Originally posted by: prerna4rishav
No this is not the reason why PRB sailed. The primary reasons involved Ronit Roy’s portrayal and the sassiness that RB’s character had. It attracted lots of young eyeballs and Ronit’s 2 month cameo was made a parallel lead based on the audience demand. However good CK-ST chemistry was, they were never TRP puller. CK remained a bad actor throughout although he did his best. Ronit and ST carried the show on their shoulders for quite long.
And in 2004 when Ronit finally put his foot down as his character was not going anywhere, Ekta conducted a poll with her offline audience (no sms or email, that time it used to be landphone voting only lol) and there 79% people voted for PRB against 21% for AP. It was primarily audience who decided the fate that time. However, Ekta’s favourite was always AP, which is why she could never make peace with PRB like she did with Jai-Baani or Milind-Prachi 😆.
CK ST might have problems, but they had shot plenty of real hot scenes together and continued to shoot with each other. Both were thorough professionals and we should admire that. 👍🏼