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Rashami Desai recalls strained equation with Sidharth Shukla: ‘We didn’t get along, didn’t talk to each other for 9 months’
During Bharti Singh's podcast, actress Rashami Desai revisits the dark phase in her life, also recalls having serious professional differences with Dil Se Dil Tak co-star Sidharth Shukla.

Actress Rashami Desai has been a celebrated name on Indian Television for the last two decades. Even though she has been away from the small screen for some time, Rashami has been exploring regional cinema, lately, the actress was seen in a Gujarati film Mom Tane Nahi Samjay. Recently, Rashami appeared on Bharti Singh’s podcast where she opened up about some unpleasant phases of her life, she also spoke about the late Sidharth Shukla revealing how they didn’t get along while they worked on Dil Se Dil Tak.
Talking about her bond with Sidharth Shukla, Rashami said, “I have worked with Siddharth and have had a very different experience. People have seen us in a very different light on Bigg Boss, we used to fight because I have a history with Sidharth Shukla. It had just gotten very bitter, in the 1.5 to 2 years that we worked together, there had been so many differences that we would not speak to each other. We didn’t talk to each other for 9 months, our differences were so strong, that we could not see each other’s faces. But when we worked, both of us were very professional.”
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Recalling their bittersweet equation on Bigg Boss 13 and how he was there for her, Rashami went on to add, “Sidharth was a wonderful and very knowledgeable co-actor I have worked with. He had a good heart too. Unfortunately, 2018 was not a very good phase that I had gone through. I saw a lot of ups and downs and he knew about it. So when on Bigg Boss we had a family week and he came to give me water, only he knew what I was going through. We would communicate through our eyes, it was a very unsaid equation between us which I also respected. My niece used to love him and would always go to meet him first on the set, he would also play with her. He used to love kids. Even though there were differences between us, I wouldn’t stop them from interacting.”
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Rashami Desai also shared how she was going through a rough patch during Bigg Boss, she also stated that she and Sidharth had a personal history. “Professionally we have had our issues, personally also we had a history that I didn’t speak about back then and neither will I talk about it now. I respect that, and now that he isn’t around, it also doesn’t make sense. Just because we didn’t get along does not mean he was a bad person, there was a phase in my life where I couldn’t do anything.”
The actress popularly known for her role in Uttaran went on to talk about her bad phase. She said, “I had to go through a lot of things and handle them myself, I never told anyone that I was going through so much. I never understood the Bigg Boss format, I purely did the show for money. Because I badly needed money at that time, I am very glad that I did Bigg Boss, because there were some chapters of my life which would have either gotten torn or the book would have been left incomplete and ugly, and I wouldn’t have been around. I am glad I decided to do Bigg Boss. 2018, 2019, and 2020 were such years of my life where I couldn’t say or understand what was happening to me.”
An emotional Rashami also shared that she would only wonder why was God testing her so much at that time, but she soon bounced back. Now, Rashami is in a better place, looking to grow professionally and also do some very amazing work.

