"Change is not acceptable to them (older channels) and they are not experimental.
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Shekhar says when he approached established channels for 'Balika Vadhu', it was rejected, saying only formula-based scripts work for their channels. It is just our ignorance that we don't know about it." Almost six million child marriages take place every year. He quoted government figures and said: "This is not a thing of the past. Child marriage is an important issue and no one has addressed it seriously till now," he said. My father was 23 years old at the time of marriage. My mother got married when she was 15 years old. "I have seen a lot of people getting married at a young age. The film was not on child marriage, but I had my reservations about the title being the same," Shekhar said.Ĭhild marriage as a social evil was of immense concern to Shekhar who hails from Rajasthan where people still practise it. "I knew the title 'Balika Vadhu' fits the show perfectly, but I was not so keen on it because a film of the same name was made in Bengali.
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But when his script was adopted for the TV serial, "Balika Vadhu" was finalised. When Shekhar wanted to make a film on the subject, he had titled it "Ehsaas". The girl is thus unable to have a joyful childhood and is bound by her in-laws' customs instead. His current show "Balika Vadhu" primarily revolves around child bride Anandi, who is married off to an equally young boy Jagdish.
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In 1996, he joined Zee TV as the senior programming executive. Shekhar has earlier been associated with shows like "Saat Phere", "Kumkum", "Astitva", and "Saathi Re". But at that time I was writing for other shows and didn't have time to contact people and narrate the story," Shekhar said from Mumbai. "I originally wrote the script for a film in 1992. Its writer Purnendu Shekhar says it was originally a movie script, written 16 years back. NEW DELHI: "Balika Vadhu", a TV show on child marriage, has become one of the most watched soaps on small screen.