The
website will feature audio and video footage
of Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira
Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi and will be available
for public usage within six months.
"We have been trying to contact independent
bodies that have content on these great leaders. We have even placed advertisements
and are in the process of negotiating with some," said Dutt.
The
content will be available only for live
streaming and not for download, considering
that they are intellectual properties. But
in order to make it feasible for real-time
streaming, DD Archives will break down the
footage into short clips of a few minutes
each. That will also make it easier for
viewers to access keeping in mind the amount
of time it would take to buffer an entire
film, which could go on for over five hours.
Metadata
tags will be assigned for the footage available
while translating them into short clips.
"It is really helpful in searching
and sorting," Dutt said.
Talking
about the content gathered so far, Dutt
said: "We have a two-hour footage of
Nehru's interview on Voice of America where
he talks about a range of topics including
hybrid economic systems. Through this interview
people will get to know what a visionary
he was."
Meanwhile,
DD Archives is all set to release the DVDs
of Bharat Ek Khoj, a television series based
on Nehru's book Discovery of India. This
53-episode series is directed by Shyam Benegal.
The
DVDs will be available in two different
sets. The DVD9 set which comprises 18 interactive
DVDs, will be priced at Rs 20,000. Less
costlier, and understandably less interactive,
will be the set of nine DVDs which will
cost Rs 13,000.
"We've
seen the demand for the series both in the
international market as well as in India.
The 18 DVD set may not be affordable for
the home collector, so we've come up with
the two versions. The series was highly
rated and we expect the DVDs to be popular
among the people. Everything is ready and
in place. We're just waiting for the right
day to release the DVDs," Dutt said.
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