India, June 25 -- Actor Aditi Sharma joined an ongoing fantasy show a month ago only for her character's journey to end soon after. "The role was never supposed to be this short," she says. Reports suggested that she replaced actor Barkha Bisht in the show Jaadu Teri Nazar: Dayan Ka Mausam, but she explains that hers was a parallel lead and a new character.

Aditi adds, "Today, the course of a TV show is decided in days and weeks. In less than a month, the team realised the show wasn't achieving the expected TRPs. So, we mutually decided to let the story evolve." Her last appearance on the show was on June 22.

Earlier, Aditi starred in the TV show Appolena, which, too, wrapped up in three months. Reflecting on career setbacks, she says, ...