Underdogs of Hindi Television Pre Daily Soap Era

Long before the sitcom culture which got totally destroyed in Hindi Television, this show is one of the best creations of Balaji Telefilms( Although they only destroyed the Indian Television, eventually).The show is now known only for Vidya Balan's TV debut before jumping over to mainstream cinema. This slapstick comedy with talking portraits of the dead first wife and bunch of 5 wild and vivid girls of a businessman created all sorts of situational drama and daily does of laughter. The show-makers tried bringing them back in 2005 but it wasn't the same without the original cast.

India's answer to the crime solving detective genre, Byomkesh Bakshi was and infact one of the best crime/detective series of Indian Origin. Airing on Doordarshan certainly had its perks. The show had minimal effects and high drama sequences yet the witty storytelling kept the viewers on toes right until the end like those noir Indian crime novels by unknown writers which became to regarded as our very own desi pulp fiction stories in some circles.

This should give you the goosebumps which The Lady in Pink left you during Sherlock S01E01

Ramanand Sagar's reply to Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, this mythical adventure joyride was a delight not only as a kid but also as we grew up with the re-runs, it always stayed close to our hearts. Hatim has to solve seven questions to defeat the evil sorcerer lord Dajjal aided by Najumi. The animation and the effects may remind you of Star Wars old lightsaber duals but the fairy tale story well crafted into a mystical world was the stuff dreams were made of.

The parallels were such that even Tolkien would have decided to give LOTR a middle-eastern touch.

This epic final battle reminds you of the last battle of black gate of LoTR.

A youth-oriented show based on Army Cadets with Rajeev Khandelwal as chief instructor. Let's just say all the Quanticos and Homelands can't match up to the level of nu-age drama and crime thriller aspect this show had. With a catchy background score and some love affairs along-with army drills, the show was perfect for the audience straight out of childhood and into teenage/ college phase of their lives. Although after few seasons the show started turning into a romcom daily soap, it was still enjoyable

The foot tapping opening sequence sung by Kunal Ganjawala.

Clean humour is what Rakesh Bedi was known for and one of his gems was this show. Meera and Mohan and Vinod Verma were household names when this show used to run. Given that Asif Sheikh is still flirting with someone else's wife in Bhabhiji Gharpe Hai, this was the benchmark set in the 1999-2009 era where it all started.

In the times of #Demonetization, this episode should tickle your funny bones.