Concept:
Is it possible for a relationship born as a transaction to blossom into love?
Set, for the most part in Haryana, Molkki is the story of Purvi, a “Mol Ki Hui Dulhan” or a bought bride, who finds herself in an arranged marriage with Virender, a widower twice her age. Her khuddari is challenged when she discovers just after the ceremony that she has indeed, been “sold” by her father and is merely a clause for the inheritance of his uncle’s land. Far from her home in the Shrawasti village of UP, she finds herself in Rewari, Haryana, daughter-in-law to a family of Vyas Brahmins. Her eyes are opened to the real life phenomenon of bride-buying against the backdrop of a skewed sex ratio in Haryana.
She faces struggles of adjustment, identity and pride but above all, a man who is still in love with his late wife. Overnight, she must become a mother to his little boisterous children, eventually discovering that they have siblings who live in the city, and are older than she is. The other women in the house spare no chance to make her aware of her “status” as a bought bride from a lower class of society.
But Purvi is a girl with a heart of gold, as she fights an uphill battle but always fights it with dignity. Her unassailable goodness finds its place in Virendar’s heart. She also discovers that he is not afraid to stand up for good, even if it goes against the conventions of society and family. Their mutual respect stands the tribulations thrown at them and soon blossoms into an unspoken, often unacknowledged love.
Will they have a future together, or will the untold truth of the past stand in their way?