Why is TV and TV stars not respected as much...? - Page 5

This content was originally posted by: VivaEmptiness

I know we ridicule and look down on TV stars, but why? It can't just be that they make crappy shows. BW mostly makes trashy films yet the stars are worshipped. Look at the west, TV is respected, stars like Ian Somerhalder and Bryan Cranston have bigger fan following than some of Hw's biggest stars. The Emmy is as popular as the Oscars. So what do you think makes Indian TV shows and their stars unappealing? Why is KSG not as popular as Salman Khan? Doesn't TV have bigger audience than Movies? Almost everyone has a Tv but not everyone can afford to go to the movies, this especially applies to India.

This content was originally posted by: Deathstroke

Ram Kapoor,Rajeev Khandelwal,Ronit Roy etc are respected . Ppl like Gober ,Sobti are disrespected cos of their rabid fans

This content was originally posted by: VivaEmptiness

Lol which one would you recommend? And make it one with few episodes, I get bored easily 😆

This content was originally posted by: blue-ice

I think Kekta mata's soaps bear 90% responsibility for the way TV soaps and stars are looked upon now...and if u r comparing them to the West...their soaps are a class apart...I mean can u really compare The vampire Diaries with that shit Kekta produced on the same lines??

This content was originally posted by: VivaEmptiness

I know we ridicule and look down on TV stars, but why? It can't just be that they make crappy shows. BW mostly makes trashy films yet the stars are worshipped. Look at the west, TV is respected, stars like Ian Somerhalder and Bryan Cranston have bigger fan following than some of Hw's biggest stars. The Emmy is as popular as the Oscars. So what do you think makes Indian TV shows and their stars unappealing?  Why is KSG not as popular as Salman Khan?
TV was respected as a medium earlier, a lot of actors like Pankaj Kapur, Om Puri etc. have done TV. TV directors like Ajay Sinha and Ravi Rai were respected. Even if the scale of TV shows or promotions wasn't much, the content, the actors and the medium itself was respected. Ekta revolutionised everything. She upped the scale and budgets of TV shows, made it more melodramatic, enriched it with complex twists to keep the audience on their toes, made big stars, played the show 4 times a week, but also led to a fall in standard of content. The shows were good for the first 2-3 years, after that they sucked. But they got good TRP's which is why she was the one dominating all channels, soon others also started following the same formula and eventually TV became synonymous with melodrama, daily soaps, sobbing bahus and scheming vamps, and a topic of caricature.
As for the question of fan following, I'm pretty sure TV actors have a lot of fans too (and no, I'm not judging by internet fan following), but these are fans of their characters not the actors themselves cos after watching them for 5 days continuously as the character, you fail to differentiate the actor from the character.. most of these are dormant fans who are just content with watching the characters on TV and taking, maybe, a slight interest in the lives of the actors. Just like in BW, films are trashed yet the stars are worshipped, similarily, in TV the soaps are trashed yet they get high TRP's and the characters become immensely popular.

 Doesn't TV have bigger audience than Movies? Almost everyone has a Tv but not everyone can afford to go to the movies, this especially applies to India. You are correct here. During the shoot of KPC in Gujarat, Gattu also said the same thing that  in remote villages where there were no roads but cable connection was available, people knew Sushant and would come to watch 'Manav' shooting. And that speaks for itself. TV gives a lot of popularity but it's associated with the character you play. Also, the majority of viewers of these top rated shows are the womenfolk.