TV actor Karan Patel has been absent from the small screen for a while now. He was last seen in the hit TV show 'Yeh Hai Mohabbatein.'
In a recent podcast with Bharti Singh, Karan Patel revealed that he has been out of work for the past six years and also confessed that he hasn't received a single offer for any TV show at all.
Karan also said that he hasn't gotten any offers from the OTT space as well. He further said that he dislikes working in the OTT industry since it is flooded with content that verges on "soft porn."
"I have not gotten a single daily soap offered in the last 6 years. Now, every day, around 150-200 new actors are being born. They will work on a show at 10 percent of the amount we would charge. There was a point where there was a lot of money in TV. But today, makers think that rather than making one show, they can make two web series on the same budget. But what about the quality? I am not getting offers (in the OTT space too), be they good roles or bad roles. Now the OTT space has gotten spoiled due to too many people doing too many things on it. Most of the shows on OTT today have become soft porn for me; if there is no sleaze or love-making scene in it, it won’t be watched even if it's not required in the story," said Karan.
Karan further said that makers in Bollywood are also not willing to experiment. He shared, “Just because one person got successful with something, everybody blindly follows them. After Kabir Singh, everything revolved around the subject of women’s abuse. The same was with Animal. Even on OTT after Family Man, everybody started making thrillers. Even Dharma and YRF, who were celebrated for the romance genre, have gotten into making thrillers. We don’t have the guts to experiment; our biggest problem is that if something works in the South, only then will we follow. Look at Maddock Films today; Dinesh Vijan experimented with the horror comedy genre, which was a subject where people would rarely invest money. He took a chance with Stree, Go Goa Gone, and look at Maddock’s valuation today," said Karan.
Karan has worked on many hit TV shows and was also a part of reality shows like Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 6 in 2013 and Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 10 in 2020. He was the runner-up in Kahtron Ke Khiladi.
His last TV show was Yeh Hai Mohabbatein, and prior to that he had worked in Kkavyanjali, Kasturi, and Kasautii Zindagii Kay 2. He was then seen in a web show, Raktanchal 2.
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