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"It
will be a lovely opportunity lost for both the fashion conscious
citizen, and the Indian designer… Indirectly I guess the country
itself will lose out, in the sense that others would laugh
at us."
CEO of the Mumbai-based B4U channel Ravi Gupta which
has a half-an-hour capsule every evening on FTV called 'Focus
on India' in Times of India, 16 February, 2001
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"Frankly
my creations are more craft oriented and very few of them
have appeared on FTV. For me a ban will not have much effect.
I haven't even watched the channel seriously so far."
Fellow top designer Ritu Kumar unfettered about the proposal
of ban on FTV in Times of India, 16 February, 2001
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"I just carried out the order of the Mufti. I think he
is right, we have annoyed Allah. Can't you see the devastation
caused by the quake." Shakeel Mirza one of resident
of Surat city where nearly 400 television set were destroyed
by muslim community after a cleric Mufti Imtiaz blamed the
idiot box as the root cause of the quake, and proclaimed that
televisions role in poisoning of minds had angered the Almighty,
in Times of India, 13 February 2001
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"We
have so many channels that people we get upset if I replace
Sun TV or any other channel with Aaj Tak. We already have
73 channels so there is no channel empty. But we plan to upgrade
soon."
Rajeev Mehra of Win Cable, on Aaj Tak not getting channel
space in Mumbai in the Asian Age, 12 February , 2001
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"Though
we have set up mtvindia.com, we realise that our core competency
is in music.........we can adapt to anything. The less predictable
we are, the more difficult it is for competition to copy us.
By the time there is a formula which emerges, we would have
become another formula. That is our biggest strength. Our
business philosophy is, we are dead serious about the business
of fun. We realise that we are in the entertainment industry
and we have to entertain people and talk about fun but it
is not fun for the sake of fun. Its fun because we are in
the business of fun."
Alex Kuruvilla Managing director MTV India and senior
vice-president MTV Networks, Asia. ________________________________________
"I
think this will result in increased TRPs."
Ekta Kapoor creative director, Balaji Productions, bemused
by people's reaction to the twist in the story with the death
of Mihir Virani ( played by Amar Upadhaya) in the Star Plus
sit-com 'Kyuki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi'. Balaji Telefilms
received threatening calls from viewers aggrieved by the death
of character in script in Indian Express, 12 February,
2001. _____________________________________________
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