Shaheer Sheikh is nervous on taking up SSR’s role in Pavitra Rishta 2

Shaheer Khan talks about playing the role of Manav in Pavitra Rishta 2. Earlier in season 1, the character was originally played by late actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

Actor Shaheer Sheikh admitted to feeling nervous and unsure as to his first thoughts when he was offered the role of Manav in Pavitra Rishta 2. He also thought people will “not accept” him.

Pavitra Rishta was a famous show which was launched on Zee TV in 2009 and ran for five long years with 1424 episodes. The serial starred Ankita Lokhande who played Archana and late actor Sushant Singh Rajput who played Manav.

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In an interview with SpotboyE, Shaheer Sheikh told the daily, “A lot of people told me that are you sure you want to do this character? Because it was a legendary character of such a hit show played by Sushant Singh Rajput. People will have very high expectations from you. I was anyway not very sure if I should take up the show and after hearing all such things, I started feeling even more nervous. In fact, the first thought I had was, ‘Mujhe accept hi nahi karenge log (People will not accept me).”

Talking about late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, Shaheer said, “I have met him (Sushant Singh Rajput) twice but we didn’t know each other personally. What I know about him is that he was the guy who took the risk of quitting his hit television show for Bollywood… For television actors like us, he opened a way there… I remember during the release of Kai Po Che, a media person had asked me what do you think about it and I had told that he has opened the door for us. A long time back it was Shah Rukh Khan sir who did Circus on TV and ended up becoming a Bollywood star and now it is Sushant Singh Rajput.”

Taking to the Instagram page, the team of ALTBalaji shared few pictures as they announced the beginning of the shoots. The caption read, “Sometimes in most ordinary lives, we find the most extraordinary love stories! Witness the extraordinary love story of Manav and Archana. #PavitraRishta Filming begins; streaming soon on #ALTBalaji #ItsNeverTooLate.”

The series is scheduled to run for 55 days and will be exclusively available to the users of ZEE5 and thereafter, it will be available on ALTBalaji.