Andarmahal was a Bengali television soap opera that premiered on 5 June 2017 and initially aired Monday to Friday at 10:30 PM IST on Zee Bangla. It had been later shifted to the 9:30 pm time slot. The show is produced by Magic Moments Motion Pictures, and started Koneenica Banerjee and Kaushik Chakraborty in the lead roles and Debolina Dutta, child actress Ashmi, Santu Mukherjee and Rita Dutta Chakraborty among others in prominent supporting roles.It went off air on 9 November 2018 and it got replaced by Nokshi Kantha.

Plot

Andarmahal is the tale of an average middle-aged woman named Parameshwari who had to give up on her formal education to support family expenses and her sisters' studies. She harbors a deep connect with music that gives her some solace in her lonely life, consisting mainly of her family, housework and her music school that she runs at home. She gets engaged and subsequently married to Abhimanyu Bose, a divorcee man in his early forties who has a teenage daughter, Juju from his previous marriage with Ananya. He marries Parameshwari at the condition that she will have to look after her daughter Juju and care for her, gaining her trust as a mother and will also have to handle the housework. In return, he will give her financial stability and security. Despite such humiliating treaty as the foundation of their marriage, Parameshwari, without any expectations from Abhimanyu and his family members, gives her utmost effort to win Juju's heart. She loves Juju as her real mother would and later, being touched by her selfless love, Juju to begins to love and respect her new mother Parameshwari whom she fondly calls "Mamoni". However, this makes Ananya, Juju's real mother insecure and she fears about losing her daughter. So, she entices Abhimanyu, tries to reconnect their relationship and Ananya begins living at Abhimanyu's household, much to Juju's embarrassment. After Paro helps her father-in-law understand his faults regarding house management and his relationship with his wife, her father-in-law, realizing his mistakes, begins to support Parameshwari. He asks Abhimanyu to show Ananya the door, but Abhimanyu revolts and due to his misconception that Parameshwari was involved in an illicit affair with his boss and her senior from college, Juboraj Sengupta, and due to repeated instigation from Parameshwari's ill-wishes Kamalini, Shreya and Katha; Abhimanyu further misunderstands Parameshwari and in a fit of rage, announces that he will divorce her. Juju stands by a heart-broken Parameshwari, and on her insistence and with Juboraj's help, starts her singing career to become self-dependent. Parameshwari Bose becomes a rising star and singing sensation overnight with the release of her first album and begins to actively contribute in running the family, when Abhimanyu becomes ill and loses his job. Taking Juboraj's help, Paro bears the entire expenses of Abhi's treatment; and Abhi finally realizes his mistake. He then asks Ananya to leave the house and starts his relationship with Parameshwari afresh.