It's barely been a month that Colors prime time daily, Yeh Pyar Na Hoga
Kam has been on air, and it's already being dragged to court. Rajita
Sharma who was the co producer of the show until she was allegedly
forced into quitting her debut production, has moved court for being
denied credit for her creative inputs on the show after the first few
episodes.
The writer and now, former co-producer of the show, Sharma
wasn't available to comment upon the subject since the matter is
subjudice. The case will now be heard next on Friday in Mumbai.
Drama
begins According to reports, Rajita Sharma was shown the door because
of creative differences, but she was involved in the pre production of
the show for eight months before its telecast. An associate of the
writerproducer says, that Sharma was given credit in the initial
episodes, but subsequently her name was dropped.
"Dheeraj Kumar from
Creative Eye had become abusive on the sets. She was working with him
for the first time. Rajita couldn't take it after a point and was
forced to leave the show. He made it sound like she left the show on
her own terms and because of creative differences with the channel, but
the actual reason is that she stepped back because of the pressure that
had been built on her.
Had the situation been tolerable, she
wouldn't have left her most ambitious debut production," informs an
associate on the condition of anonymity.
Reel life love Sources also
claim that the story of the soap is also based on Sharma's parents'
love saga; how her father, a Brahmin and her mother, a Kayasth met, and
fell in love in Lucknow back in the 1970s while studying at the
university and so on.
"The show was very close to her heart. She had
no choice but to maintain a low profile and take the show back through
legal means from her co-producer. She has been watching the show and is
not too satisfied with the result," adds the associate, before
mentioning that Sharma was instrumental in setting up the show, casting
actors, conducting workshops and writing a hundred episodes in advance.
However, Dheeraj Kumar, the current producer of the show says, "The case has no meat.
The
channel would be in a better position to comment because they were the
ones who got me on board. I am not worried." The channel refused to
comment.
The buzz also says that Yeh Pyaar Na Hoga Kam, which top lines Gaurav Khanna and Yami Gautam, might soon have a new producer.
Apparently,
the channel is unhappy with the way the producer is treating the show
and over the next two months, when it completes a threemonth run, a new
producer may be roped in.
"I didn't know the channel was unhappy
with my work. I think they are content with the product. The TRPs are
quite satisfactory. Why would they look outside for a new producer
then?" said Kumar, when updated.
Directing the producer An actor on
the condition of anonymity says, "Dheerajji has been making the rounds
of the sets quite regularly.
He sometimes even tries to direct the
scenes, which is quite funny. This is because he has been asked to be
involved creatively on the show as well."
When asked Kumar, he
insists that he visits the sets of all his shows and this show is
nothing different. "It's a practice, whether it's Ganesh Leela for
Sahara One, or a daily for Doordarshan or Yeh Pyar Na Hoga Kam. It's
not like I treat one show as my own and the others as stepchildren. As
for visiting the sets of Yeh Pyar...daily; I haven't been there for the
last few days and there is no pressure from Colors either," insists the
actor-turned-producer.
According to a spokesperson from Colors, the
channel is quite happy with the way the show has turned out and is in
no mood for a change of producer. "The show has been receiving great
feedback from everywhere including Lucknow, which is where the story is
based. So, we have no complaints so far," adds the spokesperson.
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