It's a season of comebacks on the small screen. Following Gauri Pradhan's return to TV after five years with 'Meri Aashiqui Tum Se Hi', actress Shilpa Saklani too returns to fiction after a break of five years with Siddharth Kumar Tewary's 'Manmarziyan'.

A negative role, the actress calls it her anniversary gift to her husband (Apurva Agnihotri). "My husband has been persuading me to get back to acting for quite sometime, so finally I am doing just that. We will complete 13 years of marriage on June 28 and this is my anniversary gift to him. The fact that it's a negative character was enough challenge for me to take it up. Another reason was that I wanted to work with friends. I specially got attracted to this particular offer because it was a negative character and I wanted to come back with something different, also the most important thing was the production house, as I was very clear that if I ever come back I will come back with a production that belongs to a friend and thankfully both Siddharth and his wife Gayatri are my dear friends so it all falls into place!

Last seen in the seventh season of 'Bigg Boss', Shilpa had played a negative role in 'Kkusum'. Her last fiction outing was 'Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi'.

- Jigna Shah