'We Don't Know India'

‘T believe India is very different from Bombay, Delhi and Kolkata.’

Directed by Palash Vaswani of Gullak fame, the show tells the story of a small town romance.

“We are not showing youngsters who are just here to party and get into bad habits. Our youngsters are driven souls, they want to do something, they want to make the family proud.” We wanted to do an OTT series for some time now but the kind of stories we want to tell, especially wholesome family dramas, whenever we went to various platforms, they would tell us, ‘SooraJji, this (platform) is for the younger, urban audience. This belongs to thrillers and action,’ and that’s very true. Then I got a call from SonyLIV and they told us post-pandemic, there is a new audience of middle-aged and aged people, who are not too comfortable with the language and subtitles They said, ‘We want a show which will take people out of their individual rooms and which they can watch together.’ They wanted the Hum Saath Saath Hai, Vivah audience to get on the platform. I am grateful for this experiment because I feel there is a need for a Bharat story, a rooted, family story, which can work in the interiors, where the Rajshris actually belong.

With so much modernity, the meaning of love has changed, values have changed. Will a show with traditional values and old charm work?