It's not as if these two are "against" eachother, they just have their labelled differences. Now, who do you think is right and why ? The channel, or the actors ? Such veteran actors such as Sudhir Pandey and Nandita haven't experienced such things with any other channel or show..yet they thought they had to do something when they saw the way the production house and the whole channel itself was going crazy. Also actors such as Neha Bamb, Aarti Singh, Urmila Kanitkar, Vineet Raina and Vikrant Rai had to take a stand. Some people were stronger than others, yet they all fought, because what was happening [according to article] was not right. Who do you agree with ? THE CHANNEL itself, or THE ACTORS.
Hearing the story first-hand, I will say that I agree with all the actors who apparently got "blacklisted"..how sad for the channel. If SO MANY ACTORS feel it's WRONG, than how could the channel be right. You can't get rid of the main characters of the show. If ALL of them are having dificulties rather it be being treated like a slave, or working too much, or re-doing scenes or just getting damn complains well than..there must be SOMETHING wrong with the channel. In my opinion, I can say that the channel should NOT interfere..if the production house is making the serial, okk..their wasting too much money, than ok tell them to use less etc, but letting them go, bringing in new people who don't treat all the actors as they should be treated, well that's not fair. These people who are actors, are people..not animals..they except to be treated like people..they have their RIGHTS being actors.
And what's this THREATENING CALL ? Isn't this a little UNPROFFESIONAL. It's sick.."If you don't show up, than you are going to be BLACKLISTED" As Vikrant Rai said in the article : Are all the actors who play Brij, Mohini, Raaji, Soni, Mahi, Jeet and Veer are they all 'criminals.' Is fighting for RIGHTS, an act of a criminal(s) ? Trust me, he's very furious as the article stated, yeh koi achi baat nahin hai. It's rude and un-professional. It's horrible. I guess, being the son of a military officer rubs off.
Also, as Sudhir Pandey-ji said that he has never experienced this sort of thing from any other channel, which is very sad coming from a senior. The channel is RETARDED. The actors r all right. they keep changing the story, the producer, theactors hve been treated like SLAVES. they should all get their right as actors, they r nt idiots. thank god for them, especially a few who stood strong to those who were weak. and shame on the people who backed out..and the stupid channel. *An old post of mine*
Articles :
*Posted by Roshni*
'Maayka' mayhem continues
The cast of the show has approached CINTAA after being threatened by the channel that they would be blacklisted
The unrest on the sets of 'Maayka' (Zee) has only aggravated. After the channel expressed that it was considering blacklisting the actors for resisting the change in the production house (from Classic Productions to Creative Eye), actors have approached the Cine and TV Artistes Association (CINTAA) for intervention.
Actor Sudhir Pandey (plays Brij Malhotra) says, "Yes, I have approached CINTAA. I have been in this industry for long but have never witnessed such behaviour from any channel. I am neither against the channel nor am I speaking on behalf of Classic Productions. I am only speaking in support of them."
Sudhir continues, "Everyone has the right to choose whom to work with. So do we. My contract was with Classic Productions. How can anyone force me to enter into a contract with another production house in its place?"
Vikrant Rai, who plays Jeet in the serial, was furious at this threat. He says, "How can they use the word 'blacklist'? Have we committed a crime ? When we had gone to the channel to seek their intervention, we were told that we were not supposed to come there." He adds, "The channel feels that we are against them, which is not the fact. We are just against their decision. Why is Classic Productions being replaced when it was not their mistake at all? Aren't channels supposed to be just a platform for serial makers who want to air shows?"
Ashish Kaul, senior vice-president, Zee Enterprises Ltd, on his part says, "Let the actors think what they want to. We are aware of what we are doing. To state the fact, senior actors and representatives of the production house had been called for a meeting with senior officials at Zee and they were given a fair chance to be heard."
Ashish had earlier said that the channel had replaced the production house because they found 'the production quality and creative aspects' of Classic Productions unsatisfactory.
*Posted by I_Fida* : Popcorn news.
they showed the whole starcast of maayka in a press meet. they all were against the channels decision of changing production house. all were very upsert with channel zee. they were saying that channel is playing politics with the production and starcast of maayka. actress nandita puri who is playing the role of mohini said that she was very upset when she received a threatening call by cahnnel for black list. neha bamb said, whatever they told us but she is not affected by all this. arti singh said two or three persons of the channel created these problems and played politics against them. they all were together and was totaly against the chaanel. on the other hand an official of channel said that they have right to take action against prodution house and stars.
*Posted by Roshni*
| (l-r) Neha Bamb, Sudhir Pandey, Nandita Puri, Urmila Kanitkar and Aarti Singh |
Zee is all set to blacklist nine actors of the popular daily Maayka and the production house (Classic Productions) very soon. Recently Zee TV sacked the production house of Maayka, Classic Films, and handed over the show to Creative Eye. Soon after, the actors and the production house called for a press conference to protest against the channel's decision.
The actors who have been blacklisted include Sudhir Pandey, Neha Bamb, Nandita Puri, Arti Singh, Pankaj Berry, Vinit Raina, Mohini Sharma, Urmila Kanitkar and Vikrant.
Reportedly the actors will be sued to the tune of crores of rupees each for defaming the channel and its executives. Ashish Kaul, executive VP, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd, confirmed that they were thinking of taking action against the actors and the production house. He said, "We are thinking on those lines. The production house and the actors had called for a press conference defaming the executives. This was simply uncalled for. The production house should not have used the artistes to speak against the channel. We have decided that the artistes who create problems for the new production house will surely be blacklisted. We will also blacklist the production house across the entertainment industry and take the case to the Indian Broadcasting Federation. We can't take this defamation of a channel lying down. We on our part have done things according to the contract and have the authority to change the production house. What ever has happened has been very unfortunate."
Says Nandita Puri aka Moni in support of the production house and the actors, "We have been working for Maayka since day one and the serial had taken off on a good note. The TRPs were progressively going up and the production house took good care of us. Initially the Executive Producers from the channel put a lot of pressure and wanted to change the director, re-shoot the scenes and complained endlessly. All this affected our productivity. The production house and the Executive Producers had a lot of problems and this internal politics was getting to us. So all of us actors made a request to the channel in support of the production house. The request did not help and the programming officer called up saying if the artistes did not co-operate they would simply blacklist us."
Another Article [forgot who posted it]
So based on all this info I put together, who do YOU think is right ? The actors? Or the channel ?
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