SAT.SUSPENSE: Jaal
Zee TV, feb. 27, 9.30 p.m.

Neelam is a rich businesswoman who owns a 5-star hotel in a hill-station near Mumbai. She looks after it with her husband Shekhar, who . was once an employee of the hotel before Neelam fell in love and married him. Life is a bed of roses until certain events start scaring Neelam, and she suffers a mild heart attack.

Shekhar doesn’t understand the problem and concludes that Neelam has gone mad. Neelam is too scared to confront Shekhar. At this point, Sonali, a distant relative of Neelam comes to know of Neelam’s problem. She realises that Shekhar is trying to kill her and usurp her wealth. Neelam is shocked.

One day when Shekhar beats Neelam, she retaliates. She poison Shekhar’s drink and kills him. Realising her folly, she calls for Sonali, who helps her dispose off the body in the swimming pool so as to make people believe that Shekhar slipped and drowned when drunk.

The next day the corpse is missing from the pool. Neelam is tense. She feels that Shekhar is alive, but Sonali tells her she had felt his pulse and he was dead. Shekhar’s ghost starts scaring Neelam. She goes mad and is put in a mental asylum.

RISHTEY
Zee TV, feb. 26, 8.30 p.m.

Janki Devi is the widowed matriarchal head of a traditional joint family, which comprises of her sons Ajay Kant and Vimla Kant and their wives Kamla and Asha and grandchildren. Her grand-daughter, Vimla, is recently married and has come to her maternal home for Holi. Vimla’s husband, Mani Kant, and his cousin, Priya Kant, are coming home for Holi their family. Vimla has a cousin, Kusum, who is widowed at childhood.

Mani Kant and Priya Kant arrive to play Holi. Priya Kant sees Kusum and is totally smitten. Even Kusum is attracted to Priya Kant, but she keeps her distance knowing her widowed status.

On the day of Holi, Priya Kant searches for Kusum and sprays colour on her. This act is witnessed by Asha and she creates a shindig. She goes on about the blasphemy committed by Priya Kant in applying colour to a widow. Priya Kant is initially shocked when he learns that Kusum is a widow, but he takes a stand and says that these traditions are outdated and shameful. He declares that he will marry Kusum as he loves her. Saying so, Priya Kant takes Kusum by the hand and starts to take pheras round the smouldering Holika.

Priya Kant’s act outrages Kusum’s family and they attack Priya Kant. In the ensuing melee, a shocked and silent Janki comes between Priya Kant and her family and announces that she herself is in love with Priya Kant.

... KNOCK KAUN HAI?
Zee TV, feb. 26, 10.30 p.m.

Pallavi is a prankster, and Keshav and family are prime targets for her. She enters the house as an extortionist and scares the daylight out of them and has a good laugh. She manages to fool all of them, except Keshav, and takes this up as a challenge.

When a neighbour comes home, she tells him Gayatri is in love with him. Then she goes and tells Gayatri that Gunjan wants to make her his raakhi sister, so she should tie a raakhi for him. She arranges their meeting and goes and tells Keshav that Gunjan and Gayatri are going to elope.

Keshav sees them together and misunderstands the whole situation. But soon Pallavi gets into a real problem. She gets a massive attack of asthma and she needs help. But they think she is playing one of her pranks and while she suffers, they laugh. She would have died, but for Valentine’s Day. The doctor who treats her falls in love with her.

ZANJEEREIN
Zee TV, feb. 28, 10.00 p.m.

The court case regarding the land dispute has begun. Everyone is apprehensive about the statement that Indrajit is going to make. Patwari Chiranjilal is evasive as usual about his role in the changes deliberately made about the ownership of the land.

Tanuja shows her concern to Paramjit regarding the statement of Indrajit that may put him into trouble. Rakesh makes a sudden appearance with an old certificate regarding the ownership of the land by which Atul’s lawyer is about to prove that the land belongs to Atul’s father. But when Indrajit starts making his statement, he surprises everyone by not only acknowledging his role in changing the records, but also stating that the land belongs to the entire family and that his conscience has bid him to make this statement.

X-ZONE-Sikander V
Zee TV, March 4, 9.00 p.m.

Sikander remembers that he is neither Sikander nor Satya. He is actually Rahul Khanna, a naval officer. While touring Goa, Rana Bahadur Thapa and his people mistake his identity and capture him. After which Rana Bahadur Thapa trains Rahul to be like Sikander and make him act like Sikander in order to unnerve the real Sikander so that he comes out in the open and then they catch him.

Remembering this, Rahul, rushes to save Natasha. TMC gets him and tortures him. Rahul learns from RBT that they have killed his wife and child. He attacks TMC and escapes with Natasha to find RBT.

In the meantime, RBT attacks Sikander’s hideout. Sikander escapes. Rahul finds him and fights him and fights with him. RBT reaches the spot and is puzzled to find them.

HINDUSTANI
DD-2, March 4 , 9.30 p.m.

Sangram Singh and his commandoes defuse the bomb-blast and capture Baba Shaikh. Gaddafi is waiting to hear the news of bomb blast. He also threatens Baba Shaikh. Sangram Singh takes Baba to court.

In the court Baba Shaikh confesses not only about the recent plans but about earlier bomb blasts, and the home minister’s murder, as well. Sangram Singh and is commandoes are freed. When the police take Baba out from the court, a masked motorcyclist comes in and whisks Baba away.

IDHAR UDHAR
DD-1, Feb-25, 9.30 p.m.

Sunita is grumpy and irritable for no rhyme or reason. Poonam succeeds in pacifying her to some extent and asks her for the reason of her unusual mood.

Sunita then tells her that her husband, Ajay, did not call to wish her on the first anniversary of their first meeting, and when she called him up in London, he was missing.

Poonam dismisses the whole thing as a figment of her not so very creative imagination and offers to phone up Ajay only to discover that he had left with Kiran early morning. Sunita gets hysterical because Ajay and Kiran used to be good friends in London and in her absence they could have become more than friends. Poonam is worried that Sunita might do something unimaginable in her hysterical state but to her amazement Sunita goes off to sleep peacefully.

Next morning brings a happy Kiran to their house announcing that she has married Ajay and both have come to India for their honeymoon.

She wanted to give the good news to Sunita personally that is the reason she came to see her.

ACROSS BAITARANI
Bi TV, March 2 , 10.03 a.m.

An experimental film by young filmmaker and anchor Ramesh Venkataraman, Baitarani uses the metaphor of the river to look at the movement of the poor and destitute from rural Keonjhar to the grime and filth of the city.
It also looks at the greening of Keonjhar and looks at literacy as an important development and ecological factor.

STYLE!
BBC, March 1, 10.00 p.m.

Check out on the designing abilities of Gayatri Ruia. The show also looks at checks as a fashion texture, and imparts big ideas for the not so fashionably thin. And of course, find out the secret of sexy, luscious, kissable lips.

VIP
AXN, Daily, 8.30 p.m.

International superstar Pamela Anderson Lee returns to television as Vallery Irons in the explosive new action series VIP.

When Vallery first arrives in Los Angeles, she has no idea that her big break will come from a date with an action star. While attending a Hollywood premiere, a crazed fan pulls a gun - but her movie star date turns out to be a coward - and it’s Vallery who becomes the hero.

Suddenly she finds herself at the head of a new Hollywood protection agency - Vallery Irons Protection. Each week Vallery is plunged deeper and deeper into a profession she knows nothing about - taking risks to protect others at a price few are willing to pay.

VIP premieres for the first time in Asia in a special double bill on Sunday, February 28 exclusively on AXN TV. The series will then air Monday to Friday at 8.30 p.m.

ROLLER COASTER
NGC, Feb. 27, 20.30 p.m.

Sheer terror and complete exhilaration go hand in hand in the topsy-turvy world of roller coaster riding. This programme takes the viewers through the Pipeline Coaster, a culmination of years of roller coaster development.

DAY OF THE ELEPHANT
NGC, Feb. 28, 19.00 p.m.

From its part in spectacular public ceremonies to its life in the forests and farmlands, the elephant has a special place in the life and history of the subcontinent. But it is not alone: the people have a complex relationship with all the animals surrounding them, from tigers to ducks.

Against the background of the dramatic annual Diwali festival, we follow the philosophy that determines their relations with the world around them.