‘It felt like a dream come true’

For years, Anant V Joshi watched Gullak as a fan, regarding its middle-class quirks, household dynamics, and on a regular basis struggles. Immediately, he finds himself on the centre of that world. Becoming a member of the fifth season as Anand Mishra, the eldest son of the Mishra household, is nothing wanting a dream come true for him. When he was first approached for the function, Joshi admits he might hardly consider it. “It boosted my confidence and morale,” he says. Changing Vaibhav Raj Gupta after 4 profitable seasons of the SonyLIV sequence got here with its share of strain. “Folks don’t at all times embrace change simply. However engaged on a franchise with such credibility, gifted actors, and sensible writers was a possibility I couldn’t cross up.”

The actor says the present’s biggest power lies in its authenticity. Each scene made him really feel that the makers and writers have been “a fly on the wall of his home”. “My father labored in a authorities job, my mom is a homemaker, and I’ve a brother. The setup could be very comparable. What amazes me is how the writers seize on a regular basis life so precisely. Each argument, dialog, and little second seems like one thing we’ve all witnessed at residence.”