Crackdown Crew

“Everyday,I am doing a new thing,” smiles the actor,who has played the phlegmatic ACP Pradyumn for over a decade in Sony TV’s trademark show CID. “It is like asking Sachin Tendulkar if he is fed up of doing the same thing. If he has created records,my show has found mention in record books too—a case in point being the 110-minute one-shot-one-take episode,” explained Satam,in Lucknow on Tuesday,along with Anoop Soni,who anchors Crime Patrol and Ronit Roy,the protagonist of Adalat on the same channel,to announce the ‘crimes of passion’ season of the three programmes over weekends.

“Passion connotes more than love affairs. Any strong feeling can lead to a criminal act and our shows send across the message that a crime always leads to doom for the one who commits it,” said Soni,who unlike Satam and like Roy takes up other acting assignments too,prominent being the role of Anandi’s father-in-law in Balika Vadhu. “We document real incidents of crime as they happened and in a way render a service proving that no matter how smart a criminal,he almost always gets caught in the end,” said Soni,who has wrapped up recently a Nagesh Kukunoor film Yeh Hausla.

“The idea is to entertain,but if a show also enlightens the viewer about sections of law and the penal code,it is even better,” said Roy,who plays advocate K D Pathak in Adalat. “It is just as much as we can contribute towards spread of legal awareness.”