‘Ekta knows I can’t relate to saas-bahu s

'Ekta knows I can't relate to saas-bahu soaps'

Rajeev Khandelwal reacts to buzz of a patch-up with Ekta Kapoor

ROSHNI K OLIVERA

There's buzz that you have patched up with producer Ekta Kapoor?

• Well, rumours should be best left as rumours.
Have the two of you met ever in the last one-and-a-half years?

• I have not met Ekta or spoken with her till date, ever since I left Kahin To Hoga (KTH). I have not been approached by her for anything. If ever I am approached, I would be more than happy to consider it because they are one of the best in the market and both Shobha aunty and Ekta have been fair to me in the past. But I see it as a remote possibility for they know that I can't relate to the routine saas-bahu soaps. I know they are all very high rating shows, but I somehow can't connect with them.
But the fact is that you are still best known as the original Sujal of Ekta's Kahin To Hoga...

• KTH for me ended a year-and-ahalf back. I'm glad that no one could take away Sujal from me. After all I had put my heart and soul in it.
What's happening on the acting front?

• I'm happy doing Left Right Left (LRL) on SAB. That's my second daily soap and I couldn't have asked for anything better. I'm open to anyone who is willing to put in genuine effort and to break new grounds. Failure or success comes later; what comes first is the honest approach.
But sometime back you were planning to quit LRL as you felt the show was stagnating. And now there's news that the serial is going off air...

• As far as my fate in LRL is concerned I have left it to my makers and the channel. I have full faith in them and I know they understand my problems. They are working on it and we will soon make an announcement, but as of now I don't want to be professionally wrong and disappoint my producers. They have been very good to me... far more than what I probably deserved.


This article from The Bombay Times-dated 22/02/2007.