Till now, we had only heard that the Saas- bahu themes of Hindi TV serials were influencing Marathi serial writers. But now, we are noticing that remakes of Marathi serials are made on Hindi television. There is also news that few Marathi serials will be dubbed in Hindi, thus giving exposure to Marathi artistes on Hindi television. This is certainly a good news for Marathi artistes. At least, they will get noticed at national level and receive good offers from Hindi film producers. Even otherwise, Marathi serials are attracting good viewership, among the regional channels. With the rise in viewership, they are also likely to collect good revenue, through commercial ads.
Based on the story of Zee Marathi’s ‘Honar Suun Mee Hya Gharchi’, Zee TV have introduced their Hindi serial ‘Satarangee Sasural’. And now, watching the popularity of this serial, it is understood that they are planning to dub their two Marathi serials ‘Eka Lagnachi Teesari Goshta’ and ‘Julun Yeti Reshimgathi’, which are family dramas. Now, it remains to be seen, how our Marathi artistes will be accepted by Hindi viewers? If it works, it will certainly benefit our Marathi artistes, to reach every household, across the country.
By the way, the news about the separation of Shree and Janhavi in real life, was highlighted on Marathi news channels during the week; with Shashank ketkar filing for divorce, from his wife Tejashree. But, in the serial, we are noticing the possibility of their reunion, with the wicked plans of Janhavi’s step mother, being exposed. Will this prevent their divorce in real life ? Only time will tell. But, there are many cases of settlement, with mutual understanding. Instead of performing separately in different dramas, their admirers would love to watch them together on Marathi stage. Even otherwise, recently they did anchoring together, for an award show ,in spite of the talks about their ‘break up’ taking rounds.
In the coming week, Marathi programmes at prime time, are likely to face a challenge from IPL T20 matches, which are moving in interesting stage. But when, there hasn’t been much effect of IPL on Marathi films, don’t think that the viewership of Marathi programmes would suffer. It looks like that our Marathi serials are all prepared to face this challenge.
