Jyothi Venkatesh
Recalling those days when he was acting in Ravi Rai’s TV serials like Sailaab, Thoda Hai Thode Ki Zaroorat Hai etc, the veteran Marathi and Hindi film and TV actor in the interesting session moderated by that actress par excellence with a ravishing smile of her own- Renuka Shahane, on Regional actors making it big in Hindi films, Sachin Khedekar , who was last seen in Hindi films like Singham and Golmaal Aghain ,said at the CINTA’s Act Fest that he had no other alternative but to learn proper Hindi because he is basically a Maharashtrian actor and satellite Television was making its inroads in our country then in the 90’s. “I had to wholly depend on the writer as well as the director. Ravi was a writer as well as a director. And good writing helped my language to a large extent.” By the way to those who are uninitiated, Ravi Rai who was a prolific TV director at that time is none other than the brother of today’s hot shot director Anand L Rai who has to his credit films like Tanu Weds Manu, Tanu Weds Manu Returns and Ranjhaana
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