Baa Bahoo Aur Baby
Baa Bahoo Aur Baby | |
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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 |
Release | |
Original network | Star Plus |
Picture format |
576i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
Original release | 5 August 2005 – 21 February 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 a 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 poor 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 family members mostly by 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 that were 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 Gunvanti 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. Jigar marries Rim Jhim Talwar.
An author, Asha Ji, wrote a biography of Godavari, 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. Rim Jhim starts a catering house and Babuji finally leaves drinking, now helping Rim Jhim.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". Simran wrote a poem on the different members of the family and their attributes. The season ends with a final photo of the family.
Cast
- Sarita Joshi as Godavari Thakkar (Baa)
- Arvind Vaidya as Labhshankar Thakkar (Babuji)
- Rajeev Mehta as Arvind Thakkar
- Lubna Salim/Anjali Mukhi as Leela Thakkar
- Paresh Ganatra as Praveen Thakkar
- Vaishali Thakkar as Praveena Thakkar
- Nimisha Vakharia as Charubala Bhayani (née Thakkar)
- Nitin Vakharia as Tusshar Bhayani
- Jamnadas Majethia as Dr. Harshad Thakkar
- Sonali Sachdeva as Dr. Shilpa Thakkar
- Rajesh Kumar as Subodh Thakkar
- Suchita Trivedi as Meenakshi Thakkar
- Deven Bhojani as Gopal "Gattu" Thakkar
- Kamlesh Oza as Hemal Thakkar
- Sweta Keswani as Gurinder "Gudiya" Thakkar
- Benaf Dadachandji as Radhika "Baby" Mehta (née Thakkar)
- Amit Varma as Birju Mehta
- Manva Naik as Dimple Kotak (née Thakkar)
- Gautam Rode as Anish Kotak
- Jay Soni/Shakti Arora as Jigar Thakkar
- Menaka Lalwani as Rim Jhim Thakkar (née Talwar)
- Devarsh Thakkar/Hardik Sangani as Mehul Thakkar
- Richa Bhadra as Mitali Thakkar
- Swini Khara as Chaitali Thakkar
- Khushi Dubey/Afia Tayebali as Simrun Bhayani
- Kartik Gantha as Saumil Thakkar
- Devanshi Jhaveri /Juhi Rangparia as Saloni
- Smith Seth as Manav "Mansukhlal" Thakkar
- Navika Kotia as Lucky Thakkar
- Siddarth Jadhav as Rajja
- Honey Chhaya as Narsi kaka
- Other Cast
- Lily Patel as Moti baa
- Supriya Pathak as Gunvanti maami
- Jiten Lalwani as Malay Tijoriwala
- Girish Pardeshi as Kamlesh Kakkad
- Madhavi Juvekar as Urmila Wagde
- Atmaram Bhende as Damodar kaka
- Ayush Mahesh Khedekar as Gullel
- Nimisha Vakharia as Prema
- Komolika Guhathakurta as Revati
- Jitendra Trehan as Ashutosh Kotak
- Aditi Pratap as Aarya Kotak
- Ali Raza Namdar as Jassu bhai
- Pushkar Shrotri as Inspector Paranjpe
- Shubha Khote as Mangu mausi
- Simple Kaul as Malaika
- Aatish Kapadia as Prinjal
- Arya Rawal as Amita
- Resham Tipnis as Devki
- Bhamini Oza as Ms. Jagruti
- Deepshika Arora as Ikshaa
- Amit Thakur as Mr Kakkad
- Chetan Hansraj as Kukku
- Anupama Singh as Sumitra Mehta
- Dolly Minhas as Jaanki Mehta
- Neena Kulkarni as Asha ben
- Amardeep Jha as "Nakli" Meenakshi
- Meenal Karpe as Malti Bhayani
- Mehul Buch as Devendra Marfatia
- Mohan Bhandari as Priyawardhan Raichura
- Darshan Jariwala as Dr. Akhilesh Jha
- Swati Shah as Mayuri ben
- Pooja Ruparel as Falguni
- Delnaaz Irani as Zenobia
- Karan Sharma as Anirudh Desai
- Harish Patel as Parshuram Talwar
- Rupali Ganguly as Rekha
- Firoz Irani as Baba Bakshi
- Sakshi Sem as Pooja
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
References
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