Resurrecting for the masses: Rohit Roy
Rohit Roy still alive in Sarrkar
Meanwhile producer Manish Goswami teams up with Shobhaa De again
Subhash K Jha
Manish Goswami sure knows how to play the TRP game. Last week he orchestrated an encore of the kind of mass hysteria that we had witnessed when Mihir had died in Star's Kyunkii Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. A similar hysteria unleashed itself when Rohit Roy's volatile character (based on Sanjay Gandhi) died in Zee TV's Sarrkar.
Producer Manish Goswami, however, has reassuring words for Sarrkar fans. "Rohit's character is still alive" he says. "He will be shown re-awakening a few episodes later. Such jolts are necessary to keep the TRP charts looking healthy. There's so much competition, so many news and fiction channels. High drama is essential at least once every week on daily soaps. Besides, popular characters, like Rohit Roy's in Sarrkar, are specially prone to tragedy."
Goswami is doing another serial, Kittu Sab Janti Hai, on Sahara. However, his next big project is Sixer, a cricket-based serial on Star One. And he is teaming up with Shobhaa De again, for it. "After Sukanya, Kittie Party and Sarrkar, Shobhaa De is again the brain behind Sixer," he says. "It's a soap based on two cricketers' lives, one makes it big, the other doesn't. It stars two new actors Pulkit Samrat and Druv Bhandari (actor Mohan Bhandari's son). I wanted two fresh faces. All established TV actors are already doing five to six shows each. So they can't play new, young cricket players."
Both Pulkit and Druv have been trained in cricket for three months by Chandrakant Pandit. Besides which, Sandeep Patil is the soap's cricket consultant.
Shobhaa De will write Sixer. "Over the course of four serials, Shobhaa and I have established a very good working relationship," says Goswami. "Yes, she's expensive. But then, she delivers the goods too. In fact besides Sixer, I have another soap with Shobhaa in the pipeline. We will start shooting for both soaps in March."
While the basic story for Sixer is by Shobhaa De, Sandeev Shrivastava (who wrote Ram Gopal Varma's Ab Tak Chappan) will be developing the plot. "Shobhaa De is flooded with offers, but I'm glad that she prefers to work with me. I hope we hit many sixers on TV with our serial."
Goswami also plans to experiment with the non-fiction genre on television this year, but adds, "My preferred genre will, of course, remain fiction. That's where my bread and butter comes from."
* After Sukanya, Kittie Party and Sarrkar, Shobhaa De is again the brain behind Sixer. Yes, she's expensive. But then, she delivers the goods too.– Manish Goswami
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