Gupta Brothers

Gupta Brothers is an Indian comedy drama television series that premiered on 5 October 2020 on Star Bharat.[2] Produced by Mahesh Pandey,[3] it stars Parineeta Borthakur, Hiten Tejwani, Aakash Mukherjee, Satya Tiwari and Meet Mukhi.[4] It is loosely based on the Tamil television series Pandian Stores.[5]

Gupta Brothers
Genre	Dramedy Family Drama
Created by	Mahesh Pandey
Developed by	Mahesh Pandey
Screenplay by	Agastya Jain Vikram Khurana
Story by	Dilip Jha Dheeraj Sarna
Directed by	Rrahul Mevawala
Creative director	Shikhar Jaiswal
Starring	Parineeta Borthakur Hiten Tejwani Aakash Mukherjee Satya Tiwari Meet Mukhi
Theme music composer	Chirag Jain Om Jha Esha Gaur Puneet Dixit
Opening theme	Ek Doosre Se Karte Hain Pyar Hum
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	81
Production
Producers	Mahesh Pandey Madhu Pandey[1]
Cinematography	Shahid Khan Asif Khan
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	21–23 minutes
Production company	Mahesh Pandey Productions LLP
Distributor	Star India
Release
Original network	Star Bharat
Picture format	576i HDTV 1080i
Audio format	Dolby Digital
Original release	5 October 2020 – 26 January 2021
Chronology
Related shows	Pandian Stores
External links
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Plot

The show opens with a family of four bachelor brothers Shiv, Alok, Veeru and Rajat living in Banaras. They are well-versed in everything, from doing all house-hold chores to managing business in a local grocery store. Hence, the four brothers are commonly referred to as Sarvagun Sampann Gupta Brothers in their neighborhood. The four brothers are self-reliant that they feel a woman is absolutely unnecessary in their lives. Hence, they decide to remain unmarried. However, when Ganga creates a fake identity of Mridula Roy and enters into the lives of Gupta Brothers, their worlds turn upside-down. All the four brothers try to get rid of her using all possible means to find Ganga's truth. While trying to do that, Shiv discovers Ganga's true identity, being an orphan and develops a soft corner for her, also forgiving in spite of her delinquent deeds against the brothers. Ganga is amazed by Shiv's kindness and instantly takes a likeness for him, which soon develops into love. However, Shiv unaware of Ganga's feelings decides to get her married to another man, to which Ganga accepts brokenheartedly. On the day of wedding, the bride-groom elopes, so Shiv marries Ganga to save her honor. Shiv and Ganga's marriage leave Alok, Veeru and Rajat shattered and also develop a rift with Shiv. They decide never to accept Ganga as their brother's wife. Later, it is revealed that Shiv and Ganga's marriage was a evil ploy made by Amba against the Gupta brothers. She continues to provoke Alok, Veeru and Rajat against Shiv and Ganga by revealing that they are Shiv's step-brothers, instill the idea of partition and constantly plotting against the brothers. But, Ganga uncovers Amba's complete truth and vows to protect her family. By risking her love and marriage, Ganga reveals everything to Shiv. Shiv is shocked to learn Amba's truth, breaks all ties with her and starts reciprocating Ganga's feelings seeing her goodness. Meanwhile, even Rajat gets moved by Ganga's kindness and accepts her, while Alok and Veeru still hate her. Amba dejected of Shiv learning the truth from Ganga, decides to kill Ganga. Unfortunately, Alok, Veeru and Rajat fall prey of her evil plan. Ganga puts her life at stake and saves all the three of them. This moves both Alok and Veeru, making them realize that they had been wrong about her all the while. Finally, Shiv's brothers accept Ganga and name her as their Bhabhi-maa.

15 days later

Alok, Veeru and Rajat arrange Shiv and Ganga's nuptial night, where Ganga decides that they will not consider about their own family until Shiv's brothers, whom Ganga now considers as her own children are completely settled. Shiv is taken aback, but respecting Ganga's bold decision accepts and start their life together.

6 months later

The Gupta family is now a happy family with the three younger Gupta brothers looking upon Shiv and Ganga as their parents. During a festive moment, Shiv and Ganga notice Alok and Jaya closeness and doubt on their relation. Upon demand, Jaya reveals that she has been in love with Alok since childhood and also believes that Alok who is a changed man now, is reciprocating her feelings. This leads to Shiv and Ganga, misunderstand that Alok and Jaya love each other. Though initially reluctant, Shiv decides to marry off Alok and Jaya for his brother's happiness, which is when, it is revealed that Alok loves another girl, Aditi, the daughter of one their rich dealers Bansal. Upon learning more about Bansal, Alok broken-heartedly decides to marry Jaya. On the other hand, he breaks-up with Aditi, while lying to her that his love was fake. On the day of Alok and Jaya's marriage, Aditi learns the truth and also realizes that her father was the master-plan behind breaking hers and Alok's relation. Aditi decides to win back Alok. She elopes from her house and emotionally blackmails Alok that she would give up her life if he wouldn't marry her. Helpless, Alok marries Aditi, shattering Jaya and her family. To secure Jaya's future, Ganga asks Veeru to marry Jaya, to which both oppose as both of them have always hated each other. However, in the end, for the sake of the happiness of their families, Veeru and Jaya agree to marry each other. Thus, Alok gets married to Aditi, while Veeru to Jaya.

After Aditi–Alok and Veeru–Jaya's marriage, Ganga and Shiv struggle to keep their family united as constant issues crop in between Aditi and Jaya, because Aditi is always insecure about Jaya's presence. Aditi also has difficulty to adjust with the middle-class conditions of the family as she has always led a luxurious life till then. Veeru and Jaya always quarrel with each other due to their differences. Ganga and Shiv strive hard to keep the unity of the family together, however Amba strives to divide the Gupta family.

Thus, Amba instigates Bansal, who wants his daughter and son–in–law, to live with him, Aditi–Alok, against the Gupta family. Amba herself was using Bansal as she wants her daughter, Jaya, to live a queen's life in Gupta family. Provoked by Amba, Bansal stops all his supplies to Gupta & Sons grocery store. This causes a major loss for the Guptas and Shiv decides to get help from his acquaintances of Mirzapur. In Shiv's Absence, when a man named Mishra, who is in fact of Amba, offers help to the Gupta family. Alok retracts from accepting the offer. However, Veeru, in order to help his family and to prove himself in front of his wife, Jaya, who always considers him to be good-for-nothing, accepts Mishra's offer going against Alok.

Amba's plan succeeds with the Health Inspectors inspecting the stale and expired products in Gupta & Sons grocery store and thus leading to seal the store. The Guptas are devastated and things go more downhill with the police coming to arrest Alok for the Foodborne illness caused by the stale and expired products of Gupta & Sons. Shiv and Veeru try to save Alok, by getting arrested instead of him. Nevertheless, Alok stops his brothers and gets arrested taking the entire responsibility of Foodborne illness upon himself. While, Shiv–Veeru try to release Alok through law, Ganga reaches Bansal for help. Bansal puts forth a condition that he will help Ganga, in return of Aditi–Alok. Ganga is crossed to learn Bansal's perspectives of considering family–relations as business. Ganga denies to ever bid her family in return of anything in this world. As Ganga leaves, Bansal realizes that Aditi had overheard his and Ganga's entire conversation. Bansal tries to emotionally blackmail his daughter once again. But, this time Aditi confronts her father for all his evil acts against her (Gupta) family and vows that she will break all ties with her father if he ever tries plot against her family.

Later, Ganga, Shiv and Veeru make-up with the Foodborne illness victims' families and help Alok get released from jail. At the same time, Jaya too catches Mishra proving the innocence of the Guptas in the case of Foodborne illness. The whole Gupta family rejoice over surpassing the great trouble in their family. However, things are still unstable between Aditi–Jaya with Jaya misunderstanding the main culprit behind all the scams in Gupta family to be Bansal (when it is her mother, Amba); while Aditi is always insecure with Alok-Jaya's proximity. Tensions also continue to prevail between Veeru–Jaya. However, Aditi, aware of her father's misdeeds, accepts the Gupta family more and is able to have a better cordial relation with everyone in the family, except for Jaya.

Ganga and Shiv decide to send the newly-weds, Aditi–Alok and Veeru–Jaya for honeymoon. During their honeymoon, Veeru–Jaya have a huge brawl in the hotel, with Jaya leaving the room saddened and annoyed. She is about to meet with an accident, when Alok saves her and promises Jaya that he will be always at her side as a friend. Unfortunately, Aditi watches it and fumes with jealousy. She calls Veeru and questions his wife's character to which Veeru's stays dumb. In the room, Veeru assures, he trusts Jaya, having known of her friendship with Alok since childhood. This betters the matters between Veeru–Jaya a bit. While, on the other side, Aditi confesses to Alok, how much insecure she is about his and Jaya's relation and wants Alok to prove his loyalty to her.

In Banaras, Ganga–Shiv are called for a Baby shower ceremony, where Ganga is criticized for being childless. However, Rajat retaliates to the criticisms, by calling Ganga Bhabhi-maa and affirming that Ganga is also his mother. Later, Ganga-Shiv decide to renovate and enlarge their house for the comfort of the newly-weds. During the puja of house–renovation, Aditi–Alok and Veeru–Jaya surprise everyone with their return. The Gupta family is overjoyed when Aditi tells them she is pregnant. Everyone is happy for Aditi except for Jaya, who feels dejected on being ignored by Aditi and her dejection is increased by Amba poisoning her mind more. Jaya vents out her frustration on Veeru, saying her life is destroyed by marrying him. Veeru is heart–broken by Jaya's words and decides to divorce her for her betterment. While on the other hand, Amba tries to kill Aditi's unborn child, by poisoning her food.

Cast and Characters

Main

• Parineeta Borthakur[6] as Ganga Shiv Gupta / Mridula Roy (fake identity); Shiv's wife and a motherly figure for his brothers; an orphan who became part of Gupta family after marrying Shiv; she wins the hearts of Shiv's brothers and helps Shiv to maintain the unity of their family (2020–2021)
• Hiten Tejwani[7] as Shiv Narayan Gupta; Narayan and Gayatri's only son; the eldest and the most intelligent Gupta brother; Ganga's husband; he loves and respects his late father Narayan Gupta, he tries to keep the Gupta family united (2020–2021)
• Aakash Mukherjee as Alok Narayan Gupta; Narayan and Lakshmi's first son; the second Gupta brother; a sharp accountant; Aditi's husband; Jaya's ex-fiancé; possesses Shiv's qualities to care for his brothers (2020–2021)
• Aishwarya Raj Bhakuni as Aditi Alok Gupta (née Bansal); Alok's wife; Bansal's daughter; a rich, spoilt girl who initially finds faults with the middle–class conditions of Gupta family but later on adjusts and starts considering the family as her own (2020–2021)
• Satya Tiwari[8] as Veeru Narayan Gupta; Narayan and Lakshmi's second son; the third Gupta brother; dumb, 5th std school drop–out, strong well-built personality; Jaya's husband (2020–2021)
• Sonal Vengurlekar[9] as Jaya Veeru Gupta (née Satya Prakash); Veeru's wife; Alok's ex-fiancé; a shrewd–tongued girl like her mother, kind-hearted and considers the Gupta family her own (2020–2021)
• Meet Mukhi as Rajat Narayan Gupta; Narayan and Lakshmi's third son; the youngest Gupta brother; an information geek; a 13-year-old boy; studious and smart student (2020–2021)

Recurring

• Rinku Dhawan[10] as Amba Kaaki / Amba Satya Prakash; Jaya's mother; a greedy, possessive and cunning woman who causes several losses for Gupta & Sons Store and keeps plotting to break the unity of Gupta family; she always thinks about herself and her daughter (2020–2021)
• Deepak Dutta as Satya Prakash Kaaka; Amba Kaaki's husband; Jaya's father (2020–2021)
• Darpan Shrivastava as Bansal; Aditi's father; he wants to divide the Gupta family to get his daughter and son–in–law to live with him (2020–2021)
• Aditi Deshpande as Lakshmi Narayan Gupta; Narayan Harishchandra Gupta's second wife; Shiv's step-mother; Alok, Veeru and Rajat's mother. When alive, she was the cause of Narayan Gupta's major loss in business; she initially conversed with Shiv as a soul in a photo frame; later her soul was shown to have found redemption (2020)
• Jairoop Jeevan as Narayan Harishchandra Gupta; Gayatri and Lakshmi's husband; Gupta Brothers' father; he is generous and truthful; the owner of the Gupta & Sons grocery store [shown in photos as a deceased character] (2020–2021)
• Sanjay Pandey as Radhe Shyam Rasiya aka John Jani Janardhan; the Gupta brothers' former rival (2020)
• Surya Rao as Inspector Bharat Videshi (2020)
• Roma Navani as Kamini's mother (2020)
• Bhoomika Mirchandani as Kamini; Alok's fake lover and ex-fiancé (2020)

Production

Development

The series was announced by Mahesh Pandey Productions LLP and was confirmed in January 2020 by Star India to be broadcast in Star Plus with the title Khandaan.[11] However, the show was later shifted to Star Bharat.

Later, the show underwent a couple of denominations regarding its title from Khandaan to Hum, Hum Ek Makaan Ek Dukaan, Gupta & Sons and then finally Gupta Brothers Chaar Kunwaare From Ganga Kinaare, which was finalized to suit Star Bharat's comedy genre.

But, when Star Bharat underwent a revamp once again from comedy to drama, the show too underwent a change of genre which made its initial plot fall back in line with its original series Pandian Stores.

Thus, it was named as Gupta Brothers. As, with the completion of 50th episode, the Gupta brothers (except for Rajat) were no longer Kunwaares (bachelors).

Casting

Sasural Simar Ka fame actor Vishal Bhardwaj was initially approached to play Alok Gupta, but was later replaced by Aakash Mukherjee.

In November 2020, Tenali Rama fame actress, Aishwarya Raj Bhakuni, was cast as the parallel lead opposite Aakash Mukherjee.

Later in December 2020, Darpan Shrivastava, was cast to play the second main antagonist, Mr. Bansal.

Release

The first promo of the series was released on 24 September 2020, featuring the four Gupta Brothers, Hiten Tejwani, Aakash Mukherjee, Satya Tiwari and Meet Mukhi.[12]

The next promo featuring the entry of Parineeta Borthakur as Mridula Roy was released on 7 October 2020.[13]

Cancellation

In January 2020, Star Plus planned an official Hindi remake of Star Vijay's Tamil series Pandian Stores to be produced by Mahesh Pandey Productions LLP, who initially named the series Khandaan. However, after the lockdown, Khandaan was shifted to Star Bharat.

At that moment, as Star Bharat changed the channel genre to be comedy. The plot of the show was also changed to suit the genre of Star Bharat.[14]

Thus, the show was initially aired under the title Gupta Brothers - Chaar Kunware From Ganga Kinaare in October 2020 but due to low response from the audience towards it’s comedy genre, its genre was again changed to drama with the plot being more loyal to the plot of Pandian Stores with the changed title Gupta Brothers.

Nevertheless, in December 2020, Star Plus announced another remake of Star Vijay's Tamil series Pandian Stores titled Pandya Store, produced by Sphere Origins.[15]

And the series Gupta Brothers was officially announced to be off aired on 26th January 2021.[16]

Adaptations

Country	Language	Title	Original release	Network(s)	Episodes	Notes
India	Tamil	Pandian Stores பாண்டியன் ஸ்டோர்ஸ்	1 October 2018–present	Star Vijay	Ongoing	Original Series
	Telugu	Vadinamma వదినమ్మ	6 May 2019–present	Star Maa	Ongoing	Remake
	Kannada	Varalakshmi Stores [17] ವರಲಕ್ಷ್ಮಿ ಸ್ಟೋರೀಸ್	17 June 2019–16 April 2020	Star Suvarna	275	Remake
	Marathi	Sahkutumb Sahaparivar सहकुटुंब सहपरिवार	24 February 2020–present	Star Pravah	Ongoing	Remake
	Bengali	Bhaggolokkhi ভাগ্যলক্ষ্মী	31 August 2020–present	Star Jalsha	Ongoing	Remake
	Malayalam	Santhwanam സാന്ത്വനം	21 September 2020–present	Asianet	Ongoing	Remake
	Hindi	Gupta Brothers गुप्ता ब्रदर्स	5 October 2020–26 January 2021	Star Bharat	81	Remake
		Pandya Store पंड्या स्टोर	25 January 2021–present	Star Plus	Ongoing	Remake
	Odia	Lakshmi ଲକ୍ଷ୍ମୀ	7 December 2020-present	Tarang Tv	Ongoing	Remake
	Punjabi	Maha ਮਹਾ	14 December 2020–present	PTC Punjabi	Ongoing	Remake
Sri Lanka	Tamil with Sinhala sub-titles	Pandian Stores பாண்டியன் ஸ்டோர்ஸ்	1 June 2020–present	Shakthi Tv	Ongoing	Remake
	Sinhala	Pavulak පවුලක්	4 January 2021- present	Swarnavahini	Ongoing	Remake

References

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6. "Parineeta Borthakur: I hope people like my character in 'Gupta Brothers: Chaar Kunware from Ganga Kinaare". The Times of India. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
7. "Hiten Tejwani masters the art of cooking for his show 'Gupta Brothers Chaar Kunware From Ganga Kinaare'". The Times of India. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
8. "The good thing about TV is that there is no nepotism: Satya Tiwari". The Times of India. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
9. "Sonal Vengurlekar: The new dramatic track in 'Gupta Brothers' will bring out the mature side of Jaya". The Times of India. 29 October 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
10. "Rinku Dhawan to star in Mahesh Pandey's Gupta Brothers serial". AbpLive. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
11. "Hiten Tejwani to play the male lead in Mahesh Pandey's next". Times of India. 21 January 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
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External links

• Gupta Brothers at IMDb