Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii

• Sakshi Tanwar as Parvati Om Agarwal / Janki Devi / Swati Dixit - Wife of Om Agarwal
• Kiran Karmarkar as Om Agarwal - Husband of Parvati Agrawal

• Mohnish Behl / Anup Soni as Suyash Mehra
• Lily Patel as Rukmani (Dadi) Kedarnath Agarwal
• Jyotsna Karyekar as Nani
• Deepak Qazir as Vishwanath (Babuji) Agarwal
• Nayan Bhatt as Krishna (Maaji) Vishwanath Agarwal
• Neelam Mehra as Vandana Agarwal (Vandy Maasi)
• Aruna Irani as Narayani Devi
• Ali Asgar as Kamal Agarwal
• Shweta Basu Prasad as Young Shruti Agarwal
• Tina Parekh as Shruti Om Agarwal
• Poorva Gokhale / Rujuta Deshmukh / Pallavi Subhash Chandran as Advocate Gunn Krishna Agarwal
• Aamir Ali / Mazher Sayed as Sameer Kaul
• Shweta Kawatra / Achint Kaur as Pallavi Bhandari / Pallavi Kamal Agarwal / Pammi Balraj Nanda
• Mita Vashisht as Trishna Kocchar / Trishna Kamal Agarwal[5]
• Smita Bansal as Nivedita Kamal Agarwal
• Aparna Jaywant as Mitali Agarwal
• Shital Thakkar as Preeti Agarwal
• Rinku Dhawan as Chhaya Agarwal
• Manav Gohil / Prakash Ramchandani as Vikram
• Gautam Chaturvedi as Gaurav Agarwal
• Neelam Sagar / Surbhi Tiwari / Suchita Trivedi / Jaya Mathur as Shilpa Gaurav Agarwal
• Prabhat Bhattacharya as Ajay Agarwal
• Kusumit Sana / Sweta Keswani / Nivedita Bhattacharya as Avantika Ajay Agarwal
• Manish Goel as Tushar (Sonali's Husband)
• Aashish Kaul as Rohan Garg
• Ali Hassan asAryan Dosh
• Kavita Kaushik as Manya Doshi
• Shabbir Ahluwalia as Saumil Umesh Dixit
• Chetan Hansraj as Shashank (Sasha) Garg
• Kanika Maheshwari as Neelima (Neel) Garg
• Diwakar Pundir as Sambhav Khanna
• Rupali Ganguly as Gayatri Om Agarwal / Gayatri Sameer Kaul
• Adita Wahi / Preeti Gupta as Mayuri Shikhar Mehra
• Rohit Bakshi as Shikhar Mehra
• Archana Bhatt Malkani as Pragati Agarwal
• Jeetu Malkani / Nivaan Sen as Pranay Kaul
• Shalini Chandran as Maithili Pranay Kaul
• Jatin Shah as Vikramaditya (Adi) Mehra
• Shraddha Musale / Pranitaa Pandit as Malishka
• Akshita Kapoor as Tanu Kaul
• Urmila Tiwari as Sunaina Rai Chaudhary
• Parul Juneja as Neha Varun Mehta
• Gaurav Gupta as Ronit Agarwal
• Ali Merchant as Bharat Agarwal
• Mandar Degvekar as Tiny Agarwal
• Barsha Chatterjee as Shivangi Ishaan Kaul
• Suhaas Ahuja as Sharath (Sissy) Raj Nanda
• Panchi Bora as Prachi Mishra
• Madhura Naik as Tanya (Sam) Nanda
• Rocky Verma as Manager Waghale
• Sanjeet Bedi as Advocate Kothari
• Shraddha Nigam as Advocate Ambika
• Garima Bhatnagar as Garima Rai Chaudhary
• Mukul Dev as Vijay Agarwal
• Hrishikesh Pandey as Advocate Natkarni
• Anang Desai as Balraj Nanda
• Tarana Raja as Siri
• Reena Kapoor as Srishti
• Sai Ballal as Avantika's Father
• Salim Shah as Inspector Krishna Kanth (K.K.)
• Kiran Dubey as Rajeshwari Suyash Mehra'
• Sushmita Mukherjee as Romilla Nanda
• Shubhavi Choksey as Advote Rishika Rai Chaudhary
• Rajeev Bharadwaj / Karan Patel as Vigyaat Agarwal
• Puneet Vashisht as Viraj Agarwal
• Jaya Seal as Swati Dixit
• Addite Shirwaikar as Sonu

Initially, Kahanii was offered to Zee TV. However, when they declined the offer, it was picked up by Star Plus.[6]

Sakshi Tanwar was initially offered the role of a sister in law Parvati by Ekta Kapoor while playing the role of a sister in law in Karam Apnaa Apnaa which she rejected as she thought her role of a sister in law could not be the lead. Even when she was given narration of the story she rejected again as it required her to play the role of a mother to a teenager. Then, when Kapoor reduced the age of the characters in story by 10 years, Tanwar rejected again as she was not willing to shift from Delhi to Mumbai for her daily soap shooting considering her routine would become affected. After discussions with Kapoor she decided to shoot for 15 days in Mumbai in a month for it so that the other days she could stay in Delhi.[7]

When the ratings of the series slightly declined, Kapoor decided and on 15 November 2006, the story took a generation leap of 18 years.[8]

Kahaani was initially shot at sets in Sankraman, studio number eight and later changed. In September 2007, due to the dipping viewership, considering the current set location unlucky and the previous set Sankraman lucky, Kapoor decided and shifted it back there.[9]

On 19 June 2006, Kahaani had a crossover with Kkavyanjali.[10] In 2007 and 2008, the series had a crossover with Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi.[11][12]

The series was critically acclaimed during its premiere for showcasing the actual joint family concept and the problems faced by the new generations in joint family. The way in which the storyline was adopted was widely appreciated.[13]

When it ended, The telegraph stated both the positive and negative aspects of the show saying," A by and large credible storyline and identifiable characters. Unlike Tulsi, Parvati, played by Saakshi Tanwar, was human and vulnerable and that endeared her to viewers. Repetitive plot points and too many characters towards the end. The Agarwal family plunged from one crisis to another. The viewer plunged from boredom to frustration."[14]

This series which aired at a night slot of 10:00 pm (IST) is regarded as the second most highest rated soap after Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi which mostly dominanted the top positions in Hindi GEC for about seven years. These made StarPlus and Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms reach greater reach at that time.[15][16]

Three weeks after its premiere the show was amongst top three shows on Indian Television the other two being Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi and Kaun Banega Crorepati.[17][18]

The series became one of the most watched shows during 2001 and 2002 with an average TRP of 10+ TVR.[19] In September 2003, the series took a leap of 18 years in the storyline while the ratings spiked around 10+TVR before which it around 9 TVR before leap.[20]

In the Year 2002 and 2003, the series toppled Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi to become the top show on Indian Television.[21][22]

In the Year 2004, after the first generational leap of 20 years the TRP of the show shoot as high as 18+ that was a feat achieved by none other show before except Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (which had a record of generating a TRPof 22+)![23] In the same year during the rape hearing scene the TRPs of the show shoot the highest making it top show continuously for several weeks on the ratings charts.[24][25]

On 15 November 2006, the series took another generational leap of 18 years.[26] The protagonist Parvati Aggrawal (Sakshi Tanwar) returned from dead as Janki Devi to take the revenge from Trisha (Mita Vashisht) who damaged her family and made the elders of her family - the servants! The series was applauded for enacting such a storyline which had the connect with 21st century![27] One of the episodes aired soon after it garnered 15.34 TVR and its last highest rating before was 12.55 TVR on January 2006.[28]

Also Sakshi Tanwar was applauded for her portrayal as Janki Devi, a break for her and audience who saw her enacting Parvati Aggrawal for continuous 6 years! Even Mita Vashisht was applauded for her portrayal as antagonist Trisha. The ratings of the series went high when Sakshi Tanwar returned as Janki Devi.[29][30]

Once when the TVR had a slight drop from 21 to 20, despite being a top show, Kapoor became angry such that she even was in a temper to shut the show. However, the cast and crew reshoot the upcoming sequences for 16 hours such that Kapoor was satisfied.[31]

The series went off air on 9 October 2008 after completing 8 successful years, where in the last episode, the protagonist Sakshi Tanwar was seen passing on the baton to Puja Banerjee (the protagonist of another show Tujh Sang Preet Lagai Sajna that replaced Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii).[32]

In June 2008, a sequence was in making, reported to be inspired from the ongoing 2008 Noida double murder case then, where the lead character Parvati's granddaughter Tanu played by Akshita Kapoor and her boyfriend Andy were to be murdered.[33] The victim's mother Nupur Talwar requested the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) to stop Balaji Telefilms from airing the sequence, saying that the production house was trying to earn TRPs by exploiting a tragedy.[34] However, the production house refused to change the script stating the sequence not being inspired from that case while there were some similarities reported between both.[35][36] The similarities between those reported by Mumbai Mirror were: "The body of Tanu's boyfriend is found inside the house just as the body of the servant was found on the terrace, in Aarushi's case. In the show as in reality, Tanu's ashes will be immersed in Haridwar just like Aarushi's. Also, the drama will focus on a family member's involvement in the murder. Like Aarushi's mother, Parvati will be shown giving interviews to the media. The show has also incorporated the element of the MMS from Aarushi's case and the CBI probe into the case."[33]

When Balaji Telefilms refused to drop the track, NCPCR's member Sandhya Bajaj after Talwar's complaint, in a letter to Information & broadcasting (I&B) secretary Asha Swarup, said, "Balaji Telefilms’ move would glorify the concept of “honour killings”. They should not be allowed to make a serial on Aarushi murder case till the investigations are over. Otherwise, it will amount to influencing the investigation and the final outcome of the case,"[37] Following the complaint and I&B ministry meeting with Star TV, they ordered Star to withhold the episode telecast.[38] Then, Star instructed Balaji Telefilms as per I&B's letter to alter the track accordingly. Soon, the track was altered regarding which Creative head, Nivedita Basu stated, "Well, Andy will not die; only Tanu will be bumped off. So there is no double murder like that of Aarushi and Hemraj. Moreover, we also removed the word 'honour killing' from the episode. Now the track will be of a 'who-dun-it', where every character in the Agarwal family will be a suspect."[39]