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Latest TV Serial & Web Series News, TV news, news, breaking news, live tv, latest news, hindi news channel, news bulletin, live news tv, tv live news, live t. Reliance BIG Home Video has just released 1990-’91 TV serial, Udaan on DVD. For all of you who would like to bring back those nostalgic memories, Udaan (Flight) was the name of a popular Hindi TV serial that aired on the Indian Television channel DD National in 1990 – 91.
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Continuing with the peep into the past, here’s the third part of the bhule bisare serial. (Come to think of it there was Bhule Bisare geet on radio) The list is getting bigger Aaisa bhi hota hai A serial telling stories of ghost and strange occurrences. Something like that.
Really don’t remember much. Honee Anhonee Belongs to the “Qile ka rahasya” category. Dealt with Reincarnation and strange phenomenon. Supposedly based on true stories. Katha Saagar, Ek Kahani and Darpan The concept was simple. Dramatize a short story of a famous author. But the story they picked and the way it was presented was too good.
One of the serial had a short introduction to the author too. I don’t remember which one. ShowTheme The hindi film industry was not called bollywood then. The host used to select a theme and then show all scenes related to the theme. Singhasaan Bateeshi The story of the throne of Raja Vikramaditya which has 32 statues in the throne.
Each statue tells a story. I think it had to do something with another king who wants to sit on the throne but the throne prevent him saying that he is not as worthy as Raja Vikramaditya. Total timepass and lot of moralistic story Vikram aur betaal Arun Govil playing Vikram long before he played Ram in Ramayan. Story of Raja Vikramaditya (I think) who has promised to bring a corpse from the jungle. The corpse tells a story and at the end asks a question. The king answers and then the corpse runs away, actually flys away.
The start and end scene shown were same for all stories. We actually memorized the whole scene. “Tu bola, mein chala” “Jawaab de nahi toh mein tere sar ke hazaar tukde kar dunga” The theme song was nothing but Vikram and betaal said a number of times like “Vikram vikram vikram betaal betaal betaal” Dada Dadi ki kahaniyan Ashok Kumar and Dina pathak (I think) play dada and dadi respectively. A story with a moral.
Featured story of ghost and had liliput in most of the episode. Total Children timepass. Doosra Kewal Shahrukh Khan yet again. The serial had shahrukh playing Kewal, a village lad who goes to town and never returns. The story is told as memories of his mother and daughter and the village people. Shahrukh dies trying to prevent his friend becoming a terrorist.
The last episode showed his friend coming to Shahrukh’s home and his family accepting him as the second Kewal. Sort of reincarnation of Shahrukh. Hence the name Doosra Kewal or The Second Kewal. Muzrim Haazir ho. I had completely forgotten about this.
Nutan plays a Bengali bahu. It had the title song “Hun huna hun huna” I think the song music was composed by Bhupen Hazarika (thanks IronMaiden) Dil daarya Another one of Shahrukh Khan’s serial. The fact is that Shahrukh acted in many serials before he became a star in movies. Something about two families separated during partition and then getting back. A child from one family is taken care by the other family. A good serial set in Punjab.
I think the serial was from Lekh Tandon Phool Khile hai Gulshan Gulshan Tabassum! This was when film stars had only the film magazine to talk. TV offered them an opportunity to market themselves. Tabassum used to interview the stars. Hardly half hour. Remember all those shayaris from Tabassum Kahan gaye Woh Log Late Sunday Morning drama about heroes of freedom struggle. Aa Bail Mujhe maar.
A comedy featuring Amol Palekar and Bharti Achrekar (I think). Saturday afternoon flavor.
Story of a man who deliberately does things which create problem for himself. Uddaan Loosely based on Kiran Bedi, the jailor of Tihar Jailor (I think she was the jailor). Kavita Chaudhury plays a simple girl who struggles and fight to become an IPS officer. It shows the problem she faces in the police force and the society because of being a woman. A very good inspiring serial. On HiThanks for reminding all those great Sunday mornings and weekday evenings. Do you remeber a serial named “Phatichar”?Perhaps Pankaj Kapur was in the serial.
Another serial- I cant remember the name-aired on Sunday morning.it told the story of a village boy coming to the city and living in the garrage of a rich man and falling in love with his daughter.The daughter had a naughty friend.I forgot.Yes I remember the name “Phir Wohi Talash”. You must remeber another sunday morning fav-“Stone Boy”- a story based in Mauritious.A boy who turned stone in the night or may be, day. On A few ones not discussed already. There was a serial called Appu aur Pappu on Sunday, a story about an elephant and a little boy. Also for Maharashtrian viewers there use to be a serial called Gotyaa which became really famous. That small boy, Joy Ghanekar who did the role of Gotya- the peculiar thing was that he acted only in that serial I guess and no other serial ever after. We as kids used to think he would go on to become a big star once he grows up, but he never really ventured into acting.
I never ever read abt him in newspapers and if u search abt him in google u get all the techno sites, he actually has become a tech geek in the US. Also at that time in the 80s, apart from DD, there used to be what we used to call “second channel” with very bad signal mostly blurred. Some people used to call it “Dubai TV”. I think it was amongst the first cable channels beamed into India. “second channel” had a very entertaining Japanes kids serial called “Giant Robo”. That was really great stuff even in those days of primitive special effects technology. Also in probably one of the most earliest instances of real-life stories on Indian TV, there used to be a serial called “Puraskar”- a serial depicting the stories of small chidren who get bravery awards by the President every year(those who are paraded in the republic day parade sitting on elephant) and every episode featured the story of one of those children.
I remember roughly the title song which was like “Miltaa hai Puraskar”. Some children got the awards posthmously. The most heartening part of that used to be the real interview at the end of the serial, in which they used to themselves tell abt the incident. I still remember a very small boy who saved two lives by diving and saving them from being crushed by a incoming train but lost his hand in the process, very confidently narrating the event and saying “maine apni jaan ki parwah naa karte huey apne aap ko jhonk diya aur unki jaan bachayi”.not an iota of bragging there.all simple simply innocenseu know that must have been a script written by his parents or probably elder sibling and the boy may just have mugged it.
In case of posthmous awards it used to be the boy’s mother or father or the person whose life the little one saved. It was so so so emotional when they narrated. The govt was so right in awarding those awards, but these days it never receives the attention it deserves, ppl became more interested in which new jumbo and mega destructive missile is gonna show up this year in the parade. A bit of a distraction here.but yes the republic/independence day parade also used to be a attraction in those days. On Avik The old sunday’s won’t return. Only one channel but in simple words mother of all. My school used to be closed on Sat and Sun.
Sat i remember at after noon Didi’s comedy show and Show Theme. I was lucky to watch Didi’s comedy show last week on a Telugu channel. And then at 3:45 just for 15 min all bollywood in one show – Show theme. And who could forget Rasna Ad just at the begining of Show Theme.
Sundays there was HE MAN and one serial where there were 4 school kids investigating petty crimes, loosely based on famous five. Just forgot the name. Plz help I also remember a serial on Science Fiction basically on Time Machine. Again forgot the name. But the best was Jungle book. On GS When I was a kid I used to hear from my parents that “Old is Gold” now I see how true they are.
Spiderman, Heman, Donald Duck, Glow friends – I used to buy so many label with all cartoon characters on them. Remember Appu Raja I think was the name of the serial where a kid son if a forest police officer has an elephat as his pet. Chandrakanta remember the character Yakku. There was another science fiction serial on Sundays and I think it had something to do with a magical diamond and had Ashwini Bhave in it. There was such a variety of serials and now a days it is just sash and bhahu and vamps and affairs and loads and loads of crying everyday.
There were serials like Srikant I dont remember the story I think it was about a widow and Nukkad and the character Guru, chitrahaar on Wednesdays and the schedule was 08:00 PM to 08:30 PM chitrahaar, then 08:40 PM Hindi me Samachar and then 09:00 PM serial then 09:30 PM another serial and then 10:00 PM News in English – remember two news reporters sharing the news. 10:30 PM World this week by Pranab Roy. Movies on Weekends starting 05:00 PM. You guys made me emotional.You took me back to my childhood.
On Uttara Oh how I wonder those days to come back so I could watch these serials all over again. I can remember Ye Jo Hai Zindagi with Shafi Inamdar, Swaroop Sampat, Rajni etc. BTW Avik, the serial you are talking about with 4 kids who solve crimes is Ek Do Teen Chaar. The song went “Charo milke saath chale to kar de ek chamatkarek do teen chaar”. I loved Dada Dadi ki Kahaniyaan on Sunday afternoons and Vikram Aur Betaal on Saturday evenings.
They also showed some feature films specially made for kids on DD. Those were a special treat always. There are so many others like Mullah Naseeruddin, Famous Five, Disney hour, Mungerilal ke Haseen Sapne, Daane Anar Ke etc etc. I just wish I could get any of these on a VCD or something. On Kishor More Hi friends, really very nostalgic, i still remembers few serials, SIGMA based on space attack, then there was tera panne, one more serial is there, i dont remember the name but Shekhar kapur was the anchor i think, and the hero of the serial he gets a lamp (just like aladin chirag) and one mr.
Yakha appears before him, to fulfill his wishes, if anyone knows please recollect the name of the serial. Perhaps, some regular serials which i remembers are neem ka ped, palash ke phool, rathchakra, some marathi serials such as dwidha, ginipig, ek shunya shunya, dhananjay, chal navachi wachal vasti, etc.
Above all the most enjoyed dds chitrahar, rangoli and chayageet. On Adam Green Hi All, Thank you so much for rekindling my desire to become a child. This forum drove me to an innocent world. A world where TV was more than a family member. The people living around in the next lanes would befriend those who had TV sets.
Just because of the long list you all have just discussed so far. Sunday was like a day of Hatim’s feast. We had so much in our plates and beginning with western ones like Star Trek, Jamie and the Magic Torch, Famous Five, Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, The Old Fox, in different time frames, to Hindi ones like Appu aur Pappu, Ek Do Teen Chaar, Rajani, Babaji Ka Biscope, Singhasan Battisi, Waah Janab, Chhote Babu, Trishna, Kachchi Dhoop, Ascharya Deepak, Khazana, Rakshak, Ashish, Akashganda, Nakshatraswami, Lenadena, Aur Bhi Hain Raahein, Chaand Sitaare, Darpan, Kahaan Gaye Wo Log, etc. Sunday had many surprises for the viewers.
Then there were detective serials like Barrister Vinod, Karam Chand, Khoj, Adalat, Apradhi Kaun, Jugalbandi, Ankahee to the dramas like Gul Gulshan Gulfaam, Farmaan, Upanyaas, Mahanagar, Buniyaad, Hum Log, Pachpan Khambhe Laal Deewaarein, Satyajit Ray Presents. Then there were feminist serials like Udaan, Rathchakra, Shakti, Thoda sa Aasmaan, Kshitij Ye Nahin. Swayam Siddha, Kuchh Khoya Kuchh Paayaa. Does anybody remember ‘Basera’ in which seasoned comedian Late Mehmood was the main character?
He was accompanied by famous Doordarshan veteran Channa Ruparel. How about Mutthi Bhar Sitare? It showed the struggle of those guys who were successful doing many things with almost nothing in their hands. Does anybody remember ‘Subah’?
It was serial dedicated to promote a campaign against drug addiction. Kumar Bhatiya playing as Prem Bhargava, Salim Ghouse playing as Bharat Sinha and many others.
The serial featured enthusiastic title song by Late R.D.Burman. There were many others that featured drug abuse like Nayee Dishayein, Chunauti, Inkaar (Sequel of Subah) but not could leave impression as Subah did. There were business dramas like Khandaan, Manzil, then comedy serials like Dane Anaar Ke, Waah Janab, Chimanrao, Mamaji, Guni Raam, Ajube, Ye Jo Hai Zindagi,. Senior actress Hema Malini appeared in Terah Panne, and Nupur. The morning transmission service also had many gifts for the viewers.
Aankh mein Aankh, Jag Hanse Khud Roye, Tak Dhina Dhin, Jhingur Pehelwaan, Kanjoos Makkhichoos, Ghaploo aur Banta, Saambu, Shahar Chala Kasbe Ko, Ajayabghar etc. The afternoon transmission service was spoilt after Shanti and Swabhimaan stopped playing, however there were serials that ran parallel to these megaserials. Raju aur Udantashtari, Palaash Ke Phool, Teen Varsh. Does anybody know where can one get a VCD of Shrilal Shukla’s Raag Darbaari that showed on friday nights?
Apart from that there was Guldasta and Rishtey Naatey with Navin Nischol. There was a serial on doctors and surgeons called Life Line. If I remember, it was the serial Ila Arun made her debut with. Bharat Ek Khoj was there with vedic chants followed by hymns in the title song, then there was Bharat Ki Chhap presented by Sohela Kapoor Limaye in which she travelled extensively across the country specially into the forest, rural and tribal areas to seek answers to the religious, social, demographical, genetic questions of what we call the Indian aborigines. Indradhanush was an interesting serial with kids specially in love with it.
There was a play ‘Agra Baazar’ actually written by Great Nazeer Akbarabadi ‘The Poet of People’. It was a play directed by Habeeb Tanveer. Then there were serials like Paramveer Chakra, Prahari and Fauji, Samunder, but I think out of all Samunder and Fauji were nice because apart from love towards the motherland they also showed how soldiers actually live their lives. Samunder had a beautiful song: Samunder Ki Haseen Laharon Ke Kaamil Huqmaraan Hain Hum.
Nazar Hai Jinki Baam-E-Arsh Par Wo Paasbaan Hain Hum. Watan Ke Zarre Zarre Se Mohabbat Humko Hai Aye Dost. Hai Manzil Jinki Thokar Mein Wo Neele Kaarvaan Hain Hum. There were serials on poets also like Mirza Ghalib, Kahkashan, Amrita and then on musicians like Saadhna. There was a serial called Ek Kahaani that dramatized stories of the Indian writers. Bahadur Shah Zafar was another great serial, yet another were Akbar the Great, The Great Maratha, and The Sword of Tipu Sultaan.
Someone was saying ‘Hawa Meethi Tu Aaja Uttar Se’ It is followed by ‘Toofaan Tu Aaja Re Paschim SeChale Aao, Chale Aao Jhatpat Fatfat Aasmaan Se, Meri Nazar Ke Saamne Aise Jhan Jhan Jhan. Aakhon Mein Sapna Hai Rang Biranga, Beta Hai Taaro Dragon Ka. Chale Aao Chale Aao Jhatpat Fatfat Aasmaan Se, Meri Nazar Ke Saamne Aise Jhan Jhan Jhan. It was a serial named ‘Taaro- Ek Dragon Ka Beta’. Just before that there was another animation called ‘Barah Mahine’. It was fantastic.
Then there was Fairy Tale Theatre which had dramatized version of English fairy tales. On Adam Green Hi Friends! No whisper yet? The last person to make an entry was Huma, and I was waiting for some more stolen moments of the TV of 80s. Anyways, Adam here!
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Friends, does anybody of know have a slight idea about finding the Qawwali and Ghazal recordings of Doordarshan? Somebody was telling the other day that now one can find all those recordings at an AIR station. Here in Melbourne its difficult to get a store that offers these stuffs. If somebody could help me with this, I would be able to get directly to the spot where I can find these recordings. Aslam Sabri, Habib Painter, Jameel Ahmed, Mallikarjun Mansoor, Suman Devgun, Prabha Bharti, Rajendra Kaachroo, and Seema Anil Sehgal are some of the voices I am looking for. These voices give me a feel of wine even when I sip a glass of milk at the milk-bar.
And Wish you all a great time ahead! On Adam Green Hi Ya, I’m back.
I had been thinking we haven’t discussed anything on our seasoned news readers. They were someone who were more of a family member, and less of a news reader. As with the advent of radio, several voices ranging from Ameer Sayanee to Mark Tully’s of the BBC, created faceless respect for these voices among the hearts of the listeners. TV showed the faces of the aired voices. Shammi Narang, Vedparakash, J.V. Raman, Salma Sultan, Avinash Kaur Sareen, Minu, Neeti Ravindran, Geetanjali Iyer, Anjali Ray, Sheela Chaman, Rama Pandey, Shaheen Naqvi, Anil Kechhad, Chaman Gupta, Bhaskar Bhattacharjee (Alpha Plus Fame), Sanjeev Upadhyay, Usha Albequrque, Uday Bir Sharan Das, Rakesh Choudhary, Ramu Damodaran, Tejeshwar Singh, Manjari Joshi, and lot many faces became a part of our daily chore. I remember, my mother used to look at Doordarshan news but would be more onto the Sarees and Suits of the news readers, and would hunt the market for many a days looking for the saree or suit of similar patterns.
(Hey, I am breaking this in between, does somebody know about that song from ‘Apna Apna Aasmaan’ sung by Ghazal Maestro Jagjit Singh? Here are the lyrics “Zindagi Mein Har Kisi Ka Apna Apna Aasmaan, Har Koi Apne Junoon Ki Keh Raha Hai Daastaan.” If somebody could tell me the download location (I doubt if it exists over the web). Back to the anchors buddies! It is sad to know that two news readers Rakesh Choudhary and Bhaskar Bhattacharjee are no more. Rakesh committed suicide, while Bhaskar passed away of cardiac arrest.
I really took this news coldly. They all had their own charisma, their own style of presentation, and their own fans.
On debasish Ashcharya Deepak. I still remember a dialogue from the serial. The protagionist (played by Ranjit Mullick) asks the genie if he could fetch sleep for him, as he is tired of the sickening luxury around him that is giving him sleepless nights. “Maaf kijiyega sir” replies the genie, “main neend nahin laa sakta. Neend ek abstract cheez hai. Agar aapko koi concrete cheez chahiye to boliye.” Why don’t we find such lines in today’s serials????
Narayan kamath has spoken of a film in which 3 kids cycle all the way to kanyakumari. Is this the same film in which Utpal Dutt and Mamooty make their guest appearances? On Adam Green Hi Buddies! Good to see some messages. Actually this blog is very slow, I wonder why people can’t find time to rekindle those memories, or they think walking in the past would make them look more of a ghost than human.
I remember Ascharya Deepak, it was quite a play by Sabyasachi Banerjee? I forgot if he is Chatterjee, Banerjee or Mukherjee. Those serials were fantastic. I have heard that channels in India have now said a big NO to that sick bitch Ekta Kapoor for her soporific, baseless and idiot serials. They should have done it long back, for there is no reason to brood on something that is foolish to the core. The channels in Australia once dared to telecast her serials, but finding not charm for her kind of stories, she was chucked out of the mainstream.
Hey does somebody know where to find old doordarshan ads? I was looking for some of them on the YouTube and luckily found a few, but I want to make a collection of all that stuff that were once a part of household as every indian would love buzzing those ads in the leisure. Wish you all a prosperous new year. On Sudhir Thakur Hi Friends, I just felt that I am reading about my own childhood days!!! U have narrated it absolutely fantastic. Every bit of it made me remember my good old days. This blog has given me so many like minded souls who feel good and nostalgic about good ol days of our innocence.
I really cherished reading out all and i would like to know if people are still active on the blog.?? We had a Dyanora B/W which had a shutter (I used to have fun opening and closing it over and over again) and ya! Sunday mornings Hats off to your article. I felt as if it was a liveshow. The BEST articles i have read on the internet. I almost had tears (of joy) reading this article!
Why do people grow up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Friends i have someting to contribute here i am sure you guys will like it and will relate to what i am saying. I have something very good for you I have List of television programs currently or formerly broadcast by DD National. This will help you find your long lost serial. On debasish Sundays.must be 1984/85.i have very faint memories of a title song of a serial. The song went something like this. Kayi bahaar titliyon se Saja lo apna pyaara aangan Ye zindagi, pal do pal ki That’s all I can remember.
And I think they showed a butterfly hovering on screen when the title-song played.Can anyone tell me what the serial’s name was, or what it was all about? Then there was an American/British ad perhaps it was of some skin creme/lotion.two police officers enter a lift.a woman is in the lift.one police officer says to the woman (dubbled in hindi )vishwas nahi hota.ye rumaal apki hai.? (perhaps trying to say that her skin is so smooth/oil-free that her handkerchief is spotlessly clean something like that. Can’t remember properly now.
One ad I clearly remember.Vivek Vaswani as a salesman.selling Ezee Liquid detergent.knocks at a door.woman opens door.sees a salesman.about to bang the door shutsalesman says “ezee madam ezee.”. On D.Chandra Shekhar Thank you very much for taking me into the good old days. I enjoying these programmes with papa, mummi and bhaiya. Unfortunately, papa & mummi are no more, but myself & my brother always cherish the memories of these t.v.serials, especially the comic serial “Ye jo hai zindagi”, having great actors like Satish Shah, Shafi inamdar, Swaroop Sampath and Rakesh Bedi etc. I also remember the famous news readers Komal G.B.Singh, Avinash Kaur Sarin, J.V.Raman, Neethi Ravindran, Sukanya Balakrishnan, Salma Sultan, Tejendra Singh, Usha Albuquerque, Minu, Geetanjali Iyer, Ramu Damoaran,??Jhaveri,??Sahay, and forgot the name of one balled headed English news reader with spectacles. I also cherish the memories of the serial on “Mahatma Gandhi” with its title song “Vaishnava Janato Tene Kahiye”, immediately after English news at 09.00 PM, if I remember it correctly. I liked the T.V.Anchors Sadhana Shrivastava, Mukta Shrivastava, Jyotsna Mahapatra, and ofcourse Ashok Kumar for his comments after the serial “Humlog”, and for some days in Buniyad.
Musical programmes like “Surabhi”, “Chitrahar”, “Chitramala”(consisting of songs of various languages), National programme of Music etc., were outstanding. In some of the episodes of Surabhi, I remember some beautiful songs, like “Dhoonde hai kisi ko, pyasi pyaasi aankhen” by Ranu Mukherjee, “Aei mere humsafar, tum ho bekhabar” by Suresh Wadkar, and a duet by Udit Narayan & Anuradha Paudwal, in which Udit Narayan used to see Anuradha during the whole song. Gone are the old days, and “Kahan gaye wo log”?? On D.Chandra Shekhar Thank you very much for taking me into the good old days. I enjoyed these programmes with papa, mummi and bhaiya. Unfortunately, papa & mummi are no more, but myself & my brother always cherish the memories of these t.v.serials, especially the comic serial “Ye jo hai zindagi”, having great actors like Satish Shah, Shafi inamdar, Swaroop Sampath and Rakesh Bedi etc.
I also remember the famous news readers Komal G.B.Singh, Avinash Kaur Sarin, J.V.Raman, Neethi Ravindran, Sukanya Balakrishnan, Salma Sultan, Tejendra Singh, Usha Albuquerque, Minu, Geetanjali Iyer, Ramu Damoaran,??Jhaveri,??Sahay, and forgot the name of one balled headed English news reader with spectacles. I also cherish the memories of the serial on “Mahatma Gandhi” with its title song “Vaishnava Janato Tene Kahiye”, immediately after English news at 09.00 PM, if I remember it correctly. I liked the T.V.Anchors Sadhana Shrivastava, Mukta Shrivastava, Jyotsna Mahapatra, and ofcourse Ashok Kumar for his comments after the serial “Humlog”, and for some days in Buniyad. Musical programmes like “Surabhi”, “Chitrahar”, “Chitramala”(consisting of songs of various languages), National programme of Music etc., were outstanding. In some of the episodes of Surabhi, I remember some beautiful songs, like “Dhoonde hai kisi ko, pyasi pyaasi aankhen” by Ranu Mukherjee, “Aei mere humsafar, tum ho bekhabar” by Suresh Wadkar, and a duet by Udit Narayan & Anuradha Paudwal, in which Udit Narayan used to see Anuradha during the whole song.
Gone are the old days, and “Kahan gaye wo log”?? On Adam Green That’s true D. Chardra Shekhar. I really miss those days of childhood when all of us gathered and sat on Sundays watching TV from morning 8 A.M.
Beginning with ‘Gurbaani’ to ‘Akhil Bhartiya Sangeet Programs’. We never felt like moving away from the TV sets and would keep an eye on the screen while sipping a glass of water. The bald english news reader’s name was ‘Pankaj Mohan’. Don’t know whether he’s still there working for doorsarshan or has retired out. Actually I call that time B.C. (just like History), but B.C.
Here means ‘Before Cable’ and we had no option but to sit and watch the things dished out to us. We never took it in the other way and were quite comfortable with what was supplied.
There was a serial called ‘Dekho Magar Pyar Se’, which gave a good stage to unheeded stage performers like Ashok Saraf, Babloo Mukherjee, Sulabha Deshpande, Arvind Deshpande and Alankar Joshi. Some performers bade adios to the TV sets and silverscreen entities would consider it shame to appear on television.
We badly waited for ‘Baaton Baaton Mein’ hosted by Late Vipin Handa just to get a glimpse of the personal lives of celebrities. Let it be a hickey movie like ‘Paar’, ‘Ek Ruka Hua Faisla’, and ‘Albert Pinto Ko Ghussa Kyun Aata Hai’, we were so desperate that we tolerated those stuffs. I believe TV was more of a spectacle than daily routine. We couldn’t switch it off and if we did then we waited eagerly for the evening and when the clock struck 6 in the evening, we were all-fashioned before our sets. Gone are those days! Hey somebody was talking about ‘Taro’s Title Song’.
I managed to get a Japanese version of the same. It is nice to listen to! I can never forget those times! On Rais Dear all, thanks for rekindling those memories,those grey cells filled with cobwebs of todays fast pace life,How i wish I could be a child just for a day.True,todays channels can never match or nowhere evn reach the standard of those serials,How I wish todays childrens could really get some moral lessons from them. Indradhanush was my favourite but alas it was plugged off the air suddenlyanother fav was giant robot,and fireball xl5.katha sagar and darpan were superb in providing viewers with short stories from world famous writers as well as indian writers.There was this guy on DD english news with a beard,dont know his name,but he was the villain in naseeruddin shahs action film Jalwa.AND I really miss those FILMS Division 1 reels that used to be shown in all cinema theatres before the beginning of a movie,theyalso had those simple moral tales,ek anek etc etc. Thamks to youtube one can view most of them if not all.but it would be a great help if DD could upload their serials or release dvds on them.
On Atulan Fantastic trip down the memory lane. Kids growing up today would have no idea about TV with just one channel offering entertainment, education and values to the whole family.
Katha Sagar, Krishi Darshan, Vyomkesh Bakshi, UGC coutrywide calssrooms, Live Cricket mataches and the list goes on. Coming to serials, last week I bought the DVDs for full set of Vikram Betaal. It was such a treasure of 80’s.
I miss serials like Satyjit Ray Presents, Mungerilal, Quiz Time, and many many more. I am sure all of us who grew up in through eighties and mid nineties miss our dear single channel TVs in this era of DTH and Internet TV.
Do you have any e-group dedicated for this?