Actor Pankaj Tripathi is now producer Pankaj Tripathi, too. The acclaimed actor has offered the lately launched internet sequence, Good Household, which premiered on YouTube this Friday. The present explores subjects similar to remedy, psychological well being, and private progress. In a candid chat with HT to mark the present’s launch, the actor-producer spoke about all this and extra.
Pankaj Tripathi on Good Household
As a artistic particular person, Pankaj says he turned to manufacturing not for cash, however for good storytelling. “Content material issues; the story does! Even on this (present), na maine ek rupaya lagaya hai, na major ek rupaya revenue ka loonga isse (I’ve neither invested something in it, nor will I take a single rupee of revenue from this). Ajay Rai, my previous pal and producer from Gangs of Wasseypur, has made this. I got here on board to current it after he confirmed me two episodes. I felt this was an excellent story that wanted to be advised,” he explains.
Created by Palak Bhambri, Good Household is the story of a dysfunctional city household that’s pressured to take remedy collectively as their points are derailing the psychological well being of their youngest member, a 9-year-old hypersensitive woman.
‘I might dismiss psychological well being as faltu ki baat’
Pankaj admits that speaking about hypersensitivity and remedy within the mainstream is important. “I grew up within the village. Half my life has been spent there. The surroundings, mind-set, and upbringing create a definite sort of particular person. After I got here to Delhi and Mumbai, I used to be the identical. If somebody talked about this, I might dismiss it as ‘faltu ki baat’, would inform them ‘do thappad lagega, theek ho jaoge (you’ll be okay when you get two slaps)’. I’ll have stated one thing dismissive, as a result of I used to assume this was all garbage. I assumed that solely those that have all of it have psychological diseases. However no, this will occur to the wealthy and the poor, the profitable and the failures,” he explains.
The actor says that opening as much as new thought processes and methods of considering has made him a greater particular person. He tells us with an instance, “After I first got here to Delhi, I should have seen a feminine batchmate smoking and made an impression of her in my thoughts. However then I realised, if I watch a person smoke a cigarette, I don’t type that very same picture about his character. So, I used to be doing one thing incorrect.”
Author Palak Bhambri talks Good Household
Author Palak Bhambri says the trick with Good Household was to discover all these ‘heavy’ subjects with sensitivity, because the present’s tone is a component comedy, half drama. “Remedy, as an idea, is new to India. So, a present on it’s much more novel. Saying heavy issues in a light-weight method is a craft that we’ve got tried right here. On the similar time, we didn’t wish to let go of the seriousness and the sensitivity of the subject material,” she explains.
Good Household has adopted the ‘pay-as-you-watch’ mannequin, releasing on YouTube, with the primary two episodes free to observe. The next episodes want a per-episode charges of ₹59, just like what Aamir Khan did for Sitaare Zameen Par earlier this yr. Explaining the rationale behind this, Pankaj says, “It’s a huge present by way of manufacturing and canvas. It has not been made for YouTube. There isn’t any pattern of watching mainstream grand dramas on YouTube thus far. However all of us use it to advertise our reveals and movies, by way of podcasts and trailers. That reveals the scale of the viewers right here. So why use it only for promotions? It’s a danger however an experiment.”
Good Household stars Gulshan Devaiah, Girija Oak, Neha Dhupia, Manoj Pahwa, and Seema Pahwa. All eight episodes can be found on YouTube.