Exclusive! The first reality shows were real, but now they’re scripted, says Kushal Tandon


Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai actor Kushal Tandon was recently in Varanasi on the occasion of his parents’ wedding anniversary. The Lucknow-born actor says, “This was my first visit to the city and I was lucky enough to be in Varanasi. I went to the ghats and attended Ganga arti. Next day I had darshan at Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Kaal Bhairav ​​Temple and Sankat Mochan Temple and it was a lovely experience. There’s a different aura as you sit and witness the art, it’s just ethereal,” he says.

Kushal Tandon in Banaras with his parents

Kushal Tandon in Banaras with his parents

Last seen in the TV show Beyhadh, the actor who has done web series also says, “The reason why I switched to the OTT platform is that I got the chance to work in a different type of story, besides the series web are pretty fast, work-wise. There is no specific program not to do TV. If something good is offered to me I will definitely do it, I haven’t quit television”. content right now, which I am looking for as an actor, but if in the future I am offered a good finished show on TV lasting six months or a year, I will definitely accept that project and not a show that goes on forever. Web series have good content that really counts over anything else. The public is also really smart these days as they’ve been exposed to the really good stuff on OTT platforms, especially after the pandemic. For them, content is king. ”

On the transition of viewers from television to the OTT platform, the actor says, “It’s not just the youngsters, but also the mom generation that has switched to watching web series. My mom doesn’t watch TV either, she prefers some good web series instead. There is a big shift towards OTT these days.

As an actor who hails from UP, he says, ‘I’d like to do something gritty, some kind of mafia drama on OTT platform, something along the lines of Mirzapur and I’m in talks for projects like that.’

Kushal, who has been a part of most of the reality shows in television like Big Boss 7, Nach Baliye 5, Fear Factor Khatron Ke Khiladi 5 says, ‘I have done all the major reality shows so I would not like to be a part of any shows anymore. too mature to be a part of reality shows and these shows are not like before.Previously it was real but now it is not reality shows but scripted reality shows.

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