Pavitra Rishta Cast

Archana (Manav) Deshmukh (Ankita Lokhande) is the main character of Pavitra Rishta. She is not well-educated, and this acts as a barrier to her marriage. She handles all the chores of her house and makes her mother comfortable. She gets married to Manav but, owing to unfavourable circumstances, they are divorced. She leaves for Bangalore and comes back after one year, having completing her education. She has now remarried Manav, whom she loves.

Manav Deshmukh (Sushant Singh Rajput / Hiten Tejwani) is the leading male character. He works as a mechanic in a garage to earn a living for his family. He, too, is not well-educated. He has no dreams of his own. He works hard to support his family financially.

Savita (Damodar) Deshmukh (Usha Nadkarni) is Manav's mother. SShe initially hated Archana and desperately wanted Manav to divorce her and marry Shravani, but later she started loving Archana like her own daughter. Now that Manav has re-married Archana, she hates Archana again and drives them out of the house. She has gotten more selfish, as shown when she takes baby Sachin away from Shravani. Her greed for wealth makes her appear bad, but she loves her family wholeheartedly.

Damodar Deshmukh (Ajay Wadavkar) is Manav's father. He quarrels with Savita all the time. He is happy now that Archana and Manav have reunited.

Sulochana (Manhohar) Karanjkar (Savita Prabhune) is Archana's mother who loves and cares for her and her other two daughters.

Manohar Karanjkar (Kishor Govind Mahabole) is father of Archana. He loves his daughters and can go to any limit to protect their happiness. He undoubtedly is an ideal dad.

Varsha (Satish) Deshpande (Priya Marathe) is sister of Archana. She is married to Satish. She is a career woman who took time off work for two years after her marriage and is now adamant on returning. She doesn't want to have a baby, much to her mother-in-law's dismay. However, after receiving an interview call, she discovers she is pregnant. Later she has an abortion without consulting anyone, which creates problems with her in-laws, but Satish forgives her. Varsha has had medical problems after her abortion and her doctor has told Satish that she can never be pregnant again. Varsha is shattered after overhearing this in a conversation between Vaishali and Archana. She later abducts Archana's son Soham and is presumed dead when she falls into a river.

Satish Deshpande (Anurag Sharma) loves Varsha and married her. He tries to help everyone in his family who has problems. He still supports Varsha after finding out about her affair with his brother-in-law, Ashwin. After Ashwin told a lie about Varsha, Varsha's whole family went against her. Only Satish defended her, thinking she is innocent. Satish then meets one of Varsha's former friends and accomplice of Ashwin, Rashmi, and gathered evidence against his brother-in-law. He then shows the evidence to his older sister Urmilla (Ashwin's wife), and she severs ties with Ashwin. He was originally supposed to marry Varsha's older sister, Archana. He is one of the few characters who supports and understands Manav.

Vinod Karanjkar (Parag Tyagi) is Archana's brother. He is married to Manjusha. He earns very low in his house. He has two daughters. Because Manjusha's can't seem to fit in a joint family, he shifted out in a separate flat. He has returned back to his parents' home. He is often influenced by his wife and participates in humiliating Manav. Archana severs ties with him after knowing that Manjusha accused Manav of stealing money. He is naive and stupid and always supports Manjusha not knowing her hidden motives.

Manjusha (Vinod) Karanjkar (Swati Anand) is Vinod's wife. She has a very negative approach towards her mother-in-law and Vinod’s sisters. She always gets into fights with Sulochana because of her blind trust in her mother and brother. She often makes devious plans to hurt Vinod's family and has been exposed many times. Her in-laws always forgive her and hope that she will improve. She particularly despises Manav and Archana. Manjusha is a greedy woman and ultimately wants her in-laws' assets to herself alone. She tried to frame Manav for stealing 100,000 rupees from Vinod. Later she is exposed by Archana and told to leave the house. She comes back, but everyone is still mad at her.

Vaishali (Dharmesh) Jaipurwala (Prarthana Behere / Madhumita Das) is the youngest sister of Archana. She always supports Archana and her mother just like Varsha. She is now married to Dharmesh Jaipurwala, Satish's former business partner. Vaishali finds out of Dharmesh's secret marriage and is shattered.

Dharmesh Jaipurwala (Sumit Arora) is the husband of Archana's youngest sister, Vaishaili. He is Satish's business partner. He fell in love with Vaishaili and proposed in front of her parents. He is very strict in his business principles and refuses to let his relationships or feelings get in the way. He wants his sister-in-law Archana to forget Manav and move on with her life and suggests her marriage to Jaywant. He wears glasses, is shorter and small in size ,has a paunch and is kind of a jerk. He also has another secret relationship (second wife and child) out of this marriage, who live in Pune. He can fall to any level to protect his skin.

Madhuri (Dharmesh) Jaipurwala (Divjot Sabarwal) is Dharmesh's first wife. They were married secretly long before Dharmesh got married to Vaishali. Dharmesh's parents as well as Vaishali and her family are oblivious of this prior relationship. Madhuri is aware of Dharmesh's second marriage and life in Mumbai. Madhuri lives in Pune with her son Varun. She is a simple woman, who has accepted this way of life, that she has to live alone despite having a husband. She only wants her ill child to become healthy, after which she intends to walk out of Dharmesh's life forever.

Rasika Lokhande (Smita Oak) is Manjusha's and Ajit's mother. Hates everyone apart from her children. She is a very vengeful person and wants to ruin the lives of Achana, Manav and their families. In one episode, Savita yelled at her for burning Vandita's hand.

Ajit Lokhande (Pankaj Vishnu) was an evil soul. He was the main reason for Manav and Archana's divorce. Later he molested Vandita and tricked her into marrying him, thus getting closer to Manav and Archana's famiy and ruining them for personal reasons. That was a year ago. Now he has transformed into a good being and is very supportive of Manav. He and Vandita try to help Manav to get back with Archana.

Vandita (Ajit) Lokhande (Yamini Thakur) is Manav's sister. Ajit molests her and then in public tells everyone that he raped her. She marries him because he and his mother blackmailed her into it. Ajit even beats her at times. But as time passes his attitude changes. Ajit now respects his wife and tries to be nice with her. Vandita has been instrumental in managing their family when they suffered hard times. Ajit is now supportive of Vandita and makes her complete her studies.

DK Korludsker (Naved Aslam) is Manav's boss and very close to Manav .

Ashna (DK) Korludsker (Manasi Salvi) is DK's wife and Manav's Boss and very close to Manav and Archana .

Sachin Sachin Deshmukh (Puru Chibber) is Sachin and Shravani's son. He has now been adopted by Manav and Archana .

Soham Manav Deshmukh is Manav and Archana's son.

Tejswani Manav Deshmukh (Mrinalini Tyagi) is Manav and Archana's twin daughter.

Ovi Manav Deshmukh (Shruti Kanwar) is Manav and Archana's twin daughter.

Pooni Vinod Karanjkar (Jia Mustafa) is Vinod and Manjusha's daughter.

Ruchi Vinod Karanjkar (Meghna Kinare) is Vinod and Manjusha's second daughter.

Varun Dharmesh Jaipurwala is Dharmesh and Madhuri's son.

Aniket Dharmesh Jaipurwala (Nivin Ramani) is Dharmesh and Vaishali's son.

Munni Lokhande is Vandita and Ajit's daughter.

Arjun DK Korludsker (Rithvik Dhanjani) is DK and Ashna's son.

Purvi (Asha Negi) is Archana's Adopted daughter.

Ashwin Sagar (Amit Sareen) is Varsha's old boss and ex-beau who blackmails her and sinfully loves her even though both are married.

Shravani Mahadik (Pooja Pihal) loved Sachin. After his death she learns that she's pregnant. On Savita's suggestion, she decides to marry Manav after his divorce. She falls in love with Manav and wholeheartedly tries to separate him from Archana. Because of the death of Manav's uncle on their scheduled wedding day, Manv and Shravani don't get married. After realizing that Manav will never be happy without Archana, she breaks off the marriage and sacrifices her love. She has a son named Sachin who is taken away from her by Savita. She has now moved to the US.

Jaywant Rane (Mahesh Shetty) is a villain. He gets engaged to Archana after her divorce.. He plans to marry Archana only to further his own interests and intends to kick her out of his house after one year. But Satish finds out the truth by accident and tells Archana to marry Manav instead. Archana flees to marry Manav. Jaywant is very insulted by this incident and wants to separate Manav and Archana. He is copiously making plans with Manjusha to help him.