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In a recent interview, Karan Tacker opened up about his opinion on the big film stars taking over the OTT space.
He debuted as a lead in the TV show, Love Ne Mila Di Jodi. (Photo Credits: Instagram)
Karan Tacker has been part of many television shows like Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai and Rang Badalti Odhani and others. He rose to immense stardom with his performances in web series like Special Ops and Khakee: The Bihar Chapter. In a recent interview, he talked about his upcoming collaboration and even shared his two cents on big film stars taking over the OTT space.
In an interview, Karan Tacker, who has been shooting for his upcoming web show, revealed this is the most satisfying project in his acting career of almost 15 years. He said, “This is the most joyful collaboration of my life. Till now, in 15 years, if I’ve ever felt the most collaborative and the most liberated as an artiste, it has been on this project.” Further, he was asked with many film actors moving to web series, if it affects the equality in the industry, with compromises being made to accommodate big stars. To which, he replied, “It’s an open platform, everyone can work here, and everyone should work here. I feel that doesn’t bother me at all.”
The actor, who admits that OTT gave him and other actors like him an equalising space, mentioned that the obsession with film stars is completely unhealthy in the digital space. “If you have an actor or an actress from films who does not have a great box office record or might not be the best artist or the best fit also for the job, but just because of the tag of a film actor gives them that opportunity, that is not right. That obsession needs to dial down a little bit,” Karan said to HT.
He continued citing examples from even the media industry, “I don’t feel like that’s only by the makers or platforms, I think that even trickles down to the media in general. The minute as an industry you start giving credibility to everybody, that’s the only time everyone will have an equal opportunity.” Karan even mentioned how the non-useful compromises can impact the show’s quality, adding, “The platform is like if I wanna pay an actor 1 crore for a project, but because this person is coming from films, I’m going to pay them 22 crores to do a show which is not even being watched by anybody and probably sanction a second season. I feel that is unfair because what that does eventually is that it breaks the backbone of the platform in general.“
He explained, “No one has consumed season 1, but you sanction a season 2, so you have to go back to the drawing board and downsize all the other projects you’ve lined up with other actors who might not be from films. Then you pay them less, give the producer lesser money to make maybe a creatively heightened show. That business model is where the problem is. As an actor, I have no problem if a film actor comes on OTT. But if they cannot run a film, how will they be able to run a show here? It’s creatively unfair to the craft, and then you are stealing an opportunity from somebody else. That is what bothers me.”
Karan played the role of IPS Amit Lodha in Khakee: The Bihar Chapter and Farooq Ali in both the instalments of Special OPS.
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