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Saas Bahu Achaar Pvt. Ltd.

Saas Bahu Achaar Pvt. Ltd. is a 2022 Hindi-language drama web series about Suman, a separated housewife who builds a homemade pickle (achaar) business to gain financial independence and win back custody of her children from her ex-husband, Dilip, with the support of her former mother-in-law.¹ It premiered on ZEE5 on 8 July 2022 as a six-episode series produced with The Viral Fever (TVF).²

Key fact	Detail
Premiere	8 July 2022, all six episodes released at once on ZEE5¹
Format	Hindi drama, one season of six episodes, roughly 25 to 42 minutes each³
Creators	Created by Arunabh Kumar and Apoorv Singh Karki; directed by Karki; written by Abhishek Srivastava and Swarnadeep Biswas²
Lead cast	Amruta Subhash as Suman, Yamini Das as Daadi, Anup Soni as Dilip, Anjana Sukhani as Manisha, Anandeshwar Dwivedi as Shukla Ji⁴
Setting	The historic lanes of Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi²
Reception	IMDb rating of 8.2 from about 1.4k votes; age rating UA13+⁴
Availability	Streaming on ZEE5 and VI movies and tv, including free with ads on both⁴

Spoilers

Premise and story

Suman, played by Amruta Subhash, is a middle-aged woman from a small town who starts selling homemade achaar to become financially independent and reclaim her children from Dilip, played by Anup Soni.⁵ Her former mother-in-law, Daadi (Yamini Das), supports the venture, an unusual pairing for a story whose title plays on the saas-bahu (mother-in-law and daughter-in-law) formula of Indian television.¹

The six episodes trace the business from its first missteps to a resolution. In "Hisaab Kitaab," Suman trusts her neighbor Shukla Ji with sales and marketing and discovers his dishonesty.¹ In "Shani Rekha" she sells pickle bottles on a bus with Daadi's help until the police catch her selling without authorization.¹ Later episodes take her through branding and packaging advice from a woman named Manju, a door-to-door and restaurant push for advance orders that goes wrong, and a finale, "Wonder Achaar," in which an impulsive action brings her unexpected success and she arrives at Dilip's house to take her children.¹

Cast and characters

The credited cast pairs the entrepreneurial household on both sides of the custody dispute:⁴

Amruta Subhash as Suman, the pickle entrepreneur
Yamini Das as Daadi, Suman's former mother-in-law and ally
Anup Soni as Dilip Shrivastava, Suman's ex-husband
Anjana Sukhani as Manisha
Anandeshwar Dwivedi as Shukla Ji, the neighbor who handles early sales
Manu Bisht as Juhi, Nikhil Chawla as Rishu, and Shreyansh Kaurav as Vivaan, the children

Production

ZEE5 Global and TVF announced the series as their first original together on Women's Day 2022 and released the trailer in early July.² Apoorv Singh Karki directed; the writing credits include Abhishek Srivastava and Swarnadeep Biswas, with Gadgets 360 also listing Swarndeep Biswas, Akansh Gaur, Arunabh Kumar, and Karki among the writers.²^•⁶ Arjun Kukreti handled cinematography, Nilotpal Bora composed the music, and Vijay Koshy and Shreyansh Pandey produced.⁶

Lead performance. Amruta Subhash, a National Award-winning actor known for Marathi and Hindi work, prepared for the role by visiting the assistant director's aunt's home to learn how achaar is actually made.²^•⁷ She said she built the Purani Dilli accent by roaming the markets and observing people's body language and mannerisms, adjusting for the Marathi tone in her own Hindi.⁷^•⁸

Reception and availability

The series holds an 8.2 rating on IMDb from roughly 1.4 thousand votes, and JustWatch lists its genres as drama, kids and family, and Bollywood, with a typical runtime of about 35 minutes.⁴ A Social Ketchup review described it as a TVF product that departs from the studio's usual style, calling it a long dramatic musical with a strong premise but a flawed treatment.⁹

The series streams on ZEE5 and VI movies and tv, free with ads on both platforms, and is also reachable through aggregators such as Airtel Xstream Play and Tata Play Binge that carry ZEE5 content.⁴^•¹⁰

References

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