Ashish is a lot like DK

After two years and 450 episodes curtains have finally come down on Tumhari Disha. Though the show was given a generation leap the TRPs didn't live up to expectations. But according to the serial's chief protagonist Ashish Nayyar, the TRPs were not the issue.

"Like most Zee serials Tumhari Disha was averaging 1.2 TVRs which is normal by Zee standards. But then it was the longest running show on Zee and it was the channel's call to close it down," he says. Whatever the case may be, for Ashish it was a great learning experience. In fact he says his reel life character DK and he shared a lot of similarities. "Like me, DK also lost his father quite early in life. Like me, DK also lost his mother because of cancer. And like DK, I am also into business."

Although open to good TV offers, right now he is concentrating on his business venture and putting his MBA in marketing to good use. Three years ago when he was on holiday in Goa he fell in love with the place.

So he thought,  "Why not open a small beach resort there?" Last year he opened a nine-hut resort called Chattai at Palolem beach and now he is planning a small township of 50 beach houses, each of 1300 sq. ft at Palolem called The Village. "Work will start in October and it's a partnership venture between me, my wife Kumudha (a regional manager in an ad agency in Mumbai) and my brother-in-law who is an architect," he informs.