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Dhindora

Dhindora is a 2021 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama web series created, written, and headlined by Bhuvan Bam, who plays ten characters from his YouTube channel BB Ki Vines. Its eight weekly episodes follow a middle-class Delhi family whose life is upended when the father, Babloo, wins an ₹110 million (₹11 crore) lottery and then loses his memory of the win in an accident.¹^•²^•³ It was the first independent web series released by an Indian digital content creator on YouTube, and it became YouTube India's most-watched show of 2021 with more than 400 million views.⁴^•⁵

Key fact	Detail
Format	8-episode Hindi comedy-drama, roughly 18 minutes per episode, released weekly on the BB Ki Vines YouTube channel²^•⁶
Run	Episode 1, "Lag Gayi", aired 14 October 2021; the finale, "Samay Ka Pahiya", aired 2 December 2021⁷
Lead performance	Bhuvan Bam plays ten characters, including Bhuvan, Babloo, Jaanki, Titu Mama, Sameer Fuddi, and Detective Mangloo¹^•³
Key crew	Directed by Himank Gaur; written by Bhuvan Bam, Hussain Dalal, and Abbas Dalal; produced by Rohit Raj under BB Ki Vines Productions²
Viewership	Over 400 million views, YouTube India's most-watched show of 2021; the official season 2 announcement later cited half a billion views⁵^•⁸
Ratings	8.8/10 on IMDb⁹
Second season	Announced on Netflix's 2026 India slate; shooting began in Punjab with further schedules in New Delhi and Mumbai¹⁰

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Premise

The series revolves around Bhuvan, a college student, his mother Jaanki, and his father Babloo, all played by Bam. Their ordinary lives change when Babloo wins an ₹110 million (₹11 crore) lottery jackpot, then meets with an accident and develops retrograde amnesia, forgetting both the win and where the ticket is. As word of the fortune spreads, greedy relatives, local politicians, demanding bosses, and opportunistic neighbors converge on the family hoping to claim a share, while Bhuvan tries to protect his family and find the missing ticket.²^•³ Bam described it as the story of an "aam aadmi", an ordinary man, and how everyone connected to him responds when unusual incidents happen.¹¹

The title comes from the Hindi saying bagal mein chora, sheher mein dhindora, which Bam explained as meaning that something you are searching for is near you while you are busy chasing the world.⁴

Characters and cast

Bam plays ten roles drawn from the BB Ki Vines universe: Bhuvan, Babloo, Bancho, Jaanki, Sameer Fuddi, Titu, Detective Mangloo, Mr. Hola, Bubbly Sir, and Lakhan Chhatriwala. He prepared separately for each character and named Titu Mama his favorite to play and Jaanki the toughest to prepare for.⁹^•¹¹ The supporting cast includes Gayatri Bhardwaj as Dr. Tara, Jeeveshu Ahluwalia as a chef, Rajesh Tailang as the Paarshad, Ishtiyak Khan as the boss, Arun Kushwah as a telemarketing baba, Badri Chavan as a rickshaw driver, and Anup Soni in a cameo.²^•⁹

Production

A long development. Bam first conceptualized the show in 2017, initially as a film. After Sacred Games and the rise of OTT series in India, he decided to divide the movie into eight episodes. Only two or three people on his team knew about the project while he was developing it. When the concept was clear, he pitched it to Susan Wojcicki, then CEO of YouTube, at a party during the World Economic Forum in Davos; he recalled her response as, "I don't want to listen. We're making the show."¹¹^•¹²

The production marked a break from Bam's usual solo method of shooting videos alone in a room with a phone. For the first time he worked with a crew and outside vendors, who were puzzled watching him shoot scenes as one character, change, and return as another. The shoot ran 16 hours a day for 41 days, with heavy use of visual effects, and editing continued for about a year after filming.¹

Release and reception

Episodes dropped every Thursday at 2 PM on BB Ki Vines, beginning with "Lag Gayi" on 14 October 2021 and ending with "Samay Ka Pahiya" on 2 December 2021.⁷^•¹³ Within a month, the first five episodes had crossed 175 million views, and Bam said the series had introduced his work to viewers well outside his channel's usual 15 to 25 age group, including messages from viewers in their fifties.¹ The completed season drew over 400 million views and was named 2021's second-most watched series according to IMDb, while holding an 8.8 rating on that site.⁵^•⁹

The series carried three songs: the title track "Dhindora" sung by Kailash Kher, "Saazish" by Rekha Bhardwaj with Bhuvan Bam, and the "Didi Anthem" performed in character as Titu Mama; Bam worked hands-on on the edit, background music, and all three songs.²^•¹³

Second season

A second season was discussed as early as November 2021, when Bam said it was "definitely on the cards".⁴ In May 2025 he said he had put writing on hold, explaining that "comedy gets stale if it takes too long to be made".¹⁴ The season was later officially announced as part of Netflix's 2026 India slate, timed to the 11th anniversary of BB Ki Vines, with Bam returning to play 9 to 10 characters and new actors joining the cast; Sanjeeda Shaikh was cast in a major role.¹⁰^•¹⁵^•¹⁶ Shooting began in Punjab, with subsequent schedules planned across New Delhi and Mumbai, and the production is described as significantly larger in scale than the first season. Netflix's announcement describes the new chapter as a return to Bam's eccentric family, with Titu Mama dragging them into "a world of pride, panic, and poor planning".¹⁰^•¹⁶ Season 1 itself is set to make its streaming debut on Netflix on October 28, 2026, while the original episodes remain free on the BB Ki Vines YouTube channel.³

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Web-native and streaming-original series › Indian and South Asian web series › Premiered 2021 to 2025

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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