its been an extremely stressful week im still recouping from all the stress we went through in finding a new leading lady overnight exclaims ranjani raghavan having turned creative producer with ishta devathe after her exit from putta gowri maduve ranjani went through some anxious moments a few days ago when rashi the leading lady of the serial walked out of the sets while the shoot was in progress in mudigere apparently rashi had thought that shed be replaced on the show and walked out miffed from the set the team was in mudigere at the time and clearly somebody had misguided her she didnt even make her displeasure known because had we known it wed have definitely clarified whatever doubts she may have had says ranjani i hear that she also had issues with the way the production of the serial was being handled but none of our team members have these problems of course when you shoot a daily soap that demands such hectic schedules there will be minor glitches which we have to make do with being an artiste myself im aware how these things work and along the way you learn to ignore them she tells us clearly perturbed by the happenings ranjani says that having been part of a hit serial like putta gowri maduve a serial which she was part of for over twoandahalf years shes learnt that professionalism is what counts in this industry ive been there and know what kind of commitment it takes todays young actors have it all easy and need to brush up on how to be professional she states as for rashi ranjani says she had a legal contract with them for two years the channel apparently told her to wait until shes back in town to sort out whatever issue she may have been facing but unfortunately that was not to be i had to find someone on the same night that she walked out because we had to reshoot 15 scenes and also had an episode for the following monday rashi walked out on us on thursday the team was left in doldrums and we had no clue what to do it was unprofessional and uncalled for points out ranjani she adds vaidehi the character rashi was pencilled in to play needed to know bharatnatyam and she had lied to us that she knew dance i wonder why she did that asks ranjani rashi has now been replaced by a newbie called megha shes a professional dancer and is enthusiastic about her new role we are happy to have her on board and are looking forward to celebrate the new vaidehi what has happened is well in the past as for me im learning to be a stronger person each day in this new journey of mine sums up ranjani we tried reaching rashi but her phone remained switched off