The Indian Express -- Leisure

Monday, August 18 1997

TODAY'S CROSSWORD TODAY'S ZODIAC

Subbarami Reddy award for actor Sivaji Ganesan

Dadasaheb Phalke award winner Sivaji Ganesan, poet and film producer M S Reddy and mimicry artiste Nerella Venumadhav have been selected for the T Subbarami Reddy Kalapeetham's `Life-time Achievement Puraskars-1997'. Each of the award winners will be given Rs 50,000 cash and a citation at a function to be held at Visakhapatnam on September 17.

Freely available

Freedom may have come at midnight, but there was no respite from television. As night succeeded evening and day succeeded night and as the evening finally returned -- how television celebrated 50 years of Independence!

By 12.01 am on 16 August, with eyes striped orange, white and green like a toothpaste, we knew why a poet had once pleaded; "Enough! no more."

Dilli chalo

The mega success of historical serials and mythologicals on the small screen has seen many producers make a beeline for epic tales. The latest to do so are Raj and Nadira Babbar. Their first showing under the banner of Babbar Visuals is called Main Dilli Hoon (DD 1, Sat, 9.20 pm). And they have placed their mega-serial in the able hands of television's first family, the Chopras.

Earshot -- Kiss and tell

No end to his stories

Hindu, Muslim....