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newtfmpage surfers get-together???

Topic started by Prabhu (@ 156.153.255.126) on Fri Sep 19 09:26:21 EDT 2003.
All times in EST +10:30 for IST.

hi all, lot of music fans hang out the entire day on newtfmpage.com. How about a get-together? :-)
Mention your preferred city and let's see if we can work out a meeting!!

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• From: interpreter (@ 4.3.119.114) on: Fri Nov 21 14:34:08 EST 2003
  
  Saravanan,
  
  You made my day! I am so glad somebody else knows/remembers these names too. Pankaj Kapoor and Satish Shah got some mileage with movies (in totally different genres), APSingh sort of resurfaces every now and then. Saw her recently in a family villi kind of role (in the footsteps of Kiron Kher, Rohini Hattangadi - what a shame that her talent is wasted in these kind of roles!) Sabira (not Sabrina) Merchant I never saw much of after that. Hers was one of my favourite shows. Jayant Kriplani was fun in Mr. ya Mrs., which is why I mentioned it in one of my earlier posts. T. Talsaniya was relegated to anxiety disorder roles for the rest of his career.
  
  I recently met somebody who was a participant on Siddharth Basu's Quiz Time (way back then). Most likely saw that episode too, because I rarely missed them. What he told us about the filming of it was very funny and in fact, he was pretty miffed that when they telecast it, they had actually added some footage of Basu giving a hint (that all but gave away the answer) for a question that had their team stymied. Basu never gave the hint when it was actually done with the participants. My friend was shocked when he saw it on air, especially because it made them all look like real fools that they didn't have the answer even after such a helpful hint! Reminded me of the movie "Quiz Show"!
  
  So, which were your favourite shows?
  
  
• From: interpreter (@ 4.3.119.114) on: Fri Nov 21 14:34:42 EST 2003
  
  * which ones
  
  
• From: . (@ 161.114.64.74) on: Fri Nov 21 14:46:59 EST 2003
  
  Most of the TV faces had better opportunities once the skies opened up and satellite channels swept in. Plus, DD lost enormous mileage after that.
  I think I read somewhere Sabeera Merchant went after some scholarly pursuits - anyways she wasnt that hardcore a quizperson as Basu or Derek O'Brien. However Basu stuck to DD faithfully - never featured on the sat channels till BBC Mastermind. There used to be several good basu quizzes I'd accidentally come across on DD-2 in the mid-90s. Come to think of it, there werent many good quizzes on sat channels themselves, till O'Brien's Bournvita one. Derek's brother Andy O'Brien used to write for Amrit Bazaar Patrika's Sportsworld - Calcutta strong quizzing base gave Derek a headstart to launch himself.
  More on those times later.
  
  
• From: rajasaranam (@ 210.214.3.16) on: Fri Nov 21 15:03:13 EST 2003
  
  brings back all old memories, when we used to run frm our schools on saturday evening to see gaint roboit. every kid in the street becomes a robot. and all those serials like barabappappaaaaa, ek do teen char, different strokes, i luv lucy, circus, vyomkesh bakshi, karamchand, subah [ which was sadly stopped midway due to public opposition]. well tamilDD too had its part with adade manohar, rail snegam, dinesh ganesh,en iniya indira etc.. soem of the serials wud make us laugh for entirely diffent reasons when viewed today. btw iam not getting the names of someserials like 1. a thriller in which tom alter and nina gupta acted.2. anoterh thriller int amil revathi suresh menon combo probably with IRs bgm in to it.
  
  
• From: rajasaranam (@ 210.214.3.16) on: Fri Nov 21 15:04:15 EST 2003
  
  wat happened to jaspal bhatti?
  
  
• From: . (@ 161.114.64.71) on: Fri Nov 21 15:20:28 EST 2003
  
  Basu wrote his first book India Quiz around Sep 89 I guess. Soon after April 90 issue of Gokulam had an interview of Sid and Anitha.
  
  Hi RS! :)
  Click on this link http://www.angelfire.com/tn/justkool/SOTD.zip If you search in it, you will find a lengthy discussion on DD tamil serials.
  
  Ek do Teen Char started out...hmm, May 4 86 and went on until June/July end. Some inspiration from Famous Five. Coincidentally both serials ran concurrently for a while. It had Vikas Khanna(as Ajit), Love Baronia(as Baba) among others. Vikas was featured in Vikatan I think as a seasoned child artiste with 45 films already. My fave character though was Ramu. A rerun of 1,2,3,4 happened in Jan 1989 on Sat evenings.
  
  Circus ofcourse had Shahrukh and was a nice way to end the weekend in May-July 91.
  
  
• From: . (@ 161.114.64.74) on: Fri Nov 21 15:22:17 EST 2003
  
  However my all time fave much more than 1,2..4 was Hum Panche Ek Daal Ke(Apr-Jun 89), somehow that impacted me more.
  
  
• From: interpreter (@ 4.3.119.114) on: Fri Nov 21 15:22:48 EST 2003
  
  Indradhanush was interesting too with all that cloning stuff.
  
  
• From: . (@ 161.114.64.74) on: Fri Nov 21 15:24:53 EST 2003
  
  Bhatti's Ulta-Pulta(late 87) was a rage in the mornings :)) Flop-Show(Thurs, 1991) was even better. Dont remember his offerings after that.
  
  
• From: . (@ 161.114.64.74) on: Fri Nov 21 15:27:34 EST 2003
  
  xpr8r, yup! :) Indradhanush was excellent and far far ahead of the drab good-goody scripts meant for kids! Far ahead of the times, and not just because of Appu's computer. There was a funny cook called Narasimhan. The episode in which Appu's bro gets transported to 1940s via a Time Machine was very realistically done.
  Same time as Indradhanush(May-Jun 89), 5Pm featured 'Ashish'. Now this was an unbearable bore!
  
  
• From: interpreter (@ 4.3.119.114) on: Fri Nov 21 16:43:49 EST 2003
  
  A pity that Indradhanush got the axe! I thought it was done with the right amount of science, effects, technobabble and humour (for those days, at least!)
  
  
• From: Saravanan (@ 195.229.241.169) on: Fri Nov 21 22:46:54 EST 2003
  
  Interpreter,
  
  I used to like Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, Idhar-Udhar ( where the entire Pathak family had us in splits- Dina, Ratna & Supriya), Nukkad, Malgudi Days, a serial by Sai Paranjpe ( Can't get the name, it had her daughter in it), Darpan (on Sundays, with a mesmerising title score by Salil Chowdhry), Satyajit Ray Presents--
  
  
• From: interpreter (@ 4.3.119.114) on: Fri Nov 21 23:31:24 EST 2003
  
  Pretty much the same list here too. (How could I forget Malgudi Days?) The Sai Paranjype one is the one I couldn't remember the name of in my earlier post - yeah, it had her daughter Winnie Joglekar in it. Anybody else remember the name? (Sai's other good one was Adhos Padhos with Amol Palekar and Talluri Rameshwari in it.) Darpan was excellent. Wasn't Idhar-Udhar a loose remake of Three's Company? It had Ravi Baswani in John Ritter's role (may his soul rest in peace.)
  
  
• From: OISG (@ 195.229.241.169) on: Sat Nov 22 05:05:18 EST 2003
  
  Ammaadi!En Rasathee!Unnala intha thread azhaga ella entha threadnala nee azhagannu ketavudene Kodi nakshthiram kotinapole siripiye!
  
  Vazhkayile Digression irukkalam ....
  
  AAnaaaaaa digressionE vazhkayaga kudathuma!
  
  Kaiveesamma Kaiveesu(pathos)
  
  
• From: C~P (@ 202.9.180.38) on: Sat Nov 22 07:25:11 EST 2003
  
  aaaha!! ... one post that i could understand after a long time!
  
  DD-la serialsey kodumai, ithula Hindi Serials veraiya ... namma get together patri pesuvomey!! ;-)
  
  
• From: magix (@ 219.65.108.243) on: Sat Nov 22 10:22:11 EST 2003
  
  Sivaji tune-la irundhaale unakku purinjudume!! :)
  
  
• From: C~P (@ 61.2.224.47) on: Sat Nov 22 22:36:03 EST 2003
  
  romba obvious tune pa athu....dats y!
  
  
• From: magix (@ 219.65.109.203) on: Sun Nov 23 07:53:48 EST 2003
  
  Ellarum enga ponaanga pa.. enga ponaanga?!
  
  Ithuvum Sivaji tune.. aaravadhu gavanipaangala? :)
  
  
• From: C~P (@ 61.1.201.34) on: Sun Nov 23 08:25:02 EST 2003
  
  magix,
  kashta pattu sonna sollalaam Sivaji tune-la :-)
  
  
• From: tvveriyan (@ 219.65.43.215) on: Sun Nov 23 12:42:10 EST 2003
  
  thanks for bringing back good old memories of tamizh serials...
  
  i remember there was Usulai mani in one of those S V Ramanan serials (Silandi valai... ) use to say ROJA MAALAI ANJU ROOBAA... !
  
  how abt the tamizh serial Chittira paavai - Fathima babu made her debut in the serial.. had ravi raghavendar as well
  
  pagalil or iravu, rayil sneham - romba nalla serials
  
  
• From: C~P (@ 61.2.224.65) on: Sun Nov 23 12:55:09 EST 2003
  
  i was taken aback for a second thinking that was magix! :-)
  
  
• From: tvveriyan (@ 219.65.43.215) on: Sun Nov 23 13:17:08 EST 2003
  
  cp: naandan karthikfan cum arrfan
  
  
• From: sori (@ 219.65.43.215) on: Sun Nov 23 13:21:11 EST 2003
  
  btw sabira merchant teaches the miss india probables , miss universe probables, miss kuduvancheris etc how to speak aangilam with a heavy accent and gets paid hefty sums by times of india.. got featured on the supplementary to Times of india, mumbai , today.
  
  remember Dolly thakore the news reader with a big pottu? she is now a casting (!!) agent.. well i worked with her once.. and this is exactly what she does.. attends all teh hip parties in mumbai,befriends the ladida crowd... and if she p;idichifyes an NRI bakra producer/director who keep coming to mumbai to make films, she introduces them to the theatre actor varieties, and charges the producer a hefty sum!!
  
  nanum inda madiri casting director ayidalaamannu pakaren.. Dolly s style of dressing is kinda atrocius.. thanks to DD, madam was in pudavais earlier.. ipo ellam transparent lucknow kurta teamed up with pavadai.. lol!!
  
  
• From: sori (@ 219.65.43.215) on: Sun Nov 23 13:21:38 EST 2003
  
  btw sabira merchant teaches the miss india probables , miss universe probables, miss kuduvancheris etc how to speak aangilam with a heavy accent and gets paid hefty sums by times of india.. got featured on the supplementary to Times of india, mumbai , today.
  
  remember Dolly thakore the news reader with a big pottu? she is now a casting (!!) agent.. well i worked with her once.. and this is exactly what she does.. attends all teh hip parties in mumbai,befriends the ladida crowd... and if she p;idichifyes an NRI bakra producer/director who keep coming to mumbai to make films, she introduces them to the theatre actor varieties, and charges the producer a hefty sum!!
  
  nanum inda madiri casting director ayidalaamannu pakaren.. Dolly s style of dressing is kinda atrocius.. thanks to DD, madam was in pudavais earlier.. ipo ellam transparent lucknow kurta teamed up with pavadai.. lol!!
  
  
• From: tv (@ 219.65.43.215) on: Sun Nov 23 13:22:58 EST 2003
  
  hey , remember the 13 30 regional film on sundays, DD?
  
  Elipathayam (mallu), school master (kannada), mudal mariyadhai & mouna raagam (tamil) telecast umpteen no. of times?
  
  

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