It drew a substantial viewership and was a success, but state-run Doordarshan would not endorse a never-ending soap opera.
It therefore ended after showing certain interesting episodes in the lives of the joint family consisting of the elderly couple, their children, daughters-in-law and grandchildren.
[3] Mohan Bhandari,[4][5] Jayant Kriplani, Dr. Shriram Lagoo, Girish Karnad, Shernaz Patel, Tinu Anand and Uma Banerjee among others were the other actors.
Direction and screenplay was by Shreedhar Ksheersagar, dialogue by Harish Bhimani and Music by Vanraj Bhatia.
For both Girish Karnad & Neena Gupta, Khandaan was the first TV serial.