Gullak - S3 E1

Here’s a of Gullak Season 3, Episode 1 — focusing on its tone, themes, storytelling craft, and why it works so well as a season opener. Gullak S3 E1 – “Shaadi Ka Laddoo” A Sweet, Bittersweet Return to Mishki Purva When Gullak first aired, no one expected a quiet, middle-class family in a small-town mohalla to become one of Indian streaming’s most beloved shows. But creator Shreyansh Pandey and writer Durgesh Singh have built something rare: a series that finds epic poetry in a broken geyser, a lost job, or a stolen laddoo .

The writing is economical but piercing. One line from Santosh — “ Shaadi ka matlab sirf kharcha nahi hota, beta. Yaadein bhi hoti hain ” — lands harder than any monologue. Geetanjali Kulkarni remains the soul of the show. Her Shanti is a woman who holds the family together with roti , worry, and fierce love. In one silent scene where she watches Annu leave for the station, she does more acting than most leads do in entire web series.

Season 3’s first episode — titled — picks up right where Season 2 left off, but with a subtle shift. The gullak (the piggy bank that narrates the story) still speaks in its gentle, wise, Haryanvi-accented voice. The Mishras still bicker, love, and stumble through life. Yet this premiere feels heavier — not in a melodramatic way, but in the way real life accumulates weight. What Happens? (No Major Spoilers, but Some Context) The episode revolves around a wedding in the extended family. Annu (Vaibhav Raj Gupta) is now working in another city. Aman (Harsh Mayar) is still the chaotic, lovable younger son. Shanti (Geetanjali Kulkarni) is the anxious, warm heart of the home, while Santosh (Jameel Khan) is his usual frugal, grumpy, secretly soft self. gullak s3 e1

★★★★½ (4.5/5) Mood: A rainy evening, chai, and the smell of something sweet burning slightly in the kitchen.

If you’ve never watched Gullak , don’t start here. Go to Season 1. But if you’re a fan, this episode will feel like coming home after a long time — and realizing home has missed you just as much. Here’s a of Gullak Season 3, Episode 1

The production design deserves a shoutout: the chipped walls, the mismatched plastic chairs, the calendar from 2019 still hanging. This is not poverty porn; it’s loving, precise authenticity. The piggy bank’s voice — written and performed with gentle philosophy — opens the episode: “Ghar woh nahi hota jahan darwaze ho. Ghar woh hota jahan thak ke aao, aur koi bol de — aa gaye?” That’s the thesis of the entire series. And this episode tests that idea: Is home still home when the people you love are not all under the same roof? Final Verdict Gullak S3 E1 is not flashy. It doesn’t need to be. It’s a quiet, warm, slightly aching return to a world you want to live in — even with its broken fan, empty chair, and one too many laddoos .

Jameel Khan continues to perfect the art of the grumpy father with a marshmallow heart. Harsh Mayar’s Aman provides the comic energy, but even his jokes feel a little sadder this season — as if he too knows things are changing. The writing is economical but piercing

The episode spends its first ten minutes in mundane, beautiful slowness: making tea, arguing over a broken fan, deciding who will sit where at the wedding. You’d think nothing happens. But everything happens. By the end, you realize the episode has quietly set up the season’s core tension: