New Delhi Actor Supriya Pathak became a TV sensation in the 2000s thanks to her eccentric depiction of the gullible, dimwitted Hansa Parekh in "Khichdi." However, she now has little interest in television, claiming that the medium suffered as it switched toward daily-soap patterns.
Pathak bemoaned that the medium nowadays, driven by daily soaps, prioritizes quantity over quality, calling her lengthy tenure on television—from "Idhar Udhar" and "Ek Mahal Ho Sapno Ka" to "Baa Bahoo Aur Baby" and "Chhanchhan"—its "golden period" and something she is proud of.

"Television's quality truly declined after it switched to daily soap operas. It became less about the type of job you were doing and more on how much you could complete in a day. They would remark, "Great, it's been a good day," if you could get 15 minutes of footage, but they didn't give a damn about how good it was. For me, television began to deteriorate at that point.
"I still receive role offers today, but I don't feel like accepting them. Even if I had the time, I wouldn't want to watch TV either," Pathak, who performed at the sixth Delhi Theatre Festival in the capital last month, told PTI.

Pathak's dissatisfaction extends beyond how the TV medium operates.
She finds content from around the world on these platforms to be "far better, more diverse, and higher in quality," but she is equally disappointed with OTT productions in India for their "similar kind of storytelling."
The 64-year-old actor's main complaint about OTT nowadays is that, if a subject succeeds, producers are willing to fund multiple similar movies.
"I don't believe that's necessary. I mean, if we could build ten, why make the other nine the same if one has worked? Why don't we get to work?"Let's make the other nine different," she remarked, expressing her disapproval of the overt use of foul language on streaming services and her preference for the full portrayal of Indian stories rather than their fragmented portrayal.
Pathak questions whether the industry's inability to produce high-caliber work, despite its abundance of creative individuals, is due to bureaucratic meddling or the need for profit.
Pathak is full with tale ideas, but this very uncertainty has prevented her from taking on the role of producer."I want to create stories that I want to share. However, once more, I'm not sure if the tales I want to tell will be what the channels or OTT platforms want to tell," she said.
For those who don't know, Pathak and her husband, actor Pankaj Kapur, founded Grass Company, a TV production company, in 1994.
Under the umbrella, "Mohandas B.A.L.L.B" was the first serial they acted in and produced.