National, 27th May, 2026:The trailer for Maa Hai Na has dropped — and it’s packed with drama, laughs, and pure heart! Hindi ZEE5’s upcoming non-fiction original comedy cooking show pairs six Gen Zs with their moms for an unpredictable, high-energy kitchen showdown. With Shilpa Shetty Kundra at the helm, expect comedy, chaos, emotional throwbacks, and plenty of pressure as these contestants step out of their comfort zones. It’s not just about cooking — it’s about rediscovering the love, lessons, and lifelong bond they share with their maa
Key Details:
- Title: Maa Hai Na
- Platform: ZEE5
- Language: Hindi
- Genre: Non-fiction
- Format: 6 Gen Zs + their mothers
- Episodes: 10 Episodes
- Host: Shilpa Shetty Kundra
- Release: 12th June 2026 & 19th June (5 Episodes/Week)
- Production: Lil Frodo Productions
Trailer Link: https://youtu.be/47oomb-u7lU
What is Maa Hai Na about?
Maa Hai Na is a heartwarming, high-energy comedy cooking show spanning 10 episodes. Contestants learn to cook alongside their mothers, rediscovering their bond, communication, and comfort with each other. What begins as a cooking challenge evolves into a journey of emotional growth—where Gen Z speed and shortcuts clash with a mother’s traditions and wisdom. The kitchen becomes a space of nostalgia, arguments, affection, and learning. But it’s not just about bonding. With every cooker “seeti,” the pressure builds, rivalries intensify, and the race to become the Winning Jodi heats up—because here, it’s not just food being cooked, relationships are too.
Why Maa Hai Na stands out:
- A fresh comedy cooking reality show where cooking becomes a medium for emotional connection and rediscovery
- Explores the universally relatable relationship between Gen Z children and their mothers
- Blends chaos, comedy, nostalgia, and heartfelt conversations within the everyday setting of a kitchen
- Goes beyond recipes to examine communication, generational differences, comfort, and emotional growth
- Combines warmth and family bonding with pressure-filled competition and entertainment-driven twists
- Features signature challenges that test not just culinary ability, but patience, memory, teamwork, and relationships
- Maa Hai Na presents a vibrant mix of celebrity contestants, digital creators, and television personalities navigating emotional and entertaining kitchen challenges with their mothers, such as Reality TV king – Gullu aka Kushal Tanwar, Tanya Mittal, Bhagyashree Sharma, Urvashi Dholakia, Sunita Ahuja, Tina Ahuja, Manisha Rani, etc
- Adding to the madness are popular faces from entertainment and digital culture, bringing their personalities, emotions, and competitive spirit into the kitchen. Just as contestants find their rhythm, Ali, Chandan, and Gaurav Kapoor shake things up—Ali and Chandan with chaotic interruptions and humor, and Gaurav as the ultimate ‘Seeti,’ introducing high-pressure twists that make every challenge tougher, funnier, and wildly unpredictable.
Official Statement:
Host Shilpa Shetty Kundra shared, “The moment I watched the trailer of Maa Hai Na, it instantly reminded me of how emotional and chaotic kitchens can be in every Indian family. Maa Hai Na is not just about cooking; it’s about those little moments between a mother and child that we often take for granted. The show has laughter, pressure, nostalgia, and genuine emotions that surprised me, and I love how beautifully it captures the madness and magic of that relationship. A complete show packed with great energy, entertainment and emotion. What I didn’t expect at all was that in all the humour we found emotions that were heartwarming and just like we believe in every Indian home, ‘ Maa hai Na … toh Sab possible hai !!”
Starting 12th June, step into a kitchen filled with love, laughter, pressure, and priceless maa moments with Maa Hai Na on Hindi ZEE5.
List of contestants:
Sunita Ahuja with daughter, Tina Ahuja
Urvashi Dholakia with son, Kshitij Dholakia
Tanya Mittal with mother, Sunita Mittal
Gullu with mother, Munesh Tanwar
Shahida Ansari with nephew, Afghan
Bhagyashre E Sharma with mother, Rinju Sharma
Manisha Rani with her father, Manoj Kumar
About ZEE5:
ZEE5 is India’s leading homegrown video streaming platform and a global destination for South Asian content, available across 190+ countries. With a strong focus on regional storytelling under the philosophy of Apni Bhasha, Apni Kahaniyan, ZEE5 offers content across multiple Indian languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada, and Marathi.
