Nimrat Kaur

It has been a long wait for Nimrat Kaur, who turned down several offers to step into the role of Shikha Sharma in The Test Case. Ekta Kapoor's coveted army drama, which premiered last April, only to go off air after a single episode, returned to the digital platform, Alt Balaji, on January 26. Understandably, Kaur describes the long and much-publicised hiatus as one that was "nerve-wracking". "I had given up several offers to play this role, but the long hiatus was unberable. People on social media abused me for making them wait. But, I was sailing in the same boat. It tested my patience. But I'm glad the show has released."