I can8217;t be satisfied

According to Sarang this success, has been possible because of the entire team8217;s hard work 8212; right from the scriptwriter to the spot boy. And like director Lekh Tandon, he too is all praise for his producer, Manish Goswami: Sarang says Goswami doesn8217;t interfere in creative matters and there are no financial hassles. 8220;Why do you think there are never two heads of one department?8221; he asks and continues, 8220;Manish understands this fact and trusts me and lets me do my job. He comes to the sets for just 10 minutes. You should trust a man or throw him out8221;. Sarang8217;s shot another soap, a political thriller Abhimaan for Goswami which stars Kanwaljeet, Govind Namdeo, Sachin Khedekar, Divya Seth, Arundhati. It8217;s about powerful people in today8217;s society and a common woman8217;s survival as she is overpowered by her husband. 8220;It8217;s not a Rajani,8221; protests Sarang 8220;I want to show the realistic things and the reasons why a woman doesn8217;t revolt. If I show the facts, maybe someday they will revolt8221;.

With a serial called Hukumat, Rakesh Sarang has also turned producer in association with Mir Muneer. That show revolves around the underworld. He is producing this serial mainly because it8217;s an expensive project, one which will cost a lot of money till the very last episode, and no producer was therefore, willing come forward. Sarang claims to have used the best of cars, bungalows and has shot the serial on the roads of Mumbai 8220;I want this to be remembered and I8217;m doing it for my satisfaction, not that I8217;m not satisfied with Aashirwaad but here it8217;d be little more.8221;

Sarang8217;s plus point is that he is also cinematographer of the serials that he directs and this is where he scores over his contemporaries. He thinks being a cameraman and a director only helps making things easier and more beautiful. 8220;If I was only a director I8217;d narrate my visualisation to the cameraman without knowing how much he has grasped,8221; he explains.

Success hasn8217;t gone to Sarang8217;s head and he feels that success changes you only if you let it. 8220;There has been a change in respect, status, money, the way people look at you after this success. But I haven8217;t changed. You can see I used to be in my cotton casuals, jeans and Nike shoes before and even today I8217;m wearing the same stuff,8221; he points out.

Sarang8217;s first independent serial as a cameraman was with Shrimaan Shrimati and then V3 saw his directorial debut. How did he get to Aashirwaad and Goswami? This calls for a quick flashback. After Umeed and Shatranj went off the air, he was literally unemployed for two years. Suddenly things changed: 8220;My phone which used to ring from morning 7.30 pm to 1.30 pm in the night, just stopped buzzing,8221; he recalls. He then took over Mirabai of which he directed five episodes, but that too went off the air. Since he had not been paid by the producers of the serial, UTV, he was constantly pestering UTV8217;s production manager on the phone. His name happened to be Manish Goswami, who would avoid Sarang8217;s calls.

One day someone passed on a mobile number saying it was Manish Goswami8217;s and Rakesh who was desperately trying to get his money called up that cellphone number and started abusing the man on the other end. Call it luck or fate, the cell number happened to be producer Manish Goswami8217;s! 8220;When I started yelling, Manish only asked me 8212; whom do you want to talk to?8217;. Later the misunderstanding got cleared. He called me over and asked me if I8217;d be interested in doing Aashirwaad,8221; Sarang recounts. Is he satisfied with where he is today? 8220;Not at all,8221; he beams. 8220;I can8217;t be satisfied. When I8217;m satisfied I8217;ll declare my retirement8221;. Well, in that case, may he be dissatisfied forever.