Ratna Pathak Shah, who played Maya Sarabhai in Sarabhai vs

Sarabhai
Sarabhai was one of the few jobs I’d done till then in which the scripts
were actually good. Actors did not need to become scriptwriters as
well and improvise to make something of the scene — we just did our
bit and the scenes came alive. I’m quite overwhelmed by the
acceptance that Sarabhai... has got, especially because when it was
first broadcasted our TRP was 0.63%. Nobody saw it - not even my
friends and family. And now — everywhere in the world I go I hear
praise for Sarabhai....

My fondest memory was when I was told that I had been selected for
the show, because for me, being from Ahmedabad, I had no idea that
I would eventually get into this business, and that too being picked by
Mahesh Bhatt was a huge thing! 
Initially, I had been rejected by the entire panel of directors, including
the writer since they felt I was too young and brash to play the role.
They wanted someone like the Mohnish Behl, who was more
grounded and regal looking. But to my good fortune, Mahesh Bhatt
said, ‘No, I’m willing to put my money on this boy.’ 
My co-stars used to call my fans 'Rishabians' - that time of course
there was no social media. This was all very alien to me as I had
never experienced anything even close to it, but it was a pleasant
feeling. 
Achint Kaur, who played Kamiya in Saaya

 learnt a lot from the serial and the bond which was formed with the
people there will last a lifetime. My character, Kamiya, was very bold
and girls would come up to me and say that if someone misbehaves
with them they would bash him up, something which they learnt from
her. Girls would also get the short hair cut like Kamiya, which was a
new trend at that time. 
The fan scene was not as crazy as it is now with the selfies. People
would walk up to us and have a conversation about the scenes, the
thought behind and what they comprehended.  remember going into
my college canteen, which like all college canteens was so noisy. The
moment I entered there was pin drop silence, that’s when I realised
how popular the show had become. Also I used to receive a lot of
crank calls, and even one of my wife’s friends’ told me she had crank
called me with a bunch of her friends back in college. 
Two years ago, we had done a series called Bharat Ki Baat, in which
we had an episode on women empowerment. While researching, we
came across the story of Lieutenant Commander Vartika Joshi. 
When Arohan was telecast, she was a little girl of about eight or nine
years old. Vartika was so enamoured by the series and seeing women
in white naval uniforms, which she kept telling her father she would
join the Navy. 
Three years ago the women in the Navy had taken up an expedition
where they went all over the globe, she was part of it. While
interviewing her, Vartika actually mentioned that Pallavi Joshi was her
inspiration!