Amar Upadhya's popularity overtook that of many big screen actors in early 2000s. For the first time a TV serial had made it on the billboards of the city, and Amar Upadhyay was the leading man of that. <em>Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi</em> was the renaissance of Indian television. The character played by him, the iconic <em>Mihir Virani </em>had brought the country to the streets in protest when the script-writers chose to kill him. But the actor couldn't keep up with the sudden success bestowed upon him.
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