Aatish Kapadia, Aishwarya Sakhuja, Rajesh Kumar and Deven Bhojani

Director-actor Deven Bhojani who had the pleasure of directing Upadhyay said, “Not a lot of people could do justice to the character of Jasmine the way she did”. “After a lot of auditions, we unanimously found our Jasmine in Vaibhavi. Any new actor joining the set would find it difficult, but Vaibhavi was friendly from the get-go. She was a brilliant actor who made my job as a director easy. She was confident, polite, humble, and ready to learn. She understood my need for reactions and gave me exactly what I was looking for [in a scene]. Maya Sarabhai [played by Ratna Pathak Shah] says this dialogue: ‘Yeh sochti Gujarati mein hai, translate Hindi mein karti hai, and bolti English mein hai.” And that is exactly what Vaibhavi was doing. She justified the character so well that Jasmine became one of the major highlights of season two,” said Bhojani, who played Dushyant in the sitcom.

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“I cannot use the past tense for her,” says writer-director-actor Aatish Kapadia, who had initially noticed Upadhyay in another audition. “I was mesmerised by her performance. The élan and confidence with which she performed stayed in my mind, but the show never got made. When we were [casting actors] for the character of Jasmine, she was my first choice. We had some great scenes together. She was confident enough to stand up to goliath actors including Satish Shah, Rupali Ganguly, Ratna Pathak Shah, Sumeet Raghavan, and Rajesh Kumar. There cannot be another Jasmine.”

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