Updated On: 15 September, 2020 07:21 AM IST | Mumbai | Letty Mariam Abraham
surbhi Chandna on how her teams confidence helped her pick the baton from Nia Sharma in the fifth season of Naagin.

Surbhi Chandna
Where Hindi cinema had a short-lived romance with tales of shape-shifting serpents in the '70s and '80s, giving us the Reena Roy-fronted Nagin (1974) and Sridevi's popular Nagina (1986), the television industry continues to be fixated with it. Surbhi Chandna, who headlines the fifth edition of Ekta Kapoor's Naagin, says she is familiar only with the 1986 offering fronted by Sridevi. "The Naagin world is new for me. I have not seen any of the previous seasons of the show. I remember watching Sridevi's Nagina."
The actor admits she had her share of doubts before she gave her nod to the fantasy show. "Seeing the success rate of the previous seasons, I feared that I may not be able to pull it off. However, the team was confident that I was the right person to do the fifth instalment," says Chandna, adding that like most actors, being part of a Balaji production was on her wishlist. "We have been trying to collaborate on an ALTBalaji series for long. After I had wrapped up a successful series, they had offered me several shows, but things did not work out then."