{"id":5071,"date":"2026-04-18T10:52:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/shailesh-lodha-recalls-a-24-year-old-memory-as-he-meets-with-mahesh-bhatt\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:52:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:22:32","slug":"shailesh-lodha-recalls-a-24-year-old-memory-as-he-meets-with-mahesh-bhatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/shailesh-lodha-recalls-a-24-year-old-memory-as-he-meets-with-mahesh-bhatt\/","title":{"rendered":"Shailesh Lodha recalls a 24-year-old memory as he meets with Mahesh Bhatt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130347439,imgsize-24618,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/untitled-design-1-2026-04-18t103841160.jpg\" alt=\"Shailesh Lodha recalls a 24-year-old memory as he meets with Mahesh Bhatt\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cTaarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah\u201d actor and poet Shailesh Lodha reunited with filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mahesh-bhatt\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Mahesh Bhatt<\/a>, which transported him back 24 years.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>Shailesh took to Instagram, where he shared a then-and-now picture collage featuring him and the filmmaker from 2002 to now from their recent meetup. <!-- -->Sharing a note, the actor reminisced about their first encounter in 2002, when Mahesh Bhatt had visited Jodhpur for the launch of Get Set Go.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>Shailesh wrote in the caption section: \u201c24 baras ke pehele ka hai pehla chitra\u2026 2002 mein Mahesh Bhatt Jodhpur aaye the Dr. Swati Lodha ki behad lokpriya pustak \u201cGet Set Go\u201d ke vimochan ke liye\u2026 aur aaj 24 varsh ke waqfe ke baad yun hi achanak mulaqat hui toh yaadon ke bhandaar khul gaye\u2026\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"9\"\/>\u201c(The first picture is from 24 years ago\u2014back in 2002, when Mahesh Bhatt had come to Jodhpur for the launch of Dr. <!-- -->Swati Lodha\u2019s very popular book \u201cGet Set Go.\u201d And today, after a gap of 24 years, an unexpected meeting happened again\u2026 opening up a treasure trove of memories.)\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>Talking about Shailesh, he first appeared on Wah Wah, a poetry show created by Shri Adhikari Brothers and then Comedy Circus as a contestant. He portrayed Taarak Mehta in the sitcom series Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah from 2008 to 2022.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>The actor was the main presenter in the TV program Wah! Wah! Kya Baat Hai! telecast. In 2019, he appeared in the comedy film Wig Boss along with Sunil Pal and Rakhi Sawant. In 2022, Lodha filed a lawsuit against producer Asit Kumarr Modi for his pending dues.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>Meanwhile, Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah abbreviated as TMKOC, is based on the weekly column Duniya Ne Undha Chasma by Tarak Mehta for the magazine Chitralekha. The series is set in Mumbai and follows the lives of the residents of Gokuldham Co-operative Housing Society, a diverse community with people from different cultural and regional backgrounds.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/tv\/news\/hindi\/shailesh-lodha-recalls-a-24-year-old-memory-as-he-meets-with-mahesh-bhatt\/articleshow\/130347446.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTaarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah\u201d actor and poet Shailesh Lodha reunited with filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, which transported him back 24 years.Shailesh took to Instagram, where he shared a then-and-now picture collage featuring him and the filmmaker from 2002 to now from their recent meetup. Sharing a note, the actor reminisced about their first encounter in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}