Actress Surbhi Chandna, who has co-produced the streaming show Ishk Dum Aur Idli Rasam, has said that for her, making the show was all about celebrating love, family, and culture.

The show is set inside a heritage South Indian restaurant struggling to survive, and is deeply rooted in food, family, memory, and emotional inheritance. At the heart of the series is Meera Nair played by Shiny Doshi, an emotional chef who believes food is service, comfort, and responsibility, not spectacle. For Meera, running her late father’s restaurant is not merely a profession, but a way of preserving his legacy, values, and emotional world. Her world is shaken when Arjun Thakur, portrayed by Abhishek Kumar, a chef-investor, enters her kitchen with the promise of revival but also the threat of erasing everything she holds close.