Patel Family

The Patel-Umarji Family is the family that Zain Patel belongs to. The Patel-Umarji consists of around 22 people. The family bloodline originated in Mozambique, India and some parts of South-West Asia.

Aamina "Nani Phool" Patel
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Aamina Patel, referred to as "Nani Phool" by Zain, is the head of the family and is around 95 years old. She is the only great-grandparent of Zain right now. She loves her great-grandchildren and tries to get them to come to India. It's rumoured that she has a lot of money, but doesn't use it.

Fatima "Dadi-Jan" Patel
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Fatima Patel, referred to as "Dadi-Jan" by her grandchildren, is the "advisor" in the family, mother of 5 and she loves to pray... a lot. She cares especially for Zain's mother as she is Fatima's youngest child. Fatima immigrated from India to Canada, then from Canada to UK, then from UK to America. She was married to Gulam Ahmed Patel

Gulam Ahmed "Dada-Jan" Patel
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Gulam Patel is Zain's only deceased granparent and the father of 5. He cared for Zain when the family was living in England and loved him dearly. Gulam was the one to first feed food to Zain and he spoilt Zain a lot. He was married to Fatima Patel.

Noorbibi Patel
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Noorbibi Patel is Shiraz's mother and Zain's grandmother. She and Yunus lived with Zain's family for 4 years until she found a house. She practically lived in the kitchen with her obsession of cooking. If she ever done something wrong, she'd start again. She loved Zain dearly and comes to America to see Zain every 6 months.

Yunus Musa-Ismail-Nawal Patel
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Yunus Patel is the grandfather of Zain. He loves to learn about Middle-Eastern and South Asian history and is married to Noorbibi Patel. He finds the USA "dull" and quiet and opposed to the "cheery" and "colorful" London. He hesitantly comes to America. He only comes to visit Zain.

Shiraz Patel
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Shiraz Patel is Zain's father and Bilkis' husband. He loves anything to do with computers and technology. He is responsible for the bills and money in the family. Shiraz loves to buy electronic gadgets and would immediately get that gadget upon release.

Bilkis Patel
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Bilkis Patel is Zain's mother and Shiraz's wife. Bilkis loves to go out with her friends and going shopping. She can get easily bored and loves to go for walks in the morning and evening. She always volunteers for any field trips requiring parental volunteers only to make sure Zain behaves.

Shaf Patel
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Shaf Patel is Shiraz's brother and Zain's Uncle. Shaf moved to Florida sometime after his brother moved to America. Shaf loves sports and gaming consoles and works hard for money to buy the consoles. He is married to Nasrin Patel

Nasrin Patel
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Nasrin Patel is Bilkis' niece and the wife of Shaf (Zain's Uncle). She is Zain's cousin on Bilkis' side, but his aunt through Shiraz's side. Nasrin, however, prefers to be Zain's cousin, causing the ultimate confusion for her daughter... Is she Zain's cousin or niece?!

Yasmin Umarji
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Yasmin Umarji is Bilkis' sister and Zain's aunt. She lives in Alberta, Canada and always keeps in touch with her sister for the latest gossip. Yasmin "has to" clean anything, even if it's perfectly clean. She's married to Ayub Umarji. She has 5 kids.

Ayub Umarji
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Ayub Umarji is a highly-professional businessman. He owns a convinience store (which Zain works at on weekends). Ayub also owns a letting agency and is a metal-scientist. He is the reason of the Patel-Umarji family's wealth. He's Zain's uncle and Yasmin's wife.

Salim Patel
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Salim Patel is a divorced business man and has 3 kids. 2 of them who Salim employs. Salim owns a business which produces food for restaurants and cafés. Salim is extremely religious. He usually thinks about moving to Saudi Arabia and allows his kids to conider the idea, but it's usually turned down.

Hasinah and Banu Patel
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Hasinah and Banu Patel are Bilkis' older sisters who live in India with Aamina Patel. They always call Bilkis and Yasmin once a week or twice a week to shares any good news. They're both married to wealthy men. Hasinah has 4 kids and Banu has 2 kids.

Zain Patel
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See main article for more info: Zain Patel

Zain is the son and only child of Bilkis and Shiraz Patel. He is obsessed with electronics and Nintendo products and would do anything to get something. He does quite good is school and is quite crazy.

Aqila Patel
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Aqila Patel is the second youngest family member. She is the daughter of Shaf and Nasrin. The confusion of Aqila is caused by the fact that Nasrin is Bilkis' niece and Shaf is Shiraz's brother. This means that Aqila is Zain's cousin and niece at the same time. Aqila loves watching TV, especially Spongebob and lives in Florida.

Aamena Meraj Patel
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Aamena Patel is Zain's younger cousin. She lives a few miles away from the Millard District. She is also obsessed with Nintendo. She is the daughter of Salim Patel

Bilal Patel
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Bilal Patel is Zain's older cousin by 6 years. Bilal always looks out for his cousins younger that him and gives them good advice for life. He is Salim's son and is trying to memorize the Quran.

Muhammad Patel
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Muhammad Patel is Zain's older cousin and Bilal's older brother. Muhammad loves to play video games with Shiraz and is obsessed with Instagram. Muhammad looks after his younger cousins like they're his young siblings..

Firdous Umarji
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Firdous Umarji is the oldest of the younger generation of the Patel-Umarji family. She lives in England and is married to a second-class man and gets good income every month. She loves to talk to her relatives of skype a lot and really misses Canada.

Medina Umarji
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Medina is Firdous' younger sister and loves to fool around and pull pranks on her relatives. She currently has 3 jobs, a nurse, a cashier and an optician. She loves to "bully" Zain and Huzaifah.

Heena Umarji
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Heena is the 4th oldest member of the younger generation of the Patel-Umarji Family. She loves fashion and electronics and works at a Fashion store Monday-Wednesday and and at FutureShop Thursdays and Fridays.

Haleema Ahmed Saadia Umarji
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Not to be confused with Haleema Ahmed

Haleema Saadia is the most spoilt daughter of Ayub and Yasmin as she does quite great is school. She claims she sucks at school. She tends to help her relatives with school work if they're confused with it.

Huzaifah Umarji
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Huzaifah is the youngest in the whole family tree. He is obsessed with PlayStation and does fairly good in school. He is the second-most loved by Yasmin and third most-loved by Ayub.