MUMBAI — Renowned filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali's debut TV show “Saraswatichandra,” adapted from a Gujarati novel “Saraswatichandra written by Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi,” will go on air on STAR Plus on Feb.25. Starring Gautam Rode and Jennifer Winget in the lead, the show is a classic love story. Bhansali said that the eponymous TV show is not a mirror adaptation of the novel. Some changes have been incorporated for the story to suit the medium, ndtv.com reported. “It is an adaptation, so we have adapted the novel in a different way. The beginning is not the same, its story does not begin from where the novel starts. So, such changes are necessary,” the 49-year-old filmmaker said at the launch of the show. Bhansali said his foray in the small screen world has been a learning experience. “It is a wonderful experience because to be able to create such a big scale, which the creative team and the cinematographer have done on TV, and to realize that it is possible, maintaining the requirements of TV as a medium, which is basically a close-up medium, I think I learnt a lot,” he said. — SG
