Gupta Brothers

Alok, Veeru and Rajat arrange Shiv and Ganga's nuptial night, where Ganga decides that they will not consider about their own family until Shiv's brothers, whom Ganga now considers as her own children are completely settled. Shiv is taken aback, but respecting Ganga's bold decision accepts and start their life together.

The Gupta family is now a happy family with the three younger Gupta brothers looking upon Shiv and Ganga as their parents. During a festive moment, Shiv and Ganga notice Alok and Jaya closeness and doubt on their relation. Upon demand, Jaya reveals that she has been in love with Alok since childhood and also believes that Alok who is a changed man now, is reciprocating her feelings. This leads to Shiv and Ganga, misunderstand that Alok and Jaya love each other. Though initially reluctant, Shiv decides to marry off Alok and Jaya for his brother's happiness, which is when, it is revealed that Alok loves another girl, Aditi, the daughter of one their rich dealers Bansal. Upon learning more about Bansal, Alok broken-heartedly decides to marry Jaya. On the other hand, he breaks-up with Aditi, while lying to her that his love was fake. On the day of Alok and Jaya's marriage, Aditi learns the truth and also realizes that her father was the master-plan behind breaking hers and Alok's relation. Aditi decides to win back Alok. She elopes from her house and emotionally blackmails Alok that she would give up her life if he wouldn't marry her. Helpless, Alok marries Aditi, shattering Jaya and her family. To secure Jaya's future, Ganga asks Veeru to marry Jaya, to which both oppose as both of them have always hated each other. However, in the end, for the sake of the happiness of their families, Veeru and Jaya agree to marry each other. Thus, Alok gets married to Aditi, while Veeru to Jaya.

After Aditi–Alok and Veeru–Jaya's marriage, Ganga and Shiv struggle to keep their family united as constant issues crop in between Aditi and Jaya, because Aditi is always insecure about Jaya's presence. Aditi also has difficulty to adjust with the middle-class conditions of the family as she has always led a luxurious life till then. Veeru and Jaya always quarrel with each other due to their differences. Ganga and Shiv strive hard to keep the unity of the family together, however Amba strives to divide the Gupta family.

Thus, Amba instigates Bansal, who wants his daughter and son–in–law, to live with him, Aditi–Alok, against the Gupta family. Amba herself was using Bansal as she wants her daughter, Jaya, to live a queen's life in Gupta family. Provoked by Amba, Bansal stops all his supplies to Gupta & Sons grocery store. This causes a major loss for the Guptas and Shiv decides to get help from his acquaintances of Mirzapur. In Shiv's Absence, when a man named Mishra, who is in fact of Amba, offers help to the Gupta family. Alok retracts from accepting the offer. However, Veeru, in order to help his family and to prove himself in front of his wife, Jaya, who always considers him to be good-for-nothing, accepts Mishra's offer going against Alok.

Amba's plan succeeds with the Health Inspectors inspecting the stale and expired products in Gupta & Sons grocery store and thus leading to seal the store. The Guptas are devastated and things go more downhill with the police coming to arrest Alok for the Foodborne illness caused by the stale and expired products of Gupta & Sons. Shiv and Veeru try to save Alok, by getting arrested instead of him. Nevertheless, Alok stops his brothers and gets arrested taking the entire responsibility of Foodborne illness upon himself. While, Shiv–Veeru try to release Alok through law, Ganga reaches Bansal for help. Bansal puts forth a condition that he will help Ganga, in return of Aditi–Alok. Ganga is crossed to learn Bansal's perspectives of considering family–relations as business. Ganga denies to ever bid her family in return of anything in this world. As Ganga leaves, Bansal realizes that Aditi had overheard his and Ganga's entire conversation. Bansal tries to emotionally blackmail his daughter once again. But, this time Aditi confronts her father for all his evil acts against her (Gupta) family and vows that she will break all ties with her father if he ever tries plot against her family.

Later, Ganga, Shiv and Veeru make-up with the Foodborne illness victims' families and help Alok get released from jail. At the same time, Jaya too catches Mishra proving the innocence of the Guptas in the case of Foodborne illness. The whole Gupta family rejoice over surpassing the great trouble in their family. However, things are still unstable between Aditi–Jaya with Jaya misunderstanding the main culprit behind all the scams in Gupta family to be Bansal (when it is her mother, Amba); while Aditi is always insecure with Alok-Jaya's proximity. Tensions also continue to prevail between Veeru–Jaya. However, Aditi, aware of her father's misdeeds, accepts the Gupta family more and is able to have a better cordial relation with everyone in the family, except for Jaya.

Ganga and Shiv decide to send the newly-weds, Aditi–Alok and Veeru–Jaya for honeymoon. During their honeymoon, Veeru–Jaya have a huge brawl in the hotel, with Jaya leaving the room saddened and annoyed. She is about to meet with an accident, when Alok saves her and promises Jaya that he will be always at her side as a friend. Unfortunately, Aditi watches it and fumes with jealousy. She calls Veeru and questions his wife's character to which Veeru's stays dumb. In the room, Veeru assures, he trusts Jaya, having known of her friendship with Alok since childhood. This betters the matters between Veeru–Jaya a bit. While, on the other side, Aditi confesses to Alok, how much insecure she is about his and Jaya's relation and wants Alok to prove his loyalty to her.

In Banaras, Ganga–Shiv are called for a Baby shower ceremony, where Ganga is criticized for being childless. However, Rajat retaliates to the criticisms, by calling Ganga Bhabhi-maa and affirming that Ganga is also his mother. Later, Ganga-Shiv decide to renovate and enlarge their house for the comfort of the newly-weds. During the puja of house–renovation, Aditi–Alok and Veeru–Jaya surprise everyone with their return. The Gupta family is overjoyed when Aditi tells them she is pregnant. Everyone is happy for Aditi except for Jaya, who feels dejected on being ignored by Aditi and her dejection is increased by Amba poisoning her mind more. Jaya vents out her frustration on Veeru, saying her life is destroyed by marrying him. Veeru is heart–broken by Jaya's words and decides to divorce her for her betterment. While on the other hand, Amba tries to kill Aditi's unborn child, by poisoning her food.

• Parineeta Borthakur[6] as Ganga Shiv Gupta / Mridula Roy (fake identity); Shiv's wife and a motherly figure for his brothers; an orphan who became part of Gupta family after marrying Shiv; she wins the hearts of Shiv's brothers and helps Shiv to maintain the unity of their family (2020–2021)
• Hiten Tejwani[7] as Shiv Narayan Gupta; Narayan and Gayatri's only son; the eldest and the most intelligent Gupta brother; Ganga's husband; he loves and respects his late father Narayan Gupta, he tries to keep the Gupta family united (2020–2021)
• Aakash Mukherjee as Alok Narayan Gupta; Narayan and Lakshmi's first son; the second Gupta brother; a sharp accountant; Aditi's husband; Jaya's ex-fiancé; possesses Shiv's qualities to care for his brothers (2020–2021)
• Aishwarya Raj Bhakuni as Aditi Alok Gupta (née Bansal); Alok's wife; Bansal's daughter; a rich, spoilt girl who initially finds faults with the middle–class conditions of Gupta family but later on adjusts and starts considering the family as her own (2020–2021)
• Satya Tiwari[8] as Veeru Narayan Gupta; Narayan and Lakshmi's second son; the third Gupta brother; dumb, 5th std school drop–out, strong well-built personality; Jaya's husband (2020–2021)
• Sonal Vengurlekar[9] as Jaya Veeru Gupta (née Satya Prakash); Veeru's wife; Alok's ex-fiancé; a shrewd–tongued girl like her mother, kind-hearted and considers the Gupta family her own (2020–2021)
• Meet Mukhi as Rajat Narayan Gupta; Narayan and Lakshmi's third son; the youngest Gupta brother; an information geek; a 13-year-old boy; studious and smart student (2020–2021)

• Rinku Dhawan[10] as Amba Kaaki / Amba Satya Prakash; Jaya's mother; a greedy, possessive and cunning woman who causes several losses for Gupta & Sons Store and keeps plotting to break the unity of Gupta family; she always thinks about herself and her daughter (2020–2021)
• Deepak Dutta as Satya Prakash Kaaka; Amba Kaaki's husband; Jaya's father (2020–2021)
• Darpan Shrivastava as Bansal; Aditi's father; he wants to divide the Gupta family to get his daughter and son–in–law to live with him (2020–2021)
• Aditi Deshpande as Lakshmi Narayan Gupta; Narayan Harishchandra Gupta's second wife; Shiv's step-mother; Alok, Veeru and Rajat's mother. When alive, she was the cause of Narayan Gupta's major loss in business; she initially conversed with Shiv as a soul in a photo frame; later her soul was shown to have found redemption (2020)
• Jairoop Jeevan as Narayan Harishchandra Gupta; Gayatri and Lakshmi's husband; Gupta Brothers' father; he is generous and truthful; the owner of the Gupta & Sons grocery store [shown in photos as a deceased character] (2020–2021)
• Sanjay Pandey as Radhe Shyam Rasiya aka John Jani Janardhan; the Gupta brothers' former rival (2020)
• Surya Rao as Inspector Bharat Videshi (2020)
• Roma Navani as Kamini's mother (2020)
• Bhoomika Mirchandani as Kamini; Alok's fake lover and ex-fiancé (2020)

The series was announced by Mahesh Pandey Productions LLP and was confirmed in January 2020 by Star India to be broadcast in Star Plus with the title Khandaan.[11] However, the show was later shifted to Star Bharat.

Later, the show underwent a couple of denominations regarding its title from Khandaan to Hum, Hum Ek Makaan Ek Dukaan, Gupta & Sons and then finally Gupta Brothers Chaar Kunwaare From Ganga Kinaare, which was finalized to suit Star Bharat's comedy genre.

But, when Star Bharat underwent a revamp once again from comedy to drama, the show too underwent a change of genre which made its initial plot fall back in line with its original series Pandian Stores.

Thus, it was named as Gupta Brothers. As, with the completion of 50th episode, the Gupta brothers (except for Rajat) were no longer Kunwaares (bachelors).

Sasural Simar Ka fame actor Vishal Bhardwaj was initially approached to play Alok Gupta, but was later replaced by Aakash Mukherjee.

In November 2020, Tenali Rama fame actress, Aishwarya Raj Bhakuni, was cast as the parallel lead opposite Aakash Mukherjee.

Later in December 2020, Darpan Shrivastava, was cast to play the second main antagonist, Mr. Bansal.

The first promo of the series was released on 24 September 2020, featuring the four Gupta Brothers, Hiten Tejwani, Aakash Mukherjee, Satya Tiwari and Meet Mukhi.[12]

The next promo featuring the entry of Parineeta Borthakur as Mridula Roy was released on 7 October 2020.[13]

In January 2020, Star Plus planned an official Hindi remake of Star Vijay's Tamil series Pandian Stores to be produced by Mahesh Pandey Productions LLP, who initially named the series Khandaan. However, after the lockdown, Khandaan was shifted to Star Bharat.

At that moment, as Star Bharat changed the channel genre to be comedy. The plot of the show was also changed to suit the genre of Star Bharat.[14]

Thus, the show was initially aired under the title Gupta Brothers - Chaar Kunware From Ganga Kinaare in October 2020 but due to low response from the audience towards it’s comedy genre, its genre was again changed to drama with the plot being more loyal to the plot of Pandian Stores with the changed title Gupta Brothers.

Nevertheless, in December 2020, Star Plus announced another remake of Star Vijay's Tamil series Pandian Stores titled Pandya Store, produced by Sphere Origins.[15]

And the series Gupta Brothers was officially announced to be off aired on 26th January 2021.[16]