udaan_tv_show

    A heroine unconscious of her gender. Someone who stops a Home Minister's car because, "I will plead no longer.. I ask for my father's rights."  Someone who sits down her family and promises after relentless injustice has deprived them all ...Read More

rid

  After years of search on YouTube, I finally stumbled upon Farmaan, a Doordarshan serial directed by Lekh Tandon. Based on the Urdu book Alampanah by Rafia  Amin, the serial starring Kanwaljit Singh and Deepika Deshpande was a restless memory that even two ...Read More

buniyad

I recently remembered the shows on TV as I was growing up. When TV meant one and then just two channels of Doordarshan. There was even a time when all programming stopped after 10:pm and I used to think that ...Read More

shernaz

Note: I met Shernaz Patel in 2007 and it was a moment of personal significance considering, I grew up watching her on TV in the best years of Doordarshan and had read about her, without ever imagining that I would ...Read More

udaan

With tender fondness, I reminisce about the good old DD (yes, our own Doordarshan) days that formed an intrinsic part of my childhood.  As I stroll down the memory lane, an era flashes by, of the 80s, untouched by the ...Read More