Hindi TV Serial - Zee TV - Dance India Dance winner Salman on L'il Champs

SALMAN KHAN – the DID Season 1 winner shakes a leg on the singing platform

Salman Khan the DID season 1 winner makes an appearance in Saregamapa L’il Champs to promote his video in the movie ‘Wanted’ which he shot with superstar Salman Khan. The movie is releasing this Friday 18th September and Salman is anxious as this video might be his stepping stone towards the filmdom.

Salman came and spoke about his video and his experience with superstar Salman and the dancing genius Prabhu Deva who is the director of the movie.
He also announced the come back of Dance India Dance Season 2 and taught little Afsha and Dhairya how to shake a leg and groove that thing…





The viewers also are waiting with bated breath for DID season 2 - a frenzy that caught the Nation wild and tempted the audiences to put on their dancing shoes.

Hindi TV Serial - Zee Lil champs - Abhijeet and Bappi Da Make up

After 3 long years, the two bong rivals finally kiss and make up on the coveted stage of Saregamapa L’il Champs

The atmosphere was buzzing with electrifying music of yesteryears. The foot tapping tunes of ‘Jawani Janeman’ and ‘ yaad aa raha hai tera pyaar’. Bappi da, the original Disco King quite surprisingly agreed to share the stage with his one time arch rival Abhijeet Bhattacharya. The ardent viewers of Saregamapa would remember that three years back on the very same stage of l’il champs Abhijeet da and Bappi da had a major tussle about one contestant called Diwakar Sharma.
For the uninitiated, Diwakar was a blind child for whom Bappi da had a big soft corner. He used to appeal to people to vote for him as he was an exceptional child. Whereas, Abhijeet da’s favourite was Sanchita who ultimately went on to win the crown. Abhijeet da was dead against Bappi da’s extra fondness for Diwakar. He pleaded people not to get carried away with biases and vote for the best voice.
This led to huge hostilities between the two; so much so that both started abusing each other in public. It was also rumored that Bappa Lahiri ( bappi da’s son ) had gone up to the extent of hiring goons and threatening Abhijeet da with dire consequences.



After years of back lashing and back biting, finally both the musicians decided to bury the hatchet and start afresh. All this was possible thanks to L’il Champs.
Bappi da had some fond memories of the past and he was all gung ho about the current one as well. He announced, “ I’ll give one my gold chains to the best singer of the day”. And the winner was none other than Hemant Brijwasi from Mathura who wooed the disco king with the song yaar bina chain kahan re…” Bappi da was so very impressed with the little one’s tonal quality that he adjudged him as the best singer of the day and gave him one of his gold chains.

Abhijeet the gave Bappi da a bouquet of white flowers to make amends and Bappi da accepted it quite graciously. Both of them praised each other for their contribution to the music industry and their body of work..

What shall we say, all’s well that ends well..!

Hindi Serials: Choti Bahu Celebrates Janmashtami with The Zee TV stars

Choti Bahu Celebrates Janmashtami with The Zee TV stars

Zee TV stars will celebrate this Janmashtami with lots of devotion, fun and happiness as they get together in a two hour special episode of Choti Bahu. The event that saw excellent performances of Dev-Radhika (Choti Bhau), Archana-Manav (Pavitra Rishta), Laali- Abhishek (Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Hi Kijo), Shree- Hari (Shree) and Jhanvi-Nikhil (Ghar Ki Lakshmi, Betiyann) dancing on the all time favorite Radha-Krishna melodies and lively Dahi Haandi songs, also marked a remarkable performance of the legendary Jagjit Singh in form of a special guest. Joining the artists are the Hero Honda SaReGaMaPa L’il Champ wonders Shreyasi, Hemant and Yatharth.

The show – ‘Janme Kanhaiya Sabko Badhaiya’ will be telecast on Janmashtami on Friday, August 14 at 7.30 p.m.











Ratan Rajpoot Faints While Dancing to Kanha’s Tunes
Due to her constant health issues, Ratan has been taking extra care of herself during the shooting hours. Even the production house has been taking needful measures to take care of Ratan’s diet and they have also made a doctor available on the set so that Ratan could be immediately attended to in case of emergencies. However due to frequent shuttling between her show’s shooting and rehearsing for Janmashtami special even of Choti Bhau, Ratan’s health deteriorated recently. Rata in an excellent dancer and she did beautifully during her rehearsals. On the final day of the shoot however, in middle of her performance, Ratan fainted and fell on the ground. Despite repeated efforts, she couldn’t be brought back to consciousness, setting panic amongst the unit members. She was taken to the doctors and the shooting was stalled. The production house had to shoot other acts till Ratan resumed shoot the next day.

Gaay-Leela
To bring in the authentic Vridunvan look to the premises, a cow and a calf were brought on the sets of Choti Bahu for its Janmashatmi special. While it gave the desired feel and look for the shoot, the producers were left with lot of trouble during the shooting and the cow kept hitting the dancers, everytime they moved around the area were the calf was tied. This made their dance moves very difficult. To add in to the distress both the cow and calf kept mooing continuously. They also dirtied the place. The act that could have been shot in 20 minutes took almost two hours to shoot.

Manav’s Acrophobia
‘The best way to overcome your fear is to face it’ they say… Sushant Singh, Manav of Zee TV’s Pavitra Rishta came face to face with his fear while shooting of the Choti Bahu Janmashtami special. Sushant is scared of heights and the Dahi-Haandi act he performed on needed him to celebrate the festival in the Mharstrain 3way where they form a human pyramid and the guy on the top breaks a matki tied on a height above. Suhsnat who is an excellent dancer, freaked when he got to know that he has to climb on such height and initially requested the production house to lower the matki’s height. While the production house tried accommodating his request the overall look of the frame didn’t come up to their expectations. Hence they suggested using a body double. Sushant then decided to do the stunt and though the act was further difficult as it had to be performed in artificial rains, Sushant still managed to complete the act gracefully. Kudos to you Guy!

Hindi Serials - Zee TV invites you to wedding in Pavitra Rishta

The first Indian Television Wedding to be attended by the viewers

Mumbai, July 25th 2009 – Sulochana’s search for an ideal son-in-law has come to an end with Manav’s entry in Archana’s life and the two are set to get married on 27th July 2009.
For the first time in the history of Indian Television, a show’s wedding ceremony will be connected directly to the live audiences in the form of a mega on-ground event. The response from its’ viewers has been humongous which is evident from the fact that so far more than 50000 sms have been received in response to the channel’s invitation to all its’ viewers for attending the wedding within a span of 3 days. The show’s ardent fans, who have been wanting to attend the ‘Pavitra Rishta’ wedding will be travelling with their respective families from various parts of country like Pune, Nasik, indore, Delhi, Kanpur, Amritsar, Lucknow, Rajkot to bless the newly weds. The channel has made elaborate arrangements for the guests who have been invited; they will be greeted with utmost care and luxury.
Besides this, hundreds of enthusiasts will be attending this wedding from Mumbai and it’s suburbs. Interestingly, some innovative ways were used to invite them; last Saturday, Savita Prabhune aka ‘Sulochana’ (Archana’s mother in the show), commuted in a local train starting from Chatrapathi Shivaji Terminus to Dombivli Station to invite the fellow commuters for the wedding. On a Sunday morning, Sulochana personally visited viewers’ homes in different locations of Mumbai who welcomed her in the traditional Maharashtrian saree with haldi and kumkum and blessed her for the auspicious occasion.
Several devotees from Ganesh temples are also being invited for the wedding; where Sulochana frequently visited to offer prayers for finding a suitable match for Archana. The devotees receive a packet of sweets alongwih the invitation card. The show’s producer, Ekta Kapoor, herself visited Pune’s Dagru Seth Halwai Temple to seek blessings for Archana’s wedding and meet the fans in the city.
Along with heavy on-air promotion on all the Network channels, Radio spots and Print media is being used to publicize the wedding. Promos in Best buses have been bought to invite people to attend Archana’s wedding on air.
Commenting on the same, Nitn Vaidya, COO, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd. and Business Head, Zee TV, said, “The channel has lived up to its tag line of ‘Har Pal Banaye Ek Naya Rishta’ and established a special bond with the viewers. Archana’s wedding is one of the high-points of the show and we wanted our audiences to feel a part of it. Hence creating an on-ground event of the wedding was the best way to directly connect with our viewers. Besides creating different touch points, we also have made sure that the wedding is done in the authentic Maharashtrian way as Archana and Manav belong to middle class Maharastrian families.”
The wedding will see a huge participation of the Zee TV artists and live performances by the participants of ‘Hero Honda SaRaGaMaPa L’il Champs’ and ‘Lux Dance India Dance’. Every minute detail, right from the layout of the sets to the ushers’ costumes has been done in a classic Maharashtrian way.
The families of Archana and Manav are enjoying this beautiful moment and are busy preparing for the wedding. Celebrations are in full swing, shopping on a high spree, Archana’s elder brother is into sky-scraping preparations; sisters all set to look hoity-toity, parents are more than happy to see all this go so smoothly. May heavens’ choicest blessings shower on this newly wed couple!

Story till date -
‘Pavitra Rishta’ portrays the simple lifestyle and strong cultural values of a typical middle class Marathi family living in Mumbai. The story revolves around the eldest daughter, Archana’s, wedding. At a young age, Archana makes a very important decision in a crisis like situation to take the responsibilities of her siblings and the household chores rather than focusing on her education or career. As Archana approaches a marriageable age, like every other mother, her mother too is determined to find the most eligible and successful bachelor. After Archana’s marriage breaks with Satish, Sulochana is determined to find even a better match for her daughter. In the process she doesn’t realize that the guy mother has settled with a Mechanic and not a mechanical engineer. So what happens to the marriage then?