Sandeep Chowta

Hearing him is a Mast!
If Rahman lifts a song nobody will have a problem with that. They respect the man too much. Nobody said anything about a song in Jeans being similar to RD’s O mera sona re. I’ll give you an album by Vangelis and then you listen to Roja.

Gulshan Sachdeva

The versatile tele-visionary

Whether it is documentaries, serials, soaps, tele-films, tele-plays, short commercials or any other genre of television programming, Gulshan Sachdeva has done them all.

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Shooting soldiers for a change

He took a simple, widely played game and a well-worn concept, and restructured them into two of the most popular shows on Indian television - Antakshari and Sa Re Ga Ma.

DD caught napping on Millennium plans

The cricket-loving Minister for Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitley wants Doordarshan to make a big splash for the millennium. What better way than to telecast live a cricket match played for DD on the midnight of December 31.

In response to Prasar Bharati CEO, Rajiv Ratna Shah’s concerted drive to revamp Doordarshan, Dheeraj Kumar of Creative Eye Ltd has suggested a fresh look at DD’s marketing strategy in order to improve both its earnings and image among the viewers in general.

Amitabh Bachchan’s movies have provided fodder for a fresh round of battle between Sony Entertain-ment Television and Zee Network.

The two 24-hour regional language channels, Gurjari and Lashkara began with a bang six months ago. But for the producers who have made programmes for the channels, the honeymoon seems to be over.