''Jugaadistan'' is a 2022 Indian

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-language

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television series produced under the banner of Lionsgate India. The series stars

Sumeet Vyas Sumeet Vyas (born 27 July 1983) is an Indian actor, film director and screenwriter who works in Indian films and television. His breakthrough role was as Mikesh Chaudhary in TVF Media, TVF's 2014 web series ''Permanent Roommates''. Vyas has sinc ...

Arjun Mathur Arjun Mathur (born 18 October 1981) is a British people, British-Indian people, Indian actor working predominantly in Bollywood, Hindi films, web series and television serials. He was seen internationally in the British drama series ''Indian Su ...

, Parambrata Chattopadhyay,

Rukshar Dhillon Rukshar Dhillon (born 12 October 1993) is a British actress who primarily works in Telugu films. Dhillon was born in London and raised in India. She made her debut in 2016 with the Kannada '' Run Antony.'' She went on to star in Telugu films su ...

, Taaruk Raina,

Gopal Datt Gopal Datt is an Indian actor and writer. Gopal Datt started as theater artist in 1999 until he got first starring role in Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai. He also went on to star in the blockbuster Tere Naam, Samrat & Co. and the National Award-winnin ...

and

Ahsaas Channa Ahsaas Channa (born 5 August 1999) is an Indian actress who works in the Hindi film and TV industry. As a child actress, she worked in '' Vaastu Shastra'', '' Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna'', '' My Friend Ganesha'', '' Phoonk'', among others, and as a ...

. It premiered on Lionsgate Play on 4 March 2022.

Cast

as Gaurav Bhati *

as Tarush Khetrapal * Parambrata Chattopadhyay as Bijoy Das *

as Ruhi Sada * Taaruk Raina as Lucky Kohli *

as Nadeem Dalvi *

as Ayesha Rehman *

Tanvi Azmi Tanvi Azmi is an Indian film and television actress. She is known for her roles in '' Akele Hum Akele Tum'' (1995), ''Bajirao Mastani'' (2015), '' Thappad'' (2020) and ''Tribhanga'' (2021). Early life and career She was born to Marathi-Hindi ...

as Kamala Reddy * Himika Bose as Aarti Chatterjee * Lukram Smil as Kenny Laishram * Aamir Mallick as Prashant Bharti * Priyank Tiwari as Nishant Kumar *

Akash Khurana Akash Khurana is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, author, theatre artist and entrepreneur. His first screen appearance was in Shyam Benegal's '' Kalyug''. He has appeared in nearly 60 films, including ''Ardh Satya'', ''Saaransh'', ''N ...

as Dharmaesh Mistry * Adhir Bhat as Bobby Nagra

Production

The series was announced by Lionsgate India, consisting of eight episodes.

, Parambrata Chattopadhyay,

, Taaruk Raina,

and

joined the cast. The

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of the series commenced during the

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. It was primarily shot in

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and

Paharganj Paharganj ( literally 'hilly neighbourhood') is a neighbourhood of Central Delhi, located just west of the New Delhi Railway Station. Known as ''Shahganj'' or King's ganj or market place during Mughal era, it is one of the three administrati ...

. The cast promoted the series on Kshitij 2022.

Reception

The series was reviewed by Manik Sharma for ''

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'', Abhimanyu Mathur for ''

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'' and Sonil Dedhia of ''

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''. Sunidhi Prajapat of ''

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'' rated the series 2/5 stars. Ronak Kotecha of ''

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'' rated the series 3/5 stars. Prateek Sur of ''

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'' gave it a rating of 3.5/5 stars.

References

External links

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