Yesterday i finished my shoot for Rishta.com.10 Long never ending months of seeing a unit give their blood and sweat for a show. It still hasn't sunk in properly that its over. God I'm going to miss being on that set 😭😭 Just wanted to share my amazing experience with you all. Rishta.com is by far the best work of my acting career. I'd like to thank Yashraj for finally coming in and changing the face of television. And a special mention to RAVINA KOHLI for nurturing all the shows and helping them evolve into fantastic content👏👏👏 Thank you to the back office PREETI SINGH, LIA AND JAYESH for treating us as family.(giving us our cheques)
I'd like to thank my brother RISHAB SETH who is the writer/director of the show for finally helping me discover the actor in me and giving me a character like Isha to play. I've had the privilege of mouthing some of the best written dailogues of my career thanks to his writing and also had the joy of making Isha come alive thanks to his vision and his never ending pursuit for the perfect take.👏👏👏
I'd like to thank all the various writers who have collaborated with him and made this show what it is. Thanks SANYUKTA CHAWLA, MRINALINI SHARMA&ATIKA RAO.👏👏👏
Next I'd like to thank ANIL SINGH the Director of photography(Cameraman) for making us all look like a million bucks and for his passion to make every frame PERFECT👏👏👏 Thank you to the entire camera team Mohan, Jhanvi, Babu, Pervez and each every light incharge for their hard work and passion for making Rishta one of the best looking shows in the history of Indian TV.
Let me now Thank the stylists MEHMA TIBB for setting the fabulous look for all the characters and SONYA TOMMY for continuing the fab job. So all the ladies who love the way we dress, these are the two remarkable women who are responsible for it.👏👏👏
Thank you to Saurabh, Nilesh, Vinod and Jeevan dada for looking after all our stuff for the past 10 months.👏👏👏
I'd like to thank KALEEM and SHONALI our make up and hair stylists and all their assistants for hiding all our flaws and making us shine.👏
I'd like to say a million thank yous and a thousand apologies to all the Assistant Directors who have worked the hardest and taken the maximum flack for our bad moods and fatigue. You guys were awesome. So, thank you TASCHA, VIKRAM, SIDDHARTH, MARUSHKA, HARSHAL, ASHWINI, RAVI, AHWAN, BHOOMI, BHAVNA👏
Thank you to the Art Department for building us new homes and offices and restaurants and cafes and roads and art galleries etc etc Kudos to SUKANT,SHAZIA AND SANDEEP and all their teams and all the BUNTYS. Thank you 👏👏👏
Thank you to the post production team for covering up our flawed performances with their talent. JABEEN MERCHANT, PULOMA and ABHIJEET our editors(who have laughed many a times seeing all the out takes), MANEK and MANAS our sound engineers(who did make us dub a fair amount inspite of it being sync sound), KAIZAD and the team of SDS for the fabulous background score.(which sometimes actually fades our dailogues)👏
I'd also like to thank AKSHAI PURI the producer and his team ASHOK and RAJESH and SATISH for feeding us awesome food and making us comfortable for the last 10 months. Thank you a thousand times to all the spot boys VINOD👏 SILVA👏PRADEEP👏GOVIND👏JOHN👏 and a few more who have taken care of our every need no matter how exhausted they've been and always, always, always greeted us with the warmest smiles⭐️ you all are the real stars on set.👏
And now I'd like to acknowledge my phenomenal co actors. KAVI SHASTRI for being ever so charming, loving and caring and for being the best Rohan Mehra.⭐️ KAVIN DAVE for being so damn talented and keeping us in splits all day long on set and for being the cutest Huzaifa ever⭐️KIREN JOGI for being the sexy kitten Ruchika and the most amazing female co star.⭐️SEEMA for being our adorable Sally and teaching us from her amazing talent⭐️HAPPY for being the weirdest Vignesh and for his crazy antics⭐️AND MICKEY MAKHIJA for being the funniest daddy and SHOHINI for being the most graceful Naina and not to forget to ALL THE FANTASTIC, TALENTED GUEST ACTORS who came and made every single Rishta unforgettable!!!👏
Thank you to ALL my amazing friends who came on our show to say a single line sometimes and make a small little part an unbelievably large character.⭐️
A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO 👏ADITYA CHOPRA👏 FOR BEING THE VISION BEHIND YRF TV AND MAKING US A PART OF THE GREATEST REVOLUTION ON INDIAN TELEVISION.👏
And FINALLY a big big big thank you to all our loyal fans on INDIA FORUMS, TWITTER AND FB for giving us all the love and support and making our hard work so so so worthwhile.👏Please continue watching the episodes. They'll be on air till END JUNE. And I can promise you, it will only keep getting better😊
WHAT AN AMAZING JOURNEY THIS HAS BEEN and I'D DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN IN A HEARTBEAT😭😭😭
Once again thanks 😉brother😉 for conceptualising RISHTA.COM👏
LOVE ALWAYS
SHRUTI SETH/ISHA MIRCHANDANI