Om won't rise from the dead

Let him be

When asked about the reversal, Kahaani's creative head Sandiip Sikcand says, "Yes, we had decided to bring Om back to life. But after brainstorming for weeks, the creative team has decided not to make him reappear. We explored several possibilities of resurrecting him, but we have just taken the final call of letting Om be."

The possibilities

In a case of making the impossible possible, a way of bringing Om back to life was to show that it was Om's impersonator (who lived with Trishna, played by Mita Vashisht) who was dead. Or to prove that Kamal (Ali Asgar) who was with Om in his final moments in the hospital, had stepped out, and the dead body was of another lookalike.

"We toyed with various return-from-the-dead possibilities. Finally, we decided to focus on the Parvati-Suyaash track, rather than make it a triangle," adds Sikcand.

Mind game

Viewers may have caught fleeting images of Om in Kahaani, in the last few episodes. It was turning out to be a dilemma for Parvati, who wondered if she was imagining things.

"This will drive her crazy. Her character will be shown going insane. She will be shown to lose her mental balance. And all this will not be the handiwork of the usual suspects, Sasha (Chetan Hansraj) and Pallavi (Achint Kaur), but someone extremely close to the Aggarwal parivar," informs Sikcand.

For the moment, the makers of Kahaani are not divulging the name of the character who will be responsible for the state of affairs in Parvati's life. "That will come as a big shock for Parvati and the audience, sometime next week," adds Sikcand.