
Dayawanti tricks Avni and shoots her, who is later saved by Neela. Neela bails her out and leaves with her, divorcing Ashish. Ashish too believes Dayawanti and gets Avni arrested. Dayawanti kills Ayesha takes Aman, framing Avni for Ayesha's death. Ashish is forced to marry Neela Parikh, who befriends with Avni and stands up against Dayawanti. She hates Ayesha as she is a Muslim and rejects Avni at every step. Avni's father, famous filmmaker Ashish Mehta, meets them in secret because of his mother, Dayawanti, a religious yet corrupt Hindu woman. So each story was markedly different.Ĭonnect with us on facebook.9 year-old Avni Ayesha lives with her mother, Ayesha Haider. These days a scriptwriter works on 10 shows simultaneously – but at that time, there was just one writer working on one script at the time. For A Mouthful of Sky, we rarely ended episodes with hooks we didn’t need those to make the audience return to the show.


Soni: I have done quite a lot of TV after that, but these days, things are different. But if someone comes up with an interesting concept that requires me to shoot for around 10 days, I might just take it up. The last TV series I did was Noorjahan, almost 16 years ago! I don’t have much idea about how TV serials work these days, but it takes up a lot of time – almost 20 to 25 days a month. Soman: I did Captain Vyom and produced Margarita after that and then most of us got busy with other stuff. Soni: We had a multiple camera setup and the whole scene would be shot at one go with the director keeping a check on all the cameras and cutting from one to the other. We began with the reunion and the story took shape slowly, and based on audiences’ reactions to the characters and subplots were developed. Initially, none of us – except Mahesh – had much clue about where the story was headed. We had an idea about cameras, but the dialogue part was very new, and exciting. Soman: Some of us had done ad films and some had a theatre background, but it was our first brush with television. And of course, I had Kamal Sidhu opposite me, who could have said no to that? Almost all the top models were there in this one show!

It was not a random import from nowhere, as is the case with characters in today’s television serials. Although my character was introduced after almost three months, his voice was already there. I auditioned and got picked for the role of Ashok Mathur, who turns out to be the main villain. What prompted me to take up the project was that it was in English! I had just done a few music videos and was still not too comfortable talking in Hindi. My friend Devika Motwani, who was part of the project, asked me if I was interested. Milind Soman: I was never interested in acting.
