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‘Chhayageet’ gets a facelift
After Chitrahar, the film song based programme, DD Mumbai has now given a facelift to that other eternal favourite of the golden DD days – Chhayageet.
Chhayageet in its new avatar, is anchored by former FM radio jockey Anupama singh.
Mumbai Doordarshan Kendra director Mukesh Sharma justifies Chhayageet’s relaunch thus: “If DD wants to survive, in today’s competitive programming scenario, we need to have good packaging and presentation. Consequently, we consistently need to improve the look of our popular programmes.”
In the new format, Chhayageet will have the anchor interspersing the songs with questions about famous film personalities. Screen magazine editor Bhavana Somaya is handling the research for the show.
Says Sharma: “Chitrahaar’s TRPs shot up from six to 11 after its relaunch. The same can probably be expected of Chhayageet.”
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Uma Sudhir signs off from NDTV after 27 years
The executive editor shaped NDTV’s southern reportage for nearly three decades
NEW DELHI: Senior journalist Uma Sudhir has retired from NDTV, bringing to a close a 27-year association with the network.
Sudhir served as executive editor, heading NDTV’s south India editorial operations. Over nearly three decades, she emerged as one of the most recognisable faces of on-ground reporting from the region, with sustained coverage of politics, governance and social issues across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
At NDTV, Sudhir played a central role in strengthening regional journalism within national television news. Her reporting consistently connected local developments to the national conversation, ensuring stories from the field shaped policy debates beyond studio discussions. Known for her boots-on-the-ground approach, she came to represent a generation of reporters whose authority rested on fieldwork rather than prime-time punditry.
An award-winning journalist, Sudhir is a recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award and the Chameli Devi Jain Award. Her body of work has been widely recognised for its public-interest focus, spanning elections, governance, gender issues, rural distress, environmental reporting and social justice.
