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  • Best of Indian cinema on DD Bharati every Saturday

    Best of Indian cinema on DD Bharati every Saturday

    NEW DELHI: Doordashan’s cultural channel DD Bharati, which has been telecasting some gems from the Best of Indian Cinema every week, is slated to telecast the Marathi film Shevri and the Kannada film Kanasemba Kudureyaneri during this month.

     

    Under this series, Doordarshan along with the West Bengal government had telecast six Bangla films earlier this month – for the first time in a hall. It featured some award-winning and renowned films like ‘The Last Lear’ by Rituparno Ghosh, ‘Nishhabd’ by Jahar Kanungo, and ‘Kalbela’ by Goutam Ghose. Other films are ‘Prohor’ by Subhadro Choudhury, ‘Ellar Chaar Adhyay’ by Bappaditya Bandopadhyaya, ‘Mahul Banir Sereng’ by Sekhar Das. Some of these are slated to come on DD Bharati shortly.

     

    Under the series launched to coincide with the centenary of Indian cinema, the films are telecast every Saturday at 8.30 pm and repeated at2.30 am and 20.30 pm the next day.

     

    Under this section, the films have to be either winners of the Swarna Kamal Award for the Best Feature Film of the Year, a National Award winner for Best Direction, the Rajat Kamal Award for the Best Feature Film in any Indian language/dialect (including Hindi, Urdu and English), or have won the Indira Gandhi Award for the Best Film of a Director or it should have been selected for the Indian Panorama of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

     

    Films that have participated or showcased in any of 16 prominent International Film Festivals can also be screened. These festivals are- Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Nantes or Festival de 3 Continents, Rotterdam, Fribourg, Munich, Busan, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Rome, and Sydney.

     

    Shevri is a Marathi film made in 2006 by the renowned Gajendra Ahire and produced by Neena Kulkarni. Noted Marathi actress Neena Kulkarni’s maiden production venture, Shevri (wisp of cotton) is a sensitive portrayal of the havoc played by divorce in a simple middle class woman’s life. The ‘Shevri’ in the title is embodied in the films protagonist Vidya Barve played by Neena herself, a helpless little soul drifting along with winds of change in her life, without a strong will or desire of her own. The title ‘Shevri’ suggests an insignificant wisp of cotton. Her coming to terms with her state today and becoming present to her life is what gives essence to the film which will be telecast on 13 September.

     

    Girish Kasaravalli’s adaptation of Amaresh Nugadoni’s ‘Savaari’ is a film connoisseur’s delight.  Kanasemba Kudureyaneri (Riding a Stallion of a Dream) is a 2010 starring Vyjanath Biradar, Umashree and Sadashiv Brahmavar in lead roles. It won the National Award for Best Screenplay and for Best Feature film in Kannada. Kasarvalli’s use of non-linear narrative for the first time succeeds in building the audience’s curiosity. Engagingly convincing, Biradar and Umashree are seen throughout the movie in tattered clothes, getting every inch into the characters. The film will be telecast on 27 September.

     

  • DD to telecast unique series on film making contest on Millennium Goals

    DD to telecast unique series on film making contest on Millennium Goals

    NEW DELHI: Public service broadcaster Doordarshan is launching a unique reality series: ‘Chance of a Lifetime,’ from this Friday that aims to not only highlight little-known talent but also raise issues concerning people.

     

    The show will be telecast every Friday from 29 August at 9.00 pm.

     

    A senior officer from Doordarshan said, “As far as DD choosing this show, it was liked because of the unique concept and high production value, and because of the involvement of Hollywood director Ashok Amritraj, and something that has immense appeal for the youngsters. DD always prefers anything that is out of the box especially in the non-fiction category. ‘Chance of a Lifetime’ has a unique concept that has not been explored by many GEC channels.”

     

    The series is a reality show based on a filmmaking contest amongst handful of creative youngsters. The show is produced and hosted by renowned Indian sports personality Ashok Amritraj who is now a popular Hollywood producer and director.

     

    The show is divided into seven episodes and each episode carries a public service announcement on the United Nation’s Millennium Goals made by famous names in entertainment and Hollywood such as Beyonce, Nicole Kidman, Christina Aguilera, Stevie Wonders and Antonio Bendaras.

     

    The known names in the Indian film industry like Santosh Sivan, Nagesh Kukoonor, Anubhav Sinha and Ketan Mehta are the judges evaluating the films made by the contestants in the show. Each movie is evaluated critically and only one 10-minute film on “Universal Education” will be selected for final screening in the presence of UN officials and later in the Cannes Film Festival.

     

    For the show, filmmakers have been selected from India, Singapore and United Arab Emirates and divided into four teams. Each team is expected to make movies on UN global issues such as AIDS, Migration, Poverty, Universal Education and Economic Development. At the end of each episode, one Hollywood personality will make a public service announcement.

     

    In collaboration with the world famous Variety Magazine, the winning film which is much appreciated by UN Headquarters and the officials gets the chance to be a part of Cannes Film Festival.

     

    ‘Chance of a Lifetime’ not only explores the idea of tapping the creativity of film making in young minds, but also encourages them to think and create through provoking films on global issues that need to be heard and understood. 

  • Prasar Bharati’s channel of autonomy

    Prasar Bharati’s channel of autonomy

    Seldom have government ventures succeeded in democratic India for variety of beliefs and prejudices.  Inherent security has ensured complacency in government servants with invisible accountability resulting in almost every public sector unit crashing gradually but also becoming liability to the exchequer. 

     

    Such ailing commercial initiatives are numerous like Air India, IDPL and HMT to name a few.  As for pure government, the performance is not even measured to stem the existing rot.  The nation coughs up large sums on salaries to maintain archaic British systems founded on in fructuous and dilatory work culture. 

     

    Doordarshan and AIR, the once monopolistic moghuls of video and audio arms of Information & Broadcasting Ministry, with 48000 staff and huge infrastructure as part of Prasar Bharati are under siege from the commercial private channels. The staff is till date government employees on deemed deputation status with no powers to Prasar Bharati to infuse fresh blood or promote them in the last two decades of its existence resulting in a chaotic work force with rock bottom morale with no regulation of conditions of service for employees. Most programmers of Prasar Bharati have long forgotten to produce quality content, the cadre having been decimated over the years and the engineering cadre too losing sheen with administrative impediments and faulty staff pattern, with 1:10 teeth-to-tail ratio. 

     

    As of today, Prasar Bharati must be the only government funded organisation with 25 cutting edge vacancies of Additional Director Generals out of 33 and 148 Deputy Director Generals out of 151 in the programme cadre creating a painful vacuum of leadership that is meant for content creation leaving the reign of DD and AIR Kendras to lower officials or to broadcast engineers by default.  Though well intentioned, Prasar Bharati, the national public service broadcaster, remains a still born child even today with shadow of government continuing despite an Act of Parliament that envisaged emergence of a BBC like institution to educate, inform and entertain people of India and Indian origin abroad. 

     

    Successive governments could not correct the infirmity due to inflexible approach and archaic regulations providing a sure recipe for self-destruction and resulting in natural downfall in TV ratings and Doordarshan seriously lacking audience connect.  While talking of arm’s length in governing, Prasar Bharati, the successive government’s depicted its autonomy as an oxymoron which never exists in real life. 

     

    But for the first time ever, after taking over, Minister of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) said, “My aim was to make Doordarshan and state-run All India Radio first choice of viewers.”  Living up to the expectations, the minister has blessed Doordarshan on their maiden effort to reach Indian diaspora through Deutsche Welle, Germany’s Public Service Broadcaster, by riding DD India, the international channel on its Hotbird 13B satellite with the reciprocal arrangement of showing each other’s channel in their bouquets in DTH platform. 

     

    ‘Hotbird’ has a total of whopping 1117 free-to-air TV channels with 124 English language channels to include BBC, CNN, CCTV, France 24, EuroNews, Al-Jazeera to name a few.  This satellite being the most chosen one by European countries because of its polarisiation and technical reach of 120 million TV homes in Europe, North Africa and Middle East, Prasar Bharati undoubtedly could not have got a better opportunity. 

     

    Being a public broadcaster, Prasar Bharati cannot compare itself with other commercially driven private channels of India as far as telecasting current Indian views and heralding the cause of fine arts showcasing heritage of India and cultural diversity through vibrant content being planned for ‘DD India’. 

     

    Government of India was spending to the tune of Rs 24 crore-Rs 30 crore per annum since 1995 to 2011 by hiring transponder of ‘PanAmsat’ later ‘IntelSat’ without last mile connectivity and insignificant viewership. Kudos to Jawhar Sircar and team that has ensured Doordarshan reaches to 120 million viewers across the globe to witness India as it dawns through a new image Doordarshan. 

     

    Countries like Japan, China, Russia and France spend between Rs 4000 and Rs 8000 crore per annum to ensure global reach for their international channels. Prasar Bharati on its part strongly aims at a content strategy considering cultural and other sensitivities of countries that would receive Doordarshan transmission with closer cooperation with Ministries of External Affairs and Overseas Indian Affairs as it rides on its maiden success in recent times truly blessed by the new government. 

     

    For Prasar Bharati, light seems to be at the end of the tunnel with our new Minister and his practical positivity.  “Faith is the promise of tomorrow.”

     

    (These are purely personal views of Prasar Bharati senior advisor VAM Hussain and indiantelevision.com does not subscribe to these views.)

     

  • Rani Mukherjee wants to be a mom, reveals on DD News ‘Ek Mulaqat’

    Rani Mukherjee wants to be a mom, reveals on DD News ‘Ek Mulaqat’

    MUMBAI: In an interview with Manoj Tibrewal Aakash, Bollywood actress Rani Mukherjee said “I have been a daughter and a wife. Now I wish to become a mother of my child.” “Ek Mulakat”is a platform where personalities open their heart and share their deep desires and aspirations.  In the same show Salman Khan has shared that he prefers his bachelorhood and will stay away from politics. On 23rd August, watch Rani Mukherjee befriend with her fans and talk freely about her feelings and desires on Ek Mulakat at 9:30pm.

     

    Rani Mukherjee is making a comeback with ‘Mardaani’ and was here to promote the film which is slated to release soon. Since the show traces the feelings and genuineness of the guests, Manoj Tiberwal Aakash makes an effort to find the real reason for the film and the person that Ms Mukherjee is. During the chit chat, the actress shared that she picked the name of the film from the patriotic song, ‘Khub ladi mardaani, wo to Jhansi wali Rani thi…” She feels Rani Lakshmi Bai has inspired her a lot and once again there is a need to ignite that feeling inside every woman who is living a life of fear due to recent news of humiliation on women and girls.

     

    Ek Mulakat’s main aim is to promote the work of those women who are an inspiration and has a potential to shake the society with their words. The show is very soon going to complete 250 episodes. Many known and unknown names like Ela Gandhi, Shobana Bhartia, Deepika Padukone, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Saina Nehwal, Dr. Shena Agarawal, IAS Topper 2012 Batch and many more have visited the sets and opened up in the friendly ambience created by the host of the show—Manoj Tibrewal Aakash.

  • Doordarshan to host 13th ABU Robocon Contest at Pune from 22 August

    Doordarshan to host 13th ABU Robocon Contest at Pune from 22 August

    NEW DELHI: The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union’s Robocon, aimed at encouraging a scientific temperament among engineering students in the Asia Pacific region, is commencing in Pune on 22 August in collaboration with Doordarshan.

     

    This is the second time that the event is being held in India, the first being 2008. The 13th ABU International Contest will be organised at the Balewadi Sports Complex and will conclude on 25 August. It was held for the first time in Japan in 2002.

     

    In fact, DD organises college and national level university contests every year to shortlist participants for this contest.  

     

    This year’s theme is ‘A Salute to Parenthood’, where a manual (robot) takes his or her child (robot) to the park to play games like sea-saw, swings, pole walk and jungle Jim. The game will be for three minutes each.

     

    Earlier, this was handled by the Directorate General of Doordarshan but in 2005 it was handed over to Doordarshan Kendra of Mumbai which runs it in collaboration with the Maharashtra Institute of Technology.

     

    In the national finals held in March this year in Pune, 89 teams took part including seven IITs. The Robocon team of Nirma University of Ahmedabad emerged victorious while the team of VJTI from Mumbai was the first runners-up. These two teams will represent India.

     

    Broadcasters and Robocon teams from a total of 17 countries are taking part.

  • DD Bharati launches cultural and musical programmes

    DD Bharati launches cultural and musical programmes

    NEW DELHI: Doordarshan’s culture channel DD Bharati is telecasting a new programme on the classical music form Dhrupad which today has very few exponents in the country.

     

    The three-day Dhrupad Yatra programme which commenced on DD Bharati consists of legendary Dhrupad musicians of past and present including Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar, and Pt Prem Kumar Mallick. Curated by Prashant Kumar Mallick, the programme which began from 18 August is being held till 20 August at 9 pm and will be repeated the next day at 5 am and 1pm.

     

    DD Bharati is also telecasting a series next week on the monsoon season. The charisma of music with Barkha Ritu will feature Pandit Chhannulal Mishra and Pandit Shivkumar Sharma – who will enchant music lovers with monsoon ragas. The recital by Pt Shivkumar Sharma on the santoor will be aired on 24 August and Pt Channulal Mishra on vocals will be on air on 30 August to mesmerise the audience with a musical extravaganza at10 pm respectively.

     

    DD Bharati is also commencing telecast of Purva Uttara: Past Forward from 20 August in which eight  of India’s most spectacular sites – Sanchi, Konarak, Mamallapuram, Vijayanagara, Delhi, the Taj Mahal, Mewar, and Goa – are examined in a thought provoking manner in the context of the history of the time and the socio-economic milieu.  The programmes will be telecast every Wednesday at 4pm and repeated the next day at midnight and at 8 am.

     

    The first programme will be Mamallapuram: A Riddle in the Sands, while the second one will be Vijayanagara: Where Kings and Gods Meet. Others are Sanchi: Monument of the People and Konark: Chariot of the Sun. A World Apart: Princely Mewar, Rome of the Tropics: Goa, Immortal Capital: The Many Cities of Delhi and Visions of Paradise: The Taj Mahal.

     

    Conceptualised by art historian Vidya Dehejia and directed by Shyam Benegal and Zafar Hai, the series present events and forces that shaped these towns and cities that are today icons of India’s architectural and cultural heritage.

  • DD launches fictional TV series to give information about e-Governance

    DD launches fictional TV series to give information about e-Governance

    NEW DELHI: ‘Zindagi Dot Com’, an educational-cum-fiction entertainment television series focusing on the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) has commenced telecast on Doordarshan on August 17.

     

    The series is aimed at creating awareness and disseminate information about the Plan, its various Mission Mode Projects (MMPs), e-services and related aspects.

     

    Zindagi Dot Com, traces the journey and evolution of e-Governance in a remote village of India as also the journey and evolution of its unlikely heroes and change makers in the progressive episodes.

     

    The television series has been produced by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) comprising 39 episodes and has been promoted by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology.

     

    The series will not only enlighten citizens about NeGP as it is based on actual case studies picked up from different parts of the country, but also has elements in its story line to create and sustain viewer interest.

     

    The characters and the plot in the series have been designed in such a way so as to bring out the various challenges present in the adoption of e-governance and how these challenges are overcome.

     

    It will be telecast every Sunday at 10am on Doordarshan with a repeat telecast on DD Bharati at 8.30 pm on Mondays.

  • DD offers free signals of sign language interpretation for I-Day celebrations

    DD offers free signals of sign language interpretation for I-Day celebrations

    NEW DELHI: To enable the hearing impaired so that they can savour the spirit of Independence Day, Doordarshan will make available free of cost the signals of the coverage of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation after the flag hoisting of the tricolour along with the sign language interpretation.

     

    The Information and Broadcasting ministry said all news television channels interested in carrying the live telecast of the ceremony commentary are advised to carry the signals of DD News with sign language interpretation.

     

     The Ministry said that this was being done in view of requests received from members of the civil society.

     

     Prasar Bharati has informed the ministry that DD news channel would be carrying the sign language interpretation and private satellite TV channels can avail the same from them.

  • Inter-ministerial discussion on Prasar Bharati Recruitment Board complete: Javadekar

    Inter-ministerial discussion on Prasar Bharati Recruitment Board complete: Javadekar

    NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said that the Prasar Bharati recruitment board (PBRB) had not been constituted even though Prasar Bharati came into force in 1997. But now, the inter-ministerial consultation on the issue is complete.

     

    He said in the Rajya Sabha that the constitution of the PBRB could not be taken up till 2010 due to resistance of employees against absorption in the Prasar Bharati Corporation and consequent uncertainty in the status of employees.

     

    The Prasar Bharati Act 1990 was amended in January 2012 thereby settling the status of employees of Prasar Bharati.

     

    Prasar Bharati forwarded a proposal for framing rules of PBRB for approval of Government in July 2010 which was subsequently revised by Prasar Bharati in May 2012.

     

    The Ministry is in the process of creation of posts of chairperson and members of PBRB. However, he said tentative time for constitution of PBRB could not be given at this stage.

  • DD, AIR to broadcast live messages of Prez and PM; other programmes slated for next two days and on social media

    DD, AIR to broadcast live messages of Prez and PM; other programmes slated for next two days and on social media

    NEW DELHI: Both All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan have made elaborate arrangements to cover special programmes and events linked to the Independence Day.

     

    The message of President Pranab Mukherjee will be relayed live on 15 August from 8:00 pm onwards on both AIR and DD.

     

    This broadcast will also be available on DTH and live streaming through FM Gold Channel 106.4 of AIR Delhi.

     

    DD will relay this on the National Network of DD 1, DD News, DD Bharati, DD Urdu, DD Kashir, DD-India, DD Sports and its regional language channels. The President’s message in English will be followed by Hindi between 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Regional kendras will also telecast translations of the message between 8:00 pm to 8:30 pm. Kendras will be allowed to de-link for regional transmission between 8:00 pm to 8:30 pm. All Hindi belt network states will be linked between 8:00 pm to 8:30 pm with DDK Delhi. 

     

    The live telecast of the Independence Day by DD with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first address from the ramparts of Red Fort will include his visit to Samadhis from 6.25 am onwards.

     

    DD’s transmission will commence with Mangal Dhwani shehnai recital by Ustad Bismillah Khan from 6:25 am to 6:30 am followed by Vande Mataram at 6.30 am.

     

    DD News will telecast the Independence Flag hoisting ceremony with sign language interpretation on DD News channel.

     

    The commentary in Hindi and English will be alternatively telecast on all the DD channels. The morning transmission will be taken on terrestrial as well as satellite mode of all DDK’s.

     

    8:30 am to 9:00 am have been allotted for regional transmission and all regional kendra’s will telecast the governor’s and Chief Minister’s messages and flag hoisting ceremony of the respective states for regional telecast.

     

    The Prime Minister’s recording of flag hoisting ceremony and address to the nation will be repeated from 11:00 am to 12.30 pm on terrestrial as well as satellite mode.

      

    On AIR, the regional versions of the President’s broadcast will be originated by the respective regional stations at 8:00 pm and will be compulsory, including local Radio stations in their respective regional languages.

     

    The commentary of the flag hoisting by AIR will be simultaneously in Hindi and English and the Prime Minister’s address to the nation will be broadcasted by all stations and channels of AIR throughout the country.  This live broadcast will commence from 7.05 am across the country through terrestrial transmitters in AM and FM Mode, DTH and live streaming.

     

    The regional versions of the Prime Minister’s Address to the Nation will be originated by the respective regional stations on 15 August and will be compulsory for all AIR Stations including local radio stations in their respective regional languages.

     

    DD Bharati will telecast the film ‘Bharat Kokila’, a documentary on Sarojini Naidu, today. Both will be telecast at 08:30 pm respectively and repeated the next day at 04:30 am and 12:30 pm. 

     

    A total of 179 national bulletins and News Magazines will widely cover PM’s speech along with sound bytes on AIR.

     

    The highlights of Independence Day Celebrations from across the country will also be covered in bulletins and New Magazines. 

     

    There will be a special edition of Samachar Darshan programme on AIR from 08.15 pm to 08.42 pm. 

     

    The PM’s address will also be covered in 475 Regional bulletins by AIR in respective regional languages along with regional highlights of Independence Day celebrations. 

     

    Regional News Units have been asked to mount special discussion programmes based on the PM’s speech. 

     

    The highlights of the PM’s speech will also be available on Twitter, Facebook and SMS.

     

    There will be an Audio link and photos of the Flag Hoisting ceremony on Facebook and Twitter.  Doordarshan’s YouTube site will also simulcast the address by the Prime Minister. 

     

    Modi’s address can also be heard on soundcloud.com/allindiaradionews and the audio and text of the President’s Address on the eve of Independence Day will be on the website www.newsonair.nic.in of News Services Division of All India Radio.