Television's highest-paid actors
Claim to Fame: Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii
Character: Parvati Agarwal
Her fee, industry talk has it, is Rs 45,000 per day The demure Parvati Agarwal is perhaps the soul of Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii. She is the daughter-in-law who sets the bar for every bahu in India. Even today, when the show has taken another 18-year leap, it is Saakshi's portrayal of Janki Devi that glues viewers to the screens.
Like her contemporaries, Saakshi also made it big in the city of dreams after starting life in Alwar in Rajasthan. A former computer software consultant, she resides in the hearts of millions thanks to a role she had almost refused. But, like they say, some things are just meant to be.
