krishna married Jeet. Gauri fails to win back Jeet. She marries Sukant Narayan, Jeet's paternal uncle, to take revenge. Sukant kills himself but is sent to a mental asylum. Krishna discovers Sukant inherited the ancestral house from Mrs. Narayan. Gauri betrays Krishna, claiming she is Sukant's wife and orders her to leave. Jeet eventually falls in love with Krishna and realizes Gauri's evil, but shortly afterwards Krishna is shot and falls off a cliff and is presumed dead. With this we are introduced to Gopala, a young woman who suffers a heart attack during her wedding, at the same time as Krishna's attack. Gopala loses her memories and is left with Krishna's emotions, falling in love with Jeet and following him to the Narayan residence, convinced that he is her husband. Jeet initially rejects her, still in mourning for Krishna, but after escaping from Gauri's traps with the help of Gopala, he decides to accept Gopala's love and take her as his wife. But Krishna is actually alive, being held captive by Ajju, Gopala's fiancé, who plots a coup against the Narayans. Actually Gopala is after Jeet's money and wants to kill him. Later, Krishna manages to regain consciousness, just in time to prevent Gopala and Jeet's remarriage. With the help of a remorseful Gauri for her mistakes, Krishna manages to send Gopala to prison and decides to resume her marriage with Jeet. Krishna becomes pregnant with Jeet's child.
However, Gauri again becomes evil and tries to make Krishna believe that she suffered a miscarriage, while she herself becomes pregnant with Jeet and Krishna's child via IVF and fakes being attacked by Krishna. She then gives birth to a son via surrogacy and convinces everyone that Krishna killed it and is arrested, but on the way the police car explodes and Krishna is presumed dead.
Another 6 years later
Jeet married Gauri in order to raise his and Krishna's son Shiv whom he assumed of Gauri, but he never forgot Krishna. At the same time, we learn that Krishna faked her own death after feeling betrayed by Jeet and his family, she became a police officer and raises her and Jeet's daughter, Gopika, as a single mother. The Narayan family is unaware of Gopika. But soon Krishna and Jeet to meet again, as Shiv and Gopika end up meeting and becoming friends, making Krishna have to face her past once again. This approach leaves Gauri scared and obsessive, as she now fears losing not only her position as Jeet's wife, but also her son, since Shiv is in reality not her biological son but his adopted one, and possibly the son of Krishna herself.She creates countless situations to prevent Jeet from meeting Krishna, seeing Gopika with bad eyes and feeling guilty for leaving Shiv aside. But before long the truth about Gopika's paternity is revealed and Jeet decides to separate from Gauri and try to reconcile with Krishna. Finally, Gauri accepts that she has lost Jeet and tries to fake a good relationship with Krishna to keep Shiv with her.
Pratima Kazmi as Durga Singh Thakur aka Ammaji — The Matriarch of Thakur Family; Avtaar, Ramesh and Sheela's mother; Shambhu and Adhiraj's grandmother (2021–2024)
Pallavi Mukherjee as Chanchal: Rudra's younger sister
Rahulram Manchanda as Kishore (2022)
Khushboo Sawan as Phoolia: servant in the Mishra household
Radhika Chhabra as Reena
Aloknath Pathak as Panditji
Amit Sinha as Monica Kinnar
Abhinav Gautam as Factory owner
Ahmad Kabir Shadan as Senior Police Inspector (2022)
Aman Maheshwari: (2023–2024)
Nyshita Bajaj as Radha (2024)
Samaksh Sudi
Siraj Mustafa Khan as Sarpanch (Village Head)(2024)
Cameo appearances
Shruti Anand as Ruchita Nihar Goel from Mann Sundar (2022)
Production
Release
The series was announced on Dangal by Story Square Productions. Chahat Pandey and Arjit Taneja were signed as the lead. The show was released on 23 August 2021.[10]
Casting
Taneja quit the show in February 2022 as he was not happy with the growth of his character in the show and his role did not shape up the way he imagined.[11]
In March 2022 Avinash Mishra as Aryan is cast as the lead.[12] In February 2023, Avinash Mishra also quit the series, saying " My character had no scope left. My track had reached a saturation point. I felt there was nothing more that I could give to the show. My character had no growth and so I thought that it was best to move on."[13]
Dubbed and International broadcast
This show was later dubbed in Bengali language as Mohua - Ek Naari Shoktir Kahini and also it was aired on their sister channel Enterr10 Bangla.
While its success of this show in india, it was later dubbed in Indonesian language as Nath and it was released on 13 October 2023 which was aired on ANTV alongside with Karn Sangini.[14]
