Manaasi Joshi Roy BACK on television 10 saal baad!

Manaasi Joshi Roy, best remembered for her role as Sudha in Saaya, makes her TV comeback after almost a decade with Dhai Kilo Prem. Last seen on Nach Baliye in which she participated with her husband Rohit, she blames her long absence on not finding “anything interesting in the fiction space after Kkusum”. She adds, “Sandeep Sickand, who is producing Dhai Kilo Prem with Ekta Kapoor, said this role was written with me in mind. He was adamant that I take it up.”

The series is about an overweight boy and girl who fall in love and what happens to them. Manasi plays the boy’s protective mother, who “apart from sharing a lovely relationship with the girl, has a little graph of her own. It’s not a conventional saas-bahu soap, but slice-of-life,” says Manasi, who thrives on playing realistic characters.

The actress, who has been on an acting sabbatical to care for her daughter, had put on weight, but is now shedding the kilos. “I have lost five kilos and intend losing more,” she says.

Though Manasi was missing from the small screen, she was actively involved in her production house. The actress also started her own blog wherein she writes about varied subjects.