Malini Iyer is an Indian comedy television series aired on Sahara One

Sahara One

Sahara One is an Indian Hindi general entertainment channel based in Mumbai. It is operated by Sahara India Pariwar, a company formed by Subrato Roy Sahara who is a managing worker and chairman of the Sahara India Pariwar....

, starring Indian

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 actress, Sridevi in the main lead. The series is produced by the Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 producer as well as Sridevi's husband, Boney Kapoor

Boney Kapoor

Boney Kapoor is an Indian film producer and recently he became director of Sahara One Media and Entertainment Limited of Sahara India Pariwar....

, and directed by comedy-actor, Satish Kaushik

Satish Kaushik

Satish Kaushik is an Indian film director and actor in Hindi films and theatre.As a film actor his most remembered for his role as 'Calendar' in Mr. India, and as 'Chanu Ahmed' in Sarah Gavron's English film Brick Lane...

. The series premiered on January 19, 2004, and aired every Monday & Tuesday at 9pm IST

Indian Standard Time

Indian Standard Time is the time observed throughout India and Sri Lanka, with a time offset of UTC+05:30. India does not observe daylight saving time or other seasonal adjustments, although DST was used briefly during the Sino–Indian War of 1962 and the Indo–Pakistani Wars of 1965 and 1971...

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Overview

The story revolves round the life of a south Indian Tamil bramian girl, Malini Iyer who marries a Punjabi guy, and now how she manages to bring both the cultures together. The problems arises when Malini moves into Punjab

Punjab (India)

Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...

 with her husband, where she has to follow different culture and rituals altogether. However, she retains her individuality while she loves the family she is married into. As a woman of values and principles, she takes utmost care in following the customs and rituals of both the sides, South and North.

Cast

• Sridevi Kapoor
  Sridevi Kapoor
  Sridevi , born as Shree Amma Yanger is an Indian actress who was a popular actress in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, and Malayalam films. Starting to act at the age of four, she made her debut as an adult in the late 1970s...
  
   ... Malini Iyer
• Mahesh Thakur
  Mahesh Thakur
  - Filmography :* Not A Love Story .... Cameo as a Director* F.A.L.T.U .... Pooja's Father* Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic .... Lawyer* Gandhi, My Father .... Horse carriage driver...
  
   ... Pankaj Sabharwal (Malini's husband)
• Vinay Pathak
  Vinay Pathak
  Vinay Pathak is an Indian actor and a theatre person born and raised in Bhojpur, Bihar. He is known for his great Comic timing and as a revolution in Indian Cinema along with Ranvir Shorey, Rajat Kapur, Abhay Deol, who are tagged as actors of a new genre...
  
  
• Tanushree Kaushal
• Kamlsh Oza
• Pallavi Dutta
• Vijay Kashyap
• Sushma Ahuja