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They speak of their decision to be firmly rooted in the milieu and how that proved to be rewarding
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How the creators of ‘Ghar Waapsi’ made the idea of the provincial a runway success
They speak of their decision to be firmly rooted in the milieu and how that proved to be rewarding
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Updated: August 28, 2022 12:48:22 pm
A still from 'Ghar Waapsi'Though the Ghar Waapsi team was confident that they’d made a “good show”, they wondered how many people were going to watch it when it dropped on Disney+ Hotstar last month. “After all, no one was threatening to nuke a city nor was the planet at stake. However, we knew those who would watch it, would like it,” says director Ruchir Arun. The team was overwhelmed when the show, with help of strong word-of-mouth publicity, became one of the most-watched new shows.
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The show is about a 28-year-old upwardly-mobile professional Shekhar Dwivedi, essayed by popular television actor Vishal Vashishtha, who returns home to Indore for an indefinite period after losing his job in Bengaluru. As he tries to find a new routine and purpose in his old city, friends and memories that he had left behind make a comeback into his life. “It’s not about just telling a story. The audience today has keen eyes. When something is truthful, they relate to it,” says Arun, as he wonders what makes the show “likable”.
The show was conceptualised by Dice Media keeping in mind the pandemic and how it precipitated the return of many professionals to their hometowns. “The idea of a show, centred around homecoming, was lying dormant at Dice Media for some years. It found its relevance now. Though the pandemic was the trigger, we consciously don’t mention it. Else it would have dominated the narrative,” says Bharat Mishra, who wrote the show with Tatsat Pandey. Instead, the writers chose to focus on the protagonist’s struggle to fit in even though he was in his familiar territory. Soon, his parents’ troubles and distance between the siblings become a bigger concern for Shekhar than his unemployment.
Once the idea was greenlit in mid-2021, the two writers spent hours talking to each other to develop the story. Mishra was in Pune during that period while Pandey was in Indore. However, they had a common link: Indore. While Pandey had lived and studied there until he completed his MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Indore, Mishra used to visit his grandparents there during his school vacations. As the show’s creative director Kartik Krishnan insisted on making a Tier-II city the show’s setting, Dice Media teamed them up to ensure authenticity in the narrative. Previously, Pandey had written a detective show for Dice Media while Mishra has been working with them for nearly four years. Arun, who has directed shows like Little Things and What the Folks, came on board just before the writers finalised the script.
Rating: 5