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Bakaiti Season 1

7 episodes · about 2 hours · complete season

2025 · all episodes at once · Hindi · ZEE5

Filmi Score · season 1

Mixed

3 reviews · provisional

Age guidance

13 and up

U/A 7+ · rated by ZEE5 · Family Room ↓

13+

Series premise

Set in old Ghaziabad, this heartwarming series follows the Kataria family grappling with a financial crunch. When Naina is forced to share her room with her younger brother Bharat, sibling tensions rise.

Where to watch

No listing found for the US.Available in India on ZEE5.

All seasons

Season 12025 · 7 episodesMixed · 3 reviews13+

Season 22026 · 7 episodesNot yet scored · 2 reviews read so far7+

Cast & crew

Season 1 directed byAmeet Guptha

Cast

Rajesh Tailang

Sheeba Chaddha

Tanya Sharma

Aaditya Shukla

Poonam Jangra

Ramesh Rai

Pravinder Jit Singh

Devishi Madaan

Series premise

Where to watch

No listing found for the US.Available in India on ZEE5.

Family Room

Is Bakaiti season 1 OK for kids?

Parents should know

A middle-class Ghaziabad family drama about financial strain; siblings bicker loudly, parents cope under pressure, and a teenage daughter has a mild crush on the family's tenant. Critics highlight family distress but note no violence or language.

ViolenceNo review evidence yet

LanguageNo review evidence yet

Drinking, smoking, drugsNo review evidence yet

The record, item by item

Intense scenes · Moderate · Reviewer on record

“immense distress that is brought on by forced sacrifices and compromises” view the record →

Positive messages · Clear · Reviewer on record

“enough love among themselves to rally when the muck unerringly hits the fan” view the record →

Role models · Some · Reviewer on record

“a woebegone patriarch not above frustration and pride, fighting multiple fires on every front” view the record →

Sex & nudity · Mild · Reviewer on record

“whom Naina starts batting her eyelids at” view the record →

What the critics said

3 reviews read · the critic’s own number where they gave one

The Hollywood Reporter India

Shilajit Mitra · 4 Aug 2025

Mitra calls Bakaiti a mild, market-friendly family dramedy that keeps defusing its own conflicts with a repeat-and-reset rhythm, but singles out… Read it there →

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Nandini Ramnath · 1 Aug 2025

Ramnath finds the constantly sniping Katarias exhausting and their bid for sympathy questionable, but credits the show for surfacing how a… Read it there →

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The Indian Express

Shubhra Gupta · 1 Aug 2025

2/5, stated in the text — not a formal rating. Read it there →

Stated in textFilmi’s reading 36