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From Neha Kakkar to Bharati Singh: filming at home trend of the hour
The production process of the entertainment industry has been stalled due to the COVID-19 shutdown. It has been over a month that no fresh episodes were shot on TV channels. However the industry has risen to the occasion with hosts resuming shoots for their shows even while staying at home.
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If the creative briefs and the dialogues of the actors are given beforehand the shots can be approved by directors in advance and then actors can shoot from homes. The footage can be intermixed and finetuned afterwards. The shoot from home technique is well in use now.
Zee TV’s Guddan Tumse Na ho Payega will soon air a fresh episode. Actors have filmed the episode from their homes and most of the cast have shot trial portions through their phones. Later the videos will be run together to generate a cohesive feel. One of the first scenes shot was Kanika and Nishant with their family members engaging in a video chat.
Colors Choti Sardarni has also filmed a new episode. The lead cast has already filmed from their respective homes. There is news of the new villain’s entry in the show.
Bharti Singh’s Hum Tum aur Quarantine show is much awaited. This Colors daily show features quarantine life. Since Harsh and Limbacchiya have their own production unit at home, the team edits the footage from there.
Neha Kakkar’s family reality show that deals with home singing contests is soon to be aired on Zee TV. This show featured Tony Kakkar, Neha Kakkar and Sonu Kakkar.
Inventing new solutions and moving with the times seems to be the intelligent choice of the entertainment industry.
Anushka Sharma wears producer hat for new series Paatal Lok Kapil Sharma to shoot new content from home and re-launch show
The famous NH10 actress takes a turn at producing for the upcoming TV series Paatal Lok that is to be aired on Amazon Prime starting May 15. This marks the debut of Anushka Sharma in the digital world. The actress shared two teasers of Paatal Lok on social media though the recent teaser finally flashed the release date of this much awaited series.
Anushka shared Paatal Lok’s teaser on Instagram where she tagged almost the entire cast and crew. The actress mentioned that this crime underbelly noir thriller will change people’s perception about the world they live in.
The logo was also revealed in the last teaser that showed a dark world named Paatal Lok. A voice at the beginning of the teaser announces that “shastras talk about a world where justice is only attained by bloodshed. In this world demons mask themselves as humans and jungle rules prevail.” The concept of the intriguing underworld or the parallel universe is brought in this narration. Interestingly, the series deals with major four pillars of democracy - executive, legislative, press and judiciary. As expected the teaser gathered a lot of interest and anticipation.
If you have seen the popular Netflix series Stranger Things then Paatal Lok will remind you of it. The underworld concept and red branches streaming out of the logo draws a good parallel to red lightning sky of the American series.
The Pataal Lok series was created by Sudip Sharma (Udta Punjab fame). The series stars Jaideep Ahlawat, Gul Panag, Swastika Mukherjee, and Neeraj Kabi, among others.
New episodes are upcoming for viewers of The Kapil Sharma Show as the comedy king decided to film shows from home. Like many other television and movie shoots, the lockdown forced The Kapil Sharma Show to stall. Channels have been relying on reruns of old shows and Sony has been managing with old reruns of The Kapil Sharma Show.
News that Sharma will begin filming from home in the no audience format has come as a source of big relief to his fans and producers. All are now waiting eagerly for the show to start again after a temporary ‘quarantine’ break.
However, Kapil Sharma isn’t a pioneer in this shooting from home concept. International celebrities like Jimmy Fallon, Ellen DeGeneres and Jimmy Kimmel are currently filming shows from home. Bharti Singh has come up with the Hum, Tum aur Quarantine comedy gig for Colors TV and is filmed at Haarsh Limbachiyaa and Bharti’s home.
Kapil is utilizing the quarantine period to spend quality time with spouse Ginni and daughter Inayra. The comedy king recently posted a picture on Instagram of his daughter Inayra where she is shown dressed as Kanjak during Navaratri.
Mahabharata and Ramayana command record viewership on Doordarshan
Watch Siddharth Shukla ace blindfold task on Hum, Tum Aur Quarantine
With the lockdown forcing everyone to sit inside, epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata continue to garner record viewership over the last three weeks. According to stats, Ramayana saw a large viewership surge in its third week.
Information released by BARC India says that DD National registered 2.68 billion impressions from April 11-17 all over India. The third week DD National recorded 1.9 million impressions. BARC data showed that the leading five channels in India are DD Bharati, DD Bharati, Dangal, Big Magic and Sony SAB. The best five Hindi GEC shows are Ramayana (DD Bharati) and Mahabharata (DD Bharati). Dangal has three top grossing shows now - Baba Aisa Var Dhundo, Bandini and Mahima Shanidev Ki. Ramayana earned 67.4 million impressions while Mahabharata got 18.2 million impressions in its third week of rerun.
DD National has many popular shows on deck now. All of its popular shows are now back including The Jungle Book, Shaktiman, Chanakya, Byomkesh Bakshi, Buniyaad and Chanakya. The COVID-19 crisis has proved to be very beneficial for DD Bharati and the channel has witnessed a drastic rise in viewership. The national channel is now the best ranking Hindi Channel of India.
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On April 14, Siddharth Shukla appeared on Harsh Limbachiyaa and Bharti Singh’s show Hum Tum aur Quarantine. All fans of this Big Boss 13 champion were revved up to see his appearance on the newly launched comedy show. Hum Tum aur Quarantine is Harsh and Bharti’s home show that they run using their home based production unit. On April 14, the comedy ace couple connected to Siddharth Shukla via video call. After a few pleasantries Bharati asked Shukla to keep staying indoors as the police lathi won’t go easy on him even if he is a big boss winner!
Haarsh put Siddharth to work by first blindfolding him and then making him go round and round. Shukla was then asked to identify objects around him and he came up with all correct answers. His performance provoked Haarsh to joke that the lockdown has made Siddharth recognize the surroundings of his home so well.
Siddharth was named to ask three of his favorite women by Haarsh. The Big Boss winner said that Bharti along with his sister and mom were his favorites. Hearing this, Bharti took a dig at Siddharth saying that Shehnaaz Gill wasn’t on the actors “favorite” list but she (Bharati) was!! For the record, Siddharth and Shehnaaz are allegedly in a relationship. You can watch Siddharth Shukla’s blindfold game video here.
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