Chumbak

They printed August 28 on the teaser. The colony moved in on September 10.

Netflix India announced Chumbak on July 31 with a premiere of August 28 and a line about five neighbours who never need an invitation , . Two days before that date, the official trailer landed and the premiere slid to September 10 , , . Outlook put the slip in the headline next to the new pictures. Nobody offered a public reason. The show still came from Hats Off Productions, Aatish Kapadia writing and directing, Jamnadas "JD" Majethia producing, the same pairing behind Sarabhai vs Sarabhai and Khichdi . latestnetflix.com's read is that Deven Bhojani and Sumeet Raghavan are back in that company.Helly Shah shares the frame with Anant V. Joshi again after Gullak 5 . Cinema Express said cameras wrapped in March .

The title is the Hindi word for magnet. The colony is fictional. The neighbourhood is Chembur, the real century-old Mumbai suburb Tudum names in the cast guide . Five families share row houses and each other's business. Netflix's own logline is five neighbours, ten friends, and endless hungama . Tanya Bami, Series Head for Netflix India, sold it as the next family-comedy flavour after The Great Indian Kapil Show and Maamla Legal Hai, and as a chance to put Kapadia and Majethia's comic voice on the service .

Kuku cannot remember his wife's name. Rajni is still in the marriage.

The joke the press kept repeating is also the plot. Kuku Merchant, Bhojani, is a retired pilot who once landed a Bangalore flight in Mangalore. He lives with dementia. He cannot keep Rajni's name in his head. Neena Gupta's Rajni is a sari designer who is tired of parenting the man she married and will not stop caring for him . India Today's Anisha Rao called the sitcom silly and hard to dislike, and wrote that all eight episodes were streaming after the September 10 drop . Netflix's title page and Tudum list 16 episodes , . Anyone who finished "the season" in a weekend may only have finished the first stack.

The rest of the colony is built for interruption. Arjun Bijlani's Mickey is a cardiac surgeon married to Helly Shah's Twinkle, a model whose father Nari, Atul Kumar, is a hotelier the guide calls "allegedly a mafia don" . Sumeet Vyas and Manasi Parekh are the Khannas, deadpan ad man and the neighbour you hear coming. Sandeepa Dhar's Kiran is a flight attendant married to Raghavan's Dharmendra, an actor famous for playing women on a talk show , . Amyra Dastur's Hutoxi is writing a book called The Chumbak Chapters about all of them . Episode 1, on Netflix's title page, starts with Kuku going missing and Rajni enlisting the block to find him, then discovering a truth about the marriage .

Two days after launch, The Telegraph reported the show at No. 1 on Netflix India's Top 10 . Deepa Gahlot at Rediff called it an old-style sitcom with its own charms. Troy Ribeiro at The Free Press Journal said the magnetic pull was toward yesterday , . The Sarabhai people came to Netflix, the date slipped, India still put it first, and the argument is whether this is a reunion or a rerun.