Actor Swwapnil Joshi is one of the most loved and appreciated names in the Marathi industry. However, the audience still can’t forget his innocent and mischievous face as young Lord Krishna in the 90s show ‘Shri Krishna’ and young Kush in ‘Uttar Ramayan’. Both the shows received immense love when re-aired during the Nationwide lockdown in India in 2020.
Even Swwapnil was one of the audiences of his own show and this time he had the company of his two kids– Raaghav, 3, and daughter Maayra. 5.
Recalling some of the conversations that they had while watching both the shows, the 43-year-old said, “Raaghav looks exactly how I use to look when I was a kid and I was 8 when ‘Ramayan’ happened to me so while watching the show throughout, I kept telling Raaghav that ‘yeh tu hai’ (this is you) and he got confused because he did look like him (Kush) and he kept on asking me questions.”
“There are constant hilarious chats that I had with Raaghav. He is like I never went for this shooting and even today he is wondering how come he has done so much work even when he never went for that shoot,” he told Opoyi.
Talking about the conversation he exchanged with his daughter related to his role as Krishna, he says that he was “17 when I played Krishna.”
“… and God has been very God that I probably aged but the face structure has not changed so Maayra recognized me in Krishna. He said he is babi( that’s how Swapnil’s kids address him) so she doesn’t understand the idea of past tense and that I did this show many years ago. So she asked when did i do this as I was home throughout lockdown so I said I go every day for the shoot and she said that no you are with me every day then I explained to her that after she sleeps in the night, I go for the shoot and come back in the day. Now she tells all her friends that babi goes to work at night,” he said.
Ramanand Sagar’s iconic show ‘Ramayan’ was re-televised starting March 28, 2020, both in the morning and evening when PM Narendra Modi announced a nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronavirus. The series originally ran from 25 January 1987 to 31 July 1988.
The same was with the mythological show ‘Shri Krishna’ which received massive viewership when it started airing again on May 3, 2020. The show as originally televised in July, 1993.
