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Sick Romit puts in extra hours
The strike in Bollywood has been especially hard for Maayka's Jeet, given that the actor has been unwell.
The lifting of the strike on Saturday has meant that TV serials are putting in extra hours to make up for the loss of four days' work and for unwell Romit Raj this means pain.
Romit has fever since Sunday but says he still must shoot. "I've fever since yesterday but can't even take rest. Maayka is a daily so instead I've to shoot for a more hours now because of the pending work, all I can do is sleep in between the breaks" said a very weary sounding Romit. He plays one of the leads in Zee TV's Maayka, and understands that the serial's scripts almost always need him to be around.
In addition to his regular work on Maayka, Romit says he also has to perform for a Diwali sequence for Ekta Kapoor's company Balaji Telefilms. This is something that he would have done in his spare time but the strike last week by Bollywood's assistants and junior staff for better pay brought all work to a halt.
"The strike's put an additional three days' pressure and to overcome this, we are having a cut-to-cut shoot so there's no time to rest", says Romit. A cut-to-cut is where the serial is shot and sent off immediately to the channel without an hour's break - and without time to properly add value in post-production.
Romit and Shilpa Shinde will be performing on songs for Diwali. "We are performing on two songs… one is 'freaky freaky' from Kismet Konnection and the other one is 'Teri orr' from Sing is King," says Romit, "I'll be shooting for the first one today at 7 pm and for the other one on the 9th". The dancing he says he prefers to the acting: "I've
performed earlier too in award functions so it's not a problem," he said, "and in any case I'm very excited to be performing for Balaji."
These special episodes will be telecasted on STAR Plus at 10 pm between 12th-25th October.
The strike in Bollywood has been especially hard for Maayka's Jeet, given that the actor has been unwell.
The lifting of the strike on Saturday has meant that TV serials are putting in extra hours to make up for the loss of four days' work and for unwell Romit Raj this means pain.
Romit has fever since Sunday but says he still must shoot. "I've fever since yesterday but can't even take rest. Maayka is a daily so instead I've to shoot for a more hours now because of the pending work, all I can do is sleep in between the breaks" said a very weary sounding Romit. He plays one of the leads in Zee TV's Maayka, and understands that the serial's scripts almost always need him to be around.
In addition to his regular work on Maayka, Romit says he also has to perform for a Diwali sequence for Ekta Kapoor's company Balaji Telefilms. This is something that he would have done in his spare time but the strike last week by Bollywood's assistants and junior staff for better pay brought all work to a halt.
"The strike's put an additional three days' pressure and to overcome this, we are having a cut-to-cut shoot so there's no time to rest", says Romit. A cut-to-cut is where the serial is shot and sent off immediately to the channel without an hour's break - and without time to properly add value in post-production.
Romit and Shilpa Shinde will be performing on songs for Diwali. "We are performing on two songs… one is 'freaky freaky' from Kismet Konnection and the other one is 'Teri orr' from Sing is King," says Romit, "I'll be shooting for the first one today at 7 pm and for the other one on the 9th". The dancing he says he prefers to the acting: "I've
performed earlier too in award functions so it's not a problem," he said, "and in any case I'm very excited to be performing for Balaji."
These special episodes will be telecasted on STAR Plus at 10 pm between 12th-25th October.
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