Young Turks. Indiantelevision.com introduces a new series profiling the brightest and the best among the youth brigade in the Indian television industry. Under the spotlight will...
An actor par excellence, Pankaj Kapoor has been around since the early days of soaps and comedy shows on television in the country. Generations who have...
Balaji Telefilms continues to be on a high despite Kutumb‘s hiccups and Kya Haadsa Kya Haqeeqat‘s teething problems. The production house is cautiously feeling its way...
Kahin Naa Kahin Koi Hai may have served up a lemon, but has not dampened the spirits of production house UTV, which is steathily climbing the...
With a longish nose and speaking style that is slightly high-pitched, Ian Diamond, senior vice president and general manager of Turner Entertainment Networks Asia Inc fits...
Discovery Communications India’s managing director, Deepak Shourie, sits in a room in the Delhi office which does not reflect much change from the times of the...
She started as an assistant director, grew to be the director of the first and one of the most successful satellite soaps and has not looked...
It was after an eight year stint in UTV Mumbai that Suresh Iyer shifted down south to start the company‘s operations in Chennai. It was during...
Known for his simple and media-shy attitude, it was difficult to catch Jwalant Swaroop, the Group General Manager of India’s largest Marathi newspaper group. Having...
When Vandana Malik started off in television, she was an absolute novice to the medium. It was TV18 promoter Raghav Bahl who propelled his then housewife-sister...
Shantonu Aditya, Sony Entertainment Television India’s head of distribution as well as president of the Discovery-SET India joint venture company, is the man at the centre...
For someone who came to Mumbai from a small town in Gujarat as a teenager and could hardly speak or even understand English, Vipul D Shah...
Sam Balsara is man with a lot on his plate. Besides chasing an aggressive growth rate for Madison Communications, he is also chairman of MOMS (Madison...
The Hallmark Channel is planning a slew of programming and marketing initiatives in a bid to increase visibility in India. And coordinating these activities is Hallmark...
Prem Kishen, along with Sunil Mehta, started the TV production house, Cinevistaas, nearly 17 years ago. After producing scores of successful serials – including the hugely popular...
Sitting in the visitors‘ room, waiting for Raghav Bahl, managing director of Television Eighteen Ltd, at the company‘s headquarters in Delhi is an education in itself....
‘The Guardian’ has been airing every Sunday at 8 pm from 7 July. The protagonist Nick Fallin played by Simon Baker is an ambitious corporate attorney...
Sitting in the visitors’ room, waiting for Raghav Bahl, managing director of Television Eighteen Ltd, at the company’s headquarters in Delhi is an education in itself....
Vipul A Shah started off directing Gujarati serials in the late 1980s. In the nineties, came Jeevan Mrityu, Alpviram and Ek Mahal Ho Sapano Ka –...
Rakhi Tandon shot into prominence as the chirpy, imbecilic teenager in the TRP buster Hum Paanch five years ago. While she continues to be as vivacious,...
Deepti Bhatnagar’s career started with modeling, one that became an instant success. Her subsequent venture into acting however did not yield the same fruit. It was...
As head of CinéMaya Media, Sunil Hali has emerged as a pioneer in South Asian media production and management in the US. A double gold medallist...
For a man who has risen from living in a one-room tenement along with his parents and other siblings to a posh pad in the Capital’s...
Sunil Lulla, the flamboyant ex-general manager of MTV India, and ex-CEO of indya.com, has officially been in charge as business head of Sony Entertainment Television India‘s...
A personality in his own right, this son of the famous villain of his time Jivan, Kiran Kumar is a man of courage and bag full...
The wheel has come full circle for actress Bhagyashree, where it all began for her. In television. In between, one big screen blockbuster hit, Maine Pyar...
Kanchan Adhikari started her career as an actress more than two decades ago. It took several years for her to don the mantle of director for...
Till a few weeks back, Leena Yadav was riding a high with expectations for her latest directorial venture – Kahin Na Kahin Koi Hai – touching...
NEW DELHI: If paying up of tax is a yardstick, then it seems foreign satellite channels are doing better than their Indian counterparts. Foreign television channel...
If you think you have seen Sai Deodhar aka Monika – the young, charming and intelligent pilot fromSaara Akaash – before, you are not too far...
Since his Nukkad days, Pavan Malhotra, through a judicious selection of roles in tele-serials and movies, has eked out a place for himself as a versatile...
Vinod Pande is not a run-of-the-mill filmmaker. Whether films or TV, his creations have stood out for being daringly different. Pande was the trendsetter in late...
He’s better known as an actor but Ananth Mahadevan, whose first big screen directorial venture Dil Vil Pyar Vyar hit the screens last week, would rather...
Ravi Rai should ideally rank among the most successful TV writers-directors-producers in India. The maker of hugely successful soaps – Sailaab, Thoda Hai Thode Ki Zaroorat...
In 1995 when ESPN came to India, not many had thought that it would become a force to reckon with where sports’ broadcasting was concerned. And...
Deutsche Welle (DW) Television entered India in 1996. A niche channel, it has been perceived as a channel only for the German speaking audiences. But the...
By the time Achint Kaur’s acting career took shape, she had a home and a child to care for. Yet, her passion for the medium overpowered...
Sweta Keswani is the cute little starlet you just cannot miss if you have seen any episode of Kahanii Ghar Ghar Ki or Des Mein Nikla...
Exuberance and confidence were the two qualities that prompted Shweta Prasad’s mother to take her seven year-old daughter for auditions nearly three and a half years...
In her early 20s, Nausheen Ali Sardar, the lead actress of Kkusum, has seen success coming to her like God's blessings after she was chosen to...
If there is one distinguishing feature in Mahesh Thakur’s personality that hits one instantly, it’s his confidence. Needless to say, this confidence stems out of his...
33 year old Victor Hugo Martin’s childhood in Mexico was spent hearing both sides of the argument surrounding Cuba’s unique status as the only communist country...
‘Who Dares Wins’ has long been a staple of the reality genre on the telly. For the past four years Indian viewers have seen Australian ex-cricketer...
He may be a familiar face as an actor, but Akash Khurana is a multi-faceted personality. He has a doctorate from the Tata Institute for Social...
Anurradha Prasad started her career as a journalist. After her marriage to fellow journalist and now Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Shukla, the duo decided to focus...
Even in nursery school Anant Mahadevan liked to stand on the blocks and pretend to be on stage. Right through school and college in central Mumbai’s...
Nupur Asthana has just two soaps in her portfolio- Hip Hip Hurray and Hubahu, apart from a few one-offs for Zee’s Aap Jo Bole…. But the...
A go-getter he may be, with successful stints in both the print and television media. But your regular corporate honcho Raj Nayak is not. A people’s...
Kahin Naa Kahin Koi Hai may have served up a lemon, but has not dampened the spirits of production house UTV, which is steathily climbing the...
India is probably one market where BBC has a lead over CNN. It is also one of the few markets where Cartoon Network has been amply...