Gurucharan Singh revealed that he did not leave Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah in 2012 but it was the makers who replaced him without informing him. He stated that he was in talks with the makers of the show about the contracts and agreements at that time. The actor recalled that he was in Delhi when he was watching the show on Television with his parents and all of a sudden he saw another actor playing Sodhi. He also shared the circumstances that was arose after he was replaced all of a sudden. 

Speaking about the same, Gurucharan told Siddharth Kannan, “Taraak Mehta is like my family because if I didn’t consider them as family, I would have said a lot of things about them which I didn’t. In 2012, they replaced me, I didn’t leave the show.”

He continued, “There was some conversation about contract and agreement going on at that time. They didn’t even tell me that they were going to replace me. I was in Delhi and I was sitting with my family members and we were watching Taarak Mehta. And in that episode, Dharam paaji had a cameo for a film promotion or something. I said ‘wow, Dharam paaji is here’ and in that episode, they introduced the new Sodhi. I was shocked when I saw that. I was watching it with my parents and they were just as shocked.” 

“They were under a lot of pressure after they replaced me. Even I was getting so much pressure from the audience. When I would go to the gym, people would say ‘Why have you left? This is not fun you should go back’ and they would say this angrily. People would scold me like you scold your family members. I said ‘it’s not up to me, it’s up to the bosses’,” Gurucharan added. 

Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah has been on air since 2008. The old cast of the show includes Disha Vakani, Dilip Joshi, Amit Bhatt, Shailesh Lodha, Mandar Chandwadkar, Neha Mehta, Jennifer Mistry Bansiwal, Munmun Dutta, Kavi Kumar Azad, Gurucharan Singh and Bhavya Gandhi. 

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