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Television | TV Channels |
Smriti Irani tweets industry body advisory urging restraint by TV news channels |
The minister for information and broadcasting Smriti Irani yesterday, in tweets, amplified advisories issued by a news industry association cautioning TV news channels to exercise restraint while reporting on the violence unleashed in the states of Haryana, Punjab, parts of Uttar Pradesh and Delhi in the aftermath of a self-styled godman Ram Rahim being convicted of rape charges by a local court on Friday.
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Television | TV Channels |
Views-based journalism scores, Sun TV's Udaya News to cease ops |
Every business and television channel faces competition sooner or later. Competing companies generally bring in better products. But, Udaya News, the first 24x7 Kannada channel that ruled the roost for over 15 years, saw a decline as rival channels presented stories with strong views -- a la Arnab Goswami.
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Television | TV Channels |
Babumoshai Bandookbaaz... Aimless |
Babumoshai Bandookbaaz is another film glorifying the local criminal of the Hindi belt. That they don't work is a fact, though it fails to deter more such makers. What is worse, the makers don't care about the time period when the film was based. It jumps at will from 1970s when Kishore Kumar songs ruled the roost on the radio to mobile phone era.
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Movies | Hindi |
Bareilly Ki Barfi -- Insipid |
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Small town Uttar Pradesh love stories are the in thing, quite a few having worked at the box office to varied degrees of success. Last week's release Toilet- Ek Prem Katha, was one such film. The advantage with basing a film in this region is that the subject can take all the liberties it wants, the making is economical and,
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