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There were some glittering and foot stamping performances by bhangra
King Gurudas Mann, singers Shaan, Sunidhi Chauhan and KK. Prasar
Bharati chief executive KS Sarma gave away the special award for
leading financial saving to HP Pritampura. The administrative awards
for the NE zone went to DK Sharma and from the east zone it went
to Ratan Kanti Dey from DDK Kolkata.
Sarma later addressed the audience and said, "No one is weak
or powerful in the Prasar Bharti team. We have to keep going and
reach greater heights." He also congratulated the winners and
thanked Bhujbal for giving the slogan Doordarshan Desh Ki Dhadkan
for the pubcaster. He said, 'DD aims to communicate with the people.
At present we are lagging far behind. We hope to improve and the
organization is looking forward to it. All television channels are
facing stiff competition. DD has to keep up the national name and
not ape others. We have to keep our own identity in the rat race,"
he stressed.
Noted film maker Pahlaj Nihalani gave away the awards for the best
promo award to Suchandra Chowdhary (Kolkata). The award for the
best sound was bagged by Sanjay Rane (Mumbai). The best editing
awards went to Pawan Mahinya and Virendra (Jalandhar).
Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association (IMPAA) president
Smita Thackeray awarded the best graphics award to Bharat Bhusan.
The best screenplay award went to Sharan Birajdar. Veteran actor
Parikshit Sahani gave the award for the best Art direction to Goraknath
Kadu. The best cinematography award was jointly shared by Raj Shekhar
and Uday Nayak.
Dainik Bhaskar Group chairman Girish Agarwal handed the best wildlife
and environment programme award to Anand Sujal (Jaipur). The best
science and technology programme award was bagged by Ajay Sharma
(Jaipur). TAM India CEO L V Krishnan gave away the award for the
best agricultural programme to Rajshekharan.
Renowned gazal singer Talat Aziz awarded the best sports programme
award to BS Bickey (Jalandhar). The live event OB award was jointly
bagged by Bickey and Amarjeet. The best award for the animation
programme was yet again jointly shared by the Kamal Gulati - Bhagwan
Rao duo and Ram Awtaar Sharma. Singer Ila Arun awarded Kalpana Parida
with the best children’s programme. The best youth programme of
the year was jointly shared by KK Bohra (Jaipur) and MS Gunsheelan
(Bangalore).
Veteran actor Tabassum who started her career with Doordarshan
way back in 1972 when the pubcaster opened its Mumbai office gave
away the next set of awards. She said, "I am proud of my association
with Doordarshan. My talk show Phool Khile Hai Gulshan Gulshan
was on air for almost 21 years. Its probably the longest any
show has run on any channel ever." Tabassum gave the best women’s
programme award to Champa Panjikar (Goa) and the best documentary
award to E Sethumadhavan (Thiruvanthapuram) and Tapas Mitra (Port
Blair). Yesteryears’ comedian Jagdeep handed the best music programme
to Surendra Sharma (Delhi). The best innovative programme went to
Prabhitangru Das (Agartala). TB Singh (Imphal) and Padmavathi bagged
the best dance programme award.
SAB TV’s vice chairman and managing director Markand Adhikari gave
the best docudrama award to TM Sarangi and the best soap opera to
Pankaj Chauchna (Ahmedabad) for her soap Ek Dal Na Pankhi.
The award for the best film based programme was bagged by Sharad
Dutt (Delhi) for the programme Living Legend Dev Anand. Adhikari
said, "DD reaches over eight crore (80 million) homes in the
country. According to TAM data the recently launched DD News channel
has grabbed higher TRPs than any other satellite news channel. One
of our serial which is being aired on DD is going to finish 1,500
episodes soon. With this it will enter the Guinness Book of World
Records for the longest running serial. It could have been only
possible on DD."
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