TTS-IN CONVO WITH RAGHUVIR SHEKHAWAT--UPDATED

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1) How do you approach dialogue writing as a craft? Was there someone or something that inspired you to get into writing?

Little larger than life size characters like in MEIEJ it is important to write something which a wife does not usually hear her husband mouthing and there takes birth "aahaan and biwi"

2) Each TV series is a journey in and of itself. Give us a small insight on your journey with MEIEJ

Madhubala- I am not writing from the beginning. Saurabh (MB PRODUCER) and I know each other since long and as I was writing this other show then and was very tied up, he dint take me for MB initially. So whenever we used to meet, I always taunted him big time that he dint take me for MB (THE INITIAL TRPS WERE ALSO NOT VERY ENCOURAGING) so I got all the more opportunities to needle him and then I joined and as they say rest is geography.

3) After writing some quirky and quick-witted dialogues for RK…bold, in your face attitude dialogues for Madhu now MBEIEJ will see you penning lines for a gangster. How challenging is to write dialogues for 3 distinctly different yet equally strong characters, how do you manage to keep it fresh and appealing to the audience?

Key is to think like them (not act as I would be first thrown out of my house and put behind bars) once you start doing that , the characters start appearing in front of you rather…I start appearing where the characters are, visualize myself at the place of action..see them..and then write to them. As I have mentioned earlier …some factors have to be kept in mind while penning them. Fresh, well thanks for the compliment doing that is a conscious and difficult part..ganda hai per dhandha hai yeh…

4) what or who is the life of madhubala-meiej? Is it RK, is it Madhu, is it RK and Madhu, or altogether something else?

I face this question often. The truth is everybody is equally important. So fans of either parties. I respect each other (and me too lol) and love the show in totality. I for one treat all the actors on the same page while writing. Because I love the show more than any actor..as I know for sure a show makes stars vice versa is not true.

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