In pakistan, there is a newspaper, IMAGES, it stated that;
At present, kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi is said to cost Rs.1.8 million per episode.Besides having the highest paid star cast in the serial,
even the attire like tulsi's saris and mihir's suits don't come cheap.
Smiriti Irani aka Tulsi is supposed to charge more than Rs 0.8 million per month of the serial, makin her the highest paid indian TV actress.
Ronit Roy aka Mihir charges Rs 0.8 million per month. There is no move to cut the budget, as the show gets full house even today....and claims the highest
TRPs.
Kasauti Zindagi Ki, another balaji production on star plus, is nearly four years old, and has just completed 1,000 episodes. At present, around Rs 1.3
million i spent
per episode, designer clothes and expensive looking sets don't come with a cheap price tag.
The two stars, Anurag Basu and Prena Bajaj-Cezanne khan and Shweta Tiwari-are said to get a monthly salary of Rs0.6 and Rs0.4 million, respectively.Infact,
the stars are so happy with their monthly booty that they dont even want to act in other serials.
Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin, the story of an ordinary-looking girl from a middle-class family-took the viewers by storm on Sony Entertainment Channel. But when
jassi-the duckling turned into a swan, since then each episode has been heavily costed. Mona singh's saris has never been less than Rs.20,000.
EK Ladki Anjani Si, the recently initiated serial on Sony, approx. costs something like Rs0.6 million per episode. The story of a medical blunderband surrogate motherhood is appealingto teenagers. the expenditure is almost equally divided between the artistes, technicains, the sets and outdoor location shoots.The producers of SindOOr Tere Naam Ka on Zee Television approx. spent around Rs0.4 million per episode. Nearly Rs0.2 million goes into the salary of the stars.
The rest goes into the sets, equipment, technicians, editing, dubbing, mixing and so on.
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