SET TO SIZZLE

An imaginative set is as much an integral part of good programming as the script and acting. Hence, television producers are digging deep into their pockets for elaborate set designs, writes Neerja Bahadur

HOW times change. Back in the 1980s, a suite in a five-star hotel could pass off as a prosperous household setting for a family serial. But there was only one caveat. Such an elaborate set came at a price tag of around Rs 5,000 or more a day — a sum that only a handful of producers could afford. Then came Ramanand Sagar’s hugely successful Ramayana.

The return of Alice
Disney’s new adventure Alice in Wonderland challenges stereotypes and attempts to create a dramatic role model in Alice, writes Simrita Dhir
THE thought that Alice would return to Wonderland as a 19-year-old with the hair band missing is, at once, intriguing and bewildering. And that too after 13 long years. The new Disney Alice in Wonderland takes us on an adventure more fantastic and remarkable than her first sojourn down the rabbit hole.