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This column previously ran by Deepak Morris is now taken over by Gautami Tripathy and now the column will be written by Dr. Harmander Singh.

The purpose of the column is to bring the culture and joy of mysterious and beautiful India to the world.

April 6, 2008

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He, as the Western and I, as the Eastern Talk and Discuss-VI

Dr. Harmander Singh

“Oh, I see, did not the senior workers in your production house do anything?” he asks.

“Possibilities for the opportunists are not helping, it is time to gain. You see the changing values and the ethics are such that one of the person, whom we offered work, asked us to pay some money to the producer, who did not want to produce the religious serial. However, he also borrowed all the costumes and other team ready to do so, but the budgets did not allow to make any profit from it and thus he took lots of money as if a bribe, as if a golden chance for us so that we may launch the TV serial,” I say.

“Alas, it sounds bad, did not have your family any experience in this field?” he asks.

“Well, you see our family had already co-produced a film on the patriotism around the mid of seventies. Sometimes, some people want the full credit, even while working as an employee. You know the person in the team gave guarantee of the production equipments so that we must produce the serial and thus pay the costs for the borrowed equipments and the costumes. We produced it successfully for about 30 episodes. After paying the half of the amount at one stage the channel offered the cheques, as the part of the payments, but the person involved forced others to return it so that full payments me be received. Once they returned the cheques, the members of the channel laughed at us as if we were the fools. They used it against us, though the court overruled it. The person involved became revengeful, as the producers did not support his actions to earn self-honors. One of the worst things he did was to conduct the live telecast, which our production house was conducting at the Gurudwara, the religious place of Sikhs. He tried to create disturbance in the production house. He gave hundreds of missed calls to the people in the production house, sometimes threatening. I have heard his threatening comments on the mobile, is not it shameful,” I say.

“Yaw, it is shameful. Did not you earn some money from the payments, which the channel made for the half or any number of the episodes?” he says.

 “Well, you see as it was a costume drama and mega project, we were paying from our pocket, the reason was simple that though the channel was offering almost the half of the investment for each episode. We thought we should buy our own costumes and thus we bought it, moreover all members in the family considered not get payment for any work while doing it for the production house,” I say.

“Gosh, it seems a risky, you could have thought before doing it, however, as the cause and the commitment were there, you seem right,” he says.

“Well, it can happen anywhere, is not it,” I say.

“No, it happens, but it should not happen,” he says.