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Ladies Special on Sony TV - Story of 4 different ladies

ashish — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:19:15 +0000

Ladies Special is a show that started fairly recently on Sony TV (premiered on May 25, 2009). It is shown on weekdays, Monday - Thursday at the prime time of 9:30 PM. The name of the serial is based on the train service only for ladies, called ‘Ladies Special’. The show takes 4 ladies from [...]

Bhagyavidhaata serial on Colors - The marriage happens again

ashish — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:50:50 +0000

Bhagyavidhaata reached a critical phase. The Sinha family wants to get rid of their unwanted daughter-in-law, but is afraid of what her brother (the man who wields force and guns) will do, and hence comes to a plan whereby Vinay Sinha will leave the house instead of asking Bindiya to leave the house; the idea [...]

Na Aana Iss Des Ladoo - Sia is back to be humiliated by Ammaji

ashish — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:50:01 +0000

Previously, Sia had been trapped in a major plan in which Ammaji’s son had tricked her into marriage, and once the marriage had happened, they proved that Sia’s character was not good; this helped Ammaji in getting her revenge on Sia, as well as on Sia’s father. As part of the revenge on Sia’s father, [...]

Dus - Fast paced action

ashish — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:24:52 +0000

Dus is a fast-paced action thriller starring a number of Bollywood stars Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Shilpa Shetty, Pankaj Kapoor, Esha Deol and Zayed Khan. The movie was released in 2005, and was a decent hit (costing around Rs. 20 crore, and earned a revenue of Rs. 43 crore). The movie was directed [...]

India’s Got Talent on Colors TV

ashish — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:25:42 +0000

There are contests on various TV channels, dealing with dance, music, acting, action, stunts, and so on. Some of them could get quite crazy, such as the MTV Roadies, and Splittsvila; now Colors has come up with the Indian adaption of the Got Talent series. The show started on Colors TV on June 27, 2009. [...]

Balika Vadhu on Colors - Sugna’s marriage problems

ashish — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:21:52 +0000

Sugna seems to be the character used to symbolize many of the problems facing women. She was married off at a young age, and her ‘Gauna’ (sending off to the groom’s (Pratap’s) house), an occasion of great celebration and joy, turned dismal when her husband, Pratap was killed by dacoits during the course of a [...]

Sia to stage a fight back in ‘Na Aana Iss Desh Ladoo’

ashish — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:46:41 +0000

Na Aana Iss Desh Ladoo is portraying the concept of a village where the women are terrorised, where they have no rights other than to portray the role of mothers who give birth to male children, who are thrown into small locker like rooms if they do show some spirit or some sign of resistance. [...]

Bhagyavidhaata serial on Colors

ashish — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:20:15 +0000

Serials nowadays are trying to be more socially conscious, a number of them saw how the previously popular saas-bahu serials started losing attention, and then saw how a serial such as Ballika Vadhu that takes a social issue can become very popular, and so a number of serials have jumped onto the same league of [...]

Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai on Star Plus

ashish — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:50:45 +0000

Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hain is a relatively new serial that appears on Star Plus weeknights at 9:30 PM (Monday - Friday). The series started on January 12, 2009, and has been moving relatively slowly; it is full of family drama, being slightly different from the saas-bahu serials of earlier. The serial essentially revolves around [...]

Rakhi Ka Swayamwar on NDTV Imagine - finally the spectacle started

ashish — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:18:52 +0000

With a whole host of new reality programs having started on TV, the quest to make something different drives television programming. When you combine this quest with a weird personality such as Rakhi Sawant, who would like nothing better than to create a new sensation, you get the idea of having a Swayamwar for Rakhi. [...]