Veterans join the Kohinoor plot

Vijayendra Ghatge and Soni Razdan, television veterans, will soon enter the Kohinoor storyline. Ghatge, who's been part of landmark serials like Buniyaad on Doordarshan in the past, will play Yaadvendra, a rich industrialist with a shady past. An influential person, it's rumoured that one of the reasons for his fast growth is his ability to convince people in the government to form policies that suit him and his business. He has muscle power and is an art collector by nature. A very focused and punctual individual, Yaadvendra is the president of the Wellington club. According to channel sources, Yaadvendra makes frequent trips to London and has an English wife, Katherine. Soni Razdan, who's restricted herself to movies in the recent past, makes a return to TV as an actor as Mallika Devi. A royal in her mid fifties, she stays in a palace and is very particular about her roots. She also nurses an ill will against the system because they took her wealth, her riyasat and Privy Purse from her father. She has been a spinster all her life but has had her flings. She had a crush on Kunal Singh Rathod and has the occasional dinner and nightcap with Yaadvendra Singh.