Aprajita Sharad (HINDUSTAN TIMES; April 4, 2020)

Since a normal day for Rakesh Bedi, 65, during Coronavirus lockdown, involves helping around the house, he says there isn’t much difference between him and Dilruba, his character in Shrimaan Shrimati. Sharing his happiness over the return of the ’90s sitcom to television, Bedi says, “Lockdown mein main almost Dilruba ban chuka hoon, khali main bol normal raha hoon.”

“My wife does the jhaadu and I do the pocha, and once in a while I make the bed, too. My two daughters also do a little bit of cooking under my wife’s supervision,” shares the actor.

Bedi believes that the timing couldn’t be better for the show’s rerun. “It will add a lot of flavour and humour in everybody’s life, as everyone is so sombre right now. Jab yeh serial shuru hua, meri wife baith ke dekh rahi thi aur main dusre kamre mein tha. I ran to her when I heard her laughing aloud… She said, ‘Maine dekha hi nahi tha yeh wala episode aapka’.”

Mention to him that the countrywide lockdown has ensured that husbands and wives are together 24x7, and Bedi quips, “Chat karne ka mauka hi nahi mil raha husbands ko, kyunki wife bilkul samne hoti hai! Phone haath mein pakadte hain toh darr jaate hain ki biwi phone le legi.”