Today’s youth may have smartphones and laptops equipped with various technologies in their hands, on which they watch various series and use social media. But Doordarshan There was a time when people had very limited means of entertainment, then people used to eagerly wait for every show coming on Doordarshan channel. There was such content on Doordarshan for children as well as the elderly that people enjoyed it a lot. One such show of Doordarshan entertained people a lot in the 1990s, in which the characters of Skull, Kadirbhai and Ghanshu Bhikhari had made their mark in every household.
Nook in people’s hearts
Now, if you also watched TV shows in the 1990s, then you must have known which show we are talking about here. We are talking about the famous shows which were telecast in 1986-87. Street corner Ki, who had made everyone crazy about him. Kundan Shah and Saeed Akhtar Mirza directed this show, while Prabhod Joshi and Anil Choudhary wrote it.
1986 :: Guru Batting and Khopadi Keeping The Wickets On The Set of TV Serial Nukkad pic.twitter.com/S7vFPRSKwq
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Total 40 episode show
The show stars Dilip Dhawan (Guru), Rama Vij (Teacherji), Srichand Makhija (Chaursiya Paanwala), Pawan Malhotra (Hari), Ajay Wadhavkar (Ganpat Havildar), Suresh Bhagwat (Ghanshu Bhikhari), Sameer Khakhar (Khopdi), Avtaar Gill. (Kadirbhai) was in the lead role. This TV show shown on Doordarshan got tremendous response from the audience and some characters like Skull, Ganpat Havaldar Kadarbhai and Ghanshu Bhikhari became popular in every house. The first season of Nukkad had a total of 40 episodes. After this, a sequel named Naya Nukkad was started in the year 1993.
Grew up watching this serial Nukkad & Khopdi was the most loved character, Goodbye Sameer Khakhar. Loved you and you will always be in our memories forever, Rest In Peace pic.twitter.com/EIuj2VhFcp
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Every character of Nukkad won people’s hearts
In Nukkad, Dilip Dhawan played the role of Guru alias Raghunath, who used to resolve the disputes of the residents of Nukkad. Avtaar Gill was seen in the role of Kadarbhai alias Kadar Kutty, who is the owner of a small restaurant, where other Nukkad members would often gather. He is very kind. They don’t even take tea money from the poor street dwellers. Pawan Malhotra played the role of Hari. He is a humble, hard-working young man in the show, who owns a small shop that repairs bicycles and fills bicycle tyres. Sameer Khakhar played the role of Skull alias Gopal in Nukkad, which was liked by the people very much. This character is an old alcoholic who is loved by everyone. Haider Ali played the role of Raja alias Patel. While Somesh Aggarwal became Kundu in this show.
