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Nandish Sandhu, Adaa Khan going for episodics

Nandish Sandhu strayed from his chocolate boy image when he played a cop in Encounter while Adaa Khan broke free from her soap opera monotony and played a gang-rape victim Yeh Hai Aashiqui. Whether they're honing their skills between breaks or padding their resume, episodics - shows that have a different story every episode - are the rage among TV actors. We spoke to some actors to find out what the big deal is, and why episodics are drawing the small screen's best by the hoards.

EXPLORING NEW ROLES Some soap opera actors are not content with playing the same role year after year, instead, they look to widen their horizons and play different characters. Actor Nandish Sandhu, who had acted in an episodic in Encounter, before he returned to his daily soap routine with Beintehaa, says, "I loved doing Encounter, where I played the role of a cop. When you are doing a daily soap, you get to do the same character for two-three years. Sometimes, it gets monotonous for actors. There are limitations as an actor that you face while doing a daily soap. With episodics, you get the liberty of playing the kind of characters you want. There is more scope for learning and growing as an actor." Rishina Kandhari, who has been a part of several episodics in Crime Patrol, agrees, saying, "When we are shooting for daily soaps, we do one character for years and years, but in case of episodics, we get to do different characters for different story ines. We do episodics when our daily soaps are not on the air. Otherwise, we are so busy in our daily soap shoots that we don't get time to be a part of episodics. Such shows pay a decent amount, and require fewer hours of filming, while daily soaps pay a good amount after we have shot footage for only 25 days."

EPISODICS ARE SMALL SCREEN'S 'FILMS' For some actors, it's not the role, but the technology and big screen feel that draws them towards episodics. The camera techniques used in episodics are much better than daily soaps as Neil Bhatt explains, "Episodics are like a film concept on TV. They are like niche cinema, and they are even shot with different cameras, better than a daily soap. In a daily soap, actors have a lot of time to get into the skin of the character, but with episodics, since they are on a tight schedule, they get very little time to understand their character. Also, the characters in episodics are easier to relate to and more realistic."

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