Metro Park is light-hearted, gently refreshing and a pleasant change from the usual cuss-and-copulation-laden online fare. The Bihari Bittu (Pitobash Tripathy), Kalpesh’s employee at his convenience store, completes the motley bunch of characters that populates this breezy series. Only thing is that the kids are less confused about their roots (where the term actually sprang from) and more confused with the outrageous shenanigans of their parents. Kalpesh and Payal have two grown kids, Pankaj (Arnav Joshi) and Munni (Aashmi Joshi), typical ABCDs (that’s American Born Confused Desis for the ignoramuses). Only hitch is that Kannan is a stereotypical South Indian – stand-offish and suspecting. Kinjal is preggers and so the couple has to shift from their pigeon-hole-sized New York City apartment to a larger home. The first episode is dedicated to the arrival in Metro Park, of Payal’s sister Kinjal (Vega Tamotia) and her husband, Kannan (Omi Vaidya). Sheila is the wife of Kalpesh’s friend, Dinkar Bhai (Indraneil Joshi). Kalpesh runs a convenience store (duh, what else!) in Metro Park, while Payal has her own beauty salon in partnership with her friend, Sheila (Maya Indraneil Joshi). Metro Park is the locality in New Jersey where the Patels have set up home. It’s not for nothing that it has been bestowed with the moniker of Little India.
New Jersey, as everyone knows, is over-ridden with Indians of every shape, size and ethnicity.
Kalpesh (Ranvir Shorey) and Payal Patel (Purbi Joshi), are a Gujarati couple, settled in the US of A, New Jersey to be precise.
Produced by Indian-American film-maker, Giju John, and co-produced by Vikram Rai and Bhuvanesh Shrivastava, this 9-episode sitcom is funny AF. Metro Park is a hilarious and heart-warming nod to the eccentricities and idiosyncrasies of the ubiquitous, globe-trotting Gujju Bhai. That fact notwithstanding, the Gujarati is also enterprising enough to go where no Indian has ever gone before, testing the waters of uncharted shores and then going on to flourish in those strange climesĪ recent report claims that Gujaratis comprise around 33% of the Indian diaspora worldwide and can be found in 129 of the 190 UN-recognized countries of the world, taking their quirks with them wherever they go. With money on his mind and the taste of his home state on his tongue, the Gujju (a lovable slang for the Gujarati) will make any place on earth his home but will stick to his roots, just like chewing gum sticks to hair – staunch and steadfast. “You can take a Gujarati out of Gujarat, but you can’t take Gujarat out of a Gujarati.” This old adage perfectly sums up the world of Kalpesh and Payal Patel, the protagonists of Metro Park, Eros Now’s outrageously funny take on the peculiar human species called the Gujarati.
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