Make-overs, change-overs and voice-overs have kept the afternoon show Kumkum going ..........
Location: The sprawling lawns at Kamalistan Studio is where Kumkum's sets have been created. The scene has Kumkum (Juhi Parmar) meeting her son Sharman (Gaurav Kapoor).
Gift of the garb: Playing a village belle with a ghunghat et al and a Haryanvi dialect to match is Parmar. Hello, where's Kumkum? Parmar laughs, "I'm thrown out of my house by my daughter-in-law. So I come back in the garb of a maid and expose her true colours. Right now, I am Santo, the household maid." Her make-over is good enough to fool anybody. Recently, a group of fans were fooled too when they couldn't recognise Kumkum and mistook her for some junior artiste in village attire. Scene of the day: Kumkum's son Dhruv (Vivaan Bhatena) is unaware of his wife Antara's (Sonia) ploy to throw his mother out of the house "With her disguise, Santo wants to expose Antara's true colours to Dhruv. In the scene we are shooting, Kumkum's second son Sharman has learnt of the ruse and has come to meet her secretly," explains Juhi. Changing faces: There's a new face in Kumkum. Replacing Sayantani Ghosh is Sonia in the role of Antara. "I have mostly played negative roles in serials from Hare Kanch Ki Chudiyan and Tumhari Disha to Bhabhi but I don't mind them because there's more scope to perform. Of course, I wish for a positive part too some day," says Sonia.Sneak preview Kumkum has completed 945 episodes. The story is about Kumkum, who was earlier mar ried to Jatin (Anuj Saxena), but on his death is married to his brother played by Sumit (Husein Kuwajerwala). The generation leap happened after three-and-a-half-years. Parmar has a Haryanvi teacher on the sets to get her diction right
"I am thrown out of my house by my daughter-in-law. So I come back in the garb of a maid and expose her true colours. Right now, I am Santo, the household maid..-juhi"
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