{"id":11303,"date":"2020-08-01T21:39:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T21:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=11303"},"modified":"2020-08-01T21:39:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T21:39:46","slug":"tollygunge-serial-shoots-stalled-over-lockdown-wage-covid-cover-issues-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=11303","title":{"rendered":"Tollygunge serial shoots stalled over lockdown wage, Covid cover issues | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KOLKATA: Shooting for serials<\/a> of two Bengali channels were stopped on Friday due to non-payment of a percentage of \u201cwages\u201d to technicians during the lockdown<\/a> period and in absence of the Covid-19 health insurance for all crew members of Bengali serials. While shooting of megaserials, including \u2018Rani Rashmoni\u2019, \u2018Jamuma Dhaki\u2019, \u2018Krishnakoli\u2019 and \u2018Kadambini\u2019 for Zee Bangla resumed late evening, serials telecast of Sun Bangla could not be shot on Friday.
Two technicians and an artist have also tested positive for Covid-19.
According to Swarup Biswas, president of the Federation of Cine Technicians & Workers of Eastern India (FCTWEI), \u201cDuring complete lockdown, technicians attached to specific serials got no pay. A commitment was made by the channels to disburse a part of that wages to them. Despite repeated mails, no dates were given regarding when these dues would be cleared. Despite having an MoU, insurance papers for technicians of all serials weren\u2019t in order.\u201d
However, not everyone was convinced with this argument. \u201cThe chief minister insists that despite problems, work can\u2019t be stalled. Stalling the shooting today is disrespecting her instructions. It was a goodwill gesture on the part of channels to help technicians. Can goodwill gestures be confused with dues?\u201d asked a channel official on conditions of anonymity.
The drama continued throughout the day. By late evening, Biswas said that the issue of Covid-19 health insurance of technicians involved in 24 out of the 35 serials were solved. \u201cTwo technicians and one artist working in \u2018Kone Bou\u2019, \u2018Krishnakoli\u2019 and \u2018Singhalagna\u2019 have been infected. We are organizing tests for the others in the unit. Shooting was resumed after Zee Bangla assured us that payment of wages will be done on August 7. The timing has been revised to 10 pm from 8 pm. But, there has been no communication from Sun Bangla yet,\u201d he said.
Samrat Ghosh, cluster head, East Cluster of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited that approximately lost Rs 30 lakh on Friday, said, \u201cWe are always with the technicians. However, the shooting should never be stopped.\u201d
Producer Arka Ganguly, who incurred a loss of Rs 1 lakh approximately for not shooting \u2018Jionkathi\u2019 that is beamed on Sun Bangla, is livid. \u201cChannels had agreed to FCTWEI\u2019s demand of paying a lumpsum amount to technicians for the period they couldn\u2019t work during lockdown. But the payment probably got delayed. This culture of stalling the shoot on every single issue should come to an end,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cThe FCTWEI didn\u2019t even bother to inform us that they had given a deadline to channels. They just wanted the producers to suffer. One call came and the shooting had to be shut the next minute.\u201d
Producer Susanta Das, whose three serials on Zee Bangla and Sun Bangla were stalled, said, \u201cI have incurred a loss of approximately Rs 2 lakh. Thankfully, the episode-banking will help us to meet telecast deadline.\u201d <\/div>\n

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KOLKATA: Shooting for serials of two Bengali channels were stopped on Friday due to non-payment of a percentage of \u201cwages\u201d to technicians during the lockdown period and in absence of the Covid-19 health insurance for all crew members of Bengali serials. While shooting of megaserials, including \u2018Rani Rashmoni\u2019, \u2018Jamuma Dhaki\u2019, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1596317987_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}