Shaadi Mubarak to Hamariwali Good News: These TV soaps beautifully explore age-defying love stories and real life problems

Age-defying love-stories are not new in Indian television. We have previously seen shows like Bade Achhe Lagte Hai, Aap Ke Aa Jane Se, Astitva...Ek Prem Kahani, Kuch Toh Log Kahenge and many others to name a few. Here, let’s take a look at some of the shows that are currently on-air portraying such mature love stories.

Shaadi Mubarak is about a couple played by Rati Pandey (Preeti) and Manav Gohil (KT) in their late 40s, finding love in each other. While Rati is a mother of two grown-up married kids, KT happens to be a regional superstar and divorcee. The shows focuses on equality, respect in relationships, trials and tribulations in marriage.

Anupamaa has been consistently ruling the TRP charts for months now and audience seem to love this age-defying extra-marital affair soap. Anupamaa, a middle-aged housewife, realises that her family takes her for granted, she sets out to create a new identity for herself. The story is also triangle tribulation between the husband (Sudhanshu Pandey as Vanraj), wife (Rupali Ganguly as Anupamaa) and the Vanraj’s love interest Kavya (played by Madalsa Sharma).

The new season of Wagle Ki Duniya is a family roller-coaster which beautifully brings out real-life problems. With the main protagonists being the third and second generation couples, the bond and love they share is quite realistic. Sumeet Raghavan (Rajesh) and Pariva Pranati’s (Vandana aka Vandu) reel chemistry is adorable and loving.

This 7-yr-old running show has shown the lead protagonists from being the young couple getting married to now grown-up middle aged couple with kids in their 20s. Sriti Jha (Pragya) and Shabir Ahluwalia (Abhi) have been consistent with their performances, showing old-school romance never die.

Hamariwali Good News revolves around a mother-in-law played by Juhi Parmar (Renuka), who conceives a child for her daughter-in-law, as she cannot give birth. Quite a bold and unique concept and what’s interesting is a story weaved around Renuka and her husband Mukund (played by Shakti Anand). It explores their relationship and what they go through as a couple.

New show Molkki has Amar Upadhyay (Virendra Pratap Singh) and Priyal Mahajan (Purvi) in the lead roles, who share quite an age-gap in reel and real lives. While the show addresses the social issue of bride buying custom prevailing in Haryana, it also shows how Purvi makes her way into the family and how Virendra’s character has a change of heart and softens towards her.