| Alt Name: | Badai Bungalow Badai Banglavu |
| Genre: | Talk show Comedy |
| Runtime: | 90 mins approx. |
| Presenter: | Mukesh Kalabhavan Navas Arya Praseetha |
| Creator: | In-House Productions |
| Starring: | Season 1: Ramesh Pisharody Mukesh Dharmajan Arya Manoj Guinness Praseetha Season 2: Mukesh Kalabhavan Navas Arya Rohit Praseetha Manoj Guinnes |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Malayalam |
| Camera: | Multi-camera |
| Network: | Asianet |
| Location: | Kakkanad, Kerala |
| Producer: | Diana Silvester |
| Num Seasons: | 2 |
| Num Episodes: | 235 |
| Related: | Comedy Nights with Kapil |
| Native Name: | ബഡായി ബംഗ്ലാവ് |
| Director: | Diana Silvester |
Badai Bungalow is an Indian Malayalam sketch comedy and celebrity talk show hosted by Ramesh Pisharody, Mithun Ramesh, and Kalabhavan Navas that launched on Asianet from 2013. It airs every Saturday and Sunday at 8:00 PM. The second season of the show aired on every Friday at 9:30 PM.
Each episode features celebrity guests who usually appear to promote their latest films in a comedy-focussed talk show format. Several stars from Malayalam film and television industry has participated in this show. This show is inspired by Comedy Nights with Kapil.
Mukesh is a permanent guest in the show playing the role of Badai Bungalow's owner.[1] Due to high viewership, the air time was changed to every Sunday at 8:30pm. It replaced the long-running comedy series Cinemala. The show ended on 3 June 2018.
The second season of the series premiered on 3 March 2019 on Asianet channel.
Ramesh Pisharody's absence from the program for around a month led to a decrease in the show's popularity. The alternative host, Rajesh, falls short as a replacement for Pisharody, especially in bringing liveliness and engaging guests with humour rather than showering praise and epitomising them as beyond human which fails to ground with the Malayali audience. His absence or speculated termination was met with highly negative feedback through social media.[2] [3] Though the main host of the show, Mukesh, said this was a temporary setback.
Rajesh, who was already popular as an anchor, later added a video featuring him with Mukesh, Pisharody, and Arya, clarifying this point. Later, Pisharody returned to the show, and the popularity increased again.
| Season 1 | Season 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Main cast | ||
| Mukesh as Badai Bungalow's owner | ||
| Ramesh Pisharody as Tenant at Badai Bungalow | Kalabhavan Navas as Tenant at Badai Bungalow | |
| Manoj Guinness as Neighbor/Regular visitor | ||
| Arya Rohit as Tenant's wife | Arya Rohit as Arya | |
| Dharmajan Bolgatty as Servant at Badai Bungalow | Apsara as Tenant's wife | |
| Praseetha Menon as Ammayi (Tenant's aunt) | ||
| Recurring cast | ||
| Veena Nair as Cheryammayi (Tenant's aunt) | Anu Joseph as Clara | |
| Harisree Martin as a Regular visitor | Jaffar Idukki as Regular visitor | |
| Nobi as Servant at Badai Bungalow | Ponnamma Babuas Regular visitor | |
| Devi Chandana as kunjammayi | Anju Aravind as Mukesh's wife | |
| Saritha.B.Nair as a Regular visitor | Sinoj Varghese as DJ Vicky, Ammayi's Husband | |
| Sethu Lakshmi as Regular visitor | ||
| Meera Muralidharan as Stella | ||
| Apsara as Daisy (tenants at upstairs) | ||
| Kishor as Vishnu Namboothiri (tenants at upstairs) | ||
| Mamukkoya as Hamzakkoya | ||
| Rajesh as Host (in absence of Pisharody) | Mithun Ramesh as Tenant at Badai Bungalow | |
| Lakshmi Priya as Ammayi (in the absence of Praseetha) | Lakshmi Menon as Tenant's wife | |
| Episode No. | Guest(s) | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shane Nigam, Soubin Shahir | Kumbalangi Nights promotion | |
| 1 | Rajesh Hebbar, Arun G Raghavan, Mrudula, Della, Pratheeksha, Dhanya Mary Varghese, Anoop, Anoop Sivasenan | For ammayi's wedding | |
| 2 | Nadirsha, Nikhila Vimal | Mera Naam Shaji promotion | |
| 3 | Kalidas Jayaram, Aishwarya Lekshmi | Argentina Fans Kaattoorkadavu promotion | |
| 4 | Sharreth, Resul Pookutty | ||
| 5 | Anusree, Shamna Kasim | Madhura Raja promotion | |
| 6 | Anna Rajan, Appani Sarath | ||
| 7 | Manju Warrier | ||
| 8 | Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Bibin George | Oru Yamandan Premakadha promotion | |
| 9 | Sheela | ||
| 10 | Rafi, Dhruvan, Sharaf U Dheen | Promotion of Children's park | |
| 11 | Darshana Das, Rini Raj, Pradeep Chandran | Promotion of Karuthamuthu | |
| 12 | Sabumon Abdusamad, Aristo Suresh, Ranjini Haridas, Archana Suseelan | ||
| 13 | Asha Sarath | promotion of Evidey | |
| 14 | Jayaraj Warrier, Unda pakru | ||
| 15 | P. Jayachandran, Sreekumaran Thampi | ||
| 16 | Indrans, Dharmajan Bolgatty | ||
| 17 | Naveen Nazim, Soubin Shahir | promotion of Ambili | |
| 18 | Samyuktha Menon, Sudheesh | promotion of Kalki | |
| 19 | Jayaram | Promotion of Pattabhiraman | |
| 20 | Baiju, Sheelu Abraham |