What does a middle-class family, poised-on-middle-age parents plus two kids, which has lived in cramped ‘sarkaari’ housing for years, want the most? A home of their own, what else. So here are the Joshis of Dehradun gearing up for the ‘bhoomi poojan’ of their plot, which the foursome has divvied up according to their wants: a study, a home gym, a solo bathroom. And the six-part series bobs along gently as it hands out life lessons on the crucial difference between wants and needs, and other important things.Home Shanti Season 1 Download. Mummy Sarla (Supriya Pathak) teaches English at a local school, Papa Umesh (Manoj Pahwa) is a ‘kavi’ who writes poems, not really for a living, but to make life better, and teenage kiddos Jigyasa (Chakori Dwivedi) and Naman (Poojan Chhabra) are the constantly squabbling ‘behen-bhai’ duo. There’s also a jovial contractor, workers, pundits, pals and neighbours, and it is this ‘choti si duniya’ that we are invited to spend some time with, for our viewing pleasure. Between the two powerhouses that Pahwa and Pathak are, Home Shanti should have felt less bland, more substantial. Nothing wrong with being a ‘kalaakar type of vyakti’ with a yen for roadside goodies, which Pahwa plays with such warmth, or the Masterni who uses the dining table to correct her answer sheets, that falls to the affectionate Pathak. Their coming together should rightfully have had more weight, but Home Shanti stays stuck firmly to its middling, pleasant ground.The series is clearly going for the Gullak vibe, which has colonised the middle-class family drama space so beautifully in its three seasons. The Joshi family is seen having slightly more in terms of worldly goods than the Mishras of Gullak, but the writing in Gullak is superior, not