Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah's quality has suffered, it has become almost like a factory: Dilip Joshi aka Jethalal

By Tanmayi Savadi

on November 03, 2020 04:22:45 PM

Sab TV's Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah is one of the longest-running shows on Indian television. The sitcom completed 12 years in 2020. One of Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah's central characters Jethalal Gada played by veteran actor Dilip Joshi enjoys a huge fan following. Giving a surprise to his fans, the ace actor sat down for a conversation with YouTuber Sorabh Pant. During the special podcast, Dilip admitted that he feels the show's quality has suffered. He told that the writers are under pressure to deliver multiple episodes within a short span of time.

"Jab aap quantity dekhte hai, toh kahin na kahin quality suffer hoti hi hai. Pehle weekly hum karte the aur writers ke paas bohot time hota tha. Chaar episode likhe, doosre chaar episode agle mahine shoot karna hai (When you emphasize on quantity, the quality does suffer somewhere. Initially, it was a weekly show and the writers had a lot of time. With four episodes being shot per month, they had a gap of a month to write the next four episodes.)"

Dilip felt Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah has become like a factory and writers are finding it difficult to come up with new subjects. He agreed that certain episodes aren't up to the mark as far as humour is concerned. "Abhi yeh almost like a factory ho gaya hai (now it has become almost like a factory). Every day the writers have to find new subjects. After all, they are also human beings. I agree that all the episodes cannot be of that level when you are doing a daily show for such a long time. I do feel that certain episodes are not up to the mark as far as the humour is concerned," he added.

He continued saying, "As actors, we also sometimes find that a scene doesn’t have enough punches or the humour is less. So we try to add humour by using some movement or some property. We try to add some punches so that the scene works. But I would give full credit to the writers. To write for such a long time is not a joke. Comedy writing is very difficult. To come up with new subjects and ideas is so difficult. So have to bear with the quality not being up to the mark sometimes."

Last week, Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah failed to make an impact on the TRP chart. The show produced by Asit Kumarr Modi also stars Amit Bhatt, Sunayana Fozdar, Munmun Dutta, Sonalika Joshi, Mandar Chandwadkar, Tanuj Mahashabde, Balvinder Singh Suri, Nirmal Soni, Ambika Ranjankar, Jennifer Mistry Bansiwal, Shyam Pathak, Ghanashyam Nayak, Tanmay Vekaria, Raj Anadkat, Palak Sidhwani, Kush Shah, Samay Shah and Azhar Shaikh.

(Source: YouTube)