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D eeya and Tony Singh, the producers of Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin, Jab
Love Hua and Left Right Left are ready with their new show Jeeten Hain
Jiske Liye.
Starting next week on Sony, the show is based on a Spanish
tele-novella. "We have taken just the essence of the story and
narrated it the way we understand it," she says." The show marks the
return of Renuka Shahane to television after five years. She features
as Anjali, an orphan but a strong woman. Wronged by the family she's
married into, circumstances separate her from her children, with whom
she reunites after 20 years.
Says Singh, "A story on a mother may be the most clichd thing to do,
but the best way to tell it is from the heart. Jeete does n't start as
a teenybopper love story or a romance gone wrong. It's about what the
woman, a mother has gone through. For me to make a show, there has to
be something special about it. Anjali makes me feel special." Isn't
Jeete more like a family drama? "It's all about how you treat it. A
love story can be soft and sweet, harsh, a thriller, mushy or maybe
with some black humour. I can't define the take on our show as yet.
The fun is the challenge because Jeete is not like Jassi or Jab Love
Hua or LRL,"Singh remarks.
On casting Shahane, she says, "Renuka embodies everything I look for
in a mother. I may be a working woman but I live for my family, my
children and almost every mother does that. Renuka also has a sense of
humour, She's mature and positive.
"It was difficult to persuade her to do it possibly because even she
was leaving her young children behind to be part of our madness but
somewhere, I guess she must have realised it was worth her while. We
will make sure of that." In terms of ratings, Jab Love Hua is not
faring a well as Kasamh Se or a Saat Phere? "I look at it this way.
Our show is an aberration, which is still around. I don't have a
heroine like others do. Unlike producers who sweep ratings, we sweep
hearts. I am not on test anymore. I have nothing to prove to anybody,"
she says.
Recently, Left Right Left star Rajeev Khandelwal expressed his
dissatisfaction over the script. "I am not here to satisfy anybody. As
a maker, I also experience dissatisfaction sometimes.
Self-satisfaction is an esoteric term. I enjoyed working with him
because he is hard working. But he can't complain that our script is
bad, given the amount of quality writing we do," Singh says.
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