Anuj Saxena

Remember Ashish Kaul? The actor who played Anuj Saxena's best friend in Kkusum. Somehow, one hasn't seen much of him on the small screen except for a few episodic roles in Aahat, CID and Viiki aur Vetal on Disney. To make full use of his ample time on hand, Ashish has gone ahead and launched his brand of chocolates called Whites. We caught up with the actor who was gushing with excitement about his new venture.

We had told you about Jas Arora replacing Anuj Saxena in Aruna Irani's Doli Saja Ke for Sahara One. But now it seems, even he has walked out of show after shooting for a few episodes. A little birdie told us Jas was made to wait for seven hours for a particular shooting sequence and then he was asked to wear glasses for a slightly mature look. For those uninitiated, the good looking hunk plays father to Barkha Bisht in the show and the role (a cameo of sorts - almost 20 episodes) was earlier slated to be enacted by Anuj Saxena but he recently quit it on grounds of inordinate delays.

Mr. Maverick, Anuj Saxena was in for a pleasant surprise on Valentine's Day, given by a crazy fan who hailed from saat samundar paar - Los Angeles.

Shruti Ulfat and Anuj Saxena's bonding goes years back when both nursed Bollywood dreams. Shruti Ulfat, who gained popularity as the anchor of Antakshri on Zee TV, had earlier acted as Anuj Saxena's heroine in Sar Aakho Par, a film produced by Vicveck Vasvani. The original choice for that film was Tara Deshpande who backed out because she bagged another film Is Raat Ki Subhah Nahi, which did reasonably well. Shruti took up Sar Aakho Par, the film flopped but she started getting better roles on television. Similarly, Anuj too attained fame after he acted as Abhay Kapoor in Sony's Kkusum.

Isn't history repeating itself? Five years back when Kkusum, featuring Anuj Saxena, aired on Sony, Star Plus' KBC with Amitabh Bachchan on the host's seat had simultaneously left the audience spellbound. And now once again both the channels are ready with two mega shows to be telecast around the same time. We are talking about Kulvaddhu (Sony), which is backed by Anuj's production house - Maverick and KBC (Star Plus) where King Khan, Shahrukh will takeover the mantle from Big B. The former goes on air from 25th December while the latter will be back in January.

On a visit to the sets of Rishton Ki Dor, we found out that doctor turned actor Anuj Saxena (who plays the protagonist Suhas) has a separate vanity van for himself which he hires on his own!

The unconventional and ruggedly handsome Milind Gunaji, who came into limelight with his Bollywood films like Fareb and Devdas, is for the first time trying his luck with television. The show in question is Sony's Kulvaddhu produced by Anuj Saxena's Maverick Productions. And his new journey on the small screen doesn't mean that Milind has put a pause to the work flow from the world of movies. He is simultaneously shooting for Subhash Ghai's Black and White and N. Chandra's Breaking News.

Sushmita Mukherjee, best remembered for her Kitty act in Karamchand, also got rave reviews for her Romilla act in Kavyanjali. But it seems these days; the actor's been extremely busy with some serious work from Bollywood. Sushmita has completed a host of films recently which includes Sudhir Mishra's Khoya Khoya Chand where she is all set to do a Nadira act. Besides this, she is also doing Good Boy Bad Boy and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu(soon to be released).

We keep discovering many shades to his personality. It seems doctor turned actor and the man behind Maverick Productions, Anuj Saxena, who rose to fame as Abhay in Sony's Kkusum has a very soft corner for dogs. It seems the multi tasking and workaholic businessman already has three dogs - namely Buddy, Brownie and Brandlin.

Looks like it's patch up time in tellyland. After Anuj Saxena and Mannish Goyal's much publicised patch up with the later coming for the former's private birthday bash, there has also been another low profile patch up. It seems Raymon Kakar (who played Nikita Chachi in Kkusum) and Mannish Goyal have also revived their old friendship.