Ekta Kapoor and Sakshi Tanwar
After the popular television show, Bade Achhe Laggte Hain went off air, producer Ekta Kapoor is all set with another mature love story.
Ekta has approached Ronit Roy to play the male lead. Sakshi Tanwar aka Priya of Bade Achhe Laggte Hain, remains the first choice to play the female protagonist.
The show is titled Itna Na Karo Mujhe Pyaar. Ronit confirmed, “There is an offer, but it’s at a very nascent stage. I can’t confirm or say anything beyond this.”
Bade Acche Lagte Hai is the story of two strangers getting married and falling in love. Priya is a happy go lucky woman in her early 30s, not married so far and quite sure that she wouldn’t be able to get married ever. She takes tuition for college students and is happy with the world. Ram Kapoor, a wealthy man in his early forties, is a ruthless entrepreneur who also believes that he has missed the bus of marriage. But as fate would have it, they bump into each other through a minor car accident which hurts their egos more than their vehicles and then after a series of miscommunications and misunderstandings, destiny contrives once again to get the two married.
Sakshi Tanwar is an Indian television and Bollywood actress. She has become overnight star by playing the role of Parvati in Kahani Ghar Ghar Kii. Tanwar started her career as an anchor in Doordarshan. She anchored the film songs-based program Albela Sur Mela.
Sakshi has worked in other serials, including Devi, where she played the central character of Gayatri, who is a spiritually inclined woman with a strong connection to Goddess Durga. She did a digital film Kahin Door, directed by Sandeep Varma, in 2002. She worked on Colors’ Balika Vadhu in the role of Teepri. Her performance as Teepri was so well accepted that made Balika Vadhu top show of 2009. She appeared in few movies in 2008, one of them being Coffee House, in which she was the main protagonist. She appeared in a cameo role in Ekta Kapoor’s C Kkompany.
Tanwar has played the role of a municipal officer in the movie Saluun. She appeared in two short films, O Re Manva and Bawra Mann. O Re Manva won the best International Narrative Short at the New York International Film Festival in 2009.