Badai Bungalow () is an Indian Malayalam sketch comedy and celebrity talk show hosted by Ramesh Pisharody, Mithun Ramesh, and Kalabhavan Navas that launched on Asianet from 2013. It airs every Saturday and Sunday at 8:00 PM. The second season of the show aired on every Friday at 9:30 PM.
Each episode features celebrity guests who usually appear to promote their latest films in a comedy-focussed talk show format. Several stars from Malayalam film and television industry has participated in this show.
Mukesh is a permanent guest in the show playing the role of Badai Bungalow's owner. Due to high viewership, the air time was changed to every Sunday at 8:30pm. It replaced the long-running comedy series Cinemala. The show ended on 3 June 2018.
The second season of the series premiered on 3 March 2019 on Asianet channel.
Controversy Ramesh Pisharody's absence from the program for around a month led to a decrease in the show's popularity. The alternative host, Rajesh, falls short as a replacement for Pisharody, especially in bringing liveliness and engaging guests with humour rather than showering praise and epitomising them as beyond human which fails to ground with the Malayali audience. His absence or speculated termination was met with highly negative feedback through social media. Though the main host of the show, Mukesh, said this was a temporary setback.
Rajesh, who was already popular as an anchor, later added a video featuring him with Mukesh, Pisharody, and Arya, clarifying this point. Later, Pisharody returned to the show, and the popularity increased again.
Cast Season 1Season 2Main castMukesh as Badai Bungalow's owner Ramesh Pisharody as Tenant at Badai BungalowKalabhavan Navas as Tenant at Badai Bungalow Manoj Guinness as Neighbor/Regular visitor Arya as Tenant's wifeArya as Arya Dharmajan Bolgatty as Servant at Badai BungalowApsara as Tenant's wife Praseetha Menon as Ammayi (Tenant's aunt)Recurring cast Veena Nair as Cheryammayi (Tenant's aunt) Anu Joseph as Clara Harisree Martin as a Regular visitor Jaffar Idukki as Regular visitor Nobi as Servant at Badai BungalowPonnamma Babuas Regular visitor Devi Chandana as kunjammayiAnju Aravind as Mukesh's wifeSaritha.B.Nair as a Regular visitorSinoj Varghese as DJ Vicky, Ammayi's Husband Sethu Lakshmi as Regular visitorMeera Muralidharan as Stella Apsara as Daisy (tenants at upstairs) Kishor as Vishnu Namboothiri (tenants at upstairs) Mamukkoya as HamzakkoyaRajesh as Host (in absence of Pisharody) Mithun Ramesh as Tenant at Badai BungalowLakshmi Priya as Ammayi (in the absence of Praseetha) Lakshmi Menon as Tenant's wife
Popular guests (Season 1)
Cine Actors Dulquer Salmaan Hemanth Menon Nishan K. P. Nanaiah Jacob Gregory Shritha Sivadas Innocent Seema Mohanlal Ambika Kaviyoor Ponnamma Urvashi Kalpana Jayaram Ratheesh Vegha Akshara Kishor Biju Menon Miya Shwetha Menon Surabhi Lakshmi Rima Kallingal Lal Arya (actor) Jayasurya Vinay Forrt Lakshmi Gopalaswamy Maniyanpilla Raju Mala Aravindan Govind Padmasoorya Muthumani Amala Paul Mamta Mohandas Navya Nair Methil Devika Manju Warriar Manoj K. Jayan Dileep Bhavana Anusree Unni Mukundan Tovino Thomas Wamiqa Gabbi Nivin Pauly Abrid Shine Aju Varghese Dhyan Sreenivasan Vineeth Sreenivasan Fahadh Faasil Soubin Shahir Shamna Kasim Honey Rose Meera Nandan Namitha Pramod Narain Riyaz Khan Ashokan Sai Kumar Sibi Malayil Sithara Kunchan (actor) Kavya Madhavan Nadia Moidu Roma Asrani Tini Tom Guinness Pakru Narayanankutty Janardanan Shivaji Guruvayoor Prem Kumar Salim Kumar Harisree Ashokan Kalabhavan Shajohn Mamukkoya Sudheer Karamana Nadirshah Renji Panicker Alleppey Ashraf Ranjini Suresh Krishna
Music Industry
P. Jayachandran K. G. Markose Sayanora Philip Stephen Devassy Jyotsna Radhakrishnan K. S. Chithra Vidhu Prathap and Deepthi Vaikom Vijayalakshmi
Serial actors
Sona Nair Roopa Sree and Meghna Vincent Rekha ratheesh and Kottayam Pradip Lishoy and Leona Lishoy Gayathri Arun Sonu and Chitra Shenoy Premi Vishwanath and Akshara Kishor Kishor Satya and Renu Soudhar
Stand-up comedians Kottayam Nazeer Jayaraj Warrier
Sports S. Sreesanth
Magician Magician Samraj
Popular Guests (season 2) Episode No. Guest(s)Notes1Shane Nigam, Soubin ShahirKumbalangi Nights promotion1Rajesh Hebbar, Arun G Raghavan, Mrudula, Della, Pratheeksha, Dhanya Mary Varghese, Anoop, Anoop SivasenanFor ammayi's wedding2Nadirsha, Nikhila VimalMera Naam Shaji promotion3Kalidas Jayaram, Aishwarya LekshmiArgentina Fans Kaattoorkadavu promotion4Sharreth, Resul Pookutty5Anusree, Shamna KasimMadhura Raja promotion6Anna Rajan, Appani Sarath 7Manju Warrier8Vishnu Unnikrishnan, Bibin GeorgeOru Yamandan Premakadha promotion9Sheela10Rafi, Dhruvan, Sharaf U DheenPromotion of Children's park11Darshana Das, Rini Raj, Pradeep ChandranPromotion of Karuthamuthu12Sabumon Abdusamad, Aristo Suresh, Ranjini Haridas, Archana Suseelan13Asha Sarathpromotion of Evidey14Jayaraj Warrier, Unda pakru15P. Jayachandran, Sreekumaran Thampi16Indrans, Dharmajan Bolgatty17Naveen Nazim, Soubin Shahirpromotion of Ambili18Samyuktha Menon, Sudheeshpromotion of Kalki19JayaramPromotion of Pattabhiraman20Baiju, Sheelu Abraham
Awards Asianet comedy awards 2015 – Best Anchor – Ramesh Pisharody Flowers TV awards 2016–Best Anchor – Ramesh Pisharody Asianet Television Awards 2016 – Golden Star of the Year -Mukesh Asianet Television Awards 2016 – Entertainer of the Year – Ramesh Pisharody 2nd Asianet comedy awards 2016 – Versatile performance(TV)-Dharmajan 19th Asianet film awards Multifaceted Personality of the Year -Mukesh (actor) Santhadevi memorial awards 2017 for Best comedy actress -Arya Rohit 3rd Asianet comedy awards – Best Performer T.V. – Arya Rohit Asianet Television Awards 2018 – Golden Star of the Year -Mukesh Asianet Television Awards 2018 – Best Comedian (Non-Fiction) -Manoj Guinness 3rd Anand TV film awards – Multifaceted Personality (TV & Films) – Ramesh Pisharody
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