When corruption also arises, Sivaji is left with no option but to fight the system in his own way.
What is the release date of the movie Sivaji?. It dealt with euthanasia, but people don’t want to confront grim issues through TV, which they consider an entertainment device.Ĭonnect with us on facebook. We tried something with Sony called Dil Ki Baat Dil Hi Jaane (starring Ram Kapoor), but it was a failure. I have written for my protégé Gurodev Bhalla, who produced and oversaw Udaan… it’s the quest of a young girl dealing with the dark dysfunctional narratives of a home. Well, there’s something in the pipeline already. They were not in the attention-deficit age, where they had to be numbed and assaulted every minute by a moving camera and background scores. I think it was mostly the cinema-going audience that was watching TV at the time their tastes were evolved. Then how did good content in the 1980s and 1990s work with the masses? They want very hard, loud, dumbed-down entertainment. But do you think that in the outskirts of Kanpur, television will be able to penetrate with this kind of content? No. In the metros, you can rave about House of Cards, Narcos, Fargo and all. That’s the tragic part for anybody looking for content as brave as anything coming from the West. There’s something about soaps – the serials look like the cereals you consume every morning for breakfast it’s the tyranny of sameness. We say that we want different stuff, but the ground reality is different. You have a tsunami of audio visual content hitting you. There is an elephant in the room that no one wants to address. Not only Indian TV, but the entertainment landscape on the whole has regressed. I made telefilms like Janam (which dealt with illegitimacy) and Daddy (the story of a young girl dealing with her father’s drinking problem) serials like Phir Teri Kahaani Yaad Aayi (about schizophrenia), and Swabhimaan had that Shobhaa De zing about people in high places and power struggles. Of course! There was some audacity in TV content back then. He and I and Shobhaa De got together and came up with it. 
Swabhimaan was the brainchild of Amit Khanna.
But to me, it was the window through which my movies could reach more people. In those days, working in TV was looked upon with disdain. My films, Aashiqui, Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahi, Hum Hai Raahi Pyaar Ke, were all successful. In the early 1990s, my output of work was quite staggering. This paved the way for a new kind of entertainment. In the late 1980s, I discovered the power of the idiot box with films for television. You were already an acclaimed filmmaker when you made Swabhimaan.
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