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{{short description|Indian Gujarati-language Drama Series}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}{{Use Indian English|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox television
| name = Vitthal Teedi
| native_name = વિઠ્ઠલ તીડી
| picture_format =
| image = Vitthal Teedi.jpeg
| runtime = 24–33 minutes
| director = [[Abhishek Jain]]
| starring = {{ubl|[[Pratik Gandhi]]
| Ragi Jani
| Prashant Barot
| Prem Gadhvi
| Brinda Trivedi
| Jagjeetsinh Vadher
}}
| writer = Bhargav Purohit
| country = India
| language = Gujarati
| cinematography = Tapan Vyas
| editor = Hiren Chitroda
| last_aired =
| released = {{start date|2021|5|7|df=y}}
| company = [[CineMan Productions]]
| distributor = [[OHO Gujarati]]
| producer = {{ubl |
| Nayan Jain
| [[Abhishek Jain]]
| Amit Desai
| Suryadeep Basiya
}}
| num_seasons = 1
| num_episodes = 6
| list_episodes =
| related =
| genre = Drama
| network = OHO Gujarati
| website = https://www.ohogujarati.com/#/oho-original-shows/vitthal-teedi/
| website_title = Vitthal Teedi
| composer = Kedar & Bhargav
| based_on = {{based on|Vitthal Teedi|Mukesh Sojitra}}
}}
'''''Vitthal Teedi''''' ({{lang-gu|વિઠ્ઠલ તીડી}}) is an Indian [[Gujarati language]] [[drama]] web-series on [[OHO Gujarati]] directed by [[Abhishek Jain]] starring [[Pratik Gandhi]] as the protagonist Vitthal Teedi.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/web-series/vitthal-teedi-pratik-gandhi-is-a-master-gambler-in-his-follow-up-series-to-scam-1992-watch-trailer-101619932680092.html|title=Vitthal Teedi: Pratik Gandhi is a master gambler in his follow-up series to Scam 1992. Watch trailer|date=2 May 2021}}</ref> The first season, stylized as ''Chapter 1'', was released on 7 May 2021. It was reviewed positively for performance, direction, production, music and script.

==Premise==
Vitthal Tripathi is portrayed as a person from humble origins who has exceptional skill with playing cards. He is shown as a gambler who was invincible in playing cards. However, when he decides to join the big leagues to get a taste of city life, his fate throws him a curveball. He faces extreme competition from the city. It is not his luck but his skill as a card player that will keep him afloat.

== Cast ==

* [[Pratik Gandhi]] as Vitthal Tripathi/Vitthal Teedi
* Ragi Jani as Tribhuvandas Tripathi
* Prashant Barot as Dasha Bapu
* Prem Gadhvi as Kanu Datti
* Brinda Trivedi as Vandana Tripathi
* Jagjeetsinh Vadher as Jaglo
* [[Shraddha Dangar]] as Manisha
* Vishal Thakkar as Young Vitthal Tripathi
* Bhavya Sirohi as Young Vandana Tripathi

==Episodes==
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===Chapter 1===
{{Episode table|total_width= |overall=5 |title=22 |director=15 |writer=21 |airdate=15 |background=251e35|released=y|episodes=
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 1
|NativeTitle = છોકરમત
|NativeTitleLangCode = gu
|TranslitTitle = Chhokarmat
|Title= Child's Play
|RTitle =
|DirectedBy = Abhishek Jain
|WrittenBy = Bhargav Purohit
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2021|05|07|df=yes}}
|ShortSummary= The series opens with Vitthal and his elder sister learning about their mother's death. Vitthal has no interest in studies and is attracted to cards and Lord Shiva, as his father is a local temple priest. When a teacher asks Vitthal to say the number 'three' in Gujarati, he pronounces it as "Teddi" (the notation of three being famous among local card players). This joke spreads quickly through the small village, and everyone starts addressing him as Vitthal Teedi. One morning Vitthal wakes up late for school with his elder sister and gets beaten and scolded by the new Gymnastics teacher. His sister tells the teacher that she had to complete all household work before coming to school due to their mother's recent death. When the teacher makes fun of Vitthal's father, Vitthal takes a stone in his hand and hits the teacher, then runs from the school. His father arrives at school but, instead of scolding him, takes Vitthal with him. For Vittal, this solidifies an unspoken but strong bond with his father.

}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 2
|NativeTitle = એક રમત
|NativeTitleLangCode = gu
|TranslitTitle = Ek Ramat
|Title= The Only Play
|RTitle =
|DirectedBy = Abhishek Jain
|WrittenBy = Bhargav Purohit
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2021|05|07|df=yes}}
|ShortSummary= Young adolescent Vitthal ([[Pratik Gandhi]]) now knows all the tricks to win card games and starts gambling under a banyan tree with his friends. Some friends envy his presence; some appreciate his talent. He helps his family with his gambling winnings. He initially wanted to buy a leather jacket to impress his girlfriend, but when he learns that she is going to marry a young man from a different caste, he sacrifices his jacket and asks the tailor to fashion a dress for his sister. He knows how other players think and react when they see their cards and hence wins every match. Yet, he also refrains from card playing during the Shravan month, where he devotes himself to Lord Shiva.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 3
|NativeTitle = ચાનક
|NativeTitleLangCode = gu
|TranslitTitle = Chanak
|Title= Euphoric
|RTitle =
|DirectedBy = Abhishek Jain
|WrittenBy = Bhargav Purohit
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2021|05|07|df=yes}}
|ShortSummary= The audience learns that Vitthal has an elder brother, a software engineer in Ahmedabad, western India, who has spent most of his life in that urban city and now invites Vitthal and his father to see a girl for him. They choose a house where Vitthal's elder brother hides his occupation as a gambler. Now Vitthal's elder brother asks them to come to Ahmedabad for his marriage, but his father refuses to go, saying that the whole village is their only family there. They arrange a small gathering and cover-up that the elder son could not get off work that day and will visit the village someday. They generously offer food to every villager, and the function goes smoothly. At the end of the occasion, Vitthal's father tells Vitthal that he may be teedi ('three') for the whole world, but he is his ace of spades for him. Relenting after so many requests, Vitthal's father visits his son in Ahmedabad and asks him to arrange a job for uneducated Vitthal, but the brother refuses. Upon returning with a heavy heart to his native village, Vitthal's father goes to bed without eating dinner.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 4
|NativeTitle = અચાનક
|NativeTitleLangCode = gu
|TranslitTitle = Achanak
|Title= Unforeseen
|RTitle =
|DirectedBy = Abhishek Jain
|WrittenBy = Bhargav Purohit
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2021|05|07|df=yes}}
|ShortSummary= A member from another large village invites Vitthal after seeing his card game. Vitthal also wants to gather money in preparation for his sister's marriage. He soon shines there, too, and wins enough money to provide his sister with a lavish, expensive wedding. Vitthal informs that he will not be present for some days as his sister will get married. There he meets another rival, Kanu Datti, to whom he loses a match but later, knowing his weakness, bluffs him and wins against him. However, that night a new police officer is on duty and raids the gambling center. Vitthal saves Kanu's life and tells Kanu that he owes him 1,500 since all the money was still at the center. One day an older man comes with a lot of money and bets everything but loses against Vitthal. On the way, Vitthal sees that the man had attempted suicide because he wanted to double his money, as the groom's father increased the dowry amount, and card playing is the only fast way to increase money. Vitthal leaves the money he won from the man and departs the place crying. Now not a big and expensive one, but Vitthal arranges the marriage in a quite normal way and begs his sister's husband to take care of her. Her sister first time asks Vitthal to give him something. She asks him to quit gambling, focuses on a well-settled job, and get married as soon as possible. Vitthal promises as it is the only thing his sister has ever asked from him. Vitthal also invited his elder brother to his only sister's wedding, but he didn't appear, worsening his father's condition.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 5
|NativeTitle = નિર્ધાર
|NativeTitleLangCode = gu
|TranslitTitle = Nirdhar
|Title= Undaunted
|RTitle =
|DirectedBy = Abhishek Jain
|WrittenBy = Bhargav Purohit
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2021|05|07|df=yes}}
|ShortSummary= After quitting gambling, Vitthal take cares of Shiva Temple and decides to open a pan shop to settle in the village. Now people from the gambling centre visit Vitthal's home regularly, insisting that he return to gambling. So, Vitthal visits the centre and asks its leader to never come to his home to ask him to play cards again, leaving the centre without drinking the alcohol the leader had prepared for him. Tragedy strikes one night, when he cries in front of his father that he roams here and there helplessly and cuts down the family's food consumption. He discovers that his father is dead the next morning. His elder brother and sister insist that he go with them to live his remaining life there, but Vitthal declines. At a function he donates his entire savings to a Bhajan Mandli, consisting of 2,500, in the name of his late father. Trying to figure out what will happen with him for the rest of the life, he sleeps wholeheartedly.
}}
{{Episode list
|EpisodeNumber = 6
|NativeTitle = અનરાધાર
|NativeTitleLangCode = gu
|TranslitTitle = Anaradhar
|Title = Downpour
|RTitle =
|DirectedBy = Abhishek Jain
|WrittenBy = Bhargav Purohit
|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2021|05|07|df=yes}}
|ShortSummary= His sister calls to have Vitthal come to the hospital, as her husband is suffering from brain haemmorrhage. A doctor informs them that 50,000 must be deposited to carry out the husband's operation successfully. Vitthal tries to arrange money from Kanu, where he returns his 1,500 and insists that he gamble here at the club with legendary bluffs in attendance. Vitthal repeatedly refuses, but after understanding the turmoil his sister is going through, he chooses to play.He safely tries to pick everyone's weakness except one. He wins the match but the champion player insists and challenges him if to play one last game with all bets in. Kanu refuses but Vitthal decides to give his luck a chance. The champ has a King, Queen and a Ace as his three cards but Vitthal outsmarts him by getting three Teedies, which is of higher rank in the Teen Patti game, and leaves the table with more than enough money for his brother-in-law's operation.
}}
}}

== Production ==
The show is based on an eponymous Gujarati short story by Mukesh Sojitra.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2021-05-02|title=Vitthal Teedi trailer: Pratik Gandhi plays a gambler in this web series|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/web-series/vitthal-teedi-trailer-pratik-gandhi-is-a-gambler-in-this-web-series-7298127/|access-date=2021-05-05|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref> The story is set in [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurashtra]] region of Gujarat in the 1980s.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-01|title=Everything we know about Pratik Gandhi’s new project Vitthal Teedi|url=https://www.gqindia.com/binge-watch/collection/everything-know-pratik-gandhis-new-project-vitthal-teedi/|access-date=2021-05-05|website=GQ India|language=en-IN}}</ref> The series was shot in various villages in [[Talala, Gujarat|Gir]] and in [[Ahmedabad]]. The first six episodes were shot in 16 days in January 2021.<ref name="bhaskar">{{cite web|url=https://www.divyabhaskar.co.in/entertainment/bollywood/news/special-interview-of-vitthal-teedi-director-abhishek-jain-128469855.html|title=એક્સક્લુઝિવ:'વિઠ્ઠલ તિડી'ના ડિરેક્ટર અભિષેક જૈને કહ્યું- 'વિઠ્ઠલના ક્લાસિક કેરેક્ટરની એન્ગ્રી યંગ મેન જેવી ઈમેજ છે, સ્ટોરી વાંચતી વખતે મારા મનમાં માત્ર ને માત્ર પ્રતીક ગાંધી જ હતો'|language=Gujarati|publisher=[[Divya Bhaskar]]|date=2021-05-07}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2021-04-30|title=Pratik Gandhi Gears up For His New Gujarati Web Series 'Vitthal Teedi', Check Out The First Look Here|url=https://www.india.com/entertainment/pratik-gandhi-gears-up-for-his-new-gujarati-web-series-vitthal-teedi-check-out-the-first-look-here-4627859/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-05|website=India.com}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==
===Chapter 1===
Traditional lyrics (specifically, [[Chhand]], used in the song) for "Vitthal Vitthal" are credited to [[Dula Bhaya Kag]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/articles/2021/may/5/29635|title=Vitthal Teedi song 'Vitthal Vitthal': Peppy track introduces us to Pratik Gandhi's character|date=5 May 2021}}</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone|Rolling Stone India]]'' rated the soundtrack positively, calling it an "enchanting folk soundtrack".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rollingstoneindia.com/gujarati-series-vitthal-teedi-soundtrack/|title=Gujarati Series ‘Vitthal Teedi’ Offers Enchanting Folk Soundtrack|date=18 May 2021}}</ref>
{{Infobox album
| name = Vitthal Teedi
| type = soundtrack
| artist = Kedar & Bhargav
| cover =
| alt =
| released = {{start date|2021|05|04|df=y}}
| recorded = 2021
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Television soundtrack
| length = 11:46
| language = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
| label =
| producer = Innovantage Technologies LLP
| misc = {{External media
| audio1 = {{YouTube|D7gYqzBaA0U|Official Audio Jukebox}}}}
}}
{{tracklist
| headline = Track listing
| extra_column = Singer(s)
| total_length = 11:46
| all_music = Kedar & Bhargav
| title1 = Beni Ho
| lyrics1 = Bhargav Purohit
| extra1 = Geetaben Rabari
| length1 = 2:46
| title2 = Jani Jani
| lyrics2 = Bhargav Purohit
| extra2 = [[Jigardan Gadhavi]]
| length2 = 2:45
| title3 = Sadho
| lyrics3 = Bhargav Purohit
| extra3 = Bhargav Purohit
| length3 = 3:47
| title4 = Vitthal Vitthal
| lyrics4 = Bhargav Purohit
| extra4 = [[Aditya Gadhvi]]
| length4 = 2:28
}}

== Release ==
The trailer was released on 1 May 2021.<ref name=":1" /> All episodes of the ''Chapter 1'' were released on ''OHO Gujarati'', a Gujarati streaming platform, on 7 May 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-03|title=pratik gandhi starter vitthal teedi will release on 7th may on oho gujarati {{!}} ૭ મેએ આવે છે ‘વિઠ્ઠલ તીડી’|url=https://www.gujaratimidday.com/entertainment-news/web-series/article/pratik-gandhi-starter-vitthal-teedi-will-release-on-7th-may-on-oho-gujarati-139622|access-date=2021-05-05|website=www.gujaratimidday.com|language=gu}}</ref><ref name="bhaskar"/>

==Reception==
The series received positive reviews. ''[[Koimoi]]'' rated it 4 out of 5 stars saying, "Vitthal Teedi has all the elements to become a complete package, and the makers have to realise that. You should give it a try because the cast won’t let you get bored for a single moment."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.koimoi.com/reviews/web-reviews/vitthal-teedi-review-pratik-gandhi-breaks-the-scam-1992-bracket-but-the-script-partially-lacks-the-backing/|title=Vitthal Teedi Review: Pratik Gandhi Breaks The ‘Scam 1992’ Bracket But The Script Partially Lacks The Backing|date=7 May 2021}} {{Rating|3|5}}</ref> ''[[Republic TV|Republic]]'' rated it 4 out of 5 stars saying, "Vitthal Teedi most definitely delivers what it promises – an ode to the 1980s complete with family drama, social commentary, and the hero – a do-gooder with a darker side that the audience can expect more of in the coming season. This is a diamond in the rough set to win hearts in the coming seasons."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.republicworld.com/entertainment-news/web-series/pratik-gandhi-wins-poker-and-hearts-in-his-new-gujarati-web-series-vitthal-teedi.html|title=Pratik Gandhi Wins Poker And Hearts In His New Gujarati Web Series 'Vitthal Teedi'|date=7 May 2021}} {{Rating|4|5}}</ref> Keyur Seta of ''Cinestaan'' reviewed it three out of four starts.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Seta|first=Keyur|date=2021-05-08|title=Vitthal Teedi review: Pratik Gandhi shines in this moving and emotional tale|url=https://www.cinestaan.com/reviews/vitthal-teedi-45866|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-09|website=Cinestaan}} {{Rating|3|4}}</ref> Vishal Verma of ''Glamsham'' also praised performances, production and direction.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Verma|first=Vishal|date=2021-05-08|title=Web Series Review {{!}} Vitthal Teedi: Pratik Gandhi Is Back To His Roots And How!!|url=https://www.glamsham.com/ott/web-review/web-series-vitthal-teedi-movie-review-pratik-gandhi-abhishek-jain|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-09|website=Glamsham}}</ref> [[Subhash K. Jha]] of ''SpotboyE'' also rated it three out of five stars.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jha|first=Subhash K.|date=2021-05-07|title=Vitthal Teedi Review: Post Scam 1992 Pratik Gandhi Returns Full Force In His Native Tongue|url=https://www.spotboye.com/just-binge/binge-reviews/vitthal-teedi-review-post-scam-1992-pratik-gandhi-returns-full-force-in-his-native-tongue/60952cb225cb7a2565f9ce6d|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-09|website=www.spotboye.com}} {{Rating|3|5}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:2021 Indian television series debuts]]
[[Category:Television series based on short fiction]]
[[Category:Indian web series]]
[[Category:Gujarati-language television]]
[[Category:Television shows filmed in Asia]]
[[Category:Television shows set in Gujarat]]

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