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Chhoti Bahu (TV series)

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ3531573 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chotti Bahu is an Indian drama television series produced by DJ's a Creative Unit. Season one aired from 8 December 2008 to 17 September 2010 and season two aired from 15 February 2011 to 18 May 2012 on Zee TV. It starred Rubina Dilaik as Radhika and Avinash Sachdev as Dev. Sasural Simar Ka 2 Serial was inspired by this story. The show had two seasons with discrete plots.

Plot

Choti Bahu is the love saga of two soulmates Dev and Radhika.

Season 1

Shastriji and Devaki live in a Vrindavan, and they have two daughters, Radhika (Rubina Dilaik), who is an adopted child, and Vishakha Shastri (Priyanka Tiwari). Radhika is simple and dutiful, whereas Vishakha wants to be an actress in Bollywood. She is headstrong and selfish. Vishakha and Radhika share a close bond. The Purohits are a well to do from Janakpuri Delhi and have their ancestral home in Vrindavan.

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The public source identifies “Chhoti Bahu (TV series)” as television series. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chhoti, Bahu and series.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2010, 2011, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chhoti, Bahu and series providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3531573. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chhoti Bahu (TV series)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.