Nia Sharma Opens Up On Her Absence From Television: It Was A Conscious Decision

Nia Sharma is one of the most popular actresses in the television industry. The actress, however, has been featured in serials only sporadically. In a new interview, Nia Sharma shared the reason behind her distance from television lately. 

Nia Sharma on her absence from television 

As someone who has been part of long-running soap operas, including Ishq Mein Marjawan, the actor said she wanted to wait for the right opportunity which came in the form of her latest outing Suhagan Chudail. "It was a conscious decision as the idea was that TV overall in the last few years has really drained in terms of TRP. Every show was shutting in three to four months. The kind of shows I’ve done, they had longevity, they were running for years and years. I always believed that a project shouldn't be like, ‘It came and it went off air and no one was aware about it’”, said Nia in an interview with PTI. 

The actress added, “I'm sceptical of those kinds of things, and that’s why I was consciously not taking up a TV project because everyone was experimenting. Nobody was sure and even the roles that I got , I did not resonate with them. All the shows that were being offered to me went off in three months. So, I was kind of okay, ‘Thankfully, I did not take it up’.” 

Nia Sharma on bad working conditions in television 

The Indian TV space has long been beset by problems such as long working hours, delay in remuneration, harassment and toxic environment on sets. According to Sharma, the situation is less likely to improve because the focus of the industry is to churn out content regularly. “We always know of certain things that television faces, it's the working conditions, which will always be there because it's daily soaps. They're churning out content on a daily basis, they're not here to set examples about how a TV show set should be... We all are aware of these conditions,” she added.

Creatively too, Sharma, 33, pointed out the environment is not conducive for actors as they often don’t get enough time to prepare for roles. “… You think you'll get to really read a scene 10 times before doing a scene in the initial bit. Yes, but going forward, they'll only be bothered about sending a telecast to be uploaded on air.” 
(With inputs from PTI)