Crossover bid in 'Instant Khichdi' and 'Sarabhai vs Sarabhai'

The cast of Instant Khichdi is slotted to appear in Sarabhai vs Sarabhai on 18 and 19 of April. "We wanted to show our range. While we generate smiles in Sarabhai…, in Instant…we aim for peels of laughter. Imagine the situation, where an upper-middle class family finds out that they have crass and loud relatives…," says JD Majethia, the producer of both these shows. The lovers of the comic genre are truly in for a treat from the house of Hats off Productions, as the two sisters Ratna and Supriya Pathak, play out the roles of long lost sisters who are poles apart. If one is the epitome of high class up-market socialite, the other finds it difficult even to understand English! Look out for a clash of two cultures on the sets of Instant Khichdi. Crossover bids are increasingly becoming the norm rather than the exception on television today. It is an innovation that is one of its kind! To get the cast of one popular serial into another on the same channel! It all perhaps started with the introduction of the entire cast of Star Plus' Des Mein Nikla Hoga Chand in Kasauti Zindagi Kay, as part of a marriage between two characters of the serials. This marked an important event in the lives of the four leads in the respective serials. Similarly, the tracks of Sony's CID and CID Special Bureau were merged into one track. Again, the track had serious repercussions on the characters playing the lead roles. When we had contacted Yash Patnaik, Supervising Producer, CID and CID Special Bureau at the time of the crossover, to ask him whether this was a ploy to increase TRP's of the show, he said, "With our TRP ranging from six to seven, we don't need to worry about competition. This is an endeavour to give that much needed extra kick to CID Special Bureau." Recently, the cast of Star One's Remix also appeared on a special episode of Lakme Fashion House --- surely, this is an innovation that seems to have caught the attention of tellydom.