Star Plus' Saraswatichandra under scanner; might go off-air

Saraswatichandra

Star Plus’ Saraswatichandra is one show that always manages to stay in news…doesn’t matter if it has a convincing storyline or not.

This ambitious television venture of Sanjay Leela Bhansali was launched with much aplomb and viewers and TV pundits believed that it will revolutionize or add a dimension to the realms of Indian television.

However, the show never managed to put the TRP chart on fire (1.6 this week) or create waves with its differentiating content.

Now, reports that are coming in suggest that the channel is pondering on pulling the plug off the project.

Said a source: “The show is no doubt very high profile but TRPs do matter. Saraswatichandra’s numbers have majorly been on the lower side. Hence the concern.”

Furthermore, TRPs are not the only probable reason which could bring an end to the show. Here’s more from the source, “Jennifer’s (Winget playing Kumud) repeated denial on not enacting romantic scenes with Gautam (Rode playing Saras) is taking a toll on the storyline. We all know that Jennifer’s husband Karan (Singh Grover) is not comfortable with her romancing other co actors. This has also put the creatives in a fix.”

To get Jennifer’s side of the story, we sent her a text message but did not get any response.

Furthermore, reports suggested that soon a parallel lead will be introduced in the plot. Rahil Azam’s name was tossed up for the same.

However, now we have learnt that Sanjay Leela Bhansali has gone on to reject Rahil’s name and has asked creatives to look out for more faces.

Gaurav Chopraa (Colors’ Uttaran) was also in contention to play the role of the parallel lead. But for now, it looks like he is also out of the list.

For confirmation we called up Rahil, but he remained unavailable.

Gaurav stated, “I am committed to Uttaran and the creatives are trying to work out on my future tracks. So I would not like to comment on anything else at this moment.”

Indeed, lots happening at the Saraswatichandra front.

Now, on a different note…Star Plus was all set to introduce a new band of afternoon shows. But our channel sources have suggested that the move has been dropped as of now.

Meri Bhabhi was supposed to be a part of the afternoon slot. But later it got a prime time slot. Avinash Sachdev starrer tentatively titled Aastha, which was supposed to get a noon slot, will most probably air at prime time or late evening. So it looks like the channel has dropped the afternoon band idea as of now.”

We buzzed a channel PR to get a confirmation on the same but all we got is “no comments”.

With TRP battle heating up with each passing week, shows will have to really battle hard to stay on air.

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mokodor's picture

i wasted half an hour of my life for 4 months on this garbage show to see this happened http://tellynewsindia.wordpress.com/2013/07/05/saras-to-realize-his-mistake-of-calling-off-his-marriage-to-go-to-ratnanagri-kumud-to-marry-pramad-in-saraswatichandra/ i hope this show goes down further in trp and reaches 0.4 pathetic show
sweetsmile's picture

you did not waste any of your time ! you learnt about indian culture and many ways to express ur self + each spoiler is not true! the complete tagline of the show is MUQAMAL MUHABAT KI ADHURI DAASTAN... AB HOGI PURI STARPLUS PAR. yes i mean it for proof see the beginning promos. this is the best show, i am a great samudian dare if you calll it garbage ! you have no rit to insult if u cannot compliment. i am sure the show will go on trp's soon and set a record of scoring well on the trp charts. ( god listens to pure prayers , and not the ones which are negetive). infact i am sure that whatever will happen infuture will happen for samud only, good and happy! infact to know wht happens keep watching sc !
Kunal_2004's picture

But the show is going correct as per the novel. If Kumud had been married to saras, the show would have diverted from the original concept. Saraswatichandra needs a prime time slot. All i hear of the show is late at 11 or next day morning.
sanjanaks1's picture

all the credit goes to KSG for being possessive. he can romance a girl to any extent in his show and his wife cant do it on screen also. i feel bad for Gautam as it was his first good show after TMLS. they can better change the female lead and carry on. thats all i can say.
Bhawana's picture

I just hope the upcoming show starrer Avinash Sachdev comes on air fast......Avi is the king of 7:30 pm....he made this slot prime time....missing u Avinash
Anonymous's picture

TC, if you don't have any "comments' and everything is "no comments", then why did you post this article? And show hasnt even reached its preclimax phase n u r hell bent behind closing it. Only TRPs dont tell weder a show wil run or not. Overseas popularity also matters.
vijay patel's picture

dont change any lead ...if any lead would change the serialtrp would go more down then now ..its fantastic ,,threwthatbastard ksg in dustbinand carry on with the same leads .......it will work....also aad some morre romance in ,,,
vaibhavi 's picture

only thing behind serial's low trp is its time.if its coming at 9 or 9.30 then the show must have broken all the records and must be at top in TRP....
hb's picture

it's really very nice story. plz apply some innovative marketing strategy for it. I have not seen it's advertisement for a long time.
suchitra's picture

one of the unique story line, perfect actors except kumud who has stopped to act cant romance then why is she there . the serial is so popular even in the villages people relate to it then how can it go off.the new track is even more interesting

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