Indian television has a very long history. Earlier, only Doordarshan channel used to be the source of entertainment for people on television, later more channels came on television and entertained the viewers. But even today, people still remember their old days of watching television. People still remember all the TV series that came out during that era, refreshing their old memories. Some of the artists who were working in television at the time are still around and working on the first series. Kiran Juneja’s name is also one of them. Kiran Juneja was one of the early actresses in the television industry and also made a name for herself. He has acted in many TV series and movies during his career but he is popular for his TV series Buniyaad. Recently, in a conversation with Aaj Tak, Kiran Juneja talked about her journey in television, where she narrated her first meeting with director Ramesh Sippy.
The journey from first TV series to film
Kiran Juneja said her first TV series was “Paying Guest” produced by Rajshree Productions. Although she only appeared in one episode, few people know about it. Thereafter, she appeared in the TV show “Wah Janab”, with actor Shekhar Suman also co-starring with her. The show, which aired in 1984, featured light comedy and was available in Urdu and Hindi. Kiran Juneja said about her show ‘Wah Janab’, “It is a very good show and has comedy in it.” Unfortunately, the language in the show is quite pure and is in Urdu and Hindi A mixture, which is fine for northerners but hard to understand for people elsewhere. Comedy is one of those things where if you don’t understand the language, you won’t laugh. So you won’t understand anything but if that serial was not made in Urdu it would have turned out to be a very good serial.
Apart from this, Kiran Juneja also talks about the show ‘Buniyaad’ that changed her world forever. She also met her husband, director Ramesh Sippy, on the same show. “Yes, that show changed my life, it changed my personality completely,” said Kiran Juneja, who further spoke about how she became a part of the show and how she met Ramesh Sippy. He said, “I did not give any audition for the show. The shooting of the show has started now and probably about 7-8 episodes have been shot. But Rameshji did not like the actress who played the role that I later played. He wanted to replace that woman actor, so he started looking for a girl. At the same time, he was shooting the rest of the scenes except the scenes for that character. I was called directly to the set and in the evening I reached Mumbai from Delhi and my manager told me, ma’am. Had to go directly to Film City. The shooting was going on there and I wanted to meet Ramesh Ji, who was doing a serial so the manager told me about the serial on the way.
“So I reached the set and sat on a platform which was part of the set and the serial was being shot in front of me. So Ramesh Ji came to me during the shoot and gave me a few lines and said can you play The role of an old woman? I thought it was such an interesting role and I was given such a great opportunity to show how good I was as an actor, so I told him I would definitely do it. This character. Next question: Ramesh ji asked what is your age, just like girls don’t tell their age so I also said I look as young as I am, Ramesh ji laughed after listening and said, ok. Come on, you play the role. He said tell the hairstylist and costumer your size and we started shooting from Monday so I didn’t do any test for the role and I am a Punjabi and a model so they. Knowing my face will look good on camera.
Kiran Juneja also talked about herself and Ramesh Sippy. He said: “We used to meet on the set, we used to work together, so we had to meet.” When asked who spoke to each other first, Kiran Junija replied: “To be honest, I don’t now Remember so much. “When you work together, it’s hard to tell who starts talking first. I’m not from a film background, so I don’t know much about movies. To be honest, I know that he is a great director. But I had no idea he was such a big and respected director. When I started working with him, I realized how great he was. I was impressed by the way and politeness he treated his actors and I understood what a great director he was.
