Karan Patel Lashes Out Against The Discrimination Between Film And TV Actors, Pens A Powerful Post

Whether its TV or films, the love that our stars get from the audience is truly rare. And, when it comes to loving our actors, audiences rarely differentiate between TV and films. From Dr. Armaan in Dill Mill Gayye, Abhi in KumKum Bhagya, Raman Bhalla in Yeh Hai Mohabbatein to  Anurag in Kasautii Zindagii Kay (reboot), these characters and the actors playing them have been loved by us as much as any Bollywood star.

However, when it comes to the film industry, a lot of TV actors have complained, refuses to take TV actors seriously. Karan Patel, who has been one of the most popular faces of TV for quite some time now addressed the same issue in a heartfelt social media post.

He reminded people how the job of a TV actor is not easy and in fact, a lot of them are more popular than the new crop of an actor both in terms of reach and social media fandom.

Check out the whole note here:

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I recently had a conversation with a friend about the implementation of a simple thumb rule ... ‘CONTENT’ has to be the ‘MAIN LEAD’ in any form of entertainment, be it the MOVIES or TELEVISION, and with a few recent pieces of work i came across on various web portals, i think i was right. I am glad that the audiences are coming off age and are widening their acceptance brackets. Now for the makers to GET UP & REALISE that it is the ‘CONTENT’ and the ‘TALENT OF THE ARTIST’ that BRINGS AUDIENCES and NOT the Actor’s ‘MEDIUM OF ORIGIN’ So all those ‘FILM MAKERS’ with “nahi yaar tv ka face hai” or “Tv wala actor nahi chahiye” kind of attitude, here are a few things you probably haven’t realised .... ? Today TELEVISION has a FAR WIDER reach as compared to your FILMS. ?A POPULAR TV ARTIST in todays time, on SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS is MILES AHEAD than MOST FILM ACTORS (who think they are stars) and the NUMBER OF FOLLOWERS is PROOF TO THAT. ? FILMS are the ones that NEED the PROMOTIONS on TV thus proving that we market your product to a far bigger larger scale, so that takes care of “arre tv actor ko kitne log pehchante hai ?”. ? Not only PAN INDIA but INTERNATIONALLY TOO most of US TV ACTORS have LARGER FAN BASES than these NEW CROP OF FILM LEADS. ? The NUMBER OF SCENES spread over VARIOUS EMOTIONS that a TV ACTOR manages to GET PERFECTLY in A DAYS TIME is something that I’m sure Film Makers have no clue about. So there goes the, “tv actor hai, complex character kar payega ?” mental block flying out of the window. ? TODAY’s AUDIENCES watch TV or FILMS for ENTERTAINMENT, so if your ARTIST does JUSTICE TO THE CONTENT, you NEED NOT WORRY about THE FATE of the PROJECT. Lastly, what i FAIL TO UNDERSTAND is, that now when the AUDIENCES , who are a Producer or Director’s biggest concern have TARNISHED the DISCRIMINATION between TV & FILM actors and have Chosen ‘ENTERTAINMENT’ as their TOP PREFERENCE, Why do FILM MAKERS still have the same OLD SCHOOL THINKING when it come to CASTING ACTORS.

A post shared by Karan Patel (@karan9198) on May 24, 2019 at 2:29am PDT