Shock Talk

“All the people who know me have congratulated me heartily on the way the story and my role in it have shaped out,” grins Dhruv,son of veteran actor Mohan Bhandari (Khandan,Parampara),who plays his father in the series too. “It was a tough call but I took it and I am sure the role will project my histrionics,rather than typecast me,” says the Mass Communication graduate who dabbled with advertising and theatre before accepting the TV offer. “I enjoy the different stuff,” says Sriti,also seen in Jyoti on the same channel in which she is a patient of multiple personality disorder. “I visited an asylum to observe expressions of the mentally disturbed and to get my body language right for the blind girl’s role,I visited the blind school,read the autobiography of Helen Keller and watched a number of films from Scent of a Woman to Anurag,Fanaa and Black,” says the actress who is a polyglot thanks to her growing up years spent in different places. “Besides Hindi and English,I can speak in Maithli,my native language and in Bangla and Nepalese too. But I can just about make a smattering at Marathi,” says Jha.

“Yes,it is a conscious effort to break out of the shell,” says Saurabh Tiwari,the channel’s creative head,fiction,with reference to a soon to be aired show called Meethi Chhuri,the promos of which shock the viewer with the use of unparliamentary language . “For how long can we fool the viewers showing daughters and daughters-in-law in dazzling sarees and danglers performing one pooja or the other? Let us get real and practise censorship at a personal level. If a viewer doesn’t like something,he is welcome to switch over to any one of the innumerable channels and programmes on air,” argues Tiwari,who was previously with Colors. He promises an interesting mix-bag of shows on his channel in the weeks to come.