# Mann Sundar

Mann Sundar (transl. Beauty of the Heart) is an Indian romantic drama series produced by Suzana Ghai under the banner of Panorama Entertainment. It premiered on 18 October 2021 on Dangal. The series formerly starred Shruti Anand and Shivam Khajuria. Currently, it stars Nancy Roy and Dev Aditya in the second generation.

## Plot

Ruchita, an self esteemed and an idealistic women whom doesn't care about her dark skin. She works at her father's friend company which was owned by Naresh Goyal. Nihar, the youngest son of Naresh is in love with Amrita who is his brother Prateek's wife, Ritu's sister. The family fixes Ruchita and Nihar's marriage but Nihar opposes and he tries to elope with Amrita but fails as Amrita leaves London causing Nihar to marry Ruchita. But he blames her for this and starts to hate her.
Nihar's mother, Poonam, and her grandmother doesn't accepts Ruchita due to her dark skin and creates more problems and tries to expel her from Nihar's life. After many struggles, Nihar starts to fall for Ruchita but Amrita returns to separate them. She collaborates with, Poonam and Dadi and succeeded by making her expelling her from the house by framing her for Dadi's accident but it is turn out to be a plot done by Amrita and Dadi. Ruchita discovers Amrita and Dadi's, truth as she tries to expose her but Amrita poisons Ruchita and makes the family to believe Ruchita is dead. Ruchita survives and scares, Amrita as Ghost but she fakes her pregnancy causing Nihar to announces his marriage. Dadi realizes here mistake and accepts Ruchita and helps her to expose Amrita. Ruchita exposes Amrita to the family by stopping Nihar from marrying Amrita. Nihar ends his relationship, with Amrita and Ruchita expels Amrita. Bua Sa, Naresh's grandaunt enters in their life as she puts an initial dislikes towards on Ruchita unaware of Ruchita and Nihar's Marriage. Bua Sa finally discovers their truth but her intension is to snatch the Goyal's property but however the family manages to retrieves their wealth as Bua Sa apologies and leaves.
Amrita returns to seek revenge in which she fakes her own death and makes Nihar arrested. Meera, Amrita's mother manipulates Ritu against them and she uses her by destroying the entire evidences against them so that they don't want let Nihar to release from jail. Ruchita finds and discovers Amrita and Meera's true nature. Ruchita exposes Amrita and Meera and makes them arrested by bailing Nihar. Preeti, Poonam and Naresh's long-lost daughter seeks revenge she creates more problems as Dadi had hides her truth. Ruchita discovers and exposes Preeti and Dadi's truth to everyone as Dadi reveals how her uncle doesn't accepts Preeti as she was a girl so the family accepts Preeti but is unaware of the truth that Preeti had came for the property. Preeti causes many problems in which she causes Prateek and Nihar fight causing them to divide their house. Ruchita discovers and exposes Preeti as she discovers Preeti is mental so they sends her to the mental asylum.
Poonam, whom still wanted to separate Ruchita and Nihar so she makes Naresh to paralyze and frames Ruchita for Naresh's health and gets her arrested. But Nihar discovers that Ruchita is innocent but Poonam blackmails Nihar causing Nihar to divorce Ruchita as Poonam is succeeded by expelling Ruchita. After 6 Months, Ruchita and Nihar meets each other as Nihar is married to a women Aanchal but however their marriage is later turn out to be fake. But Poonam, whom still hates Ruchita conspires to separate them as Aanchal becomes obsessed and falls for Nihar so she decided to separate them as Naresh return back to life. she succeeding to separate them with the help of her aunt she made them to believe that she is pregnant with Nihar's child. Nihar decided to marry Aanchal but Ruchita exposes Aanchal as Poonam's truth to being exposed. Aanchal kidnaps Poonam but Ruchita saves Poonam and Nihar from Aanchal and gets both Aanchal and her aunt arrested.
Sambhav, Poonam’s nephew enters into their life as Poonam brings him to separate Ruchita and Nihar as Sambhav becomes obsessed with Ruchita. Sambhav decided to marry Ruchita and kidnaps Nihar. Nihar later escapes and exposes Sambhav and gets expelled. But Poonam pushes Ruchita into a river but she is saved as later she saves a women Ritika Ahuja from an fire accident so she uses her identity to help her. Ruchita enters the house pretends as Ritika Ahuja for an business proposal whereas, Poonam decided to get Nihar to marry Ritika. Ruchita, as Ritika, makes Poonam realize that despite Rikita being prettier, Ruchita was the better daughter-in-law and her heart was pure. Finally, Ruchita reveals her identity to everyone. Ruchita realizes that she is pregnant with Nihar's child and decides to tell the family. Disha, Prateek's former lover, comes with her son and threatens Prateek to accept her child, as she is dying from a heart problem. Nihar learns the truth and Prateek tells him to hide the secret as he does not want to ruin his relationship with Ritu. Nihar makes the family believe the child is his. Nihar tries to confess the truth to Ruchita, but Ritu learns Pinku's truth. To save her relationship, she writes a letter to Ruchita under Nihar's name, telling her to leave. Ruchita, believing that Nihar wants her gone, leaves the house without telling anyone about her pregnancy.
Ruchita raises her and Nihar's daughters, Ruhi and Juhi after 5 years when Nihar is raising Prateek and Disha's son, Pinku. Poonam had tried to make Nihar to marry Disha but he doesn't as he still misses Ruchita. Nihar meets Ruhi and Juhi but he is unaware that both are his daughters. Ruchita and Nihar meets each other but he is misunderstands that Ruchita is moved on and is married. Nihar saves Ruchita and daughters from an fire accident and brings them to their house. The family later discovers Ruhi and Juhi is Ruchita's daughters. Nihar finds out Ruhi and Juhi are his daughters so he exposes their truth to the family and also he reveals their parentage to them as Ruhi and Juhi finds out Nihar is their father. Poonam finds out Ruhi is not Ruchita and Nihar's daughter and she finds out Ruhi is an orphan when Ruchita before gives birth to her daughter, Juhi she had found Ruhi in a garbage bin when she was abandoned by her own family. Poonam exposes Ruhi’s truth to the family but they accepts Ruhi while Nihar also accepts Ruhi as his daughter but Poonam starts to hate Ruhi due to her dark skin and her unknown lineage.
Disha starts to fall for Nihar and decided to separate Ruchita and Nihar while Ritu who is afraid on this tries to destroy the evidences as Disha fakes her act. Ruchita eventually discovers this and exposes Disha to the family this led Ritu's truth to being exposed and Nihar reveals Pinku's truth and also Prateek and Disha's truth to everyone. Disha kills Ritu as Ruchita is blamed for her death when Patal Devi an evil entity whom had troubled the Goyal's had took her form. Ruchita discovers Disha and Patal Devi's truth so she exposes Disha and she saves the family by destroying and defeats Patal Devi. Disha gets arrested while Ruchita and Nihar took Pinku's responsibility. Apsara, a women along with her mother-in-law, Lalitha seeks revenge against on the family after their husband, Babu (Nihar's look-alike)'s death. Apsara creates many problems but Ruchita finds out this and exposes Apsara but Lalitha fakes her death and frames Nihar and gets him arrested. Ruchita finds out Lalitha is still alive but Lalitha realizes her mistake and helps them by exposing Apsara and gets her arrested thus bailing Nihar.
Meanwhile, Poonam whom still hates Ruhi and in order to get rid of Ruhi she meets a man whom is working for a criminal, Guru Maa whom kidnaps many children's and uses them for their society's superstition beliefs. However, the man kidnaps Juhi instead of Ruhi but Ruchita and Nihar finds out this and saves Juhi from Guru Maa when she tries to sell Juhi but Guru Maa kidnaps Ruchita. Nihar manages to save Ruchita and exposes Guru Maa to everyone thus making her arrested by saving many children's. Monica, a terrorist whom poses as Prateek's girlfriend kills Nihar in a bomb blast as Monica intended to destroy the country which leads the society to start to blame Nihar which leads Naresh sell his entire business and property's and the family later moved into a small house. Ved Vardhan, an ACP Officer and also Ruchita's classmate helps Ruchita by investigating the blast thus discovering Monica's true intention. Monica plans to kill the Chief Minister in a school festival at Ruhi, Juhi and Pinku's school and plants bomb. Ruchita, Ved and her cousin sister Radhika saves the chief minister and other peoples by destroying the bomb but Monica gets killed in the blast and Ruchita finally proves Nihar's innocence to everyone.
Ruchita's daughters, Ruhi and Juhi grown up after 15 years as Ruchita is shown to being dead. Ruhi and Juhi are happily lives with their family as Pinku is married to Palak. Poonam still hates Ruhi so she fixes her marriage in order to get rid of Ruhi. Ruhi then falls in love with Nahar Goenka whom had saved her from an incident. Nahar’s family fixes his marriage with Ruhi but Poonam is opposes the marriage and tries to get Juhi to marry Nahar. But her plan is failed after Ruhi marries Nahar but his grandmother, Sumitra doesn’t accepts Ruhi. Poonam takes revenge by exposing Ruhi’s truth to everyone but they accepts her as Sumitra starts to hate Ruhi even more and vows to get Ruhi oust from Nahar’s life.
Sumitra creates more problems as Ruhi and Nahar falls for each other. Agni, Nahar’s childhood friend enters into their life as Agni had lived secretly inside their house as Agni had suffered from an accident in which she loses her memory. Ruhi brings her to the outside world but shortly Agni regains her memory and later discovers Ruhi and Nahar’s marriage so she decided to separate by joining hands with Sumitra and is succeeded by framing Ruhi for a false case with the help of an police inspector whom seeks revenge and gets her arrested. To avoid Ruhi from bailing out from prison he helps Agni by making Ruhi escapes thus Ruhi Discovers Agni's truth before she could expose her, Agni knocks Ruhi unconscious and made the family to believe that Ruhi had committed suicide. Ruhi survives and scares Agni as a ghost but she forces Sumitra to make her to marry Nahar thus Nahar announces his marriage with Agni. Juhi later discovers this and helps Ruhi to expose Agni. Ruhi exposes Agni by stopping Nahar from marrying Agni thus exposing Sumitra's involvement to everyone. Sumitra whom gets angry on Ruhi after she exposes her truth puts an accident on her causing Ruhi to suffered from miscarriage and later loses her child.
Meanwhile, Juhi and Samar gets married each other as Sumitra and Soni doesn't accepts it. The family then plan to sell their property and business under Samar's name but they finds out Ratan's father and Nahar’s grandfather had made the entire property and business under Nahar's child's name. The family decides to bring a surrogate mother for Nahar and Ruhi’s child as Agni whom later learns about this uses this as an opportunity to separate Ruhi and Nahar. Agni then pretends herself and becomes pregnant with their child but Ruhi discovers and exposes Agni. Agni creates more problems and she tries to kill Ruhi in a bomb blast but Nahar finds out this and tried to save her but he suffered from blast and loses his partial memory. Nahar marries Agni but Ruhi recreates their pasts and becomes succeeded by after Nahar regains his memory. Nahar discovers Agni's true nature but Agni who is insecure on this commits suicide which leads Ruhi and Nahar to loss their child as the entire family to shocked on this.
Ratan's first wife and Nahar’s mother, Nandini. whom had died in an accident after 15 years returns after her soul is possessed under a girl, Munni's body to take Nahar away from the family as she believes that the family had caused her death as Nandini / Munni creates problems and also she tries many occasions to kill Nahar but fails. Ruhi finds out this and tries to save Nahar from Munni but Munni puts an accident on Juhi and tooks her soul as a hostage. Ruhi decided to learn about her death and she finds out Ratan and Sumitra doesn't want to let Nandini to take their son as she causes a fight and she took Nahar away but on the way she gets into an accident and dies as Nahar survives the incident it is revealed that Nahar had accidentally removes the brakes on the car when he tries to take his ball when he was a child. Nahar eventually discovers this, and Ruhi proves the family's innocence thus saving Nahar and Juhi from Nandini as Nandini leaves them.
Sumitra, whom still wanted to oust Ruhi decided to get Ruhi to divorce Nahar hires a women named Sitara, a dancer by kidnapping Ruhi by putting a fire accident and she made the family to believe that after that accident the doctor's had made a plastic surgery on her as Sumitra had corrupted the doctors and she made Sitara pretending herself as Ruhi. The family brings Sitara / Fake Ruhi to their house but Ruhi escapes and tries to expose Sitara but Sumitra and Sitara cheats on her and the family and gets her expelled. Juhi finds out this and helps Ruhi in order to expose Fake Ruhi. Ruhi enters house as Dr. Riya and she tries to gain evidences against on her but the Sitara starts to fall for Nahar so she decided to marry Nahar. But Ruhi and Juhi foils her plan by stopping Nahar from marrying Sitara. While Sitara finds out this, so she creates more problems in between Ruhi and Nahar. Nahar finally discovers the truth but he is framed for Sitara’s death when Sitara had a fight in between with Sumitra when Sumitra had forced her to sign the divorce papers in order to get Ruhi expelled. Nahar gets arrested and It is later revealed that Sitara had faking her own death. Sitara scares Sumitra while Ruhi and Juhi finally discovers the truth. Sitara exposes Sumitra but Sitara tries to escape but later arrested and the police bails Nahar.
Madhubala, a women and her daughter, Roli enters in their life after Ruhi and Nahar causes an accident on Madhubala and brings them to their house unaware of the family that both Madhubala and Roli are thieves whom had come to steal the money but for Madhubala's shock she finds out Ruhi is their daughter whom abandons her in a garbage bin after 15 years and it was finds out that before Madhubala gives birth to Roli she gives birth to Ruhi but however due to her dark skin color she abandons her. Sumitra then later discovers the truth so she exposes Madhubala's truth to everyone which shocks them as Ruhi, who loses her consciousness after discovering Madhubala's truth doesn't accepts her while Roli is revealing to having obsessiveness towards on Nahar so she decided to separate them.

## Cast
### Main

* Shruti Anand as Ruchita Mittal Goyal: Shreedhar and Usha's eldest daughter; Vivek's elder sister; Radhika's cousin; Nihar's wife; Ruhi's adoptive mother; Juhi's mother (2021–2023; 2024) (Dead) (appears in flashback after 2023)
** Pataal Devi in Ruchita's form (2023)
* Shivam Khajuria as Nihar Goyal: Naresh and Poonam's youngest son; Prateek's younger brother; Preeti's elder brother; Ruchita's husband; Ruhi's adoptive father; Juhi's father (2021–2023; 2024) (Dead) (appears in flashbacks after 2023)
** Pataal Devi in Nihar's form (2022)
** Babu: Lalita's son; Apsara's husband; Nihar's look-alike (2023) (Dead)
** Terrorist: Nihar's look-alike who works with Monica (2023) (Dead)
* Nancy Roy as Ruhi Goyal Goenka: Madhubala's biological daughter; Roli's elder sister; Nihar and Ruchita's adoptive daughter; Juhi's elder adoptive sister; Pinku and Priya's adoptive cousin; Nahar's wife (2023–present)
** Yashasvi Prajapati as Child Ruhi (2023)
* Dev Aditya as Nahar Goenka: Ratan and Nandini's son; Soni's stepson; Avni and Samar's elder half-brother; Ruhi's husband; Agni's childhood friend and widower (2023–present)

### Recurring
#### The Goenka Family

* Reshma J Merchant as Sumitra Goenka: Ratan's mother; Nahar, Samar and Avni's grandmother (2023–present)
* Shikhar Sharma as Ratan Goenka: Sumitra's son; Nandini's widow; Soni's husband; Nahar, Avni and Samar's father (2023–present)
* Unknown as Nandini Goenka: Ratan's first wife; Nahar's mother; Avni and Samar's stepmother (2024) (Dead/Ghost)
* Jyoti Tiwari / Madhushree Sharma as Soni Goenka: Ratan's second wife; Nahar's stepmother; Avni and Samar's mother (2023) / (2023–present)
* Alisha Tunge as Avni Goenka: Ratan and Soni's daughter; Samar's elder sister; Nahar's younger half-sister; Romil's wife (2023–present)
* Nitesh Parashar as Romil Goenka: Avni's husband (2023–present)
* Ujjwal Sharma / Somesh Sharma as Samar Goenka: Ratan and Soni's son; Avni's younger brother; Nahar's younger half-brother; Juhi's husband (2023–2024) / (2024–present)
* Simran Tomar as Juhi Goyal Goenka: Nihar and Ruchita's elder daughter; Ruhi's adoptive younger sister; Pinku and Priya's cousin; Samar's wife (2023–present)
** Roneisha Sharma as Child Juhi (2023)
* Unknown as Ashi: Nahar, Avni and Samar's niece (2023)
* Ananya Samarth as Agni Rathore Goenka: Nahar's childhood friend and late wife; Ruhi's rival (2023–2024) (Dead)

#### The Goyal Family

* Neena Cheema as Bua Sa: Mrs. Goyal's elder sister; Naresh's aunt; Prateek, Nihar and Preeti's grand aunt (2022)
* Mamata Luthra as Mrs. Goyal / Dadi: Bua Sa's younger sister; Naresh's mother; Nihar, Preeti and Prateek's grandmother; Ruhi's adoptive great grandmother; Juhi, Priya and Pinku's great grandmother (2021–2023)
* Sanjay Bhatia as Naresh Goyal: Poonam's husband; Nihar, Preeti and Prateek's father; Mrs. Goyal's son; Ruhi's adoptive grandfather; Priya, Pinku and Juhi's grandfather (2021–present)
* Aparna Ghoshal as Poonam Goyal: Naresh's wife; Nihar, Preeti and Prateek's mother; Ruhi’s adoptive grandmother; Priya, Pinku and Juhi's grandmother (2021–present)
* Suraj Punjabi / Sapan Chaudhary as Prateek Goyal: Poonam and Naresh's eldest son; Nihar and Preeti's elder brother; Disha's former lover; Ritu's widower; Monica's ex-boyfriend; Priya and Pinku's father; Ruhi's adoptive uncle; Juhi's uncle (2021–2023) / (2023–2024)
* Manisha Saxena / Preeti Singhania as Ritu Goenka Goyal: Meera's adopted daughter; Prateek's late wife; Amrita's adoptive sister; Priya's mother; Pinku's stepmother; Ruhi's adoptive aunt; Juhi's aunt (2021–2023) / (2023) (Dead)
* Asmi Deo as Priya Goyal: Prateek and Ritu's daughter; Pinku's half-sister; Ruhi’s adoptive cousin; Juhi's cousin (2021)
* Priyanka Shukla as Disha Goyal: Prateek's former lover; Pinku's mother; Nihar's obsessive lover; Ruchita's rival; Ritu's murderer (2023)
* Mukesh Choudhary as Pinku Goyal: Prateek and Disha's son; Nihar's adoptive son; Priya's half-brother; Ruhi's adoptive cousin; Juhi's cousin; Palak's husband (2023–present)
** Kavirr Amoli as Child Pinku
*** Ayanshi Sharma as Baby Pinku (2023)
* Madhura Joshi / Manpreet Kaur as Palak Goyal / Malishka Malhotra: Pinku's wife (2023) / (2023–present)
* Ayushi Rao as Preeti Goyal: Poonam and Naresh's long-lost daughter; Prateek and Nihar's younger sister; Priya, Juhi and Pinku's aunt; Ruhi’s adoptive aunt (2022)

#### The Mittal Family

* Kajal Khanchandani as Mrs. Mittal: Shreedhar's mother; Ruchita and Vivek's grandmother; Ruhi's adoptive maternal great-grandmother; Juhi's maternal great-grandmother (2021–2023)
* Amitabh Ghanekar as Shreedhar Mittal: Usha's husband; Ruchita and Vivek's father; Ruhi adoptive maternal grandfather; Juhi's maternal grandfather; Radhika's uncle (2021–2022)
* Geeta Bisht as Usha Mittal: Anuradha's sister; Shreedhar's wife; Ruchita and Vivek's mother; Radhika's maternal aunt; Ruhi's adoptive maternal grandmother; Juhi's maternal grandmother (2021–2022)
* Krushag Ghuge as Vivek Mittal: Shreedhar and Usha's youngest son; Ruchita's younger brother; Ruhi's adoptive maternal uncle; Juhi's maternal uncle; Radhika's cousin (2021–2022)

#### Other recurring cast

* Urmila Sharma as Palak / Malishka's mother (2024—present)
* Anuradha Singh as Madhubala: Roli and Ruhi's mother (2025—present)
* Simran Sharma as Roli: Madhubala's younger daughter; Ruhi's younger sister and rival; Nahar's one sided obsessive lover (2025—present)
* Dinesh Agarwal as Deepak (2021)
* Palak Jain as Jyoti: Ruchita's friend (2021)
* Akshay Bhagat as Ravi (2021)
* Sampark Lele as Nihar's friend (2021)
* Ayushi Khurana as Amrita Goenka: Meera's daughter; Ritu's adoptive younger sister; Nihar's obsessive ex-girlfriend and ex-fiancée; Ruchita's rival (2021–2022)
* Sheetal Antani as Meera Goenka: Amrita's mother; Ritu's aunt and adoptive mother; Ruchita's rival (2022)
* Ekta Sharma as Tai Maa: Aanchal's aunt; Ruchita's rival (2022)
* Shivanshi Das as Aanchal Meghwal: Tai Maa's nephew; Nihar's fake wife and obsessive lover; Ruchita's rival (2022)
* Pratik Parihar as Sambhav: Poonam's nephew (2022)
* Inder Shergill
* Gursharanpreet Singh
* Riya Gupta as Ritika Ahuja: A NRI (2022)
* Krishnakant Singh Bundela as Baba (2022)
* Ali Abbas as Rakesh Chauhan / Thief (2023)
* Suraj Kalyankar as Thief / Goon (2023)
* Anuradha Sharma as Lalita: Babu's mother; Ruchita's rival (2023)
* Kajal Chonkar as Apsara: Babu's widow; Ruchita's rival (2023)
* Subhalaxmi Das as Guru Maa (2023)
* Abhinav Gautam as NRI Businessman: He tries to receive Juhi from Guru Maa (2023)
* Neetha Shetty as Monica Khanna (alias): A terrorist; Prateek's ex-girlfriend; Nihar's murderer (2023)
* Kunal Verma as A.C.P. Ved Vardhan: Ruchita's classmate and childhood friend (2023)
* Anasuya Chakravorty as Ruhi and Juhi's principal (2023)
* Meenakshi Gupta as Sangeeta (2023)
* Nandini Karmakar as Munni (2024) (Dead) (Used her body possessed by Nahar's mother, Nandini)
* Oshi Saahu as Sitara / Ruhi Goyal Goenka (fake): Ruhi's fake identity; Nahar's one-sided obsessive lover; Sumitra's accomplice; Ruhi's rival (2024—2025)

## Production
### Casting

Shruti Anand and Shivam Khajuria were signed as leads.

### Release

The first promo was released on 2 October 2021. It was released on 18 October 2021.

## Spin-off
### Mann Atisundar

After the success of this show, it had a spin-off television series titled Mann Atisundar as this story portrayed Radhika, a plus-size woman who is Ruchita's cousin who wants to marry a man of her choice.