Mithai (transl. Sweet) is a 2021 Indian Bengali romantic comedy drama television series that premiered on 4 January 2021 on Zee Bangla. The show is also available on the digital platform ZEE5 before its telecast. The show is produced by Zee Bangla. It stars Soumitrisha Kundu as Mithai Modak and Adrit Roy as Siddharth Modak.[1][2]

Mithai
Genre	Family drama Romance Comedy
Created by	Samrat Ghosh
Screenplay by	Saswati Ghosh
Story by	Saswati Ghosh
Directed by	Rajendra Prasad Das
Creative director	Saswati Ghosh
Starring	Soumitrisha Kundu Adrit Roy
Opening theme	"Sukhe Dukhe Misti Mukhe Mithai" by Prashmita Paul
Composer	Suvam Moitra
Country of origin	India
Original language	Bengali
No. of episodes	584
Production
Executive producers	Krishanu Ganguly Priyanka Seth Aniruddha Ghosh (Zee Bangla)
Producer	Zee Bangla
Production location	Kolkata Bharat Lakshmi Studio
Cinematography	Shantu Datta
Editors	Jishu Nath Biplab Mondal
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	22 minutes
Production company	Zee Bangla
Distributor	ZEE5 Zee Entertainment Enterprises
Release
Original network	Zee Bangla
Picture format	SDTV 576i HDTV 1080i
Original release	4 January 2021 (2021-01-04) - present
Chronology
Related shows	Ninaithale Inikkum Mithai

Synopsis

Mithai is a cheerful sweetseller. She travels to Modak family to sell sweets and over time, makes bond with them like a family member. One day Mithai escapes to Monohora from her wedding with an unworthy lad named Lokai and hence Dadu decides to get Mithai married to Siddhartha who refuses to marry Mithai because he doesn't believe in marriage as his parents had an unhappy marriage which he saw in his childhood. Then Dadu decides to get Mithai married to Som who backs out on the wedding day. Therefore, Sid has to marry Mithai to save Dadai's honour, but Mithai's marital life is disturbed by Sid's indifference and Torsha's interference. The story also shows a lot of characters present in Monohora with their personal love life including Ratul, Rajib, Sreetama, Sreenipa, Rudra, Sreenanda, Sandip, Dhara. Eventually, Sid accepts Mithai as his wife and to take revenge from Mithai, Torsha marries Som and enters Modak house. Gradually, love blossoms between Sid and Mithai and the other couples also. This culturally rich story revolves around traditional Bengali sweets, love and family bonding amidst joys and sorrows.

Cast

Main

• Soumitrisha Kundu as Mithai Modak (née Das) aka Mithai Rani – Late Sudip and late Parbati's only daughter; Siddhartha's wife; a former sweet seller from Janai and now handles the family business Siddheshwar Modak Group.
• Adrit Roy as Siddharth Modak aka Sid / Siddie / Modak Babu / Uchchhe Babu – Samaresh and late Arati's son; Somdeb's younger brother, Sreetama's elder brother; Mithai's husband; former senior executive architect in a corporate company named PCG, and present head of marketing and sales of Siddheshwar Modak Group.
  • Ricky Roy aka "Ricky the Rockstar" - a famous rockstar, Angie's fake boyfriend.

Recurring

Modak family

• Diya Mukherjee as Sreetama Mitra (née Modak) aka Sree – Ratul's wife; Aroti and Samaresh's daughter; Anuradha's stepdaughter; Somdeb and Siddhartha's younger sister; Nanda, Sandy and Nipa's cousin sister, Mithai and Rajib's sister-in-law.
• Uday Pratap Singh as Ratul Mitra – Sree's husband; Rajib's younger brother; Somdeb, Siddhartha, Nanda, Sandy, Nipa's brother-in-law, Dhara's younger maternal cousin, Mithai's good friend.
• Prriyam Chakraborty / Kaushambi Chakraborty as Sreenanda Mitra (née Bose) aka Nanda – Rajib's wife; Ratul's elder sister-in-law; Somdeb's younger cousin sister; Siddhartha, Sreetama, Sandy and Nipa's elder cousin sister, Dhara's elder maternal cousin-in-law.[3]
• Sourav Chatterjee as Rajib Mitra – Nanda's husband; Ratul's elder brother; Somdeb's younger cousin brother-in-law; Siddhartha, Sreetama, Sandy and Nipa's elder cousin brother-in-law, Dhara's elder maternal cousin.
• Tonni Laha Roy as Torsha Roy aka Tess – Som's wife, Siddhartha's former friend and colleague and now sister-in-law, Reboti's daughter, Mithai's former rival and PCG Kolkata branch head, Modak family's eldest daughter-in-law.
• Dhrubajyoti Sarkar as Somdeb Modak (née Dutta) aka Som – Torsha's husband; Tridibesh and Joyeeta's biological son; Samaresh and Arati's adopted son, Siddhartha and Sreetama's elder brother; Nanda, Sandy, Nipa's elder cousin brother; Mithai's former rival now turned to be Mithai's elder brother-in-law.
• Biswabasu Biswas / Omkar Bhattacharya as Sandip Modak aka Sandy – Somdeb, Siddhartha and Nanda's younger cousin brother, Pinky's husband, Sreetama's elder cousin brother, Nipa's elder brother; Mithai, Rajib and Ratul's brother-in-law.[4]
• Ananya Guha as Pinky Modak (née Agarwal) - Sandy's former student and wife ; Omi and Aditya's younger sister.[5]
• Oindrila Saha as Sreenipa Banerjee (née Modak) aka Nipa – Somdeb, Siddhartha, Sreetama, Nanda's younger cousin sister, Sandy's younger sister, Pinky's sister-in-law, Rudra's wife.
• Fahim Mirza as ACP Rudradeb Banerjee aka Rudra / Ruddy – Siddhartha's senior and his best friend, Mithai's declared brother, Nipa's husband, Sandy's brother-in-law.
• Biswajit Chakraborty as Siddheshwar Modak (Dadu or Dadai) / Siddu – Somdeb, Sreenanda, Siddhartha, Sandip, Sreetama, Sreenipa's grandfather; Samu, Amu and Apa's father; Aroti, Anuradha, Sulata and Brotin's father-in-law, head of Modak family and owner of Siddheshwar Modak group, a leading sweet producing company.
• Swagata Basu as Sushoma Modak (née Ghosh) – Somdeb, Sreenanda, Siddhartha, Sandip, Sreetama, Sreenipa's grandmother (Thammi or Dimma); Samu, Amu and Apa's mother; Aroti, Anuradha, Sulata and Brotin's mother-in-law, matriarch of the Modak family.
• Kaushik Chakraborty as Samaresh Modak aka Samu – Late Aroti's husband; Anuradha's husband, Somdeb's guardian, Siddhartha and Sreetama's father, Torsha, Mithai and Ratul's father-in-law, Nanda's maternal uncle, Sandy and Nipa's paternal uncle, Joyeeta's former boyfriend, Tridib's former close friend, Amu and Apa's elder brother.
• Moyna Mukherjee as Late Aroti Modak – Samaresh's late wife; Somdeb's late adoptive mother, Siddhartha and Sreetama's late mother, Parbati's close friend, Torsha, Mithai and Ratul's late mother-in-law, Nanda's late maternal aunt, Sandy and Nipa's late paternal aunt, Amu and Apa's late elder sister-in-law. (flashback)
• Bidipta Chakraborty as Anuradha Modak aka Anu - a famous interior designer, Lalita's daughter, Samaresh's second wife; Somdeb, Siddhartha and Sreetama's stepmother, Torsha, Mithai and Ratul's stepmother-in-law.[6]
• Sandip Chakraborty as Amaresh Modak aka Amu – Sulata's husband; Somdeb, Siddhartha and Sreetama's paternal uncle, Nanda's maternal uncle, Somu's younger brother, Apa's elder brother, Sandy and Nipa's father, Pinky and Rudra's father-in-law.
• Lopamudra Sinha as Sulata Modak – Amu's wife; Somdeb, Siddhartha and Sreetama's paternal aunt, Nanda's maternal aunt, Sandy and Nipa's mother, Pinky and Rudra's mother-in-law.
• Arpita Mukherjee as Aparajita Bose (née Modak) aka Apa/Khuki – Brotin's wife; Somdeb, Siddhartha, Sreetama, Sandy, Nipa's paternal aunt, Nanda's mother, Rajib's mother-in-law, Somu and Amu's younger sister.
• Arijit Chowdhury / Raja Chatterjee as Brotin Bose – Apa's husband; Somdeb, Siddhartha, Sreetama, Sandy, Nipa's paternal uncle, Nanda's father, Rajib's father-in-law.
• Arkoja Acharya as Basundhara Basu aka Dhara – an IPS Officer; Rudra's old crush and close friend, Rajib and Ratul's maternal cousin.[7]

Mithai's maiden family

• Boni Mukherjee as Late Parbati Das – Late Sudip's wife; Mithai's mother, Siddhartha's mother in law, Aroti's close friend.
• Debrishi Chatterjee as Gulti – Mithai's younger cousin brother.
• Suchandra Banerjee as Saswati Das – Mithai's aunt; Gulti's mother.
• Arnab Bhadra as Gour Das - Mithai's uncle; Gulti's father.

Others

• Aditi Chatterjee as Reboti Roy – Torsha's mother, a lawyer, Somdeb's mother-in-law.
• Neil Chatterjee as Aditya Agarwal – Siddhartha's childhood friend and Modak family business rival's son; Mr. Agarwal's eldest son, Omi and Pinky's elder brother.
• Arghya Mukherjee as Animesh Mitra – Rajib and Ratul's father, Nanda and Sreetama's father-in-law; Basundhara's uncle.
• Sanjuktaa Roy Chowdhury as Susmita Mitra (née Pal) – Rajib and Ratul's mother, Nanda and Sreetama's mother-in-law; Basundhara's aunt.
• Niladri Lahiri as Arunesh Ghosh – former PCG Kolkata branch head and Siddhartha's former boss.
• Probol Biswas as Biswas Babu, a criminal and divorce lawyer and a long time customer of Siddheshwar Sweets, Mithai's declared uncle.
• Partha Sarathi Deb as Sushovan Ghosh – Sushoma's elder brother.
• Indranil Mallick as Indra – Sreetama's senior, friend and also her one-sided lover.
• Samir Biswas as Swami Achutananda Maharaj – Gurudeb of Ashram. (Gurukunja)
• Anindya Chakrabarti as Dr. Tridibesh Basu aka Tridib – Samaresh's former close friend, Joyeeta's former lover, Som's biological father.
• Rupsha Guha as Joyeeta Dutta – Samaresh's former girlfriend; Tridibesh's former lover, Som's biological mother.
• Raktim Samanta as Ganeswar aka Ghontu – Modak family's relative, Nosu's son, Siddeshwar's grandnephew, Makhon's brother.
• Debapratim Dasgupta as Nosu – Ghontu's father, Samu, Amu and Apa's cousin brother.
• Promita Chakraborty as Satarupa aka Satty – NRI college friend of Siddhartha and Torsha.
• Kunal Banerjee as Kunal - Satty's husband.
• John Bhattacharya as Late Omi Agarwal - Mr. Agarwal's younger son, Aditya's younger brother, Pinky's elder brother. [8]
• Dwaipayan Das as Gogol Mitra, a student and group partner of Mithai at Excel English Academy..
• Deerghoi Paul as Julie - Gogol's girlfriend.
• Sudeshna Roy as Mrs. Chatterjee - English tutor at Excel English Academy.
• Kheyali Dastidar as Sreetama's college teacher aka Hitler mam.
• Arindam Ganguly as Nabin - husband of Sreetama's college teacher.
• Suchandrima as Madhuchanda Roy - chief nutritionist at "Wellness Multi-Speciality Hospital".
• Vicky Nandy as Pratik Sanyal - a journalist from Daily News Express who interviewed Mithai.
• Shraboni Bonik as Mandira Chatterjee - a famous industrialist.
• Anuradha Mukherjee as Priyanjali Sen aka Angie - Ricky's fake girlfriend.[9]
• Saptarshi Roy as Aniruddha Sen - Angie's father.
• Bhavana Banerjee as Channel Coordinator of the serial in which Pinky and Sulata act.[10]
• Ananda Chowdhury as Suman - Director of the serial in which Pinky and Sulata act.
• Baisakhi Marjit as Lalita - Siddheshwar's childhood friend; Anuradha's mother; Samaresh's mother-in-law, a socialite.[11]
• Rudrajit Mukherjee as Sudipto Roy - A special crime branch officer, Rudra's junior colleague.[12]
• Ridhiman Kha as Mainak - Head of the Bomb Squad.

Guest appearance

• Ditipriya Roy as herself - at the opening ceremony of "Mithai Hub"[13][14]
• Soumili Biswas as herself - judge of cooking show Healthy হেশেল
• Mimi Dutta as herself - Anchor of cooking show Healthy হেশেল
• Jayanta Banerjee as himself - judge of cooking show Healthy হেশেল
• Jojo as herself as an entertainer in the cooking show Healthy হেশেল

Reception

Critics

The Times of India quoted the series that "Mithai will tell you a sweet love story".[15]

Viewership

Mithai became the most watched television series in Bengal. Beginning with a good viewership, after a few weeks, the series soon became the top rated Bengali television program garnering a record viewership, maintaining the first position consistently in the BARC's weekly viewership charts.[16][17] As on week 4 of 2022, Mithai had been holding the top position on West Bengal Television TRP charts since last 44 weeks starting week 13 of 2021.[18]

TRP Ratings

2021

2022

Adaptations

Special & Crossover episodes

• On 15 April 2021, Mithai held a Mega episode titled as "Mithai Boishakhi Halkhata" marking the 100th episode which is aired for non-stop two hours on Thursday[100]. This special episode successfully received 5.94 million impressions and occupied the first position of the TRP rating in Week 15 of 2021.[101]

In popular culture

There was a clip of an episode where Mithai (Soumitrisha Kundu) made a new sweet named Uchche Babu. A fan made this sweet in real life and soon it went viral on social media.[102] Few days later, this sweet hit the markets.[103]

References

External links

• Mithai at IMDb
• Mithai at ZEE5