Originally posted by: Iluvshahrukh
This is an example of how in the Indian Television industry the actors, no matter how much star power they have, are still pawns in the hands of the production houses! I mean the backlash against Smriti leaving is phenomenal, yet Smriti was powerless in preventing her dismissal, she was asked to leave by Ekta. I think Ekta asked her to leave because Smriti wanted to explore her options as an actress and do other projects, and i believe as a result Ekta asked her to leave KSBKBT. This shows that actors in the Indian television have no lee way whatsoever to truly be actors and try out different roles because their production houses wish to have a monopoly over the actor, and as a result would rather let go of the actor and jepordize their serial rather than share their stars. Ekta and Balaji and their handling of smriti is awful!