Kasautii Zindagii Kay 2 Would Still go on if Parth Had Stayed: Aashish Bhardwaj

Actor Aashish Bhardhwaj, who plays the role of Mohnish on the show, recently spoke to E-Times and ventured a few guesses on why the show has been failing. “The show’s TRPs dipped as there were a few replacements initially, like Aamna Sharriff replaced Hina Khan, who played the popular character of Komolika and then Karan Singh Grover was replaced by Karan Patel as Mr Bajaj.” He credited the replacement of the key characters as one of the reasons for the dip in the show’s popularity.

Aashish added that the news of Parth, playing the central character of Anurag Basu, quitting the show might have irked the fans. In his opinion, if all these things didn’t happen, the revival would have run for many years, like the original show.

The first season of KZK ran from 2001 to 2008 with over 1,400 episodes and launched the careers of Shweta Tiwari and Cezzane Khan. The revival started in 2018 and has around 455 episodes till this year.

The original show, as well as the current version, have dedicated Anurag and Prerna fans. It’s understandable that their replacement wouldn’t sit well with them.