Ekta Kapoor’s trade tricks

The kasauti for Kasautii Zindagii Kay

Ekta Kapoor may be hoping that Urvashi Dholakia’s Komolika character will help boost the TRPs of Kasautii Zindagii Kay . Komolika is back on the show after one year.
The issue is not the women but men. Audiences want the men – Ronit Roy and Cezanne Khan back on the show. Ronit, Ekta may still be able to bring back through some bizzare twist, but Cezanne won’t be back, considering he was the one to opt out of the show.

31 August

shweta rubbishes rumours of secret marriage to cezanne

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7 May

Cezanne Out at Last – the hunt is on for a new Prerna

Out… at last!

Cezanne Khan is finally out of Kasautii Zindagii Kay.Men will be marginalised in the show now. And yes, Sweta Tiwari will play a character similar to Big B’s in Mohabbatein!

SUBHASH K JHA

Last Monday Cezanne Khan’s character was finally bumped off on the long-running Kasautii Zindagii Kay, after weeks of dilly-dallying. Says a source at Balaji, “Like Iqbal Khan, Cezanne is hoping for better prospects. He thinks he has a movie career waiting for him. So, without a single offer from films Cezanne decided to quit.” Without commenting on reasons for Cezanne’s departure from Kasautii…, Ekta Kapoor says, “I didn’t really need him on the show any more. Ronit Roy too will take a break. The men will now be marginalised on Kasautii… Prerna (Shweta Tiwari) will be setting up a gurukul. After Anurag’s death Prerna will now be up against men.”
Prerna’s character will replicate Amitabh Bachchan in Aditya Chopra’s Mohabbatein. Reveals Ekta, “Prerna has seven grand-daughters and she runs a gurukul where men aren’t allowed. And the girls aren’t allowed to meets boys. Prerna has brought them up without the presence of the opposite sex.”
The hunt is on for a new Prerna. “She’ll be the eldest grand daughter. We’re casting for Kasautii Ki Nayi Prerna.”
Ekta is all praise for Sweta Tiwari. “She’s so young and she looks like a Vogue model. She’s drop-dead gorgeous. And she isn’t afraid of playing a grandmother.”

24 April

Kasauti Leaps Yet Again!

NO grey matter: Prerna (Shweta Tiwari) as she will be seen post Kasautii’s leap
On April 30, Balaji’s long-running Kasautii Zindagii Kay on Star Plus will take yet another generation leap.

We bring you some exclusive snippets on what to expect in the coming days.

Storyline

The episode begins with Prerna’s introduction at the Kumbh Mela.

After 20 years, Prerna has changed completely. She does not believe in love anymore because love has only caused her pain.

So she has set up a Gurukul college where, along with other students, her eight grandchildren study.

Her eight grandchildren consist of seven girls and one boy.
The eldest grandchild is Sneha and Omy’s child.

She will play a very important character in the show and will take on the mantle from Prerna.

Prerna does not want the concept of love to enter her Gurukul ever. The walls of the college are high for them so that nobody can interact with the outside world.

Hiten Tejwani makes his entry into Kasautii post the generation leap. His character’s name is Abhishek Bhattacharya.

Pre-gen leap

On April 19, the shootout sequence of Anurag Basu (Cezanne Khan) was shot with snowfall at a place in Panchmeshwar.

This episode went on air on Akshay Tritiya, which according to astrology is the beginning of a yug.

When anything that begins on this day does not end, this becomes the catalyst for the generation leap. Incidentally, Cezanne will no longer feature in the soap.

It is learnt that he will soon be taking up a Pakistani serial.

22 April

Five years on, Cezanne and Shweta still aren’t talking!

Five years on, Cezanne and Shweta still aren’t talking!

So how do they manage to romance on screen? BT asks Shweta Tiwari

SUBHASH K JHA

Shweta Tiwari stunned the nation by announcing that her husband
had taken ill and that she’d be dancing alone on Star One Nach
Baliye. “I don’t even want to remember the nightmare of the past
week. It was a hard decision,” she says after the brave and enforced
solo performance. “But I had no choice.”
Reliving the nightmare of suddenly going solo, Shweta says, “When
my husband was detected with a lever abcess, we were shattered. It
started suddenly with a back pain. He couldn’t stand properly. No
medication worked. Our shoot was on Wednesday. On Monday morning he
was in acute pain. That’s when he was diagnosed with a liver abcess.
We kept hoping he’d okay by Wednesday. But it was impossible… It was
very upsetting. Though my choreographer danced instead of my
husband, we both missed him. It was upsetting, but when everyone
said I had won the contest by going there and dancing on behalf of
both me and my husband, I felt better.”
She recalls the gruelling hours of rehearsal for Nach
Baliye. “I’d shoot for my serial
Kasauti Zindagi Kay on Star Plus, from 9 am to 9 pm and from 9 pm to
4 am, I’d rehearse for Nach Baliye. Though I am not a trained
dancer, I love dancing. Until Nach Baliye, I never knew my husband
liked dancing. Poor guy! He worked so hard to keep up with me. He
rehearsed so hard for this week’s episode. And then he couldn’t
perform.”
Shweta’s five-year-old innings on Kasauti… shows no sign of
waning although she doesn’t get along with her co-star Cezanne Khan.
About her mythic animosity with Cezanne, Shweta says, “We don’t get
along, that’s it. It often happens in work places. We’d argue and
fight. I thought it better to keep away completely. We don’t talk to
each other at all. But on camera we’re professional.”

24 November

I wouldn’t opt for Cezanne even if I was left alone on an island with him”

 
She may not be everyone’s favourite bahu, but there’s no beating her steady popularity over the years. Shweta Tiwari, as Prerna and as herself, has always been in the news, for one reason or the other.In an exclusive chat with Prashant Golecha, Shweta speaks out about herself, her personal life and career.

 

As a person
I am friendly but at same time, I prefer to be a loner. I am an optimistic person who loves to take life as it comes.


“I trust my husband completely”

On marriage
I have been married to Raja Choudhary for six years and have a five-year-old daughter Palak. I am very clear about my priorities. I go to work only after my daughter goes to school and try to come home before she goes to bed.
Raja is the most co-operative husband I could have hoped for. He trusts me absolutely. I don’t go to parties unless I am accompanied by him. I have faced all controversies with a smile because of my husband’s moral support and trust!

 

 

 

My character ‘Prerna’
I don’t relate much to Prerna. I am a good mother and wife like her but the similarity ends there. The kind of sacrifices Prerna makes don’t happen in real life. I have been playing Prerna for four years, but I am not yet bored of her, as I get to play a variety of shades.

 

 

Brush with fame
All the ads and shows I do, happen on my merit – I hardly lobby for myself. I have been mobbed many times, but I take that as a reward of four years of hard work.

Fame actually works to my disadvantage – like, I can’t take my daughter to Water Kingdom or to a park. I can’t enjoy my life fully with my daughter.
When I go to her school, Ryan International, I am a special parent. If I am called to distribute prizes, my daughter may resent my paying attention to other children!

 

 

 


No love lost?? Shweta Tiwari with Cezanne Khan

Food n Fitness funda
I don’t do a single thing to look good or to stay in shape. I don’t exercize. I eat whatever and whenever I feel like. I guess I don’t put on weight, because everyone in my family is slim and fit. I weighed 54 kgs post pregnancy, and I am just 55 kgs now. I don’t even bother to drink lots of water; I can’t stand bhindi and Kaddu. I love ghar ka dal chawal the most with lots of ghee, onions and pickle. I love my mother’s fried dal and my mother in-law’s chawal. She makes even simple rice excellently.

 

 

Controversies
I am unaffected by them. People who matter to me know me. My family and husband have never asked a single question about any gossip or controversies surrounding me. I do my work and mind my own business.

 

 

 

On Cezanne Khan
When I started working on Kasautii… I was new to the industry, and friendly with him. With the passage of time, layers of his personality unfolded and he turned out to be an artificial man whom I can’t even like. I don’t talk to him.

I wouldn’t opt for him even if I was left alone on an island with him.

Cezanne Khan is the only one person on the Kasautii sets who invites controversies. He had announced that he would get married to Geetanjali to everyone on the sets but he never did. I was never involved with him. I have better things to do in life. He probably enjoyed the publicity by dragging my name everywhere.

Rapport with co-artistes
I have a professional rapport with all. But I have a life of my own. I don’t even have Moonmoon or Geetanjali’s number but when we meet we are together and enjoy working together. I often share my make up van with Geetanjali and we share our Tiffins, but that doesn’t mean we are best friends.

On Ekta Kapoor
Balaji Telefilms is the safest production house for girls. Production values are the best. It is Ekta who started the trend of taking units abroad. They are lavish in every sense of the word. Ekta keeps a tab on the creative aspects. She herself works without a break, so who are we to crib if we are asked to put in

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2 November

Industry Ke Kanjoos – Cezanne and Shweta

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11 June

These two cant stand each other

These 2 can’t stand each other
   By: Shaheen Parkar and Tushar Joshi
February 12, 2005


GREAT ACTING: In real life, Cezanne Khan and
Shweta Tiwari can’t even look at each other on the sets

For years, viewers have raved about the chemistry between Kasautii Zindagi Kay’s (Star Plus) Prerna (Shweta Tiwari) and Anurag Basu (Cezanne Khan). Off-screen, these characters from the popular soap can’t stand each other.

Unit folks confirm that they even refrain from crossing each paths. Sources reveal that when the serial took a leap on Monday, Prerna was the only one who did not bother to know how her co-star looked; she preferred to keep a distance as the rest of the artistes gushed over each other’s new looks.

It is learnt that Tiwari and Khan stopped talking a while ago. Unitwallas say there used to be constant squabbles on the sets — in full view of the unit. Then suddenly, they just stopped communicating.

Shweta Tewari and Cezanne Khan haven’t spoken to each other in years. Admitting this, Tewari said, “Yes, we don’t talk to each other.” It has been over two years now since I have spoken to him.

The decision, though sudden, was made after I realised that Cezanne was not the same person I knew before. Our thoughts used to clash and we used to have constant arguments and fights.” When asked Khan, too, admitted that he does not interact with Tiwari at all.

Cezanne Khan and Shweta Tewari

Interestingly, as the popularity of the show rose, speculation about their off-screen link-up also increased. However Tiwari openly admits, “All this talk about my link-up with Cezanne is rubbish.” While Khan adds, “I have been always linked with all my co-stars. There is nothing like that.”

But what made the duo develop an aversion for each other? Sources say that it was a fall-out after a particular incident. However both refuse to point what exactly went wrong. It is learnt that both of them turned their backs to each over a personal issue. “It was a misunderstanding,” is all that Khan is ready to divulge.

But the fact that both have been bitter about each other still remains. Says Tiwari, “ Earlier we used to have rehearsals which would end up as fights. Now we have decided not to have rehearsals but directly give our shots.

Tiwari further admits, “There were times when the shooting had to be stopped as we would fight like cats and dogs.”

Ravindra Gautam, director of the soap, says, “Yes, they do not talk to each other. But that is their personal matter. As far as the show is concerned, they are two professional individuals. I have had no issues getting my work done from both of them.”

Despite their personal issues, both Tiwari and Khan, however realise that for the sake of their professional cause, they bury their differences on screen.

“In spite of whatever problems I have with him, I realise it is my profession and make sure that my work is not affected.” Adds Khan, “Off-screen we are two normal professionals who go their respective ways. I have nothing against her,” he adds.

In an episode of Khulja Sim Sim where Anurag and Prerna are the celebrity guests the host Hussain asks Anurag to choose Prerna’s heart from the three heart shaped balloons. She tells him “Choose my heart, not anyone else’s.”

THE KASAUTII SAGA…

• Anurag Basu (Cezzane Khan) plays the soft-spoken Anurag Basu, who falls in love with Prerna.
• Prerna (Shweta Tiwari) plays the traditional girl with modern aspirations.
• On screen: For the last four years.
• What went wrong: Relations soured over a solitary incident between the two.

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