Wagle Ki Duniya – Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey Explained
Wagle Ki Duniya – Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey is an Indian sitcom that premiered on 8 February 2021 on Sony SAB. It is based on characters created by noted cartoonist, R. K. Laxman, especially the common man about the issues of the common middle-class Indian man and serves as a sequel to Wagle Ki Duniya which aired on Doordarshan. It stars Sumeet Raghavan, Pariva Pranati, Anjan Srivastav, Bharati Achrekar, Sheehan Kapahi and Chinmayee Salvi.[1]
Overview
The show is based around the daily struggles of a courier company manager, Rajesh Srinivas Wagle, who lives with the prudence of a middle-class person of the time. The show presents the everyday struggles of people from three generations and multiple families from their perspectives acting like members of a single family. They try to clear the struggles between everyone, acting like a whole. The show gives a social message in most of its episodes through humor and emotions.
Cast
Main
- Sumeet Raghavan as Rajesh "Raju"/"Raj" Wagle – A Chief Operating Officer of a courier service company P2P Max, Srinivas and Radhika's younger son, Manoj's younger brother, Vandana's husband; Sakhi and Atharva’s father. (2021–present)
- Pariva Pranati as Vandana "Vandu" Wagle (nee: Sinha)– Rajesh's wife, Sakhi and Atharva's mother. She is a self-employed woman and running Vandana Catering Services. (2021–present)
- Anjan Srivastav as Srinivas Wagle – Radhika's husband, Manoj and Rajesh's father, Sakhi and Atharva's grandfather. (2021–present).
- Bharati Achrekar as
- Radhika Wagle (nee: Gokhale) – Srinivas's wife, Manoj and Rajesh's mother, Sakhi and Atharva's grandmother. (2021–present)
- Ruby Gokhale – Radhika’s twin sister. (2022)
- Chinmayee Salvi as Sakhi Wagle – Rajesh and Vandana's daughter; Atharva's elder sister; Gungun and Vivaan's best friend. (2021–present)
- Sheehan Kapahi as Atharva Wagle – Rajesh and Vandana's son, Sakhi's younger brother; Vidyut's best friend. (2021–present)
Recurring
- Deepak Pareek as Honourable Secretary Advocate Dakshesh "Dakku" Joshipura – The stubborn secretary of Sai Darshan Heights Society, Yamini's husband, Kittu's adoptive father. (2021–present)
- Manasi Joshi as Dr. Yamini "Yam" Joshipura – Naivedya's sister, Dakshesh's wife, Kittu's adoptive mother. (2021–present).
- Amit Soni as Harshad Agrawal – One of the Wagle's neighbours, Rajesh's close friend, Jyoti's husband, Gungun and Vidyut's father. He is a rich but egoistic stock market trader. (2021–present)
- Bhakti Chauhan as Jyoti Agrawal (nee Gupta) – Yamini and Vandana's friend; Harshad's wife; Gungun and Vidyut's mother. (2021–present)
- Charmi Dhami as Gungun Agrawal – Jyoti and Harshad's daughter; Vidyut's elder sister, Sakhi's best friend, Shikhar's girlfriend, Mangesh's crush. (2021)
- Prapti Shukla replaced Dhami as Gungun. (2021-2023)
- Nandini Maurya replaced Shukla as Gungun. (2023-present)
- Hitanshu Nagia as Vidyut Agrawal – Jyoti and Harshad's son; Gungun's younger brother; Atharva's best friend. (2021–present)
- Mahi Soni as Kittu Joshipura – Dakshesh and Yamini's adopted daughter. (2022–present)
- Namit Shah as Vivaan Malhotra – Sakhi's best friend; Anvita's boyfriend. (2021–present).
- Suryakant Govale as Chandu Parab – A staff member in Rajesh's courier office who always helps him. (2021–present)
- Nayan Shukla as Ghanshyam Dasani – A staff member in Rajesh's courier office. He is lazy towards his office work and always eats food from everyone's tiffin. He is a selfish yet funny person who is jealous of Rajesh and tries to take credit for work done by others. (2021–present)
- Anju Jadhav as Kiara Tejwani – The CEO of the courier service P2P Glocal; Tejwani's daughter; Nick's love-interest. She pretends to be cold-hearted and strict but is sweet. She understands her employees' problems. After the BRS bank scam, she sold the company to Harish aka Harry Khatri, owner of the Glocal Packers company. (2021–present)
- Vinayak Ketkar as Manish Marfatia – Hotel manager of Treat Resort in Silvassa. He always says "I know I know", even when he does not know anything. He later resigns as the resort manager and joins P2P Max Courier Service company. (2021–present)
- Khushali Jariwala as Munmun Chatterjee – Catering manager at Treat Resort, and love-interest of Manish Marfatia. She gives the leftover food to poor people. She was often accused of theft by Dakshesh when his family was staying at the resort. (2021)
- Urmila Katkar as Asha Tipnis – Sai Darshan Heights Society's maid; Dilip's wife; Komal and Kavya's mother. She is fond of gossip and is trying to learn English. (2021–present)
- Satyavrat Mudgal as Ganpat Rao Tiwari – Sai Darshan Heights Society's watchman whom Dakshesh scolds often. (2021–present).
- Dhwani Hetal Parmar as Komal Tipnis – Asha and Dilip's daughter; Kavya's sister (2021-present)
- Amit Verma as Nikesh "Nick" Agarwal – Harshad's cousin; Kiara's love-interest. He lives in America and came to India for the proposal of an arranged marriage with Kiara Tejwani, Rajesh's colleague.(2022–present)
- Preeti Kochar as Mahadevi Tripathi – Vandana's aunt; Sakhi and Atharva's grandaunt. She and her husband brought up Vandana when she was orphaned. She is constantly telling Vandana to take up a job, so that she too can financially contribute to her family, and become the second bread-earner. (2022–present)
- Riya Soni as Anvita Jain – Vivaan's ex-girlfriend; Sakhi's college friend. She always wants to seek Vivaan's attention and is insecure about his friendship with Sakhi. She sometimes ill-influences Sakhi out of jealousy and finally broke up with Vivaan.(2021–present)
- Sushant Singh as Shikhar Patel – Sakhi's college friend; Gungun's boyfriend. (2021–present)
- Nabil Parkar as Soumil Ahuja – Sakhi and Gungun's college friend; Trupti's nephew. (2021–2022)
- Ambar Bedi as Maya Ahlawat – Vandana's college friend, Rajesh's rival and P2P Glocal Packers staff member. Earlier she was a journalist and unintentionally created a rift between Vandana and Radhika but later Rajesh and his friends taught her a lesson, after which she mended her ways. However, a few days later she was fired from her job and was also divorced, so she joined P2P Glocal Packers in order to avenge Rajesh as she blames him for her fate. After this, she always tries to get Rajesh and his colleagues in trouble. (2021–2022)
- Vikas Grover as Harish "Harry" Khatri – He was the owner of the courier service P2P Glocal, after merging Tejwani's company P2P Max Courier with his previous own company Glocal Packers. He left the company but joined a company 'Dream Throne Logistics' as the biggest competition for P2P Max. (2022-2024)
- Prabhackar Sinha as Arjun Swaroop – A hotel staff and junior to Mr. Marfatia at Treat Resort. (2021)
- Suhail Iqbal as Mr. Tejwani –Rajesh's previous boss and Kiara's father. He is the previous owner of P2P Max Courier company, but is now retired, and is a divorcee. The company is now run by his daughter Kiara.(2021).
- Nayana Apte Joshi as Kishori – Radhika's best friend.(2021–present).
- Tulika Patel as Trupti Ahuja – Harshad's ex-girlfriend; Soumil's aunt.(2021-2022).
- Akshay Sharma as Tushar Dalvi - Atharva classmate.(2023)
- Milky Srivastav as Khushi Tarachand – Atharva and Vidyut classmate.(2022–present)
- Vipul Deshpande as Manoj Wagle – Srinivas and Radhika's elder son; Rajesh's elder brother, Sakhi and Atharva's uncle, Vidya's husband, Mangesh's step father (2023–present)
- Sunkanya Surve as Vidya Wagle (nee : Kulkarni)- Kulkarni's daughter; Damodar's ex-wife, Mangesh's mother; Manoj's wife (2023–present)
- Zain Nabil as Karen - Sakhi's foreign exchange best friend from Germany (2023-present)
- Arya Mahajan as Mangesh Deshpande - Vidya and Damodar's son. He has crush on Gungun but Sakhi always comes between them because she thinks that he is not a good guy.(2023-present)
- Vansh Sayani as Kushal Joshi - Atharva's friend who aspires to become a chef. (2024)
Guest appearances
- Nimisha Vakharia as Rekha Gondhalekar – Radhika's old maid. She won a lottery of ₹50 million, and became immensely rich after leaving Radhika's place.(2021)
- Deven Bhojani as Balkrishna 'Anna' Gokhale from Bhakharwadi – Radhika and Ruby's elder brother who was on non-talking terms with Srinivas for 18 years. He was against the love marriage of Rajesh and Vandana. Srinivas broke his relationship with him. But later, Anna realises that Vandana is a perfect wife. He reties his bonds with Srinivas and thus, things get sorted.(2021)
- Manas Shah as Randeep Walia – Popular TV actor; Priya's brother. He came to Treat Resort for shooting. His sister, Dr. Priya Walia was a look-alike of Sakhi and died due to COVID-19. (2021)
- Amita Khopkar as Mrs. Walia – Priya and Randeep's mother.(2021)
- Ojas Rawal as Naivedya Mehta – Yamini's brother. He is the owner of Treat Resort, situated in Silvassa. He makes fun of Dakshesh and all the Sai Darshan Heights residents. He only cares about his sister. He teasingly calls Dakshesh as 'Mendakshesh'.(2021-2023)
- Kalpesh Chauhan as Gulaabdas Rawal – Co-owner of Treat Resort.(2021)
- Apurva Gore as Aashka – Nishant's wife. She and her fiancé, Nishant got married at Treat Resort amidst lockdown restrictions.(2021)
- Vivek Kaul as Nishant – Aashka's husband. He and his fiancée, Aashka got married at Treat Resort amidst lockdown restrictions.(2021)
- Bakhtiyaar Irani as Jamie Paul – A professional photographer who molests Sakhi in the name of making her a famous model. (2023)
- Abhishek Awasthi as Ravi "Rinku" Sinha – Vandana's cousin; Raghu's father. He is a farmer and is irritated by Atharva for the same. However, Atharva reconciles with him learning his past. Later, He is revealed to be a reputed agricultural scientist. (2022)
- Madhura Joshi as Archana Wagle Chinoy – Prabhakar's daughter; Rajesh's cousin; Vivek's wife. She is Rajesh's cousin from Nashik who came to Mumbai to get married after her mother-in-law's illness. Later with Sakhi's help, she and Vivek tried to flee from the wedding to get married after knowing about the true shades of her greedy father-in-law who secretly pressurizes her father for dowry. (2022)
- Rahul Krishna Arora as Vivek Chinoy – Janardhan and Sukanya's son; Archana's husband. (2022)
- Arvind Wahi as Janardhan Chinoy – Sukanya's husband; Vivek's father. He is a greedy person who secretly pressurized Prabhakar for dowry and have Archana and Vivek's marriage in Mumbai. (2022)
- Chaitali Jadhav as Sukanya Chinoy – Janardhan's wife; Vivek's mother. She stood up against her husband and helped Archana and Vivek. (2022)
- Ajji as Kalyani Mausi – She is Rajesh's distant aunt from Radhika's village, who is very conventional in her thinking and always taunts innovative thinking when she visits Sai Darshan Heights society.(2021-2022)
- Vinay Yedekar as Ashwin Chitre – Rajesh's best friend who established a business in Dubai and hadn't talked to him for years.(2021)
- Simran Khanna as Monica Palekar / Sukanya Palekar – Sudhir's daughter; Rajesh's childhood friend. She was a fat girl and was inspired to loss weight after Rajesh once taunted her in his childhood.(2021)
- Utpal Dashora as Suryakant Bhosle – Rajesh's friend who followed his passion and became a famous painter. Now settled in France.(2022)
- Payal Sharma as Niyati – Director of Dishwasher's ad, for which she selected Radhika and Vandana.(2021)
- Karan Grover as Arnav Sachdev – He starred with Vandana and Radhika in an advertisement.(2021)
- Devendra Mishra as Inspector M. Tripathi.
- Aditi Sanwal as Dr. Prabha Shah – Gungun's doctor. She is a widowed mother of a six-year-old boy as she lost her husband due to COVID-19. She attempts suicide due to death threats on social media following a post by Harshad Agrawal owing to a misunderstanding.(2022)
- Adaa Khan as Sakhi Warge: Sakhi's friend and dancer teacher. (2023)
- Neha Dandale as ACP/DCP Tejaswi Deshpande (2023)
- Dimple Kava as Alka Di, Psychiatrist (2024)
- Karan Sharma as Pulkit Sharma: Riya's ex-husband turned friend (2023)
- Tasneem Ali as Justice Nirmala Sharma (2024)
- Rakhi Sawant as Begum Chorni
- Ketan Singh as Badshah Chor
- Tunisha Sharma as Inspector Aditi Jammwal from Hero – Gayab Mode On
- Gulki Joshi as Inspector Haseena Malik from Maddam Sir. She appeared in episode 291 to explain the importance of safety of girls in the society.
- Simple Kaul as Koyal Roy – Cadet of Parakram SAF from Ziddi Dil Maane Na.
- Nirbhay Thakur as Nikhil Roy – Koyal's son from Ziddi Dil Maane Na.
- Karan Veer Mehra as Abhay – Koyal's husband from Ziddi Dil Maane Na.
- Shaleen Malhotra as Special Agent Karan Shergill from Ziddi Dil Maane Na.
- Kaveri Priyam as Dr. Monami Mahajan – Cadet of Parakram SAF and Koyal's friend from Ziddi Dil Maane Na.
- Karuna Pandey as Pushpa Patel from Pushpa Impossible.
- Amit Pachori as Rajesh's childhood friend
- Faisal Khan as Abhay Bansal: Sakhi's stalker. (2024)
Production
The show is produced by Jamnadas Majethia and Aatish Kapadia of Hats Off Productions. The show was first teased featuring Sumeet Raghavan on Sony SAB's official YouTube channel on 5 December 2020.[2] The show has been given a special COVID-19 touch.[3]
The shooting of the show was halted in April 2021 after eight people reportedly tested positive for COVID-19. Fresh episodes started airing on 26 April, with episodes being shot in Silvassa. Towards the end of June, shooting restarted in Mumbai.[4]
In August 2021, Deven Bhojani was cast, reprising his role of Anna from Sony SAB's show Bhakarwadi.[5]
Crossover
The Big Shanivaar is crossover of all Sony SAB's on-going shows (except Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah) on 9 October 2021 to promote Sony SAB telecasting their shows on Saturday also.
The Big Shanivaar is crossover of all Sony SAB's on-going shows (except Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah) on 20 November 2021 on the occasion of Diwali in Parakram SAF and to help its Cadet Koel Roy in escaping from her husband.
Shaam Shaandar is the New Year special, a one-hour special episode on 31 December 2021 along with Ziddi Dil Maane Na and Maddam Sir.
Two crossover with Pushpa Impossible from 12 September 2022 to 13 September 2022 and on 1 July 2023.[6]
Awards and nominations
Notes and References
- Web site: 2021-02-08. Wagle Ki Duniya – Nayi Peedhi, Naye Kissey: Everything we know about Sony SAB show. 2021-02-16. The Indian Express. en. 14 February 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210214122527/https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/television/everything-we-know-about-wagle-ki-duniya-nayi-peedhi-naye-kissey-7170034/. live.
- Web site: Sumeet Raghavan to be seen in the classic comedy show Wagle Ki Duniya - Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey - Times of India. 2021-02-18. The Times of India. en. 13 December 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201213053121/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/sumeet-raghavan-to-be-seen-in-the-classic-comedy-show-wagle-ki-duniya-nayi-peedhi-naye-kissey/articleshow/79578826.cms. live.
- Web site: 2020-12-05. Wagle ki Duniya to return in new avatar with Sumeet Raghavan. 2021-02-18. The Indian Express. en. 18 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210118134545/https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/television/wagle-ki-duniya-to-return-in-new-avatar-with-sumeet-raghavan-7092822/. live.
- News: Sumeet Raghavan on Wagle Ki Duniya Shoot shifting from Silvasa to Mumbai. Sukarna. Mondal. 14 June 2021. 28 June 2022. 29 June 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220629015906/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/exclusive-sumeet-raghavan-on-wagle-ki-duniya-shoot-shifting-back-from-silvassa-to-mumbai/articleshow/83484247.cms. live.
- Web site: Deven Bhojani to enter Wagle Ki Duniya Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey. India Today. 5 July 2023. 5 July 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230705124052/https://www.indiatoday.in/television/video/deven-bhojani-to-enter-wagle-ki-duniya-nayi-peedhi-naye-kissey-1843422-2021-08-20. live.
- Web site: Pushpa Impossible and Wagle ki Duniya mahasangam on the special occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. 8 September 2022. The Economic Times - The Times of India. 19 July 2023. 25 June 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230625081714/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/pushpa-impossible-and-wagle-ki-duniya-mahasangam-on-the-special-occasion-of-ganesh-chaturthi/articleshow/94071335.cms. live.
- Web site: ITA Awards 2022 Complete Winners' List. March 2022. 7 March 2022. 7 March 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220307103809/https://www.india.com/entertainment/ita-awards-2022-complete-winners-list-nakuul-mehta-rupali-ganguly-win-best-actor-and-actress-5272742/. live.
- Web site: ITA Awards 2022 Nominees. March 2022. 11 March 2022. 10 November 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211110094223/http://www.theita2021.com/. live.
- Web site: Entertainment. 4 July 2023. 14 December 2022. 7 December 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221207134621/https://en.janbharattimes.com/entertainment/. live.
- Web site: 22nd ITA Awards 2022 Winners List: Best Awards, Full Show, Telecast Date, Timings, Channel. www.tellybest.com.
- Web site: Indian Telly Awards 2023 FULL Winners List: Anupamaa's Rupali Ganguly & Gaurav Khanna Win BIG. 1 May 2023. 1 May 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230501115922/https://www.filmibeat.com/television/news/2023/indian-telly-awards-2023-full-winners-list-anupamaa-rupali-ganguly-gaurav-khanna-ita-awards-winners-351485.html. live.
- Web site: Indian Telly Awards 2023 Winners: Anupamaa’s Rupali Ganguly-Gaurav Khanna Bag Best Onscreen Couple, Shaheer Sheikh Wins TV Personality of the Year Award; See Full List | LatestLY. 26 April 2023. LatestLY. 1 May 2023. 30 April 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230430063326/https://www.latestly.com/socially/entertainment/tv/indian-telly-awards-2023-winners-anupamaas-rupali-ganguly-gaurav-khanna-bag-best-onscreen-couple-shaheer-sheikh-wins-tv-personality-of-the-year-award-see-full-list-5084131.html. live.
