Potluck at the base is about a father trying to build a happy long-lasting relationship with his kids and their families, focusing the issues with nuclear families.

potluck season 1 director - Rajshree Ojha

potluck season 1 Cast - Aradhya AjanaSiddhant KarnickSaloni Khanna

STORY OF POTLUCK

The Shastri's makes a pact to turn their weekly potluck luncheons and dinners into a time for family bonding and togetherness.

REVIEW OF POTLUCK

Helmed by Rajshree Ojha, this eight-part series is about modern families and their efforts to bridge generation gaps and growing to love one another despite having opposing worldviews. The show encapsulates the struggles of Govind Shastri (Jatin Sial), a retired parent who seeks to reconnect with his family. He does this by hosting a weekly ‘potluck’ for the entire family. Govind's intentions are clear: “family that eats together, stays together,” but he misleads his family into believing that his health is deteriorating. Will the family ever find out the truth, or will these gatherings strengthen their bond?

All of the members of the Shastri family are people you may have met at some point in your life and with whom you can easily connect. Mr. Govind Shastri, a retired father and the house's most notorious person, Pramila (Kitu Gidwani), an overbearing and controlling mother, and their eldest son Vikrant (Cyrus Sahukar), who is juggling his three children, work-life and daily chores with his wife Akansha (Ira Dubey). Dhruv (Harman Singha), Shastri's second child, cancels his plans to relocate to New York with his workaholic wife Nidhi (Saloni Khanna) to be closer to their family. Prerna (Shikha Talsania), their daughter, is a budding writer who has recently moved in with her parents following a breakup.

Co-written by Ashwin Lakshmi Narayan and Gaurav Lulla, the sitcom capitalises on families' ‘togetherness’ while also bringing eccentricities of the Shashtri family to life. It’s usually entertaining, especially when it firms the grip on the storyline, but it's prone to losing its footing. At times, the sequence of events appears to be repetitive. Character development, on the other hand, is what makes this drama more relatable—whether it's sibling bonding, chemistry between modern couples, or worried parents who don’t understand the concept of giving their children some space, each character is distinct and defies the definition of family bonding. Regardless of their personal equations or professional goals, each episode begins with the potluck preparations and the family's efforts to make it happen. Overall, with only eight short episodes, this family drama is easy enough to breeze through.

The charm of watching the ordinary is enhanced by the ensemble cast's pitch-perfect performances, particularly at the costume theme anniversary party, where Saloni Khanna and Jatin Sial simply steal the show. The humour isn’t laugh-out-loud funny, but it's consistently and pleasantly enjoyable, thanks to the clever writing, especially the metaphor-filled repartee between parent and their children or husband and wife.

Beyond its contemporary packaging, ‘Potluck’ does not bring anything new to the table. But it’s entertaining nonetheless much in a way that watching any family drama show with a healthy dose of humor is.