It seems tele-serial viewers will have to wait a while for their favourite soap operas to resume as the next round of talks between programme producers and the striking cine workers is slated for Friday.
Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) general secretary Dinesh Chaturvedi said on Monday that the next talks are scheduled for Friday.
Friday is also the deadline the broadcasters, under pressure from the advertisers, have served to the producers to settle their dispute with the cine workers.
Keen to resolve the crisis, some producers conducted a series of informal meetings with FWICE office-bearers and other stakeholders the whole of last week.
The attempt was to make the FWICE aware of the serious problems the producers and broadcasters are facing because of the cancellation of shootings of the tele-serials.
"We listened to them, but we have asked them to put their suggestions in writing before we make any final commitment," Dinesh Chaturvedi of the FWICE said.
He said a core committee of producers, headed by filmmaker Mukesh Bhatt, had offered to give a meagre wage hike to the non-contractual cine workers but declined to meet their demands in toto.
"They have promised to revert to us for official negotiations over the issue by Friday. I don't see any other way out for them," Chaturvedi pointed out.
He blamed the producers for giving in to the pressure exerted on them by the broadcasters to suspend the shootings of their shows.
"By doing so, they only exacerbated the problem. Apparently, it was meant to browbeat the cine workers into submission. Now that they are feeling the pinch as the cine workers have stood their ground, suddenly their approach to the problem has changed," Chaturvedi added.
The producers' core committee is now desperately seeking an honourable escape route, he said.
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