Small Screen apes big; creativity down the tube
Saturday, July 07, 2012
| 12:54:07 PM IST (+05:30 GMT)
Where has all the creativity gone, wonder
television viewers who find that an increasing number of soaps have
annoyingly familiar stories, taken from one Bollywood blockbuster or the
other.
Where has all the creativity gone, wonder
television viewers who find that an increasing number of soaps have
annoyingly familiar stories, taken from one Bollywood blockbuster or the
other.
From "Kya Huaa Tera Vaada" to "Hitler Didi",
many serials are taking a cue from the movies, whipping up storylines
and adding some small screen flavour to keep the track going for as long
as possible.
The twists and turns in "Kya Huaa Tera Vaada" are akin to Salman Khan's "Biwi No. 1"; the latest track in "Main Lakshmi Tere Aangan Ki" reminds viewers of the wife selling the husband in the Anil Kapoor-Sridevi starrer "Judaai".
If in the 1997 "Judaai" Sridevi sells her husband to Urmila Matondkar
to become rich, in "Main Lakshmi...", the protagonist Lakshmi sells her
husband Arjun to his ex-flame Soumya to bail her in-laws out from a
financial crunch.
In Ekta Kapoor's "Kya Hua Tera Vaada" about an extra marital affair, Pradeep (Pawan Shankar) decides to move in with his ex-flame Anushka (Mouli Ganguly)
and divorce his wife Mona (Mona Singh). The way Mona is handling the
situation bears uncanny resemblance to how the wronged wife (Karisma
Kapoor) reacted in "Biwi No. 1".
"As a writer, when we keep writing stories and there are times when it
comes to a point 'now what?' Then producers and writers take the
decision that such a story can be incorporated and we tend to experiment
with the storyline," said writer Rajesh Joshi, who has penned shows
like "Kyunki S", "Kkusum" and "Pavitra Rishta".
"Though it might prove to be a TRP safety measure to some extent, one
isn't sure how prominent will it be. The success depends upon the
popularity of the show and its characters and how we incorporate it (new
storyline) in the script," he added.
Mona admitted that the story of "Kya Hua..." and ""Biwi No. 1"were similar but said the treatment was different.
"To a certain extent I agree because the man did have an extra-marital
affair and there was infidelity (in the film). But that was a three-hour
movie and it got over, but this is a serial and it will last for one or
two years at least."
The story of Life Ok's show "Dil se di dua.Saubhagyavati Bhava?" is close to "Daraar", which starred Juhi Chawla, Arbaaz Khan and Rishi Kapoor. In the serial, Karanvir Bohra plays the over-possessive and violent husband, Harshad Chopra is the saviour and Sriti Jha is the distressed wife.
Zee TV's "Hitler Didi"
recently wrapped up a track, which was loosely based on the film
"Khosla Ka Ghosla", where the protagonist Indira's father sells the
family home to a builder without telling his family. And how she fools
the builder to get the house back. The serial has lots of incidents
similar to the hit film.
The trailers of the forthcoming "Rab Se Sohna Isshq", to be aired on the
same channel, shows a guy trying to reunite with his newly wed wife
with her lover, pretty much like Ajay Devgn wooing Aishwarya Rai in "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam".
If that is not enough, news is that TV czarina Ekta Kapoor is planning to make a show based on Shah Rukh Khan-Kajol starrer blockbuster movie "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge".
She is even planning to bring the epic romance of "Jodhaa-Akbar" on the tube.
There is therefore no fixed time to end a show and to keep the story
going, makers have to introduce new tracks, says director Ravindra
Gautam.
"In a film, you tell a story in three hours and wrap it up, but in
television shows you don't know for how long would the show go on? How
many tracks can you incorporate?
"There are very few combinations when it comes to making a TV show. The
volume of television is much more than films. There are times when the
stories go out of stream and then you think of different tracks."
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