Is Ambar-Dhara a copy?

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Ambar Dhara (TOI Photo)

But the soap's creative director Siddharth Tiwari is very clear about the show's inspiration.




The new daily AmbarDhara about the life and tears of conjoined twins seems to have direct echoes in the play Laali-Leela presented by Jaya Bachchan three years ago. But the soap's creative director Siddharth Tiwari is very clear about the show's inspiration.

Me and my creative partner Vikas Seth hadn't even heard of Laali-Leela when we decided to make AmbarDhara. We went to see the play after we wrote the soap. We did extensive research on conjoined twins and studied several cases. Our main source of inspiration were these Canadian twins who've lived together all their lives.

One plays the guitar, the other sings, just like Ambar and Dhara. Also, let me add Siamese twins on screen date back to 1951 when Daisy and Violet Hilton starred in Chained For Life.
So who are the actresses playing Ambar and Dhara and where did they come from? We've decided to keep their real identity a secret. As far as we're concerned they're Ambar and Dhara, and that's how we want the audience to see them. We auditioned a large number of girls without telling them what they've to play.

The one thought on people's minds is how conjoined twin can look so different from each other. Siddharth has an answer to that: We decided not to cast identical twins. It would've become very boring for viewers to watch the same face twice over in almost every frame, and also hard to tell them apart.

What if one of the girls playing the conjoined twins decides to walk out of the show? Says Siddharth, Firstly the two girls chosen to play Ambar and Dhara have been together shooting. They're like real-life sisters and have very little contact with the world outside the serial. Secondly both the girls are under contract. They can leave at their own risk.
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