Kyunki Saas Kabhi Bahu Thi 2: Episode Discussion Thread #9 - Page 8

Originally posted by: EkPaheli

They cut costs where they can. Get big actors charging more money only when needed. Include scenes with extras and smaller actors. They hire actors who are new who come cheap. Keep on using the same sets, accessories, clothes, whatever they can between all their shows. That’s why you see a side character of X show wearing something a main character did in Y show a few months later. They need to make sure these costumes, accessories are preserved well too and so must get them washed and stored properly in clean areas that remain devoid of any pests etc.

Now they use green screen, AI as well. Previously they kept people in the same location for as long as possible because that meant cutting down expenses too. Multiple locations require multiple crews to shoot at the same time too. So even if you shoot at 2 different locations aka 2 different studios and those studios could be beside each other or opposite to each other but you need 2 sets of crews to shoot because you can’t expect your directors and cameramen to run between two different locations with equipment like lights, cameras, trolleys etc. Even if they’re shooting in different shifts, you end up paying 2 sets of people.

That’s why most studios have some standard sets that can be rented by any PH - Mandirs; hospitals and the likes. They use stock footage wherever necessary, get BDs too.

The actress who played Prajakta in S1 also wrote on Instagram in a post before Kyunki aired this time around how she would carry her own clothes and makeup for shoots before the channel increased their budget and they got clothes, accessories etc. courtesy of them and could build green rooms to store these as well. How Kyunki literally was the first show to ever get that as well on Indian TV. Tells you a lot because this was literally just 25 years ago.

I guess it’s marginally easier these days, with technology easing the process. A decade ago, it must have been a constant challenge, with the entire crew having to come together every single day just to make sure everything ran smoothly.

Ironically, shows from ten years earlier often had far more substance than what we see today.

Originally posted by: MJ_1009

i think the PH is based in umargum...

oh yes, they are registered in Mumbai, but for the historical series shooting, they use their facilities in Umbergaon.

Originally posted by: Nush_Rat

No no... I meant auntie - Ajab's mom. I love auntie for saying such a golden word. 🤣🤣🤣

Originally posted by: Ajab.Pehchan

Like who cares about this Baapji and his family?

Exactly !!!

Boring drama

Originally posted by: Zoya56

Ekta did blunder in casting for younger gen in kyonki. None of them are eye - pleasing whereas the same ekta took good looking and easy on eyes people like Namik ,eisha, kanika, sahil uppal in Nagin. Even Sideys and villains like Ravish in Nagin are good looking. Why so much discrepancy between two shows?

Originally posted by: missFiesty_69

oh yes, they are registered in Mumbai, but for the historical series shooting, they use their facilities in Umbergaon.

Originally posted by: Nehaha57

Exactly !!!

Boring drama

Originally posted by: FlauntPessimism

IIRC Gautam had some goons abduct Karan while he was going for wedding and then himself went and married Damini..

later those goons brought to Karan the newspaper cutting about Gautam Damini marriage.

Karan realises it's something wrong so tries to escape it was then that goons attack him with knife in his stomach. not sure if that was on order of Gautam or if they did that by themselves.

still Karan manages to escape and falls down at some distance, it was then that Priyanka (it wasn't revealed she was Mandira by then) sees him and takes him to hospital.

My point is it was a proper criminal act by Gautam, who just did that because Karan's mom had been the cause his wife and unborn child's death as you said.. How can that even be justified but this entire thing wasn't even discussed. Tulsi never even told Gautam that what he did was wrong...

Ansh was a proper criminal, hence he deserved a moksh, but every other child of Tulsi was forgiven for whatever s/he did , why should Pari be an exception, she is much better than Gautam

About Teesha thing you have perfect example now

Mitali only insults Hritik and yet she isn't eligible for him despite bearing him a child (I know earlier she did unpardonable things but those happened years back, and wasn't against Hritik) but when Hritik had insulted Munni that doesn't disqualify him for being suitable to Munni

From what I remember, Karan was attacked and nearly killed. I remember someone had attacked him in the stomach with a knife.

Damini’s parents particularly her father already intensely disliked Karan as he was an illegitimate child and disapproved of him for their daughter but had bend to her will when she was adamant she’d marry only Karan now that she has reconnected with him again after they made her leave Australia and settle in India just to get her away from him. They can’t force her a second time else she would kill herself. But on the day of their marriage Karan doesn’t show up as he’s bleeding and almost dies.

Gautam was her boss and invited to the wedding. He then starts talking ill about Karan and says he expected nothing better from a son of a woman like Mandira. He got her already distressed and pissed off parents even madder at Karan and by extension Damini. Then her mom and dad made a scene that Karan didn’t show up to humiliate them by abandoning her like this on her wedding day at her Mandap as an act of revenge tor rejecting him previously. An idea that Gautam himself planted in their head by speaking about how Mandira, his mom had trapped his dad Mihir nearly in marriage and wrecked his parents marriage.

Her dad then is like who will marry you now, Damini. How will I face the world, let me die… you know the drill.

Gautam then gallantly steps up like a noble soul who cannot watch others suffer. He offers to marry Damini in that very mandap and then her parents obviously are like you are such a great person and Damini is made to marry Gautam there and then.

Karan finds out about the marriage in the hospital. Because he wasn’t meant to die but suffer losing a loved one like Gautam was suffering from losing Teesha and their child.

No one ever called Gautam’s act wrong. Damini was asked to mend her way when she wanted revenge from Gautam and ruin him for doing what he did because now he was her husband and what was done was done. Her parents liked Gautam better than Karan, she was married into a *cough* decent, reputable family to a *double cough* nice man, so what more could she want?

Ansh was killed because what he did was not something they could brush aside and bury under a carpet and make it look rosy and shiny. Had he been patient with Nandini and actually proven to be a decent husband to her who could wait until she was willing to take their marriage ahead and consummate their relationship, and THEN been exposed; he would’ve been forgiven too.

His impatience and his monstrosity led to his death. Had he been patient and smarter, more cunning and less brash, even he would have gotten away with all that he did to separate Karan and Nandini. Karan would be expected to make peace with it because Nandini chose to move on and was now his younger brother’s wife. So he better find a new girl or suck it up and die single.

Mittali’s insults are mean because poor Hrithik almost killed himself. But Hrithik’s insults are inspirational because poor Munni became an IAS officer and achieved something greater in her life than just being another maid. So obviously there’s a difference. But the most important difference is that Mittali is taunting a Virani (even if she’s one herself too now and gave birth to another) while Munni was taunted by a Virani. In the immortal words of Shehnaz

Originally posted by: missFiesty_69

Oh I remember this, they did the same for Star Plus's Mahabharat (2013). So much extensive auditions, even the music was planned, they shot the whole series away from Mumbai, in Umargum iirc.

Yep.

Because they were investing that big an amount they actually gave a damn about everything and knew casting correctly was the dealbreaker of the show. It could make or break it. They lucked out with Saurabh, Shaheer and Pooja above all.

Originally posted by: missFiesty_69

I guess it’s marginally easier these days, with technology easing the process. A decade ago, it must have been a constant challenge, with the entire crew having to come together every single day just to make sure everything ran smoothly.

Ironically, shows from ten years earlier often had far more substance than what we see today.

10-15 years ago they were still trying. They cared because they knew originality meant something and they had to be able to get audience interested in their shows to even tune in for that first time let alone stick around from all the other options available. Their competition was another show on another channel irrespective of language and channel, a movie, news channels, sports channels etc. They knew they could still compete because their audience was limited and their rivals as well. It also helped the rivals were almost on the same level as they were back then too in terms of budget etc.

Now they know that they’re struggling merely to get noticed by audiences whose attention span has already drastically diminished and who have a wider variety of content available to them than they ever had before. They watch reels everywhere, have global content at their disposal in their hands via their mobiles courtesy of god knows how many OTT apps. Those shows have budgets and concepts that Indian TV can’t even dream about let alone compete against.

Their core audience now are literally the senior citizens who don’t know how to use these apps and watch stuff on YouTube, Netflix etc by themselves or who don’t have access to it or those who would rather watch TV because it’s cheaper, easier.

So they don’t even try.