radhika madan who made a transition from television to films recently spoke about the work culture in the tv industry in an interview radhika who started her career with the tv show meri aashiqui tumse hi which was on air from 201416 said that she did 48 hourshifts and the scripts too were never written in advance she said that a director had once told her that if she wanted to understand a character well that can be done in a film but on tv owing to telecast issues one cant focus on the scriptradhika was slammed by actress sayantani ghosh and producer ekta kapoorfor not being grateful to the tv industry that gave her a break in showbizread alsosayantani ghosh slams radhika madan for looking down upon tv theres also mouni roy who has grace and gratitudealibaba dastaanekabul actor sayantani ghosh has slammed radhika madhan for looking upon the tv industry and complaining about its long working hours non availability of scripts till the end minute and morehowever the truth is the working hours in the tv industry have always been hectic in fact 10 years ago they were far more erratic but in recent times the conditions have improved considerably we take a look at how things have changed in the telly industry over the past four decadesworking in the 80s was more relaxed because there was just one channelin the 80s there was only doordarshan and shows aired just once a week the actors got ample time to prepare for their scenes and so did the technicians veteran actress sushmita mukherjee who became popular as kitty in karamchand which aired in 1985 shares her experience of working at that timesushmita says in those days the work environment was far more relaxed and since it was a weekly show we used to get a lot of time to rehearse there were no issues with telecast because we had only one channel doordarshan later with more channels and daily soaps taking over the scenario changedthings changed with satellite channels coming in ratings became more importantthe early 90s saw the advent of satellite channels and gradually with more channels coming in things began to change sushmita who continued to work on tv recounts when satellite channels came in tv shows became marketdriven products i worked in shows like kavvyanjali agle janam mohe bitiya hi kijo kabhi saas kabhi bahu and balika vadhu we did have long working hours 1216 hour shifts but that was the nature of the beast i have seen days when we used to sleep on the sets due to long working hours but it was a question of our bread and butter and we also got to play interesting rolesscripts were changed last minute because of the trp pressurenausheen ali sardar television rating point trp became the buzzword in the millennium and hence scripts of shows were constantly altered to boost ratings this happens to date nausheen ali sardar who played the title