The Best TV Shows on ZEE5

Every ZEE5 Show Ranked From Best To Worst

With its programming history stretching from 2006 to 2025, ZEE5 offers an impressive lineup of over 20 shows. Kasamh Se and Pavitra Rishta represent the pinnacle of ZEE5’s programming, launching in 2006 and 2009. Check out the most acclaimed shows on ZEE5, with a catalog of over 20 series updated for August 2026.

  • Punar Vivah - Zindagi Milegi Dobara
    Punar Vivah - Zindagi Milegi Dobara (2013)10.0

    Punar Vivah is an Indian soap opera that airs on Zee TV. It premiered on 20 February 2012 and replaced Bhagonwali-Baante Apni Taqdeer. It aired every Monday-Friday at 10:30 pm. The show completed one year of run on 20 February 2013 and 300 episodes on 12 April 2013.

  • Kaise Mujhe Tum Mil Gaye
    Kaise Mujhe Tum Mil Gaye (2023)10.0

    Amruta is a romantic who believes in the bond of love and marriage, while Virat bears the scars of a broken relationship. Will this contrasting duo fall in love against all odds?

  • Gangaa
    Gangaa (2015)7.0

  • Qubool Hai
    Qubool Hai (2012)6.4

    Zoya Farooqui, a modern NRI who travels to Bhopal searching for her father, where she falls for the traditional, stern businessman Asad Ahmed Khan.

  • Pavitra Rishta
    Pavitra Rishta (2009)6.3

    Pavitra Rishta is an Indian soap opera that airs on Zee TV. It premiered on 1 June 2009 and airs weeknights. It is produced by Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms. Pavitra Rishta portrays the life of two common middle-class Maharashtrian families in the city of Mumbai and their day-to-day life. It particularly focuses on the journey of the couple Manav and Archana and their grown-up children.

  • Piyaa Albela
    Piyaa Albela (2017)6.0

    Naren, a spiritual loner spends most of his time doing social work, so his worried parents introduce him to Pooja, a college student, who changes his life in an unexpected way. They fall in love and get married, however on learning about some dosha in her horoscope that could kill Naren, she leaves him.

  • Bhagya Lakshmi
    Bhagya Lakshmi (2021)5.8

    Hailing from a middle-class family, Lakshmi’s life is upended when she realises that her marriage to Rishi Oberoi, an industrialist’s son, is a sham to keep his death at bay.

  • Jodha & Akbar
    Jodha & Akbar (2013)5.6

    Jodha Akbar is an epic drama about a sixteenth century story of the political marriage of convenience between a Mughal emperor Abu'l-Fath Jalal ud-din Muhammad Akbar and a Rajput princess Jodha Bai. The show focuses on how their political marriage brings love between them to an extent that it changed the fate of India. This period drama also portrays the wars of that time along with the relations between the Mughals and the Rajputs. The drama also focuses on the functioning of the queens, the courts, courtesans, the ministers and their influence on the love story of Jalal ud-din Muhammad Akbar and Jodha Bai. The show also highlights on how Mughal emperor Jalal ud-din Muhammad acquires the title of Akbar from the people.

  • Sister-in-Law Is at Home!
    Sister-in-Law Is at Home! (2015)5.6

    "Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain!" is a popular Hindi sitcom that premiered in 2015 on And TV and is available on ZEE5. Produced by Binaifer Kohli, the show follows two neighboring couples—the Mishras and the Tiwaris. The husbands, Vibhuti Narayan Mishra and Manmohan Tiwari are dissatisfied in their marriages and secretly admire each other's wives. Manmohan, a successful undergarment businessman, is married to Angoori, a simple and naive housewife. Vibhuti, an unemployed former insurance agent, is married to Anita, a confident and modern woman who runs grooming classes. Their constant scheming to impress each other's wives leads to comedic conflicts and chaotic situations, mostly taking place in their homes. The show, inspired by the 1990s sitcom Shrimaan Shrimati, has been well received by both critics and audiences for its humor and engaging storyline.

  • Jamai Raja
    Jamai Raja (2014)5.5

    Siddharth, a hotelier, takes up the responsibility of repairing the relationship between his independent wife, Roshni, and his enterprising mother-in-law, Durga Devi.

  • Pyar Ka Pehla Naam: Radha Mohan
    Pyar Ka Pehla Naam: Radha Mohan (2022)5.5

    In modern-day Vrindavan, Mohan, a charming flute player, loses his spark post a tragedy. Radha, who admires him since her childhood days, decides to remind him of his true love, Lord Krishna.

  • Tujhse Hai Raabta
    Tujhse Hai Raabta (2018)5.0

    Tale of a bittersweet relationship between stepmother and daughter.

  • X.X.X: Uncensored
    X.X.X: Uncensored (2018)4.4

    An erotic anthology series exploring different aspects of love, lust and romance.

  • Kumkum Bhagya
    Kumkum Bhagya (2014)3.6

    Follow the life of Punjabi matriarch Sarla Arora who runs a marriage hall and lives with the hope of seeing her two daughters Pragya and Bulbul who're poles apart, happily married some day.

  • Zindagi Ki Mehek
    Zindagi Ki Mehek (2016)3.5

    The story revolves around a young and positive girl, Mehek, who is a good cook and wants to take up cooking as a profession. She participates in a cooking competition where she meets Shaurya, a wealthy businessman who initially as an arrogant, insensitive person dumps Mehek at the altar but eventually realises his love for her and marries her.

  • Kasamh Se
    Kasamh Se (2006)2.0

    Bani, Piya and Rano who move to Mumbai following their father's death. The trio reunite with their late father's wealthy acquaintance, Jai Walia... hence, their fate and very purpose of existence is put on the line - questioning the promise they made; supporting one another through thick and thin.

  • Hitler Didi
    Hitler Didi (2011)2.0

    Hitler Didi or General Didi is a daily Indian soap opera that aired on Zee TV. It premiered on November 7, 2011. The story is located in the backdrop of Delhi. It airs in Pakistan on Express Entertainment.

  • Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani
    Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani (2015)2.0

    A journey of Gayatri from being a girl with no future since she is a manglik to becoming queen of Ranaji's heart and of the people of the land.

  • Jagriti - Ek Nayi Subah
    Jagriti - Ek Nayi Subah (2024)N/A

    Jagriti, from the marginalised Chitta community, challenges age-old traditions to empower her people and locks horns with her leader who works for the mafia.

  • Tumm Se Tumm Tak
    Tumm Se Tumm Tak (2025)N/A

    Anu, a kind 20-year-old, and Aryavardhan, a resolute 45-year-old businessman, defy societal norms and family resistance, overcoming struggles to demonstrate that love transcends age or boundaries.