Star Association

After we shifted to Mumbai in 2008 my wife Sanghita got her job in Ryan International School in Kandivli (East). My wife informed me that there was a star kid named Avinash Mukherjee in her class. He is a star in the serial ‘Balika Badhu’ and his screen name is Gagiya. We first invited him and his family to the birthday party of our daughter Sneha. He came to the party along with his family. His mother was also a teacher in Ryan International – Malad. From then onwards our friendship started to grow. After sometimes Avinash started to come to our house for tuition as he had to miss his classes because of his shooting schedule. After few months Avika Gor (Anandi) the main protagonist of ‘Balika Badhu’ also joined Avinash in school and started to come to our house for tuition.

Both these kid were very talented and intelligent. Apart from that both of them was well mannered and obedient. They hardly got any time to study, but they scored over 60% marks in exams, which was incredible. Sometimes we used to go to see their shooting in Vasai situated in the city outskirt. Shooting is a quite a boring affair as there were lots of take and retakes. What we see in a 30 minute episode takes many hours of hard work in the sets. However, we could meet many other stars in the set of ‘Balika Badhu’. My wife became very popular as ‘Teacher Ma’ with the crew members as she was coaching both the star kids of the serial.