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Of Mirth And Soaps
There was this scene in Thakan, last week, where the newly married bride Sadaf goes into the kitchen to make tea. Foxed by an unfamiliar kitchen in the lavish house of her hus...
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A Pot-Pourri Of Shows
Instead of feeling jaded with the rounds of the same old shows, one is feeling buoyant. Two new channels ? Zindag, which has settled well into selective living rooms in the la...
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A Moment For Sony Pal
Sony Pal has used an old marketing tool which was common in Bollywood in the 1980s. The most widely cited context is Subhash Ghai?s Hero which was a launch vehicle for Jackie ...
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A Complete Network, Almost
Has the time come for Indian Television to move into genre specific channels? On a visit to Canada, I discovered that there were pay channels dedicated to Westerns and war mov...
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel
How inured have we become to the over the top interiors and the same old locations (Gateway of India and Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus) at prime time, is unimaginable. We don?t ...
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Tough Acts To Follow
It’s that time of the year, when a few odd serials have drawn their curtains, and new shows are up for grabs. Last week television audiences witnessed the closure of a f...
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Yudh, A Trend Setter?
The Amitabh Bachchan helmed Yudh is winding down, as I write this piece. Like every other time that Mr. Amitabh Bachchan has ventured out of the box, like he did for Rakish Om...
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Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi!
Anita, my live in maid has taken a shine to Zindagi. Though the language is a bit of a challenge, as she hails from interior Maharashtra.? One Saturday night, when I got home,...
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A Cut Above The Rest
Life OK has a new show which is worth the eyeballs -- Laut Aao Trisha. A top line cast, with some fresh young faces and a kidnap story, each episode leaves you asking for more...
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That's My Story
Short stories are that form of popular literature which challenges the writer to succinctly and completely narrate what he/she would take a few hundred pages to say. Likewise,...
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