Katha Ankahee director Ravi Bhushan hits back at those looking down on TV directors; Sayantani Ghosh says TV ‘deserves a lot of respect’

Sharing a clip from a recent episode of Katha Ankahee, Ravi Bhushan mentioned that they shot it only in one and a half hours, and during this time they also had a “brawl with some idiots”. “We, ‘TV People’, work through the year and churn out roughly 260 episodes of 20-21 minutes each…The sheer bulk of work guarantees that there’s repetition of situations in the story,” he added.

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Ravi said that despite these repetitions they “try to keep the story sticky”. He mentioned that the dialogue writers, actors all try to add something fresh even though they know they have done something similar recently. “The director explores ways to tell the story in an enthusiastic manner even in mundane scenarios…Extract new expressions from the actors for conveying the same emotions differently …Inspire and Dare the DOP to try something bold…The DOP innovates every single day to light the frames better than yesterday…!! Similarly for all the other departments… Time and Monies would forever be constraints so not even going there…” the director wrote.

He concluded, “So to all the people from our sister concerns ‘Web’ and ‘Movies’, who look down upon us, I say ‘We are doing TV better than you are doing OTT and Movies…Dekh lo…!!’”

Actor Sayantani Ghosh took to the comments section of Ravi’s post and applauded his statement. She wrote, “The world of TV and all of us deserve a lot of respect! I ain’t saying that there aren’t issues, yes even we can better ourselves in many areas .. but then again who is perfect??? 🤷‍♀️ With the kind of timelines we have, it’s a damn big effort to keep delivering and trying to do that well! I wonder if ever any member of our so called sis concern counterparts , can perform n deliver the way we do! Whereas we, who the world calls as ‘TV ppl’ will sure as hell rock any challenges thrown at us ..👏”

After Radhika Madan previously opened up about the culture of working in television, Sayantani had spoken up against the actor and said that the fraternity deserves respect as it feeds thousands of families.