There's khichdi, the easy-to-digest ,bland dish for infants, old peeps and the ill. And then there's Khichdi, the comic television show that is something of a chatpata middle class theory put to life. This show provided us the much needed relief from the rona-dhona of soap-operas where team saas was always trying to mess up the lives of team bahu. Compared to these, the Khichdi parivaar was a bunch anyone would instantly fall in love with.

The naïve sari-changing, jewellery-changing Hansa endeared us all with her gullibility.

Praful's confident know-it-all type answers to his wife's questions, be it translations or meanings of words, were something to look forward to in every episode!