Khichdi - Season 1 (2002)

When Bhavesh Kumar arrives at Tulsidas' house for the Shagun ceremony, the latter asks him about the dowry requirement, which angers Bhavesh. Meanwhile, Praful continuously irritates Bhavesh. The family members discuss the preparations for Mira's wedding.

Godavari Masi who have come from London forbids Jayshree from applying mehendi, only because she is a widow. It hurts everyone including Tulsidas. The family members argue with Godavari over it and then retaliate and decide to not apply mehendi on their hands either.

Jayshree, Raju, Praful and Hansa want to make Tulsidas cry after the wedding, which he has refused to do. On the wedding day, when the groom's procession arrives, Tulsidas and Praful greet them. However, Bhavesh falls down unconscious. Later, the wedding takes place.

After Mira's wedding, Tulsidas gets nostalgic recollecting her childhood. Jayshree who has saved some money from Tulsidas only for the emergency condition tells Hansa about it, which she misinterpretes and tells Praful, who tells it to Tulsidas. Annoyed Tulsidas scolds Jayashree. This hurts Jayashree and she leaves the house for her parents' home.

The family is delighted after Jayshree returns home. Tulisdas apologises to Jayshree for misunderstanding her. Later, a ceiling fan falls on Tiwariben and she gets hurt. Praful assumes that she has died and arranges for her funeral. Jayshree and Hansa are pretty sure that now, Tulsidas will have to sell the house as it has been getting ruined. However, Tiwariben regains consciousness.

Melissa comes home as the tutor Jayshree tells Tulsidas about the need to appoint a tuition teacher. However, he gets angry when she informs him that Melissa has volunteered to tutor them. Later, the family convince him to appoint Melissa as the tutor.

When the priest informs the family about Raju's marriage plans that it would be a love marriage, Tulsidas is angry. However, Hansa and Jayshree gossip about Raju's plans for a love marriage.

Raju tells the family that he loves Melissa and will only marry her. Later, Jayshree assures Raju that she will convince Tulsidas to accept Melissa. However, she instigates Tulsidas against Raju. A furious Tulsidas asks Melissa to leave the house.

Peter wants to kill Tulsidas, after he expelled Melissa from the house. Tulsidas informs Tiwariben about Raju's relationship with Melissa. Later, Raju threatens to commit suicide if Tulsidas stops him from marrying Melissa.

When Raju locks himself in the kitchen and threatens to commit suicide, Chakki mimics Melissa's voice so that he will come out. Later, he argues with Tulsidas and declares that he will only marry Melissa. Meanwhile, Tiwariben decides to meet Melissa's parents.

Tiwariben decides to take Raju's side. However, Tulsidas decides to separate them. He puts forth a few conditions for the marriage. Melissa gets irritated when Tulsidas asks her to change her religion in order to marry Raju.

Jayshree and Hansa think that they will be able to divide the property if Tulsidas gets imprisoned for killing Mellisa. Meanwhile, Raju blames Jayshree for her husband's death, but apologises later. Jayshree decides to convince Tulsidas about Raju and Melissa's marriage.

Jayshree confronts Tulsidas about the condition he put forth for the wedding. She argues that if he cannot adjust with the slightest alteration in his daily routine, he has no right to expect Melissa to change her religion. Tulsidas realizes his mistake and accepts Melissa as his daughter-in-law.

Bhavesh and Praful tease Raju when he gets nervous about his wedding. Later, Raju marries Melissa. During the Graha Pravesh, Melissa kicks the Kalash and finds that it is stuck to the ground.

Jayshree finds that Jacky and Chakki are missing from the house. Later, Praful finds Jacky performing mimicry in front of a crowd while Chakki collects money from the onlookers. When they are brought home, the children reveal that they wanted the money to give Raju and Melissa a surprise party.

Jayshree pretends to be sick and convinces Tulsidas to dance with the kids for a competition. Tulsidas and the kids begin to practice. Meanwhile, a thief enters the kitchen and Tulsidas hurts his leg while chasing him. Despite the pain, he decides to take part in the competition.

After the dance performance, Tulsidas falls down. Meanwhile, Tulsidas, Jacky and Chakki are announced as the winners and are gifted an apartment. However, Chakki and Jacky request Tulsidas to give away the prize to the second prize winners as they are homeless. Will he give it to them?

When Hansa is asked to cook for the family, she pretends to have a leg cramp. Later Jayashree sees her dancing with Praful. The family decides to go on a hunger strike until Hansa cooks a meal. However, Hansa brings food from a restaurant.

Tulsidas appreciates Raju when his photo gets published in the newspaper. He insults Praful for his foolishness. Aggrieved, Hansa asks Praful to do something to get his picture in the newspaper. Praful tells Tulsidas that he will be addressing his office's annual day celebration.

Melissa learns that Praful and Hansa have never fought with each other. With just a week away from their twelfth anniversary, Jayshree vows to Melissa that she will make the couple fight. Jayshree tries to create misunderstandings between them, but fails.

The cable connections gets cut as Praful pays the laundry bill instead of the cable TV bill. Jacky and Chakki are worried as their parents had planned to watch an award ceremony. When they tell Tulsidas, he decides to help them and sends the family for an outing.

Chakki and Jacky trigger a conflict between Hansa and Jayshree. The two wives try to outsmart each other, but fail in their attempts. With Melissa's help, the children hatch a plan. Can they solve the problems between Hansa and Jayshree?

Chakki and Jacky inform Jayshree that they have invited a friend, Rohan, to the house. Rohan comes along with his aunt, Shweta, a television actress. Jacky feels that his mother is inferior to Shweta. However, Jayshree and Shweta make him realize that every profession has its importance.

When Jacky wishes to become an adult, a miracle occurs. However, when the Parekh family finds Jacky missing, they presume that the new Jacky kidnapped their child. They call up the police and get him arrested. Finally, Jacky wakes up from his sleep and realizes it was a dream.

Melissa is scared to celebrate holi and decides to leave for her maternal home. Praful foils Jacky's attempt to stop her. Tulsidas pretends to suffer from a heart attack and tells that he wishes to see everyone in the family celebrating Holi. Will Melissa join the celebration?

Tulsidas invites a saint to make Praful wiser. The saint tells a magic script, which can swap two souls. Jacky decides to use it on his teacher, but by mistake, swaps the souls of Tulsidas and Hansa. Jacky once again reads it wrong, and ends up swapping everyone's souls.

Jayshree asks Tulsidas to take care of Jacky as she is leaving for her uncle's house. However, Jacky gets injured while playing and loses his memory. Tulsidas gets scared to face Jayshree. Later, Jacky reveals to Jayshree that he played a prank as it was April Fools' Day.

Jacky and Chakki vow to win a competition on parents-students day. The Parekh family prepares a scene from the Mahabharat. However, Praful creates confusions and the play becomes comical. Nevertheless, the audience appreciates the play. But can they emerge winners?

The Parekh family plans a trip to a resort. However, the vehicle stops in the middle of a forest as the fuel runs out. Meanwhile, a thief robs Tulsidas and Bhavesh's clothes and ties them to a tree. Later, Chakkki gets lost in the forest.

Chakki meets a stranger in the forest. When the Parekhs reach the resort, they realize that Chakki is missing. Raju goes in search of her, but fails to find her. Later, they spot Chakki with the stranger and assume that he is a kidnapper.

Jayshree pressurizes Jacky to study and vows to fast until he tops the class. However, Jacky falls ill. Later, Rekha informs Jayshree that Jacky had slept through the exams. Jayshree realizes her mistake and apologies to Jacky. Rekha decides to give Jacky another chance to clear the exams.

Mr. Mehta asks Tulsidas to take care of his nephew Oshi. Oshi asks Praful to call his favorite magician. When the magician arrives, Tulsidas calls him a fool. In anger, the magician turns Oshi into a donkey. How will the Parekhs bring back Oshi?

While Tulsidas and Jacky play cricket, he sees Jagan and goes to hit him. Meanwhile, Jagan faints. The family thinks that Tulsidas killed Jagan and discuss how to conceal the murder. Later, the police come and arrest Tulsidas. Suddenly, Tulsidas wakes up and realizes that it was a dream.

Jayshree plans to organize a surprise party for Chakki on her birthday and lies to her that Hansa and Praful are planning a trip to Nainital. Upon learning this, Chakki gets angry as she wanted to give a surprise party to Hansa and Praful.

Raju brings Mayurakshi home. She plans to stay there until her sister's wedding. Meanwhile, Chakki and Jacky call an innocent spirit to frighten Mayurakshi. Later, they tell her scary ghost stories. Tulsidas, meanwhile, pours paints on Praful, by mistake, and Mayurakshi gets scared.

Jayshree calls an astrologer to make Bhavesh work. According to the astrologer's instruction, Bhavesh starts a business. Later, Bhavesh brings home a few clients and Tulsidas becomes happy. However, his happiness is short lived.

Jayshree wants Jacky to realize the value of money and decides to take him to Praful's office. At the office, Praful and Jacky begin to play and an angry Jayshree tells Mr. Mehta about it. He threatens to dismiss Praful if he fails to meet the deadline.

When Tulsidas and the family reach Chakki and Jacky's school, they realize that the teachers are on strike and decide to teach the students. However, the students get fed up with their teaching and decide to support the teachers' strike. Meanwhile, the principal and the staff withdraw the strike.

Jacky wants Anmol to predict the future. Anmol foretells that Tulsidas and Praful will quarrel and a member of their family will die. Anmol tells Tulsidas to prepare for death. Jayashree saves Hansa from getting struck by a rickshaw, but the driver dies. Meanwhile, Tiwariben faints on seeing the body.

Hansa and Jayashree are glad that Himanshu wants Chikki to act in his film. The family discusses the story and title. Meanwhile, Tulsidas yells at Praful for buying lottery tickets instead of flight tickets. The family rushes to the airport. Later, a lady drops a purse into Hansa's handbag.

Tulsidas and his family board the plane to Dubai. The family enjoys sightseeing in Dubai. A stranger snatches Hansa's handbag, in which a lady had dropped a purse. Hansa refuses to leave the place until she gets her handbag back. Who stole her bag?

The thief searches the handbag for diamonds. Later, Praful meets the thief and seeks his help in finding the flower for his wife, and tells him about the missing purse. The thief comes to the hotel to pick up the handbag. Raju identifies him while the thief shoots at him.

Bhavesh pretends getting shot and faints. The thief informs Mantra that there is no necklace in the bag. Meanwhile, Himanshu directs a film in which Tulsidas acts as a beggar. Jayashree insists Melissa accompany her on the water slide. Hansa and Melissa go for the ride.

Jayashree panics as Hansa goes missing. Hansa returns and reveals that she never went on the water slide. Meanwhile, the thief tricks Jacky into going along with him. However, he escapes seeing Raju and Bhavesh. Later, Mantra asks the thief to kidnap Jacky in return for the jewellery.

Jacky is kidnapped while acting in a play. Raju find the diamonds in Hansa's bag and realizes the reason for Jacky's kidnapping. Anmol uses his power to locate Jacky's whereabouts. Jayashree and the family hand over the diamonds and rescue Anmol. They chase the thief and catch him.

A lady distracts Hansa and puts a packet in her bag. The family returns to Mumbai. An inspector, claiming to have information of drug trafficking, checks Hansa's bag. Jacky tells Chakki that he disposed of the packet. Meanwhile, the Parekh family celebrates Raksha Bandhan.

Tulsidas and the kids play a game in which the participants must accept punishment written on chits. Meanwhile, Jacky and Chakki worry about Tulsidas going to an old age home. Tulsidas misunderstands the family wants to get rid of him. However, Jayashree calms his fears.

While Jacky accidentally spills ink on Chakki's painting, Chakki retorts by breaking his toy. The family tries to solve the issue by enacting a court scene. Jayashree and Praful play lawyers. Tulsidas, the judge, sentences Chakki to boarding school for six years. Jacky objects the judgment.

Jayashree returns from a 12-day trip to Bangalore to find Melissa taking her place. She conducts a family poll for the title of best daughter-in-law. Hansa, Jayashree and Melissa contest. Melissa impresses with her speech. Tulsidas tallies the votes and declares Jayashree as the winner.

While playing with ball, Jacky injures his hand. Jayashree rushes him to the hospital. Meanwhile, Himanshu suggests that the hospital better its interiors by hiring pretty girls to welcome the patients. Praful annoys the doctor. Later, Jayashree starts cooking in the hospital.

Jacky and Chakki discuss writing a story for their school magazine. Chakki decides to document Praful and Hansa's love story. Praful's antics get unbearable and his prospective bride breaks the relationship. Later, Tulsidas consoles Praful. He tells the kids of the time when Praful and Hansa fell in love.

Hansa's parents visit to fix the wedding of Hansa and Praful. Tulsidas orders Praful to shut his mouth. Hansa's father is angry on learning that Praful's engagement was broken twice. Tulsidas hits back by reminding him that Hansa's engagement was broken thrice. Himanshu and Jayashree help the couple marry.

While Jayashree and Hansa sing a song on dandiya night, Praful frustrates the family by playing the piano. Meanwhile, Melissa is angry at Raju for flirting with a girl. She asks the girl to tie a rakhi. Later, Jacky and Chakki perform garba rituals while the family enjoys dandiya.

After his wife throws him out of the house, Mr Mehta seeks the Parekhs' help and collapses. He asks the Parekhs to call his family doctor. Mr Mehta's wife visits the Parekh household and takes Mr Mehta back to her house.

The Parekhs celebrate Mami's birthday. Her health worsens when she tries to blow the candle off. Jacky and Chakki discuss Mami's last three wishes. The family tries to fulfil her wishes. Mami thanks the family for their kindness, and tells them to stay in her bungalow after her death.

Jacky and Chakki plan to celebrate diwali. They see a small boy asking his mother for a shirt. They offer to buy the shirt as a diwali gift. Tulsidas is thrilled and feels proud of them. The family enjoys the festival. Meanwhile, Praful and Hansa irritate a jeweller.

Praful offers to help Jacky and Hansa fill their dance class forms. He gets ready to go to Delhi. However, the train meets with an accident. Meanwhile, Jayashree plans to pose as Praful's wife to claim insurance.

The family plays a game of antakshari. During the fun and games, Jayashree misunderstands Tulsidas for backbiting against her. Annoyed, she leaves the house. Raju, Melissa and Bhavesh convince Jayashree to not leave the house. Jacky and Chakki are glad to see Jayashree stay at home.

The school teacher decides to celebrate Children's Day through a drama performance. Hansa informs the school teacher's plan to stage Cinderella's story to Tulsidas and decides to help the teacher in arranging the funds for the play.

Sweety challenges Chakki to a beauty contest. Tulsidas tells Jayashree and Hansa that he is the judge for the competition. Hansa and Jayashree also participate. During the competition, Praful brings a fan regulator instead of camera.

Hansa informs Jayashree about a relative's wedding in Kolkata. Hansa and Parful decide to go to Kolkata to attend the wedding but they miss the train. Meanwhile, a thief tries to steal the jewellery.

Jacky and Chakki tell the family about their impressive exam results. Meanwhile, the family irritates the teachers by attending classes. The family members prepare Hansa and Praful for the exam. Praful and Hansa also pass the exam along with the other family members.

Chakki informs Jayashree that Praful has not visited the office for a month. Praful tells Tulsidas that Mr Mehta terminated him from the job. The family requests Mehta to re-hire Praful. However, Hansa is hired. Hansa irritates Mr Mehta by bringing Praful back to the office.

Parminder invites the family to his nephew's birthday party. However, as per the invitation card, the party is staged at Parekh household. Parminder evokes the wrath of Tulsidas. Meanwhile, Praful and Hansa try to make Himanshu realize his love for Parminder, who prepares to leave for Chandigarh.

Jayshree disguises as a priest to fix Himanshu and Parminder's marriage. However, when Hansa searches for Jayshree, she gives away the costume to Himanshu. However, he runs away when Hansa, Praful and Tulsidas arrive to talk to the priest, unaware that Himanshu is the priest.

Jayashree impersonates a priest to fix Himanshu and Parminder's marriage. While Hansa, Praful and Tulsidas talk to the priest, an angry Himanshu leaves. Meanwhile, Parminder visits the house to accept Himanshu's marriage proposal.

Seeing Falguni's mother leave, Tulsidas challenges Jayshree to stop gossiping for one day. In return, Raju promises to gift her a television. While the family fails, Raju brings a girl to break Jayshree's habit.

Tulsidas challenges Parminder to a kite-flying competition. Praful removes bulbs and lights to prepare threads, which irks Tulsidas. Further, Praful is told to buy 'gum' and instead gets a person, who has 'gham' (sorrow) in life. Later, Jayshree succeeds in cutting Parminder and Tulsidas' kites.

Praful's bag gets exchanged with another person. Later, he puts a cross mark on the cheque when asked for a 'cancelled cheque'. Later, the bag-owner kidnaps Praful. The family gets tensed seeing Praful missing. Later, the kidnappers place Praful's duplicate to retrieve the bag.

Hansa and Chakki suspect the duplicate, seeing his different behavior. On one hand, the original Praful irritates the kidnappers; the duplicate falls ill after eating Hansa's food and reveals the truth.

Jacky informs the family that he has been awarded the Student of the Year title, in his school. Later, he becomes arrogant and misbehaves with the elders. The family decides to teach him a lesson.

Jayshree plans for Himanshu and Parminder's meeting on Valentine's Day. Tulsidas yells at Himanshu for printing menu cards instead of wedding invites. In the midst of Parminder and Tulsidas's tiff, Himanshu proposes to Parminder.

Praful's director-friend casts Hansa as the lead in his film and she consequently joins the gym to lose weight. When the entire family hits the gym, Tulsidas gets a cramp. Praful gets a homeopathy doctor and later, irritates the clients at the gym while Hansa keeps gorging.

Jayshree informs Parminder that there are only 28 days in February and she needn't worry about paying taxes on.

The Parekhs celebrate Holi in Parminder's farmhouse. Praful foolishly orders colors from America and Tulsidas is irked with him. The family then plays Antakshari instead. Meanwhile, a policeman tries to get a bribe from Jacky, Chakki and Himanshu on seeing a dead body; but ends up paying them himself.

Praful washes Tulsidas's spectacles instead of the car glass. The family exchanges positions in the house to determine whether men are better than women. The women are unable to lure customers in the business and Parminder distracts Himanshu, leaving the food burnt.

Bhavesh is thrown out of the house for constantly being hungry. He tells Tulsidas he will earn one lakh rupees in a month. He then advertises prize money of the same amount for the best 'Ghar Jamai'. However, he loses the contest with his speech.

Tulsidas and his family are all set for a basketball match for sports day. Jayshree and Tulsidas are the captains. While Jayshree distracts Hansa, Raju is tempted by food. The game ends with Jayshree's team as winners.

During the race, Himanshu falls down due to his 'hijab'. Parminder and Tulsidas argue on the rituals to be conducted to remove the 'hijab'. Meanwhile, Hansa is concerned about her sari color matching the food. In the end, Madhvi removes the 'hijab'.

Jacky and Chakki are unable to study with the chaos in the house. Later, Praful brings home a singer, who sings in the train, instead of a trained singer. But when Kanchan abuses Praful, Hansa and Jayshree, Jayshree plans to teach her a lesson.

In Melissa's absence, the Parekhs gets a new maid, who adds to the chaos and misunderstanding in the house; but acts innocent in front of Tulsidas. However, the family successfully gets Tulsidas to see the truth and throws her out.

On the eve of Hansa and Praful's wedding anniversary, Tulsidas misses his wife. Later, Sandhya comes to Parekh's house. Jayshree sees a nightmare, in which Tulsidas marries Sandhya. However, when Tulsidas reveals the truth, Jayshree apologizes to Sandhya.

Hansa grabs the pistol from a robber and shows off her skills. As the family tries to escape, one of the robbers faint. Praful acts, as the robber tries to escape. Later, one robber fires at Hansa and the family fights him off.

Hansa grabs the pistol from a robber and shows off her skills. As the family tries to escape, one of the robbers faint. Praful acts, as the robber tries to escape. Later, one robber fires at Hansa and the family fights him off.

The family is celebrating Himanshu's pre-wedding rituals. Praful gets a 'goat' instead of a 'coat', which irks Tulsidas. Jignesh gets everyone involved in the dance and music. Jayshree and Hansa are stunned when Himanshu informs them that Tulsidas is leaving the house.

Himanshu is brought to his wedding at the wrong time. Jignesh forgets to video-shoot and is made to re-shoot the wedding. Meanwhile, Jayshree blackmails the neighbors to cook food and Himanshu books honeymoon tickets for the entire family.

Himanshu brings the family on his honeymoon but forgets his wife and falls sick. Seeing Praful's reaction on his scan report, Himanshu thinks he is going to die and decides to leave Parminder.

Parminder presents a necklace to Himanshu, but is upset when he doesn't gift her anything. Later, Himanshu gifts her an aftershave lotion. During the forest trip, Himanshu, Chakki, Jacky and Bhavesh go missing and Tulsidas is worried.

Hansa and Praful tease Tulsidas for worrying. Later, Tulsidas consoles Jayshree and Hansa as they are tensed about the kids. Meanwhile, Raju gives photographs of the missing members to the police. Parminder attempts suicide thinking she has lost Himanshu. Just then, Himanshu, Jacky, Chakki and Bhavesh arrive.

Praful gets a doctor for Parminder's skin allergy. Despite Jacky and Chakki's warnings, Parminder is taken to the temple for a holy bath. There, the tribals kidnap the family and Praful teases the tribal king. Irked by the family's nonsense, the tribals release them.

The family is planning Himanshu and Parminder's first night. However, the tribal king wants Tulsidas to marry his sister. Hansa and Praful innocently accept his proposal.

Jayshree exchanges Tulsidas's new shirt for utensils. Later, she overhears Tulsidas telling Jacky and Chakki about the valuables in the shirt pocket. Later, Jayshree finds the shirt and is shocked to see Raju's photo in the pocket.

As a punishment for hitting Jacky in school, Rahul is ordered to stay with the Parekhs for a week. Rahul gets irritated with Praful and Hansa, and wishes to go back to the hostel. Tulsidas consoles him and convinces him to stay back.

Hansa, Praful and Bhavesh make fun of Tulsidas while playing cricket. Meanwhile, Hansa advises Tulsidas to divide the house. Later, Himanshu, Jayshree, Jacky and Chakki get the family back together.

Jayshree wants to sell the old, damaged car and get a new one. Meanwhile, Hansa and Praful win a new car after answering a quiz. Later, Praful and Hansa arrange an auction of old household items and Tulsidas buys his old car. Praful buys a remote car.