TV is a regressive medium!--Prachi Desai

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Prachi Desai says television is a regressive medium!

Prachi Desai says Television is a regressive medium!
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She made it big with television show, but actor Prachi Desai does not approve of how the medium has become today and feels that it is regressive in nature

"I think, I was a part of TV in a more fortunate time. Even though my story was of a girl being in love with an older man, it was a slightly modern drama as compared to what it is right now. It is extremely regressive," she told reporters in an interview.

Before venturing into movie with 2008 hit Rock On!!, she featured as Bani Walia in hit show Kasamh Se in 2006.

"You feel that everyone is doing the same thing and copying each other. When I was in TV, there were so many different stories. I think that stage has gone," she said.

An Ekta Kapoor discovery, Prachi has been part of films like Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai and Bol Bachchan.

Will you go back to TV?

"If a very interesting phase on Indian TV comes where we have short stories and films, then why not? At the end of the day, you are an actor and the medium doesn't matter," she said.

However, she can't think of doing a daily soap.

"I surely cannot go back to daily soaps. That is something I know. At least not right now. It's a decision I made when I did Rock On!!" said the 24-year-old.

She feels in India you can't do both. "You can't be a film star and a TV actor. In the West you can. But the culture here is different," she added.

First Published: 9.00 AM IST 02.15.2013

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MithiBani thumbnail
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Posted: 11 years ago
Thaali. Hathoda. Ched. 😳
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I am pretty sure she is not lying  .She started since 2006 ,i remember she was barely 17 then ..
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She comes across as standoffish to me..don't know why
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Posted: 11 years ago
There wan't anything particularly less regressive about her show either. Why do people think that what they do is somehow 'different', while everything else is run-to-the-mill?
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Posted: 11 years ago
TV is not a regressive medium.

Kekta maiyya is a regressive medium.
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Posted: 11 years ago
90s was much better and progressive. Ekta Kapoor ruined the Indian TV  scene.
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Posted: 11 years ago
What an ungrateful woman...BTW how long has she been 24??
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Originally posted by: dkdc

There wan't anything particularly less regressive about her show either. Why do people think that what they do is somehow 'different', while everything else is run-to-the-mill?



Exactly.. There was nothing different about her show.. Same old vamp, face change, amnesia, etc etc story.
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this is true she started as 17 years old in kasamh se.. i read myself that her date of birth was 1988