Baa Bahoo Aur Baby

Baa Bahoo Aur Baby
A promotional image of "Baa Bahoo Aur Baby"
Genre	Comedy Family drama Coming-of-age
Created by	Hats Off Productions
Written by	Aatish Kapadia
Directed by	Sameer Kulkarni Dipesh Shah
Creative director(s)	Deven Bhojani
Starring	See Below
Opening theme	"Baa Bahoo Aur Baby" by Vinod Rathod
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi (dominant) Gujarati (minor) English (minor)
No. of seasons	2
Production
Producer(s)	Jamnadas Majethia Aatish Kapadia
Location(s)	Mumbai
Cinematography	Vijay Soni Raju Desai
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	Season 1 Fri–Sat: 20 minutes Sun: 40 minutes Season 2: 40 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Star Plus
Picture format	576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Original run	August 5, 2005 – February 21, 2010

Baa Bahoo Aur Baby^[1] (colloquially known as BBB or B3) was a primetime Indian television dramedy series, aired on Star Plus between 2005 and 2010. The series was produced by Hats Off Productions and centered on the fictitious Thakkar family, living in Parla East, Mumbai.It has been rated the 7th best show by production by Star Plus.

The series tracks the story of an elderly woman Godavari Thakkar and her family, consisting of 6 sons, 2 daughters and their spouses and children. Godavari, who hails from a very rich family, lives in her father's huge mansion, the famous Krishna Villa in Parla East, Mumbai, given to her by her brothers who are settled in the United States.

Title

The title has two meanings. A simple meaning tells that this show is about "Baa" (Mother in Gujarati), Bahoo (Daughter-in-law in Hindi), and Baby: Referring to Beti (Daughter). Another meaning told in Season 2, Episode 1 was that the title refers to Godavari. She is Baa, Bahoo and Baby i.e. daughter (as the house is her father's) of Krishna Villa.

Broadcasting

The series premiered on 5 August 2005 on Star Plus channel airing Friday through Sunday evenings. In mid-2006, the show started airing for 1 hour on Fridays.

Plot summary

This series revolves around Godavari Thakkar (Sarita Joshi) and her family. She is the head of the Thakkar Family, despite her husband Labhshankar Thakkar (Arvind Vaidya) being alive, who is indulged in drinking and he is accused for never supporting his family financially or morally. Godavari rules her family strictly and is often called "Hitler","JhogMaya" and "Mogamba" by her the family members mostly Praveena. Her sons have different qualities and share the blessings of life. Their wives are often worried due to household burdens, but they end up being happy.They face different problems and misunderstanding is often created between the family members. Throughout the series; Baa writes in a secret Red Book no one else is allowed to read.

The first season showed that Baa (Godavari) ruled her family strictly and responsibly.Her daughter Baby (Radhika Thakkar) had polio (making her legs of no use) and her son Gattu (Gopal Thakkar) is a little bit mentally disturbed due to the poverty she faced and her unavailability as working as a cook to raise her children. Hemal was told to be adopted by Godavari, when her sister-in-law Guruvani insisted. After nearly 175 episodes, Baa invited her son Dr.Harshad Thakkar back to the house after a 5-year period. Harshad was expelled from the house due to an unknown reason which was later revealed. Midway through the season, Godavari's daughter-in-law, Praveena, died in a building collapse. Her son Hemal then got married to Gudiya. Dimple (Godavari's granddaughter) was married to Anish Kotak.

In the second season, The Krishna Villa is renovated. Baby finally gets a husband, Birju: a pleasant young man. In This season, some roles were replaced and some characters also were added.

The Red Book in which Godavari wrote, was published as "Baa, Bahoo aur Baby" where she had written all about her family in the final episode. She addressed a meeting of the members in the house and told them that this book is all about them. In the end, a 3-year later scenario is shown. Arvind and Leela finally are visiting America to welcome Dimple's coming child. Pravin is shown with his children, Mehul, now a fashion designer; Mitali,an Air-Hostess; and Chaitali, a model. Harshad and Shilpa open a hospital on Godavari's name. Minakshi is again becoming a mother and is joined by her son and daughter while crying. Gudiya gave birth to two twin girls. Babuji finally leaves drinking and starts to work. Baby returns with Birju from Germany, and she is finally able to walk, and has a son named Ahan. The family opened a child-care centre for Gattu, where he would take care of all the children who came there: on the name of Gattuki. The Thakkar Family won the "Family of The Decade Award" and the Series ended with a final photo of the family.

Cast

Main cast

Other cast

Special Appearances

• Sharman Joshi (Appears in Season 1, Episode 36), to promote Shaadi No. 1
• Soha Ali Khan (Appears in Season 1, Episode 36), to promote Shaadi No. 1
• Ayesha Takia (Appears in Season 1, Episode 37), to promote Shaadi No. 1
• Fardeen Khan (Appears in Season 1, Episode 37), to promote Shaadi No. 1
• Esha Deol (Appears in Season 1, Episode 38) to promote Shaadi No. 1
• Zayed Khan (Appears in Season 1, Episode 38), to promote Shaadi No. 1
• Falguni Pathak (Appears in Season 1, Episode 175, the Navratri Special Episode)
• Jay Chhaniyara (Appears in Season 1, Episode 187), to promote The Great Indian Laughter Challenge
• Bakhtiyaar Irani (Appears in Season 1, Episode 187), to promote Nach Baliye 2
• Tanaaz Currim (Appears in Season 1, Episode 187), to promote Nach Baliye 2
• Rakhi Sawant (Appears in Season 1, Episode 327), to promote Nach Baliye 3
• Abhishek Avasthi (Appears in Season 1, Episode 327), to promote Nach Baliye 3
• Juhi Chawla (Appears in Season 1, Episode 403), to promote Bhoothnath
• Katrina Kaif (Appears in Season 1, Episode 449), to promote Singh Is Kinng
• Emraan Hashmi

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