Gullak,a web show streaming on sonyLiv , written by a small town boy Durgesh singh,who reached mumbai and write this loved web show
Writer of The viral Fever (TVF)’s drama,’Gullak’: Durgesh singh
Writing has always been a pressure to me says Durgesh singh writer of The viral Fever (TVF)’s drama,’Gullak’ on sonyLiv Directed by Palash Vaswani, the show is set in an unnamed town of North India that follows ‘kisse’ (tales), not a ‘kahani’ (story) of a middle-class family of four. ‘Gullak’, meaning ‘piggy bank’.
The show highlights the most prosaic problems like intrusive neighbours and sibling conflict to the big ones like career, corruption, egos,exam failure and many more.
The third season of the show released on 7 april ,has managed to maintain it’s flavour and attraction to the audience.
Talking about the web show Durgesh also shared about some of his personal stories relevant to the show
“I grew up in Uttar Pradesh’s patriarchal landscape where women were never considered equal to men. We lived in a joint family where our days began with chaos and ended with laughter and endless chatter. One thing that stood out for me amidst the chaos and laughing was my mother’s struggles to get respect, freedom and dignity. As a writer, I have tried to inculcate these domestic issues experienced first-hand wrapped around humour. That is what made the audiences easily connect with Gullak,” he says.
Durgesh’s early life
Durgesh, student of Hindi medium school he choose to study his college outside of his hometown and moved to Allahabad university ,At university he was introduced to literature and then he took interest in books and the world of writing fascinated him. He made his career in Advertising,journalism and also in Radio and then the big opportunity came in his way of writing Gullak and the amazing result is out there.
