Charu Asopa recalls working for ‘two days non-stop’ on Mahadev: ‘Would be so exhausted it would lead to a meltdown’

Charu said that things are much better now in the television industry and added, “You aren’t called until and unless everything for your shot is set up. Things have become much sorted now.” She said that even though actors these days aren’t shooting for days at a stretch, they are “emotionally and mentally weaker.”

“Ab toh zyada se zyada ek ya do hours hi extend karte hain. (Now they hardly extend the shoot for one or two hours). But now when I look back, I think I never heard of any such incidents where people committed suicide because of work pressure. Then what stress are these 20-21 year old dealing with that they end up taking their own lives because of the pressure. This is very heart breaking and shocking,” she said.

In 2019, actor Ankita Lokhande had mentioned that she once worked on the set of Pavitra Rishta for 148 hours continuously, which is a little over six days. Earlier this year, actor Radhika Madan too had opened up about working for days at a stretch on the set of her TV show Meri Aashiqui Tumse Hi. After Radhika called out the work culture in the television industry, many actors opposed her stance and said that due to the number of episodes that are required out of the crew, such hours are unavoidable.