Minal Khan might still be a young woman in terms of age but with a career spanning almost a decade, she has worked alongside some of the most prominent actors in the industry. Starting her career as a child actor and now working as the leading lady, Minal Khan has all the experience of an established actor.

However, despite having worked in many successful dramas, it seems like Minal Khan is still waiting to truly display her acting prowess. Recently, she sat down for an interview with Something Haute where she made some interesting points about how actors are forced to limit themselves in the roles they are being offered because of the lack of good content being offered to them.

Actors forced to limit themselves

Her latest drama Jalan continues to be a hot topic every week. Talking to Something Haute, Minal Khan shared insights about her past and current projects. Speaking about her desire to work with all kinds of directors and not limiting herself to just one channel, Minal says that all she looks for is a good script.

“I want to work with every director. I don’t want people to say that Minal is only working on this one TV channel. If you guys offer me nice scripts, why won’t I work with you on different channels? You’re not offering me good enough scripts.”

Far too often the audience assumes that an actor does similar kind of role because they like doing it. However, judging from what Minal said in the interview the issue is more complex than it appears to be.

“If I am not being offered good projects, how will I prove that I can do better?” Minal raised a very valid question.

Lack of good content

There is no dearth of talent in our industry. But our actors are still being typecast in similar roles. Minal talked about how the actors are not the ones deciding the kind of content that gets aired on television.

“We don’t have content. How is that my mistake? I am not the one deciding the names of the dramas or writing them.” Minal answered when asked about why her characters all seem to be similar to each other.

There are several channels creating dramas with different directors, writers, and actors but there is no diversity in the storyline whatsoever. We are still dealing with decade-old topics like women being forced to marry men older than them, spouses having extramarital affairs, and sisters going after their brothers-in-law.

Who is to blame?

No doubt there are projects which are beyond the typical saas-bahu stories but unfortunately, the channels and the teams making those projects decide early on the actors that would be working with them. That is precisely the reason why only a few actors are mostly seen working on mainstream TV, a point that Minal also raised in the interview. One may argue that playing favorites isn’t a bad thing but when actors with potential are not utilized properly, at the end of the day it is only the industry that suffers.

It is easy for viewers to blame the actors for doing monotonous characters. But producers, writers, and directors should also be held responsible for not doing enough to make a difference. Actors with years of experience continue to compromise on the quality of the project because the alternative would be to do no work at all. TV channels recycle the same kind of content and production houses stick to the same bunch of actors, causing many young actors to choose mediocre or controversial scripts.

Actors like any other artists need to constantly practice their craft to get better at it. And it is the responsibility of the channels and producers to come up with scripts and projects that can properly utilize the actors’ skills. Otherwise, the industry will be stuck at a stagnation point from where the downfall would become inevitable.