I think the audience is very adaptable: Rohit Bhardwaj

MUMBAI: Actor Rohit Bhardwaj, better known for playing Yudhistir in “Mahabharat”, feels that the audience is ready to accept new genre and content, but people try to play it safe. He said, “I think the audience is very adaptable when it comes to a new storyline, a new genre, or a new content. This is why so many web series and movie do well.” 

“The problem with TV is that people want to play safe, nobody is ready to take the risk. The audience is very intelligent and they want new content,” he added.  The “Myopia” actor also feels that the content on TV has not changed over the years and added, “We are still stuck with the daily soap format. There are some finite series, but that’s about it.”  He further said, “Daily soaps are very boring for me. In the finite series, you have the option of telling just one story, a character gets life from start to finish, there is the scope of an end which is not there in daily soaps. After a point, all the daily soaps are just dragged.”  For Rohit, shows on kitchen politics is a big no, and he said, “I will never want to be a part of saas-bahu dramas or shows that only are only women centric, I feel you need to maintain a balance and there are shows which were shown from the men’s perspective and they did well.”

Speaking of shows doing well, the actor also feels that ratings and TRPs are very important. “Ratings get advertisements, advertisements give us money and that’s how we earn, so ratings matter. But at the same time, you can experiment too,” Rohit concluded.