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Chaya Unnikrishnan (DNA; October 10, 2016)

Samir Soni, who has been missing in action on TV, is all set to return with a fiction show three years after Parichay, inform sources. “Though he was seen in a few standalone episodes of Darr Sabko Lagta Hai, this show will have him playing a full-fledged role. The upcoming show will be helmed by Vikram Bhatt and produced by Siddharth Sen Gupta,” adds the source.

Samir confirms, “It was Siddharth who called me, I have worked with him in the past and we have a great rapport. Vikram, being a part of the whole project, made it even more interesting. The sensibilities are going to be good and there will be a certain standard to the series.” He reveals that he will be playing a rich, businessman. “Somehow I am stuck with this image on TV. There is a love angle, too. It is not a typical romance, there is a sobriety to it,” he adds.

Though Vikram is unwilling to divulge details, he avers that he will be creatively incharge of the show looking into everything from scripting, dialogue and the look, “but not directing it”. Earlier too, Vikram had been associated with a show called Haunted Nights, but the filmmaker says they only used his name and “screwed up the show”. But this new show will be entirely supervised after by him.

“This is a new concept called Show Runners under which the channel is hiring directors and leaving the creatives entirely to them,” he explains. Mahesh Bhatt is associated with the show Naamkarann, while Nikkhil Advani is helming P.O.W.: Bandi Yuddh Ke.

Word is Vikram’s show will be based on the popular Turkish show Ask-i-Memnu, which means forbidden love. It’s about a May-December romance.