Archive · 11 Dec 2025
Supriya Pathak Criticizes TV's Shift to Daily Soaps
Supriya Pathak, a famous actor, thinks that TV shows have become worse because they now focus on making lots of episodes quickly instead of making good ones.
She used to be in many popular TV shows and is sad that the quality has gone down.
She also doesn't like how streaming services (OTT platforms) keep making the same kinds of shows over and over again.
She wishes they would make more different and better stories.
Even though she has her own ideas for shows, she's not sure if the TV channels or streaming services would want to make them.
She and her husband started their own TV production company a long time ago and made a show called 'Mohandas B.A.L.L.B'.
Supriya Pathak criticizes the decline in TV quality due to the shift towards daily soaps.
She believes that the focus is now on quantity over quality in television production.
Pathak is also dissatisfied with OTT platforms for their lack of diverse storytelling.
She finds international content on OTT platforms to be of higher quality and more diverse.
Pathak has ideas for her own productions but is uncertain if they would be accepted by channels or OTT platforms.
- Who
- Supriya Pathak, a veteran actor known for her roles in Indian television and films.
- What
- Supriya Pathak's critique of the decline in television quality due to the shift towards daily soaps and her views on OTT platforms.
- When
- The interview was conducted in December, with references to her career spanning from 1985 onwards.
- Where
- The interview was conducted in New Delhi, where Pathak was performing at the Delhi Theatre Festival.
- Why
- Pathak believes that the focus on quantity over quality in television and the lack of diversity in OTT content have led to a decline in the overall quality of entertainment.
- Actor
- Supriya Pathak
- Notable Works
- Idhar Udhar, Ek Mahal Ho Sapno Ka, Baa Bahoo Aur Baby, Chhanchhan, Khichdi
- Current Interest in TV
- Low
- OTT Criticism
- Lack of diversity, excessive bad language
- Production House
- Grass Company (1994)
- First Production
- Mohandas B.A.L.L.B