Visiting his favourite city Varanasi, Anupamaa fame actor Sudhanshu Pandey, says he was more than happy to have come to the city for a special purpose. “I had gone to shoot for a video highlighting the newly built Kashi Vishwanath corridor. I have been to Banaras for some 20 years to shoot a film. As a child, I have been to the city and Sarnath but I didn’t get to explore the city much that time. But all thanks to the shooting, I did go to the temple, the ghats, the boat ride, so all the Banaras darshan was covered organically during this visit,” he shares.
Sudhanshu at Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi (BCCL)
Addressing recent rumours of him quitting the show Anupamaa, Sudhanshu says, “There is no question of me quitting Anupamaa. I had gone for a holiday with my family after a year and a half to Dubai. After that, I had gone for a day and a half to Ganaganagr in Rajasthan to shoot for an OTT project. With me missing from the show and then taking a vacation and then shooting another project, which I had to, people presumed that I have quit. It spread like wildfire. My character Vanraj Shah was the hero of the show and will remain the hero.”
Ever since Kanpur lad Gaurav Khanna has entered the show and has taken over majorly in the show’s storyline, there have been also news suggesting ego clashes among the leads and also Sudhanshu not being happy with the development. However, the Radhe actor clarifies and says, “Firstly, people need to understand, that you can’t keep running the show with just one storyline. Earlier too, Apurva Agnihotri was roped in the show for some time. It is a daily soap which, if it needs to run for years, can’t be showing the same faces on a daily basis. As far as having insecurity is concerned, I have been in the industry for long enough and have done enough work that insecurity kind of emotion doesn’t figure in my scheme of things at all! Not many know that Rajan (Shahi), who is an old friend of mine, came to me with the show even before he had finalized it with the channel. He even went to an extent that only if I said yes, will he make the show. So all this means a lot.”
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