room dramas in our serial most of my scenes are solo shots as i play a mythological character but in case of a dramatic scene there is no physical touch between the actors and the sequences are shot in different blocks involving not more than five actors on the floor she saidactors miss the old dramamost smallscreen actors are still adapting to the changes ushasie chakraborty who plays the notorious character of june in sreemoyee said social distancing has taken a toll on dramatisaion after seeing my favourite costar on the set after months of no shoot i jumped in joy and wanted to hug her but social distancing didnt let me do that and this is true in case of highly emotional scenes in the serial as well in this new normal i feel sad about the lack of drama and involvement of too many actors in some scenes after all serials are all about extreme dramatization she told ussaanjher baatis lead rezwan rabbani sheikh is also missing the essence of dramatic or romantic scenes in his serial nowadays we have to give tight closeup shots of our expressions for emotional scenes being intimate in front of the camera is out of question i miss the highly emotional scenes where the entire family comes together he saidactress adrija roy who is seen in durga durgeshwari pointed out that the challenge now is to shoot scenes where one is crying or expressing anger we cant go close to our coactors to console them it is weird to shoot such emotional scenes as we are not used to emote by staying at an arms distance during dramatic scenes she saiddaily soaps touch upon current affairsmany daily soaps are now set in a pandemichit world to be in sync with reality serials like sreemoyee ekhane akash neel and a few others have had episodes dealing with covid19 these creative changes are being incorporated in the scripts so that the audience finds the shows more relatable sean banerjee who plays the lead in ekhane akash neel said since it is a hospital drama it is all the more pertinent to show the current realities pertaining to health besides we have highlighted the grave issue of domestic violence which has reached an alltime high during the lockdown