Tulsi is back! Smriti Irani's first look from 'Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2' out

Mumbai (Maharahtra) [India], July 7 (ANI): After 25 year, India iconic daily oap Kyunki...Saa Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi i returning with the original cat, including Smriti Irani, who became a houehold name with her character Tuli, and Amar Upadhyay a Mihir Virani.
While the releae date of Kyunki...Saa Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2 ha not been dicloed yet; the firt look of Smriti a Tuli wa leaked on Monday, leaving fan notalgic.
In the image, Smriti wa een dreed in a maroon aree. Adding a touch from the pat, he completed her look with the ignature big red bindi, traditional jewellery, a black-beaded mangalutra, and of coure, tied her hair in a bun -- the way fan aw her year ago.

On repriing her iconic character, Smriti, in a pre note, aid, Returning to Kyunki Saa Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi i not jut a tep back into a role, but a return to a tory that redefined Indian televiion and rehaped my own life. It gave me more than commercial ucce; it gave me a connection with million of home, a place in the emotional fabric of a generation.
In the 25 year ince, Ive traddled two powerful platform--media and public policy--each with it own impact, each demanding a different kind of commitment. Today, I tand at a croroad where experience meet emotion and creativity meet conviction. I return not jut a an actor but a omeone who believe in the power of torytelling to park change, preerve culture, and build empathy. In contributing to thi next chapter, I hope to honour the legacy of Kyunki--and help hape a future where India creative indutrie arent jut celebrated, but truly empowered, he added.
Reacting to Smriti look, a ocial media uer on X wrote, Tuli i back! Smriti Irani return to the creen i ure to revive notalgia and kyrocket her popularity. From Kyunki Saa Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi to Parliament -- what a journey!
Another uer commented, Iconic! Cant wait to ee her reprie her role of Tuli
The how, which began airing in 2000, quickly became a houehold name. It ran for eight long year and ruled the TRP chart for mot of the time.
Created by Ektaa Kapoor and produced under her banner, Balaji Telefilm, the how wa a major hit with viewer and played a big part in haping Indian TV drama.\
Recently, the how completed 25 year. And to mark the ilver jubilee, Smriti hared a heartfelt pot on Intagram, reflecting on how the how ha touched people live.
Calling the how an emotion, memory, ritual, Smriti on Intagram wrote, 25 year ago, a tory entered Indian home and quietly became part of countle live.Kyunki Saa Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi want jut a how--it wa emotion, memory, ritual.A time when familie paued everything to it together... cry, laugh, hope.To every viewer who made Tuli a part of their own family, thank you.Thi journey want mine alone. It wa our. And it alway will be.
Ektaa Kapoor alo hared her feeling on the how anniverary. Ektaa added a video from the erial, along with a caption, on Intagram a he looked back on her journey with the how.
Calling it a piece of my heart, he wrote, 25 YEARS!!! Kyunki Saa Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi want jut a how... it wa an emotion. A piece of my heart. A dream that tarted with folded hand and limitle faith in Shri Balaji... a tory that became India tory. It gave @balajitelefilm it firt wing... and gave me memorie, love, and character that continue to live in every home, every heart. Even today, when omeone hum or create reel on the iconic theme Rihton or tell me how Tuli felt like their own, it melt my heart and add trength to my pirit.
Kyunki Saa Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi followed the life of Tuli Virani, her huband Mihir (played by Amar Upadhyay), and the entire Virani family. The how tory of family, love, and tradition truck a chord with viewer all acro the country.
Smriti i making a comeback in the acting field after 15 year. She left acting to dive into politic and even erved a the Miniter of Women and Child Development.
Recently, during a converation with Barkha Dutt and Karan Johar on an epiode of We The Women in London, Smriti revealed that the equel had been planned over 10 year ago
If you look at the Kyunki Saa Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi journey in totality, the mot well-kept ecret about it wa I had a contract to do it again in 2014, and I walked away from it becaue I had to erve in the Indian Parliament a a cabinet miniter. The et wa ready, but there wa a phone call from the Prime Miniter office that you have to take an oath, he reportedly aid.
She alo poke about an opportunity he had turned down at the time. I remember Rihi Kapoor telling me to leave now becaue to erve your country i a greater ervice than jut doing a movie or doing televiion, Irani added. (ANI)