After 35 years, actors Dipika Chikhlia and Arun Govil, who played Sita and Ram, respectively, on filmmaker Ramanand Sagar’s TV show based on the epic Ramayan, are acting together once again. The two will be seen in a courtroom drama, Notice, playing husband and wife.

Ask her how it feels to be acting with Govil after such a long time, and she says, “We have done a lot of appearances together after the pandemic, however, acting-wise, this is the first time we are coming together. So much has changed. When he played Ram, he was much younger and used to constantly smile. Today, we both are older. His character is also that of an impatient, angry person. Interestingly, both of us do not need to have any godly feelings or smile constantly on screen. I’m firing him, screaming at him on screen, and it is fun.”

The one thing that hasn’t changed is how people still don’t look at the two as “normal people”. “We spoke about how people still don’t treat us as normal people. Arun ji said he is used to it, and now that he is a senior citizen, he is okay with it (laughs). People are convinced in their own heads that there is a divine factor working around us. You can’t fight everybody’s thoughts,” she says.