Mita Vashisht as Baisaab

Clad in a rich navvari sari, strings of golden beads around her neck, a heavy nath and piercing gaze in place, Mita Vashisht looks every bit an imposing zamindar of a wealthy Maharashtrian household. The senior TV and film actress is playing the lead role of Durgeshwari in the new historical drama Agnipankh, where she is joined by actors Satyajit Sharma, Gulki Joshi, Prasad Jawade and Raksha Shetty, among others. Directed by actor Ganesh Yadav, the Zee Theatre production is set in a newly independent India. Aslam Parvez had adapted the script in Hindi from the original written in Marathi by the late Prabhakar Laxman Mayekar.