Sayantani Ghosh is excited to be a part of Meri Maa on Life OK

Talented actress Sayantani Ghosh who was last seen doing a cameo in Sony court room drama Adaalat has finally grabbed a biggie. She is now playing the lead role in new channel Life Ok’s show Meri Maa.

Says Sayantani: “It is a very emotional and very performance-oriented role and those in the channel who have seen the early episodes are also impressed by my work.”

Her character is that of a woman Pratibha who loses her daughter Jhilmil in a fair when the girl is just three or four years old. Pratibha continues to hunt high and low for her little one, little knowing that she is living with a pickpocket. “Four years pass by and though her family members – including mother in law (played by Neena Kulkarni) – are not optimistic, I am confident I will find her,” she says.

Sayantani emphasizes that she took up this show because it is not the typical saas bahu one, and her character is very different from the ones which brought her in the limelight in Naaginn and Ghar Ek Sapna.-

“There are very few concepts which deal with the beautiful mother-daughter relationship. This show’s Bengali version titled Maa is also running successfully on Star Jalsha (at the No 1 slot for the past two and a half years), ” she discloses.

Sayantan,i who also featured in Kumkum-Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan, is quite candid that she does not have any problems playing a mother. “The times are changing,” she reveals, “and today’s audience is looking for different programming, for example, mature love stories. The days of the Chiclet love story are passé. More importantly I am playing mother to a young girl and not a 20 year old. I will not do that as I can’t do justice to it. ”

Does she have any regrets about what went wrong with her previous full-fledged show, the thriller, Rakt Sambandh ? It tracked the lives of five sisters, one of whom is visually challenged, who lose their father on the handicapped girl’s wedding night. Rakt Sambandh initially drew audiences but later fizzled out.

Sayantani does not mince her words while giving her point of view. Says she: “We are just actors and there are many things which are beyond our control. I guess the new channel creative team made changes to the story which did not work and they also shifted the time slot due to Zor Ka Jhakta .”

You really shoot straight from the hip don’t you Sayantani?

Salman Khan says Bigg Boss 5 is a big turnoff

He has been the co-host of Bigg Boss 5 this year with Sanjay Dutt. But superstar Salman Khan said that whatever has been going on the show has been a big turnoff and that he switches off the television set whenever he hears the constant bickering that has been going on. He paid a flash visit to the house in the Aapka Farmaan Episode and admonished the participants asking them to stop bickering and fighting.

"Do you think all this scrapping is causing a spike in the ratings. No it is not; I get messages from people saying what is going on. This has to end," he told the participants very sternly.

He scolded Sky for picking on Siddharth to which he responded that any one would do the same as Siddharth made some blasphemous references to his family. Salman then told Siddharth that he should not call Sky as "Mamu" or uncle as Sky was only 35 years old and that he should not abuse anyone's family. He told Sky that his jokes were stale and not funny and he should not provoke Siddharth. And he once again warned the inmates not to take his warning lightly, before exiting the house to join Sanjay Dutt, and announcing that Shonali would be the one to be evicted.

While Salman was absolutely school masterly in his sermon to the housemates, Sanjay told them to continue having fun and keep up the good work.

Before that, Andrew Symonds had reprimanded Pooja Misrra for not living up to the opportunity she has been given to come back into the house and that she had better shape up or ship out.