MUMBAI: Ratna Pathak Shah is an eminent film and television personality.

The veteran actor has been associated with shows like Tara, Idhar Udhar, and Filmi Chakkar among others in the past.

In an interview, Ratna Pathak Shah spoke about television. She said that TV started taking the regressive route in the early 2000s. The actor spoke in her latest interview with a daily and mentioned that the small screen saw a drastic shift from progressive stories to the sudden emergence of ‘parampara‘.

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She told ETimes that everything is political when it comes to creating content on TV. She said, “It was during the early 2000s that the phase of horrible saas-bahu dramas began, with all their regressive ideas–stuff that we have spent years trying to dump out of the country. If you see, in the late ’90s and early 2000s, you can see the intention to create ‘parampara’ in society all over again. The importance of caste was reinforced and communal relationships were looked down upon. This should have no space in the 21st century. So, how can you not be a political person?”

Further, the ace actress added that when one decides to create content on television, it comes from a certain ideology, and therefore, it can’t be apolitical. “If you are making something that is consumed by millions in the country, how is that act not a political one? What choice do you have? How can you only be an artiste? I feel all art is political. The job of art is to disturb society, question things, to make people think. Of course, we are not doing that now; that’s another story.”

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CREDIT: INDIA NEWS