When India’s first-generation home entertainment carnival took off on TV with the advent of Doordarshan in the eighties, comedy was pretty much defined by one show – ‘Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi’, every Friday at primetime. Put simply, it was about a young middle-class couple, Ranjit and Renu, played impeccably by one of television’s greatest comic duos ever, Shafi Inamdar and Swaroop Sampat. The picture of chaos in their lives was completed by Renu’s young brother, Raja (Rakesh Bedi in his television debut).
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