Simone Singh makes a comeback on small screen

New Delhi: After a gap of nine years, actress Simone Singh is all set to make a comeback on daily soap with thriller-drama `Ek Hasina Thi` . The 39-year-old `Heena` actress will be playing a role of a Kolkata-based powerful businesswoman and a mother in the TV serial. `I took a break because television suddenly became daily television where shootings would go on for months or so without any gap, so it becomes difficult to give time to your family,`. On Star Plus` new show, Simone, who is known for playing girl-next-door roles, will be portraying a negative role for the first time. It is a unique character as Sakshi is on one hand strong-headed and powerful business woman whom no one challenges and on the other hand she is a doting mother. Sakshi doesn`t have no in her dictionary, people do as and what she wants. They are puppets in her hand,` she said. Simone has again teamed up with her `Kasshish` co-star Ayub Khan for the show and the actress said she finds him an amazing co-actor. "He is like a big brother on the sets, a very warm and helpful person. It was wonderful working with him after so many years," she said. Set in Kolkata, `Ek Hasina Thi` will chronicle the story of a woman named Durga (played by Sanjeeda Sheikh) seeking justice for a crime committed in the past. `The vital points of the plot is that it is Durga`s story of seeking justice when society and law failed her and the clash between Durga and Sakshi and what comes out of it,` Simone said. The show will be aired from April 14.