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Zee
Television will examine the lives of celebrity personalities
in-depth with a new show Jina Isi Ka Naam Hai. This
is the first time Prannoy Roy's New Delhi Television (NDTV),
that provides all content on Star News, has produced a programme
for the channel.
The
celebrity show is set to commence airing from 22 March every
Friday at 9 pm.
The
show will see important personalities from different walks
of life like film, politics, sports take centrestage. The
show will interact not just with the celebrities but also
with people who have played important roles in their lives.
In this way a well rounded personality will be exposed.
Actor Shah Rukh Khan kicks off the action. His friends in
school, a school teacher, his wife Gauri and her parents
are among those who will be interviewed.
Subsequent
episodes are expected to feature, among others, former Miss
World Aishwarya Rai, Indian cricket captain Saurav Ganguly
and Bihar political strongman Laloo Prasad Yadav.
The
show is being produced by NDTV World, a wholly owned-subsidiary
of NDTV. Roy had reportedly arranged funding to launch NDTV
World as an entertainment channel but put the plans on hold
as the prevailing climate of dwindling advertising revenue
coupled with increasing programming costs was a major dampener.
ZEE
ACQUIRES RIGHTS TO LATA SHOW: Zee TV has reportedly
secured exclusive telecast rights for a mega Lata Mangeshkar
musical programme organised in Hyderabad on Saturday.
Awaz
Hi Pehchan Hai marked 60 years of India's most celebrated
songstress's involvement in the recording business. Among
the other singers who were present at the function included
Udit Narayanan, Roop Kumar Rathod and Usha Mangeshkar.
At
the function, Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra presented
the singer with a cheque for Rs 10 million as a donation
towards a facility for the poor at the Deenanath Mangeshkar
Memorial Hospital in Pune city of Maharashtra state.
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