Originally posted by: chotoranii
we'll never know the complete truth of why he left but here's what i wrote for a friend who is in America like me and didn't keep up with the interviews and such
Gash "pranks" fandom in August about quitting, fandom loses it and the CVs realize they can't just write him off the show takes a turn for the worst with the malini baby sitch and Adi becomes worse over time
Fahmaan Khan is announced October 28th and shows up November 10th. First day filming is November 8th because atif posts that day the shot of aryan by his car with the A initial
Rumors of Gash quitting are squashed again November 12th (that's hilarious to me looking back because people were already aware things were changing)
Week before Aryan enters is a 2.3 (lowest they've gotten), week Aryan enters is 2.6 and that's without any promo on TV or social beyond the announcement FK had been cast
Adi continues to be the worst, all the chaos happens in December where there were people being wild on social media and stuff about whether he was officially quitting or not and Gash officially puts in his notice January 5 of this year
Manasvi is announced January 10th, but doesn't show up until the episode on January 28th so likely shows up to film first day Jan 25 (which is why the PD track took eighty five years (20 episodes, ridiculous)
TE and other websites including the gossip accounts say he's leaving, but he was filming today so I don't think we'll know for sure if/when he's leaving until they announce it. But he did post a story about choosing between turning a page and closing a book so take that as you will.
Atif and Gul have always been Muslim and so has Sumbul (and Arham and who knows who else on the show) so people deciding to be islamophobic now is so ridiculous, it's just a tv show!!!!