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Akashdeep no longer Sahara creative director
MUMBAI: Sahara’s media and entertainment business is in a restructuring mode post the joint venture management company with Percept.
If earlier this month it was Sahara Media and Entertainment vice-president programming Triptii Sharma who called it quits, today saw another high-profile exit from the Motion Picture Business.
“With immediate effect, Akashdeep will no longer be the creative director of the Motion Picture Business with the new joint-venture taking over,” Sahara India Entertainment Management chief operating officer Peter Isaac told indiantelevision.com.
“Akashdeep will move on as advisor to the Film City project,” Isaac added.
Akashdeep was the man behind some of the mega-projects that Sahara had attempted, including blockbuster serial Karishma – The Miracles of Destiny with Karisma Kapoor as the protagonist.
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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.
