Sindoor started two years back and on 11 March they had grandly celebrated the completion of 500 episodes. Many stars at that time had said that they would be back to celebrate 1000 episodes but that was not to be. The show is being unhooked. The actors connected to the show are naturally upset, but not Sachin. His plans are in place.

Sachin says: "Just two days back I have signed a contract with a production house for a daily soap. There is another offer for me about which I'm also thinking seriously. I can't reveal much about my contract right now, within two days I'm going to announce it. This show will be very spicy and different, so I'm looking forward to it."

About Sindoor, Sachin says, "I have been there in the show from very first day. I'm working with them for exactly two years and two months. It was a nice experience working with them. On Thursday the production house announced on the sets that the show is going off the air and my first question to them was "Why?" Then they explained that there is some problem happened between the channel and production house and the production house did not get the increment they expected."

"However there is no official announcement about when the last episode will be. But unofficially it is being said that after 15 days the show will go off the air. No one has informed us that these are our last eight episodes. So may be it will get some kind of extension."

"I feel very disheartened when I heard this news. I'm very much attached to this show. Generally in every show director and other crew members keep a distance from the cast, but on our sets it was great fun to work with them. All the directors Swapna Joshi, Pawan, Santosh were friendly. Our cameraman too was very co-operative and funny. So we never felt that we were working.

"I still remember my first day of shooting and I'm going to remember that day because I took two and half day to give my entry shot, because I was nervous and that time as well they co-operated with me. I'm going to miss this entire unit and specially my co-stars. They were so good to me.

Before this Sachin had done many serials like Naam Gum Jayega, Shagun, and Vishwas. Apart from this he has done ad films like Colgate, Airtel, Maruti Omni, and Livon and also owns a company Komal Enterprises which supplies construction steel. Right now this is the only show he was doing. Sindoor included Sharad and Kirti Kelkar, Sachin Sharma, and Aashka Goradia and others.

Sonali Joshi

Monday, 20 March, 2007