| Paying Guest | |
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| Created by | Rajshri Productions |
| Written by | Diljit Singh, Jimmy Baria, Ranbir Pushp (dialogues) |
| Screenplay by | Diljit Singh, Jimmy Baria |
| Directed by | Abhinav Pathak, Sameer Ganguly |
| Starring | See Below |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Rajkumar Barjatya |
| Producer | Tarachand Barjatya[1] |
| Cinematography | Ajay Tandon |
| Running time | 20 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Doordarshan |
| Release | 9 May 1985 – 1986 |
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Paying Guest is an Indian TV Series released in 1985 on Doordarshan by Rajshri Productions. It revolves around the lives of Krishnakant Trivedi and his wife Sharda, who are staying in an old bungalow of suburban Bombay. Their children are grown up and settled abroad. To fight their loneliness in their old age, they plan to keep some paying guests. Every episode, new guests arrive as paying guests, each with a different story to tell. The show highlighted the problems faced by the then Indian middle class. [2][3][4][5]
- ^ "Remembering the founder-patriarch of Rajshri Productions, Tarachand Barjatya - Death anniversary special". Cinestaan.com. Archived from the original on 21 September 2022. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
- ^ "Paying Guest(1985) TV Show Official webpage". Rajshri.com. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
- ^ Aswin Punathambekar (2013). From Bombay to Bollywood - The Making of a Global Media Industry. New York University Press. p. 193. ISBN 9780814771891.
- ^ "Paying Guest to return to the tube". Hindustan Times. 15 May 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
- ^ "Hindi Tv Serial Paying Guest". Nettv4u.com. Retrieved 10 August 2023.