| Jasuben Jayantilaal Joshi Ki Joint Family | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama/Comedy |
| Presented by | NDTV Group |
| Starring | See Below |
| Country of origin | India |
| Language(s) | Hindi |
| No. of episodes | 250 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 22 Minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | NDTV Imagine |
| Original run | January 21, 2008 – March 28, 2009 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
| Production website | |
Jasuben Jayantilaal Joshi Ki Joint Family' is an Indian daily soap that airs on NDTV Imagine.
The show 'Jasuben Jayantilaal Joshi Ki Joint Family' revolves around Jasuben, who along with her husband Jayantil
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Jayantilaal Joshi |
(played by Anang Desai) is the 65-year-old head of the Joshi family. He is a Pundit by profession and a master of the Hindu calendar. He has a happy and positive demeanor and is a strict Gandhian. He treats everyone with equality, love and respect. Jayantilaal's wife Jasuben and he share a relationship based on equality and love. Jayantilal is very dependent on his wife from the smallest to the largest of issues and more often than not, it is she that resolves most arguments in the family. Jayantilaal’s elder brother left home many years ago, and so he looks after his brother’s family as well. He is a just and fair man, and gives due importance to everyone’s opinion. | |
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Jasumatiben |
(played by Swati Chitnis) is the 62 years old wife of Jayantilaal. She is the one that binds the family together and is the real head of the family. She is an intelligent, caring, and strong woman and loves taking care of her husband in each and every aspect. Her entire life revolves around him and her family. | |
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Chandrakant Joshi |
(played by Rohitashwa Gaur) is Jayantilaal’s eldest son who is a teacher of literature and history. He is an insecure individual and is in constant conflict with his tenant Purshottam. He is married to Pushpa, but doesn’t share a good relationship with her. Both of them merely exist in their marriage. | |
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Pushpa Joshi |
(played by Bharti Patil) is Chandrakant Joshi’s wife. She is a Maharashtrian. She is often confused because of finding herself in the middle of many things. That also leads to her being very accident prone and clumsy. She loves and pampers her 21-year-old son Pinakin immensely. | |
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Pinakin |
(played by Krishna) is Chandrakant and Pushpa's son. He is a young carefree college student, and everyone’s favourite in the family. He is very good at his work and has a very helpful nature. Pinakin is head-over heels in love with Nandini (daughter of their tenant Purushottam) and wants to marry her.She is still alive and they are married. | |
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Shailesh Joshi |
(played by Sanjeev Jogtiyani) is the 32-year-old, second son of Jayantilaal. He shares a good relationship with everyone in the family. He is an opportunist by nature and is always on the lookout for business prospects. He is married to Deepika. | |
| Deepika Joshi | (played by Arya Rawal) is Shailesh Joshi's wife who has come from Mumbai. She has a superiority complex because of where she is from and hates doing any work in the house. Deepika loves dressing well and insists on moving back to Mumbai, something Shailesh refuses to do as he doesn't want to leave his family and go anywhere. | |
| Dharmesh Joshi | (played by Anuj) is Pankor’s son and Jayantilaal's 27-year-old nephew. He is a fitness freak and runs a gymnasium. He is very religious and is a staunch Hindu. He is an extremely emotional person and is very shy, particularly when it comes to women. He is in love with a widow, whom he used to love even before she had got married, but has never confessed his feelings. He is also completely devoted and attached to Jasuben. He loved shonali and he has married her. | |
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Jigna |
(played by Bijal) is Jayantilaal's 28-year-old daughter. She is extremely pampered, spoilt and immature. She got married at a very young age, had a fight with her husband and came back to stay with at her mother's house along with her children. She is a trouble maker and throws tantrums without any reason. However her husband is a well behaved man and comes to meet her every weekend. | |
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Pankor |
(played by Meenal Patel) is Jayantilaal’s 65-year-old sister-in-law. She is extremely insecure about her position in the family since her husband left the house many years ago, mysteriously. She is constantly trying to find her husband and releases regular advertisements in newspapers. His absence makes her very insecure, but just one hug from Jasuben, and she feels immediately comforted! She loves her children a lot especially Chirag but she is not a big fan of her daughter-in-laws. | |
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Rajendra |
(played by Shyam Pathak) is Jasuben's 35-year-old slow witted and innocent son. He changes jobs frequently. His brothers have tried to find him a job several times, but since he doesn’t stick to one place, they have given up hope. The only saving grace in his life is wife Gita and their genius son Kedar. | |
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Gita |
(played by Rudrakshi Gupta) is Rajendra's 32-year-old wife. She is extremely hardworking and takes care of the house, pretty much on her own. Rajendra's constant job changes do not leave them with much money hence she earns by way of giving tuition and stitching. Gita is constantly trying to support and improve her family. | |
| Chirag | (played by Hemen), is Pankor's 25-year-old son. He has been brought up by mostly by Pushpa as her own son. Chirag is generally under a lot of pressure because his elder brother doesn't earn and his sister is still unmarried. Chirag is unsure about what he really wants to do and hence keeps changing jobs. He is vulnerable and can easily be led on the wrong track to earn money. | |
| Aarti | (played by Upasana) is Pankor’s daughter and Chirag's 27-year-old sister. She is an intelligent and beautiful young girl who works as a mehendiwaali. Aarti is everybody's favorite in the family. She silently helps with the household chores and is completely devoted to Jasuben. | |
| Paarul | (played by Shruti Bapna) is Pankor's young daughter-in-law. Her husband relocated to America almost immediately after marriage. She is naïve and can be easily fooled as a result of which everybody takes extra care of her | |
| Purushotam | (played by Paresh Ganatra) is the 42-year-old tenant of the Joshi family who runs a Jalebi-Gathia (snack) shop. Purushotam is a very short tempered person and has constant fights with Chandrakant his landlord. Purushottam is married to Sudha, and both of them have immense respect for Jasuben despite being at loggerheads with most of the other family members. He has a daughter; Nandini’s who he loves dearly. | |
| Sudha | (played by Priti Joshi) is Purushotam's wife. She is a naïve and simple woman who is overly concerned about her husband's health. She is completely unaware of what her daughter, Nandini, is up to although Nandini's entire love story with Pinakin happens practically right under her nose. | |
| Nandini | (played by Ketkie Jain) is the 17-year-old daughter of Purushotam and Sudha. She is a typical bubbly teenager who wants to enjoy life to the fullest. She is young and pretty and does whatever she wants to do and is also madly in love with Pinakin. (But also might die because her liver has failed over 90% and everyone is upset.)but she is alive and has married with pinakin. | |
| Shonali | (played by Jaya Binju)is the sister of Deepika Joshi and the sister-in-law of Shailash. She a rich and snooty girl who is very selfish and takes everything for granted. Dharmesh ends up liking her but everyone else hates her because she is very rude. After a dance contest she finds out the love of Dharmesh for her but even knowing this she decides to marry Ronit another rich guy but the marriage happens between her and Dharmesh as Ronti realises he is standing in the way of someone else's love. | |
| Ronit | (played by Hiten Tejwani) is the friend of Shonali and is her Husband to be he is a photographer by profession and loves Shonali. He understands Dharmesh's love for Shonali before she does, he steps back and lets Dharmesh marry Shonali and goes back to (Australia). | |
| Kajal | (played by Kajal) is the daughter of Chandu and Pushpa who they sent to London for further studies, she is also the sister of Pinakin and Aashish. Not much has been said of her as she came only in the first episode. |
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