Talent moves to TV
The latest of the supposedly good actors turning to TV now includes veteran film actor Soni Razdan, who made a lustreless entry in Sony's Aisa Des Hai Mera this week. It is her machinations as the 'firang' mother of the London bred Rusty, that have turned the protagonist from a sugar pie to a scheming fiend in the last few episodes. Lekh Tandon's classy directorial touches are nowhere apparent in this meandering saga that moved from London to Punjab and is now stuck in the same domestic conflicts over and over. Soni's entry is hardly likely to cause a ripple.
And though veteran Marathi stage artiste Bharati Achrekar, who returned as Kantaben to Kya Hoga Nimmo Ka, is able to keep the energy level up, her loud acting does nothing for her own earlier formidable theatre reputation. So unlike Makarand Deshpande, the maverick theatre personality who's now ensconced in the Balaji camp. As the crafty lawyer who outwits Meera every time in the courtroom, he lifts the show above the mundane.
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