NDTV Imagine and
Sagar Arts' Basera has been shown the exit door.
According
to our source, "Since a month back, seeing the appalling state of TRPs,
the show was under the scanner. The budget of the show, thanks to the
huge star cast was very high and was not giving good returns with the
TRPs. The production
house
and channel had a meeting and came to a conclusion that if the show
could cut down on budget then they would allow it sustenance for a few
more months but on a different time slot, which is why authorities kept
denying reports of
Basera going off air inspite of
Raaz- Pichle Janam Ka promos showing that it would be aired in
Basera's time slot of 9:30pm. But seems like the solution was not feasible."
The source adds, "Another problem was that the TRPs were good only when
Ram Kapoor and
Pallavi Subhash were focused. When
Priya Bhatija and
Amit Jain's
love-story
took over, the ratings dropped. Maybe audiences wanted more focus on
the original concept of the show- 'children turning against their
parents'. To top this, the saving grace of the show
Ram Kapoor had
date
problems from 5th December as he is the host for Rahul Ka Swayamvar
which has its sets outside Mumbai. So obviously, Ram couldn't afford to
shuttle back and forth. He needed a definite break from
Basera.
This means the creatives had to manage with a parallel track. But with
the shows TRP hopes pinned solely on Ram, the channel didn't think
Basera would improve at all in Ram's absence. All this finally made the channel back-off from running the show."
So now the decision has been made to chuck
Basera. The tentative date scheduled for the show to go off air 4th is December.