Now, when the world is awaiting Friends Reunion with bated breath, it could be a disservice to its Indian followers if we don’t remind them of Friends’ Hindi counterpart titled Hello Friends.
The present was launched on Zee TV 5 years after the primary season of the unique Friends. Though its journey was fairly quick lived, from September 1999 to February 2000, it nonetheless managed to finish 26 episodes.
The makers copied the Manhattan method and gave that an Indian spin and easily renamed Central Perk as Uncle Sam’s Café. Don’t frown guys, it was 21 years in the past, we didn’t know a lot in regards to the American well-liked tradition again then!
Directed by Ajay Pal, the present featured Simone Singh as Sanjana, a character modelled on Monica. Similarly, Aparna Tilak, Maria Goretti, Cyrus Broacha, Nikhil Chinapa and Anil Dimbri performed Rachel, Phoebe, Chandler, Ross and Joey. Their characters’ names had been Nisha, Penny, Cyrus, Vikram and Rahul although. And guess who performed Uncle Sam? Well, none apart from Kunal Vijaykar.
In retrospective, Hello Friends may not seem like a very thrilling thought, however the makers truly tried their greatest for a nice ensemble. Actors like Samir Soni, Mandira Bedi, Kishwer Merchant, Bhavna Balsavar and Rituraj Singh had been the visitor actors on the present. All these actors went in to turn into massive names on Indian tv.
The flashy color mixture and taking pictures inside a fastened house was a new factor again then and lots of profitable reveals copied the method later. Most of the jokes didn’t land although. Also, Indian mainstream reveals hardly labored as a result of fixed background laughter. Is there any present apart from Hum Paanch labored due to the background laughter?
In the hindsight, the chaos didn’t work the best way it was purported to be, but it surely wasn’t that unhealthy a strive, no?
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