True Review - Social Change @ Prime Time: Balika Vadhu

The makers of Balika Vadhu — Kachchi Umar Ke Pakke Rishte have reason to celebrate. Last week the daily series completed 1500 episodes. This is   unpreceden...

Gajendra Singh, The Indigenous Innovator

One of the most common leisure activities on picnics and trips was playing antakshri during bus/train journeys, especially; of course this is before video games, What&rsquo...

Theatre Of The Administration Of The Agitators

There’s a sort of sinister tone to the times we are living in and experiencing as each day unfolds and takes us closer to an impending political circus which has comm...

True Review: Boogie Woogie

Music and dance reality shows which TV audiences continue watch today are many. But it?s time we looked at a few pioneering shows, which have been telecast since the mid 19...

Of AAP, Yashraj, Mahesh Bhatt, Phantom And The Voter

As we settle into 2014, the only cerebration that dominates every Indian mind which deliberates obsessive discussions today is the impending Lok Sabha elections and the cha...

TRUE REVIEW: MAHABHARAT (TELEVISION)

MAHABHARAT, A TIMELESS FLAVOUR

It has barely been three months since Star Plus started telecast of the 21st century’s rendition of Mahabharat. The producers a...

Industry must throw out its casting couch

Yesterday, this paper ran a front-page report about a television cameraman promising a young aspiring actress a break in television serials. His promises of course came on ...

Revisiting Television

News about Poonam Dhillon coming back to television with a daily fiction show on Sony TV will give Sony TV a nudge in the right direction, which it sorely needs. Who can fo...

A Muslim in Bollywood

The mainstream Hindi film industry’s template for the community reflects ideological and political shifts in contemporary India.

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