Pandya Store

Shop of the Pandyas) is an Indian Hindi-language television family drama series that premiered from 25 January 2021 to 26 May 2024 on Star Plus.

[5][6] One of the longest running Indian television soap operas,[7] the series starred Kinshuk Mahajan, Shiny Doshi, Akshay Kharodia, Kanwar Dhillon, Mohit Parmar, Alice Kaushik, Simran Budharup, Kruttika Desai, Priyanshi Yadav and Rohit Chandel.

Gautam-Dhara, Dev-Rishita share romantic moments, while Shiva and Raavi grow closer and start caring for each other.

Rishita discovers that she is pregnant, she initially decides to abort the baby but changes her mind later making the Pandyas are excited and happy.

While the Pandyas celebrate Shiva's win, Rishita discovers Kamini's evil plan and asks her to not harm her family.

The Pandyas decide to work as maids in the Dwivedi house to bring Dev and Rishita back after Suman fell ill due to their absence.

On the wedding day, Shiva agrees to marry Raavi after her feigned suicide attempt, but flees after the truth.

They decide to take a loan for their new house, but an earthquake strikes and the Pandya brothers and their wives die, leaving the children and Suman alone.

The Makwana family does not allow the females to work and has strict rules for them, a fact they hide from the Pandyas and Chirag's wife Dolly.

During a Temple visit, Chiku saves Suman and earns affection from the Pandyas, but decided to keep his identity a secret.

While protecting the Makwana brothers from mall labours, Natasha learns the truth of her marriage and Amrish's to destroy Pandya Store.

Amidst this, Suman falls gravely ill, and to keep her happy, Natasha lies about the betrayal she faced from the Makwanas.

[18][19] Later, filming began in July 2020 post-COVID break and the show was aired with the title Gupta Brothers - Chaar Kunware From Ganga Kinaare from 5 October 2020, as a dramedy series to suit Star Bharat's comedy genre.

"[26] In March 2021, the show took a generation leap of ten years and the characters of Dev, Shiva, Krish and Raavi were grown up.

[32] Alice Kaushik, who portrays Raavi, was dressed as a ghost resembling Vidya Balan's Manjulika from Bhool Bhulaiyaa during the same track.

"[45][46] Kanwar Dhillon[47] was cast as the elder version of Shiva Pandya, which was previously portrayed by Harminder Singh.

"[51][52] Akshay Kharodia was cast as the elder versions of Dev Pandya, previously played by Jovian Fernandes, opposite Budharup.

"[57][58] Mohit Parmar was cast as the elder versions of Krish Pandya, previously played by Swarnim Neema.

[61][62] Pallavi Rao[63] and Shrasti Maheshwari were cast as Pandya's and Raavi's relatives Prafulla Narayan and Anita Narang.

Krunal Pandit and Mohit Sharma were cast as Pandya's relatives Jagat Narayan and Jignesh Narang.

[66] Vandana Vithlani,[67] Vijay Badlani and Geetika Shyam were cast to play Rishita's family members, Kamini Thakkar, Janardhan and Kalyani Dwivedi.

In September 2022, Pallavi Rao, who portrayed Prafulla, quit the show, due to her dates not being used and her diminished screen time.

After July, when my track with Shiva ended, I realised that it will be long before Prafulla is brought back, so I thought it was best to quit Pandya Store.

[82] Ankur Nayyar, Shabaaz Abdullah Badi and Abhishek Sharma were cast as Dhawal's brothers Amrish, Bhaven and Chirag respectively.

In the same month, Piyali Munshi, Deepika Upadhyay and Sayli Chaudhari were cast as Hetal, Pranali and Dolly opposite Nayyar, Badi and Sharma respectively.

[101][102] In January 2022, Alice Kaushik, Akshay Kharodia, Simran Budharup and Mohit Parmar tested positive for COVID-19.

[103][104] The storyline was revised accordingly, a pre-leap track was introduced with Harminder Singh, Jini Khan, Jovian Fernandes and Swarnim Neema rejoining the cast.

[107][108] In March 2021, a generation-leap promo was released, featuring Hina Khan, Ragini Khanna and Neelu Vaghela.

They reprised their characters from Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai, Sasural Genda Phool and Diya Aur Baati Hum, respectively.

[118][119] The cast of Pandya Store participated as a team in the musical game show Ravivaar With Star Parivaar.

Filming location in Somnath