Many of your audiences had threatened to commit suicide if you were to be replaced in your last show.Did you know that? I seriously cant believe even now that I have so many fans who love me this much! At the end of the day,I am just an ordinary guy who goes to work and does a slightly more glamourous job than others.I am really very simple in real life.Im very grateful to all those fans who love me.You know,I find it so weird when the media calls me small screen super star.I dont think Im one! My fans love me because Im one of them.It feels strange even now I dont know how to react when a fan gushes over me! I was not in India when the entire controversy happened,so it didnt affect me too much in the beginning.But,I was really startled with the way things suddenly went against me and a certain section of people started blaming me for being instrumental in shutting down the show.I was hurt of course.I didnt like being accused of something I didnt do and at one point everything I was saying was getting misrepresented.Thats when I decided to be positive,stay calm and remain quiet.I think it is important not to scream from the rooftops to make yourself heard,I want my work to do the talking for me.I believe that being honest to oneself and ones work is all that matters.ĭid you know that you had such a huge fan following Or that the fans would collectively pressurise the channel to end the show if you were not part of it Your show Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon was in news for a long time,ever since reports trickled in about your quitting and talks of a new actor replacing you surfaced.And then the show went off air abruptly.What was going on in your mind at that point

The down-to-earth actor seems to be in a happy space post a well-deserved break in the UK followed by some quality time with family in Delhi.Excerpts from an interview: His decision to move on from television (and the show Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon) led to fan uproar and pulled the plugs on a soap for the first time ever in the history of Indian television.Barun Sobti,easily among the most talked about small screen stars of 2012,modestly confesses that he still cant believe hes a superstar and is coming to terms with the fan frenzy.

Small screen heartthrob Barun Sobti clears the air about his temporary break from TV,shares his Bollywood dreams and why his fans mean the world to him

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