Mumbai: If it wasn’t for the television industry, Ronit Roy says he was a dead actor. Considered the Amitabh Bachchan of the Indian small screen, he feels “hurt” with the “regressive” content that is finding its way into over 175 million households (Ficci-KPMG report) across the country. “I was a dead actor, and TV gave me life again. The TV industry is like my mother, which I don’t want to insult. But what is happening on television today, is very regressive,” Ronit said in an interview here while promoting the new season of the Sony Entertainment Television show “Adaalat”. The actor had done bit roles in Hindi films like “Sainik” and “Army” and had a body of work in TV shows like “Baat Ban Jaye”, “Suraag”, and “Kammal”, before he landed a role in Ekta Kapoor’s much-successful show “Kasautii Zindagi Kay”.
As Rishabh Bajaj, Ronit became a popular face, and his popularity later skyrocketed when he stepped in to essay Mihir Virani in Indian small screen’s epochal show “Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi”. “When I started on TV, it was so exciting, and suddenly it has been corrupt… It has crumpled into one little ball of paper. It hurts me.” His last fiction show was “Itna Karo Na Mujhe Pyaar”, which went off the air last year. Asked if he has washed his hands off the concept of daily soap operas, the 50-year-old actor said: “No”. In fact, Ronit said he is in talks with a channel to “raise the bar of TV (content) or at least (help it) get out of the regressive” phase.
“There are some like-minded people and we have started talking. I have bought some rights to a few pieces of work which we may or may not put on TV,” he said. IANS
Negatively Positive
Over the decades, since Independence, India’s southern states have achieved great success in population control with their governments aggressively promoting...
Read moreDetails
