Saeed Akhtar Mizra, who endeared to the TV watching audience with his TV serial Nukkad in 86-87, is all set to return to the small screen with <em>Yeh Hai India Meri Jaan</em> scheduled to be shown on Doordarshan (our sister website Indiantelevision.com has already reporter about it). The show, <em>Yeh Hai India Meri Jaan</em>, revolving around an enthusiastic young girl's attempt to discover the real India through her camera, is Mirza's attempt to hear and understand the voices and faces that are no longer visible on Indian small screen.

In an attempt to change its image, Doordarshan has started telecast of a new serial titled Gora which is based on a novel by the same name, written by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. This 26 episode series is produced by well-known documentary producer Gargi Sen and directed by her filmmaker brother Somnath Sen (Leela). The cast comprises of newbies who have worked with the director before in his days of Film and Television Institute of India (Pune).

<a href=http://www.tellychakkar.com/news/amar-upadhyay-reveals-house-secrets-bigg-boss-season-5>Amar Upadhyay</a> is super happy these days. Reason? This <em>Bigg Boss season 5</em> contestant is all set to feature in DD’s big budget show <em>Sabse Bade Ladaiya- Aalha Udal</em> (Shri Bhangdiya Telefilms).

Jaspal Bhatti, known for his sitcom Flop Show first aired on Doordarshan in 1989, died in a car accident near Jalandhar last night. He was 57. The sitcom, a tongue-in-cheek comment on social and cultural issues among middle class India, became hugely popular and is still re-run on Doordarshan's various channels. Bhatti wrote, directed and starred in all 10 episodes of <em>Flop Show</em> with his wife Savita who also played his screen wife.

After having achieved great popularity with Wagle Ki Duniya years ago on the national pubcaster, well-known TV, stage and film actor Aanjjan Srivastav is all set to don a common man avatar again in Doordarshan’s show <em>Detective Wagle</em>. Confirming the same, Aanjjan said, “We will start shooting for <em>Detective Wagle</em> from 22 September (2012) and this bi-weekly will start airing in November every Wednesday and Thursday at 9.30 p. I will not be playing a professional detective, but someone who is there to merely solve societal issues and take up the cudgels on their behalf.”

Ramanand Sagar’s highly successful television series on the Indian epic Ramayan that used to air on Doordarshan is a benchmark of sorts in television history. And it is impossible to recreate the same magic on the small screen. However, Sagar Arts tried to make <em>Ramayan</em> yet again in the year 2008 for Imagine channel, which was accepted well by audience. And now Moti Sagar Productions is bringing the mythological series back to your living rooms on Zee TV as well as on Doordarshan, and with it comes back the excitement of TV viewing on Sunday morning.

In an exciting revival of the once-popular phenomenon of Sunday morning TV viewing for the whole family, Zee TV, India’s leading Hindi General Entertainment Channel (GEC), will premiere the country’s most revered mythological series, <em><a href=http://www.tellychakkar.com/news/chandragupta-fame-rushiraj-pawar-play-young-ram-zee-tvs-ramayan>Ramayan</a></em>, at 11 am on Sunday, 12 August and the same will be simulcast on Doordarshan every Sunday.