Exclusive! Earlier reality shows were real but now they are scripted, says Kushal Tandon

Actor Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai Kushal Tandon was recently in Varanasi on the occasion of his parents’ wedding anniversary. The Lucknow-born actor said: “This is my first visit to the city and I am so lucky to have been to Varanasi. I have been to ghats and attended Ganga arti. The next day I had darshan at Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Kaal Bhairav ​​Temple and Sankat Mochan and it was a lovely experience. There’s a different aura when you sit and attend to the art, it’s so ethereal,” he said.

Kushal Tandon in Banaras with his parents

The last time he appeared in the TV show Beyhadh, the actor who played the web series also said: “The reason I switched to the OTT platform was because I had the opportunity to do a different type of story, more than a web series. pretty fast. -wise. There is no specific agenda for not doing TV. If there’s something good for me, I’ll definitely do it, I haven’t quit television yet.” content right now, which I’m looking for as an actor but if a show is finite or drags six months or a year long offered to me on TV in the future, I’ll definitely take that project, not a show that goes on endlessly. Even today’s audience is really smart because they have been exposed to really good content on OTT platforms especially after the pandemic.For them, content is king .”

Regarding the shift of viewers from television to the OTT platform, the actor said, “Not only young people but also the generation of mothers are also turning to watching web series. Even my mother doesn’t watch TV, she prefers some good web dramas. Today, there is a big change to OTT.”

As an actor from UP, he said, “I wanted to do something raw, some kind of mafia drama on the OTT platform, something like Mirzapur and I was in talks for it. projects like that.”

Kushal, who has been in most of the reality shows on TV such as Big Boss 7, Nach Baliye 5, Fear Factor Khatron Ke Khiladi 5, said: “I’ve been on all the big reality shows so I’m not want to participate like that. show more. I’m too old to be on reality shows, and these shows aren’t what they used to be. It was real before but now it’s not a reality show but a scripted reality show.”