The story traces the journey of a Durga who aspires to become a runner. It revolves around the most beautiful and sensitive relationship of a father and his daughter. Highlighting the realities of life, Durga's father, Yashpal Choudhary works as a peon in one of the schools in Haryana. His only dream is to fight against all the odds and educate his daughter Durga for a better future. But despite trying hard to study and prove herself, Durga couldn't reach Yashpal's expectations. Yashpal who works as a mere school peon has a very progressive viewpoint when it comes to educating a girl or a boy – unlike his other relatives. Durga, on the other hand, is a very lively and a positive 12-year-old who is enjoying her childhood in and around the corners of Haryana. She loves running behind kites, climbing on the mango tree. Besides enjoying her childhood, Durga tried very hard to fulfill her father's dream. But somehow she just couldn't understand the calculations and hence always found herself confused between alphabets and numbers. Influenced by her coach, Rana sir, Yaspal allows Durga to be an athlete. Durga emerges as the winner in the national race but her competitor, Arti who secures the 2nd position gets drugs mixed in her food. In the blood test, Durga is found to be on drugs and is expelled from running for 5 years. As the consequence, her innocent family faces the villagers' ire and Durga is so shocked that she quits running forever. Five years later After 5 years Durga is now grown up and she has the responsibility to take care of her family as well as her dreams too. She meets Sanjay Prince, her old childhood friend. But things between them are not too good. When Sp finds out that Durga has joined the same college as him, he threatens her to leave the college but eventually, they fall in love. Later Durga gets to know that SP's mom, Gayatri Devi, had mixed drugs to her food five years back and tells the media. Gayatri Devi gets angry and influences SP to make him Durga's enemy and SP and Arti start a new play. In the midst of this, SP and Durga marry each other. After being tortured by SP and his family, Durga finds out that Gayatri was a national athlete who was expelled from the academy and helps her to keep it a secret. Eventually, SP gets to know that Durga is innocent and his mom was the behind her pains. The family comes together and Durga begins training for her nationals. Arti's father blackmails Durga that he will destroy her family if she takes part in the national race. He kidnaps her family on the day of the race but SP and Durga rescue the family and Durga wins the race. Durga gets admitted in the academy for being qualified for international games. She succeeds in her attempts.
Cast
Main Cast
Ananya Agarwal as Young Durga Choudhary: Yashpal's adopted daughter
Speaking about the series, producer Ravindra Gautham said, "Meri Durga is the introspection of a father's mind and heart. We very rarely see the father's side onscreen. And the show also supports girl education which I feel is the need of the hour." Before its premiere, the series was promoted by the main cast in Ludhiana, Punjab on 16 January 2017. The series was mainly filmed at Powai. However some scenes were also filmed at Haryana and Punjab. In June 2017, the storyline took a leap of five years. Initially it starred Ananya Agarwal and Vicky Ahuja as young Durga and Yashpal. After the leap, it starred Srishti Jain as adult Durga, Paras Kalnawat as SP opposite Jain along with Ahuja. Initially, Aalisha Panwar was cast to play adult Durga after the leap. But, on the last moment as she joined another show, Jain was cast. Vishal Bharadwaj was supposed to play Madhav. However as he was considered not suitable for the character in his first scene itself, Adhvik Mahajan was cast.
