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Hi everyone!

I owe all of you an explanation and some clarifications. So here goes! (I'm writing this as a word file first before I cut and post it on IF – so I hope I get it right! This is the first time I'm posting a new topic! )

Firstly, this IS Ashish Nayyar here – the real one! Since some of you tough nuts out here will demand 'proof' I will soon attach some pics of myself on this forum – as soon as I figure out how the hell to do that! Would you guys like some DNA evidence as well?! (Joking!) But seriously, in the light of all that has happened, I will try to get some pics of me with the TD cast on the sets and post it. (Would be very grateful if one of you could tell me how you guys do it so easily all the time!)

Secondly, sorry for all the chaos caused by the Mid-day article. It was something that just came up in a chat with Tushar Joshi (a journalist). I told him that I had read this Mid-day article where a TV actress was receiving weird text messages from a 'fan'. Then I said that I once had a great fan who'd sent emails in my name, etc. And the next thing was that I was being asked to give an account of what happened to me. So it wasn't pre-planned, or timed for some PR, or anything like that.

Thirdly, I want to stress that I am very aware of the support, the regard and the acknowledgement that I receive from all of you at IF. I am extremely touched by it and terribly grateful. I would not like anything to jeopardize this or cause distrust among you guys. You have no idea how it feels for an actor to get such appreciation and feedback from loyal viewers across the world! I still can't believe it most of the time! I love your feedback (both negative and positive!) and even all your funny predictions and scripts! I don't always log on, but just read through some of your posts. When I do get the time, I log on and send some of you some very, very brief PMs.

Fourthly, I considered Disha the best fan any actor could have. I loved her spirit and enthusiasm. If not for her there would never have been a DKFC – and I would never have known all you people. I thought of her as a really good human being – intelligent, funny, friendly and with an amazing memory. Her updates were fabulous and her patience always impressed me. Some of my friends who read her posts actually envied me that Disha called herself a DK fan!

My friends told me about her 'confession' in Bollyteens. I had not read it. I believe she had also written that she had actually told me about it and that I had laughed about it. I'm sorry to say that she never 'confessed' anything to me personally. The thing is that by this time, we were like friends, so I decided to forget about it and not mention it. So we continued corresponding…till the time someone reproduced her Bollyteens 'confession' in IF. And that was the time she stopped corresponding with me. (BTW, in the infamous 'Priyenka interview, I had NOT answered her question about 'my idea of a perfect woman' – Disha/Priyenka must have written the answer herself. I try and avoid getting very personal in most interviews.) It was also around the same time that 'Cyber crimes' were making the news in India. I tried calling and texting her several times, but got no response. So I concluded that she must have gotten scared that I would report her activities to the Cyber Police and that's why she disappeared from the scene.

Beside the entire 'Priyenka Sharma' act, there was the Yahoo email thing. Disha knew my email 'ashishnayyar12@yahoo.co.in' (thanks to Priyenka!). She had sent me a few emails as well – which I still have. One day, she said that she had created a new Yahoo email ID for me 'ashishnayyar122@yahoo.co.in' (she added on another '2') and said that she was sharing with the members of IF. What she didn't do was give me the password, till I insisted on her giving it to me. I checked my mail on this ID and had no time to reply. I repeat, I DID NOT reply to any mail from the '122' ID. But I changed the password. She immediately changed it again and refused to give me the new password and then stopped communicating. I only got to know that she had sent emails in my name because some of you mentioned having received emails from me.

Earlier, on my birthday (March 12), Disha wanted me to chat with everyone on IF. She went ahead and created an ID for me: 'ashishnayyar' and also texted me the password. Since I had had a blast chatting with you guys on my birthday and answering your combined questions, I logged on again a few days later and PMd some of you. But the next time I tried to log on, I found that my password was not getting accepted. There was only one other person who knew my password – so you do the math! If any of you received PMs from 'ashishnayyar' a few weeks after March 12, they were not from me!

So this is why I had to register myself AGAIN on IF as 'ashishnayyar12'. I do log on now and then to check my PMs and if I have the time, I shoot off a short reply. So the PMs you've been receiving recently are from me and not Disha.

In retrospect, I feel there are several things that I did wrong: I did not double check about 'Priyenka Sharma'and I should not have given my email ID to her; I let Disha be my sole contact point with DKFC and IF (the only other person I actually spoke with was Disha's friend who called me when she came to Mumbai – I think her name was Jasmine); I should not have let Disha create all these email and forum IDs on my behalf and I should have immediately talked to her about the Priyenka issue. (Btw, did she really have a kid? When I asked her, she said 'No'.)

So one thing I have to say to all of you is: be careful! Don't be a lallu like me! Don't give away personal information on the Net. Or else everyone starts doubting everyone – and where's there's no trust, there's no fun!

To make up for all the chaos and confusion that I have inadvertently caused, let me give all you TD fans a peak into a future episode of TD that I am currently shooting: Satwik, now in his DK avatar, comes to the Bhonsle house to get Disha back! DK is in a dark grey suit with a blue shirt and Disha looks great in a black business suit with a pink shirt. And guess what – they both hug!! This should come on air some time next week.

Please keep posting your feedback on 'Sweet Satwik' and 'Dangerous DK'! And be kind to me! It's challenging doing a double role. And I'm trying to make Satwik very different from DK. Now the tough part is getting you guys to like Satwik as well! So I'll keep trying – and you keep watching!

Once again, thanks for all your prayers, good wishes and affection. You're an amazing bunch of people and I'm really fortunate that you're on my side!

Take care! God bless! Lots of love!

Ashish