Roopa, a clumsy but softhearted housewife who tries her best to impress everyone one way or another but ends up doing some mistake or another. One day by a mistake, she ends up killing her husband, Amarnath Awasthi, with her rolling pin (belan). This incident marks the beginning of the show. Roopa wins everyone's hearts as she and her dead husband in the form of a ghost helps the family to get out of tricky situations. The show throws light on how the role of the average housewife is hugely undermined in an indian household.