TV WATCH
March 2011 . Week 2
Incredible Neha Pendse's great fight back |
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Performing in total contrast to what she is playing in
Zee Marathi's popular
serial 'Bhagyalaxmi', Neha Pendse proved her class as a
remarkable dancer in Zee Marathi's reality show 'Ekapeksha
Ek Apsara Aali'. Neha first invited the attention of one and
all with her belly dance, which she performed with ease in the
same programme at the initial stage. No wonder, she was
preferred by South film producers in their films. She however
had to quit from this show, as she remained absent due to some
health problem; but made her re-entry last week in the call-back
episode.
Neha not only went on to offer variety, performing a cabaret 'Aa
Jane Jaan' from the film 'Intaqam', but also proved her skills
on a Marathi folk song the next day; to secure her position back
into the competition. Also selected along with her in this
call-back episode was
Smita Tambe, another hard working and talented actress and
dancer. Neha in particular is certainly going to give a big
scare to other favourite dancing actresses in the forthcoming
rounds.
Another Zee TV reality show 'Khupte
Tithe Gupte' seems to be receiving mixed response, over the
selection of guests. On Friday they offered actor
Sandeep
Kulkarni but his pairing did not match well with the
firebrand social activist- Medha Patkar, who took her own time
to answer in detail the questions posed to her, as if she was
putting forward her point before the news media. Poor Sandeep
had no other option but to wait for his turn. He was
unnecessarily dragged into the topics meant for Medha Patkar,
but the talented actor did use his diplomacy well. The same
thing happened the next day in this programme, with a
combination of Shirish Kanekar with politician Ramdas Athavale.
But, their talk show was as it is overshadowed by the
India-South Africa Cricket match.
On Sunday 13th March evening,
Zee Marathi had ensured maximum viewership with telecast of
their Good Night Advanced Sponsored
Zee Gaurav
Awards.
Besides popular awards and good anchoring by
Swapnil Joshi
and Pushkar Kshotri, the traditional entertainment programme
banked more on political satirical skits based on corruption and
scams presented by
Makarand
Anaspure, Vijay Kadam and Satish Tare.
Marathi news channels covered the Black Friday that devastated
Japan coastline with an earthquake followed by massive tsunami.
But, there wasn't much talk as expected on the dangers of
Nuclear power plant. The blast at the Fukushima plant, triggered
by Japan's strongest earthquake, has certainly raised public
concern about the safety of nuclear power. Mr. Shreyans Kumar
Jain, chairman of Nuclear Power Corp of India has already said,
"This event may be a big dampener for our programme. We can't
close our eyes to peoples' concerns, which may be heightened
after the Japan accident." The BBC News highlighted the facts in
detail, with the dangers of radiation due to an accident at the
nuclear plant post tsunami in Japan.
The controversy was slightly downplayed by the Marathi news
channels on Saturday, as there was more coverage on cricket as
India played South Africa and therefore there were more debates
during the pre-match and post match sessions on cricket.
However, on Monday morning, while there were other important
news coverage like BJP Morcha on assembly and the aggressive
Adivasi Morcha from Nandurbar heading towards Mantralaya from
Thane and the 2nd blast of Hydrogen occurring at the Fukushima
Nuclear plant, Japan, posing more danger for Radiation leak from
reactor; covered by Star Mjha and Zee 24 Taas; the IBN Lokmat
channel however thought more important to telecast live an
exclusive of Dr. Anil Kakodkar's speech to Maharashtra assembly
members and other dignitaries. The well known Indian scientist
emphasized the need of Nuclear Power plants in India and tried
to explain how safe it was to have it at Jaitapur. Surprisingly,
there was no live coverage on question and answer session after
his speech, with the media. The news channel did not capture the
CM and other members of the assembly sleeping during the speech,
which the popular Hindi channel did. One thing became clear that
it was a big move by Maharashtra Government to nullify the
possibility of doubts arising in the minds of people, but the
time wasn't right, in view of the latest happenings at the
Nuclear power plant in Japan.
by Ulhas Shirke © MMW
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