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| Spot light: By Prashant singh |
| TV soaps are fixated with the number 20. A slew of telly serials are taking 20-year generation leaps to re-invent themselves. But producers insist it doesn't hold any particular significance. "It's just a terminology given by the telly industry," informs Kavita. However, not everyone agrees. Sandeep Sikcand, creative head at Balaji, attributes the trend to Bollywood. "I think the '20-year syndrome' probably owes its origin to the old Hindi film jargon of bees saal baad. Whenever there was a change in the storyline, it would always be 20 years later. I guess the television industry has picked it up from there," he was recently quoted as saying. Taking leaps into the future has become a common phenomenon across entertainment channels. Whether it is to shoot TRPs or to change the track, time-vaults have always done wonders on the small screen. Be it Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Kasautii Zindagi Kay, Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki, Tumhari Disha or Kumkum, time leaps are the latest winning mantra for telly merchants. The latest to join the bandwagon is Rajshri's Woh Rehane Wali Mehlon Ki. "I would like to call it a fresh season more than a generation leap," says Kavita Barjatiya, producer of Woh Rehne... on Sahara. "More than anything else, it adds a lot of freshness to the story. And then you can't keep stretching the plot," she adds. But actors are not always game to take the (generation) jump. The first casualty who refused to age in his 20s was Amarr Upadhyay (the erstwhile Mihir of Kyunki...). After him, others too have followed suit. Arjun Punj of Sanjeevani fame, who played Raj in Woh Rehne..., refuses to give up his chocolate boy image. "If I can't relate to a particular character, then how can I convince my director or audience about it?" questions Punj. Whatever the case, with TRPs calling the shots. makers are surely not complaining. |
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