Characters
This idealistic lawyer's sons are dragged into Mirzapur's gun trade after he takes on a case against Munna Tripathi.
Who is Ramakant Pandit?
The fictional Uttar Pradesh town in the Purvanchal region that gives the show its name and is the seat of the gun trade.
What is Mirzapur?
Munna's accidental shooting at this kind of event, involving Ramakant Pandit's car, sets off the entire chain of events.
What is a wedding procession (baraat)?
Munna kills this elder Pandit brother at Rauf Lala's daughter's wedding, sparking Guddu's thirst for revenge.
Who is Bablu Pandit?
The streaming platform that produces and airs Mirzapur.
What is Amazon Prime Video?
Pankaj Tripathi plays this calculating don who has ruled Mirzapur's gun trade for years from the family haveli.
Who is Akhandanand (Kaleen Bhaiya) Tripathi?
The grand ancestral mansion where the Tripathi family lives and rules, often just called by this name.
What is the haveli?
In the Season 1 finale, Munna crashes this event to kill Bablu and Sweety in a single act of vengeance.
What is Rauf Lala's daughter's wedding?
Pregnant with Guddu's child, this woman is also killed by Munna at the same wedding massacre.
Who is Sweety Gupta?
This actor, who plays Guddu Pandit, also starred in Fukrey and Furious 7.
Who is Ali Fazal?
Divyenndu plays this hot-headed, insecure son of Kaleen Bhaiya who craves his father's throne.
Who is Munna Tripathi?
This illegal commodity, manufactured and sold across Purvanchal, is the true source of the Tripathis' power.
What are guns (firearms)?
Guddu finally avenges his family by killing this Tripathi heir at the end of Season 2.
Who is Munna Tripathi?
This Tripathi loyalist henchman is stopped and killed by Beena when he tries to harm the family patriarch.
Who is Maqbool?
This veteran actor plays Kaleen Bhaiya and is also known for Gangs of Wasseypur and Newton.
Who is Pankaj Tripathi?
This engineering topper turned sharpshooter becomes Guddu's closest ally after joining the Tripathi household.
Who is Golu Gupta?
This is the name given to the seat of power that Kaleen Bhaiya, Munna, Guddu, and Sharad all fight to claim.
What is the throne of Mirzapur?
Believed dead after Season 2, this Tripathi patriarch is secretly kept alive and hidden by Sharad Shukla in Season 3.
Who is Kaleen Bhaiya?
Declared the new ruler of Mirzapur in Season 3, this Shukla scion is shot dead almost immediately by Kaleen Bhaiya.
Who is Sharad Shukla?
Mirzapur is produced by Ritesh Sidhwani and this actor-producer's company, Excel Media and Entertainment.
Who is Farhan Akhtar?
Rasika Dugal plays this manipulative second wife of Kaleen Bhaiya, who quietly pulls strings from within the haveli.
Who is Beena Tripathi?
This rival political family, whose patriarch is an MLA, is locked in a blood feud with the Tripathis.
Who are the Shuklas?
This once-underling politician rises to become a formidable ruler of Mirzapur in Season 3, complicating Guddu's hold on power.
Who is Madhuri Yadav?
This loyal old ally and opium supplier, played by Anil George, meets his end in Season 3.
Who is Rauf Lala?
Karan Anshuman and this other writer are the two credited creators who originally developed Mirzapur.
Who is Puneet Krishna?