Tue, 07, 21
All these serials were ahead of their time focusing on women’s issue and promoting women empowerment penned by the renowned and progressive writer Haseena Moin (late)..
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It was a dream come true – nothing less than like a child in a candy store. Getting your favourite stars on your talk show is a blessing but when you get a confirmation call from the legends themselves, the only reaction is of excitement and jubilance.
People who were growing up in the ’80s remember very well the golden era of PTV. The state owned television produced many classic serials in that decade. I was a teenager then and I was at an impressionable age. Three serials which made an immense impact on my life were ‘Ankahi’ (1982), ‘Tanhaiyan’ (1986)’ and ‘Dhoop Kinare’ (1987). All these serials were ahead of their time focusing on women’s issue and promoting women empowerment penned by the renowned and progressive writer Haseena Moin (late).
Sun, 05, 21
As with everything that needs to be ‘sold’, so does entertainment and content. And as with any item up for purchase, content too is created for and marketed at audience segments.
The easiest way to take a stab at getting to know someone better is no longer through their star sign or Hogwarts house or whether they like Atif Aslam or Ali Zafar. One only has to scan a birth year for things about the object of their interest to click into place. Gen X or Millennial or Gen Z? Sort your subject into one of these demographics and a peek into their very soul is just a Google search away.
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heatre and not revive it for television instead?
HM: This is the first time I have revived one of my plays and adapted it for the theatre, for which the production got stalled due to COVID-19. I received several objection notices stating that I cannot revive my own TV drama for the stage because it is the ‘sole property of television’. But they need to understand that all of my contemporaries have published their books and there was no objection, and neither were there any grievances when there were re-runs and adaptations of their iconic pieces of work. After a lot of back and forth with various different people I have procured permission to revive