Archana Puran SinghThe first television outing of Mr Ya Mrs, aired on Doordarshan in 1987 and proved strangely prophetic. Directed by Jalal Agha, the show centered on a working woman married to a house husband, played by Jayant Kripalani. Only a year later, Archana met the actor Parmeet Sethiwhom she married in 1992. In the early years of their marriage, while Parmeet was still trying to establish herself in the industry, Archana became the main breadwinner of the family, much like the character she played in the series.She also revealed that one of her real-life conditions before agreeing to marry Parmeet was finally getting her directorial debut, Badmaash Company, which hit theaters in 2010, almost two decades after her wedding. The film was a star Shahid Kapoor i Anushka Sharma at the headHe said in an interview to Screen, “Parmeet wrote Badmaash Company. When Shahid proposed to Anushka, he said the same line, ‘I will never walk into the kitchen and there are no wet towels on the bed’. That was my line,” reveals Archana. “I’m not going into the kitchen yet,” he added, his scowl intact.Her refusal to cook has often been a recurring theme in the family vlogs she shares with Parmeet and her sons, Aaryamann and Ayushmaan Sethi.Although she is now widely regarded as one of the most recognizable comic faces on television, Archana recalled how difficult her first day of comedy shooting was while working on Mr Ya Mrs in 1987.“My first take on the first day was to stir a kadhai. Jalal asked me to make it funny. Today I can find a hundred ways to make it funny, like the back of my hand. That time, I had no idea,” he confesses.Trying to deliver the scene, he relied on exaggerated expressions, assuming that this was what the comedy demanded. However, director Jalal Agha quickly corrected his approach.“I made some faces because that’s what I assumed comedy was. Jalal said, “Cut! Comedy isn’t about making faces, Archie!” I felt so bad. He yelled at me. And what little I could do, I couldn’t do anymore,” she explains. “That line has stuck with me. I learned comedy on the job. Every day on set I realized what makes something funny and what makes something not funny. And I kept learning. But my first day was really bad,” he admits.Although she started her career with comic roles, Archana says that these opportunities gradually disappeared after she became a permanent member of Kapil Sharmacomedy shows including Comedy Nights with Kapil, The Kapil Sharma Show and most recently The Great Indian Kapil Show on Netflix India where he now appears alongside Navjot Singh Sidhu. Although audiences associated her with her infectious laughs and playful banter on the show, she found film and television offers becoming scarce, even after memorable performances in hit films like Rohit Shetty’s 2012 entertainer Bol Bachchan.This year, however, has marked a new chapter in her acting career. After impressing audiences as the unpredictable main antagonist Rajkummar Rao and Sanya Malhotra’s black comedy thriller Toaster on Netflix India, Archana will be back in a completely different avatar. He will next play a domineering and manipulative government officer in Biswapati Sarkar’s campus comedy series Adarsha-Uv-India.