{{Short description|Indian television series}} {{Use Indian English|date=April 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2015}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | runtime = 25 minutes | writer = Sudha Murthy | creator = | director = Ajai Sinha<br/>Ravi Kemmu | producer = Sunil Hali | starring = see below | opentheme = {{based on|''Dollar Bahu''|Sudha Murty}} | country = India | language = Hindi | network = Zee TV | first_aired = {{start date|2001|9|1|df=y}} | last_aired = {{end date|2002|6|1|df=y}} | num_seasons = 1 | num_episodes = 40 }} '''''Dollar Bahu''''' ({{lit|Dollar daughter-in-law}}) is an Indian Hindi-language television series that aired on Zee TV channel in 2001. The series is based on a novel, ''Dollar Bahu'' by Sudha Murty.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://movies.indiainfo.com/southern-spice/topstory/suhdamurthy.html|title=Sudha Murthy's 'Dollar Bahu' on Zee|publisher=India FM|date=2001|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080404050918/http://movies.indiainfo.com/southern-spice/topstory/suhdamurthy.html|archivedate=4 April 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The story portrays the struggle of a middle-class family to graduate into an upper-class one through their son in the USA. Besides, as the title refers, the series was shot in both India as well as in the United States.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010930/spectrum/main5.htm|title=The million-dollar name behind Dollar Bahu|publisher=Tribune India|date=2001-09-30}}</ref> In addition, when the serial's shooting began in the USA, the September 11 attacks occurred.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.screenindia.com/old/20010921/tvnews.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080222004534/http://www.screenindia.com/old/20010921/tvnews.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 February 2008|title=Dollar Bahu survives WTC attack|publisher=Screen India|date=2001-09-21}}</ref>
==Overview== The story is about two daughters-in-law of a family, one from America and the other one from India. Now, how their mother-in-law treats them (Rupees and Dollar) is uncovered. The story is more of the mother-in-law who thinks that her American daughter-in-law (dollar bahu) is better than her counterpart in India, since she lives in the land of dreams, USA. Henceforth, she desires to live with her son in America. However, when she lives a year or so in America, she realises that the Indians living there face the same problems and challenges as those of living in India. Now she realise that "grass always looks greener on the other side". And when she comes back to India, she shows immense love to the daughter in law whom she felt to be a trash and her grandson. Finally after getting a slap on feelings by her dollar bahu, Gouramma understands the fact that, may be dollar can remove the poverty from one's life. But family is much more important than that of dollars.
==Cast== * Neha Mehta as Vaishali * Chandni Toor Roy as Charushekar * Himani Shivpuri as Master Govind's Wife (Mother-In-Law) * Salman Noor as $lash (Dollar Bae) * Ismail Bashey as Shekhar (Eldest Son of Master Govind) * Rakesh Pandey as Master Govind (Father-In-Law) * Ranjeet as RK * Suhasini Mulay as Lakshmi * Mayuri Kango as Rini (RK and Lakshmi's daughter) * Deepak Parashar as Javed * Kunika as Zubeida * Aashish Kaul as Rahul * Tina Parekh as Jyoti * Raj Roy as Joe
==References== <references/>
==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0836073|title=Dollar Bahu}} *[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2001/20010930/spectrum/main5.htm Dollar Bahu News Article by Tribune India] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20081115152522/http://www.indiaclub.com/shop/SearchResults.asp?ProdStock=24356 Dollar Bahu Book by Sudha Murthy]
Category:Zee TV original programming Category:2001 Indian television series debuts Category:2002 Indian television series endings Category:Television shows filmed in the United States Category:Television shows based on Indian novels Category:Impact of the September 11 attacks on television