Harini Calamur's Writings
Finally went on in its new avtaar from the 4th of July at Film City. Studio number 10 is our home for the next 3 months atleast. It is from this studio that we daily make (executive produce) and transmit India’s first…
Last night Shishir & I went for a drink (actually more than one drink). The war begins today.
The new improved one hour long Dial One aur Jeeto is finally on air with a new format. Yesterday, was the first episode of the new series. The lead up to the show was fraught with tension. There were issues with studio…
Two years ago, today, the three of us signed the papers and formed Cogito TV. It has been a long, hard, and broke (especially broke) two years. There have been times that each of us has screamed blue murder and talked about…
Shishir’s signature on his email: The generation that used acid to escape reality Is now using antacid to deal with reality Shirish’s is: all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that a few good men do nothing Mine for…
This post first appeared on Media Musings on the 17th of Feb. sheer laziness (or is it inertia) that prevented me from posting it here! For the last few months we have been working closely with Sahara One to develop a show…
This has been the focus of my life over the last two months. how does one create a half an hour on television that disrupts every other channels’ viewing pattern? We have something in place which should go on Sahara One very…
It has been an interesting year – and we all know what the Chinese say about interesting times. In Indian Politics – citizens sent back another coaltion. The secular, middle of the road, sometimes muddled Cogress is in power, with a mish…
My life continues to move with all the twists and turns of a bad soap. A week ago I was contemplating taking it easy for a few days. It seemed very likely that we would only shoot at the end of the…
The very first episode of the show went on air today – the curtain raiser. Cogito’s first show on Hindi Entertainment television. I directed. Shishir was Technical Director and Shirish the Financial Controller. The first episode with Adi Godrej was supposed to…