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  • Aaj Tak reintroduces ‘Sahitya Aaj Tak’

    Aaj Tak reintroduces ‘Sahitya Aaj Tak’

    Mumbai: Aaj Tak is reintroducing its well-liked literary program, Sahitya Aaj Tak. The fifth edition of the show will take place at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in New Delhi from 18 to 20 November after a three-year break caused by covid.

    Sahitya Aaj Tak is a unique occasion that connects people to the literary and cultural worlds. Aaj Tak conceptualised and created the three-day event, allowing attendees to interact with a wide range of top legendary talent under one roof while directly listening to, watching, and meeting celebrities from the literary, artistic, and cultural worlds. Sahitya Aaj Tak offers free admission.

    One such effort by Aaj Tak to help today’s youth and society better understand and connect with the world of Sahitya is this distinctive festival connecting various streams of Sahitya. The programme will feature authors, academics, composers, musicians, actors, columnists, business executives, poets, and theatre performers whose work has had a lasting impact on audiences.

    Artists will reunite this year on a single stage once more to introduce guests to their ideas, voices, and performances.

    Sahitya Aaj Tak is a forum where one can engage with authors and their works from all over India who have sparked their wanderlust while also challenging their minds with thought-provoking debates. Additionally, the event will include provocative conversations with notable leaders, novelty topics, and other topics. The addition of movie stars will energise an already impressive list of literary luminaries.

    Live performances by B Praak and Asees Kaur will adorn Sahitya Aaj Tak. Names of the other great personalities who will shine on the show’s stage this year are as follows:

    •     Afsana Khan
    •     Bhupender Yadav
    •     Vikram Sampat
    •     Ashwin Sanghi
    •     Chetan Bhagat
    •     Prasoon Joshi
    •     Nasera Sharma
    •     Ashok Vajpeyi
    •     Anamika
    •     Arun Kamal
    •     Nand Kishor Acharya
    •     Naresh Saxena
    •     Leeladhar Jagudi
    •     Surender Mohan Pathak
    •     Rajesh Joshi
    •     Kabir Bedi
    •     Swanand Kirkire
    •     Morari Bapu
    •     Deepti Naval
    •     Kailash Satyarthi
    •     Mridula Garg
    •     Wasim Barelvi
    •     Sheen Kaaf Nizam
    •     Nawaz Deobandi
    •     Mahua Maji
  • Zee Live announces fourth edition of ‘Arth – A Culture Fest’

    Zee Live announces fourth edition of ‘Arth – A Culture Fest’

    Mumbai: Zee Live, the live entertainment and IP vertical of Zee Entertainment Enterprises has announced the fourth edition of Arth – A Culture Fest. Celebrating 75 years of Indian independence, Arth will bring to its platform distinguished and globally acclaimed personalities to celebrate India’s rich culture and heritage.

    The festival can be watched Live on the YouTube and Facebook pages of Arth – A Culture Fest from 18-20 February.

    This season will witness intriguing discussions on Indian art, culture, cinema, sports, politics, and faith with eminent panelists such as Bharatiya Janata Party national vice president Baijayant Jay Panda,
    Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor and other noted personalities like Abhinav Prakash, Anand Ranganathan, Anupam Kher, Ashwin Sanghi, Avani Lekhara, Ekta Kapoor, Gautam Chikermane, Harsh Gupta Madhusudan, Hindol Sengupta, J Sai Deepak, Meenakshi Jain, Rahul Easwar, Rajat Sethi, Rajeev Mantri, Sanjeev Sanyal, Shefali Vaidya, Shubhrastha, Tusshar Kapoor, and Vivek Agnihotri, said the statement.

    This year’s edition will have topics like The evolution of Indian Cinema, Sports over the years: Cricket and beyond, Story of India’s national carrier: Air India, Indic spirituality and its role in keeping our civilization alive, and India’s role in current geopolitics etc.

    A special TV broadcast of Arth season 4 will be telecasted on close to 20 channels of Zeel including Zee TV, &TV, Zee Punjabi, Zee Marathi, Zee Café amongst others. It will showcase the brilliance of Indian culture and heritage through an ensemble of Indian dance, shayari by Kumar Vishwas, musical performances by Aman & Ayaan Ali Khan, B Praak and the team of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.

    Arth – A Culture Fest founder and Saat Saath Arts Foundation’s co-director Shreyasi Goenka said, “The main objective of Arth – A Culture Fest has always been to re-connect Indians to their roots and help them re-discover the rich legacy that our country has to offer. As India enters her 75th year of independence, we at Arth wanted to celebrate and pay homage to the various unique aspects that set our country apart from the rest of the world. In the fourth season of Arth, we have an incredible line-up of industry stalwarts coming together to discuss what gives India her true meaning.”

    “The last two years have been nothing but a learning curve for all of us. We have pivoted ourselves and come out even stronger,” stated Arth – A Culture Fest’s festival director, author and historian Vikram Sampath. “Fueled by the success of the third season of Arth – A Culture Fest, we have come back with a unique theme of celebration – A Celebration of India’s 75 years of freedom. Viewers can look forward to brilliant discussions by distinguished personalities who have represented India on a global platform in this specially curated fourth season of Arth.”

    Travelling to Kolkata and Delhi the first three seasons of Arth saw the presence of eminent leaders and speakers like union home minister Amit Shah, minister of road transport and highways of India Nitin Gadkari, union minister for women and child development Smriti Irani, and other noted personalities like Subramanian Swamy, Asaduddin Owaisi, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Gaur Gopal Das, Imtiaz Ali, Raveena Tandon, and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra.

    The previous editions also hosted eminent personalities from the media and advertising fraternity like Piyush Pandey and Prasoon Joshi. Manoj Muntashir, Amish Tripathi, Aanchal Malhotra, Ruskin Bond, Sudha Murthy, Ashwin Sanghi, and Mandira Bedi were also present.

     

  • Eros International acquires film rights to best-selling author Ashwin Sanghi’s The Krishna Key

    Eros International acquires film rights to best-selling author Ashwin Sanghi’s The Krishna Key

    MUMBAI: Eros International, a leading global company in the Indian film entertainment industry has acquired the rights to adapt best-selling Indian author Ashwin Sanghi’s anthropological thriller The Krishna Key into a theatrical film and original series for their digital over-the-top (OTT) South Asian entertainment platform, Eros Now.

    The acclaimed thriller set across timelines with its captivating plot, merging the mythological with the contemporary released in 2012. The book follows a history professor who must prove his innocence against a murder charge. Krishna Key, the third novel by Ashwin Sanghi, tries to unfold the secrets of the Mahabharata and establish Krishna as a historical character rather than a mythical character. The plot is dramatic and provocative, enthralling with its twists and turns creating a seamless opportunity to creatively showcase it in the world cinema. The series is in initial stages of development with talent to be finalised soon. Eros is planning its release in 2019.

    Commenting on the development, Eros International, Chief Content Officer, Ridhima Lulla said, “We are gearing towards enhancing the premium content offering on Eros Now, that includes the launch of its originals. We want to offer a myriad content mix on our platform and have been particularly keen on adding Indian mythological themes which remain hugely popular.  We are very excited to have acquired the rights to Ashwin’s bestselling book which delves beautifully into Indian history and mythology and at the same time blending well with the contemporary world and we anticipate it to be a perfect premise to explore for the big screen and an original series adaption”. 

    Author Ashwin Sanghi adds, “I am delighted that Eros International has acquired the rights to The Krishna Key. Eros has an incredible team that is exceedingly capable of adapting this action-packed thriller into a very interesting story for cinema. I am confident that the final product will be exciting and entertaining.”

    Ashwin Sanghi ranks among India’s highest selling English fiction authors. He is considered one of the frontrunners in historical and mythological retelling. Popularly hailed as the Indian Dan Brown for The Rozabal Line and The Krishna Key, both of which were critically acclaimed. He has written several other bestsellers including Chanakya’s Chant, The Sialkot Saga and Keepers of the Kalachakra. In 2010, he won Vodafone-Crossword Popular Choice Award for Chanakya’s Chant. Additionally, the book Private India became the best seller in the United Kingdom. He was also included in the list of celebrity 100 by Forbes.