Crime is the next big space on TV: Ekta Kapoor

She started the trend of saas-bahu sagas on the small screen and film and TV producer Ekta Kapoor believes that the next big thing on television is the crime genre.

Published: Friday,Sep 07, 2012 13:46 PM GMT-06:00

Vijay Bhatter

Press meet for the success of 'Kyaa Super Kool Hain Hum'

She started the trend of saas-bahu sagas on the small screen and film and TV producer Ekta Kapoor believes that the next big thing on television is the crime genre.

Her crime show is titled "Gumrah - End of Innocence" that now comes on Star Plus.

"I did a crime team show called 'Gumraah' and it's doing pretty well because we did not even know that there is a lot of peer pressure which leads to young crime, we never knew these things existed," the 37-year-old said at the launch of Piyush Jha's book "Mumbaistan" here Thursday.

"The way the audiences have received the show, it's quite overwhelming. So, I think crime is going to be another very big space for television.

"So books will be converted into TV shows as much as they are converted to films because the audience is lapping up crime shows," she added.

Ekta's has already produced two hit crime films - "Shootout at Lokhandwala" and "Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai". Her upcoming projects - "Shootout at Wadala" and "Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai Again" - deal with crime.

Asked if she think films are a reason behind the increasing number of crimes today, Ekta said: "The aspirational aspect of crime has always been discussed. But I don't think crime has ever become so glamorous that people take to crime because they saw it in a movie. It's always personal experiences that lead you to crime."

"But at the same time, yes, movies do glorify the bad guy till the end and it is something we have to take into consideration when we make a movie or a TV show. But like we have seen in recent years, at no point do you in any way decide that that is the reason for crime happening. I think that is too much of an easy assumption."

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Comments (20)

Fatima @Fattoom

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Gumrah rockzzz !! Love Karan Kundra aka Princey :) he is the best :D

11 years ago

shreya @ShrePreet18

+ 3 ⋮

Gumrah is a awesome show. All stories are very nice.
Keep up the gud work.

11 years ago

PROTIM21 @PROTIM21

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Thnx for d article, yes Gumrah is a very gud show which deals with hard reality of teen age.. Gud job Ekta Kapoor

11 years ago

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Sara_A @Sara_A

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Gumrah is a really good show...showing the harsh realities of teenage life...kudos to Balaji and Vikas Gupta for coming up with such a brilliant concept.. :)

11 years ago

5 Reply

nitikasnv @nitikasnv

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Hi,

Her husband is also an small tv show,
why she will not.

Thanks

14 years ago

Pepperu @vansa_bali

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i agree.. i think she's gonna do a shit job cuz u can figur out from her interrviews how boring she is! imagine, in the 10-11 yrs she has been in this business, she hasnt cracked a single genuinely funny joke. god save the tv show! we're gonna be watching either silence or a funeral for the production house of the show :)

14 years ago

Shipra @Shipra_S

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I will not watch that show for sure...'coz i dislike Ash to the limit!...and it's only and only 'coz she has major attitude problem!..Abhishek,well he has to still learn the ABC of acting!..lol..

14 years ago

cooks09 @cooks09

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wow .. good luck to her.. love all the bachchans for their acting and entertaining skills.. not sure about their personal lives so no comments on that as not concerned about that either

14 years ago

sameera12 @sameera12

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people read these articles cuz they think its interestin and the reason y every website say cooment is becuz they wanna know how u feel about smthin so everyone has the rite to comment and say wat they think. no offence

14 years ago

sanhere @sanhere

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guys ... yuu r no one to judge neonez acting .. aishwarya rai isnt known her for her fake acting .. she is famous in d whole world so ofcourse she has all the acting skills and everything .. same wid abhishek and if u guyz dont like dem ..whts d need of commenting over der posts? if u dont lik neone keep it to urself ...no need to go public over ur thots...

14 years ago