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{{Short description|Television series}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2017}}
{{Use Indian English|date=October 2017}}
{{Infobox television
| image = Hum Paanch.jpg
| caption =
| creator =
| director = {{ubl|Kapil Kapoor|[[Rajat Rawail]]|Sameer Kulkarni|Raju Parsekar|Rajan Waghdhare}}
| writer = Imtiaz Patel
| producer = {{ubl|[[Ekta Kapoor]]|[[Shobha Kapoor]]}}
| editor = {{ubl|Ajay Bhave|Vikas Sharma|Ranie Singh}}
| open_theme = "Hum Paanch"
| composer = {{ubl|Shreerang Aras|Lalit Sen}}
| country = [[India]]
| language = Hindi
| network = [[Zee TV]]
| first_aired = {{Start date|1995|03|01|df=yes}}
| last_aired = {{end date|2006}}
| runtime = Approximately 30 minutes
| num_seasons = 3
| num_episodes = 345
}}
'''''Hum Paanch''''' ({{Translation|''The Five of Us''}}) is an Indian [[sitcom]] that first aired from 1995 to 1999.<ref name='Hum Paanch first airdate'>{{Cite web|first=Surabhi|last=Khosla|date=July 19, 2001|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010719/main8.htm|work=The Tribune |location=Chandigarh |title=She is the queen of primetime}}</ref> The series returned for a second season in 2005<ref name='Hum Paanch to be back'>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiantnews.com/indian-tv-news/index.php?newsid=32|title=Hum Paanch to be back on Zee TV from November 5|website=IndianTNews.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060219214106/http://www.indiantnews.com/indian-tv-news/index.php?newsid=32 |archive-date=19 Feb 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and 2006.<ref name='Bhairavi Raichura, TV Actor on Hum Paanch going off air'>{{Cite web|first=Roshni|last=Olivera|date=Apr 5, 2006|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/bombay-times/Straight-Answers/articleshow/1479592.cms|title=Straight Answers |website=The Times of India}}</ref><ref name='Hum Paanch first airdate' /><ref name="IndianExpress-Farzeen-Where-2019" /> The show starred [[Ashok Saraf]], [[Vidya Balan]], [[Rakhee Tandon (actress)|Rakhee Tandon]], [[Bhairavi Raichura]], and [[Vandana Pathak]].

== Plot ==
Anand Mathur is in a [[white-collar job]] who always finds himself in trouble because of his five daughters — Meenakshi, Radhika, Sweety, Kajal, and Chhoti. The three elder daughters are by his first wife. The younger two are by his second wife Bina, whom he married upon becoming a widower.

Together, the five girls plan to do something new in every episode. Anand's first wife speaks to him through her portrait on the living room wall; Bina generally supports the daughters' ideas. The show was a runaway success, helping to establish [[Zee TV]].

When the show returned for a second season, Anand had returned from a long stay in the United States. Meenakshi was married to Purush whom she treats like a servant and shouts at. Radhika is married to Daljeet Singh whom her sisters call 'Pape'. He is a scientist and invents many things which get the girls into trouble. He is forgetful — he forgets people's names and basic things. Meenakshi's daughter is Damini, and Radhika's daughter is Gudiya.<ref name='Synopsis from Zee TV'>{{Cite web |url=http://www.zee-tv.com/Zee_Serial.aspx?zsid=57 |title= Hum Paanch - Ab Tadkah Maar Ke |access-date=28 March 2007 |website=Zee TV |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927063449/http://www.zee-tv.com/Zee_Serial.aspx?zsid=57 |archive-date=27 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Characters==
* Anand Mathur attended Kallubhai Lallubhai Koylawala Municipal School in his childhood and later on received his B.A. with excellent scores (first class). He works as a sales representative in a medicine factory. Anand Mathur married his second wife, Bina Mathur, on 17 January.
* Bina Mathur is from a village called [[Baliya]]. Her complete name is Binadevi Anandkumar Janardhan Prasad Mathur. When Anand Mathur went to Bina's house for her hand in marriage, his three elder daughters were with him. According to Bina, she married Anand because the three daughters hurt her ego and she wanted to exact revenge on them.<ref name="IndianExpress-Farzeen-Where-2019" /> Upon seeing her for the first time, Meenakshi compared Bina to a loudspeaker who would create sound pollution in their lives. Radhika saw Bina as an actress [[Mala Sinha]] portraying an illiterate woman in a movie. Sweety said that Bina would lose the title of Miss Uttar Pradesh, even if Bina was the only contestant. After marrying Anand, Bina fell in love with her stepdaughters and forgot her woes. Later, Bina reveals to her daughters that her first love was Abhi who left her to go work in a diamond mine in Africa which is another reason she married Anand.<ref name="IndianExpress-Farzeen-Where-2019" />
* Anand Mathur's first wife would communicate with him through her portrait. She took great effort to make her husband's life difficult, despite being a spirit herself. However, she always helped him establish peace and gave him the best advice.
* Meenakshi, the eldest daughter, is a feminist and often dream big of bringing a change in the society. Her husband Purush is a [[gharjamai]].<ref name="IndianExpress-Farzeen-Where-2019" />
* Radhika is intelligent, nerdy and geeky. She uses a hearing aid and has a habit of bumping into doors, walls, statues, people, etc. due to her poor vision.<ref name="IndianExpress-Farzeen-Where-2019" />
* Sweety is beauty without brains, whose sole purpose in life is to marry [[Shah Rukh Khan|Shahrukh Khan]] and become an actress or a model. She feels that it is only ''her'' duty to open the house door whenever the doorbell rings.<ref name="IndianExpress-Farzeen-Where-2019" /> Sweety has a disciple, Babli, who adores and worships her. Babli is Anand Mathur's boss, Popatlal's daughter. Sweety authored the novel ''Goddess of Big Things'' with the help of Babli.
* Kajal is a [[tomboy]] who dresses up as a boy and gets into fistfights with thugs and goons.<ref name="IndianExpress-Farzeen-Where-2019" />
* Chhoti, the youngest, is a gossip-monger. She is hailed as an incarnation of actress [[Meena Kumari]] by the people of [[Baliya]] and has a temple dedicated to her.<ref name="IndianExpress-Farzeen-Where-2019" />
* Pooja aunty is a nosy neighbour who responds with, "Aunty mat kaho na" ({{Translation|Don't call me aunty}}) on being referred to as 'aunty'.<ref name="IndianExpress-Farzeen-Where-2019" />

==Cast==
===Season one===
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* [[Ashok Saraf]] as Anand Mathur
* [[Priya Tendulkar]] as Anand's first wife
* [[Shoma Anand]] as Bina Mathur
* [[Vandana Pathak]] as Meenakshi Mathur
** Kavita Rathod as Meenakshi Mathur: Rathod replaced Pathak
** Ritu Deepak as Meenakshi Mathur: Deepak replaced Kavita Rathod
** Neelam Sagar as Meenakshi Mathur: Sagar replaced Ritu Deepak
* [[Amita Nangia]] as Radhika Mathur
** [[Vidya Balan]] as Radhika Mathur: Balan replaced [[Amita Nangia]]
** Sujata Sanghamitra as Radhika Mathur: Sanghamitra replaced Vidya Balan
* [[Rakhee Tandon (actress)|Rakhi Vijan]] as Sweety Mathur
* [[Bhairavi Raichura]] as Kajal Mathur aka Kajal Bhai
* Priyanka Mehra as Chhoti
** Aishwarya Duggal as Chhoti: Duggal replaced Priyanka Mehra
* Anna Khan as Chotti: Khan replaced Aishwarya Duggal
* Aruna Sangal as Pooja
*[[Sharad Sharma]] as Kadar Bhai
* [[Jatin Kanakia]] as Sunil
* Suchitra Bandekar as Babli
* [[Rajendra Nath]] / Jeetendra Bharadwaj as Popatlal, Aanand's boss
{{div col end}}

===Season Two===
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* [[Ashok Saraf]] as Anand Mathur
* [[Sudha Chandran]] as Ramola Anand's first wife
* [[Shoma Anand]] as Bina Mathur
* [[Vandana Pathak]] as Meenakshi Mathur (Gaura Suryanshi)
* Pamela Mukherjee as Radhika Mathur
* [[Rakhee Tandon (actress)|Rakhi Vijan]] as Sweety Tina Mathur Twins
* [[Bhairavi Raichura]] as Kajal Mathur aka Ragini Bhai
* [[Pushtiie Shakti]] as Chhoti
*[[Suchitra Bandekar]] as Babli
* Aruna Sangal as Pooja
* [[Sharad Sharma]] as Kadar Bhai
* Javed Pathan as Khaliya
* [[Ali Asgar (actor)|Ali Asghar]] as Purush, Meenakshi's husband
* [[Dheeraj Sarna]] as Daljeet Singh, Radhika's husband
* [[Naman Shaw]] as Aditya Adit Samoosa
{{div col end}}

==Production==
===Development===
The series was [[Balaji Telefilms]]' first, back when its office was in a garage.<ref name="IndianExpress-Farzeen-Where-2019" /> The show thus marked the debut of [[Ekta Kapoor]] as a producer, at the age of 16. She personally made sure that the actors did their rehearsals and improvisations.<ref name="Mirror-Choudhary-BetterTime-2020">{{Cite web|date=Apr 10, 2020|first=Sagarika|last=Choudhary|title=Rakhi Vijan: There could not have been a better time to bring back Hum Paanch|url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tv/rakhi-vijan-there-could-not-have-been-a-better-time-to-bring-back-hum-paanch/articleshow/75077217.cms|access-date=2021-03-26|website=Mumbai Mirror|language=en}}</ref> The script of the first season was written by Imtiaz Patel.<ref>{{Cite web|editor-first=Aakanksha|editor-last=Raghuvanshi|date=April 10, 2020|title=Hum Paanch Star Ashok Saraf "Didn't Even Know" The Show Is Being Rerun|url=https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/hum-paanch-star-ashok-saraf-didnt-even-know-the-show-is-being-rerun-2209349|access-date=2021-03-26|website=NDTV.com}}</ref> According to Ashok Saraf, who played the lead role of Anand Mathur in the series, "He has written the characters so well, people got hooked with each of them. Imtiaz's work was the height of improvisation. Imtiaz Patel was so talented that he could write one episode on a single line that he read in a newspaper."<ref name="Mirror-Chakravorty-Rerun-2020">{{Cite web|date=Apr 8, 2020|first=Trisha|last=Chakravorty|title=Hum Paanch to re-run amid lockdown, Ashok Saraf remembers the good old days|url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/entertainment/tv/hum-paanch-to-re-run-amid-lockdown-ashok-saraf-remembers-the-good-old-days/articleshow/75051535.cms|access-date=2021-03-26|website=Mumbai Mirror|language=en}}</ref> The show was mainly shot in Mumbai, with huge crowds assembling whenever there were scenes shot on the streets.<ref name="Mirror-Choudhary-BetterTime-2020" />

===Casting===
The series was the debut for many of the actors, including [[Vandana Pathak]], [[Vidya Balan]],<ref name="IndianExpress-Farzeen-Where-2019" /> and [[Rakhi Vijan]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-04-11|title=Are You Ready for 'Hum Paanch' to Be Back?|url=https://www.thequint.com/entertainment/celebrities/sitcom-hum-paanch-to-be-re-televised-on-zee-tv|access-date=2021-03-26|website=TheQuint|language=en}}</ref> The show was the first comedy role of [[Shoma Anand]].<ref name="Mirror-Chakravorty-Rerun-2020" />

==Release==
It was aired on [[Zee TV]] every Tuesdays 8pm, leading to its success as a series loved by the whole family. The first season ran from 1995 to 1999, while the second from 2005 to 2006.<ref name="IndianExpress-Farzeen-Where-2019">{{Cite web|first=Sana|last=Farzeen|date=2019-12-26|title=The actors of Hum Paanch: Where are they now?|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/television/hum-paanch-cast-then-and-now-5712218/|access-date=2021-03-26|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref>

==Reboot==
A reboot, ''Hum Paanch Phir Se'', aired on [[Big Magic]] from 19 June 2017 to 1 March 2018 with a new cast and produced by [[Essel Vision Productions]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/television/hum-paanch-is-returning-and-here-is-the-look-at-his-new-cast-see-photos-4713635/|title=Hum Paanch is returning and here's the look at his new cast, see photos|date=20 June 2017|work=The Indian Express}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|first=Sana|last=Farzeen|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/television/hum-paanch-phir-se-to-go-off-air-5067787/|title=Exclusive: Hum Paanch Phir Se to go off air|date=17 February 2018|work=The Indian Express}}</ref>

The cast includes:
* [[Sooraj Thapar]] as Anand Mathur
* Seema Pandey as Bina Mathur
* [[Vaishnavi Mahant]] as Priya
* [[Jayashree Venketaramanan]] as Kajal
* Ambalika Sapra as Radhika
* Sylvia Chadha as Sweety
* Ruchi Tripathi as Meeenakshi
* Rimmi Srivastava as Chhoti

==References==

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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0816382}}
* [https://www.zee5.com/tvshows/details/hum-paanch-adventures-of-the-five-mathur-sisters/0-6-250 Hum Paanch] Streaming on [[ZEE5]]

{{Balaji Telefilms}}

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[[Category:Indian television sitcoms]]

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ZitaKight7091 at 09:20, 13 April 2026