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She is the woman of today. She is very clear about her future and wants to get married in a very well to do family where they have cooks, drivers and where she doesn’t have to look after any household work. She is also very career-oriented and wants to be the financial support of the family. However, Samyukta feels that though being a financial support to the family is a good thing but a woman should not completely give up all the responsibilities of the house as she feels women can look after the house in a far better manner than the servants. She keeps having conflicts with her for the same.
Aniket is the second of the four Majumdar kids. A very talented boy, he sings and writes poetries very well but he has no clue as to how to use his talent to his advantage. He is introverted, irresponsible and slightly slow in disposition. Extremely bright as a kid, his approach to life became laidback as a result of getting sidelined by his own siblings. Samyukta is worried about him and is of the opinion that if she gets him married; will he be incapable to take care of his family? Sushila on the other hand, feels that he will get responsible once he is married.
Tejal is the tomboyish moholla cricket champion with a heart of gold who can beat boys into a pulp. She is a head strong girl who inevitably gets into fights with the boys in her locality in Surat often beating them up. Tejal lost her mother at a very young age and was brought up single-handedly by her father. Having no female influence around her, she became tomboyish. She yearns for motherly love and affection that she was bereft of since childhood. She wishes to get married in a house where she will have a mother-in-law who will shower her with the love and affection of a mother. So strong is her desire to have motherly affection, that she doesn’t mind marrying in a house where she will get two mothers-in-laws!
Shashwat and Forum Majumdar are fraternal twins (twins who don’t look alike. He is very modern in his thinking and also over-smart. He is a know-it-all. It’s a classic case of verbal diarrhea that annoys everyone no end. He’s the narad muni of the household. The latter was a bright child and was always showered with praise and given more attention by the family. Sibling rivalry goes to another level when they start to sideline the already introverted Aniket by not involving him in whatever they do. Even after so many years, they feel that Aniket walks away with all the sympathy because he is slow and goofs up all the time.
Sister of Sushila.
Sushila is a woman who thinks from her heart and not her mind. This colorful, vivacious Kathiawari, ex-mytho film actress finds herself married into an extremely refined and learned Naagar household. Sushila is unable to realize her responsibilities that come naturally with marriage. But Sushila is extremely respectful towards her mother-in-law who she looks up to and whenever she falters or causes distress to the latter, she goes out of her way to make amends. Since she has been childless for four years into her marriage, this affection for Aniket has increased manifold resulting in her overindulging and pampering Aniket to no end. This is often a point of conflict with her and Samyukta.
He is a retired ex-scientist who has come up with a ‘Truth Serum’that is accepted by the State Of Law and the patent of which gives him unlimited amount of money, which accounts for the family’s lifestyle. He is a prankster and the child in his heart is still alive, which makes him jovial and plays pranks with his daughter-in-law and sons but at the same time he is also very supportive to his wife in spite of the fact that he puts her into trouble time and again because of his jovial nature.
She is a progressive mother-in-law of today who does not endorse the rudimentary belief of keeping her daughter-in-law under her thumb and treat her differently. Though she gives her daughter-in-law complete freedom, she also firmly believes that a daughter-in-law has certain responsibilities to fulfill unlike the way a daughter is at her mother’s place, like careless and carefree. Her mission in life is to make her daughter-in-law Sushila adhere to the life style of the Majumdar family, which she has not been able to do so even after four years. She is living in the hope that her future daughter-in-law will take over her responsibilities and help her govern the house in a systematic way.