With Karan V. Grover and debutante Riddhima Pandit in the lead, the show, Bahu Humari Rajni_Kant, revolves around a loving but dysfunctional family, with their cultural differences.

Shaan Kant (played by Karan) is a genius, who has immersed his life in science and robotics. The story takes an interesting turn when Shaan makes a female humanoid, and introduces her to his family as his wife. That's when the fun ride starts as Rajni (Randomly Accessible Job Network Interface) embarks her journey as a married woman.

The light-hearted show, which narrates a story of a genius and a female robot, premiered on Monday night on Life OK channel and is a welcome relief from the saas-bahu dramas with bizarre twists that currently on air.

Writer and debutante director Sonali Jaffar said the show is from a man's point of view, and also brings forward a funny clash between Punjabi and Bengali culture.

The show was introduced at Aurora Theatre on Monday in Mumbai ahead of its premiere on television, with music, dance, fanfare on a grand scale just like superstar Rajinikanth style.

With a 32 foot high cutout of Riddhima's character with a huge garland, the launch event tried to replicate southern superstar Rajinikanth's stature and aura.

The Punjabi side of the family was introduced at the event on the beats of bhangra and dhol, while the Bengali side came forward on their culture's rhythms.

Karan asserted that with the show they are not trying to encash the popularity of the southern superstar.

"Our intention is not to draw comparisons and encash it. But it is our attempt to show a humanoid with its qualities and perfection to remind of Rajni sir," Karan said, adding the only name to come into mind with the thought of a person who can do anything and everything is Rajinikanth.

Riddhima feels "privileged" about the "slightest" connection with Rajinikanth with her first show.

Karan, who took the plunge to the silver screen last year with debut film Wedding Pullav, also said he "genuinely like robotics".

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"I really believe that we will have robots roaming around us in next 30-40 years. When Sonali and team shared the concept of a family with youngest son being a genius and not understand anything expect for technical stuff, I liked the story. Shaan doesn't have a physical urge or emotional need of a partner. And the riot of fun starts when he introduces Rajni as his wife," Karan told IANS.

The brain behind the hit TV show Ye Hai Mohabbatein, Jaffar has overseen the writing process, as well as forays into production with Bahu Humari Rajni_Kanth.

"We have explored almost everything on TV and I thought that in today's world for any women to survive she needs to act like a robot of the house. I realised from my experience in house as I'm caught with household chores, kids, meeting and then work," Jaffar told IANS.

The plot of the new daily soap has a stark resemblance with an international show Small Wonder, in which a girl was a robot and a couple treats her like their daughter.

Ask Jaffar about taking inspiration from the foreign show, and she declines the idea saying "It was is in children's space, our show has a lot of other things like mother in law, and other family affairs".

(With IANS inputs)

