Two make the team
Doordarshan
has two new bosses: First, Jawhar Sircar as CEO Prasar Bharati and the
second, Tripurari Saran as DG Doordarshan. Jawhar Sircar retired as
Secretary Culture and knows the art and culture world well. Tripurari
Saran is an old hand from the film and art field. Already, Saran has
cleared one major mess relating to the sanctioning of Urdu TV projects.
He has brought in talented people on the selection committee and the
final list of empanelled producers is in the making. Everyone is now
hoping that DD operations will get a makeover. BS Lalli, the former
Prasar Bharati CEO, ran the public broadcasting medium like his personal
fiefdom. If sources are to be believed, DD will no longer be a
guesthouse for unemployed producers. The latter were producing ‘c’
category programmes and were mushrooming day by day by paying 50 per
cent commission of the sanctioned budget to Mandi House mandarins. Of
course, DD is still in a mess and has to regain its old glory. The new
Sircar-Saran team are trying to make it entertaining and more
informative. One will soon see Aamir Khan, Ketan Mehta, Gulzar, Saeed
Mirza and Govind Nihalani as part of DD’s talent pool. There seems to be
no doubt that Sircar’s sharp understanding and Saran’s practical
knowledge will rejuvenate DD. Now the top bosses of the I&B Ministry
have to be patient and not interfere by sending lists of unemployed
producers and programmes to be sanctioned. Take a break, guys.g
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