Chotti Bahu
Created by	DJ's a Creative Unit
Written by	Shilpa Choubay Sushil Choubay Sanjay Kumar Damini Kanwal Shetty Raaj Shetty Dilip Jha Archita Biswas Jha S. Manasvi
Directed by	Mohit jha, Meesha Gautam,khalid Akhtar
Starring	Rubina Dilaik Avinash Sachdev
Music by	Dony Hazarika
Opening theme	Choti Bahu (Season 1) "Baavre Naina" by Krishna Beura "Har Raah Tere" by Ali Aslam (Season 2)
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	2[1]
No. of episodes	801
Production
Producers	Tony Singh Deeya Singh
Production locations	Mathura Mumbai
Running time	20 minutes
Production company	DJ's a Creative Unit
Original release
Network	Zee TV
Release	8 December 2008 (2008-12-08) – 18 May 2012 (2012-05-18)

Chotti Bahu is an Indian drama television series produced by DJ's a Creative Unit. Season one aired from 8 December 2008 to 17 September 2010 and season two aired from 15 February 2011 to 18 May 2012 on Zee TV.^[2] It starred Rubina Dilaik as Radhika and Avinash Sachdev as Dev. Sasural Simar Ka 2 Serial was inspired by this story .

Plot

Choti Bahu is the love saga of two soulmates Dev and Radhika.

Season 1

Shastriji and Devaki live in a Vrindavan, and they have two daughters, Radhika (Rubina Dilaik), who is an adopted child, and Vishakha Shastri (Priyanka Tiwari). Radhika is simple and dutiful, whereas Vishakha wants to be an actress in Bollywood. She is headstrong and selfish. Vishakha and Radhika share a close bond. The Purohits are a well to do from Janakpuri Delhi and have their ancestral home in Vrindavan. They have two sons - Vivek and Dev (Avinash Sachdev). The Purohits have great expectations from Dev who falls in love with Radhika. But fate wills otherwise, and he thinks he marries Vishakha due to a confusion. The story takes a dramatic turn when Radhika enters Dev's house, and the stage is set for an unusual love triangle, with each character grappling with peculiar dilemmas.^[3]

Season 2

Ruby Bhardwaj (Rubina Dilaik), a Brahmin by birth, was adopted and brought up by a family of weavers in a small town called Rawal. Dev (Avinash Sachdev), whose family has been in the service of Rajpurohits for generations, visits Rawal as a child on the occasion of Radhashtami. Dev and Radhika meet each other and become good friends. Radhika and Dev get married at a young age whilst playing.

Cast

Season 1

Main

• Rubina Dilaik as Radhika Purohit
• Avinash Sachdev as Dev Purohit

Recurring

• Abhinav Shukla as Vikram
• Gopi Desai as Vinodini "Ammaji" Shastri
• Keerti Gaekwad Kelkar as Mrinalini Vivek Purohit
• Rajeev Kumar as Vivek Purohit
• Hiten Tejwani as Shantanu Purohit
• Harjot Singh Dhaliwal as Chota Purohit
• Prabha Sinha as Vaishali Raj Purohit
• Priyanka Tiwari as Vishakha Shastri
• Rishi Khurana as Birju
• Snehal Sahay as Mrs Purohit
• Rita Bhaduri as Shanti Purohit
• Samta Sagar as Devaki Brijmohan Shastri
• Rajeev Verma as Pandit Brijmohan Shastri
• Raj Logani as Arjun Purohit
• Sanjay Batra as Sushil Purohit
• Darshan Kumar as Purab
• Shashank Sethi as Keshav Chaubey
• Surendra Pal as Raj Purohit
• Sonia Singh as Kanika Yaduvanshi
• Vineet Kumar Chaudhary as Rajjan Yaduvanshi
• Sheeba Chaddha as Katyani Yaduvanshi
• Drashti Dhami (Guest)
• Divyanka Tripathi as Vidya
• Prachi Desai as Bani
• Ankita Lokhande as Archana
• Rajshree Thakur as Saloni

Season 2

Main

• Rubina Dilaik as Radhika Purohit
• Avinash Sachdev as Dev Purohit

Recurring

• Gopi Desai as Dai Maa
• Benaf Dadachandji as Barkha
• Sourav Chakraborty as Rohan Harinath Purohit
• Micckie Dudaaney as Virat Gopaldas Purohit
• Sushmita Daan as Padma Harinath Purohit
• Rakesh Pandey as Dadaji
• Sangeeta Kapure as Mohini Virat Purohit
• Chayan Trivedi as Gopaldas Purohit
• Aditya Lakhia as Mansaram
• Sidharth Sen as Chhenu
• Garima Shrivastav as Shanti Radhika's stepmother
• Shivam Jagtap as Chhenu (young age)
• Nishant Shokeen / Pracheen Chauhan as Lord Krishna
• Aman Verma as Asur / Vishwanath
• Vinay Jain as Rishikesh Bhardwaj (RB)
• Kishwer Merchant as Sonia Rishikesh Bhardwaj
• Vijayendra Kumeria as Jolly Bhardwaj
• Srishty Rode as Radha Rani / Madhvi
• Ahmad Harhash as Ranjeet Roy Bhardwaj

Series overview

The show had two seasons titled Chotti Bahu – Sindoor Bin Suhagan and Chhoti Bahu - Sawar Ke Rang Rachi. Chotti Bahu season one created history by extending the prime time slot to early prime time 7:30 pm. The second season was brought back on public demand with a new plot and same lead actors.^[4][5]

Distribution

The series was popular in Mauritius, the West Indies, Romania, the United States, Trinidad, Malaysia, Thailand, Uganda, Guyana and South Africa. Chotti Bahu season rerun was aired in Zee Anmol in India and Zee Lamhe in the UK during 2014 and 2015. The show was also broadcast on MBC Digital 4 in Mauritius.

Dubbed version of the serial was telecast in Tamil language as Chinna Marumagal in Zee Tamil. It was remade twice in Telugu language as Chinna Kodalu and Vaidehi Parinayam which aired on Zee Telugu and remade in Kannada as Radha Kalyana which aired on Zee Kannada.

The series currently airs on Zee Zindagi from 23 May 2016 under the title Vrindawan ki Radhika. The channel has picked the show as it features a universal theme, which is a reflection of the channel's brand promise of providing its viewers with Bemisal Kahaniyan. The series is running on Zee Anmol since 29 April 2019 to 5 January 2020 the series again ran on Zee TV from 16 August 2019. The series again re-ran on Zee Anmol since 10 June 2020. Season 2 started re-running on Big Magic from 14 December 2020.