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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|12|26|df=y}}{{cn|date=November 2021}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2017|03|01|1929|12|26}}<ref name="Death2017">{{cite web | title=Writer Taarak Mehta, the inspiration behind 'Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah', no more | website=The Times of India | date=2017-03-01 | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/writer-taarak-mehta-the-inspiration-behind-taarak-mehta-ka-ooltah-chashmah-no-more/articleshow/57405136.cms | access-date=2017-03-01}}</ref>

| death_place = [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]

'''Tarak Janubhai Mehta''' was an [[India]]n columnist, [[humourist]], writer and playwright who is best known for the column ''Duniya Ne Undha Chasma''. He translated and adapted several comedies into Gujarati, and was a well-known figure in Gujarati theatre.<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary Indian theatre: interviews with playwrights and directors|publisher=Sangeet Natak Akademi|year=1989 |page=159}}</ref>

His humorous weekly column first appeared in ''[[Chitralekha (weekly)|Chitralekha]]'' in March 1971 and looked at contemporary issues from a different perspective. He published 80 books; three were based on the columns he wrote in the Gujarati newspaper ''[[Divya Bhaskar]]'' while the rest were compiled from the stories in ''Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah''.<ref name=dna>{{cite news |title=Tarak Mehta is 'booked'!|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report_tarak-mehta-is-booked-_1237837 |publisher=[[DNA (newspaper)|DNA]] |date=9 March 2009  }}</ref>

 

In 2008 [[SAB TV]], a popular entertainment channel in India, started the sitcom ''[[Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah]]'' based on his column,<ref>{{cite news |title=Comedy Inc! |url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/comedy-inc/640054/0 |newspaper=[[Indian Express]] |date=2 July 2010 }}</ref> and soon it became the flagship show of the channel. Actor [[Shailesh Lodha]] portrays Mehta in the show.<ref>{{cite news |title=Laughing away to success|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/laughing-away-to-success/652415/0 |newspaper=Indian Express |date=30 July 2010  }}</ref>

 

Taarak Mehta belonged to the [[Gujarati people|Gujarati]] [[Naagar]] community.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Jains-steal-the-show-with-7-Padmas/articleshow/46856659.cms|title=Jains steal the show with 7 Padmas | newspaper=The Times of India|date=9 April 2015|access-date=24 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.india.com/showbiz/in-pics-a-look-at-the-life-of-popular-columnist-taarak-mehta-1882280/|title=In pics: A look at the life of popular columnist Taarak Mehta|last=Talreja|first=Vinod|date=2017-03-01|website=India.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-02}}</ref> He lived in [[Ahmedabad]], Gujarat, where he moved in 2000, with his second wife, Indu, of over 30 years. His first wife, Ila who later married Manohar Doshi (died 2006), also lived in the same apartment building. He had a daughter from his first marriage, Eshani, who lives in the United States, and has two grandchildren, Kushaan and Shailee.<ref name=dna/><ref>{{cite news |title=Tragedy strikes Tarak Mehta|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-07-14/ahmedabad/28171060_1_indu-seventh-floor-mumbai |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927184201/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-07-14/ahmedabad/28171060_1_indu-seventh-floor-mumbai |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 September 2012 |work=[[The Times of India]] |date=14 July 2009 }}</ref>

 

Mehta died at the age of 87 years on March 1, 2017 after a prolonged illness.<ref name="Death2017"/> His family donated his body to [[medical research]].<ref name="dna 2017">{{cite web | title=Noted Gujarati playwright Taarak Mehta passes away at 87 | website=dna | year=2017 | url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-noted-gujarati-playwright-taarak-mehta-passes-away-at-87-2338931 }}</ref>

 

[[File:The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Padma Shri Award to Shri Tarak Janubhai Mehta, at a Civil Investiture Ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on March 30, 2015.jpg|thumb|The President, [[Pranab Mukherjee]] presenting the Padma Shri Award to Tarak  Mehta, at a Civil Investiture Ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on March 30, 2015]]

 

Mehta was awarded the [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest civilian award of India, in 2015.<ref name=pdma>{{cite web|title=Padma Awards 2015|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6VrWjEuo3?url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=114952|url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=114952|publisher=Press Information Bureau|access-date=25 January 2015|archive-date=26 January 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Gujarat Sahitya Akademi]] award him [[Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar]] in 2011 and [[Ramanlal Nilkanth Hasya Paritoshik]] (posthumously) in 2017.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://indianewengland.com/2017/02/tarak-mehta-gets-award-gujarat-government/ |title=Tarak Mehta gets an award from Gujarat Government=15 February 2017 |website=INDIA NEW ENGLAND NEWS}}</ref><ref name="Chitralekha">{{cite web | title=સર્વપ્રિય હાસ્યલેખક તારક મહેતા 'રમણભાઈ નીલકંઠ હાસ્ય પારિતોષિક'થી સમ્માનિત |date=31 March 2017 | website=Chitralekha | url=http://chitralekha.com/breaking-news/taarak-mehta-ramanbhai-neelkanth-hasya-paritoshik/ | language=gu | access-date=13 April 2017}}</ref>

 

 

 

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