Mitwa Phool Kamal Ke was a Hindi television series which aired on STAR Plus. It began on 27 May 2009 and ended on 22 January 2010. The story revolved around the orthodox practices that are prevalent even today in the Uttar Pradesh. This show airs on an Afghan television channel called Ariana TV, where the drama is translated into Dari Persian since 17 April 2011 to 15 January 2012. Synopsis Bela (Tanvi Bhatia), the protagonist, is the granddaughter of dictatorial Mamchand Chaudhry (Shahbaz Khan) : the ‘ruler’ of Ambakhedi in Uttar Pradesh. Mamchand rules with a rod of iron and forbids any lower caste person falling in love with an upper caste one. He is not fond of the daughters in the family, yet his youngest son has a daughter called Bela, whom he allows to live but treats her like an outsider. Bela falls in love with a lower caste man called Birju (Mohit Malhotra) whose parents were killed by Mamchand as his mother was upper caste and father lower caste. Bela’s auntie, Rajbala (Nigaar Khan), is an antagonist. She concocts a plan to catch Bela and Birju together and is successful. After Mamchand’s men beat up Birju, he vows to marry Bela off to an equally orthodox man called Bhanu who is of the upper caste and son of Kemchand Chaudhry. Bela and Birju escape from Mamchand with the help of Bela’s parents, Sargam and Raghav, who do not advocate Mamchand’s vile and evil doings. Mamchand manages to bring the pair back but is stopped from killing them by a revolution of the lower caste people. Birju fights with Bela’s oldest uncle, the main antagonist, and Nirbhay (Manish Wadhwa) and Nirbhay are shot dead. Nirbhay’s widow Rajbala vows to remove her marital garments when her husband’s killer’s corpse is in front of her. Birju is thrown in jail. Mamchand is quick to capitalise on Birju’s imprisonment and marries Bela off to Adharv Chaudhry — a relative of Rajbala. At the same time, the police announce that they have shot Birju dead, yet his body is nowhere to be found. Bela soon finds out that Adharv was only interested in marrying her because he’s impotent and wants his servant Charan to rape her for them to have a child. Adharv’s first wife reveals this to Bela when Birju turns up at Adharv’s house under his new persona of Birjbushan