Saas Bahu and Saazish, Star News' daily tv infotainment show is in for a rehaul ! Of late, the rumour mills have been buzzing that Riston Ki Dor's lead girl, Sampada Vaze has been approached to anchor the show.

Currently, the show is being anchored by in-house news readers - Aditi Sawant and Sandeep Pandya.

With similar shows being launched on rival news channels, Star News now wants to add a bit of glam quotient to the show.

A source revealed that talks are indeed on with Sampada but currently money issues have put the agreement on hold. Sampada is not happy with what she is being offered and is demanding more. She has supposedly given Star an ultimatum that either come to my terms or call it off. In fact, Saas Bahu was supposed to start shooting with the new anchor tomorrow, but somehow things haven't been fixed.

Now with so many `out of work' actors around, we think Sampada should really lap up this very lucrative offer.

The effervescent and spontaneous Juhi 'Kumkum' Parmar has been making it to the scribes quite often these days. Be it her get-up in Star One's Antakshari or her recent painful eye injury, the lady has been quite carked. And to add to the list of her worries is trouble at paradise (read home).

Grapevine insists that Parmar had fired her housemaid for some reason best known to her. But the carefree actor did not know what she was getting into. She was in for a rude shock when the maid's boyfriend threatened her with dire consequences! Goondaraaj in the name of love kya?

Don't know if Juhi had to eat humble pie and keep back the retrenched bai or did she dare to lodge a police complaint?

Told you about the Mythili - Batuk love story on the sets of Kahaani Ghar Ghar ki. We find a chink in the armour now.

Mythili shares a love relationship with Pranay aka Jeetu Malkhani in the serial. However, as her boyfriend is also a part of the cast there have been certain constrains and cold vibes as the two actors do not get along.

We spoke to Mahesh aka Batuk and he replied in a Ho-Hmmm fashion, finally quoting, "theek hai, serial ki demand hai. Ektaji jo chahati hai vahi hoga. Apna apna kaam kar rahe hai. On the sets, we all are good friends and work professionally -sab kaam se kaam rakhte hai; baki apni a private life hai."

Right we get that, 'we are professional friends' bit. We will keep you updated if some sparks fly, which we're sure they will, eventually!

Poonam Gulati who's known for her character Shubra in Saat Phere is also doing a cameo in Kesar. For those uninitiated, her character Naina in Kesar has come as a blast from the past to attempt an affair with Kesar (Prachi Shah)'s damad.

Looking at the current track, Naina is turning out to be an out and out negative vampish role.

But how far will Naina really go? A little birdie told us that her plans to create trouble will actually fail. She will soon be exposed in a very filmy style and eventually be killed.

Talk about Balaji's penchant for killing characters! But let's hope we continue to see Poonam as Shubra in Saat Phere.

Rakesh Bapat "The Tum Bin guy" who plays Neel in Saat Phere is reportedly all set to exit Zee TV's hot show as his track is coming to an end. The family will attempt to force Saloni (Rajshri Thakur) to marry Rakesh Bapat but the rituals wil be stopped by her husband Nahar (Sharad Kelkar) who will reach the venue midway during the ceremony. He will then go on to expose Rakesh as the scoundrel who caused havoc in Saloni's marriage. After this, the show will take a totally new course.

A prodcution source told us that a farewell was planned for Rakesh on 9 April. He appears to have charmed everyone on the sets with his friendly attitude. The Saat Phere sets anyway are believed to have a family like atmosphere. Apparently a cake was also got in which Rakesh was made to cut.

We wish to see more of you on television Rakesh. Hope you get a good project soon.

It's not that the dashing Jas Arora has not essayed a role of a father on a TV show before. He was last seen in Star's Prithvi Raj Chohan, where he played the protagonist's papa, warrior king Someswar. And now he's been roped in to play papa again to Barkha Bisht in Aruna Irani's Doli Saja Ke for Sahara One.

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.

Coming back to Jas, he was a rocking model in his hay days and has also tried his luck with Bollywood. Though his films (Dushman, Chalte Chalte and Monsoon Wedding) were a hit, it failed to foster his career.

This tall, fair and handsome hunk still has girls drooling over him. As a papa - maharaja he still is quiet acceptable but as a lovely lady's dad…….we are skeptical, unless he dons some silver streaks.

Not only the TV audience, even the star cast of the super hit comic show, Sarabhi v/s Sarabhai is looking forward to it's new season. But if insiders are to be believed then this wish seems to remain unfulfilled.

Money is cited as the main reason behind the non return of this Star One show. According to a very highly placed source in Hats Off Production, the channel feels that cost of the show is too high given the low viewership of the fledging new channel. Talks to find a middle path are still on. The source further ruled out any chance of show coming on back on any other channel as well.

Hope both the parties reach an amicable solution soon, lest we miss out on a quality mirthful serial, which anyways are an extinct.

Coming May will see a heat of a different kind ! As KBC wraps up to be replaced by Ekta's Kasturi, we think the later will set a new kind of competition. For a long time now, the show like the Janus is being torn between 'keep it under wraps and stimulate constant hype.'

Initially, the show promised a new starcast. However, from the number of actors who've auditioned for the same, tell a different story altogether. Be it either Eijaz Khan, Sanjit Bedi from the older generation (that's what they are in Balaji terms), or the mid wingers Shabbir Ahluwalia or Manish Raisinghani, or the young entrants Mouni Roy and Pulkit Samrat.

There have been quite a few changes in the main male lead, earlier it was Eijaz Khan, who specialises in cameos and short stints with Balaji whilst juggling his movie career. He was then taken over by Manish Raisinghani, who had to pull himself off the show as he had no dates to spare for Kasturi. Now the buzz goes that the lead has been handed over to the hapless Sanjit Bedi, who was bad in Kya Hoga Nimmo Ka and not so good in Viraasat.

And who will be the lead protagonist Kasturi in the show? Keep watching this space for more.