The New Year has unfolded, and with it comes to us a fresh new set of exclusive news from the happening telly world!!

We begin the day with a new major development in Zee TV’s Sarojini (Rashmi Sharma Productions).

News coming in is that popular and noted actor Pankaj Tripathi, who is a big name in Bollywood might go missing from the show for a while.

Does this come as a shock to you? Certainly, as the character of Dushyant Singh that he plays in Sarojini is mighty popular, for his aggressive attitude, especially towards his wife (Purva Parag) and daughter-in-law Sarojini (Shiny Doshi).

The man who has movies like Omkara, Raavan, Agneepath, Gangs of Wasseypur, Dabangg 2, ABCD – Any Body Can Dance, Fukrey and many others to his credit apparently wants to give more time to his movie commitments!!

In order to accomodate his absence, Dushyant will be seen going to the jail in the coming episodes!!

As per a reliable source, “Mannu (Aanchal Khurana) will expose Suzi in front of the whole family. However, before she would do this, Somendar (Mohit Sehgal) and Suzi aka Sarojini would have got married. Then will come the revelation drama, wherein Mannu will get exposed.”

The coming track will see both Mannu and Dushyant getting arrested, amidst huge drama. Meanwhile, Sarojini who will now be the legal wife of Somendar will get to breathe easy in the absence of Dushyant and Mannu.

But trouble for Sarojini will come via a different form and character.

Yes, entering the show now will be popular actress Alka Kaushal.

Our source confirms, “Alka has started shooting for Sarojini. With a vacuum being created with Pankaj Tripathi going out, Alka has been roped in to fill the spot. She will play the main negative force in the show from now. She will be the sister of Dushyant, and bua of Somendar. Viewers will now see her tyranny and rule in the house. She will apparently come in with a hidden agenda.”

Alka as we know, got very popular for her negative portrayal in Zee TV’s hit show, Qubool Hai. And the channel seems to have associated with her again, to get the laurels to Sarojini this time around.

Now to the main question.. Will Pankaj aka Dushyant return to the show?

Our source from the set tells us, “The actor being a renowned name in Bollywood has a lot of big screen commitments. His character has been very popular and we will love to get him back. However, we will have to do immense adjustments to get him back after his break. Having said this, we are not showing his permanent exit at the moment.”

When contacted, Pankaj Tripathi told Tellychakkar.com, “Dushyant is a very powerful character and I have loved playing it. This was my return to TV after five years. And it was real hard work to shoot for TV amidst my movie commitments. I have always been granted time for my movie work, and this has been the norm from my day one of shoot for Sarojini. So I really do not know what you are talking about. I have not yet shot any sequence that indicates to me getting a break from the show. Anyway, I will have a clearer picture in few days time.”

We hear that the think-tank is yet to take the final decision of whether to bring Dushyant aka Pankaj Tripathi back on the show, or ease him out permanently. 

However, the man will go missing from the show for the moment...

We also tried hard to get a comment from the channel spokesperson on this, but failed to reach out to them.

We tried contacting Alka to know more on her character, but she sent us a reply stating “I am busy with shoot.”

We also dropped a message to Producer Rashmi Sharma, but got no revert.

We will keep a tab on the proceedings out here, and will keep you updated about the same.

Till then, you can type in your thoughts on whether you will miss the character of Dushyant or not...