Did You Know? Sasural Simar Ka’s Shoaib Ibrahim’s First Audition Ever Was For Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai – Actor Recalls The Incident

Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai, which started in 2009 with Karan Mehra and Hina Khan in the lead, now stars Mohsin Khan and Shivangi Joshi as the protagonists. In today’s throwback story, we tell you of another TV actor who tried his hands at joining the show but failed. Not many may know this, but Shoaib Ibrahim, who became a household name by playing Prem in Sasural Simar Ka, had auditioned for the Star Plus show way back in 2007-‘08.

During a past conversation on his sister Saba’s YouTube channel, the actor and his wife Dipika Kakkar were asked about their journey in the industry. It was here that Shoaib spoke about his YRKKH audition, it not working out, and how auditioning was there. Read all he said below.

Talking about his first audition EVER, Shoaib Ibrahim revealed it was for a role in the hit and still-running Star Plus show YRKKH. Elaboration about it, the Sasural Simar Ka actor said, “Joh mera pehla show ka audition tha – 2007 ya ’08 ki baat mai kar raha hu – Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (tha). (Uska) audition Bhopal mai hua tha. Woh mera life ka pehla audition tha. Aur jab mai waha gaya tha, aap yakin nahi karoge, joh waha audition le raha tha, usne kaha ki ‘bhai bahar jao pehle lines yaad kar ke aao.’”