"I am very glad to play this character. This is just my second show. I played Radha earlier in Mahabharat. And I think it was very nice of Balaji that they offered me this role soon after. I am playing Vrinda in the show who is a very simple and sober girl like me,” says Pooja.

The actress says following the premiere of the soap last night, she has been inundated with smses and phone calls.

"We could not manage a special screening because of our shooting commitments for the first telecast so I saw it at home. But then I got a so many calls and messages complimenting me.”

“In the first entire episode I had no dialogue and it was fully based on expression's hopefully people will like my performance later on,” she adds.

Talking about similarities between Manisha Koirala’s film Saudgar and her show, Pooja says, “Our show is a love story between two friends and how they fall in love with each other. They are madly in love but due to some reason they have to part ways. But then they reunite and what happens is the story of the show.”

“I have not seen the film but I have heard about it. However this show has a Punjabi background and I am a typical Punjabi girl. This show will not turn out to be a saas-bahu show. The focus will remain on the love story and the family,” clarifies Pooja.