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| TELE EXPRESS |
| The older, The bolder |
| Serials skip generations to grow younger, but it's the older men who still score with audiences |
| Shailaja Bajpai |
| There's the gentle lover boy in Jab Luv Hua, there's the sulky Aditya who is hoping Chandni will look at him again and forsake her fiance, and then there is a host of young men, across channels, who look as though they just came out of the shower. For all their youth and exuberance, these young TV characters hardly stand a chance against the older men around, who are more charismatic and well, dare we say it, better looking? Even as television drama does everything to get younger, it is ironical that the leading TV male stars of today are not these young bucks but veterans— albeit not all that old. Joining Kyunki Saas Bhi Bahu Thi's Mihir (Ronit Roy) is Ram Kapoor in Kasamh Se, and Rohit Roy in Viraasat together with actors Aman Verma and Amarr Upadhyay (in the same serial). The lead male character in Zee's popular Saath Phere Saloni ka Safar is Saloni's husband, hardly a teenager by the looks of him. Both Kasautii Zindagi Kay and Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki, although over populated with youngsters, still depend on the old faithfuls like Cezanne Khan and Anoop Soni, who plays Parvati's husband. The fact that a new serial such as Viraasat is also dependent on old TV hands like Upadhyay and Verma and the new thriller, Akela also features an old favourite, Sudhanshu Pandey, reinforces the perception that for all its youthful appearance, Indian TV would rather be charmed by a greying hero than a pesky 20-year-old. |
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