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  • Relive ‘Malgudi Days’ on Tata Sky Classic Cinema

    Relive ‘Malgudi Days’ on Tata Sky Classic Cinema

    NEW DELHI: Get ready for a trip down memory lane as Tata Sky Classic Cinema is exclusively bringing back the timeless nostalgic series Malgudi Days on your television screen. Based on several heart-warming short stories by RK Narayan, the series is about a bunch of characters leading simple lives in a fictitious small town called Malgudi. The plots revolve around the trials and tribulations faced by the lead character Swami and his friends.

    Directed by Shankar Nag, the series features the then famous child actor Master Manjunath and other acclaimed actors including Girish Karnad, Vaishali Kasaravalli, Ananth Nag and Arundhati Nag. The stories of Malgudi Days evoke a feeling of nostalgia and have a strong resonance among audiences who enjoy simple and powerful storytelling.

    Shankar Nagarakatte, better known as Shankar Nag, was an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work in Kannada-language films and television. He directed and acted in this television series, based on celebrated novelist RK Narayan's short stories.

    Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami, commonly known as RK Narayan, was an Indian writer known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English. This collection of short series is based on the book Malgudi Days by him. In 1986, a few of the stories in the book were included in the Malgudi Days television series.

    Reminisce these vibrant and memorable short stories only on Tata Sky Classic Cinema. Tune in to channel 318 every Saturday and Sunday at 5 pm.

  • Airtel Digital TV partners EPIC ON to bring ‘Malgudi Days’ to homes

    Airtel Digital TV partners EPIC ON to bring ‘Malgudi Days’ to homes

    MUMBAI: DTH service provider Airtel Digital TV today announced a unique content partnership with IN10 Media Network's OTT platform EPIC ON to bring the timeless nostalgic series of Malgudi Days to over 16 million homes across the country.

    Based on several heart-warming short stories by RK Narayan, Malgudi Days series is about a bunch of characters leading simple lives in a fictitious small town called Malgudi. The plots revolve around the trials and tribulations faced by the lead character Swami and his friends. Malgudi Days was first telecast on the national television in 1986 and became an integral part of the lives of Indians who grew up during that period. Directed by Shankar Nag, the series features the then famous child actor Master Manjunath and other acclaimed actors including Girish Karnad, Vaishali Kasaravalli, Ananth Nag and Arundhati Nag. The stories of Malgudi Days evoke a feeling of nostalgia as well as have strong resonance among audiences who enjoy simple and powerful storytelling.

    Airtel digital TV customers will now be able to experience the magic of this 80’s classic at leisure on channel no 102. Airtel has introduced this series with unique options with which customers can binge watch the series by playing the episodes back to back or at a dedicated time every day like they catch up on their regular TV shows.

    Airtel DTH marketing head Aashish Ahuja said: “As a brand we are always innovating to delight our customers with a rich bouquet of content. We picked up that nostalgia is a strong consumer need and Malgudi Days is one of the most perfect all-time classics that a whole lot of us grew up watching. We are delighted to add the show to our offerings and promise to continue adding such relevant content for our customers.”

    EPIC ON COO Sourjya Mohanty said: “We are happy to join hands with Airtel Digital TV and strengthen our presence across the country. This is the beginning of a long-term partnership. We are hoping to continue bringing high-appealing India-centric bespoke programmes for the service and truly entertain audiences across all age-groups.”

    Airtel Digital TV customers can watch ‘Malgudi Days’ on channel 102 at just Rs. 1.5 per day.

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  • Zee Kannada marks 14 years of grand success

    Zee Kannada marks 14 years of grand success

    MUMBAI: Zee Kannada celebrates 14 glorious years of entertaining Kannada audiences from across India. Over the years, the channel’s variety of multi-genre offerings, from fiction shows to reality shows and talk shows have been reflective of its philosophy – ‘Bayasid'dha Bāgilu Tegiyōṇa'.

    At the beginning of the previous calendar year, Zee Kannada emerged as the number one channel for the first time in 13 years and has ever since continued to win the hearts of all Kannada audience.

    Impacting viewers by serving as an inspiration and refection of love, Zee Kannada’s tent-pole shows like Weekend with Ramesh, Drama Juniors, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, Jothe Jotheyali and now with the launch of Malgudi Days, the channel has transformed small screen entertainment in the market.

    Zee Kannada and Zee Picchar business head Raghavendra Hunsur says, “Zee Kannada has had an eventful year with an aim to inspire the viewers and achieve goals beyond their reach. The channel is celebrating several milestones like emerging as the market leader, a successful season of Weekend with Ramesh, launching the most popular fiction show, Jothe Jotheyal; and the first-ever adaptation of Malgudi Days to the Kannada small screen for the first time.”

    He adds, “We hope the viewers continue to show and support the channel in the years to come. Though these difficult times of the pandemic, as your entertainment partner, we urge everyone to stay indoors and stay safe with Zee Kannada.”

  • Zee Kannada brings Malgudi Days to small screen

    Zee Kannada brings Malgudi Days to small screen

    MUMBAI: Zee Kannada has launched Shankar Nag's Malgudi Days, starting 11 May, every weekday at 9.30 PM on its SD and HD platforms.

    Swami and friends will now be paying a visit to the homes of every Kannadiga with their sweet tales from the pre-independent era. The evergreen classic series enjoyed in the 80s and 90s will be introduced to the Gen Z.

    Be it the nostalgic soundtrack or to the location of the traditional house and the strong association the state of Karnataka, director Shankar Nag has ensured to make Malgudi Days the flavour this summer.

    Zee Kannada and Zee Picchar business head Raghavendra Hunsur says: “It brings me great pleasure to be able to announce the launch of the popular series to the Kannada small screen for the first time in the history of Malgudi Days. A series I hold extremely close to my heart is finally something I will be able to share with all our viewers starting 11 May on our platform is definitely a moment of pride for me and the channel. We hope this will make all our summers memorable.”

  • Paper boat: Navigating successfully in the beverages market

    Paper boat: Navigating successfully in the beverages market

    MUMBAI: It’s not about commercial success; it’s about telling a story. It’s not about spending plenty, but it’s about innocently connecting one to nostalgia. 

    A brand from nowhere penetrated the Indian beverage market with a few never-heard-about drinks and in never-before-seen packaging and in no time emerged as a trend setter for others to follow. When it entered not many prophesised  success, but as they progressed and hit a home run, they definitely piqued brand mavens’ interest.

     Backed by Sequoia Capital start-up Hector Beverages’s Paperboat with a few million happy consumers has made a major mark in the $5.18 billion beverage market. 

    “956 happy people is the size of our company,” says Hector beverages CEO Neeraj Kakkar which somehow depicts the ethos the company follows. 

    There are three active plants in which both R&D and production takes place. The company raised about $30 million last year and pumped it into increasing manufacturing capacity. 

    “At this stage we are producing 420 bottles per minute. By June we will have our new plant in Mysore operating, that will spur up our production to 900 bottles per minute,” informs Kakkar.

     

    Though Hector Beverages would like to grow further but at this stage the management is not looking to raise any further funds.

     “There is no end to growth and we would like to grow further, but we have the money for now and we are not looking to raise more funds rather our focus is to launch new recipes,” says Kakkar.

     

    Besides happy people and quality infrastructure, Hector Beverages also has 14 recipes, which previously never featured in the catalogue of traditional beverage brands. Drinks, which only grandmothers used to prepare in the Indian kitchen, were introduced in innovative packages for consumers.  Be it  Kokam, Aam Panna or recently launched chili guava the drinks successfully managed  to take us down nostalgia lane.  

    Products are tested and gestated in the lab for up to three years before making it to shop shelves. “As we speak now we have more than 35 projects which we are working on. Khanji is a drink we started working on two years back and still we are not anywhere close to launching it. Recipe, research, raw material, commercialization, rollout is the broad structure that we follow,” the CEO educates. 

     

    Chilli Guava and the sweet concoction of jaggery Pannakam are the two drinks the beverage company has already launched this year and going forward the plan is to launch 10 more.

     

    The $100 million company has secured triple digit growth last year and plans to match that number this year too. “We are poor at numbers,” says Kakkar with a wide smile “and hence will not put any number target, but as I mentioned the target is to keep the recipe alive,” he adds.

     

    The recipes when clubbed with the TVCs Hector Beverages has been creating in association with Lowe Lintas, manage to take one to a paper boat ride down memory lane. The Malgudi Days tune paired with Gulzar’s poem and recitation are indeed an alluring hypnotic lead in to the mouth-watering fruit beverages in the TVCs. And behind all the marketing initiatives the man responsible is the company’s marketing head Parvesh Debuka. 

     

     

    He believes innocence is the key and that is all the brand wants to communicate.  Recently  the company reprinted The Jungle Book and offered it free to consumers purchasing six standi-pouches at a time. The bundle was released at a time when India was screening The Jungle Book in theatres. 

     

     

    “It is a co-incidence,” says Debuka, “We have been planning the reprint since a year now. That time we had no idea about when the movie will be in the theatres. This is a part of our plan to create a PaperBoat library and we reprinted Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome last year and next year too we will reprint one and give it for free to the consumers.”

     

    The Indian ethnic drinks manufacturer targets anyone who consumes fruit beverages  without any demographic segmentation. But its key target is the 20 to mid-30-yers and it’s communication is also addressed towards them. 

    “Digital is where we pay serious attention for its interactive nature but in terms of spend TV continues to be the focus and the return on TV is more,” says Kakkar. “This year value wise our marketing spend will go up as it will be certain per cent of the sales which has gone up significantly, but the percentile would be less than last year as last year our emphasis was on getting more awareness.”

     Consumer insights play a vital role in orchestrating the road map when it comes to marketing as well as packaging, “We got feedback after we changed the cap of our packet. Someone wrote to us sharing his difficulty in opening the new package and then we immediately changed it to the butterfly one. We also use feedback to strengthen our recipes and hence they are always precious,” adds Debuka.

     

    Paper Boat’s journey so far has shown others a new way to sail in to the beverage market and there are many now following them.

     Hajmola launched Yoodley with similar packaging and identical flavours, “Competition only makes the ecosystem better, there is nothing for us to worry about. In fact I am happy that there are other players coming in, it will broaden the size of the market,” concludes Kakkar. 

    Spoken like a true sailor!

  • Paper boat: Navigating successfully in the beverages market

    Paper boat: Navigating successfully in the beverages market

    MUMBAI: It’s not about commercial success; it’s about telling a story. It’s not about spending plenty, but it’s about innocently connecting one to nostalgia. 

    A brand from nowhere penetrated the Indian beverage market with a few never-heard-about drinks and in never-before-seen packaging and in no time emerged as a trend setter for others to follow. When it entered not many prophesised  success, but as they progressed and hit a home run, they definitely piqued brand mavens’ interest.

     Backed by Sequoia Capital start-up Hector Beverages’s Paperboat with a few million happy consumers has made a major mark in the $5.18 billion beverage market. 

    “956 happy people is the size of our company,” says Hector beverages CEO Neeraj Kakkar which somehow depicts the ethos the company follows. 

    There are three active plants in which both R&D and production takes place. The company raised about $30 million last year and pumped it into increasing manufacturing capacity. 

    “At this stage we are producing 420 bottles per minute. By June we will have our new plant in Mysore operating, that will spur up our production to 900 bottles per minute,” informs Kakkar.

     

    Though Hector Beverages would like to grow further but at this stage the management is not looking to raise any further funds.

     “There is no end to growth and we would like to grow further, but we have the money for now and we are not looking to raise more funds rather our focus is to launch new recipes,” says Kakkar.

     

    Besides happy people and quality infrastructure, Hector Beverages also has 14 recipes, which previously never featured in the catalogue of traditional beverage brands. Drinks, which only grandmothers used to prepare in the Indian kitchen, were introduced in innovative packages for consumers.  Be it  Kokam, Aam Panna or recently launched chili guava the drinks successfully managed  to take us down nostalgia lane.  

    Products are tested and gestated in the lab for up to three years before making it to shop shelves. “As we speak now we have more than 35 projects which we are working on. Khanji is a drink we started working on two years back and still we are not anywhere close to launching it. Recipe, research, raw material, commercialization, rollout is the broad structure that we follow,” the CEO educates. 

     

    Chilli Guava and the sweet concoction of jaggery Pannakam are the two drinks the beverage company has already launched this year and going forward the plan is to launch 10 more.

     

    The $100 million company has secured triple digit growth last year and plans to match that number this year too. “We are poor at numbers,” says Kakkar with a wide smile “and hence will not put any number target, but as I mentioned the target is to keep the recipe alive,” he adds.

     

    The recipes when clubbed with the TVCs Hector Beverages has been creating in association with Lowe Lintas, manage to take one to a paper boat ride down memory lane. The Malgudi Days tune paired with Gulzar’s poem and recitation are indeed an alluring hypnotic lead in to the mouth-watering fruit beverages in the TVCs. And behind all the marketing initiatives the man responsible is the company’s marketing head Parvesh Debuka. 

     

     

    He believes innocence is the key and that is all the brand wants to communicate.  Recently  the company reprinted The Jungle Book and offered it free to consumers purchasing six standi-pouches at a time. The bundle was released at a time when India was screening The Jungle Book in theatres. 

     

     

    “It is a co-incidence,” says Debuka, “We have been planning the reprint since a year now. That time we had no idea about when the movie will be in the theatres. This is a part of our plan to create a PaperBoat library and we reprinted Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome last year and next year too we will reprint one and give it for free to the consumers.”

     

    The Indian ethnic drinks manufacturer targets anyone who consumes fruit beverages  without any demographic segmentation. But its key target is the 20 to mid-30-yers and it’s communication is also addressed towards them. 

    “Digital is where we pay serious attention for its interactive nature but in terms of spend TV continues to be the focus and the return on TV is more,” says Kakkar. “This year value wise our marketing spend will go up as it will be certain per cent of the sales which has gone up significantly, but the percentile would be less than last year as last year our emphasis was on getting more awareness.”

     Consumer insights play a vital role in orchestrating the road map when it comes to marketing as well as packaging, “We got feedback after we changed the cap of our packet. Someone wrote to us sharing his difficulty in opening the new package and then we immediately changed it to the butterfly one. We also use feedback to strengthen our recipes and hence they are always precious,” adds Debuka.

     

    Paper Boat’s journey so far has shown others a new way to sail in to the beverage market and there are many now following them.

     Hajmola launched Yoodley with similar packaging and identical flavours, “Competition only makes the ecosystem better, there is nothing for us to worry about. In fact I am happy that there are other players coming in, it will broaden the size of the market,” concludes Kakkar. 

    Spoken like a true sailor!

  • Mr. Netflix, are you ready for India?

    Mr. Netflix, are you ready for India?

    After tasting global success, Mr. Netflix is revving up to thrust into India by 2016. But let’s take a breather here. We are talking about a country which debates about Bharat and India and where a part of the demography still views its favourite content in black and white CRT TV.

     

    While youngsters these days are widely speaking about Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, House of Cards and Orange Is The New Black, dear Mr. Netflix wait before you get buoyed by all these series that generates millions for you, as Indians still believe in ‘torrent’ing .

     

    In India, while some of the best movies, made by the greatest filmmakers have been uploaded on YouTube, what has worked is the bathroom comedy by All India Backchod. Why do I talk about this, because if one has to believe the sources, Netflix is meeting a lot of producers across India to rope in quality content for the subscription based video on demand (SVOD) platform. 

     

    I know that the unprecedented number of downloads of Hotstar has tested your temperament and you can’t wait to enter the lucrative Indian market, but this video on demand (VoD) platform from Star India, got most of its downloads, thanks to Cricket, a religion in India. The app has so far been downloaded by more than 10 million Android users.

     

    Hotstar was placed in the top spot in the Google free app category even taking over Facebook and Whatsapp while the ICC Cricket World Cup was on. Now that the World Cup and IPL are over, the platform is not even in the top 10. This substantiates the fact that Hotstar’s unprecedented success was because of the two cricketing events.

     

    So what are you thinking now, Mr Netflix? Hotstar does not have adequate content? Hold on, the platform has 20,000 hours of content spread across seven languages. This includes 120+ full length TV shows and 500+ movies. This apart, the app also live streams popular sports like Cricket, Football, Tennis and Kabbadi. In short, Hotstar caters to a very large and diverse audience.

     

    Hotstar is not the only VOD platform India has. Right from Zee’s DittoTV, Spuul, Zenga, YupTV to the speculated Viacom 18’s soon to be launched VOD platform, competition will be tough. So, Mr Netflix it’s not just another regular expansion of business, you are going to enter a war: A war of over the top (OTT) services.

     

    Not only domestic players, but international ones like HOOQ and Vuclip among others have already entered the Indian market. HOOQ launched in India in May 2015 with a subscription plan of Rs 199.

     

    The subscription based platform has managed to secure 10,000 downloads in the two months since its launch. So Mr. Netflix, you may just have to change your strategy and become an ad based VoD platform, to woo Indian consumers. If industry sources are to be believed, Netflix is looking for a possible tie up with HOOQ for its India launch.

     

    Mr Netflix if you are thinking you will change your strategy and take the ad route let me throw a few numbers. Of the Rs 414 billion Indian advertising budget, only 10.5 per cent is expected to be spent on digital. Eating into this 10.5 per cent will be giants like Google, Yahoo and Bing among others, leaving you with a meager percentage share of the ad pie. If this satisfies you, join the fight and prepare yourself with some melodrama content that can please the advertiser.

     

    By now you must be thinking: what do 1,280 million people in India do and what about the 300 million smartphone exaggeration? Let’s take the number route again. Yes it’s true that India is about to dethrone the US and become the second largest mobile internet market by having more than 300 million wireless internet users and the year-on-year growth rate stands at 31 per cent. The main reason behind it is availability of smartphones at a low price which is enabling the penetration in rural India. But Mr Netflix what content will you provide in rural India? Malgudi Days? And you think rural India will accept it? On a Rs 5,000 smartphone Malgudi Days will look like Guilever Travels and produce sound like a radio. So not convincing!

     

    I know what is lucrative — 210 million wireless internet connections which is estimated to reach 402 million by 2017 and 528 million by 2019. While urban India widely speaks about 3G, majority of them disable their 3G service and stay satisfied with Edge or 2G service. 3G is largely alien to rural India. To add to your vivid imagination, while you are widely reading about smartphone penetration, 66 per cent of the urban internet traffic comes from desktop. 11 per cent of active urban consumers use tablets to access internet of which only 16 per cent consider tablets as their primary device for internet access.

     

    So Mr Netflix, if you still have zest let me present to you the fiercest competition: Television, which you think will diminish with the emergence of digital. Yes, there are close to 300 million internet users whereas only 168 million television households in India. But if one takes a closer look, the168 million households amount to 825 million television viewers.

     

    The growth rate of internet users is also expected to be much higher compared to that of television. From 2014-19 television is expected grow at a CAGR of 3 per cent, when pitched against the huge CAGR 18 per cent for internet users. The television growth can go much higher if more areas are empowered with electricity.

     

    So, only if there is a complete paradigm shift, with five national MSOs and six DTH players committing a bundle of mistakes and a Tsunami of technology comes in to change the entire infrastructure, a concept like SVOD may work, otherwise it may just perish.

     

    Mr Netflix let me introduce a term to you which you might have never come across throughout your journey – ‘buffering’. To watch a video at 144p one has to go through numerous buffering so guess what will happen to someone who wants to watch an Argo or Apocalypse Now.

     

    The only ray of hope for you Mr. Netflix is 4G. Airtel has already launched 4G in some parts of the country and Reliance Jio is expected to launch by 2015 end. 4G is supposed to be a lot faster compared to 3G but the price is yet to be determined. Why did I mention price? As the current scenario goes, to watch 1GB of content one has to pay around Rs 300. So for 10 GB worth of content, one has to pay approximately Rs 3,000 — an amount that can give 500 channels on television for 10 months.

     

    The other ray of hope is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Digital India’ vision.

     

    Mr Netflix don’t worry India believes in Atithi Devo Bhava (Guest Is God) and hence will welcome you with grace and gratitude, like the nation did with Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts.

     

    But at the end of the day as Charles Darwin said ‘Survival of the fittest.’

  • Regional cinema and homages on DD Bharati programming agenda

    Regional cinema and homages on DD Bharati programming agenda

    NEW DELHI: Doordarshan’s cultural channel DD Bharati will telecast Nanak Naman today and tomorrow at 10:00 pmrepeat next day 06:00 am and 02:00 pm to mark Guru Nanak Jayanti.

     

    The film is a compilation of various Gurbanis, Kirtans darbar and kathak in adoration and celebration of Guru Parv.

     

    DD Bharati will pay its homage to the music maestro Bhupen Hazarika by airing Ek Kali Do Pattiyan this evening at 06:30 pm and repeat next day at 02:30 am and 10:30pm. Another programme Tore Bin Laage Naa Mora Jiya will be telecast on 7 November at 06:30 pm and repeat next day at 02:30 am and 10:30pm.

     

    Regional cinema will form the core of programming on the channel this month. While Maati Maay (Marathi) was telecast earlier this month, the Malayalam film Athnakatha will be shown on 8 November at 06:30 pm, repeated next day at 02:30 am and 10:30 am in the Best of Indian Cinema slot.

     

    Premlal’s directorial debut ‘Athmakatha‘ is an extremely moving tale of a dad-daughter duo. Premlal displays remarkable mellowness in his direction that very few debutantes possess.  ‘Athmakatha’ turns out to be a rich and imaginative tribute to the indomitable human spirit that strives and eventually survives.

     

    DD Bharati will also telecast from its archives the documentary Malgudi Dreams, a film on the life of R K Narayan whose serial Malgudi Days proved very popular on DD National and has seen several repeats. The documentary will be aired on 6 November at 06:00 pm, repeat next day at 02:00 am and 10:00pm. The documentary Born Again will be telecast on 8 November at 06:00 pm, repeat next day at 02:00 am and 10:00 pm. Vishnu Das Bhave shows puppets being restored and presented in a very dynamic way.

     

    The Trailblazers series will feature a film on painter and artist Ghulam Sheikh on 9 November at 10:00 pm repeat next day at06:00 am and 02:00 pm.

     

    Vigyan Prasar in association with DD Bharati has commenced the telecast of The Maths Factor everyday at 05:30 pm, repeat next day at 01:30 am and 09:30 am. The Maths Factor is a 13-part series delving into the magic of mathematics. Each episode takes an interesting concept or area of mathematics and journeys through it using narratives, anecdotes, historical recreations and innovative problems to bring it alive. On one hand the episode on Network theory takes one through the seven bridges of Konigsberg, while the other episode on Probability kicks off with a game show.

     

    A new programme Gunijan – A dialogue with classical Musicians, Art Critics, Music Historians & Litterateurs is commencing from 8 November at 09:00 pm. The weekly interview series begins with Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma on 8 November and Ashok Vajpayee on 15 November. All the episodes have exclusively been curated and re-presented by Yatindra Mishra and Kumud Diwan.

  • Zee Lamhe is the third most viewed Asian Channel in UK

    Zee Lamhe is the third most viewed Asian Channel in UK

    MUMBAI: Lamhe proves its popularity as it comes in as third most viewed Asian channel in the UK in the latest round of BARB ratings.

     

    The channel that was launched in the UK market in the mid-2013 has made its own place among viewers with its unique offerings. And the recent BARB rating just affirms that. Lamhe beat many other longer standing channels and programmes and even boasted the top most viewed slots across various times of the day amongst all channels.

     

    The channel reaches an audience of over half a million each week, showcasing only the best of South-Asian entertainment, free, with classic Dramas, Bollywood Classics, lifestyle, travel, cookery and more. This offering is popular across a broad range of the audiences, with many of its slots topping amongst a young audience aged 16-34 years. The channel’s top show on 6 Jan was Astitva, attracting almost 50,000 viewers per minute at prime time 9:30pm, with over 25 per cent of these viewers being from the young age band.

     

    Free-To-Air Channels business head Archana Kanade said in a release: “Lamhe has been successful in offering to today’s audience a viewing experience that they do not find elsewhere. For Lamhe to consistently come out top at certain time slots week on week is a tough feat in today’s saturated TV market. Many channels today have one-off properties that help them to gather their audience numbers, whereas Lamhe’s schedule draws in viewers throughout the day and across various shows.”

     

    The line-up of the month includes critically-acclaimed shows including Amanat, Hasratein and Malgudi Days as well as classics celebrating the all-time sizzling actresses of Bollywood – such as Babita, Madhuri Dixit, Dimple Kapadia, Sridevi – on weekend movies at 7:30pm. Viewers can also watch out for new additions to the channel.

     

    Lamhe is free to enjoy on Sky 798 and is also available on Virgin Media 811. It has also recently launched on Freeview channel 53 in the Manchester region.

  • Malgudi Days producer TN Narasimhan passes away

    Malgudi Days producer TN Narasimhan passes away

    MUMBAI: TN Narasimhan, producer of popular serial Malgudi Days, passed away on 26 July. The 86-year- old breathed his last breaths at his Tata Silk House residence in Bangalore.

     

    Narasimhan played an important role in creating international presence for Indian teleserials, children’s movies and films. In 1985, he produced Malgudi Days based on RK Narayan’s book. 39 episodes of the TV serial were telecast on the national channel Doordarshan and became very popular. Later, the series was aired on Sony Entertainment as well.

     

    The producer had undergone a surgery eight years ago and since then was unwell. His last rites were performed in Bangalore and were attended by family and friends.