Karan Tacker says ‘TV tends to limit you’: ‘It becomes very difficult to feed your creative soul’

Actor Karan Tacker has said that TV limits artists because of the nature of the medium. The pressure of producing daily content on a regular basis affects the creative satisfaction, he said in a new interview. (Also read: Leaving TV paid off in a way: Karan Tacker)

Karan was most recently seen in the webs shows of Disney+ Hotstar original Special Ops and Special Ops 1.5: The Himmat Story. Before the web shows, he also featured in the fictional TV show, Naagin 3, in 2018.

“Sometimes TV tends to limit you because of the nature of the medium. When you are working every day, doing 8-9 scenes and shooting almost 20 minutes of the run-time footage, it becomes very difficult to feed your creative soul. That is probably one of the reasons why I am not looking at doing television at the moment,” he told ETimes in an interview.

This is not the first time that Karan has opened up about the debate around content on TV. In an interview with Hindustan Times earlier this year, Karan had said, “As long as I can do quality work, the quantum of it doesn’t matter. Agar quantum kaam hi karna hai toh phir TV pe bhi kar sakte hain (If quantam is what I am looking at, I can work for TV). Obviously, what happens is when I speak like this, is it can be misconstrued that ‘you are not giving respect to TV’, but the thing is this is a choice you make as an actor for your career. It just somewhere stems from that.”

After a small role in Shah Rukh Khan-Anushka Sharma-starrer Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi in 2008, Karan made his TV debut with Love Ne Mila Di Jodi next year and went on to feature in shows such as Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai and Rang Badalti Odhani.

Later, participated in many reality shows including the talent hunt show India’s Got Talent, dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 and cooking show Kitchen Champion.