Chak De India's Chitrashi Rawat to be a part of Siddharth Kumar Tewary's Shankar Jai Kishan

Chitrashi Rawat rose to fame with Shah Rukh Khan's Chak De India.

By Rasika Deshpande

Updated on Aug 10, 2017 | 04:08 AM IST | 2.6M

Actress Chitrashi Rawat is back in action with Siddharth Kumar Tewary's (Swastik Productions) new show Shankar Jai Kishan. She will be seen essaying the role of Simple Kapoor in the show. When asked Chitrashi, the actress said, "I am playing this Punjabi character called Simple Kapoor who is not simple at all in reality. She is a judo expert and dominating. She is the youngest in her family but always has a very strong opinion. She believes that after marriage also a woman should be working under her own terms. It is not necessary to change. I would like to put across this message that today's women are capable of balancing everything in their life. She hates lies and also hates the person who lies. She can hit the man who is a liar." Chitrashi also adds,"I enjoy doing comedy on screen. Comedy genre is very tough, your performance also depends on your co stars timing and coordination with you. Acting is all about reactions. On television the Saas-Bahu stuff is going on and that has audience, but I don't want to do it. I love the genre of comedy and I have to carve my own niche."

Talking about the show, it is set in Delhi and revolves around Kishan (Kettan Singh), a real estate agent and a perfect jugaadu. He dotes on his mother (Asawari Joshi), who was paralysed after hearing the news of her husband's sudden death. Kishan, who loses his brothers Shankar and Jai — they were triplets — in an accident, hides the truth from his mother on his friend Babbar's (Hemant Pandey) advice and pretends to be all three characters to protect her from another shock.

While Shankar is a poised veterinary doctor who talks in fluent Hindi, Jai is a rowdy police inspector. Kishan's life once again turns upside down when his mother emotionally blackmails him to marry three sisters, Twinkle (Falaq Naaz), Dimple (Kirtida Mistry) and Simple (Chitrashi Rawat).