Nukkad
Nukkad is an Indian Hindi-language television series that aired on DD National in 1986–87. It was directed by Kundan Shah, Aziz Mirza and Saeed Akhtar Mirza; it was written by Prabodh Joshi and Anil Chaudhary.
It starred Dilip Dhawan, Rama Vij, Pavan Malhotra, Sangeeta Naik, Avtar Gill in lead roles. The serial received tremendous response from the viewers and some of the characters such as Khopdi, Kaderbhai and Ghanshu Bhikari became household names. The first season of Nukkad, aired in 3rd November 1986–87 had 40 episodes. A sequel series titled Naya Nukkad premiered in 1993.
Overview
Nukkad dealt with the struggles of the lower income labor class in cities.Cast
- Dilip Dhawan—Guru
- Avtar Gill—Kaderbhai
- Pavan Malhotra—Hari
- Sameer Khakhar—Khopdi
- Haidar Ali—Raja
- Somesh Agarwal— Kundu Mochi
- Javed Khan—Karim Hajaam. Karim is a barber and owns a small hair cutting salon.
- Sangeeta Naik—Radha
- Rama Vij—Teacherji is a widow who lives alone. Guru and Maria both love each other, but do not explicitly confess their love.
- Ajay Wadhavkar—Ganpat Havaldar. Ganpat is the neighborhood havaldar often called in whenever there is trouble at Nukkad.
- Suresh Chatwal—Dukhiya shayar is an unemployed "shayar" who lives for free with Guru. Dukhiya bores everybody with meaningless shayaris. He along with Khopdi and Raja form the unemployed trio who live off other's money.
- Suresh Bhagwat—Ghanshu Bhikari is the beggar at Nukkad.
- Shreechand Makhija Chaurasia Paanwala. Chaurasia is a paanwala with a paan-beedi shop next to Kaderbhai's restaurant.
- Sankalp Dubey Thambi Waiter
- Masud Akhtar Dagdu Jamadar
- Bengali Bandwala
- Kalabaaz
- Kishore Bhatt - Gupta Seth
- Maniklal Seth
- mamta - Madhu