Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain!

Plot

Cast and characters

Main

• Aasif Sheikh as Vibhuti Ahuti Narayan Mishra, the unemployed husband of Anita Mishra. Often called 'Nalla' for being jobless, which has become a running gag on the show, he has fallen for the simple-minded Angoori Tiwari. He is known to be highly educated but still won't do a regular job out of his ego. His plans to woo Angoori but usually fails due to her naivety and this puts him in dire situations. He has a best friend Prem Chaudhary, with whom he hangs out and sometimes devices schemes to earn money through odd ways. He hates Manmohan Tiwari because he thinks Tiwari doesn't deserve a wife like Angoori who puts him above anything else. He has tried numerous times to degrade Tiwari's image in front of Angoori to negative results. Although he claims to be 'Chhapra University Topper', his Uncle David Mishra revealed that he bought the degree for him during his college. He has a talent of saying poetry and tries to tell Angoori that he loves her by saying poetry in Hindi and Urdu.
• Rohitash Gaud as Manmohan Tiwari, a successful undergarments businessman, who is attracted to the modern and elegant Anita Mishra. He is called Kaccha-Baniyaan by Vibhuti because he thinks Tiwari's business is disgraceful. He is known to be petty and stingy yet a very cunning person. He always tries to manipulate situations in his favour, sometimes to impress Anita Mishra, with little to no success. He has a love-hate relationship with his overtly dominating mother and gets irritated whenever Angoori follows his mother's wishes blindly, even if it gets him in peril. He gets very defensive whenever Vibhuti asks him about his mother's connections to Pandit Ramphal or about his father who is said to have become a sage in the Himalayas.
• Shilpa Shinde as Angoori Manmohan Tiwari – Shinde left the series after a dispute with the series' producer, Binaifer Kohli and former channel head Vikas Gupta.
• Shubhangi Atre Poorey as Angoori Manmohan Tiwari – She is a traditional Indian housewife who likes to wear lehenga style saree, sindoor and mangalasutra and has a Bhojpuri accent. Being a simple, naive and loving woman who easily believes anybody and everybody, she is kind-hearted and innocent. She performs various superstitious rituals sometimes told to her by her loving mother-in-law which lead to hilarious outcomes. She cooks the most delicious food. She usually speaks English words incorrectly, so everybody around her corrects her vocabulary, which she follows by her now iconic line "sahi pakde hai" to acknowledge that the person understood what she was trying to say. When she gets upset with Tiwari, she calls her mother-in-law known as Amma Ji. Sometimes, Angoori also insults Vibhuti in her own innocent ways. She has a good friendship with Anita.
• Saumya Tandon as Anita Vibhuti Narayan Mishra, an elegant, modern lady who leads grooming classes in Kanpur. Vibhuti's unemployment really irritates her which is why she dominates him over every issue. To fulfill her romantic fantasies, she constantly forces Vibhuti to perform various characters like a thief, a robber, a college stud, a painter, a dacoit, an electrician, a cop among many others which most of the times frustrates him. She frequently taunts Vibhuti by comparing him with Manmohan Tiwari, which he hates. Whenever she gets upset over Vibhuti's antics, she throws him out of the house. She has a good friendship with Angoori. Anita often reads a magazine named 'Meri Chant Saheli' published by Kalavati Sharma, who speaks for women's empowerment and tries various tips and tricks from the magazine to test Vibhuti's loyalty towards herself.

  Recurring

• Yogesh Tripathi as Daroga Happu Singh, a corrupt Daroga who has a secret crush on Anita whom he calls 'Gori Mem'. He demands bribes from everybody in exchange for favours from him much to the chagrin of the residents, to feed his "nine kids" and a "pregnant wife" although nobody believes him as he has been saying that for years now. He yearns for a promotion, but Police Commissioner Resham Pal always gets in his way. He is short-tempered and most of the time he is seen thrashing Tillu, Tika and Malkhan at the tea stall for their antics.
• Saanand Verma as Anokhelal Saxena, more popularly known as Saxena Ji, a genius and talented but aptly crazy man with an obsession of electrocuting himself, being tortured and eating almost anything that is poisonous or unhealthy, like lizard soup and cockroach tea. He usually expresses his joy of madness by saying his iconic "I Like It!!". Over the course of the show, he is shown to possess various talents like being a lawyer, an artist, an actor, a writer, a singer, etc. The reason for his insanity is never explained.
• Kishore Bhanushali as Resham Pal Singh, the Commissioner of Kanpur Police Department. He is known to be honest and straightforward and dislikes Happu Singh. He is a secret admirer of Gulfam Kali. Actor Kishore Bhanushali has been a lifelong impersonator of a late Indian film actor Dev Anand and he brings his characteristics to this role. He has also appeared as another character 'Sharma Uncle' in a one-hour horror special episode previously before taking on this character later.
• Vaibhav Mathur as Teeka Ram, a dim-wit unemployed man, who hangs out with Tillu and Malkhaan. The trio share a rented place to live but have been kicked out of it several times by their landlord for flirting with his daughter.
• Deepesh Bhan as Malkhan, as dim-witted as Teeka, he frequently unsuccessfully woos girls. He and with the other two are often seen trying to make easy money through odd jobs like kidnapping, selling stolen items, fraud, etc., but are often caught and jailed. He is often seen flirting with girls which end with him and Teeka being beaten by the girls or Daroga Happu Singh.
• Syed Salim Zaidi as Tillu, Tiwari's shop employee who constantly plots against him to get back his six months of unpaid salary. Although dim-witted, he is relatively more intelligent than Tika and Malkhan. He has taken severe measures to extort his salary from his boss's pocket, like robbing Tiwari's house, threatening calls and kidnapping Tiwari's younger brother, etc., but circumstances always turn against him and he is left empty-handed.
• Soma Rathod as Ramkali Tiwari, Tiwari's strict mother who constantly beats him for every mistake and loves her daughter-in-law, Angoori. It was revealed by Manmohan Tiwari that his father left her mother before his birth and that his birth was kept as a secret for some time due to certain unknown circumstances. Amma Ji is an avid follower of a famous astrologer and priest, Pundit Ramphal. He tells her various rituals which in turn Amma Ji makes Angoori perform to get health and wealth-related benefits. At that point, several hints suggest Pundit Ramphal is Manmohan Tiwari's biological father, but this is never fully explored.
• Falguni Rajani as Gulfam Kali, an infamous tawaif of Kanpur. Every male character has visited her place at some point in the show to admire her dance and beauty, except Saxena Ji who considers Gulfam Kali his sister. She manipulates the male characters because she knows secrets about every man and threatens to reveal them if they won't do her bidding. Although the women of the show dislike her presence, they treat her respectfully, anyway.
• Vishwajeet Soni as Prem Chaudhary, Vibhuti's best friend who is a foul-mouthed cunning show-off, much to Vibhuti's ire and also an impersonator of Indian film actor Prem Chopra. He comes from a rich background and deals in several illegal activities like gambling and smuggling. Despite this, he helps Vibhuti in rough times and often hangs out with him. He is disliked by Anita because she fears that Vibhuti might become a criminal in his influence.
• Akshay Patil as Pelu Chaurasia, the colony's mute rickshaw puller. He communicates by pulling out message slips out of his muffler tied around his head. He is known for his intelligence. He ends conversations through his signature 'wide awkward smile'. He also carries a portable radio, providing songs appropriate to often hilarious situations.
• Anup Upadhyay as David Mishra, Vibhuti's UK-based rich uncle who always visits him in awkward situations. He is rich although his business is unknown. Whenever he visits Vibhuti, he brings papers to his ₹20 crore property, so he can name Vibhuti his heir. But, due to one reason or another, he and sometimes others, too, shred the papers. He often asks Pelu "London mein taxi chalaega?" whenever he comes to Kanpur as he likes his company.
• Jeetu Gupta as Dr. Gupta, a doctor who is basically a "tantrik", as he always tells people. He performs black magic on his patients to cure them because his prescriptions never work.
• Rakesh Bedi as Bhoorey Lal, Angoori's alcoholic but loving father, who hates Tiwari for marrying her by lying about his profession. He likes Vibhuti and sometimes when he's drunk, he mumbles about preferring him as his son-in-law if he would have found him sooner, much to the dismay of Tiwari.
• Vijay Kumar Singh as Master Bhoop Singh. He is a Masterji in Ladoo's school. Bhoop Singh is a believer of strict Indian moral values or "Sanskar" as he calls them. In the show, he is the caricature of old-fashioned teachers from rural India. He wears khadi jacket, carries an Indian-style side-bag called "Jhola" and always has a long and thin bamboo stick called "Santi" to beat those who misbehave. Whenever, he witnesses any improper behaviour in public, he recites his catchphrase which is Sanskar naam ka cheez hai ki nahi? lit..
• Saurabh Kaushik as Panditji, he is disciple of pundit Ramphal.
• Hardik Gohil as Laddoo Tiwari, who is the younger brother of Manmohan Tiwari and Ramkali's younger son. He favours his sister-in-law, Angoori more than his own brother and thinks of her as his second mother, as he would call her, 'Bhabhi Ma'. He is known to have a subtle-telepathic ability and perceives others' thoughts.
• Anup Kumar Singh as Pundit Ramphal, the famous astrologer and priest whom Ammaji blindly follows and gets ideas from him for various superstitious rituals to get health and wealth-related benefits. He has also appeared as various other characters before and after, such as govt. officials such as CBI officer, IT officer and TTE Namepal Singh from Episodes 474 to 476.
• Naveen Bawa as various characters, including businessman Bhushan Bhabhuta from Bhabhuta Builders in Episodes 276 to 278 and Anita's American cousin brother Mark Shutermurgh in Episodes 682 through 686.
• Feroz as Chhedi, a flirting Dhobi of the locality.
• Sohit Vijay Soni as News Anchor and various other characters.
• Rajeev Mehra as various characters including a Minister of Uttar Pradesh and also the new police commissioner.
• Anu Awasthi as Anu Awasthi Ramkali's brother, Manmohan Tiwari's uncle.
• Manoj Santoshi appeared as Balushankar Khasoute in episodes 408-410 of 'Sangeet Hi Jeevan Hai' story arc where he tries to flirt with Angoori. He appeared again in episodes 790-791 of 'Kanpur To Goa' as a Don of Goa after Tiwari and Vibhuti flirt with his sisters.
• Sandeep Anand as Puttan, Angoori's brother who is a thief.
• Manju Brijnandan Sharma / Pratima Kazmi. as Helen Ahuti Narayan Mishra, Vibhuti's mother.
• Liliput as Maamulal Chaurasiya, Vibhuti's Mamaji who suffers from haemorrhoids and is led to believe that Vibhuti is a doctor.
• Navin Prabhakar as the mentally unstable Kavi Pramod Pralay Jhangirabadi who has been in love with Anita since college days. He again appeared briefly as a short-tempered musician Jaleel Chaudhary.

  Guests

• Ranveer Singh – to promote Bajirao Mastani
• Arjun Kapoor – to promote Ki & Ka
• Ritesh Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi and Urvashi Rautela – to promote Great Grand Masti
• Brett Lee – to promote UnIndian
• Sunny Leone – as part of Bhabi ji Ghar Par Hai!: Sunny Leone Special
• Shaan – to promote The Voice India
• Akshay Kumar – to promote Jolly LLB 2
• Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt – to promote Badrinath Ki Dulhania
• Anushka Sharma – to promote Phillauri
• Akshay Kumar – to promote
• Ayushmann Khurrana and Kriti Sanon – to promote Bareilly Ki Barfi
• Varun Dhawan – to promote Judwaa 2
• Nitin Goswami – to promote Siddhi Vinayak
• Lara Dutta and Ahmed Khan – to promote the reality dance show High Fever - Dance Ka Naya Tevar.
• Krushna Abhishek and Nazia Hussain – to promote Teri Bhabhi Hai Pagle.
• Akshay Kumar – to promote Gold

  Background and production

Development and writing

Casting

Filming

Music

Themes and analysis

Specials

• Episode 1: Govinda
• Episode 2: Karan Singh Grover and Bipasha Basu
• Episode 3: Ranjeet and Shakti Kapoor
• Episode 4: Kumar Sanu and Alka Yagnik
• Episode 5: Ravi Kishen
• Episode 6: Jimmy Shergill
• Episodes 7 & 8: Jackie Shroff
• Episode 9: New Year Special, featuring actors from various TV shows of &TV
• Episode 10: 1 Hour Horror Special, Ep 341 on 19 June 2016

  Spin-offs

Reception

Critical reception

International broadcasting

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