/> Post-KBC and Shah Rukh Khan a lot of re-shuffling is happening on Star. One of the immediate casualties would be Viraasat.

According to Star's very enterprising creative head Shailja Kejriwal, "Viraasat would be one of the shows that has to go, I guess... at least for 13 weeks when KBC starts. Whether it comes back or not remains to be seen.

But I agree the show wasn't the success we thought it would be. We had planned it as the desi Dallas, satellite television's first multi-starrer. What Viraasat did was to get male viewers interested in the prime time."

While Viraasat gets ready to wrap up its romantic lead Rohit Roy remains optimistic. "Until I'm told about the closure I'll continue to put all of myself in Virasat. It's the only soap I've and I don't want to be jobless," he jokes.

Getting serious he informs, "In fact in the next two months (until KBC starts) my track is going to undergo a sea change. I'll be more of an angry young man, the way my character used to be liked in Swabhimaan and Sarkar," says Roy who has just won the best actor award at the Indian television awards for Viraasat.

What about stories of endless fracas among the marquee names in Viraasat? "You mean Amarr Upadhyay, Aman Verma and I were constantly fighting? Not true!" protests Rohit Roy. "It was the nature of our characters to seem belligerent. That spilled over into off-camera stories, I guess."

However there were no stories of differences with his romantic lead Sangeeta Ghosh. "In fact Sangeeta and Nikki Aneja are my two favourite co-stars. Sangeeta is an angel. She's an Aerian just like me and we get along like a house on fire.

Rude as this may sound, the female actors on television are far less well-behaved than the male. We male actors just change our clothes and get into character. The female actors take a lot longer and fuss a lot more."

Rohit refuses to consider the possibility that Viraasat would end soon. "It all depends on Mr Shah Rukh Khan. We're at his mercy," he jokes.