Madhavi Bhabhi aka Sonalika Sameer Joshi

Popularly known by her character of Madhavi Bhide is one of India’s most loved and famous TV serials and India’s longest-running TV serial Tarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chasmah, Sonalika Sameer Joshi is a very well known face.

She was born on 5 June 1976 in a middle-class Maharashtrian Family. She did her schooling from Miranda High School and did her BA with History, Fashion Designing and Theatre. She acted in theatre plays such as Wadhta Wadhta Wadhe and Bol Bacchan etc and she also acted in many TV serials and TV commercials and did her debut in Marathi films with Waras Sarech Saras (2006) and in 2008 she joined the team of Tarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chasmah. In 2015 she hosted SAB TV’S fourth edition of SAB Ke Anokhae Awards.

In TMKOC, she plays the role of Madhavi Bhide wife of Aatamaram Tukaram Bhide who is a tuition teacher, Gokuldham society’s secretary. She does a small home business of ‘pickle and papad’ to help in running her middle-class family. They have a daughter named Sonu who is an only girl member of the famous Tappu Sena.

Sonalika has been a part of the show for the last 12 years and had many memorable, funny and proud incidents during these 12 years. Whenever the show achieves a milestone the celebrations are always memorable and also the festival celebrations that they have on their show are quite memorable. Sometimes when the cast of the show meets ladies who are army wives and they say that their husbands love to watch the show on borders, many people also say that this show has helped them in battling depression and to get rid of it, these are some of the proudest moments they share together with all the love that is showered by the audience on them.