‘Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai’ writer Aatish Kapadia slams a Pakistani show for ‘blatant copy’

‘Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai’ was one of the most popular sitcoms, launched in 2004, on Star One. It had a terrific run of more than two years and then later on, on fan’s demands, the second season was launched in 2017 as a digital show. Now, a strange and totally unofficial remake of the show has been airing on Pakistani televisions. Writer Aatish Kapadia saw it out of the blue and was left shocked. He took to social media to share a long post about the same. Have a look at what he had to write:

Morning began with a forwarded video link. I opened it and saw a ‘word to word’ ‘frame to frame’ unofficial remake of our show ‘Sarabhai vs Sarabhai’. By someone from our not so amicable neighbours, to our west.

It has been shamelessly put on a free video streaming platform and the actors have performed my written word so badly, (they’ve even added their own pedestrian bit) that I cringed!

I mean getting inspired and having made a show on the lines of Sarabhai vs Sarabhai is understandable. Khichdi had inspired many makers to come up with a show on the lines of Khichdi. The problem of course was that they didn’t understand the logic behind creating those illogical people. Similarly, inspired versions of Sarabhai have got it wrong, because they thought it was a show only about class conflict; which was just one aspect of it. Written by using inversion as a tool.

But this blatant copy!??? My god it’s appalling. My request to my friends is to NOT give that show ‘views’ , by chance you come across that daylight robbery.

So much for copyright! And I don’t mean the technical copyright. I mean the shameful lack of conscience that those thieves displayed while lifting the show , lock stock and barrel!

Waiting for poetic justice, if there’s any.

P.s imitation is the best form of flattery. But lack of permission before illegal imitation is amorality.

Talking to Indian Express, Aatish Kapadia said that he did not want to name the show. He said to Indian Express, “It’s about straight lifting and then putting it on a free platform to watch.” Let’s wait and watch whether the makers of the Pakistani show come upfront and apologise or open up with their side of the story.

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Prateek Sur

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