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Mouni's tight schedule

Mouni Roy's career has not taken off in a big way despite debuting in a big show like Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. The reason being her reluctance to work for long hours that is required for a daily soap. That's precisely why she stayed away from serials and concentrated on doing reality shows like Nach Baliye and Zara Nachke Dikha. Whether she has had a change of mind is not known, but Mouni is back to the routine of shooting 12 hours a day after a long time. She is playing Lord Shiv's wife Sati in Devo Ka Dev… Mahadev on Life OK. Mouni says she was not keen on doing the show and had almost rejected the offer. "But when I read the script I was quite impressed with the research," she adds.

Om's on a new show
Kiran Karmarkar, who made waves as Parvati's husband, Om in Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii has returned after a long hiatus to TV to do a new show Zindagi Kahe… Smile Please. Ask Kiran about his long vacation from TV and he sounds unruffled as he says, "Whatever I am today is because of the TV industry. But I wanted to do meaningful roles; the same rona dhona is unbearable for me. I didn't want to repeat myself doing monotonous characters."

"Zindagi Kahe… he explains, "is about making people smile. It's a story about a rich man educating his driver's son but when life takes a turn, the rich guy has to live in his driver's house. My character Hans Raj is the son of a rich man and is unable to accept his driver's son going to the same school as him." Kiran may have taken a long time off from the small screen but he wasn't twiddling his thumbs in the three years he stayed away from the television studios, he worked in plays and also did "a couple of good Hindi and Marathi films".