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Vitthal Teedi

Vitthal Teedi (વિઠ્ઠલ તિડી) is a 2021 Gujarati-language drama web series directed by Abhishek Jain, adapted from a short story of the same title by the Gujarati writer Mukesh Sojitra, and starring Pratik Gandhi as Vitthal Tripathi, a village card player who becomes an unbeatable gambler¹. Its first season, titled Chapter 1, premiered on May 7, 2021 on OHO Gujarati, a Gujarati streaming platform, and consists of six episodes¹. It was Gandhi's first web series after the Hindi-language success Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story².

Key fact	Detail
Format	Gujarati drama web series, six episodes, first season titled Chapter 1¹
Premiere	May 7, 2021, on OHO Gujarati; later streamed on ZEE5 Global¹
Source	Adapted from Mukesh Sojitra's short story "Vitthal Teedi"¹
Director and writer	Directed by Abhishek Jain; written by Bhargav Purohit²
Lead cast	Pratik Gandhi as Vitthal Tripathi, with Ragi Jani, Prashant Barot, Prem Gadhvi, Brinda Trivedi, Jagjeetsinh Vadher, and Shraddha Dangar²
Setting	A small village in Gujarat in the 1980s¹
IMDb rating	9.0/10 from about 2,900 user votes³

Spoilers

Plot

The series follows Vitthal Tripathi, a boy of humble origins in a small Gujarat village in the 1980s. His mother dies of illness when he is young, and he is raised by his father Tribhuvandas, a respected temple priest, together with his older sister Vandana¹. A childhood introduction to card games earns him the nickname "Vitthal Teedi," a reference to the card with the number three; one account attributes the nickname to a mispronunciation incident at school, where the number three is called teedi in Gujarati¹. After leaving school, he gambles with his peers and gradually becomes an unbeatable player, using his winnings to support his family¹.

The season traces his family obligations and moral conflicts: he funds his sister's wedding through gambling in a larger village, helps a rival named Kanu Datti during a police raid, returns money won from a desperate elderly man, and briefly gives up gambling to run a shop near the Shiva temple before returning to the card table¹. After his father's death he stays in the village, and his card skills eventually draw him into a high-stakes game in the big city, where his fate turns against him¹. The season ends with Vitthal narrating his life's journey and hinting at a continuation¹.

Production

Abhishek Jain, the Gujarati filmmaker behind Kevi Rite Jaish (2012), Bey Yaar (2014), and the National Film Award-winning Wrong Side Raju (2016), directed the series; Bhargav Purohit wrote the screenplay and dialogue⁴^•⁵. It was filmed in January 2021, after the success of Scam 1992, and produced by Nayan Jain, Abhishek Jain, Amit Desai, and Suryadeep Basiya through CineMan Productions⁴^•⁵. Tapan Vyas was the director of photography, Kedar and Bhargav composed the music and background score, and Hiren Chitroda edited⁵.

The series was the first Oho Original of OHO Gujarati, a premium Gujarati streaming platform launched in May 2021 and jointly owned by CineMan Productions and Khushi Advertising⁶. Jain had previously worked with Pratik Gandhi on Bey Yaar and Wrong Side Raju⁴.

Casting and performance

Pratik Gandhi plays the adult Vitthal, and Vishal Thakkar plays the young Vitthal⁷. The supporting cast includes Ragi Jani as Tribhuvandas Tripathi, Prashant Barot as Dasha Bapu, Prem Gadhvi as Kanu Datti, Brinda Trivedi as Vandana Tripathi, and Jagjeetsinh Vadher, with Shraddha Dangar in a special appearance as a potential love interest¹^•⁵^•⁸.

In a 2021 interview, Gandhi said he chose the series for its script and the complexity of the character, and out of attachment to Gujarati cinema and his mother tongue, despite people advising him against a Gujarati serial after Scam 1992 became an international hit. He described his motivation as creating a character completely different from Harshad Mehta, even though both are gamblers⁹.

Style and reception

The series is stylized as a 1980s drama, a choice Jain described in an interview, reflected in its credits, music, and dialogue, including nods to Amitabh Bachchan's action films of the era⁸. The Republic World review praised the title theme by Kedar and Bhargav, the use of authentic Kathiyawadi dialect, and the performances, rating the series 4 out of 5⁸. On IMDb the series holds a rating of 9.0/10 from about 2,900 votes, with individual first-season episodes rated between 9.2 and 9.6³^•¹⁰.

Distribution

After its OHO Gujarati premiere, the series became available on ZEE5 Global¹. In April 2026 it began streaming on ShemarooMe from April 10, which Bilkul Online described as reaching a wider platform for a series that had built an audience beyond Gujarati viewers; the same report called it Gandhi's first and only Gujarati web series to date¹¹. The musical score features Gujarati singers Aditya Gadhvi, Jigardan Gadhavi, and Geeta Rabari¹¹.

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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