
Success Couple
Producer Rajeev Tandon and wife Rakhi Vijan Tandon must be flying quite high. Their first production Heena which took off on Sony a few months back has emerged a winner. It8217;s topped the charts with a TRP of 17.1 according to the TAM people meter. Quite an achievement. The credit, must definitely go to director Javed Sayyed and to Simone Singh who plays the role of Heena so convincingly and above all to the channel and its innovative strategies in publicity which created a lot of interest. From the very second week they asked the viewers to write in which only helped multiply the viewership.
Busy Bee
Amit Behl is one of the busiest actor, undoubtedly on television these days. He8217;s also doing a film now which has been completed and he took a week off from his hectic schedule with fiance Vaibhavi also an actress and flew off to Goa for five days. keeping them company was actress Deep Shika along with hubby Jeet Upendra. In case you didn8217;t know they are married for over two years. Now please don8217;t ask as Jeet who? Anyway, he is the guy who was in Danny8217;s soap Ajnabi and in the Baba Sehgal8217;s film Miss 420.
The Tops
Producer Rajesh Seth and director Prashant Chothani are mighty excited these days. Saath Saath, Seth8217;s maiden venture under his banner Girija Music and Media Exim Ltd which inaugurated the afternoon slot of 2 pm on Zee has completed 25 weeks and believe it or not its been on No.1 throughout, among five other soaps on the same slot every day. And now he8217;s shot four pilots 8211; Kabhi Dhoop Kabhi Chaon, Vanchit, Sidhant, Pyaas Ek Boond Ki. With this Rajesh Seth turns writer-director too and he8217;s written Vanchit and Sidhant while he also directs the latter.
Starting Out
Recently, we bumped into veejay/television actress Shweta Keswani of Say Cheese and Zanjeerein fame at MacDonalds in suburban Mumbai. And after chatting with her we realised that she is on the road to success and fame. She8217;s signed a lead role in Manish Goswami8217;s Abhimaan in which she is Govind Namdeo8217;s daughter. She8217;s also doing Crest Communication8217;s sitcom Yeh To Hona Hi Tha. Wait there is more. She doing an important role in In House Productions daily soap Marine Drive for Sony. Which means she has her hands full, so watch for Shweta who says 8220;The role has to be satisfying and also the money, as I8217;ve learnt it gets you respect8221;. Hmm8230;. Point.
Baby Boom
Some good news. You must all know because we have told you so that TV actress Pallavi Joshi is married to director Vivek Agnihotri. And few days back8230; guest what?8230;. Pallavi delivered a baby girl. Both are extremely happy as they wanted a daughter. Kind of a coincidence this given that in Alpviram, Pallavi is pregnant. Pallavi will be back to work in a month or two.