Yeh Meri Family
Yeh Meri Family is an Indian comedy drama web series, created and directed by Sameer Saxena for The Viral Fever. The script was written by Saurabh Khanna, as his first writing project. The series follows the life of a 12-year-old Harshu Gupta, played by Vishesh Bansal, in Jaipur, Rajasthan in the late 1990s. It also stars Mona Singh, Akarsh Khurana, Ahan Nirban, Ruhi Khan, Prasad Reddy, as members of the Gupta family and their acquaintances.
The first season of the Yeh Meri Family, consisting of seven episodes, premiered on TVFPlay and YouTube on 12 July 2018; it has also been available on Prime Video and Amazon Mini TV.
The series was renewed for a second season, set in a different family and time, which streamed on Amazon Mini TV. It was further renewed for a third and fourth season, maintaining continuity from the settings of the second season. The fourth season premiered on 16 August 2024.
Plot
The first season is set in Jaipur, Rajasthan in the year 1998, the series follows the story told from the point of view of the 12-year-old Harshu Gupta and his family, the various trials and tribulations experienced in their day-to-day lives.The second season tells the story of 15-year-old Ritika amidst the chaos of the Awasthi family, with the following seasons continuing this plot.
Cast
Season 1
Main
- Vishesh Bansal as Harshal "Harshu" Gupta, the series' 12-year-old narrator.
- Mona Singh as Poorva Gupta, Harshu's mother.
- Akarsh Khurana as Devendra Gupta, Harshu's father.
- Ahan Nirban as Devansh "Dabbu" Gupta, Harshu's elder brother.
- Ruhi Khan as Dhwani "Chitti" Gupta, Harshu's younger sister.
- Prasad Reddy as Shanky, Harshu's best friend.
Other
- Revathi Pillai as Vidhya M. Ranganath, Harshu's love interest. Rivathi had also played as Varteeka in Kota Factory.
- Brij Bhushan Shukla as Verma Sir, Harshu's Hindi teacher.
- Nishaad Javeri as Rita Miss
- Mazda Taraporewala as Darpan
- Rajiv Kachroo as Vidhya's father
- Abhay Pannu as Laxy
Season 2–4
Main
- Hetal Gada as Ritika Awasthi
- Anngad Raaj as Rishi Awasthi
- Rajesh Kumar as Sanjay Awasthi
- Juhi Parmar as Neerja Awasthi
- Veena Mehta as Ritika and Rishi's Grandmother
Other
- Sarwam Kulkarni as Vaibhav
- Avtar Vaishnani as Aashu Awasthi
- Supavitra Babul as IPS Vijay Awasthi
- Sangeetha Balachandran as Principal
- Pravin Waghmare as Rickshaw wala
Episodes
Production
The creator of The Viral Fever, Arunabh Kumar stated about the concept of making a family-drama series, as according to Arunabh, film and television shows had lacked a good concept of a family drama in the past 20 years, in which a story that everyone can relate to. He wanted to bring the dynamics of the quintessential India family, which was the main core concept of the show. It was set in the 1990s as Arunabh stated that the time period was very organic because "just like the family relationships, 90s had a certain innocence about them".While Biswapati Sarkar, who worked in TVF's earlier projects was approached to write the script. The media's co-director Sameer Saxena, suggested Saurabh Khanna's name for the show. It was Saurabh's maiden attempt in writing. Mona Singh was approached to play the role of Vishesh Bansal's mother, while Akarsh Khurana made his acting debut with the series. Arunabh chose the background to be set in Jaipur as he found the city was neither too urban nor too rural. It's a very appropriate representation of the middle-class India, for which it gave the show a very suitable backdrop.
Arunabh also noted about directing with kids, as he stated "Before we went on floor, I was skeptical about shooting with the kids. I thought it would be very challenging. But to my surprise, all the kids were extremely hard working and dedicated. They always used to come on set all prepared with the lines and that made the shoot a lot easy. Rehearsing with them during the pre-production stage also helped to prepare them well for the shoot. Saxena said that he was skeptical about shooting with the kids before the show went on the floor."