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Sarabhai vs Sarabhai (2004)

It was a time when the class system in the Indian urban world was gradually getting more and more demarcated in terms of the elite, the middle-class and the lower middle class. This class system caused the elites to believe themselves to be sophisticated and charming in their ways, while believing the middle-class to be loud and gregarious and miserly.
While our other serials always ran in a parallel world of huge palace-like homes and saas and bahu fights and plastic surgeries, director Deven Bhojani and writer Aatish Kapadia quietly created a witty mirror of the society. Thus was born the cult, Sarabhai versus Sarabhai.

We have Maya (Ratna Pathak), the matriarch of the family - the eternally sophisticated and gracious, educated and classy woman to the world outside, versus a hypocrite to Indravadan (Satish Shah), her hubby. You have the spoilt brat Rosesh (Rajesh Kumar) - the baby of the house, whose poetries are "so bad that they are good", and who is detested with a vengeance by Indravadan. You have Monisha (Rupali Ganguly), the "middle-class" woman Maya loves to hate, all the time, anywhere, anytime. Then there's Sahil, Monisha's husband and Maya and Indu's oldest son - the rope that is pulled from both sides in a fierce tug-of-war between the seas and bahu.

The serial follows the conventions of a Horatian satire, which satirises the society in a very light-hearted manner, without hurting anyone's sentiments. That's exactly what this serial does for you. What with Madhusudhan who cannot hear for the life of him and still never once accepts his problems,; and Dushyant, who mechanically chews gum as he technically "explains" mechanisms with Rosesh as the model, the serial is a funny mirror to the inside story of an outwardly posh and elite household.

TV series that will surely crack you up with its perfectly timed puns. Focusing on the relationship of a high class mother-in-law making fun of her middle-class daughter-in-law, this show never disappoints when you're in a mood of light hearted comedy.