Amit Tandon's stint in the Balaji saga <em>Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai<em> may soon come to an end. Amit's character Prithvi will be declared the psychotic killer of Josh (Chetan Hansraj) and will be packed off to a mental asylum. That will mark the end of the character etched so far by the Indian Idol finalist, clearing the way for him to take up other roles.

Going off to locations abroad seems to have become a trend. Recently, we saw <em>CID</em> in Uzbekistan, <em>Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai</em> in Dubai, <em>Kkavyanjali</em> in Hong Kong and the list goes on. Next in line will be the unit of Sinndoor. But it it is only the leads who are making it abroad! The four actors who are going to shoot the track in Hong Kong are Gurdeep Kohli , Sachin Shroff, Sharad Kelkar and wife Kirti. The shoot in Hong Kong is scheduled for 22 November and the cast will return on the 29 of this month.

The queen of soaps hasn't been keeping very well for some time now, but as they say, life goes on, and so do her projects. Ekta Kapoor is all set to launch <em>Kandie Floss</em> on Sony in the coming months and going by the channel USP, it could be another fresh, young and passionate love story in the making. "Sony has viewers who appreciate alternative programming, something that the other channels lack. So I could do a <em>Kaisa Ye Pyar Hai</em> on this channel. I am also doing <em>Kandie Floss</em> for them," says Ekta, declining to say anything more on the soap.

Manasi Varma has been added in Sony and Balaji's <em>Kaisa ye Pyar Hai</em>. Manasi will play Alia, Angad's (Iqbal Khan) cousin. According to Manasi, creative head Sandeep Sikand suggested her name for Alia's role. "Alia has loads of attitude. She is very much like Angad. She cares a damn about what happens to anybody. " It's quite a tom-boyish character," gushed an elated Manasi. As for her role in Star Plus and Balaji's <em>Kahaani</em>..., she will once again develop feelings for her baby's father Aryan (Ali Hassan) since Aryan has now turned positive.

Even before <em>Kaisa ye Pyar Hai</em> has seen the light of day on Sony, Queen of Soaps is rolling up her sleeves on two new shows. Balaji Telefilms is indeed a factory of soaps. The production house will have four shows on air on various channels in the first half of 2005.

A month before he became the cynosure of all eyes on 20 October 2005 as part of Sony's Fame Jodi, Qazi Tauqeer appeared to be someone who was there just to have a good time, not caring much for the final prize on offer. Three months since, it's a different Qazi - mellowed, more mature and....a trifle morose too. What started as a simple chat with Tellychakkar.com's Ananya Sengupta, turned out to be the most moving tete-a-tete thus far, of the young man who made history by claiming the most number of public votes on Indian television. <strong> "I will never do television"</strong>