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After having achieved great popularity with Wagle Ki Duniya years ago on the national pubcaster, well-known TV, stage and film actor Aanjjan Srivastav is all set to don a common man avatar again in Doordarshan’s show <em>Detective Wagle</em>. Confirming the same, Aanjjan said, “We will start shooting for <em>Detective Wagle</em> from 22 September (2012) and this bi-weekly will start airing in November every Wednesday and Thursday at 9.30 p. I will not be playing a professional detective, but someone who is there to merely solve societal issues and take up the cudgels on their behalf.”

Star Plus is launching a new weekend hourly show<em> Aek Chabi Hai Padoss Mein</em> from 25th November. The serial is reminiscent of erstwhile shows like<em> Wagle Ki Duniya, Nukkad and Hum Panchi Ek Chawl Ke.</em>The setting of the story is a middle class ghetto called Colonel Gunj. It's a multicultural neighbourhood with characters drawn from all backgrounds. The plotlines are built around the daily lives of the people who live in Colonel Gunj.

Anjan Srivastava, who has in the past, been part of such path-breaking serials like <em>Tamas, Nukkad, Alpviram</em>, and <em>Wagle Ki Duniya</em> will now be seen in BAG's <em>Siddhanth</em>. "I am playing a negative character and it is a very realistic role and I thoroughly enjoyed doing it," says this actor, who symbolized RK Laxman's common man over a decade ago on the telly .