The curious case of Ram Kapoor’s ‘quitting’ decision

When you are the face of a popular show, everything that you say or do automatically results in a lot of speculations and confusions.

Well, no points for guessing here, as we are talking about the popular and loved actor Ram Kapoor whose comment on him quitting Bade Achhe Lagte Hain has raised quite a number of eyebrows.

The show on Sony Entertainment Television began as an experiment, with leads above 30 trying to find love in life. Interestingly Ram and Sakshi Tanwar’s chemistry as Ram and Priya struck ‘gold’ with the audience. With numerous leaps and inclusion of new faces, the show might have seen a drop in numbers, but it’s still loved by its loyal audience.

The talented actor, Ram has today not only left his mark on TV but also has a good amount of movies under his belt too. Although Ram had always maintained that BALH is his baby and no matter what may come, he will not quit the show, it was quite a revelation when the actor went back on his words.

Recently during the promotions of his upcoming film Humshakals, Ram mentioned to a national daily that this was his last month with the show as he had signed the contract only for three years. With that getting over now, the man would work with his three pending films which would require him to travel abroad.

The actor also mentioned that he had informed the production house (Balaji Telefilms) of his decision and that they have agreed to it and are presently working on his exit plot.

Well we delved into the matter and was surprised to find that neither the show’s cast nor crew or the channel officials had any concrete idea about Ram’s decision or for the matter of fact, regarding Ram’s presence in the future tracks of the show.

Mitu Kumar, Creative Producer of the show said, “There is no clarity on the matter at the moment. Everything is on hold as we are yet to decide on anything.”

When we probed her further on the chances of Ram leaving this month she said, “We seriously have no intimation on the same and thus can’t comment on it” This statement indeed sounded strange as Ram had clearly stated that he notified his decision to the production house.

We contacted an actor from the show, who based on anonimity said, “He is very busy at the moment. But he does come for shoots whenever he is needed. I don’t think he will quit the show as it’s just a matter of two months before we wrap up. He is an important part of the show although he doesn’t have to shoot that regularly. All we can hope is that his schedules get sorted and he manages to stay.”

A source in the channel also seemed flabbergasted about the situation, “Why don’t you guys ask Ram instead? That random statement came as a shocker to us too as we seriously have no idea of what is he up to. As for now all we know is that he is shooting for the show. It’s seriously strange that he would go ahead and say something like this without any prior discussion with the channel heads.”

They say, any kind of publicity, good or bad is supposed to be good publicity.

Talking more on Ram’s so-called ‘hurried’ statements to media, the actor recently announced that he was doing a film, Patel Rap with Sunny Leone. And Sunny who had an idea that they were not allowed to talk about it was left red faced when questions were thrown on her about the film.

“I was crazily denying the news having no idea about Ram’s announcement. But good for me; now I don’t need to worry about mentioning it as Ram has opened the gates,” Sunny had told us in an earlier interview.

Whatever may be the case, the fact as of now remains that Ram and Balaji Telefilms have a lot of talking to do. Clarity on whether Ram will stay on to take the BALH ship right to the shore, and be part of it till it ends remains to be seen.

Ram and Ekta Kapoor did not revert to our calls and messages.

We will be back with more updates on the same.