The show revolves around Imarti
Devi, a lady who rules her family
with an iron hand, absolute dictator style with her having the final
say in all matters. She is terror
personified for her two bahus
against whom she is always
ready with an artillery of snide
and sarcastic remarks that she
uses at the first given oppurtunity. The two bahus have little
choice, but to live in constant
fear of provoking their mother-inlaw and facing her wrath. While
the bitterness is towards the
bahus, Imarti's love is reserved
for her youngest son Anuj. But all
hell breaks loose, when he goes
against his mother's wishes and
admits his love for a girl in their
neighbourhood. On a parallel
track, Ambi is a simple middle
class girl, who's trying to save
her sister's daughter from the
cruel treatment being meted out
to her by her neice's new stepmom. While Hema Singh as
Imarti does absolute justice to
the character and her 'Ambe' is
enough to strike fear in the
hearts of her bahus, the same
old kitchen politics of the saas
bahu track is hardly appealing.
Also the constant bickering between Imarti and the people living downstairs gets a bit too
much to deal in the name of entertainment. Jay is strictly okay in
his cutesy act, and both Deepti
and Roshni as the bahus are just
passable. But it's Preeti Chaudhary as Ambi, whose track is
something that you look forward
to and the actor is impressive
too. It will be interesting to see
when Ambi crosses paths with
Imarti, but till then it lacks that
wow factor that'll keep you glued
to the show. Entertainment
comes in medium doses in this
family-bonder, but since it relies
heavily on the saas bahu nokjhok that we've seen ample times
already, it gets very predictable.