Replacements make no difference?

These are some extracts from an IndianTelevision dot com article after Sunil Grover is not in CNWK. Sudhir Sharma of Sunshine Productions (Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha PH) and Vipul Shah claim replacements don't matter and ultimately audience has to accept.

Sharing these extracts only for discussion because primarily the guy elaborated on BV.

Madison Media COO Karthik Lakhsminarayan echoed similar views. "This kind of female character never lasts long. Lots of cases keep on happening but consumers keep such cases aside and move on. Finally, the show is larger than any individual. People do not worry about all this; of course, they are affected for some time, but that is not the end of the story. It is the show that holds audiences and not the character," he said.

But won't Comedy Nights with Kapil, currently clocking 7,000-8,000 TVTs, lose its charm without Grover? "It all depends on who the new actor is. You cannot predict it at all. But it is not even impossible; anybody can take anybody's place. It definitely depends on who's doing it and how he plays with the character. Of course, nobody can copy him; nobody can do whatever he has done. By contrast, you never know the one who comes might be better than him or as good as him. In the past too, we have seen a lot of characters being replaced - all established performers," reasoned Sunshine Productions producer Sudhir Sharma.

Drawing a parallel to another chart-leading Colors' show, Baalika Vadhu, he said: "In Baalika Vadhu, when Anandi was replaced, people thought the show might go off-air, but if you look at the show now, it is doing extremely well. It is the chart-topper. Add to that, Ganga too has now been replaced so it all depends on a case-to-case basis."

Comedy Circus, producer Vipul D Shah exults: "I always believe that it is the combination of an actor and the character. The show can get somebody better than Sunil. I am confident that the new actor will also be able to take Gutthi' to another level. Sunil has played this kind of role even Comedy Circus and he is fantastic. At the end of the day we are talking about mannerism, dialogue delivery and characterization. If the new character has all these elements, it will grow as popular as Sunil. You know that nobody can do better than Gutthi', but suddenly you realise that there is a replacement to the character and as an audience you have to accept whatever comes along our way."

Read the complete article here - https://www.indiantelevision.com/special/y2k13/gutthis_Special.php

So the production houses, channels and media planners think actor doesn't matter? They take it for granted that audience will ultimately have to accept whatever that's there?

In the article I shared, only one PH person said that actor makes character special and is important and without the original actor the charm is not there. Others are pretty casual about actors and sentiments of audience!

Is it fair? How correct their assumptions are?

(Sorry DT if I should not have posted this topic but I just wanted to discuss it be it in context of BV or larger scheme of things on TV these days. I hope discussion can happen peacefully.)

Thanks for sharing this

I want to say to lion cannot be goat and goat cannot be lion

and if they believe that replacement does not matter Ekta would not have brought Smriti Irani back to kyunki.

colors people are so much easy on replacement, they should learn from Ekta about this at least.
I agree that Ekta s shows are not watch worthy but at least she understands loss and risks of replacement

An actor gives life to a character No matter how much talented actor they bring as a replacement still it becomes difficult for people to get connected with the character as they have been seeing some other person in that role for such a long time So saying only character matters actor does not matter is wrong because an actor gives life to character and colors people are pretty proud they think people are just watching show for new Anandi 😕 These all TRPs and show still is there is not only because of her The other cast who has been working for so long its their contribution because Prats alone didn't pull TRP's she had a part in that similarly the current TRPs and show is surviving is not because of Toral The other contributed more in it than her She is not even half popular as compared to others

Originally posted by: hina13

An actor gives life to a character No matter how much talented actor they bring as a replacement still it becomes difficult for people to get connected with the character as they have been seeing some other person in that role for such a long time So saying only character matters actor does not matter is wrong because a an actor gives life to character and colors people are pretty proud they think people are just watching show for new Anandi 😕 These all TRPs and show still is there is not only because of her The other cast who has been working for so long its their contribution because Prats alone didn't pull TRP's she had a part in that similarly the current TRPs and show is surviving is not because of Toral The other contributed more in it than her She is not even half popular as compared to others

I agree by replacements the show is not much affected,

audience can't accept some replacements but some to replacements

they get used to...

Of course replacements matter. It depends how critical the person is to the show and how good the new comer is going to be.

Also - they replaced Sriti with Sargun and did we complain too much ?

Show may still be in chart busters but i think now BV with so much replacements and so much dragging has lost the attahcment it's fans used to have...now viewers are mostly watching the show for male leads...Ganga, to be honest, was never able to make much attachment with viewers as people were taking her more as one more fling of Jagya then the real soulmate of jJagya(no offence to JaGan fans but that's how most of the viewers took it)...they have made joke of whole serial and now people watch it like anyother drama soap...their main and parallel leads share so much simialrities in personality that it's hard to say whether CVs have brought some new character or just carbon copy of old ones

it is always hobby of colors to do replacements ,,,,but actors matter a lot they make charctr lively so this misconception take out of mind ,,,all is actor where is toral in bv just same weird look n show is going on really pity on such articles which are pubilished to satisfy some ppl 🤓

After leap this show had 8 replacements