Vanita Kohli-Khandekar in the Business Standard: “When Madhuri Dixit danced to the song “TV pe breaking news hai re mera ghagra,” I wanted to hide. Her sizzling dance number in a red-light area from the latest hit Yeh Jawaani hai Deewani roughly means, “My skirt is the breaking news on television.” “…Many Hindi films now…
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When only one side of the conversation is “live”
“Breaking News” lost its meaning on Indian television a long time ago. Now, the meaning “Live” is in danger, too. It is not uncommon to find the same talking heads on different TV stations holding forth on the same topic at the same time on the same day. But an even more questionable “live” procedure…
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