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Home Shanti

Home Shanti is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language family comedy-drama web series written and directed by Akanksha Dua, following a middle-class Dehradun family's chaotic attempt to build its first owned house before the mother's retirement forces them out of government housing.¹ It premiered on Disney+ Hotstar in May 2022 and consists of one season of six episodes.²^•³

Key fact	Detail
Format	Hindi-language scripted comedy-drama web series, 1 season, 6 episodes, default runtime about 25 minutes (individual episodes run roughly 28 to 33 minutes)³^•⁴
Premiere	May 2022 on Disney+ Hotstar; sources list the date as May 5 or May 6, 2022²^•⁵
Lead cast	Supriya Pathak as Sarla Joshi, Manoj Pahwa as Umesh Joshi, Chakori Dwivedi as Jigyasa, Poojan Chhabra as Naman, Happy Ranajit as contractor Pappu Pathak⁶
Setting	Dehradun, where the Joshi family has lived in government-allocated quarters for 25 years⁷
Production	Posham Pa Pictures; producers Saurabh Khanna, Amit Golani, and Biswapati Sarkar⁸
Languages	Hindi original, dubbed in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, and Bengali⁷
Reception	IMDb 8.0 from about 1,400 user votes; JustWatch user rating 24%⁶

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Premise and characters

The series centers on the Joshis, a family of four in Dehradun. Sarla Joshi (Supriya Pathak) is an English teacher and vice-principal at a government school who is nearing retirement; her husband Umesh (Manoj Pahwa) is a cricket-loving Hindi poet and newspaper columnist, and the household is completed by their two teenage children, Jigyasa (Chakori Dwivedi) and Naman (Poojan Chhabra).⁷^•⁹ Because Sarla's retirement means giving up the family's officially assigned quarters, the Joshis have a fixed window to build a house of their own on a plot they own on the edge of the city.¹⁰

Each family member brings a different demand to the floor plan: Naman wants a home gym, Jigyasa wants a bathroom to herself, and the parents want a dedicated study so they no longer have to use the dining table for poetry and exam papers.¹¹ The six episodes follow one stage of the project each, from the bhoomi pujan (groundbreaking ritual) and drawing up the floor plan through laying the foundation, seeking government permissions, and hiring an interior designer.¹¹ Complications include complicated documentation, shortages of money, untrustworthy contractors, and disputes within the family.⁸ The episode titles track this arc: "Joshis ka Bhoomi Pujan", "Ghar ka Naksha", "Deewaron ki Tarai", "Ghar ka Lanter", "Budget ke Bahar Wale Interiors", and "Happy Annisary".¹²

Production

The series was written and directed by Akanksha Dua, with story and screenplay credits shared by Nidhi Bisht, Saurabh Khanna, Akshay Asthana, and Dua; Mayank Pandey and Nikhil Sachan wrote the dialogues.⁸^•² It was produced by Posham Pa Pictures.⁸ Actor Manoj Pahwa described the script as a relief from the crime and underworld stories then dominating Indian streaming platforms, calling it a family-oriented series with comedy and emotion around middle-class aspirations.⁹ Home First Finance Company collaborated with the show on Disney+ Hotstar, comparing its subject to the home-building journeys of its own customers.¹³

Reception

Critical response was mixed but generally warm toward the performances. Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave the series two and a half stars out of five, writing that the performances by Manoj Pahwa and Supriya Pathak were first-rate and the struggles of a small-town family building a dwelling were real and relatable, while faulting a soap-opera aesthetic and writing that struggled to sustain genuine humor; he compared its tone to the mid-1980s sitcom Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi.¹¹ Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express called it "Gullak lite", a relatable and mildly amusing family piece, noting the shared episodic warmth between the Joshis and the family of the series Gullak.¹⁴ Udita Jhunjhunwala, reviewing for Scroll, described the tone as light, optimistic, and heart-warming, and praised Pahwa and Pathak as endearing and natural as a couple of more than 30 years.¹⁰ Audience ratings diverge sharply by platform: IMDb users give the series 8.0 out of 10 from about 1,400 votes, while the JustWatch user rating is 24%.⁶

Availability

The series streams on JioHotstar in India, including free with ads, and on VI movies and tv; it is also carried on STARZPLAY in India and Egypt.¹²^•⁶ JustWatch reported the title as unavailable for streaming in the United States after checking 1,606 services.⁶ In India it is additionally accessible through Airtel Xstream Play via JioHotstar, and on Tata Play Binge.¹⁵^•⁴ TVmaze lists the show's status as "To Be Determined", while the TV-calendar service tvcal lists it as ended with no upcoming episode scheduled; the NDTV review noted that the first season ends on a note suggesting another season might follow.³^•¹⁶^•¹¹

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 › Hindi serials and Indian Hindi-language dramas › Comedy serials and sitcoms

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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