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To see Mini Mathur and Cyrus Sahukar come together on screen in 2019 is enough to send anyone who grew up in the 90s into nostalgia mode. The two, in their heydays in that decade, enjoyed immense popularity through their stints on MTV. Now, they are back together as Mr and Mrs Malhotra, in a new web series, Mind the Malhotras (MTM), which is a remake of Israeli show, La Famiglia.

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“Cyrus is not somebody with whom I had fallen out of touch with, and then were reunited while shooting for MTM. He is one of my closest friends, we speak on a daily basis, and I honestly got paid to spend time with one of my bestest friends,” says Mathur, who plays Shefali Malhotra, a mother of three on MTM. “We had met 20 years ago when we joined MTV on the same day, and we even took the same flight,” she adds.

The nine-part sitcom, which streams on Amazon Prime, takes us into the life of the Malhotras, where the husband and wife have started therapy, as they are worried their marriage will fall apart, with everyone around them getting divorced. It also marks the acting debut for Mathur, who has otherwise been a regular face on Indian TV and has hosted shows like Indian Idol.

“I was not looking for acting work, I have consistently said no to projects, as whatever was offered to me never resonated — kitchen politics, saas-bahu, overdressed naagins and goddesses. The few stints, cameos I did were for friends. I met Sahil Sangha, the producer of MTM, at a lunch, and he kept looking at me, and I was like weird guy. He then approached me to play Shefali,” she adds.

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“And then the whole quirky aspect of Shefali, she is so relatable. She is a woman of today, a millennial parent, part cool, part control freak. Shes kind of a doberman who is watching over and protecting her family,” says Mathur, a graduate from Lady Sri Ram College, Delhi.

Her chemistry with Sahukar, who plays her husband, Rishabh, on the show is getting good reviews. The comfort shared by the two makes the unique premise of a couple seeking therapy voluntarily, believable. The shows attempts to normalRead More – Source