Prachi Desai began her career in 2006 with the television show Kasamh Se and made a jump to the film industry in 2008 with Rock On!!. But Desai says that for an actor in India, it is difficult to juggle TV and films at the same time.
“Unfortunately, in Bollywood or in the Indian film industry, you really don’t have that liberty of sort of dabbling in the television industry as well as film industry if you are a mainstream actor, unlike the West.
“Here, there is a drastic difference between films and television shows,” said Desai.
The Azhar actress said that people like to believe that TV shows are “extremely relatable”, whereas films or film actors have to be “unattainable and aspirational”.
“I don’t see a match or a link between [films and TV], which is why in the Indian film industry we cannot really dabble with both,” added Desai.
The 27-year-old actress, who has also worked in TV shows such as Kasautii Zindagii Ki and films such as Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai, said an actor has to choose between the two mediums because it’s the image they have to pick.
“Besides that, I think we don’t have that many finite series on TV. It’s amazing that we have had Mr Amitabh Bachchan and Mr Anil Kapoor do some of the most amazing shows. If there are things like that, then I am sure actors can take a lot of liberty provided they have the time,” she said.
“Other than that, I don’t see that happening because our shows go on forever,” she added.
