~Ashish Sharma~New show Discussion Thread#10 - Page 69

Originally posted by: -Mano-

Why not

When Ravan can have 10 heads

Why not Ramji have 7 Promos😆😆

Originally posted by: Thushi

good question 😆

IT'S SITA'S TURN NOW

PRAKRITI ROY visits the sets of upcoming show Siya Ke Ram to tell you how viewers in for a visual treat with a changed perspective

Ramayana from Sita's point of view was only waiting to happen. And now that it has, the icing on the cake is that it is being unfolded under the hi-tech wings of the makers of grand mythologicals on TV like Devon ke Dev... Mahadev.

Pegged on a high-budget and a stellar star cast, this show is being filmed at Hyderabad's Ramoji Film City. Large, movable sets have been made for the two kingdoms in the show, Mithila and Ayodhya. Under the keen eye of art director Chokas Bhardwaj, the show is all set to bring alive that ancient world which has almost always caught the public imagination thus far.

All the sets and artwork, the show's creator Aniruddh Pathak insists, have been created after intense research of the histories and ambience of both the kingdoms as well as the individual characters.

"We have selected the content keeping in mind the channel's nayi soch motto. Ramayana, despite its widespread text, has been fodder for TV shows at least eight times before, all of which were based on Tulsidas' Ramcharit Manas. When Star Plus set out to make this show, our research team found that other important characters in the epic have often been ignored. We have tried to give these characters equal importance through this show," he explains, giving examples.

"Sita has a huge role in making Ram maryada-porushottam. She had a progressive approach and the ability to make choices. Unfortunately, we have always kept her as a doormat. We will tell you how Sita is equal to Ram," he says. Director Nikhil Sinha, who gained acclaim when he worked on Mahadev..., is unhappy with the fact that we accept whatever is written in our texts without asking questions. But the new rational generation is now asking why? "Through our show, we try to explore these unanswered questions like how did Ram, a human, become God? What made Sita eligible to be his wife," he explains.

As the title suggests, the story is from Sita's perspective. Talking about this concept, he says: "The most beautiful thing about this show is that it is about equality. Ram and Sita understood each other because they were ahead of their time. When we show a story only from Ram's side, Sita gets relegated to the backdrop. But if you see it from an overall perspective, all the characters seem more important, including Dashrath, Janak, the brothers, the mothers and most importantly, Sita herself," Sinha says.

Mahadev had garnered a lot of attention not just because of its subject matter but also because of the big scale CGI special effects and technology that were used. Siya Ke Ram promises that same with Nikhil Sinha at helm as director. "Nikhil has made some fabulous tech innovations. Our promo, which is being compared to the special effects of Baahubali, is mostly because of our sets and cinematography," Pathak says.

As a creative person, Sinha is known for doing big-scale shows and his company Vortex which does VFX for films and TV (including Mahadev...) is working on Siya Ke Ram. If the sets at Hyderabad promise grandeur, so does the starcast. South Indian actress Madirakshi who plays Sita, was pursued by Sinha for seven months before she agreed to do a look test. "I watched Ramayana on DVD and read as many books on Sita as I could, specifically the one by Devdutt Pattnaik, who is also our mentor for the show," she says.

Winner of Jhalak Dikhla Jaa Season 7 and popular face on TV, Ashish Sharma, plays Ram.

Apart from the leads, Dalip Tahil plays Dashrath and Bijay Anand, who returns to TV after 17 years, Janak. There's Grusha Kapoor as Kaikeyi and Marathi actress Bhargavi Chirmule as Sita's mother Sunaina.

http://www.dailypioneer.com/show-time/its-sitas-turn-now.html

Originally posted by: varshu27

Happy Diwali, guys.