MUMBAI : Ever since Ekta Kapoor announced Naagin 6, the fantasy drama has been under the spotlight. Be it the plotline involving a ‘deadly virus’ or Bigg Boss 15 winner Tejasswi Prakash roped in to play the lead role, the show has been making headlines.
In a recent interaction, Ekta talked about the upcoming season and confessed that she knew she would be at the receiving end of criticism for making a show around a pandemic.
Reacting to the criticisms of the netizens, the creative honcho said, “I wanted to do something different. We have all seen Naagin come back to take revenge for love. This might sound like a ridiculous idea and it can either work or fail but we wanted to shake the basics of the show.”
She further asserted, “How many times will we tell a story of personal revenge? I must add here that a serious amount of empathy has gone into the story. We have all faced trauma and it was nobody’s fault. Of course, there would be entertainment but there’s also a lot of relatability and empathy.”
“I knew people would call the idea mad. They would turn around and say are you crazy but I wanted to change. If an American platform was making the same thing, you would call it great. And when we do it, people say we are insensitive,” she added.
Credit: The Indian Express
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