Saas Bina Sasural (
Hindi:सास बिना ससुराल)is an
Indian comedy-drama television series based on the story of a young lady, Taanya a.k.a. Toasty, who has a "
sasural" (in-laws' house) consisting of seven quirky men, deprived of a "
saas" (mother-in-law).
The series premiered on October 18, 2010, and is produced by Vipul D. Shah of
Optimystix Entertainment .
Taanya Sharma, known as Toasty, is an intelligent schoolteacher in
love with a kindhearted man named Tej Chaturvedi. Though Tej's family
has no women in it (all seven family members are men who hate women)
the family eventually agrees to their marriage and the grand wedding
takes place. Thus, the rule of the Chaturvedi family which forbade to
touch or even talk with women is broken. Toasty then finds herself in a
family in which there is a Dadaji (grandfather), Pitaji (father) and
five brothers, Tej being the middle one. All the chaachis, maamis,
buaas etc who attended the wedding had all gone and she was the only
woman in the house
[
Taanya's despairs, as she realizes that she needed to play the
warden of a boy's hostel where the boys ranged 60 to 12 in age groups.
Taanya gives up and accuses Tej of cheating her by not telling the
truth and then she leaves the house. She returns to her maternal home,
only to find that her brother and Bhaabhi were all packed and were
ready to leave the house. Taanya's Bhaabhi did not will to take the
responsibility of her in-laws and hence she moves out of the house with
Taanya's brother. And before Taanya could utter a word about her own
problem, her mother tells her that a woman, like a needle is supposed
to stitch a family together and not break it. She asks Taanya to always
keep her family together and never do anything to break it. Toasty has
no alternative and she returns -- determined to face the challenge, to
stay in the family which was deprived of women.
(Many minor and
funny events take place after this as Toasty comes back in the house.
During Toasty's wedding an unknown lady (later found as Maalti's
mother, Shobha Devi) made several attempts to break the wedding, but
she was unsuccessful. For further details or to know who Maalti is go
on reading.)
Nitika (Toasty's friend) falls in love with a man called Rajan. But
he believes that she has an affair with Ved(Tej's second eldest
brother)-but it was a a mistake, and Ved did not have any feelings for
Nitika, then- and and starts doing ill-behaviour with her. His believe
was prooved when he saw a false photo of Ved making Nitika wear a
gajra,
but he did not listen to her and humiliated her publicly infront of Ved
. Thus, Nitika's wedding was broken and Ved was hurt as he was a
women-hater but Rajan accused him of having an affair, just after he
was accused of a false molestation. Later Ved started helping Nitika in
her small problems which attracted them towards each other.
The reason the men of the house hate women is because the eldest
brother, Pashu, was married to a woman named Malti, who left him
because she felt she was being treated as a
maid.
Since then there was a long court case going on in which she was asking
for money from the family, falsely accused the second eldest brother,
Ved, of
molestation, and had Pitaji and Pashu arrested for taking dowry. And as a result Ved became a
brahmachaari [
While she was leaving the house, Dadaji tried to stop her but she was
least bothered; Dadaji fell from the stairs and broke his leg, since
then he is handicapped. Toasty by mistake makes friendship with Maalti
and she is forbade to stay in the
Chaturvedi Nivas, as the family hates Maalti, and even they- especially Tej -stop talking to her. Later Maalti comes to the
Chaturvedi Nivas
and says that neither Toasty knew that that Maalti was the wife of
Pashu nor Maalti knew that she was Tej's wife Toasty, as they
introduced themselves to each other as Taanya and Madhu Maalti Dubey.
Later when the family gets to know the truth, they try many tricks to
call Toasty back (like Cheddi's false heart attack, which was a joke),
they even called Shanti a.k.a. Buaa (Cheddi's sister) and at last
Toasty comes back and Tej and Toasty are reunited. Later, Toasty and
Tej get Pashu and Maalti back together since it is evident that they
miss each other. But, Maalti's mother was against it, but Pashu and
Maalti's love melted her heart and she also stpped manipulating Maalti
and Toasty, thus her plan changes and she starts to see the Chaturvedi
family in a positive sense. As Maalti and Pashu are reunited, the
family accepts Maalti back into the
household forgiving her of what she did previously, and the
family
is finally complete. But she still found herself guilty of what she did
to Ved and Dadaji, later when Taosty made her understood, she was
convienced, that what's done cannot be undone and became happy to be
back in the
Chatuvedi Nivas, forgetting what happened. But the house keys were given to Toasty, as Cheddi wanted so.
Tosty starts feeling unwell and faints. Malti believes Tosty is pregnant
]
and tells the whole family, making them ecstatic with joy. However, it
turns out that Tosty is not really pregnant; she only fainted due to
the stress of too much work. Malti apologizes for her mistake but the
family is visibly upset upon knowing the truth. Thus, Tosty decides to
get everyone to smile again whilst promising Tej that as soon as
everyone is adjusted to having Malti back in the house, their little
baby will come along. Later, Pashu-Maalti and Tej-Toasty are sent on a
honeymoon
Pracheen then later falls in love with Dimple, Toasty's sister and
Riya, who is a new girl in his college, thus he falls in a love
triangle but he chooses Riya. One night, on phone Riya tells him to
meet at the coffee shop where she will introduce him to her friends.
Prachin is shocked and doesn’t know what to do as he has no money and
that Cafe where they were to meet is very expensive and her friends are
coming too. So he asks money from Tej and Toasty saying that he has to
buy stationeries, but they refuse. He later asks for money from Maalti
and she gives him some. Toasty later asks Malti that did she give
Prachin money -but she does not know that Maalti gave him money-and
warns her that not to give him money because he’s been asking money
from everyone nowadays. While Dadaji listens to their conversation.
Malti says that she has that much understanding and that she won’t just
give Prachin money like that; after the coffeshop meet (in the meet her
friends did not show up), next day Riya and Prachin plan to meet in an
expensive theatre.While Toasty was washing colthes and Malti was
sweeping, Toasty while checking the pockets of the trousers pulls a
sheet of paper out of a pair of pants, it was Prachin’s bill from the
Cafe. Toasty goes to place the bill pieces on the table and Malti
watches her from behind the pillar. She tells Maalti about the bill and
exclaims that it was
210.
[
To watch film with Riya, Pracheen takes money from Dimple, and Toasty
comes to look for Pracheen in his college. There she gets to know that
he was not attending his lectures since a few days and has taken money
from mano of his friends who were asking their money back. Prachin gets
caught by Toasty as he was entering late in the house. Toasty forces
Prachin to reveal the problem but he again reveals lie. Toasty
discloses the money incident to Malti and doubts on him. Prachin again
gets caught by Toasty as he was stealing money from Dadaji's cupboard.
Toasty gets extremely worried in regards to Prachin. Toasty expresses
about her doubt to Tej. Next day, Dadaji informs his family members
about the missing money from the cupboard. Malti puts the blame on
herself about the missing money and does not reveal the truth. Seeing
that Toasty is stunned. But, that day Pracheen sees Riya flirting with
another boy and making fun of Pracheen thus, he is disheartened.
Heart-broken Pracheen reveals the truth to Toasty and Maalti, who
forgive them.
All the members of Chaturvedi family were habituated to Toasty and
her working patterns; so Toasty and Tej design a plan so that family
members get habituated to Maalti instead of always looking for Toasty.
And the family at last gets habituated to Maalti's working patterns.
(Many minor and funny events take place after this.)
Soon after Pashu and Tej have fights between their own business and Tej opens his separate
sari shop
[which he names after his deceased mother, Vimla and it has more income
the shop of Pashu. Later they have a competition in which Tej wins and
he goes to
Pune
to get sarees for his shop. But the family was unaware of this fact
earlier, as to help Pashu Toasty made Pashu win, and Tej lost the game,
and as per the bet Tej had to close his shop- as Pashu's shop was the
actual and the old shop of the family-but when he got to now that
Toasty lied, he got angry and revealed the truth. After they got to
know that where Tej was, it is told on the news that the bus that Tej
boarded had met with an
accident .
Toasty, Pashu and Ved go to the spot of accident to find Tej, but in
vain. Just as they lose hope Toasty finds Tej surprisingly, in a
hospital. Thus, they all are reunited. It was told that Pitaji was gone
to meet his dying friend during that time .
Later, Tej and Toasty celebrate their first marriage
anniversary in style
When Toasty realizes that her best friend, Nitika, is in love with Ved,
Tej's second-older brother, she promises to get Nitika and Ved married.
She promises to get Nitika and Ved married. Though Ved is attracted to
Nitika, he is torn between her and his wish to become a priest. So,
Toasty brings in one of her friends,Damini, who is an aspiring actress.
Damini
[
plays the role of a pious woman in front of Ved, and tries her best to
win his heart. Then suddenly, when the family is having dinner, Dadaji
proposes that Damini should marry Ved. But Ved refuses, and when Tej
asks him the name of the woman he loves, he reveals his feelings for
Nitika
[He also gives up his
brahmachaari.
Now, everyone is happy for Ved and convince him to propose to Nitika
but before marriage can occur, Pitaji brings in Kia, his
recently-deceased friend's daughter, and reveals that he promised his
friend that Kia would to Ved. At the same time, Kia, a villainous brat
who smokes and drinks(once the familt gets to know that someone drinks
in the house, but is unaware that it is Kiya, and when they see a wine
bottle with Gyan-he mistakenly found it in his school bag, where it was
hidden by Kia, and think him to be a drunkard. So he's locked in a room
and forbade to have food, till he doesn't says the truth, but Toasty
and Maalti have full faith in him and they protest, which makes the
family to forgive Gyan), is hell-bent on marrying Ved, as that is the
only way she can access the money and property her father left her in
his will. On the night of Ved and Nitika's marriage, Kia interferes by
taking Nitika's place on the altar. In a final confrontation, Ved
ultimately decides to marry Kia, to fulfill his father's wishes.
Heartbroken, Nitika leaves as Ved and Kiya get married, much to the
disgust of all the Chaturvedi family except Pitaji
Toasty tries her best to reveal Kia's truth to her family after finding
out that not only does she smoke and drink, but has also been married
before to a man named Jai Malhotra (she got to know about Jai when she
went with Kiya and Ved in their honeymoon along with the family).
Their, Jai blackmails her and says that if she doesn't give him a sum
of
15 Lacs then he will expose her truth. Kiya runs away to sell her mangalsutra to get
5 Lacs while the Chaturvedi family mentions her as missing
[ She complains a false theft of her
mangalsutra but Toasty finds it in her bag when they return back but she is again unsuccessful to expose her truth. She later even steals
10
Lacs from the house and Toasty makes her video as an evidence and shows
it to Tej. After several efforts, Toasty is finally able to expose Kia
to the family with the help of Nitika and her mother. Caught
red-handed, Kia is thrown out of the house, and Jai says that she is of
no use to her and leaves
[
The episode ends with Ved asking the Mangalsutra back from Kia, as she
does not deserve that, while Pitaji apologizes to the family for
breaking up Nitika and Ved's
marriage.
With Kia no longer in the house, the family tries to rearrange the
marriage of Ved and Nitika, but Nitika's family is disapproving,
because of what happened last time, and plan to get Nitika married with
someone else as soon as possible. Thus, the Chaturvedi family gets to
know that and makes a plan to make Nitika to run away and get married
to Ved. This plan becomes successful and Nitika and Ved get finally
married. Though Nitika's family gets angry, they are forced to leave,
as there is nothing else left for them to do. Nitika and Ved begin
their happy married life together with the blessings of the Chaturvedi
family
[
After Nitika's marriage she wants to continue her job, but the rules
of the house forbids her to do so, but at last Pitaji agrees, when
Toasty calls her; as he is out of station.
While on the other hand, Maalti finds that she is pregnant and is
filled with joy and happiness. But the doctor informs the family that
there are complications in Maalti's
pregnancy.
And after the long struggle to make Kiya leave the house, Toasty is
back to take care of the house's kitchen and cook delicious dishes on
her own, so she is struggling a bit. Nitika wanted to help her but
Toasty did not want her to get delayed for her office, after the break
for her marriage. Toasty's mom, Sudha also visited to
Chaturvedi Nivas. She was adorable, she also came with boxes full of home made snacks and sweets, like
chiwra,
gathia
and so on, for Maalti. Her love and thoughtfulness for Maalti felt to
be very true and there was not any feeling of jealousy from her
daughter, Toasty.
After Sudha's visit, the Chaturvedis at last plan to call Cheddilal's saas (
mother-in-law),
Ganga Devi (instead of Sudha and Buaa (Shanti)), who was left out after
her daughter and Cheddilas's wife, Vimla's death . Ganga Devi is an
orthodox kind of person, who has great faith in Indian traditions and
other ritualistic things. She is very tough and blunt in her approach,
but is positive towards life. She is loving and caring, but at the same
time does not tolerate any indecency from anyone. She always tries to
empower people by her rules and regulations. But now Pitaji(Cheddilal)
is afraid to call her back. He gathers some courage and finally reaches
the village of Ganaga Devi along with Tej, there when they meet each
other she refuses them saying that she does not know them. Tej does his
best to convience her to bring her in their home in
Mumbai to look after Maalti. But she's very clear at her point that she will never ever keep her foot on that house.
[17The reason of Ganga Devi not to come to that house is that when Vimla
was pregnant (during the time Gyan was in her stomach), Ganga Devi said
that let her take care of Vimla like she had done in the times, when
she gave birth to Pashu, Tej, Ved and Pracheen but Cheddi admitted her
in the hospital, where Vimla died at time she gave birth to Gyan; this
is the first reason. Later, when Ganga Devi said that let her take
Pracheen and Gyan to the village and take care of them; as they were
the youngest, then Cheddi said that he would not let her sons to live
in a village and become a chuff or a clod; this was the second reason.
Since then Ganga Devi broke all relationships with the Chaturvedis as
she was hurt; later Cheddi tried a lot to apologise but she did not
forgive him. But at last after several tricks played by Tej, she agrees
to come to the
Chaturvedi Nivas in
Mumbai, thus Toasty's wish to have a
saas
in the house is fulfilled. But she is very ritualistic and an orthodox
kind of person who has great faith in superstitions. She is very tough
and blunt in her approach, but is positive towards life. She is loving
and caring, but at the same time does not tolerate any indecency from
anyone. She always tries to empower people by her rules and regulations.
When she comes to their
house she breaks down to tears as she sees the
family
after, nearly 15 years. As she has comes the family gives no chance for
her to complain, but she did observed and scolded Toasty as she was
wearing a black
saree-as black is an
unlucky colour- but later when she wears a red saree and comes, Ganga Devi forgives her and appreciates her for the delicious
supper,
they have made. While, the family go on saying good things about
Toasty, they even say that she has taken the place of Vimla; that makes
Ganga Devi to think. That night, the family members convience each
other that Ganga Devi is very strict but very loving and caring from
her heart and they all agree. But, next day Toasty's again caught as
Pracheen, wears
shoes and enters the
kitchen
and Toasty was ignorant about it, thus this again gives her a chance to
complain but she forgives her when Toasty promises that it won't happen
again, but later she asks her to recook the food and she and Nitika do
so. But, somewhere in her heart she has very close feelings for Toasty
and she takes her up as her deceased daughter, Vimla. As the day
passes, she teaches and tells the family her ways of doing work, to
re-establish the
Indian culture, she also plans a
puja to thank
God for the baby, where she tells to gift the
priest a gold idol of
Bal Gopala.
starMain cast
| Actor |
Character |
Details |
|
Chaturvedis
|
| Arvind Vaidya |
Anandilal Chaturvedi a.k.a. Dadaji |
Grand father of Tej and his brothers, and father of Cheddilal
Chaturvedi. He is very helpful and kind; he always supports Toasty. |
| Darshan Jariwala |
Cheddilal Anandilal Chaturvedi a.k.a. Pitaji |
Father of Tej and his brothers, son of Anandilal Chaturvedi and
father-in-law of Toasty, Maalti and Nitika. He loves his family a lot. |
| Ravi Dubey |
Tej Prakash Chatuvedi a.k.a. Tej |
Male protagonist and Cheddi's 3rd son; married to Toasty. A handsome and smart husband, in all a gentleman. |
| Aishwarya Sakhuja |
Tanya Tej Prakash Chaturvedi (née Sharma) a.k.a. Toasty and Choti Bahu |
Female protagonist; married to Tej. She is a kind-hearted woman who
loves to help others in their problems. She hates lies and liers. |
| Rajendra Chawla |
Pashupatinath Chaturvedi a.k.a. Pashu |
Eldest son of Cheddilal Chaturvedi; married to Maalti. He always
shows his elbow, when needed to beat or scold others. But he is very
sweet, loving. kind-hearted and helpful. |
| Rohini Banerjee |
Madhu Maalti Pashupatinath Chaturvedi (née Dubey) a.k.a Maalti and Badi Bahu. |
Pashu's wife. |
| Rishi Khurana |
Ved Prakash Chaturvedi a.k.a. Ved |
2nd son of Cheddilal Chaturvedi ; former husband of Kiya; presently
married to Nitika. He was earlier very religious and hated women. But
to marry Nitika he gave up his brahmacharya. |
| Shruti Bapna |
Nitika Ved Prakash Chaturvedi a.k.a. Nitika and Majhli Bahu (née Juneja) |
Toasty's friend; married to Ved Chaturvedi and Rajan's ex-fiance. |
| Sraman Jain |
Pracheen Prakash Chaturvedi a.k.a. Pracheen and Vanaspati |
4th son of Cheddilal Chaturvedi. He loves his plants a lot and cares them. He thinks them to be a part of his family. |
| Meghan Jadhav |
Gyan Prakash Chaturvedi a.k.a Gyan |
Youngest son of Cheddilal Chaturvedi. He used to feel sad as his
mother, Vimla died at the time she gave birth to him. But after Tej's
marriage he started to look upon Toasty as his mother. |
| Kavita Vaid |
Shanti a.k.a. Buaa |
Sister of Cheddilal Chaturvedi; who helped in reuniting Tej and
Toasty. To Pitaji she's very irritating, so he often reffers her as ashanti (opposite of peace). |
| Gopi Desai [ |
Ganga Devi |
Mother In-Law of Cheddilal Chaturvedi and mother of Cheddi's wife, Vimla (deceased). She is called Naani Maa by Toasty, Maalti and Nitika; Naani by Tej and his brothers; Saasu Maa by Pitaji ans Samdhan Ji by Dadaji. |
| (unknown) |
Vimla Cheddilal Chaturvedi a.k.a. Vimla |
(Deceased)-Cheddilal's wife, mother of Tej and his brothers and mother-in-law of Toasty, Maalti and Nitika. |
|
Sharmas
|
| Rajiv Kumar |
Lalit Kumar Sharma a.k.a. Lalit and Papa |
Toasty's father and Tej's father-in-law. |
| Anjali Mukhi |
Sudha Lalit Kumar Sharma a.k.a. Sudha and Mamma |
Toasty's mother and Tej's mother-in-law. |
| Ketaki Chitale |
Dimple Sharma a.k.a. Dimple |
Toasty's sister; Prachhen's supposed love interest. She's often called chipkali (lizard) by Pracheen. |
|
Other Important Characters
|
| Simple Kaul |
Smita Lumba a.k.a. Smita |
Toasty and Nitika's friend. |
| Amit Varma |
Jai Malhotra a.k.a. Jai |
Kia's former husband, he was married to Kiya and was actually her
husband, during Kiya got married to Ved, to get her deceased father's
property. |
| Rucha Gujarati |
Kiya Jai Malhotra/ Kiya Ved Chaturvedi a.k.a. Kiya[ |
Chedilal's deceased friend's daughter; former wife of Ved and Jai
(Antagonist). She's very cunning and she is also a lier, on whom we can
never ever believe. She is also a villainous brat who smokes and
drinks.
Note: Rucha Gujarati's character in Saas Bina Sasural earlier was supposed to be Rhea, which was later changed to Kiya.
|
| Anchal Sabarwal[ |
Damini |
Toasty's childhood friend, who earlier helped in bringing Ved and
Nitika together. She is an actress and it is a very comical character.
She is completely modern with shorts and jeans and is western
influenced. She greets Toasty in her own style, when they meet each
other. |
| Kiran Bhargava |
Shobha Devi |
Maalti's mother and Pashu's mother-in-law. Who earlier used to
manipulate Maalti and Toasty against the Chaturvedis but later she
found herself guilty and heart was melted seeing Pashu and Maalti's
love and care for each other and Toasty did not ever believe her. |
| (unknown) |
Rajan |
Nitika's ex-fiance, who disbelieved Nitika of having an affair with Ved and broke his marriage with Nitika. |
| Tanvi Thakkar[ |
Riya |
She was Pracheen's love interest. Pracheen left her as she cheated him and used to backchat about him to her friends. |
Time Slot Change
On January 30, 2012 Saas Bina Sasural was shifted to 9:00pm instead of 10:00pm. That same day
Balaji Telefilms serial
Kya Huaa Tera Vaada
started airing at 10:00pm. And since then the show airs from Monday to
Friday at 9:00pm instead of Monday to Thursday at 10:00pm
Union Budget 2012 - Highlights
