Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai writer Aatish Kapadia slams unofficial remake of the show in Pakistan; requests people to not give it views : Bollywood News

Aatish Kapadia, writer of one of the most popular Indian sitcom Sarabhai vs Sarabhai, recently discovered a rip-off of the show being aired in Pakistan. The writer said that he cringed at the terrible performance in the show. The original show created in India stars Ratna Pathak Shah, Rupali Ganguly, Satish Shah, Rajesh Kumar and Sumeet Raghavan in the lead.

Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai writer Aatish Kapadia slams unofficial remake of the show in Pakistan; requests people to not give it views

After discovering the Pakistani rip-off of the show, Kapadia took to his Facebook account and shared a lengthy note expressing his views. “Morning began with a forwarded video link. I opened it and saw a ‘word to word’ ‘frame to frame’ unofficial remake of our show ‘Sarabhai vs Sarabhai’. By someone from our not so amicable neighbours , to our west. It has been shamelessly put on a free video streaming platform and the actors have performed my written word so badly, (they’ve even added their own pedestrian bit) that I cringed!,” he wrote.

“I mean getting inspired and having made a show on the lines of Sarabhai vs Sarabhai is understandable. Khichdi had inspired many makers to come up with a show on the lines of Khichdi. The problem of course was that they didn’t understand the logic behind creating those illogical people. Similarly, inspired versions of Sarabhai have got it wrong, because they thought it was a show only about class conflict; which was just one aspect of it. Written by using inversion as a tool. But this blatant copy!??? My god it’s appalling. My request to my friends is to NOT give that show ‘views’ , by chance you’ll come across that daylight robbery,” he added.

“So much for copyright! And I don’t mean the technical copyright. I mean the shameful lack of conscience that those thieves displayed while lifting the show , lock stock and barrel! Waiting for poetic justice, if there’s any. P.s imitation is the best form of flattery. But lack of permission before illegal imitation is amorality,” he wrote.

Sarabhai vs Sarabhai which aired from 2004 to 2006 tells the daly life storeis of two generations of a high society family living in a psoh locality in Mumbai. The show returned with season 2 in 2017 with the same cast but failed to succeed.

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