There is actually nothing to rejoice, just a faint sigh of relief. Sarath Chandran told us on a confessional note there is too much violence around and “only if we mimic some of it can we keep up our hold on the market.” The teenager, uttering a vengeful monologue, hiding in the dark in wait of her prey and splashing the liquid on her classmate’s face - all this fails to qualify as violence, thanks to the standards already in place. “But it turned out that the bottle only had water,” he exclaimed. He also didn’t think that Deepa, the rival of the ‘Five Fingers’ group (all plus-one students), sneaking out a bottle of acid from the school laboratory and pouring it on her enemy’s face is violence. However, Sarath Chandran denied the allegation that the serial ‘Autograph’ also contained violent scenes. He had also confessed that the stunts were required to keep up the TRP ratings. Baiju Devaraj, producer and project director of both the serials, had put up a brave front defending his works, claiming that a message will be put across at the very end, forbidding children to choose the path of evil. ‘Expresso’ had reported that the depiction of events in two of Asianet’s serials in the prime-time slot, ‘Parijatham’ and ‘Autograph’ (aired at 6.30 pm), was fizzing up into a deadly cocktail. I have asked the producer to change the storyline and we have also launched a promo on those lines,” said Sarath Chandran, assistant vice-president (programmes and serials), Asianet. The channel has asked the producer, Baiju Devaraj, to bring in a change of scenario with effect from this week.
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