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Bakaiti

Bakaiti (बकैती) is a Hindi-language comedy-drama web series produced by Dice Media, the studio of Pocket Aces, and streaming as a ZEE5 original. Set in old Ghaziabad, it follows the middle-class Kataria family as financial strain, a rented-out room, and later a crowded household test their relationships.¹^•² Season 1 premiered on ZEE5 on August 1, 2025 with seven episodes, and Season 2 followed on September 25, 2026, also with seven episodes.²^•³

Key fact	Detail
Format	Hindi comedy-drama web series; two seasons of seven episodes each; U/A 13+ rating; episodes run roughly 20 to 27 minutes⁴^•⁵
Setting	Old Ghaziabad, in the Kataria family's ancestral home, Kataria Kutir¹^•⁶
Main cast	Rajesh Tailang as Sanjay Kataria, Sheeba Chaddha as Sushma, Tanya Sharma as Naina, Aaditya Shukla as Bharat⁵
Season 1	Premiered on ZEE5 on August 1, 2025; directed by Ameet Guptha²^•⁷
Season 2	Premiered on ZEE5 on September 25, 2026; directed by Samar Iqbal³
Languages	Audio in Hindi, Tamil, and Kannada; English subtitles⁵
Reception	IMDb weighted rating 6.9/10 from about 1,800 ratings; The Indian Express gave Season 1 two stars out of five⁸^•⁹

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Premise and story

Season 1 centers on a household pushed into a financial crunch. Sanjay, the head of the Kataria family, decides to rent a room in the ancestral home to cope, which costs his daughter Naina her own space and forces her to share a room with her younger brother Bharat, raising sibling tensions.⁴^•¹⁰ The family also faces pressure over the future of the ancestral property, which Sanjay's younger brother keeps pressing to sell.⁹ The parents navigate grief, debt, and daily household logistics while the two teenage children clash and connect.¹¹

The title refers to idle chatter or blabbering, and the series treats the family's constant bickering as a form of affection. ZEE5's promotional material described a household where "bickering, banter, and blowups are just another way of saying 'I love you.'"¹²

Season 2

Season 2 brings both branches of the Kataria family together under one roof at Kataria Kutir. Sanjay's brother Ajay (Parvinder Jit Singh) and his wife Alka (Poonam Jangra) arrive for a prolonged stay, and a plan to sell the ancestral home to a builder sparks a bitter fight.³^•⁶ Sanjay takes on a dodgy new client, Pushpendra Tyagi (Abhijeet Chavan), to pay the bills, while Sushma's tailoring business has taken off and Naina is studying in Mumbai.¹³ The season's seven episodes carry titles including "Lo Ho Gayi Bakaiti Shuru," "Sach ya Samjhauta," "Purane Zakhm," "Bunty ka Sach," and "Ghar Ek Mandir."⁵

Cast and crew

Rajesh Tailang and Sheeba Chaddha play the parents Sanjay and Sushma; the two actors had previously been paired in the streaming series Mirzapur and Bandish Bandits.⁵^•¹⁴ Tanya Sharma plays Naina and Aaditya Shukla plays Bharat, nicknamed Bunty.⁵^•¹⁵ The supporting cast includes Ramesh Rai as Nanaji, Poonam Jangra, Parvinder Jit Singh, Keshav Sadhna, Shashwat Chaturvedi, Devishi Madaan, and Ritwik Nambiar.⁷^•³

Ameet Guptha directed Season 1 and Samar Iqbal directed Season 2. Writers credited across the series include Sheetal Kapoor, Gaurav Madan, Gunjan Saxena, Neha Pawar, and Abhinav Vaidya, with Raju Gauli handling cinematography and Aditi Shrivastava producing.⁷^•³^•¹⁶

Reception

The Indian Express review of Season 1, by film critic Shubhra Gupta, gave two stars out of five, calling it a patchy drama with repetitive sibling exchanges but crediting Tailang and Chaddha with holding the show together and noting its stronger threads: a family of four (five counting Sushma's father) managing on one income, Naina's hopes for higher education, and the difficulty of parting with ancestral property.⁹ Season 2 reviews were warmer in tone: India Today described it as a warm family drama that widens the scale of the conflicts while keeping the middle-class emotional center,¹⁷ and Scroll found the second season softer and less shrill than the first, though it judged some arguments artificially generated and a prospective third season unearned.¹³ On IMDb the series holds a weighted rating of 6.9/10 from about 1,800 user ratings.⁸

Availability

Bakaiti streams on ZEE5, by subscription or free with ads, and is also offered through aggregators such as Airtel Xstream Play and Tata Play Binge.⁴^•¹⁸^•¹ ZEE5 carried the series globally, with the platform announcing it as a slice-of-life original ahead of the August 2025 premiere.¹²

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › South and Southeast Asian serials › South Asian web serials

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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