happy go lucky, pampered widow who, after her husband's death, has to find a job, for the first time in her life. She eventually finds a position as a nurse/receptionist at Dr Bhaskar's clinic.
Salmah's obsession is getting her eldest daughter married and she tends to be brutally honest with Nadiah, in her own inimitable slightly passively aggressive caring motherly way, which is not helped by her obvious pride in her second daughter Leena who's married to a sturdy dependable young man.
