Wagle Ki Duniya

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Wagle Ki Duniya
Wagle Ki Duniya - Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey

Wagle Ki Duniya (transl. Wagle's World) is an Indian

Anjan Srivastav as a bumbling sales clerk in a multinational and Bharati Achrekar as his wife.[1][2]

Overview

The series was set around the everyday struggles, of the nervous sales clerk, Srinivas Wagle, who lived with the prudence of a middle-class person of the time.[3]

Cast

  • Anjan Srivastav as Srinivas Wagle-A sales clerk, Radhika's husband, Manoj and Rajesh's father[4]
  • Bharati Achrekar as Radhika Wagle-Srinivas's wife, Manoj and Rajesh's mother[5]
  • Dushyant Nagpal as Rajesh Wagle aka Raju-Srinivas and Radhika's younger son, Manoj's younger brother
  • Harish Magon as Bhalla
  • Virendra Saxena
    as Gadkari
  • Narendra Gupta as Inspector Tyagi
  • Shah Rukh Khan
  • Arpit Singhai as Priyanka Singhai Husband
  • Deepak Qazir Kejriwal as Verma, Licence officer
  • Achyut Potdar as Licence officer
  • Harish Patel
  • Mushtaq Khan as Manohar
  • Nandita Thakur
  • Sankalp Dubey

Production

The weekly series was conceived by R.K. Laxman, and he himself narrated the script.[6] It was based on RK Laxman character about quintessential common man.[7]

The original run was supposed to be of six episodes, but seeing the response, it ran up to 13 episodes.

cult status,[9] and made Anjan Srivastav a household name. Film actor, Shahrukh Khan made a guest appearance in the series before he did Fauji (1988).[10][11][12]

Sequel

A sequel series Wagle Ki Nayi Duniya (transl. Wagle's New World) aired on

In 2012, the character Wagle was brought back with new series by same team,

Wagle Ki Duniya – Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey (Wagle's World - New Generation, New Stories), a sequel series started airing on Sony SAB from 8 February 2021.[15]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Aanjjan Srivastav returns with new version of Wagle Ki Duniya". NDTV MOvies. 23 November 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  2. ^ "Time for adaptations". The Times of India. 1 December 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
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  4. ^ "Anjan breaks his own record". The Times of India. 15 April 2010. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  5. ^ Keshri, Shweta (29 January 2021). "Bharati Achrekar remembers RK Laxman's mesmerising narration for Wagle Ki Duniya". India Today.
  6. ^ "R K Laxman cartoons now on your TV sets". The Times of India. 29 November 2011. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  7. ^ Chaya Unnikrishnan (16 October 2009). "The Long Run". Screen. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  8. ^ a b "Trapped in Wagle's mould". Indian Express. 9 November 1999. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  9. ^ "TV remade to order!". The Times of India. 11 August 2010. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. ..cult shows like Hum Log and Wagle Ki Duniya ..
  10. ^ "The King and the Khan". The Hindu. 25 August 2007. Archived from the original on 18 May 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  11. ^ Chitrapu Uday Bhaskar (6 October 2009). "Visual extravaganza". The Hindu. Retrieved 16 May 2013.
  12. ^ "I met SRK before he became a star". Rediff.com movies.
  13. ^ "Tribuneindia... Film and tv". www.tribuneindia.com.
  14. ^ "Aanjjan Srivastav is happy with co-star Sulbha Arya". The Times of India. 2 January 2013. Archived from the original on 9 November 2013.
  15. ^ "Sumeet Raghavan to be seen in the classic comedy show Wagle Ki Duniya - Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 9 February 2021.

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