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Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah is an Indian sitcom produced by Neela Tele Films Private Limited. The show went on-air on 28 July 2008. It airs from Monday to Friday at 8:30 pm, and is repeat telecast at 11:00 pm and the next day at 3 pm on SAB TV. The show started its re-run on Sony Pal from 2 November 2015 at 12:00 pm and 8:00 pm everyday.
The show is based on the column Duniya Ne Oondha Chashma written by columnist and journalist Taarak Mehta for the Gujarati weekly magazine Chitralekha.
The show was declared by the Limca Book of Records as the "longest running comedy show" after completing its 1700th episode on 22 June 2015.
On 2 October 2014, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi invited the entire team of the show to take part in the Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan. Recently the Polish deputy prime minister visited the sets of the show.
The show completed its 2000 episodes on 11th August 2016 and had a crossover with The Kapil sharma show for its celebration.
Gokuldham Society is a residential society in Mumbai in which six Indian families, respectively headed by Jethalal Champaklal Gada(from Kutch district, Gujarat), Taarak Mehta(from Jodhpur, Rajasthan), Aatmaram Tukaram Bhide(from Maharashtra), Dr. Hansraj Hathi(from Bihar), Sardar Roshan Singh Harjeet Singh Sodhi(from Punjab and Parsi wife) and Krishnan Subramaniam Iyer(from Tamil Nadu and wife from West Bengal), a bachelor Patrakar Popatlal Pandey(from Madhya Pradesh) and a teenager Pinku. There are also other individual characters including Sundarlal, Abdul, Natwarlal Prabhashankar Udhaiwala, Bagheshwar Dadukh Udhaiwala and Bawri
