Raj's wife took to Ashrams and Sadhus, while his youngest son Nihal returns with an American white friend Michelle, who accidentally revealed that she is his wife. His adopted daughter Nidhi was revealed to be the illegitimate daughter of Kamesh. His wife Ayesha is the daughter of a film producer whose career was ruined by the duo. Younger son Somesh is a failing director struggling over the script which gets rejected even by his own father. Then are shown the family members, Kamesh's eldest son Ramesh is mentally challenged. The duo they only approve of a movie when it is appreciated by the servants of the house and tell of how they went from rags to riches. journey with Siddhartha Kak and Renuka Shahane.Every character has a past and has something hidden, it all gets revealed when Shanti, an aspiring journalist hoping to write the biographies of Kamesh and Raj, arrives. Surabhi took you on a travel and cultural. Kachi Dhoop which featured a young Bhagyashree Patwardhan had Ashutosh Gowarikar as her boyfriend in the role of a tuition teacher! Khandaan was a good drama series on an industrial family and starred Sriram Lagoo, Sunila Pradhan, Mohan Bhandari, Girish Karnad, Neena Gupta, Rohini Hattangadi, Shekhar Kapur and Jayant Kriplani. Nukkad, the serial with a medley of characters touched upon issues faced by the common man and Rajani made Priya Tendulkar immortal when she took up various civic and social issues. Then the carrot chewing Karamchand, a detective serial with his assistant Kitty starring Pankaj Kapoor and Sushmita Mukerjee. It was about life in a housing colony and I remember a family had six kids whose names were A, Ba, Ka, Da, and E like the first five letters of the Marathi Barakhadi. The serials were on college life.Īdos Pados, a serial directed by Sai Paranjpe of Chasme Baddoor/Katha fame was truly hilarious. Many of my college mates had acted in them as there were auditions held at the college itself. Two other serials that I remember very well were Chunauti and Subah which were shot in my college, the Wilson College at Chowpatty. Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi directed by Kundan Shah with Kishore Kumar’s title song and starring Shafi Inamdar,Swaroop Sampat, Rakesh Bedi, Satish Shah and Tiku Talsania and the dialogues “thirty years ka experience’ and “yeh kya ho raha hai’ were on everyone’s lips. Then there were hundreds of serials that you would remember as they became very popular. We realized that we had foregone the ice-cream at the Taj for nothing as Bombay had no electricity and was blacked-out due to the tripping of some grid. I remember that when they were airing the last episode of Buniyaad, we had to go for a wedding at the Taj Mahal and hurried back to catch the episode wondering on the way why there were no lights anywhere on the way home. The first serial that became a huge hit was Hum Log and later Buniyaad.

Aur ek kahani serial doordarshan