Tag Archives: Vanita Kohli-Khandekar

When Madhuri Dixit’s ghagra is ‘breaking news’

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…

The curious case of The Times of India and HT

Does the home-turf breed complacence? Media specialist and author of The Indian Media Business, Vanita Kohli-Khandekar, makes an interesting observation in her column in Mid-Day, Bombay. *** “Mumbai is my hometown. In my growing up years we took only one newspaper at home—The Times of India…. “In 2003, I shifted to New Delhi. And TOI turned out to…