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#31

On a wedding shot

Women have no say in choosing their partner in marriage. Allegedly, that's the norm. Here's a jolt — they do! Incidentally, at gunpoint

NIMISHA TIWARI Times News Network

Fathom this: Samman, an educated guy from Mumbai visits a friend in Bihar at a wedding. There, he meets Kakul, a pretty daughter from a politico-business magnate from Patna and charms her with his flirtatious ways. So far, so good. But soon realises that he is a consenting, yet mute spectator, at his own wedding with Kakul… at gunpoint!
Bizarre, yet true! This phenomenon of 'marriage at gunpoint' has found its roots many years ago in northern Bihar, which originated in retaliation to the dowry system. Often called the pakarva bibah (marriage by abduction) in the rustic lingo, over the past two decades, this system has become an accepted norm, rather ruthlessly though.
Ajai Sinha, director of Ghar… ek sapnaa, the forthcoming soap on SaharaOne Television which promises to capture this phenomenon with a punch, says, "Since it's an unknown ritual, I decided to delve into it. What's further interesting is that the bride comes to her husband's house thinking it's 'love' that has brought them together, oblivious of the forced route."
Actor Manoj Bajpai who hails from Bihar, says, "An increasing number of multiplexes are no sign of progress. I would believe that the society has truly evolved if it would get rid of the dowry system. 16 years ago, during my Delhi University days, my friend faced the brunt of this reality. He could not visit his parents (in Bihar) for four years because of the fear of being abducted and forced into marriage. His parents just asked him to stay put there. Honestly, I feel life is worse for a woman in this case since a forced marriage is a soul torturing process."
Bengali actor, Sayantani Ghosh, the female lead of Kakul, affirms that this concept was a revelation to her. Gung-ho about acting in a real life saga, she says, "My role has many an emotion. When I realise the truth, I instinctively express — 'Kaash mere saath aisa na hota', which is also the punch of the story."
In this scenario, it is indeed ironical that a woman 'chooses' her husband, but real happiness is a chanced moment… Premiering tonight, watch the rigmarole of a happy-yet-not-satisfying wedded life in an urban set-up in Ghar…ek sapnaa at 10 pm. Catch this soap Monday-Friday on SaharaOne Television.

IN BLISS? Samman and Kakul tie the knot

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#32

A kisstory!

Engrossed in a romantic scene, a cameraman of Ghar Ek Sapna forgets to monitor the camera, which goes off track and is damaged

The scene that caused the mini uproar: Ujjwal Rana and Sayantani aka Kakul

A kissing scene cost the production house of Ghar Ek Sapna, a loss of Rs 1 lakh. It so happened that the cameraman got distracted reeling the sequence and forgot to monitor the camera, which fell off the track and was damaged.

According to director Ajai Sinha, "We were shooting on a terrace at around 3 am. It was a romantic sequence between Ujjwal Rana and Sayantani aka Kakul with firecrackers bursting in the background. There was a problem managing the sequence because during the intense moments the crackers were supposed to light up the whole scene. So, we installed two cameras — one electronically-operated and another from a fixed block. One person monitored the electronically-operated camera for the scene. But, the scene proved to be a curse. The person monitoring the camera was so immersed in the actors getting cosy that he forgot to keep an eye on the camera. The camera went off track and fell off the terrace. The camera got damaged in the process, costing us more than one lakh rupees."

* I think the person monitoring the camera got aroused on seeing Ujjwal trying to kiss Sayantani in the scene — Ajai Sinha

So, did he get sacked? "I think the person monitoring the camera got aroused on seeing Ujjwal trying to kiss Sayantani in the scene. I got miffed initially and wanted to slap the guy right away. But the other unit members intervened and stopped me. On second thoughts, I realised that even he is a human being and can err. But, the damage had already been done," he added.

Is the small screen being inundated by too many romantic-cum-erotic scenes? "Yes, that's true. But, this is the need of the script and today's viewers too. But after this incident, I will have to be careful," he laughed.

The actress in question, Sayantani Ghosh aka Kakul, said, "I know our director got peeved by the incident. The scene was quite beautifully shot and I think the guy just got carried away."

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Posted: 18 years ago

#33

Hot wheels!

Swift and successful: Sayantani with her new car

Actress Sayantani Ghosh aka Kakul of Ghar Ek Sapna is very excited after gifting herself a new car recently.

Sayantani says, "I have been planning to buy a car for so long, but things were not materialising. Moreover, I used to commute by auto-rickshaw and taxis which is a big hassle and also unsafe. But I desperately needed my own car. I was also wondering which car to buy and I ultimately settled for a small car in a congested city like Mumbai. I initially wanted to buy a big car; but I am staying alone in Mumbai and it makes no sense if I get a big car."

Sayantani also went to her neighbourhood temple to perform a puja for her car. "I wanted to go to Siddhivinayak; but did not have enough time as I am busy shooting. So, I went to the nearby temple instead," she adds.

So, who was the lucky person to accompany her on her first drive? Sayantani says, "Unfortunately, I am single and have nobody to accompany me on the drive. I had to be happy with myself only."

The actress is a music buff has installed a hi-tech music system in the car. "As I am the one who will be driving, I need music that will take my mind off the traffic," she says.

Sayantani is also looking forward to celebrating New Year with her family. "My family is coming down from Kolkata. I will be taking a two day break and will be celebrating the occasion with my family," she adds.

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#34

Slow local...

A still from Ghar Ek Sapna

Besides being forced to stay in a spooky palace, the cast and crew of Ghar Ek Sapna are going through a tough time shooting in Pipla, Gujarat. When contacted, director Ajai Sinha said, "While going to Pipla, we took around 150 junior artistes to shoot the wedding sequence. But, while shooting the sequence, we realised that we were falling short of people. So, we decided to hire locals. But then the junior artistes created a big ruckus and shooting came to a standstill. Finally, we had to call more people from Mumbai, which cost both our time and money."

Ajay added, "The locals assured us of big generators for the shoot. So, we did not take the pain of taking generators from Mumbai. But, while shooting, we realised that the generators were not working."

The production house also had trouble with fire crackers required for the scene. Ajay said, "We had ordered crackers worth Rs 2 lakh from Ahmedabad that just wouldn't burn. We were compelled to order more crackers from Mumbai, which cost us a few more lakhs."

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#35

Honeymoon Travels

Ghar Ek Sapna's director zips off for his honeymoon, forgetting to inform the unit about his plans

Ranjib Mazumder

The shooting of Ghar Ek Sapna came to an abrupt halt recently as the episode director Jaladh Sharma took off for an untimely honeymoon. The joy of tying the knot seems to have overwhelmed him to such an extent that informing his crew about the honeymoon seemed to have slipped out of his list of priorities.

Jaladh Sharma with wife Poonam

According to a source in the production house, "While shooting for Ghar Ek Sapna, Jaladh suddenly decided to get married. He got married in Ulhasnagar and the whole team was present for the ceremony. But, after the marriage, Jaladh wanted to go for his honeymoon. As he is one of the important episode directors, he was not permitted to go. Jaladh went to Goa without informing us. Naturally, the shoot was stalled for a few days and the producers have suffered a big loss because of Jaladh. The producer Ajai Sinha is very angry with Jaladh's irresponsible behaviour."

Ajai said, "When our episode director Jaladh wanted to get married, we were very happy and gave him a few days' leave for his wedding. In fact, the whole unit attended his wedding. Then he wanted to go for his honeymoon. We could not let him go because we had to shoot to create an episode bank. But Jaladh did not come for a few days. We have three directors, and everyone has to complete their share of scenes; otherwise the show lacks continuity and the right treatment. We could not shoot Jaladh's share of scenes and the dates of the actors were wasted. We have suffered loss worth a few lakhs of rupees because of this."

Is Ajai angry with Jaladh? "I was angry initially and warned him that the losses would be cut from his payment. He was a little taken aback. But I also forgave him, as everyone wants to cherish their honeymoon memories for a lifetime. I don't want to turn his rosy memories into a nightmare. He might have forgotten about his work while having fun with his wife," Ajai replied.

The lead actress of Ghar…, Sayantani Ghosh aka Kakul said, "We all had a great fun at Jaladh's marriage. The shooting was definitely cancelled for a few days; but I don't know what the reason was. We don't interfere with production details."

Jaladh Sharma was not available for comment.

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Posted: 18 years ago

#36

Bihari Lingo ... A Fashion

Bihari Boli mast hai bhai

Hindi or Bihari??? LE BALAIYA, ee ka hua? Kahe albalaye huye hain? Etna narbhasane se kuchchho nahin hoga (Omigosh, what's this? Why are you so flustered? Such nervousness won't help matters.) Ek mukka muh pe dhishoom se maar denge, kapaar phat jayega… The inveterate linguist may scream at such an apparent contamination ofHindi language but the average Bihari simply loves to throw all narrowparameters of grammar to the winds. For them, the funnier they are, the better their adaptability is into their inimitable lingua franca.
Over the years, Biharis have invented a language, which has an unmistakable stamp of their own. In recent times, its popularity has traveled far and wide beyond the borders of the State and many screen heroes,including Amitabh Bachchan, have mouthed Bihari liches with characteristic elan -a far cry from the days when it was thought to be an infra dig of sorts for anybody other than country bumpkins and unscrupulous politicians to perpetrate such "verbal atrocities".
All that, however, is passe now. Bihari Boli is sweeter than honey now.Not only in Bollywood but also on the campuses of prestigious universities and IITs across the country. Words like harbaraye, garbaraye, bargalaye, thartharaye and dhanmanaye which would have sounded Greek to outsiders earlier are being used with gay abandon by the hep youngsters there. Sobriquets laced with double entendres like "garda", bawaal and dhuan denoting the varying degree of a girl's beauty and sex appeal can be heard not only in Patna University colleges but also far away Fergusson College in Pune. Moreover, a-go, dugo, teengo and chaartho type of numerology which was amatter of disdain not long ago is being accepted even by the stiffupper-lips without any qualms. So, notes sarka do (pass on thenotes)","batti buta do (put out the lights)", Principal ko harka do(bamboozle the principal),burbak kahin ka (you stupid fellow!), hum to biga gaye(I was thrown out) and Hum to huan thebe kiye the (I was very much there) are some of the expressions which have conveniently made their way into the otherwise prim-and-propah St Stephens, New Delhi. Similarly, coinages like dhakiyaye (shoved), mukiyaye (punched),latiyaye(kicked) and matiyaye(forget it) are the current rage. Hiyan (here), huan (there), kahe (why),enne(this way) and onne (that way) are some of other typical words, which are spoken rather nonchalantly by so-called educated lot in the State. One, therefore, does not get surprised if one hears tanikke for little, nimman for good, anhar for darkness and ejot for lights. For them, colloquial language need not be
tied to any narrow rules. E topicwa par maatha khapane se kuchchho nahi hoga (nothing is to come out of this topic), as one wit commented. Among many characteristics of this language are its terms fendearment. Seldom does one hear people on the streets calling each other by their real names. Raju automatically becomes Rajua, Pappu turns into Pappua,Rajesh into Rajeshwa and Shatrughna at best Satrohna.
This potpourri of all Bihari dialects has also coined new terms forhuman anatomy which would baffle an FRCP if he were to land here straight from Edinburgh. Here gor means legs, moori is substitute to head, ongree is equivalent to finger, thor denotes lips and kapar is synonymous with forehead.
This language also has more onomatopoeic words than probably anyother. Words like tapak se, gapak se, and japak se can be understood by Listening to their phonetical sounds. No longer is Bihari language associated with a few howlers like eskool (school)", teeshan (station) and singal (signal) only. There are certain words which carry the precise meaning but which cannot be properly substituted by any word in other languages. Machchar bhambhor liya is probably is one such example. Bhambhorna is a super word, which means the collective assault of mosquitoes to "bhambhor" you. But then, one might argue, where else do you find so many mosquitoes to bhambhor you.
Right from Laloo Prasad Yadav, who emerges as the best speaker of his ghar ki boli to Shekhar Suman, everybody loves to flaunt his native command of the language. Earlier, Biharis were notorious for atrocious gender sense and shoddy pronunciation. Now, the same traits have become the tour de force of their conversation. The time has certainly come to raise ekadhgo (one or two) toast to the longevity of the Bihari language. "Teengo" cheers to that................

by Giridhar Jha, Patna edition of Hindustan Times, 2000.
Mr Jha is at present News Editor, Hindustan Times, Patna and can be contacted at giridharjha@gmail.com.

original link:http://coolbihari.blogspot.com/2005_07_01_archive.html

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#37

Kavita plays 'woh'

After Hours Correspondent
Monday, December 04, 2006 23:15 IST
The actor essays the 'other woman' in Ajai Sinha's 'Ghar—Ek Sapna'

Ajai Sinha's new offering 'Ghar -- Ek Sapna' (Sahara One), that traces the travails of a Bihari girl married forcibly to a Mumbai boy, will have a twist in its tale, a week after it launches this month.

True to the complex Sinha genre, the story has the boy being committed to another girl back in Mumbai, even as he returns with his new bride from Bihar.

The story will focus on the new bride's trials as she is not accepted by her in-laws.

It will also tell the story of the girlfriend, who has observed 'karva chauths' for the boy thus far, and considers herself as a part of his family.

The girlfriend, played by Kavita Kaushik, will be shell-shocked to learn that her beau has returned to the city with a wife in tow.

Ajai Sinha has been known for his sensitive portrayals of tangled human relationships.

In 'Hasratein', he unravelled the complexities of an extra marital relationship, while 'Astitva', dwelt on marital conflicts and the couple's efforts to detangle them.

His show 'Justuju' also brought out the pain two sisters loving the same man

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Twists and turns - Khakuls speaks about GES

Kajari Bhattacharya, The Statesman, 2007-02-10

Shayantani Ghoshal looks resplendent in a saree that glitters like the night sky in an unpolluted small town. The straight, shiny black hair, perfectly arched brows and smoky, kohl-lined eyes look out of place even against the backdrop of one of Kolkata's most prestigious hotels. In fact Shayantani looks like she's come straight off the sets of a K soap. Although the name of the soap she stars in does not start with the auspicious "K", the character she plays does. In SaharaOne's new soap Ghar... Ek Sapna, Kakul, the main female lead, is played by Shayantani.

This petite damsel's first television show was Kumkum, in which she played Kumkum's daughter-in-law after the show made a 20- (or was it 30- or 40-) year leap.
"I've only been in Mumbai for the last few months. Landing a role in Kumkum was not a planned move at all. I was doing movies in Kolkata. The Kumkum people offered me a role and in March 2006, I moved to Mumbai. It'd different there, but it's good," says Shayantani, who has studied at St Teresa's, Khidderpore and Madevi Birla before doing her graduation from Bhowanipore College.

In Ghar Ek... Sapna, Shayantani plays Kakul, who is an over-protected daughter of a man who is a "big magnet" in Bihar. The story begins with an incident that is a common phenomenon in Bihar, ladka pakar shaadi (abduct a bridegroom).

Samman is a typical Mumbai yuppie who comes to Bihar to attend a wedding, where he flirts with the innocent Kakul. She takes his attentions to heart and falls in love with him. When her jijaji (brother-in-law) finds out, all hell breaks loose. Samman is forced to marry Kakul at gunpoint, although Kakul's not even aware of this (hmm… wonder how that happened).

Shayantani says, "My character is very simple and trusting. She gets married and comes to Mumbai to her in-laws' house, blissfully unaware of all that's been going on. And then the problems begin for her."

What follows is a juicy potboiler that soap addicts will love to sink their teeth into. Kakul's father-in-law starts to have business trouble because of the marriage of Kakul and Samman. How so, you ask? Well, Samman was supposed to marry his father's business partner's daughter, which would have furthered business profits for the family. Get the picture? There's more woe in store for the newly wed bride. Samman's elder sister is in her thirties. And boy, is she mad at Kakul too. She was supposed to get married to a cousin of Samman's bride-who-never-was and Kakul's marriage to Samman spoils her plans of conjugal bliss too. Says Shayantani, "Everyone in the family is very unhappy with Kakul, but she consoles herself with the thought that at least her husband loves her. And then, realisation dawns that there's another woman in the picture."

For Shayantani, playing a role like this one is not difficult. "I'm an actor. These are the kinds of roles that are available. That's not me."
She goes on to relate that even though the show's on television, it has the feel of a big budget Bollywood film. "The show has been given a movie feel. In the first three to four episodes, there were songs, just like in a Hindi film."
So does she have her eyes set on tinsel town? "I do plan to do movies, but Hindi is a new language for me. It takes time..." trails off the lovely damsel.

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'Television can be quite an insecure profession'

Darshan Dave might be a newcomer but he says that wants to play only the lead

RESHMA S KULKARNI

Darshan Dave can be called the perfect personification of the saying — 'Life is what happens to us when we are busy planning other things!' As Darshan narrates his journey into the world of glitz and glamour, one cannot help but reaffirm one's faith in words like destiny and fate.
Darshan says, "I did not even care to wait for my graduation results to be declared before I came to Mumbai from Rajasthan to enrol into St Xavier's College for a post-graduation degree in Mass Communications. They allowed me to enrol; it must be because I had a good array of work in music composing, lyricwriting etc even at that age."
Darshan's specialisation in film direction landed him quite a few great assignments "But even as I was progressing through the ranks in direction, my heart lay in acting. I started doing tele-serials with people like Ajai Sinha and Ravi Chopra. I started getting offers for composing too. That is how I started juggling a couple of activities together. I know this may sound whiny but despite all this, I still missed acting sorely. I had realised that television can be quite an insecure profession if you are not the main lead," confesses Darshan as he continues "One fine day, I switched tracks and made my debut in modelling!" Later he received a call from none he legendary Dev Anand! "I was jolted out of my seat when I got this call from Dev saab. That is how I got to make my film-music composition debut through Dev saab's film Mr Prime Minister," reminisces Darshan.
His next big break came when Ajai Sinha cast him as the main lead in his then-upcoming tele-project called Ghar Ek Sapna. "I was not too kicked about taking up a television project but only since it was Ajaiji, I went for the meeting. To my dismay, he told me that I was better suited for the role of Sujeet, the second lead rather than the main lead Samman. I was almost going to refuse the project, but Ajaiji managed to convince me and I accepted Sujeet. However, for the first 10 days, I went for the shoot with a sour face, readying to find some excuse and drop out," laughs Darshan, who admits that he was amazed with the kind of instant response the character got when it came on air. "I am pretty happy with Sujeet but I would definitely like to play lead roles henceforth," says Darshan who has recently finished his debut film. Apart from that he has also finished composing music for a set of three albums for his mother, who's a classical singer. Talking about his future plans, Darshan says that he has stopped planning and would like to go with the flow.

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/

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What's Harsh doing with eight women?

Harsh Chhaya is having a gala time on the sets of Ghar Ek Sapna of Sahara in which he plays the role of Rishabh. Apparently, never has he enjoyed shooting for any show as much as this one. Reason? The eight beautiful and charming women who are a part of his star cast. In spite of this show being his fifth with Ajay Sinha, it is turning out to be the most exciting and enjoyable. "The show includes a host of eight beautiful women from the age of eighteen to seventy and what better, than an opportunity to work with them all at the same time! It is fun, flirtous, refreshing, and enlightening depending with whom you interact." says a gleaming Harsh. Well, looks like it's not just girls who wanna have fun!

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/

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