Balika Vadhu

• Pratyusha Banerjee / Toral Rasputra as Anandi Singh Shekhar: Khajaan and Bhagwati's daughter; Jagdish's ex-wife; Shivraj's wife; Nandini and Shivam's mother; Amol's adoptive mother krish and sudha's mother-in-law(2010–2013) / (2013–2016) (Dead)
  • Avika Gor as Child Anandi Singh (2008–2010)
• Shashank Vyas / Shakti Anand as Dr. Jagdish "Jagya" Singh: Bhairon and Sumitra's son; Sugna's brother; Anandi and Gauri's ex-husband; Ganga's husband; Abhimanyu's father; Mannu's step-father. (2010–15) / (2015–16)
  • Avinash Mukherjee as Child Jagdish Singh (2008–10)
• Sidharth Shukla as IAS Shivraj "Shiv" Shekhar: Anoop and Meenakshi's son; Mahi's brother; Sanchi's cousin; Anandi's second husband; Nandini and Shivam's father; Amol's adoptive father krish and sudha's father-in-law(2012–2015) (Dead)
• Mahhi Vij as Dr. Nandini Shekhar Malhotra: Anandi and Shivraj's daughter; Naren and Jamuna's foster daughter; Shivam's twin-sister; Sudha's foster sister; Kundan's ex-wife; Krish's wife. (2016)
  • Gracy Goswami as Child Nandini "Nimboli" Shekhar (2015–2016)
• Ruslaan Mumtaz as Dr. Krish Malhotra: Kundan's step-son; Nandini's husband. (2016)
• Surekha Sikri as Kalyani Devi Singh: Dharamveer's widow; Bhairon's mother; Basant's foster mother; Jagdish and Sugna's grandmother; Nandu and Bhairavi's foster grandmother; Abhimanyu, Varun and Shagun's great-grand mother (2008–2016) (Dead)
• Sriti Jha / Sargun Mehta / Aasiya Kazi as Ganga Singh: Ratan's ex-wife; Jagdish's third wife; Mannu and Abhimanyu's mother (2013–15) / (2015–16)
  • Roshni Walia as Child Ganga Singh (2013)
• Anjum Farooki/Deblina Chatterjee as Dr. Gauri Singh: Jagdish's ex-wife (2010–12)/(2014)
  • Mahima Makwana as Child Gauri Singh (2010)
• Anup Soni as Bhairon Singh: Dharamveer and Kalyani's son; Sumitra's husband; Jagdish and Sugna's father; Abhimanyu, Varun and Shagun's grandfather (2008–14)
• Smita Bansal as Sumitra Bhairon Singh: Bhairon's wife; Jagdish and Sugna's mother, Abhimanyu, Varun and Shagun's grandmother (2008–14)

• Dishank Arora as Shivam Shekhar: Anandi and Shivraj's son; Nandini's twin-brother; Sudha's love interest. (2016)
  • Viren Vazirani as Child Shivam Shekhar (2015–2016)
• Yukti Kapoor as Sudha Shekhawat: Naren and Jamuna's daughter; Nandini's foster sister; Premal's ex-wife; Shivam's love interest. (2016)
• Vineet Kumar Chaudhary as Kundan Singh: Akhiraj and Harki's son; Kamli's brother; Urmila and Nandini's former husband; Krish's step-father (2016) (Dead)
  • Sparsh Srivastav / Karan Pahwa as Teenage Kundan Singh (2015–2016)
• Shahab Khan as Naren Shekhawat: Jamuna's husband; Sudha's father; Nandini's foster father. (2016)
• Neetu Pandey as Jamuna Shekhawat: Naren's wife; Sudha's mother; Nandini's foster mother. (2016)
• Vibha Anand / Janvi Chheda as Sugna Singh: Bhairon and Sumitra's daughter; Jagdish's sister; Shyam's wife; Varun and Shagun's mother (2008–2010) / (2011–2013)
• Vikrant Massey / Sachin Shroff as Shyam Singh: Madan's son; Sugna's husband; Varun's foster father; Shagun's father (2009–2010)/(2011–2013)
• Shivansh Kotia / Rudra Soni as Varun Singh: Pratap and Sugna's son; Shyam's Foster-son and Shagun's Brother (2010)/(2011–2013)
• Satyajit Sharma as Basant Dharamveer Singh / Mahaveer Singh: Jamuna and Gehna husband, Nandu and Bhairvi father (2008–2014) (Dead)
• Neha Marda / Sheetal Khandal as Gehna Basant Singh / Gehna Niranjan Singh: Basant former wife, Niranjan's wife,Nandu and Bhairvi mother (2008–12) (2012–15)
• Roop Durgapal as Sanchi Kabra (ńee Shekhar): Alok and Iravati's daughter; Shivraj and Mahi's sister; Vivek's wife (2012–2015)
• Jaineeraj Rajpurohit as Alok Shekhar: Premkishore's son; Anoop's brother; Iravati's husband; Sanchi's father, Shivraj and Mahi's uncle (2012–2015)
• Sonal Jha as Iravati Shekhar: Alok's wife; Sanchi's mother, Shivraj and Mahi aunt (2012–2015)
• Anita Kulkarni as Meenakshi Shekhar: Anoop's wife, Shivaraj and Mahi's mother, Sanchi's aunt,Shivam and Nandini's grand mother (2012–2015)
• Avinash Wadhawan / Akshay Anand as Anoop Shekhar: Premkishore's son; Meenakshi's husband, Shivraj and Mahi's father,

Sanchi's uncle,Shivam and Nandini's grand father (2013–2014)/(2014–2015)

• Shubham Jha as Amol Shekhar: Shivraj and Anandi's adopted son (2014-2015)
• Sanjay Basak as Nandkishore Basant Singh aka Nandu: Basant and Gehna son (2012–2015)
• Sunil Singh as Akhiraj Singh: Harki's husband; Kundan and Kamli's father (2015–2016) (Dead)
• Rudrakshi Gupta as Harki Singh: Akhiraj's wife; Kundan and Kamli's mother (2015–2016) (Dead)
• Farah Hussain as Kamli Singh: Akhiraj and Harki's daughter; Kundan's sister; Pushkar's wife (2015–2016)
• Tisha Kapoor as Urmila Singh: Kundan's former wife (2015) (Dead)
• Sudhir Pandey as Premkishore Shekhar: Alok and Anoop father, Iravati and Meena father in-law, Shiv, Sanchi and Mahi grandfather, Nandini, Shivam great-grandfather (2012–2015)
• Sushmita Mukherjee as Subhadra: Premkishore's sister,Hardik's grandmother (2014–2015)
• Gaurav Bajaj as Hardik: Subhadra's grandson,Gulli's husband (2014)
• Nidhi Jha / Sonam Lamba as Gulli: Champa's daughter,Hardik's wife(2011–2013) (2014)
• Mohit Abrol as Anuj (2014)
• Vimarsh Roshan as Advocate Vivek Kabra: Roshan and Shalini's elder son,Saurabh and Rakhi's brother,Sanchi's husband (2013–2015)
• Sonal Handa as Saurabh Kabra: Roshan and Shalini's younger son,Vivek and Rakhi's brother,Sanchi's rapist and brother-in-law (2013–2014)
• Bobby Parvez as Roshan Kabra: Shalini's husband,Vivek,Saurabh and Rakhi's father,Sanchi's father-in-law (2014)
• Pankaj Jha Kashyap as Phooli's Brother

• Shalini Arora as Shalini Kabra: Roshan's wife,Vivek,Saurabh and Rakhi's mother,Sanchi's mother-in-law (2014–2015)
• Farhina Parvez as Rakhi Kabra: Roshan and Shalini's daughter,Vivek and Saurabh's sister,Sanchi's sister-in-law(2014)
• Abhishek Tiwari as Mahi Anoop Shekhar-Anoop and Meenakahi's younger son; Shivraj's brother,Sanchi's cousin brother, Anandi's brother-in-law, Shivam & Nandini uncle (2012–2014)
• Reena Aggarwal as Ashima (2012–2013)
• Chandresh Singh as Ratan Singh (2013–2015) (Dead)
• Amar Sharma as Madan Singh: Shyam's father (2008–2014)
• Abhijeet Lahiri as Ramcharan Singh (2009–2010)
• Asmita Sharma as Radha Singh: Madan's wife (2008–2010)
• Neha Gosain as Asha Singh (2011–2013)
• Ankit Gupta as Abhishek Singh (2012–2013)
• Rajeshwari Sachdev as Mangaladevi Singh / Disa (2015–2016) (Dead)
• Rishidev Sharma as Gopal (2015)
• Rajendra Gupta as Mahaveer Singh (2009–2012)
• Parichay Sharma as Pushkar Singh: Kamli's husband (2015–2016)
• Hiten Tejwani as Dr. Anant Maheshwari: A Pediatric doctor; Kiran's father (2015–2016)
• Vidhi Pandya as Kiran Maheshwari: Anant's daughter (2015–2016)
• Chetanya Adib as Khajaan Singh: Bhagwati's husband; Anandi's father (2008–2015)
• Bhairavi Raichura as Bhagwati Singh: Khajaan's wife; Anandi's mother (2008–2012) (Dead)
• Farida Jalal as Vasundhara Devi aka Badi Jiji / Badi Masiji (2009, 2012)
• Faiza Faiz / Mamta Chaturya as Phooli Singh (2008–10) (2010–2012)
• Arpit Joshi as Lal Singh (2010–2012)
• Masshe uddin Qureshi as Brijesh Sanghvi (2010–2012)
• Farnaz Shetty as Kanchan (2013)
• Nivedita Bhattacharya as Shivani Rajadhyaksha (2011; 2014)
• Harsh Chhaya as Palash Scindia (2014)
• Kamalika Guha Thakurta as Pramila (2014)
• Sadiya Siddiqui as Sandhya (2008–2013)
• Sakshi Tanwar as Tiipri (2010)
• Jehangir Vakil as Pratap Singh: Sugna's first husband (2008–2009) (dead)
• Shivshakti Sachdev as Champa: Anandi's friend,Gulli's mother(2008)
• Geeta Tyagi as Jamuna Singh: Basant's first wife (2008) (dead)
• Karmveer Choudhary as Shambhu Singh
• Rahul Lohani as Niranjan Singh: Gehna's second husband, Nandu and Bhairavi's step-father(2009–2010; 2014–2015)
• Geetanjali Mishra as Sona / Kkusum (2014–2015)
• Simran Natekar as Pooja (2015)
• Harsh Mehta as Mahendra Singh aka Mannu: Ganga and Ratan's son; Jagdish's step-son; Abhimanyu's half-brother (2015–16)
• Sonia Shah as Karuna Malhotra (2016)
• Avinash Sachdev as Dr. Amit Goel (2016)
• Prithvi Sankhala as Dr. Naresh Goel (2016)
• Smriti Khanna as Dr. Vandana Mittal (2016)
• Ayush Anand as Premal Singh (2016)
• Hetal Yadav as Pavitra Singh (2016)
• Ahmad Harhash as Rajeev Singh (2016)

In each Trishakti cross-over, three serials were broken down into parts and aired successively.

Balika Vadhu became one of the most watched Hindi GEC in its runtime and is one of the shows which helped get newly launched channel Colors TV to the first position in Hindi GEC, beating the nine years top position maintained by Star Plus.[4][5]

Balika Vadhu opened to a mix of positive and negative responses. While some appreciated it for portraying the issues of child marriage, some criticised it for glorifying child marriage. It had a very low initial rating of 0.7 TVR, but by five weeks after launch, it had entered the top 5 most-watched Hindi GEC and had become Colors TV's top programme.[6][7][8]

In five weeks after launch, it entered the top 5 most-watched Hindi GEC.[9] Thus, Balika Vadhu helped Colors TV's top positioning a lot. Balika Vadhu often held top position mostly on the ratings charts from 2008 to till 2013.

In 11 week of 2009, it occupied third position with 5.9 TVR.[10] In week ending 13 June 2009, it was at fourth position with 5.3 TVR.[11]

In week 11 of 2010, it occupied top position and garnered 7.7 TVR.[12] In week 30 of 2010, it occupied with the top position with 6.9 TVR.[13]

In week ending 28 May 2011, it occupied the top position with 4.91 TVR.[14] In week 24 of 2011, it was at second position with 4.81 TVR.[15] In first two weeks of August 2011, it garnered 6.1 and 5.2 TVRs maintaining its top position.[16]

In the first week of 2012, it occupied the second position with 4.76 TVR.[17] In week 50 of 2012, it was at top position with 5.8 TVR.[18]

In last week of July 2013, it was at second position with 3.9 TVR.[19]

The series received a mix of both positive and negative responses. While some applauded the series for portraying the issues of child marriage, which had never before been shown on Indian television, others criticized the series glorifying child marriage.[20]

The series was also addressed in Indian Parliaments during 2009, prompting the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to stop its telecast, condemning it for portraying child marriage against the Indian constitutional law.[21][22][23]