DD Bharati lines up Holi programmes

NEW DELHI: Doordarshan will telecast a special programme, ?Holi Khel manaa Re?, based on folk music and skits to mark the festival of Holi.

The programme will be telecast on 26 March at 10 pm on DD Bharati.

On 27 March, DD Bharati will have celebrate programmes linked to the festival. These include ?Hola ? the mighty colour?, a film by Films Division on Holi in Punjab?s Anandpur Saheb where celebrations include display of traditional martial prowess. This will be telecast at 3 pm.

At 4.30 pm, the channel will telecast ?Brijwasin Ke Sang, Hori Ke Rang? from Mathura on the famous Barsana Holi.

This will be followed by a documentary, Fagun Ke Rang, Holi Ke Sang at 5.30 pm, a musical treat ?Sangeet Samay? at 6 pm and Holi Aayee Re from Rajkot in Gujarat at 7 pm.
 
There will be a ?Holi Hungama; a comedy and musical programme from Lucknow, at 7.30 pm, followed at 8 pm by Rangarang Holi from Jaipur and at 9 pm by Holi Ke Rang by classical Vocalist Pt. Abhay Narayan Malik.

Apart from these Holi programmes, DD Bharati will telecast the Rajrani Music Festival, from 8.30 pm to 10 pm on 25, 26, 28, and 29 March; and the Khajuraho Festival of Dance on 30 March from 7.?pm to 11 pm.