. What\u2019s your take?<\/strong><\/p>\nYes, television has changed a lot. One of the main things that has changed is the lack of time that people have in television. When we used to do television, we\u2019d a lot of time because they were weekly soaps.<\/p>\n
Everything was very well thought of. They did not run forever unless there were like certain shows like I did \u2014 Surabhi, which ran for 10 years. But it was an anchoring show that was telecast once a week. Thus, there was a finite quality to TV serials. We as actors knew the beginning, middle and end of our characters, storyline, etc. It was much more organized. I feel sorry for the people who are working in television, although there is lot of glamour to it now, which was not the case earlier. There were much more realistic serials. I think there is nothing memorable in that sense apart from first dailies such as Kyun Ki Saas Bhi Kaabhi Bahu Thi, Kahani Ghaar Ghaar Ki, Kasauti Zindagi Ki. They were trend setters. All others seem to be poor copy of these serials.<\/p>\n
I admire the actors today because to imagine to trying to get conviction to a role where there is no guarantee of what your character will be asked to do the next day, there is no guarantee of same director, there is very little guarantee about anything except that you have to work long hours.<\/p>\n
Actors are known for throwing tantrums like coming late on the set <\/strong>or events or getting stubborn on certain dress code. What\u2019s your view on this?<\/strong><\/p>\nLuckily for me the huge stars I\u2019ve worked with \u2014 Shah Rukh Khan in Circus and Salman Khan in Hum Aap Ke Hai Koun, Madhuri, Anupam Ji, Alok Nath Ji \u2014 and even in television people I have worked with, I\u2019ve never seen any of them throwing tantrums. But yes I did a daily soap and there were some people who did throw their weight around in the serial that I did on Sony in 2007. I believe that kind of behaviour is not done. If you have issues with producer you should vent it out on producer. But these guys turn on their heat on other members from the set such as spot boys, light man or assistants. I don\u2019t think it is right as these guys are helpless and the ones who follow orders from directors and all.<\/p>\n
Would you like to work with Salman Khan once again?<\/strong><\/p>\nOf course he is a delight to work with and we have a very nice working relationship. So yes, I would love to be part of any project with him. I\u2019m sharing screen space with Madhuri after 23 years in a Marathi film called Buket List. It is her first Marathi film. It was such a great reunion. It was wonderful to work with her. We have a very special place in each other\u2019s heart since Hum Aap Ke Hai Koun, which went on to make history. In later years, Salman and gave many hits. But I\u2019m still known only for Hum Aapke Hai Koun and Surabhi. So it\u2019s like iconic for me.<\/p>\n
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Actress Renuka Shahane, who returned in style with an unconventional thriller 3 Storeys last month, says she will be seen in more films now. Shahane \u2014 whose last Hindi film was 2004\u2019s Dil Ne Jise Apna Kahaa while 2015\u2019s Highway her last Marathi film \u2014 tells Manmohan Singh Naula in an interview that she did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":286576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,23],"tags":[412,28,1433],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>I was lucky enough to have a storyteller like Sooraj Barjatya who produced Hum Aapke Hai Koun, providing us with a bound script where everything was decided earlier. Ironically the film industry did not usually function then. Now, I see a lot of professionalism because there is a gradual corporatization of the industry. Now, lots of producers are moonlighting as actors or writers or people who want change \u2014 so that\u2019s great because now you have bound script and everything is planned in advance. Some sets even look like Hollywood \u2014 fully equipped the walkie-talkies and a sense of professionalism that\u2019s the hallmark of the latter. Also, I feel that in terms of content and experimentation, that is going on with the kind of content in Hindi film industry \u2014 has been not seen for a very long time. So there is lot of scope for newcomers now to come-up with great roles like in 3 Storey that was offered to me \u2014 which is very rare for the one to be offered to a character actor and I think more and more of that have been seen these days and more stories than wider range of stories have been told in Hindi cinema so I think that is a great change that has happened.<\/p>\n