# Maddam Sir

Maddam Sir is an Indian Hindi-language comedy action television series which aired from 24 February 2020 to 18 February 2023 on Sony SAB and digitally streamed on SonyLIV. Produced by Jay Mehta for Jay Productions, it stars Gulki Joshi, Yukti Kapoor, Priyanshu Singh, Sonali Naik and Bhavika Sharma.

## Overview

The series revolves around four Lucknow-based female police officers and one male officer at a Mahila police station which consists of SHO Haseena Mallik, SI Karishma Singh, Head Constable Pushpa Singh, Constable Santosh Sharma, and male Constable Cheeteshwar Chaturvedi. They are helped by prisoner-turned-spy Billeshwar Champat. Karishma Singh is short-tempered, believing in physical punishment for the perpetrators and Haseena Malik is emotional in solving cases, believing in resolving the intent of the crime; this sometimes creates a conflict between them. The team solves both peculiar and hardcore cases, and also undertakes undercover missions.
The series ends with Haseena being promoted to the rank of DSP and the team celebrates, but MPT station is bombed, and the media assumes that the team is dead. However, Haseena narrates her journey with the MPT team several months later, indicating that she survived the blast.

## Cast
### Main

* Gulki Joshi as SHO Haseena Malik, a.k.a. Maddam Sir (2020–2023): Shahjahan and Noorjahan's daughter; Anubhav's love-interest and ex-fiancée; Karishma's mentor and close friend, and Naina's friend and batchmate. At the end of series, she is promoted to DSP and indicates that she survived the fatal blast at MPT.
* Yukti Kapoor as
** SI Karishma Singh (2020–2023): Kaushalya's elder twin sister; Anubhav's cousin; Pushpa and Pyare's daughter-in-law: Haseena's protective close friend.
** Kaushalya Singh, alias Kareena (2022): An actress, Karishma's younger twin sister, and Anubhav's cousin.
* Bhavika Sharma as Cybercrime Specialist Constable Santosh "Santu" Sharma (2020–2022; 2023): Cheetah's love interest
* Sonali Pandit Naik as head constable Pushpa Singh (2020–2023): MPT's oldest member, Pyare's widow, and Karishma's mother-in-law.
* Yashkant Sharma as Constable Cheeteshwar "Cheetah" Chaturvedi (2020): A women's psychologist at MPT and Santu's love interest
** Priyanshu Singh replaced Yashkant as Constable Cheteshwar "Cheetah" Chaturvedi (2020-2023).
* Ajay Jadhav as
** Billeshwar "Billu" Champat (2020–2023): A thief turned spy, who enjoys living in jail because he has no other place to live.
** Commissioner Vikram Ghosh (2023): Billu's lookalike, Lucknow's new commissioner, and Shobhna's husband.

### Recurring

* Satyapal Landge as Badnaam (2020–2023): Tea vendor near the MPT.
* Ashwani Rathore as Iqbal (2020–2023): The local barber.
* Darpan Shrivastava as Usman (2020): A local biriyani vendor; replaced by Harveer Singh.
* Gaurav Wadhwa as Sunny Chaddha (2020, 2022): A reporter who has a crush on Santosh;
** Jatin Arora replaced Wadhwa as Sunny Chaddha. (2020–2021)
* Rajesh Dubey as DSP Mahesh Singh (2020–2023): Anubhav's predecessor as DSP.
* Umesh Bajpai as Fassruddin Nawab Sahab (2020–2023): Owner of the MPT building and Raees and Zeenat's father, who has a crush on Head Constable Pushpa Singh.
* Nimesh Soni as
** Bulbul Pandey (2020–2023): SHO of Jankipooram Police Thana, Pallavi's husband, and Champak's senior and brother-in-law, who is temporarily transferred to MPT.
** Kartik Bajaj (2020): Misogynistic owner of a cab company.
** Balli (2020): Dishonest owner of the LPJ diet-plan company.
* Amit Kumar Sinha as Champak Chaudhary (2020–2023): A Janakipuram Police Thaana constable, Pallavi's brother, and Bulbul's junior and brother-in-law.
* Disha Savla as Pallavi Pandey (2020, 2022–2023): Champak's sister and Bulbul's wife.
* Rahil Azam as DSP Anubhav Singh(2020–2022): An IB negotiation specialist and Lucknow DSP, Karishma and Kaushalya 's cousin, and Haseena's ex-fiancé. When he turns evil, Karishma and Haseena kill him.
* Esha Kansara as SI/SHO Misri Pandey (2020, 2022–2023): A corrupt police officer who temporarily comes to MPT.
* Roopa Divetia as Noorjahan Malik (2021): Haseena's mother; replaced 2021–2023 by Utkarsha Naik.
* Salman Shaikh as Rajvir Tomar, a.k.a. Computer (2021): Head constable of Jankipooram Police Thaana who has a crush on Karishma Singh, not knowing that she is married.
* Jignesh Modi as Chedi (2021): Jankipooram Police Thaana constable.
* Pankhuri Awasthy Rode as ASI Mira (2021–2023): A humanoid robot police officer invented by C.A.R.D. Research Institute, who was sent to MPT for a 90-day trial to learn emotions under Karishma Singh. She shoots Haseena, and returns to the MPT as Mira G.
* Prakash Ramchandani as Secret Agent Ajay Bakshi (2021–2023): Anubhav's senior, who saves Haseena's life and asks her to pose as Mumbai vada pav vendor Urmila Mahadev Mhatre to catch the people who tried to murder her for the hard disk.
* Savi Thakur as SHO Amar Vidrohi (2022): Yogita's younger brother and Bunty's adoptive father who is temporarily in charge of the MPT.
* Jay Pathak as Harendra Singh, a.k.a. Deewan Ji (2022): MPT head constable under Amar Vidrohi.
* Rachana Parulkar as Advocate Shivani Pawar, a.k.a. Shivani Tai (2022–2023): Chingaari Gang leader turned Allahabad High Court advocate.
* Prachi Bohra as Binny Chaudhary (2022): Chingaari Gang member.
* Sulabha Arya as Saira Begum (2022): Founder of the Chingaari Gang, who is accidentally shot dead by Shivani.

### Guests

* Amish Tanna as Ashok, caretaker of poor children orphanage (2020)
* Divyangana Jain as:
** Rani (2020-2021), a career criminal.
** Cherry (2023), a criminal mastermind who is arrested by Haseena and Karishma.
* Shilpa Shinde as ACP Naina Mathur (2023), Haseena's batchmate and friend.
* Vaishali Thakkar as Head Constable Babita Sarkar (2020), a temporary replacement for Pushpa who had trained Haseena and Karishma.
* Roopam Sharma as Mona (2021), a corrupt clinical psychologist.
* Lakshya Handa as Avtaar Kapoor (2021), Karishma's boss.
* Kavita Kaushik as IPS Chandramukhi Chautala from F.I.R. (2022).
* Shubhangi Gokhale as Cheeteshwar's aunt (2022).
* Simmi Ghoshal as Binno, a victim of noise pollution (2021).
* Guru Saran Tiwari as Yash Kapoor, director of Kareena's film, who is involved with terrorist group which tried to use Kareena as a suicide bomber (2022).
* Tanya Abrol as Dipti, a female wrestler who is the victim of discrimination.
* Trishna Vivek as
** Dr. Archana Nagar, who performed illegal gender tests (2020).
** Sudha Narayan, an NCG officer who suspected that Haseena was a drug smuggler (2020).
* Mahi Sharma as
** Mahi, the fake Karishma Singh (2020).
** Nisha Amrit, Roshni's mother, a social-media blogger accused of involvement in a terrorist association (2021).
* Neha Tiwari as Chandu, the fake Santosh Sharma (2020).
* Shefali Rana as the fake Pushpa Singh (2020).
* Ananya Dwivedi as Zoya, a child with kidney disease whose doctor donates a kidney to her (2020).
* Rishikesh Ingley as
** Dr. Vikas, Zoya's doctor.
** Rahul, a dishonest cashier (2021).
* Pallavi Pradhan as Savitri Singh, Ajay's mother (2020).
* Govind Khatri as Mahipal Singh (2021): Genda's husband, Mansi's father, Haseena's adoptive uncle, and owner of Prasuti Charitable Hospital.
* Hunar Hali Gandhi as Genda Rani (2021): Mahipal's wife and Mansi's adoptive mother, mastermind of the conspiracy to inject a virus into pregnant women at Prasuti Charitable Hospital.
* Swasti Katyal as Mansi Singh, Mahipal's daughter and Genda's adopted daughter (2021).
* Tarka Pednekar as
** Gauri, Asthana's sister (2020).
** Manu, Rani's right hand and advisor (2021).
** Dolly, a divorcee who is harassed by her boss (2021).
* Anupama Prakash as Ileana, Billu's girlfriend (2020).
* Manoj Chandila as
** Ajay Kumar, an actor who insults Pushpa Singh and the police (2020).
** Manav, Keshav's boss (2020).
** Kareena's co-star in her film (2022).
* Pranay Dixit as
** An actor who is invited to Santosh Sharma's fake wedding (2020).
** Mr. Joseph, head chef of the Yo Kabab company (2020).
** Victor, Nancy's husband who is involved with the dangerous criminal Musa (2020).
** Shankar, Haldi's first husband who blackmails her (2020).
** Shekhar, who wants his wife Pallavi to focus on herself instead of her family (2021).
** Rohit, Chandrika's husband (2021).
** Abhinav Jasuja, a gym owner falsely accused of domestic violence by his wife (2021).
** Mukesh aka Qaidi Zameer, a detective-novel writer (2021).
** Subod, Jharna's husband (2021).
** Rohit, Mayui's husband who cheats on her (2022).
** Arun, a man who pretends to be blind (2022).
** Narayan, Dhanalakshmi's husband, who hides his phone from his wife to conceal his financial problems (2022).
** Barkha's husband, who tortured his wife (2023).
* Preeti Shukhla as
** Sona, Montu's wife (2020).
** Simran, Rahul's wife, who brought a bomb to MPT (2020).
** Chandrika, Rohit's wife, who hires a detective to investigate her husband (2021).
** Rupa Jasuja, Abhinav's wife, who falsely accuses her husband of domestic violence (2021).
** Jharna, Subod's wife (2021).
** Manju, a nurse pressured by her career and family (2022).
** Trisha, who has hallucinations (2022).
** Meethi Shukla, who seizes her landlord's house with her mother-in-law (2022).
* Kunnal Sheth as
** Monty Sharma, Sona's husband, who created App Zara to replace wives (2020).
** Radhe, Haseena's helper who was denied paternity leave (2020).
** Gopal, fake husbands of Nawab Sahab's unmarried tenants (2020).
** Keshav, pressured by his boss to work at the expense of his wife (2021).
** Kailash, cheated by an online friend (2021).
** Jaidev, an actor in pan masala advertisements (2021).
** Manu, Tanu's husband who is five years younger (2022).
** Rohan Acharya, owner of the Ummidhai website where poor people receive medical help (2022).
** Kamal Sharma, an amnesiac abandoned by his brother (2022).
* Urvi Gor as
** Alia, mistreated by her brother-in-law (2021).
** Trisha Gulati, kidnapped on New Year's Eve (2021).
** Chorni, a thief with a sham marriage to Cheetah Chaturvedi (2022).
* Soneer Vadhera as
** Rahul Mallya, Simran's husband who threatened to explode a bomb to gain his in-laws' respect (2020).
** Shekhar, Shikha's husband, whose newborn child was stolen (2020).
** Ashok, an alcoholic who annoyed his wife (2021).
** Rajesh, Indu's husband (2022).
* Urmila Tiwari as
** Anita Chauhan, Vijay's wife (2020).
** Shalini, a beauty-parlour owner who is cheated in a dating app (2021).
** Pratha, a girl forced to follow superstitious rituals by her mother (2021).
** Priyali Singh, the fake Aparna Bansal (2021).
** Nafeesa Ansari, a female don who conducted fake crowdfunding campaigns (2022).
** Asha, Badnam's sister (2022).
* Shrashti Maheshwari as Riya, the commissioner's daughter who came to MPT to write about the station (2022).
* Piya Valecha as Mrs. Malkhani, owner of the Batterfly club (2021).
* Amit Mistry as Vijay Chauhan, Anita's husband (2020).
* Dolly Chawla as
** Haldi, Brijesh's wife, who was mistreated by her ex-husband's parents (2020).
** Indu, Rajesh's wife (2022).
* Apara Jariwala as Sarita Singh, Pushpa's aunt-in-law; Karishma's grand-aunt-in-law (2022).
* Tejal Adivarekar as Malaika, Pushpa and Karishma's home help (2021–2022).
* Ashish Pawar as Sajan, Urmila's (Haseena's) supporter, friend and admirer (2022).
* Prem Vallabh as Mr. Chaturvedi, Cheeta's father (2022).
* Anju Rajiv as Mrs. Chaturvedi, Cheeta's mother (2022).
* Anupama Solanki as Dipti, a creative director with an advertising agency (2022).
* Abhay Bhadoriya as Bunty, a blackmailing teenager addicted to pizza (2022).
* Aman Mishra as Adil Shaikh, an arms dealer chosen by Haseena for her marriage (2022).
* Akansha Sharma as Rama, Karishma's best friend in childhood (2022).
* Rakhi Sawant as Begum, a thief along with her lover, Badshah.
* Ketan Singh as Badshah, a thief along with his lover, Begum.
* Tunisha Sharma as ASP Aditi Jammwal from Hero - Gayab Mode On (2021).
* Deepak Pareek as Honourable Secretary Advocate Dakshesh Joshipura from Wagle Ki Duniya - Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey.
* Sayantani Ghosh as Daljeet Bagga from Tera Yaar Hoon Main.
* Vijay Kashyap as Col. Pushpinder Batra, director of Parakram SAF from Ziddi Dil Maane Na.
* Gulfam Khan as Mrs. Batra from Ziddi Dil Maane Na.
* Karan Veer Mehra as Abhay, Koel's husband from Ziddi Dil Maane Na.
* Prathmesh Sharma as Bala, Parakram SAF cadet from Ziddi Dil Maane Na.
* Shaleen Malhotra as Special Agent Karan Shergill from Ziddi Dil Maane Na.
* Kaveri Priyam as Cadet Dr. Monami Mahajan from Ziddi Dil Maane Na.
* Kunal Karan Kapoor as Cadet Siddharth Ganju from Ziddi Dil Maane Na.
* Diljot Kaur Chhabra as Special Agent Sanjana Dubey from Ziddi Dil Maane Na.
* Aditya Deshmukh as Special Agent Faizuddin Siddiqui from Ziddi Dil Maane Na.
* Simple Kaul as Cadet Koel Roy from Ziddi Dil Maane Na.
* Ankit Bathla as Kabir (2020).

## Production
### Development

Before its premiere, the series was entitled Mahila Police Thana. In early February 2020, the main cast promoted it in Lucknow.

### Casting

Bhavika Sharma left the series in 2022 because she was unhappy with the development of her character.

## Controversy

Shilpa Shinde, cast as Naina Mathur, said that the crew was "not being serious about work" and accused the producers of "not giving [a] satisfactory role to her" days after her arrival. Joshi and Sonali Naik responded, "If we were so unprofessional then the show wouldn't have existed for three long years." Joshi added, "Audience is the best judge and all the fifteen minutes of fame can rest in peace."
Shinde later posted a three-minute video on Instagram, and accused Joshi and Naik of insulting her:
   Who's Gulki Joshi? What has she done in her career? She became popular due to me ... Cast can't accept some positive changes in show with new entries when the show is on the verge of getting off-air and the TRPs increased due to me.
Joshi responded,
   She abused our whole cast for the sake of limelight and I'm really very grateful to her that I'm getting so much love and support due to this controversy and my followers also increased due to same.

## Crossovers

The Big Shanivaar was a mahasangam (crossover) of all Sony SAB's on-going shows (except Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah) telecast on 9 October 2021 to promote Sony SAB's Saturday lineup.
Another edition of The Big Shanivaar was telecast on 20 November 2021 to celebrate Diwali in the Parakram SAF and to help its cadet, Koel Roy, escape from her husband.
Shaam Shaandar, a one-hour New Year's special, was broadcast on 31 December 2021 with Ziddi Dil Maane Na and Wagle Ki Duniya – Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey.
In March 2022, Kavita Kaushik from F.I.R. appeared as a guest reprising the role of Chandramukhi Chautala.
In October 2023, Gulki Joshi appeared as a guest in Vanshaj reprising the role of Haseena Malik.
In October 2024, Gulki Joshi appears as a guest in Wagle Ki Duniya – Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey reprising the role of Haseena Malik.

## Sequel

After a three-year run, the series went off the air on 18 February 2023. Producer Kinnari Mehta later announced that it would return for a second season. The cast, as Team MPT, later announced their return for season two.

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result |
| 2021 | Indian Telly Awards | Best Actor in a Lead Role Male | Rahil Azam | Nominated |
| 2022 | Indian Television Academy Awards | Popular Show – Drama | Maddam Sir | Nominated |
| 2022 | Indian Television Academy Awards | Popular Actress – Comedy | Yukti Kapoor | Nominated |
| 2022 | Indian Television Academy Awards | Popular Actress – Comedy | Gulki Joshi | Nominated |
| 2022 | Indian Television Academy Awards | Popular Actress – Comedy | Sonali Pandit Naik | Nominated |
| 2022 | Indian Television Academy Awards | Popular Actress – Comedy | Bhavika Sharma | Nominated |
| 2022 | Indian Television Academy Awards | Best Director – Comedy | Hemen Chauhan | Nominated |
| 2023 | Indian Telly Awards | Best Sitcom / Comedy Programme | Maddam Sir | Won |