EXCLUSIVE: Did you know Shivangi Joshi wasn’t aware about Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai before joining the show?

Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai is the longest running show on Indian Television with over 3500 episodes aired till date. The show started with Hina Khan and Karan Mehra in the lead and made the former a superstar and a household name. In 2016, Hina passed on the baton of the show to the new leading pair Shivangi Joshi and Mohsin Khan, and while the audience was a little skeptical if the pair would be able to recreate the magic of Hina and Karan, the duo proved everyone wrong and took the show’s popularity up a notch before leaving it last year after about six glorious years. Today, Shivangi is one of the biggest names on Indian television and recently, Bollywood Bubble got into an exclusive conversation with the actress.

While today it is almost impossible to imagine anyone else playing Naira instead of Shivangi Joshi, but as it turns out, the actress wasn’t even aware about the show and its popularity before she came on board. Shivangi revealed, “Honestly, I didn’t know about Yeh Rishta (Kya Kehlata Hai) before I joined.”

 

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The actress went on to narrate the story of how she got the biggest opportunity of her life till now, and her story is quite an interesting one. She shared, “When I got the offer, I gave the audition and on the day of the audition itself, sir (Rajan Shahi) stopped me because he really liked my audition. He asked me to wait and spoke to me. I still wasn’t sure if I would get the show or not because a look test also happened after that audition and there were 3-4 actresses there for it. So, when I asked my family to tell me a little about Yeh Rishta, they were so surprised like, ‘Beta Yeh Rishta se offer aaya hai, Hum to ye show pichle 6-7 saal se dekh rahe hain. This is the biggest show on Television,’ and I just didn’t know what they were talking about.”

However, Shivangi went on to state why is it so as her viewing preferences were quite different back then. “That was because even though I was a part of the industry then and was doing my own TV shows, I used to watch only them and was more of a cartoon person. I used to watch cartoons more than anything else as I was just 17 when I entered YRKKH. I didn’t have much knowledge about serials as I used to watch very limited ones but my family just went crazy when I got the offer. When I got the part, that’s when I understood what YRKKH actually was.”

 

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Shivangi indeed made Naira her own as her leaving the show last year became one of the biggest and most emotional events in Indian television history. But now having moved on from the show, the actress is testing new waters and soon she will be seen in her first ever reality show, Khatron Ke Khiladi 12.

You can catch the entire conversation with Shivangi Joshi here:

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