Munidhar is an Indian Hindi language television serial. The show is a family drama which is a genre of shows in which the story told centers around a family or family and focuses on their struggles and fights and the love they share amongst themselves. The serial could also be categorized under neo-realist cinema which is a kind of storytelling in which the atmosphere reflects reality and the characters are portrayed in a brutally real way. The story of the show is set in Munidhaar, a beautiful village in the valleys of the Himalayas. Hardev Babu is the vaidya of the village that treats all the people in the village. He is known for his knowledge of medicines and thus people from all backgrounds and villages come to get treated by him.
He uses ancient methods of treating illness and his methods work great. He gets help from his old mother and daughter Pakhi, who herself is a biology graduate, in running the clinic. The primary health center of the village is run under the command of Birju, a corrupt compounder who only sees profit in everything and thus makes the health center his arena. He sells the medicines stored in the health center to other villages and in place of it stores expired medicines. Other government facilities in the village are also exploited by the ex-pradhan of the village, Puranchand. The present Pradhan of the village protests against the actions of these corrupt fellows but nobody listens to him. One day a young medicine graduate, Shekhar, who has a degree in medical science arrives in the village.
He has come from Delhi as he has been posted in the village. He is an honest man and belongs to a family of principles. His father is a sociologist while his sister is studying journalism from a premier institute. He joins the clinic of Vaidya and now Vaidya’s Ancient Knowledge mixed with Shekhar’s knowledge of modern medicine starts healing the people of Munidhaar. And they start expanding their operation and with this, their fight against corruption, evil, system starts boiling. To continue helping people, they have to fight all the corrupts in the system. The show has a great cast that includes names like Abhijit Lahiri, Neena Cheema, Sanjay Batra, and many more. The show aired on the popular Hindi channel, DD National, and received great accolades from both, critics as well as the audience.