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Producer Siddharth Kumar Tewary and his Swastik Productions are simply on a roll!! The man has fulfilled his dream of giving the audience his own interpretation of the epic Mahabharat. The magnum opus show on Star Plus made heads turn and has been appreciated for its grand presentation, quality of the product and for the great ensemble cast.

With Mahabharat drawing to a close soon, Siddharth Tewary is already thinking ‘big’ to come up with yet another unexplored concept on television.

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Well, after quite a long wait, Multiscreen Media is all set to launch its new GEC offering Sony Pal. The channel will have mostly women centric shows. The channel has also brought in Bollywood’s charming diva Juhi Chawla as its face.

Tellychakkar.com has been constantly updating you about the shows that have been lined up for the channel. The GEC will see nine interesting shows hitting the screens during the launch. Here is the list of the shows.

Daler Mehndi’s voice will now please all Maharashtrian audience. The King of Indi-Pop first Marathi song is out now and this one’s a devotional number sang in praise of Lord Ganesh.

The song ‘Morya Morya‘ is part of Marathi movie Janvia and is a tribute to Lord Ganesha. This high energy number has been sung keeping in mind to capture the essence of the popular Ganesha Festival which will begin by the end of August.

We wish lots of love and success on this magical day to four television actors who are celebrating their birthdays today (6 August).

We are talking about hot and sexy Sara Khan (Bidaai fame), Dipika Samson (Sasural Simar Ka), Arhaan Behll (Do Dil Bandhe Ek Dori Se) and Cyrus Sahukar (last seen in Sab Khelo Sab Jeeto).

The much popular and loved show Madhubala- Ek Ishq Ek Junoon (Nautanki Telefilms) is all set to bid farewell to its viewers on 16 August. And the cast and crew partied hard on the last day of the shoot.

The serial made leads Vivian Dsena and Drashti Dhami stars of the small screen. The show also saw its share of controversy when Vivian exited, paving way for Gunjan Utreja. But with dipping numbers, Gunjan was let go which led to Vivian’s re entry.

BBC Worldwide Productions will yet again bring to life a sweet love tale blossoming in the midst of some challenging circumstances. Yes, this Friday (8 August), viewers will see a gripping story of a deaf guy and a rather aggressive girl in Bindass’ Yeh Hai Aashiqui.

It’s time for celebrations!

Reason?

Zee TV’s magnificent historical show Jodha Akbar produced by Balaji Telefilms completed successful airing of 300 episodes yesterday (5 August).

The show has always managed to keep viewers’ glued with its storyline and exceptional performances by the cast namely Rajat Tokas, Paridhi Sharma, Chetan Hansraj, Ashwini Kalsekar amongst others.

After stripping off for films like “Horns” and “Kill Your Darlings”, Daniel Radcliffe is getting naked once again.

In his latest flick “What If”, the 25-year-old has a skinny-dipping scene with co-star Zoe Kazan.

“It was the nicest nude scene I’ve ever done. And that is quite a substantial list at this point. We’ve both done a lot of it. This was a nice just skinny-dipping scene that was kind of fun,” Radcliffe was quoted by eonline.com as saying.

In an upcoming episode of Life OK’s Shapath (Fireworks Productions), Gauri Singh (Raavi, other episodics) has been roped in to essay a pivotal role in the show. Accompanying her would be a fresh face entering the television industry, Imran Adil.

Gauri would essay the character of Ayesha, a scientist who will make a chemical which could increase the level of aggression in a human body while Imran would play her brother who will be bullied all the time.

It seems that Karan Tacker has gotten lucky with choreographer Bhawna Khanduja partnering him on the dance stage of Colors’ Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. After all, the choreographer is the third one to dance with Tacker, after the earlier choreographers Suchitra Sawant and Elena Samadanova exited the show.