‘KumKum Bhagya’ by Ekta Kapoor is undoubtedly one of the much-loved and longest-running shows on television screen. It revolves around the love story of Abhishek and Pragya and has been going on for over years. It has been in the BARC list of top 5 shows week after week. A few months back both the leading actors went missing from the show, giving rise to talks about their quitting. Now, the news of the same has been confirmed by the actor himself. Shabir revealed in an interview that he is finally bidding the show goodbye after seven years and will now be seen as the male lead in Pyaar Ka Pehla Naam Radha Mohan, a mature love story set in Vrindavan.
Shabir said, “Yes, I have taken up a new daily soap. Moving on from my previous show was obviously not easy, as it becomes a habit more than anything else. You miss the people you work with on a daily basis and spend a large chunk of your life with them. In my case, I share a great bond with Sriti Jha and Arjit Taneja. So, parting is never easy but as they say, the show must go on.”
He talked about his apprehensions and said, “Every actor has certain apprehensions. KB was essentially a love story, which ran its course after a point. Now, it is not easy to run a daily soap for so long and the only way forward is to show what comes next in a lead couple’s life. So, it is obvious that their kids will grow up, who will take the story forward. That’s only logical and that’s how a show progresses with the next generation taking over. It also infuses newness into the story. I have been in the industry for long enough to understand that progression is important.”
It is actually a bad news for the Kumkum Bhagya fans.
Last time the duo were seen together before the accident sequence after which the two of them slip into a coma. The current track revolves around the lives of Ranbir played by Krishna Kaul, Prachi by Mugdha Chapekar and Rhea by Pooja Banerjee. It started in the year 2014 and both Shabir and Sriti have been a part of the same since the beginning.
Shabir’s new show, it shows Shabir playing the role of Mohan staring Neeharika Roy as Radha. The promo shows Mohan as a happy man, whose melody on the flute can make hearts flutter.
