Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai - Recurring Characters

Recurring Characters

Most episodes involve the five members of the immediate family. Members of the extended family and friends make regular appearances and plots of some episodes are centred around these characters as well.

• Sonya (played by Kshitee Jog / Shital Thakkar): Sonya is the second child and only daughter of Indravadan and Maya. She is married to Dushyant. She does exhibit some of the hypocritical socialite attitude of Maya but to a lesser degree. She is heavily into the occult and specializes in reading the Tarot.

• Dushyant (played by the director Deven Bhojani): Dushyant is Maya's son-in-law, married to her daughter Sonya. He makes more appearances than his wife and is much despised by the rest of the family, even by the normally affable Monisha. He has a morbid fascination for electronic appliances from toasters to tubelights, from refrigerators to elevators. When the rest of the family is busy contemplating a serious matter, he creates much chaos by quoting facts about electronic brands and their technical details. He seems to be an in-house mechanic and electrical expert, going to great extents to explain the working of electrical goods and often using Rosesh as a guinea pig to explain the working of appliances. He often uses the catchphrase "I'll explain..." Another regular comic gimmick from his side is him calling up the Sarabhais, mostly at midnight, and advising them not to buy the goods of a certain company because they are faulty (mostly they are inappropriate things like tractors or dish antennas).

• Ilaben (played by Rita Bhaduri): Indravadan's sister. She often visits Indravadan & Maya's house and helps them in some issues. She is married to Madhusudhan.

• Madhusudan (played by Arvind Vaidya): Madhubhai is Indravadan's brother-in-law, married to his sister Ilaben. He is hard of hearing and refuses to use a hearing aid. He usually does not acknowledge the fact that he cannot hear and blames others for speaking too softly. He is particularly bothersome to Indu; he interjects almost always with a "hein?" A lot of humour is derived from his misinterpretations and the difficulty that people have explaining things to him. His wife Ilaben is often amused by this.

• Ba (played by Tarla Joshi): Mother of Indravadan and Ilaben. She has been dead for five years. She appears in flashback scenes. She ridicules Maya for being snooty.

Other characters include the maid Radhabai, the manservant Vitthal (played by Ghanashyam Nayak), Maya's socialite friends Baldev and his wife Sarupa, Sarita and her husband Dinesh, and Maya's distant cousins Videesha (played by Usha Bachani) and Nayesha (played by Sumeet Raghavan in a double role).