Metro Park (TV series)

Metro Park is an Indian Hindi-language sitcom web television series on Eros Now^[1] about the Indian Gujarati family living in Metro Park, an Indian-American majority neighborhood in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, and the funny problems they face.

Metro Park
Genre	Sitcom
Written by	Ajayan Venugopalan
Directed by	Abi Varghese Ajayan Venugopalan
Starring	Ranvir Shorey Omi Vaidya Purbi Joshi Pitobash Tripathy
Music by	Jakes Bejoy Rohit Gopalakrishnan (season 2)
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	21 (5 special episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Giju John,Bhuvanesh Shrivastava, Raaj Rahhi
Cinematography	Sahadev Kelvadi
Editor	Shando Uruvath
Running time	20–25 minutes
Original release
Network	Eros Now
Release	3 March 2019 (2019-03-03)

Cast

• Ranvir Shorey as Kalpesh Patel^[2]
• Purbi Joshi as Payal Patel^[2]
• Omi Vaidya as Kannan Menon ^[2]
• Vega Tamotia as Kinjal Patel, Kannan's wife and Payal's sister^[2]
• Pitobash Tripathy as Bittu Amritraj , Kalpesh's store assistant^[2]
• Arnav Joshi as Pankaj Patel, Kalpesh and Payal's son
• Aashmi Joshi as Simran (Munni) Patel, Kalpesh & Payal's daughter
• Sarita Joshi as Mummy, Payal & Kinjal's Mother, Kalpesh & Kannan's mother-in-law - Season 2
• Milind Soman as Arpit, a dentist, Payal's schoolmate and first crush (cameo) - Season 2
• Gopal Dutt as Dr. Vivek Saini, a therapist (cameo) - Season 2

Episodes

Season 1

No.	Title
1	"New Beginnings"
2	"The Assistant"
3	"Kalpesh Studies"
4	"Guerilla Marketing"
5	"Karoake Nights"
6	"Unisex"
7	"Diet and Gadget"
8	"Pregnancy Class"
9	"House Falling Apart"

Quarantine Edition

No.	Title
1	"Episode 1"
2	"Episode 2"
3	"Episode 3"
4	"Episode 4"
5	"Episode 5"

Season 2

No.	Title
1	"Fresh Prince of Metro Park"
2	"Parenting"
3	"Surveillance"
4	"Mummy returns"
5	"'Payal Do All'"
6	"Bollygroove"
7	"Keep Metropark Great!"
8	"Biscuit Baba"
9	"Run Kannan Run!"
10	"Dinner and Movie"
11	"Cool! Pre-School!"
12	"First Birthday"

Production

Metro Park is a "revamped" version of Akkara Kazhchakal, a Malayali sitcom aired in 2008–10.^[3]

Release

To celebrate the launch of the series, Prem Parameswaran (President of North America Eros), Abi Varghese, Ajayan Venugopalan and Omi Vaidya rang the Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, 1 March 2019.^[4] A special "Quarantine Edition" was released in 2020,^[5] and Season 2 was released on 29 January 2021.^[6]

Reception

The show was nominated in all major categories for the CNN-IBN Ireel awards 2019 including Best Comedy, Best Actor Comedy, Best Actress Comedy.^{[7][failed verification]} Ranvir Shorey won Gold awards Best Actor(Comedy) for his portrayal of Kalpesh Patel in Metropark.^[8]

Hindustan Times found the special "Quarantine Edition" released in 2020 to be hilarious.^[5]

Season 2 was called light-hearted but determinedly middling by The Indian Express,^[9] also receiving an average review of 3/5 stars from The Times of India^[10]

See also

• Akkara Kazhchakal