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PRIYA TENDULKAR
STAR PLUS, Jan. 17, 6.00 a.m.

Karim Naik, Dr. Burjor Colabawalla, Professor Sadanand Varde, Dr. Kalyan Gangwal and others, including the audience, are absolutely firm in their diverse views on the debate, The Right To Die which had started with Minoo Masani in 1981.

SATURDAY SUSPENSE
Zee TV, Jan. 16, 10.00 p.m.

The prize winning Derby horse, Silver Blaze is missing and his trainer is found dead in front of his owner's bungalow. Police Inspector Dubey seeks help of the investigative lawyer, Rajan Chinoy to solve the crime. Rajan finds unusual clues to solve this murder, but cannot find the prize horse.
Meanwhile, in the next Derby, Black Beauty wins and Rajan quickly gets down to work out who an outsider won the race? He discovers that the Black Beauty is none other than the original Silver Blaze only painted black. But why was he painted? And why was the trainer killed?

RISHTEY
Zee TV, Jan. 15, 8.30 p.m.

Inspector Vivek Gupta is about to complete 30 years of spotless, honest service in the police force. It is a record he and his wife and daughter are proud of. One night he is assigned the task of apprehending and arresting Neelkant Sawant, a criminal wanted for the murder of mill rahulowner Laxman Rai.
Even as Neelkant is bidding adieu to his wife in the village, Vivek Gupta descends on him and arrests him. At the railway station they learn that the train to Bombay is delayed due to heavy rains. Vivek Gupta and Neelkant wait on the platform.
It is then that Vivek Gupta learns about the circumstances that led Neelkant to kill Laxman Rai. To his shock Vivek Gupta realises that the same Laxman Rai was the man responsible for the death of his own brother. Now Vivek Gupta suffers from pangs of conscience. He realises that Neelakant had the courage to commit an act that he himself had refrained from thanks to his police duty.
As the moment of reckoning beckons, Vivek Gupta takes the most important decision of his life — he lets Neelkant run away because he feels that a good man should not suffer injustice, and in the process wipes out his clean record of 30 years.
But he has a surprise, because Neelkant Sawant has given himself up to the police. In a touching reunion, Neelkant explains to Gupta why he did not have the heart to runaway because he could not tarnish the reputation of an honest man like Gupta — souls who behaved in "goodness and honesty" hold hands all alone in a cell.

ZANJEEREIN
Zee TV, Jan. 16, 9.30p.m.

Calculating the advantages in attending the court proceedings, Rakesh has arrived in Ludhiana. Atul and his lawyer Niranjan Kaur, Dalip and his lawyer Malhotra, and Indrajit and his lawyer Neeraj Kapoor arrive in the court room after finalising their respective strategies. As the case begins and a drama starts building.
Niranjan Kaur despite Malhotra's efforts nearly succeeds in providing with the evidence of experts that the entries in the Patwari's records have been decietfully altered. As the Patwari himself is asked to take the witness stand, he is found absconding. The hearing is postponed.
Indrajit's much talked of evidence will also be taken in the next hearing. The worries of the case have hardly diminished, when Indrajit gets the news about a serious dispute having arisen between Dinesh and Ranjana in Jaipur. Infuriated, Indrajit summons them with the idea of marrying them off without any delay.

VISHWAS
Zee TV, Jan.17,10.30 p.m.

Vijay meets Karan and tells him that Vishal's son has been killed long ago. Dolly tells Priti to help her out in Karan's case. Priti meets Vishal and asks him to convince Karan to accept Dolly's love, Vishal fails to convince Karan.
Karan informs D.K. about Vishal's son's death and asks him about his father. D.K. tells him that his father is behind bars in connection with some crime.

DO AUR DO PAANCH
Zee TV, Jan. 17, 8.30 p.m.

Krishnakant is bored of dealing with divorce cases and wants to try something else. Dinsha advises him to accept crime cases as nowadays there is a large scope for criminal lawyers. Harsh has an accident with his motorbike and crashes into the car of a very dangerous criminal.
Dinsha gets this don to Krish's house introducing him as Krish's new client. In order to protect himself from this dangerous don, Harsh disguises himself as a woman. Now, when the underworld don sees Miss Pinky i.e. Harsh, he falls for her, thus creating a bigger problem for Harsh.

IDHAR UDHAR
DD-1, Jan.14, 9.30 p.m.

Even while Sunita settles in the new apartment and joins her duty as the chief air hostess she gets a call from the air-hostesses that a pilot flirted with one of them and that if she doesn't get him fired they'll go on a strike. Poonam takes it lightly and asks Sunita to tell the airhostess to marry the flirt till Sunita tells her what she had done to the then chief air hostess when her union had gone on a strike — nagged her and ravaged her apartment.
Even while they grope for a solution the airhostesses land up demanding the pilot's resignation and issue an ultimatum about the strike. And even as the airhostesses leave on a threatening note the pilots land up at Sunita's house saying the demand for resignation is unfair and that the pilot is innocent and he should be spared or else... Sunita is in a fix and Poonam's thoughts are in a mix. How do Sunita and Poonam go about solving this pilot and airhostess entanglement? Do Poonam's crazy suggestions about a marriage bear any fruit?

HINDUSTANI
DD2 , Jan. 21, 9.30 p.m.

The SII chief is impatiently waiting to hear the news of bomb blasts in India, on BBC. He calls up Baba Shaikh, who himself is baffled as to why the blasts have not taken place at the scheduled time.
Gadaffi tells Baba Shaikh that if he did not want to see his wife widowed, the bombs had better go off soon. Sangram Sing captures Baba Shaikh and hauls him to Court. In the court Baba Shaikh confesses not only about the plan of bomb blasts, but to earlier bomb blasts as well. He also tells the court that it was he who had gotten the home minister assassinated by Dilavar.
Sangram and his commandos are freed. Baba Shaikh is whisked away by a stranger on a speeding motorbike.

MILE SUR MERA ....
DD-1, Jan. 16, 11.30 p.m.

Yogita, Martina and Jayashree talk about their lives. Martina misses Gary, her boyfriend. Jayashree recollects how Durgaprasad had proposed to her and she had slapped him.
Yogita and Martina introduce Jayashree to Jiyalal. Though she does not like him, she still acts as if she does. Jiyalal tells Yashoda about it. Taking Jiyalal into confidence, Yashoda tells everyone that she finds Jiyalal good for Jayashree.
Jiyalal gets a red saree for Jayashree who insults him. Later on, realising her folly Jayashree goes with Martina and Yogita to college on rose day and extends a friendly hand. Jiyalal refuses, as he already has found a friend. Jayashree comes back with the rose in her hand.

APRADHI
STAR Plus, Jan. 16, 8.00 p.m.

Crime segment: Seventeen year old Rupesh and his sister studied late, every night. Their parents had this habit of locking them in, and retiring to bed, on the terrace. On night, a thief broke the lock, got in, snatched his sister's gold chain and tried running off. Rupesh chased him only to be stabbed to death.
Social segment: A handicapped girl, Mary, has to do all the domestic chores herself. No one helps her. Not her father, not her brother nor her bhabhi. Her sister-in-law and her father meet a social organisation and manage to get a telephone booth (given to the handicapped) on Mary's name. The present position is that Mary has to run the telephone booth and the house — without getting a penny for herself. A good young man, Paresh wants to marry Mary, but her father and her bhabhi don't allow her...

PEOPLE CENTURY
BBC-WORLD


1917 Red Flag
The rise of Communism is the subject of the third programme in the series. In 1917, Russia underwent two revolutions. The first overthrew the autocratic Tsar Nicholas II. In the second, the Bolsheviks seized power and promised the Russian people a new era of classless equality and freedom. Red Flag hears from the testimony of Red Guards, party activists and workers striving to build a modern industrial state.

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