Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah has been on air for 16 years now and actor Gurucharan Singh had been a part of the show since its first episode. For the first few years, from 2008-2012, Gurucharan played the role of Roshan Sodhi but when he was trying to renegotiate his contract in 2012, the actor was replaced without any information. In fact, he learnt about it when he watched the telecast with a new actor playing Sodhi. In a chat with Siddharth Kannan, Gurucharan said that he was shocked when he found out.
He shared that he considered the show’s cast like his own family and said, “Taraak Mehta is like my family because if I didn’t consider them as family, I would have said a lot of things about them which I didn’t. In 2012, they replaced me, I didn’t leave the show.”
“There was some conversation about contract and agreement going on at that time. They didn’t even tell me that they were going to replace me. I was in Delhi and I was sitting with my family members and we were watching Taarak Mehta. And in that episode, Dharam paaji had a cameo for a film promotion or something. I said ‘wow, Dharam paaji is here’ and in that episode, they introduced the new Sodhi. I was shocked when I saw that. I was watching it with my parents and they were just as shocked,” he recalled. Gurucharan said that it was at this point he realised that he had already been replaced.
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But soon after, the makers and the actor both started getting a lot of heat from the audience. “They were under a lot of pressure after they replaced me. Even I was getting so much pressure from the audience. When I would go to the gym, people would say ‘Why have you left? This is not fun you should go back’ and they would say this angrily. People would scold me like you scold your family members. I said ‘it’s not up to me, it’s up to the bosses’.”
Gurucharan said that even Jennifer Mistry, who played his wife on the show, was replaced in a similar fashion. However, one year later, Gurucharan was back on the show and he continued being a part of it till 2020. In the same interview, Gurucharan said that he is looking to find work in Mumbai.
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