Shashank Vyas as Jagiya

Date of Birth:  November 30, 1986
Place of Birth: Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India
Occupation:    Model, Actor

About Shashank Vyas

Shashank Vyas is an Indian Television actor who took up acting as he could not get admission in a B-School. Besides being an actor, Shashank Vyas is a great foodie who loves to experiment in his kitchen.

Achievement of Television and movie

Shashank got his first break as Jagdish aka Jagya or Dr. Jagat in the daily soap ‘Balika Vadhu’ which is telecast on Colors. Shashank has played a small role in the movie Tees Maar Khan released in 2010.

Tina Dutta of uttaran to be replaced

After Pratyusha Banerjee aka Anandi of Balika Vadhu, could it be actress Tina Dutta's turn to get replaced in her telly show, Uttaran, where she plays a double role?

Rumours have been doing the rounds since the past few days, especially after one of her characters, Iccha, has been bumped off in the serial. But officials from the production house and channel insist that there is no such move.

REf: times of india

Pratyusha Banerjee has left the show balika vadhu

Balika Vadhu has been top of the charts for four years now. The show started with Anandi as a li’l kid played by Avika Gor, who was then married off to Jagya (Avinash Mukherjee) at a tender age. After two years of success, the makers brought in Pratyusha Banerjee to play the adult Anandi. Due to Pratyusha’s irregular presence at shoots, the production house has now roped in a new actor to take over Anandi’s role – Toral Rasputra.

The actor was last seen in Zee TV’s Chhoti Si Zindagi. She began her career in television with Rishton Ki Dor which did not pan out as well she would have wanted it to. It was Disney Channel Dhoom Machaao Dhoom that put her in the limelight.

Obviously, she wasn’t chosen on the basis of screen tests with her co-actors. So we wonder how the makers zeroed in on Toral then. The writer of Balika Vadhu, Gajra Kottary explains, “Toral is a very good actor and her audition was perfect. We didn’t want an actor who has become a typecast. However, we also required someone with a little experience. Toral was good looking and had the right amount of experience too.”

While we’ll miss Pratyashu, and we wish Toral good luck and hope that she won’t disappoint us.

Pratyusha Banerjee- Anandi (Balika Vadhu)

Pratyusha Banerjee was born in Jamshedpur. This 19 year old young lady currently lives in a paying guest accommodation in Mumbai. Balika Vadhu is going to be her first acting assignment. Initially when Pratyusha Banerjee decided to take acting as career her parents got into the state of shock. But slowly they understood that she should be allowed to do whatever she thinks best for her. In fact now Pratyusha Banerjee is getting lot of support from her parents. Pratyusha Banerjee is the only child of her parents.

Though Pratyusha Banerjee is new to acting, she is filled with talents she sings, she is a classical dancer and was associated with many cultural activities. During her school and college days Pratyusha Banerjee took part in many theatre dramas and plays but it was her drama called ‘Kalidas’ which made her think seriously about acting as career. On the education side Pratyusha Banerjee is pursuing graduation through distance education program.

Career
Since 2010, Banerjee is appearing as the protagonist, Anandi, on the television series Balika Vadhu, first aired on the Colors channel. She won the role — to appear as an older Anandi because of a five-year leap in the program's storyline — through an SMS poll.

Ref:
http://indian-television.webyam.com/?p=221
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratyusha_Banerjee