Gang games
Producer-director Pankaj Roy who had made Khiladi earlier on Zee is back, this time on DD-Metro with a serial called Agnipath which replaces Hindustani (Thursdays-9.30 pm. Hindustani is shifting to Mondays on DD Metro, 8.30pm). Agnipath stars actors like Shahbaaz Khan, Amit Behl, Usha Bachani, Shakti Singh, Gardi Nandi, Jahangir Khan among others. The soap in about gangsters and their penetration into the glamour world and media. It's a story of passion and unceasing vengeance and tries to portray the human face of a notorious man who is now accused of revolting against the very system which garlanded him on his way to the valley of crime.

Brainwave
It is said, Gujaratis make good businesssmen. Well, producer Aasit Modi of Hum Sab Ek Hain proves it. In one of his episodes, the three daughters-in-law have a cooking competition of western food. For this Modi required a microwave oven. If you hire one, it could cost upto Rs.3,000 per a day. And he needed it for two days. So, guess what? Instead of hiring one, Modi purchased an oven for Rs,12,000 because he didn't have one at home. This is called heating your cake and eating it too!

Politician Pal
In the television industry there are three actors who are know to be quite active in politics. Nitish Bharadwaj, Mukesh Khanna and Surendra Pal. This year, we don't know how involved Bhardwaj and Khanna are but Pal is busy. Except that he has switched: he used to campaign for BJP till last year. This year he has joined the Shiv Sena. He is not contesting because it's a rule that no actor with a serial on air can stand for elections but that doesn't stop him campaigning. ``I was not happy the way things were happening so I'm with Sena this time,'' explains Pal.

On and off
Yatin Karyekar: did you know that he wanted to become a director? Then destiny played its part and he became popular as an actor with his role of Kamesh Mahadevan in Shanti. But even in college he used to direct plays. He's just been doing an episode of X-Zone which is called Saat Phere. Karyekar plays a story-teller who scares the wits of you. And along with playing one of the important characters he is assisting Vinita Coelo in direction.