From Tunisha Sharma's death by suicide to Bhabhiji Ghar Par Hai actor Ishwar Thakur seeking financial aid for his kidney disease; top TV news of the week

This week began on an extremely shocking note with Tunisha Sharma's death, the actress died by suicide. Actor Ishwar Thakur sought financial help for his kidney disease and Kushal Tandon makes a comeback in Television after 6 years with this show. Take a look at the top television news of this week:

Tunisha's mother Vanita Sharma made shocking statements about Sheezan Khan, she revealed that her daughter didn't have any anxiety attacks, she was instead planning her birthday. She held Sheezan responsible for slapping her daughter, taking drugs, and forcing her daughter to change her religion. She even revealed that Sheezan would demand expensive gifts from Tunisha. His sister and mother were also influencing Tunisha and talking about Sheezan's ex-flame too.

After the shocking demise of Tunisha Sharma, her mother Vanita Sharma filed a complaint against the actress' co-star and ex-boyfriend Sheezan Khan and the Alibaba actor was arrested for alleged abetment of suicide. As per the Police officials, Sheezan wasn't cooperative and kept changing his statements. At first, he held the Shraddha Walkar case, age and religion differences responsible for their breakup but later he changed the statement. Sheezan was held on remand for two days but after new angles in the case he was held back in police custody for two days and today the custody has been again extended for another day.

Tunisha Sharma died on the set of her show, Ali Baba: Daastan-E-Kabul, on December 24. Tunisha's mother blamed her daughter's co-star Sheezan Mohammed Khan for her death. The actress died by suicide in her co-actor and ex-boyfriend Sheezan Khan's makeup room. She was rushed to the hospital but the doctors declared her 'brought dead'.

Her funeral was held on 27th December after her relatives returned from overseas. After reaching the crematorium, Tunisha’s mother fainted while performing the rituals and Siddharth Nigam and Kanwar Dhillon rushed to take care of her After the rituals, Kanwar Dhillon, Shivin Narang, Siddharth Nigam and Vishal Jethwa carried Tunisha's mother to the car as she was in a terrible state.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother, Heeraben Modi, passed away at the age of 100 after being admitted to a hospital in Ahmedabad. The Prime Minister shared about her demise in a heartfelt tweet early Friday morning (December 3),"A glorious century rests at the feet of God... In Maa, I have always felt that trinity, which contains the journey of an ascetic, the symbol of a selfless Karmayogi and a life committed to values."

Comedian Kapil Sharma, Union Minister Smriti Irani, Shehnaaz Gill and other popular personalities expressed their heartfelt condolences to PM Narendra Modi in their tweets.

The commission stated in a notice issued to the Maharashtra government, state police, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Endemol India Private Ltd, Viacom 18 Media Pvt Ltd, and Colors TV that it had taken suo-motu cognizance of information received through social media about Manaktala calling Gautam "neech jati ke log" (a low caste person).

In the recent episode, Archana Gautam stopped Shalin from taking more curry, they ended up in a major argument over food which escalated so much that Shalin called Archana 'Do Kaudi Ki Aurat'. This didn't go well with Archana and she gave it back to him much worse. She then targeted his mother and ex-wife. Shalin's aggression turned uncontrollable and he started throwing the furniture here and there and crying in front of Sajid Khan. MC Stan then came to calm him while Sajid went inside to know what actually had happened.

Shark Tank India's judge Peyush Bansal is on the panel for the second season too but earlier he had reconsidered his decision as he did enjoy the fame but that barred him from having a normal life too. In conversation with a news portal he revealed, “The only reason that I wasn’t keen on coming back was there’s too much fan following. I truly believe in ‘all glory is fleeting’ and didn’t want a life like this. I want a normal life, for me and my son, who’s just 2.5 years old. But at the same time, the spark that I see in the eyes of people made me finally relent.”

Ishwar Thakur, a TV actor who has acted in shows such as Bhabhiji Ghar Par Hai and FIR, is suffering from kidney disease. The actor has also been unable to work owing to health concerns and is currently in financial difficulty. He's finally spoken up about his disease. He shared that he didn't even have money to buy diapers and was using newspapers instead. Due to the disease, he is unable to control the bladder. He is in need of a good doctor but doesn't have the kind of finances to seek medical help.

Hiten Tejwani joins the cast of Bade Acche Lagte Hai 2, post the leap Hiten will play Nakuul's younger sibling, who will emerge in the show. Hiten will be playing Ram's biological mother's son. Nandini Kapoor plays Ram's stepmother in the show, for those who haven't seen it yet (portrayed by Shubhaavi Choksey). Ram's real mother (a new character who has lately joined the show) will be portrayed with another son who was not previously mentioned in the plot.

Ekta Kapoor is all set to launch a new show after Naagin-6 wraps. Kushal Tandon returns to Television as the lead for the Beauty and Beast fantasy show. Earlier Mohsin Khan was considered but now it is confirmed that Kushal has been paired with Eisha Singh in the show.

Himanshi recently travelled to Romania for the shoot of her new film, and as we all know, the temperature in Romania is in the minus. Himanshi was filming a rain sequence in a sub zero temperature. She didn't take any break after finishing the scene because she had a busy and packed schedule and needed to finish the task before Christmas. She continued to shoot even though the temperature was reaching -7°C the next day. The next day, she developed a high fever and her nose began to bleed.