Do TV actors feel discrimination when they try to make it in films? Does the demarcation between films and TV continue in India, with actors working on small screen made to feel smaller? Erica Fernandes and Karan Kundrra have recently appeared in Amazon MiniTV’s show Love Adhura. During the promotion of the show, Erica and Karan had contrasting views about facing discrimination from Bollywood while they spoke to Indianexpress.com. While both had contrasting takes on the subject, Erica revealed an incident where she felt ill-treated, while Karan revealed how he was treated very nicely on the sets of Mubrakan and even otherwise.
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Sharing her take on whether the industry shows resistance toward accepting TV actors doing films, Erica pointed at Karan and said, “I have a different answer and he has a different one.” She further shared about feeling the discrimination and said, “I have faced it, I have seen it at award functions also, big names have done it. I have experienced it. In Hollywood TV and films are both called Hollywood then why is there a differentiation here? Actors themselves have created that differentiation. But it differs from person to person.”
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Contrasting to Erica’s view, Karan Kundrra adds, “We had very similar answers earlier, but then I went and signed a film called Mubarakan, and my biggest takeaway from the film was that I was in London on a big set where there was Anil Kapoor, Ratna Pathak Shah, Anees Bazmee, and Rahul Dev. When I was there, no one from Arjun, Ileane, Anil Sir, or Ratna Mam was discriminating. There were times when Anil Kapoor came and told me I killed it. This was my second film with Pawan Malhotra and he told me how you TV guys do it. That is when I realized that people who have made it don’t talk about all this, it is only those who have not made it and don’t want you to make it, are going to be talking about it.”
Karan went on to add, “There have been times when Anil Sir has asked me how to stay relevant. The idea is that these people are not talking about it, but the ones in the middle are. If you listen to them, you will be left behind. Legends have a different story to share. I was at IFFI last to last year, and I was not treated differently. So I have never been made to feel like that.”
Watch the full interview here:
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During the conversation, Erica also shared how she wished to play a warrior princess, while Karan went on the say, “I want to be a part of a legacy that has had so many stories that have made a difference. I have reached a stage where I am looking for the right stories now.”
Karan was last seen on the big screen in the film Thank You For Coming alongside Shehnaaz Gill and Bhumi Pednekar. Erica on the other hand has worked in a few films down South, in Bollywood she starred in the movie Babloo Happy Hai in 2014.
Recently, in another interview too Erica shared how was replaced by several South as well as Bollywood films in the past.
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